This is unprecedented.

We are about to find whatever the lowest possible bar for the word meaningful is. Or we won’t because the rest of the party will just vote for it regardless.

"If that's not a highlight reel goal I don't know what is" Minnesota's Abbey Murphy beats her defender with a lacrosse move, then slides it over for Bella Fanale to score

Money really fucks up your brain, huh? Incidentally, if there's any billionaires out there looking to do some testing. I'll take 100million from you and we'll see how long/how much money I have before I start defending CSAM making machines.

Pspspspsps. 📸 mariahcarb

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Useless. Fucking useless people.

Rob to Danika at the end of this week’s @remapradio.bsky.social podcast: “Stop lobbing factual statements at me as if they were insults.” 😁

everything is bad except for when i play video games with my friends

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You know, 11 years ago. Same shit

as far as video game events go, agdq is uniquely chill and welcoming. it's been a refreshing experience! I asked gdq's director of operations about plans for expansion -- and how gdq intends to do so without losing what makes the event so special

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

Synopsis: You need to kick more people out. You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

"What do you want the Dems to DO exactly?" is kicked dog behavior. Elected officials are not meant to do insider trading and occasionally give a 4/10 speech about civility. They are an expression of the values of those they represent, you're damn right I expect up to and including physical action.

People will walk themselves into totalitarian surveillance if they think it’ll catch a few rowdy Black teens.

thanks for the tip

Notice this post doesn't mention 2027. 🤔

We gotta imprison each of these shithead AI ceo's in a different data center like the minotaur

2026 is a midterms year & you will be begged for money and time to help sitting Congress people who are allowed unlimited corporate & foreign campaign donations. Make small donations to progressive candidates in primaries. Otherwise keep your money for your family. You’re going to need it.

I remember thinking “why would they open Jurassic Park again? All those people died!” Or “why would they have another summer camp at Crystal Lake after Jason killed all those people for seven consecutive movies?” but it’s gotten to the point with things where it’s like yeah they’d do that for money

It's way too early for me to be laughing this hard. 🤣

The reason I want to ask what the pain points for Linux are is because a lot of this stuff is thought about passively, with FOSS brain, or shrugged off entirely. But if you want to really kill Windows, which most people seem to want, a full accounting of what’s in the way is needed.

I mean this genuinely: Windows is a moral and technical rot. It needs to be dead and in the ground. And that requires a lot of work.

extremely important PSA

A prominent commentator in the fighting game community, Sajam, has announced he will not participate in future EVO events following its acquisition by the Saudi government.

me: i heard you do a terrible owl impression him: where me: holy shit that is bad

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any time now

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

reminder: take all your PTO whenever possible because getting to the end of the year and potentially losing some is the stupidest thing ever invented and working less > working more

It's that time of the year again

Me, this entire month. 🫠

My opinion is that there should be one big button labeled "opt out" and when you click it it should opt you out. Just in general.

Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.

"To me it shines a light on the god-complex that AI C-suite members seem to have, and their willingness to ignore people's consent and opinions as they bulldoze their way of pushing AI." www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

sigh

Wario64

I haven't even watched this for an hour and Jack and Austin are in absolute PRIME form. Bravo to the both of you, and the Red Duke. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLhF...

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THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

This entire thread is worth a read