I think the problem with the Rock is that the Rock still thinks he’s really cool while John Cena realized that he’s a ridiculous human being and did interesting things with that and Batista realized he was a ridiculous human being and decided to become Daniel Day Louis

I know we’re not supposed to root for movies to fail but I hope we can all agree Disney remakes are an exception. Moana flopping is good. It is nature healing. It is a balm in these trying times to know audiences have a line, and “remake of a barely 10-year-old movie but ugly now” is one of them.

If Graham's last words in public include "I can't die now" then we've already maxed out on irony for the month and will have to deficit borrow from August to get by

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.

Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.

Didn’t Lindsay get the memo that if you suddenly die you just have your family cover it up so your corpse can hold the seat indefinitely? Totally botched this.

I’ve spent an hour grinding at the start of Hell Core in the new DOOM dlc and I just can’t beat the encounter. With the spear the control scheme becomes so ludicrously complex I can’t even keep it all in mind anymore. It’s literally too much for a standard controller. Feels impossible.

People don’t like to hear this but when she was in the senate one of HRCs ways of being seen as serious and tough and bipartisan before running for president was to be a hawk. You know what this led her to? Voting for the Iraq war. This path of adhering to gop standards of strength is bad.

My hot academic take is that few people in human history have ever been proven as correct as Marshall McLuhan. "The Medium is the Message" is more relevant now - applicable from AI to social media cooking our brains - than when it was written.

I find this really interesting. Even if you don't despise genAI as much as I do, if you're making art, it doesn't matter how nuanced you think the conversation is, and these hosts are 100% right -- the medium is the message and if you touch genAI, you're cooked.

She's just like me

Ro Khanna: “I saw the arrogance in the eyes of the Settlers. 21 & 22 year olds with guns, laughing that they’d detained us. The arrogance of those IDF soldiers... It is the arrogance of power. Of a power that has had no accountability. Total impunity. And it’s created a toxic culture of oppression.”

"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing

guess you guys shouldn't have worked so hard to put him in office and to continually downplay the insidiousness of his actions while patting yourselves on the backs for how fair and balanced you are huh

if this is actually the case there isn’t anyone who would appreciate this ghoulish maneuver more than McConnell himself so you can’t say they aren’t honoring the man

An absolute legend-tier hater

It is really wild how much Black causes have been completely abandoned or lowered in priority by many Dems and many people, from moderates to progressives to the left. As we enter fascism, we can’t keep our eyes off the core of how we got here. Not to mention simply not abandoning Black people.

Sad to report EVIL DEAD BURN is awful - a monotonous, lifeless slog, a film that wants to say something about domestic abuse but ultimately adopts the perspective and positionality of the abuser. Unpleasant doesn’t even begin to describe it. boxd.it/faO22t

Christopher Nolan on #FuckAI www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/0...

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

our top fx teams are working hard on getting those four color comics down to just one

If Fetterman leaves the Democrats for the Republicans, he will be the first Senator in US history to simultaneously raise the average IQ of both parties.

Mmmmmmhmmmmm 👀👀👀👀 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o...

Man, killing id Software is akin to Sony shutting down Insomnic or Santa Monica. Nintendo killing off EAD. Disney closing Pixar.

If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I see I need to make a clearer point. Framing things this way puts the blame on the consumer - the consumer that spends hundreds of millions of dollars on subs every month - as though it is their fault for freeloading. But is it the consumer's fault that the model was built the way it was? No.

As others have noted, the Platner Discourse™ really does show that Twitter is the place that's wildly out of step with reality, not this "leftist bubble"

“But the bigger problem is how much of the media of ‘the left’ is dominated by men who appear to have no understanding of sexual abuse or intimate partner violence, but do have a pretty hefty sexist streak that they either aren’t aware of or don’t care to remedy.” YES @juliedicaro.bsky.social

All of this. And, the additional hubris is assuming they will sail through anyway. That the women will not be believed or that the allegations will not matter -- assuming the public will see the women as these men have and do.

With the frequency & scale of these layoffs I gotta wonder if studios like Bethesda, ID, & Obsidian even have any identity left or if they are all just a shell of their former selves It's why I'm not interested in Elder Scrolls 6 or this supposed new Fallout game by what remains of Obsidian

I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

yeah, not all that surprised that a guy who was incapable of taking responsibility for any of his choices or decisions also refuses to take responsibility for this one.

one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here

Good. May we never hear from this rapist piece of shit again.

And there it is—the Maine Democratic Party has adopted a procedure for replacing Platner without waiting for Platner to drop out. As I noted last night, making a decision is a good way to stop someone from trying to blackmail you about that decision.

Hitchcock’s entire career was just a historical footnote leading up to this genuine masterpiece

In rape culture, everything a woman says means yes and nothing she says means no. This seems to assert that though she said not to come over, said no repeatedly, struggled against Platner, an ambiguous prior comment constituted irrevocable consent. Not a shocking breach not to include it.

Couldn't fit this into the piece, but the belief that the left needs its own oaf means that Trump is still dictating the rules of engagement. Believing 1) white working class men are the voters that matter and 2) that they will only vote for themselves is just MAGA with a different coat of paint.

If Xbox had half a brain cell, they wouldn’t be doing mass layoffs at id - they’d be doubling that team in size to support id tech as a serious competitor to Unreal (or at least as a technical option across Xbox studios). It’s literally one of their most valuable and untapped assets. Insanity.

This is obviously bad news for Obsidian, who are losing both staff and autonomy, but probably good news for Fallout, a series suffering too long under the cruel/incompetent thumb of Todd Howard. (Obviously the layoffs matter most here, fuck Microsoft)

the story here is as much about xbox leadership wresting control of fallout away from bethesda (at least in part) as it is moving obsidian fully on to the IP. prior to this regime, zenimax studios retained control of their stuff much more, and xbox is clearly moving toward a top down strategy.

The number of pitchdecks I've seen that directly mentioned DOOM Eternal as an influence would shock you - and not just FPS'! Heck, I'd say most weren't. The games, studios, and workers that have the deepest influence on culture and future talent isn't always obvious, and execs don't often care.

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

Like no sorry actually there are a lot of women in the working class and also a lot of men who are not fucking assholes. The working class is not the cultural and moral lowest common denominator and the fact that you imagine it as such tells us exactly what your politics actually are

Rest in peace Tony Rayns, quite possibly the most consequential Western figure in spreading the worldwide recognition of East Asian cinema.

Sure looks that way

Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.

Doesn't seem like a great long-term strategy for the Democratic Party to become more and more reliant on a mostly female voting base and then demand that base put their time and energy into promoting male politicians who harm women.