Here it is, over 4K words on what happened after the headline grabbing “$54 million in NFT sales” for Peter Molyneux’s game Legacy. Many players lost thousands chasing a “play to earn” hype train that evaporated almost immediately when the game launched. arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...

Shout outs to the dude in the pit at the Miku concert who bought the ticket to get feet pics for some reason.

That’s what I made working retail in 2007.

the mf who just took 36 duck breasts out of the sous vide

Hollywood jobs belong in LA. Here’s how to help bring them back:

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Holy shit, the cover for volume 3 is them going to Costco, complete with glizzy combo.

unmute, this is 100% right

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Ride the D and other line tees just dropped! 30 days until D Line Ext opens on May 8 🚇🎆 shop.metro.net

"Why don't Americans—" we do. That's why many of my friends are in prison or dead.

Pokopia: "Who's that Pokemon?!" Me, old, 80% of the time: "This is literally the first time I've ever seen this silhouette in my life. A bug, I guess, maybe."

The Super Mario Super Show has started airing on MEtv using some kind of AI upscaling ,and the results are as good as you'd expect

Thread of non-English Wikipedia articles about slang/idioms!!! Here's “Ketchupeffekt” from Swedish Wikipedia. They're all autotranslated to English in my browser

You tell 'em, Bret

Buncha dudes hoarding AI porn before Sora goes down typing "big booty latina three tits suck toes race car" into their computers while sobbing and screaming

wouldn't be the first time disney killed sora

People forget this but Chuck Norris jokes were originally Mr. T jokes. I don't know why that changed but clearly the world would have been better if it hadn't

i always respected any tv that housed composite inputs on the front of the box. this is known as The People's Input

Perfect

I've been made aware that the MtG butt-crack awareness guy is an indie wrestler under the name Bigg Pound aka "The King of Crack-style" and his match promos are works of art. The world is a beautiful place full of endless wonder.

this knocked me out

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

HAPPY "THE WHOLE PLOT OF THE ZERO ESCAPE GAMES STARTS TODAY" DAY the one and only that will be watch out for snails

oh great here comes mister “I’m just asking questions” pony again

Game: Spank the Monkey (2002, Flash) TAS Authors: zapkt, Spikestuff & synabler Source: tasvideos.org/7005M

This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A reminder that we're dead keen for pitches. Got a bunch in here already, but if you have a dream story, or a story only you can tell, chuck it in the form. Also we're looking for illustrators! We have some onboard already but we need more! Any Qs slide into my DMs!

GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad

Some tidbits from the 2026 State Of The Game Industry report from GDC

Like the humble cockroach we endure

here I solved it

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

Grandparents sitting outside the Chipotle romantically sharing a vape

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

For the love of God, what are you people fucking talking about

they're talking about fujoshi like they're an exotic new kind of animal

I've been impacted today by a layoff wave at Riot. If you or someone you know needs content operations, content/brand strategy, tooling/systems leadership, product management, or project management in games then hit me up. 13+ years experience in games alone.

The algorithm shocked my brain this morning more than coffee ever could. It showed me footage of an influencer reviewing a French dish pronounced "crock may-dem".

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Melrose and La Brea is just a river right now.

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

“I don’t like Bad Bunny because I can’t understand Spanish.” You are WEAK. Weeaboos have been jamming out to songs they don’t understand in Japanese for decades.