The corporate, stagnant need to only ever bet on sure things has accumulated so much cultural rot in its existence that we are becoming a necrocratic culture, where we cannot allow the dead to rest when there is still profit to be made off their memory, because the new is unproven and unsafe.

Whenever I see people arguing about how free will doesn't exist, I tell them I don't respect them. This, weirdly, seems to offend them, which I don't understand. It's not like it was my choice.

It's heartbreaking that games as a medium remain out of reach for people telling the stories worth telling most. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

It's like they found every person that "I will not be replying to that hot take that's someone with a fetish for being yelled at" tweet applies to and put them in a room together and filmed it. Good for them, I guess, hope they get all the yelling they clearly want thrown their way.

His Holiness may not walk on water like his boss does, but I think it's pretty clear he can walk on Air.

What annoys me most is the bros pushing it that treat it like an econ version of Pascal's wager. "It's the future, bro!" is worse than a useless statement, it's a statement of faith in your chosen chatbot over another as the one to herald your unearned riches. It is blind faith as applied to tech.

This just proves what I always say about original posts: they only want to talk about themselves instead of other people, especially me, and that's bad.

“And the Roasted Pig Meat, so easily forgotten…”

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

We should make everyone who tries to make an account here have to verify they read this so they come in with the forewarning this place is not a place of honor.

GILGAMESH: Scribe, attend me! I wish to send the Pharaoh a message. SCRIBE: Yes, sir. What shall it say? G: This is my message: “Yo, bro, you got mad gains. What you bulking for? Bulking for me?” S: I... sorry, sir? G: That tablet's still wet, right? S: Yes, sir. Wh— G: *Taking off robes* Perfect.

I dreamt of the beach (1/4)

Personally, if I had made a game about believing in the goodness of all of us and the faith and trust required to achieve that, I wouldn't go around telling everyone I can't trust anyone to localize that game to other languages.

coughing elder vs hydrogen twink

he’s more upset about charlie kirk’s death than erika kirk was

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

This motherfucker's never beating the Patrick Bateman allegations, holy shit.

Journalists adapted to the radio and television, yet adapting to the high bar of "understanding public perception because of social media" is too high a bar? All she had to do was not post antisemitic crap! This feels like outrage over being criticized by "the masses" over any actual real problem.

Reading David Sacks say anything at all about "gooning" feels like cause enough for a revision and amendment of the Geneva Convention.

Why would I, as a writer, willingly deprive my creation of the soul I spend so long working to imbue within it? This is like asking a bespoke tailor if they wouldn't rather build a sweatshop.

It's so tiring how these idiots will in one breath declare themselves "true rationals" and then immediately ascribe a deterministic nigh-holy order to the world based on their prejudices. To declare that we must be aberrations, straying from the "natural" path, is religiosity cloaked in "science."

Pygmalion if he was a gamer

This is John Mulaney erasure. I've never heard him say a single word whose origin could be traced back to after the 1950's.

If iMessage existed in the twelfth century.

Look at my lawyer dawg I'm going to jail 😭

“No one saw this crash coming.”

The NI-HOWDY kid is literally funnier than every comedian podcast you're current subscribed to and it's not up for debate

If someone made a machine that burns 100 acres of rainforest to make 2 liters of barely-acceptable knock-offs of popular sodas and someone taste-tests every flavor, did I really "fall for it" when I call what they did shit?

One of a group of new small paintings created for my solo show. They're 4" square. On view at LeMieux Galleries in NOLA through Feb 21st and online: lemieuxgalleries.com "Eternal" Acrylic on canvas 4" x 4" #art #painting #surrealism #birds #nature #contemporaryart

You may hate him, but he is the first person ever to ethically produce art using AI

Ubisoft execs share one collective, moribund brain cell that they've been trying to sell to other companies for years and no one wants it. A company whose entire history of successes is the result of sheer happenstance and luck (and workers fighting against the monkey-typewriter execs).

This thread and every single reply in it feels like a personal attack that I can't even be mad about because they are just right.

As a writer... I'd say I'm really good at showing precisely what I need, not a drop more, then letting the reader understand the rest. I'd say I've become quite good at subtlety.

This looks like what would happen if you melted that Gritty abomination with acid.

One time a dude joined a hypnokink server with the display name "Scott Adams," tried to hit on me, then swore he wasn't THAT Scott Adams when I asked. Was a shit hypnotist, too. A few days later the account got deleted.

Thing is, she's a billionaire and also plainly and clearly addicted to the Nazi bar. She might move elsewhere in real life *just* to stay at the Nazi bar. Never underestimate how pathetic that loser is.

Is this sincere? No idea. I hope it is. A lot of people were referencing Lucy and the football with regards to such “redemption arcs,” but… I think I would rather always go for that kick than stop believing in the ability of people to improve. Though I'd never demand the same of anyone else.

There is, undeniably, a split between decent and indecent, where one side revels in the cruelty of their actions, under the guise of civility or otherwise, and the other seeks justice. You claim both sides seek blood because you fear consequences for your own guilt in the shedding of it.

I love the (I'm HOPING it's accidental) implication the sentence construction makes here, it's very funny to me.

I think I wrote a small essay over a decade ago that the reason so much sex work is treated like this is that men in power hate that they cannot control their own sexual desires, and feel manipulated when charged money. They hate feeling like anyone could hold horny over their heads.

Ms. Rachel and Mayor Mamdani: did someone get addicted to crack?

People like this aren't pro-democracy. Not really. They're neo-calvinists. They believe that goodness is confirmed by one action, voting for Democrats, and that all divergence from this action is a confirmation of your destiny to be evil and end up in hell. To them, morality is defined by the Party.

I’m still not sure which Knives Out film I like the most, but I think I feel pretty confident in saying the Louise phone call from Wake Up Dead Man is my favorite scene in the whole trilogy

Between this and the Etsy witches, I'm learning to hold my fucking tongue when someone starts talking about astrology. Why yes, absolutely I'll let you make a map of my sign, please allow me continue to live an uncursed life, ye who fucks with powers that should not be.

I don't owe it to anybody to use particular pronouns or identify a certain way. I'm allowed to just be me.

Hell yeah, we're inventing arm-swinging phrenology now. Gonna get called some bizarre new slur because I swing my arm five degrees too far to the left. I would call these people clowns, but a clown intends to be funny.