what is this new wuwa event... oh it's fucking vampire survivors again

can't stop saying "the games they're playing are dog" to myself

No party campaigned on age verification. Nobody the US voted for this. Nobody the EU voted for this. Nobody the UK voted for this. Nobody in Australia voted for this. Some don't even know it's happening. Meta lobbied for this and got their way within a few years. Let this radicalize you.

my best friend is one of those people who explore rural Japan looking for abandoned properties and he recently found these signs out in the country

Many directors have expressed this same sentiment; Batman is a notoriously difficult actor.

Like everything built in this era, the answer is "someone writing wild VU code then them giving designers and artists an Excel sheet to deal with it"

It's important as a reporter to remember that when PR reps covertly threaten your outlet's relationship with the company: You're doing the job you're supposed to do. This @jessicogs.bsky.social piece is fantastic. An honest, delicate exploration of how badly corporations can alienate audiences.

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

"Historically, abandoning Google Search would have been commercial suicide, according to SEO consultant Lily Ray. It is simply too valuable...But the gradual erosion of search traffic in recent years has, paradoxically, given publishers more agency to consider walking away from the platform."

KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.

ICE has killed again. Again, the govt scrambled to claim an officer was threatened by ICE’s victim’s car. And again, that appears to be a lie. Except this time ICE also grabbed 3 witnesses, and is trying to get them out of the country. Immoral, authoritarian, and practically an admission of guilt.

Fortunately, elections in the United States are administered largely by its 3,000 counties, as well as by the 50 states. This commission has no actual enforcement power. This one of the few levers available to Trump. His intention is clear - but this is an expression of weakness, not power.

1 SR 8 R ass pull

Fellas, is it sapphic to find love?

*COUGHS LOUDLY*

Oddly specific rallying cry but I think I understand

this felt more merciful than fire and ice, at least

Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"

reminder that age verification is a "yes" or "no" box that can be ticked in response to the question "are you at least 18 years old". anything else is surveillance

What Microsoft did to id Software this week was a tragedy -- a failure to safeguard the lives of its workers. But it was also a telling failure of vision to have *that* legacy in your hands and to discard it like so much nothing

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

new wuwa login screen has a threatening aura

I think this is the clearest signal that the era of the ‘modern web’, which started with the indexing of its disparate contents, has finally come to a close

yeah man that guy got canceled. his life got ruined. he has an army of guys that defend him and makes a few grand every month because of them. the woman who canceled him? yeah she did it for the clout only. she's famous. she's known as "the woman who can't go anywhere without immediate harassment"

Good reminder that remakes often dilute or smoosh the qualities that made the originals sing, even if the broad picture seems intact or even prettier

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

we need to do something about kotaro uchikoshi

forcing devs to crunch before laying them off is stealing from them and you cannot convince me otherwise

yeah, that eject spring works

update:

I've never said "X" in real life. As a writer, I only use it to say "X, the platform formerly known as Twitter" because I get paid per word and this earns me enough money for an appetizer

Someone told me I haven't drawn enough fanart lately so here's fanart of the protagonist from Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne

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.

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

When my Civ VI game gets really interesting

spotted on Reddit: this menu card from a Lufthansa flight explaining the bibimbap being served the Korean text apparently translates to: "You know how to eat bibimbap, right? You are experts. So, please understand that we need more space for English and German instructions."

A short comic about Lenny #TheSimpsons #comics

incredible called shot on this in that Dragon Quarter is by far the most divisive entry in the Breath of Fire series. (That said, they never got to make another one, so maybe it was a little too dangerous of a called shot...)

thanks youtube but i don't think that's what he said

BAGGER: (spilling my groceries on the floor) Oh God. I'm so sorry. This isn't what I'm supposed to do. ME: How are you supposed to do it? MANAGER: She means she was gonna be a fox. In the woods and shit. But something happened and she got stuck. BAGGER: (crying) Got so stuck.