that said, it's just as brilliantly cinematic as ever. just finished a playthrough on the lowest difficulty just to get through it and the cut scenes are still thrilling the whole way through. if there were a shot-fot-shot live action miniseries, i don't think there would be a single bad episode.

i remember loving the original mass effect but honestly it's kind of unplayable twenty years on.

the enshittification continues.

Breaking News, first on Inside Medicine. A hospitalized flight attendant who worked a KLM flight that carried a cruise ship passenger who subsequently died of Andes hantavirus has tested (-) for the virus. If the flight attendant had tested (+), it would've been an escalation in this story.

i got out of ai stocks weeks ago when i found out my previous money guy had invested a bunch of my retirement money in them against my express wishes. i made a lot from them so the timing worked really well for me but anyone telling you to buy into them right now is not doing you any favors.

me: if i were in charge, i would make everyone learn what the subjunctive mood is, when to use it, and what it communicates. them: if i was in charge, i wouldn't.

well fuck.

every time i rewatch this i always think straight men who can't convince *any* women to love them are being sabotaged by other straight men similarly afflicted. because tom holland is more than capable and it's damn sure not because he's magically chosen to be god's gift to women.

maybe this lamp is styled after a light lunch? it's a *light* lunch? hah. i slay me. (no, it's actually just a tiffany lamp azerothified.)

so he's definitely in the files then?

had a dream last night that i was my dracthyr, flying around the seattle area. i remember gliding from mt rainier to the space needle like a tourist, even though i was born here. and also i was a bit of a superhero? then my cats woke me up and i have never been more angry at my fuzzy children.

youtu.be/fzW5YvU_fKU?... i am absolutely a sucker for this kind of thing. inject it into my veins. might not even back the project but damn if i don't think everyone should see this video. it's just unadulterated late-20th-century science fiction joy.

how in the world does anyone take seriously the idea that one in twenty college students are trans? like that's *several times* the general population rate. not just a little higher. like at least 3x too high.

because it's star wars day, here's mine: 8,6,7,5,3,0,9

slightly diminish a book my favorite of tolkein's works is the middle of the trilogy: the one tower

i would, at this point, be very okay with jace dying. nahiri at her worst was less villainous and more compassionate and still ended up suffering in the end. like, yes i have a soft spot for my girl here but jfc her body count is many orders of magnitude lower than a full rewrite of the multiverse.

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

There is no Jew Pope and if there was it sure as fuck wouldn’t be fucking Netanyahu.

o i'm not in this picture o i'm in this picture and like it x i'm in this picture and resent it

brennan lee mulligan keeps showing up on my facebook "people you may know" because we have a mutual facebook friend. on the one hand i would really love to get to know the guy because i have a massive friend-crush on him. on the other, that's really creepy and parasocial so i won't hit add.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

listen okay my left shift key and caps are borked atm so ignore that issue, im saying it because it literally bothers me anyway if you're a gamer, here's how to understand the psychopathy, narcissism and empathy impairment you see glaringly you are an npc

well clearly they would do that. they're the bad guys. and so is orban. and we equally all know they would never do that to us federal elections to support their useful idiot. the amount of bullshit that the billionaire media expects us to buy is staggering.

has krysten ritter even aged at all or is she partaking of the paul rudd fountain of youth?

Bring back the ancient knowledge

saw him do it, so it's a #scryfallshivam for may 1. forgotten ancient was one of the only cards designed by the community. or credited as such, anyway. there were a handful of "you make the card" events over the years, but this was the first.

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

if you have money, giving it to black political groups in the south sounds like a really good idea these days. because chantal here is asking for literally the most basic of things and fucking racist shitlords just scored a major victory yesterday. seems like the least the rest of us can do.

quote with your vibe if you were a vampire

Y’all think extreme solutions is practical but practical solutions be too extreme

Just makin' it clear for your asses. Erasing the voices of black and brown people is not "agree to disagree" territory.

agreed. run far, far, *far* away from this. do not *ever* trust a cis man specifically trying to appeal to trans women. the one exception i can imagine is that maybe if he's a medical professional and you're limiting that trust to medical care, not social and definitely not sexual, might be ok.

ancient playtest cards written by early teenagers in the mid-90s. one of these makes sense. the other does not.

if everyone rolls a d20 and the highest non-tied wins, the odds of needing to do it again are 1:8000. if one person rolls one die with each player equally represented on the die, the odds of needing to do it again are whatever the odds of keeping the die on the table are. you do the math.

a corporation is facing serious consequences for malicious profit-seeking actions? i guess they're not up to date on their bribes to the republican party.

a random pair of photos from fourteen years ago, before i even started at wizards, from the avacyn restored prerelease. literally baby's first event playing with deadeye navigator. it went as well as you would imagine. god i still love that card so much even though it's so strong.

nice. way to go sam neill. fuck cancer.

someone needs to figure out a way to properly spock this image into something decent people won't vomit to look at.

starting a new irregular thing i'm going to call #scryfallshivam, named in honor of @shivambhatt.bsky.social and will be me doing a scryfall random post only when i see him doing it first. it's a big green creature like half of gaea's liege for half the cost. is it the good half? maybe! (no) also

oh no i lost my whole evening to vampire crawlers. this is rapidly becoming an issue.

made the mistake of playing vampire crawlers over lunch break. (it's on game pass!) i thought i had played it a little bit and then boom 1h45m later i realized just how cooked i am.

i am so proud of the arena team for this. even though i probably don't know most of them at this point because it's been five years and even pre-pandemic i was on the other side of the second floor working on mtgo most of the time. may they have at least as much success as we've had at blizzard.

those familiar with the deep allison lore are aware that celebrating the death and suffering of *anyone* is anathema to me. (but there's no obligation to mourn or have sympathy, ofc.) but i think i have to make an exception for the "fuck cancer" rule this one time. apnews.com/article/isra...

i am perhaps the person with the least reason to care at all, but when did moustache-no-beard come back? it's such a ridiculous look that i see mostly on some younger millennials and older zoomers.

i worked under the table at, ironically enough, the county law library. in the courthouse building. i shelved books for 4 dollars an hour. less than minimum wage, but that's okay because i was also 13 and didn't have a work permit. it was pretty good for a first job. *and* it was air conditioned.

film you've watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli.

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.