Okay, I think everyone deserves to see the un-cropped hotdog, but it's still up for debate as to whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.

go go gadget heart attack on the toilet

Just havin' fun where I can in this crazy world! @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp #DeathStranding2

My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

Podcast! This week it’s ALL ABOUT VIOLENCE in this extra bloody and brutal extravaganza of viscera!!! Expect efficient cats in Neko Syndicate, jolly co-operation in Bombusters, and peaceful box checking in Off With Their Heads. VIOLENCE!!! www.shutupandsitdown.com/podcastle/po...

Pete Hegseth Replaces Top General With Horse That Drinks Beer https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-replaces-top-general-with-horse-that-drinks-beer/

Just asked my daughter to clean her room and her response "you wanted a baby, no take backs"

I bet Charmin only uses those weird bears because they couldn't get the rights to Beavis.

Social workers like Tia still carry caseloads in the hundreds after our colleague’s killing. We have your back—we’re meeting with Chancellor Hawgood to fight for safe staffing. #UCSF #UC #SF #WorkplaceSafety

Oh,you thought you were finally free of Lord of the Rings games? NUH-UH, BUDDY. THERE’S TWO MORE. AND THEY’RE REALLY, REALLY GOOD. www.shutupandsitdown.com/videos/revie...

It's clear that IP Theft was the original goal of image-generative Ai. It would have been fairly easy to anonymize the training material by filtering all the metadata to remove proper names as well as owned nouns. They worked to tag accurately, so removing certain tags would have been doable.

If you know, you know.

Instead of writing up yet another layoffs news piece as if they're inevitable, let's talk about the company that has caused a lot of them. www.rogue.site/editorials/e...

21 seasons of Taskmaster seems like a lot but it's not nearly enough

“For God’s sake, it seems like I was just on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, and now they’re making me come back in to do Never Mind The Buzzcocks,” said Arthur Batts

Just got my tickets for @kublacon.bsky.social Fall. Hope to see some of you there! @saintpeter74.bsky.social & @subtledistraction.bsky.social will be there with me. @boardgamefeast.bsky.social wanna come visit the states? Sorry, yes, I know. Dumb question. But still :)

The first full edition of the Tabletop Power Rankings (the games people have played at least once that they are the most excited to play again right now) is live! youtu.be/ZWBMgF8Y-GU

Another video game developer to cross off the list - I'm not interested in reading dialog translated by the Ai slop machine. No KCD III for me.

New games no longer have a siren song for me thanks to the endless pile of games I haven't yet played www.rogue.site/editorials/b...

Improv would be better if it had an "e" at the end.

Cool cool cool. Thanks for the heads up @popularinformation.skystack.xyz

Helping your Boomer mom with her IT issues vs Helping your Boomer father with his IT issues

YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLD WHEN... your doctor gives you a prescription for Vicodin and you hope you don't have to take any

Not gonna lie, 1.5 episodes in and SNL UK is the best SNL in years. #snluk

My first....great to see. I was a little scared to be there bc who knows what might happen but it was peaceful and lots of supporters.

It's a good thing Louis Pasteur had a decent last name to lend to an acceptable term like pasteurized milk because can you imagine if his last name was instead something like Jizzeur?

Pretty sure my husband is going to divorce me if I keep lying to hotel reception whenever they ask why we're in town but what IF he was actually there to try out for Magic Mike on Ice?

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying https://theonion.com/rising-conservative-star-just-guy-wearing-nazi-armband-1849855062/

ChatGPT Convinces Sam Altman To Kill Humanity https://theonion.com/chatgpt-convinces-sam-altman-to-kill-humanity/

A quick, insightful take by @graysonmorley.com on video game reporting/commentasry/critique:

In case you missed this write-up of your lovely game @timhutchings.bsky.social

I'm sure this won't change the landscape at all.

UCI Health is laying off 150 UPTE workers—rehab therapists, chaplains, & quality specialists—when patients need care most. Join us Thurs. 3/26 at noon at UCI Health—Orange to hear from laid-off workers & learn how we’re fighting back. RSVP: upte.org/rsvp #UCI #UCIrvine

I’m at ICE HQ

Rules for thee, not for me.

“A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy.”

Not to bang on about it, and I know as a PC player I'm late to the party and all the PlayStation owners are like "yeah duh", but Death Stranding 2 is the *perfect* sequel. @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp and the whole team behind it are geniuses.

@davepell.bsky.social As response to your latest NextDraft story about website enshittification, I present you with my browser toolbar - these are all the plugins I have to make the internet bearable:

This will be my weekend, starting now. Also, dayum... the graphics on PC are incredible.

This is Goose. He wants to know where you're going. If it's not too late, he'd like to suggest the park. 12/10 (IG: goosethelab_)

"The Problem Isn’t Extremists. It’s That You Don’t Need Them." This is a really interesting article about an important problem meritocratic systems face, even in a strong democracy.

I wonder if some game developers have taken the wrong lesson from Cyberpunk 2077's eventual success. The real lesson was "don't overhype and release a game before it's ready, or you'll spend years gaining back trust". Some think it was, "Go ahead and release too early, you can fix it in post."

The most common workplace acronym is KISS which apparently stands for Keep It Stupid, Stupid.

My most sincere apologies as I was under the impression that the golden rule was about peeing.

My job as a stripper is really taking off.

Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/

If y'all are ever in need of video editing/animation, hit me up! I've got a lot of experience editing board game video content! youtu.be/o8OqC9sPT1c?...

Me: "oooh we should watch 12 Angry Men after A Few Good Men" 16yo: "Is that the sequel?" Me: "...what?" 16yo: "It's 4x the men"