If they think that's upsetting, I have bad news for them about John Carpenter's Escape From New York, set in the dystopian future of... 1997

This is what, the fourth time that Atlus have gone back to the Persona 4 well? Double-dipping people's wallets with all their games was bad enough, but four times?

That new Stellar Blade lady is deeply uncomfortable to look at. Some gang of perverts putting a seven year old's face on a 30 year old's body

RIP Giles

When he is sad, he becomes long

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

It's great that every interaction with businesses and institutions these days is totally opaque in their favour, actually. Excessive, unreasonable secrecy has never ever resulted in catastrophe.

If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories.

Counterpoint: if Fozzy had a second good song, Jericho wouldn't have been using Judas as his entrance music since AEW started seven years ago

Find it very hard to take all the talk about banning social media for under-16s seriously when British political discourse is increasingly defined by whichever call for race war is currently racking up the most views on X The Everything App.

Starting to suspect I might never actually get another job at this rate

"One day, Axel Dieter Jr will be a lucha libre megastar" is one of those sentences that would have sounded utterly unhinged ten years ago

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Between Burnham pre-emptively promising to be no more than accent Starmer, Harman being brought out of cryogenesis to remind you there is no alternative, and now Blair popping up to insist the only way is his one, I don’t how much clearer it could be made that we are hostage to a dead consensus.

It's just obvious that there is no good reason, at all, for the government to legislate what toilets you can go into. This is a thing that civil society was quite capable of working out. We're here because the GCs found civil society didn't share their rabid obsessive hatred so they played the refs.

I feel like reintroducing outlawry as a punishment for tax-dodging might prove quite effective

How come Stori Denali isn't in the Divine Dominion, or is management worried the fetishists might literally die from pleasure if that were to happen #ROH

Oops, FromSoftware's parent company has seemingly decided they've had too good a run and it's time to kill the company www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/fr...

The Zelda movie has already killed kayfabe for me because this photo was clearly taken in southern England. Ain't no hedges in Hyrule

If you can’t change Prime Minister because of the bond markets, then the bond markets *are* the Prime Minister.

You could drop it by another 50% by becoming (even more) inhuman monsters, putting gun emplacements along the southern coast and it wouldn't matter; migration is a massive psychosis issue. You can't point out that, statistically, there is no Bigfoot.

Sophy Ridge: "Who is Keir Starmer, thats the question. Who is he? Whats his vision?" Having to ask this question 6 years after Starmer became Labour leader & almost 2yrs since he became PM is damning. Both for the Labour leadership & the msm whose job it is to scrutinise them.

Wrote about the elections for the paper (which went to press last night): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Lol. Keir "I take responsibility, but also none of this is my fault" Starmer

At the end of a Reform government, this country's going to look like a Soviet satellite the day after the collapse of the USSR.

Today in Britain, a self-described "leading democracy".

Why does Peter Kay look like a third rate Cliff Richard impersonator

The real reason for this, of course, is that AAA development is creatively bankrupt and every studio uses each others' ideas because they're incapable of coming up with new ones.

Watch order and read order and play order are a blight

But people with graphs said we've never had it better. Not only that we've had it better, but we could probably stand to have it a bit worse if they're being honest

I guess the idea here is that people born in 1950 who think they fought in the second world war are also likely to think they do an 8 hour shift in the ironworks even though they are actually propping up the bar at wetherspoons

Look at this little goblin who lives in my house

Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

zack polanski most vindicated man in british politics

He plays!

Do you genuinely not see, in big 2026, how the constant concessions to the idea that people are right and correct to be afraid of their neighbours is a toxic, miserable frame to try to fit a policy response around?

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

I do not like living in a world in which an unhinged septagenarian paedophile has complete authority over a nuclear arsenal.

Imagine hating pro wrestling

Amazing how all these Muslim women were desperate to vote for a candidate who really doesn't seem to like Muslims or women, but couldn't because their hardline Islamist husbands were all woke for trans rights.

Of course this is framed as The Computer Is Alive and not what's really happening which is that this technology is badly designed and implemented and doesn't work to the standards it's hyped as having

I would simply be too embarrassed to print that it was unfair to Starmer to have to be PM after he’d routed the left, but before he’d had an opportunity to develop any politics of his own.

It makes me feel like such an old man but I remember being a kid and hearing stuff like "you need to set a good example for others" and "it doesn't matter if everyone else is doing it"

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Radical economic, social and political restructuring is going to happen. It can either happen in the pursuit of sustainable justice for all, or it can happen as a violent collapse into endemic resource-wars, fought by screaming fascists over the heads of a cowering populace. Take your pick.