i know the fastest way to get a viewer/player to hate an antagonist is to have them kill a character they like. but god damn do i hate erik visser. his death is so satisfying.

you've been kidnapped. the characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. i'm going to be *fine*.

Happy light, everyone ❤️‍🔥

Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person

the platonic ideal of "i can fix her" this woman is gross and absolutely spent a couple decades grooming beta (assuming beta ages normally), but she's authoritative and powerful and she seems to almost have a hint of morality and compassion buried in there somewhere under the possessiveness.

in all my playthroughs, have i ever used this? no, lol in all my playthroughs, have i ever failed to unlock this? also no

Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.

I talk to my students about this on the first day, and use it to discuss why they are in college in the first place.

when i was in my 30s and getting told i looked like a teenager or early-20s, people would often get asked how i look so young. i would often respond with "formaldehyde!" because while quite toxic it is an effective preservative. not quite as funny anymore. :(

"so the passcode is the month and year this company was founded." "the company was founded in october 2023." *begins to put in code* "so the company was founded in october..." "...which is the tenth month of the year!" horizon i love you but holy fuck cool it with the voiced hints next time.

Transition is a form of ultimate total bodily autonomy and these are people who get off on total subjugation, on total power over someone else's body. Opposing transness is a currently socially acceptable way to support pedophilia and rape

he sounds upset that these things cost so much. if only he had a way to make them cost less.

If everybody you admit got harmed BEFORE you . aren’t allowed to be angry WHEN YOU ADMIT THEIR HARM WAS THE TEST FOR YOURS …. You aren’t looking for repair , you’re looking for a restoration of dominance

fun fact: this works for all bigotry! if you're tired of hearing how something is racist in a way you can't see yet, but you ignore the black and brown folks telling you, don't worry, you'll eventually see. it'll just be much harder to deal with by then. see also: warnings about the wizard lady.

this art comes from a book called "man after man" and i haven't read it in maybe twenty years but i remember it being delightfully trippy. idk if it holds up but it gave us this image so it's gotta still be at least somewhat good.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

anyone who plays horizon forbidden west doesn't love morlund, abadund, and stemmur is immediately suspect.

meeting the queen: how is that prick ceo "the first ceo in five generations"? he claims to be ted faro reincarnated, but it also seems like he claims a direct link rather than be part of a reincarnation chain.

I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.

i really wish we could stop equating rarity with power in games. common, ordinary, everyday things can be incredible. even if everyone has it. tools are everywhere. if everyone gets a powerful thing, that just makes everyone more powerful. not worse. this post also isn't *not* about vaccines.

there is a quest in horizon forbidden west where aloy runs around and helps zo, a teammate, reboot her people's "land-gods" - triceratops-like farming machines. this heals them and restores them to functionality.

everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most. sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again. quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...

i will never, ever forgive this administration or the politicians who did this. between this and attacking trans kids' care it's very clear they just want undesirable kids to die. the poor who can't afford "unrecommended" vaccines (if they're even available), the trans, the black and brown, etc.

because my brain is just this way: also made for a pretty cool corrupted zone in horizon zero dawn. there's even a vantage point to get a glimpse of what red rocks looks like in that game's 2050s.

horizon thought: since i'm confident it'll come up in h3, whatever the real cause of the glitch was that created the faro plague, it either reinforces the characters and consequences that already exist (i.e. it's somehow ted's fault) or it undermines the power of the first two games in the series.

i'm done with a full week of winter break now and i still haven't stopped checking work slack. i need to stop checking work slack.

If you do not support trans people - by actively dedicating your time and money (if you have it) and voice to their cause - you are a failure of morality and humanity and you are not just a bystander but a culpable participant in one of the most violent attempts at eugenics of our time.

if i haven't read any magic story in years, is the lorwyn story a good jumping-back-in point?

if your design tests require shippable portions of a product, instead of just sending some essay and short answer questions like a normal person judging the thought process of an applicant, you should go sit in the corner and think about what you did. or be *really* ready to explain yourself.

I am convinced in the future we will look back and realise the sheer unimaginable folly of letting a virus that can cause immune dysregulation and cognitive dysfunction in humans infect and re-infect the global population over and over again. Worse still, that we encouraged it.

This is just five minutes. Please watch this and share it with anyone you think might be moved by it. And then call your US rep and tell them to vote AGAINST all of the anti-trans bills Republicans are pushing this week. Find your rep at reps.fyi

i really hope the card “bark of doran” — one of the names from @maro254.bsky.social’s lorwyn eclipsed preview — has creature types “treefolk dog”. not saying it’d be bad if it didn’t but it would be good if it did. that’s a classic pun that i’m pretty sure magic has never used.

remember that stargate sg1 episode when they went back to 1969 and met those hippies going to woodstock? well if you count the days between sg1's arrival in the past, then add that many days after the episode aired... well, that's october 3, 2028. not today. but we're over 90% of the way there.

too many good people have imposter syndrome, despite the fact that we have incontrovertible proof that being a complete moronic loser *and* a sociopath *and* a sycophant for the worst people imaginable still doesn't disqualify you from anything.

My advice: Like what you like and don't worry about anyone who tells you it's cringe. Life's short and the world's on fire, and as long as you're not hurting other people, you're fine. I mean, I still like U2, too! I don't care who knows it. If other people don't like that, that's a them problem.

as a systems designer, i may be biased, but i would love to make sure everyone in games (dev and player alike!) took at least one semester of "if you fuck this up your endgame playerbase will be so mad at you, pay attention."

what common or semicommon phrases trigger very specific references in your brain? for me, "death comes for us all" is always followed by "...oroko saki. but when you die... it will be without honor." and "i return" is short for "...another chance to carve your skulls!"

was anyone excited about her? she was the definition of unobjectionable but unexciting for me. but as a cleverer person than i once said, i would crawl over glass to vote against tfg.

anyone in my old area, please be careful!

I'm giving out this star, so get it while you can folks

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

The goal in life is to leave the world better off than you find it. Reiner did that and more, and may history and the hereafter reward him for eternity. We lost a good one.

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

"when the world needed him most, the 6/6 avatar returned."

this is not a difficult concept. there are no times when murdering civilians is acceptable. if you ever think "oh but maybe in this case..." then you have lost the plot because the answer is "no, not even then."

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go

playing d&d with a new person, explaining bits of the rules as we go through a dungeon: "think of passive perception as armor class for your ears." "earmor class?" "earmor class."

weird how when these people build bots before strictly instructing them to ignore facts, the bots think they suck.

As of today, the only person in this Daily Penn visual that hasn't been fined millions of dollars or convicted of a felony is Luigi Mangione, believe it or not