“Are there even any good games” shut uppppp you’re so tedious They’ve been around for 70 years just pick some you like and move on, en god

This is classic private equity buy out in effect. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Back in my day, EA bought things and dismantled them, not the other way around

So where’s the best place to watch the Rapture from if I want to see a bunch of bare-ass Evangelicals zoot up to space and then get first crack at their stuff?

Woot! Multiple World War 1s are underway on Rally the Troops, with @thebrdgmschronicle.bsky.social @legendarytactics.bsky.social. #boardwargames #boardgames @ccxvii.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social Paths of Glory

Behold: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

13 years ago today, FTL released on Steam and your support and enthusiasm for the game completely changed my life. It allowed me to quit my day job, focus on music full-time, and afford health insurance for me & my partner. I had wanted to work in games since I was a teenager. Thank you everyone!

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

The Imperial Radch books: holy shit. My favorite reads in years.

This is, in fact, generally how it works. It is, for instance, exactly how it worked for the Athenian democracy being reestablished after the oligarchic tyranny of the 30. The thirty were driven out, their top lieutenants prosecuted, everyone else pretended they always hated them.

This year’s ‘tatoes! Plants underperformed a bit in drought conditions (they gave up a couple weeks early) but the results are still actually lovely

‘What sci-fi atrocities would have been stoped by shareholders and which would have been enabled if the firm was public?’ is a fun thing to think about. Umbrella BOWs: probably stopped, no road to profitability UAC hell portals: probably enabled

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

lol absolutely so much shit is happening with caves of qud it's kind of silly (good, crazy amount of work happening lol)

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Slightly all-wet and completely out of breath after racing our hearts out in St. Lawrence Skiffs to end the summer!

The specialty bread store clerk saw my pin and then gave us a free loaf when he found out that I write for Caves of Qud! Arguably my first time being 'recognized' by a stranger, even if only by my apparel

Yesterday, at approximately 9:30pm U.S. Central Daylight Time, somebody aboard the International Space Station rocked an astronomically impressive piss:

I mean, *obviously*, right?!?!

I'm not going to think about the Cracker Barrel thing, it's too stupid. It feels like engaging with the topic in any way just kills brain cells

Reminds me of my architect brother-in-law, who has been putting PTF/PTM on blueprints for years and nobody has ever asked what it means: Pound to Fit/Paint to Match.

We used to say our studio was JSI/RSO certified. (Jamming Shit In / Ripping Shit Out). Not quite as aspirational but we, well, made it work :D

*Act 1* Game: don’t worry, this character isn’t important Me: you can’t fuckin fool me; that’s a tier 1 head *Act 2* Game: REVEAL! She’s super important! Me:

They took out the Cracker *and* the Barrel?!?!?!

The design trend of removing any character or personality from branding for the sake of “minimalism” and being taken “seriously” is a big pet peeve of mine. It’s ok to have a weird lil guy in your logo.

OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN CONCEDES GPT-5 WAS A MISFIRE, BETS ON GPT-6

“trillions of dollars can fix this”

My best tweet ever was “Let’s put the cialis in socialism” and I’m still mad it didn’t go wildly viral

one guy even tried to give us a sandwich

I’m the guy who rebranded HBO Max as just Max, here with a brand new idea for you: what if a name alone was cringe?

One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

nobody in my games circles knows what a deloitte fast 500 is and nobody in my enterprise circles knows what a hugo is

I’d make the case that Caves of Qud is one of the standout works of SF in the 21st century thus far. It’s taken over a decade; it’s sprawling; it has its own idiosyncratic but consistent epistemologies that are only learnable by fucking around. So to see it recognized by the field is so validating.

Sounds like a nightmare.

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

New heresy just dropped

I still don’t get why it’s OK to be a CEO or board member of multiple companies but everyone freaks out if a regular tech worker does the same.

This is precisely my take on all Gen AI questions…

Cancelling $500 million in vaccine research is exactly what a virus would do if it ran the Department of Health and Human Services.

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

"Wow, man. Great band performance! You were really RIZZMAXXING there." "Dad. Dad, no. Please, no."

Everyone knows that "Preferences" should be found under Edit (because you edit them), under Tools (because they control the parameters of your tools), under General (because they are categorically broad), & under File (because a preference is a 'filing off' from a marble block of possibility)

Easiest way to make a small fortune: start with a large fortune!