Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Sharyn Alfonsi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 60 Minutes for 20 years. Before that she reported for ABC, CBS & local news outlets. If Alfonsi says her story was spiked by Bari Weiss political reasons, that’s exactly what happened. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Josh Strife Hayes finally got around to Brighter Shores in his Worst MMO Ever? series, and it was a lot of fun to listen to him pick apart a game I've actually played for a decent amount of time. But also there's a section towards the end that's genuinely moving. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pci0...

I think the moment GenAI enters the equation in any shape or form, you’re done. Design doc? GenAI. Budget? GenAI.

"by doing a public backlash like this people will start to hide that they use genai now instead of the opposite if people embraced them" nah, they'd have done that anyway no matter the response. "Truly the fault lies in the people being vocally upset and not the people using it" you are very smart

‘everyone in gamedev is using AI’ the business dumdums are using it to generate decks and write bad copy. They think it’s good because they think their basic lore ideas make a good game. that’s it that’s who is using AI

AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs” you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.

I didn't realize until today that Mayhem was rereleased in September with 3 additional songs (all previously released as singles, I think) added, but integrated into the running order instead of clumped at the end, it's not called a deluxe version and there's no difference in title or cover art.

the thing about chartfucker types is that while their bloodless 'we just care about the numbers' tone can sound reasonable and get people going 'why is everyone mad at them, idgi', once it gets to immigration, you get to see the actual horrors and inhumanity behind 'we just care about the numbers'

While this is hardly a surprise if you've been paying attention, I'm highly amused by the person in the replies who gets Nicki mixed up with Megan Thee Stallion, clearly some of you missed THAT ridiculous feud.

sure make your lazy jokes. don't even think about the ppl hurt by them. make your crack about "an egg fried this rice" not even thinking about that poor cook in the back of the restaurant making you a delicious meal. sweating half to death because she won't take off that oversized hoodie

i really do believe the push for AI is purely ideological. a hatred of human beings and human creativity. these CEOs admit point blank that it hasn't made workflow more efficient. it's not profitable. the backlash is certainly bad for marketing and will hurt sales. they don't care.

"Posting thirst traps from the Charlie Kirk Neck Incident Memorial Tent" is a plausible banger dril post

Also: Lady Gaga returned with what is pretty universally considered her best album since Born This Way, and it's not like that wasn't a hit! Did we all just forget that happened this year?

No. Next question.

Watching Todd In The Shadows' worst songs video now, glad to see that Drake single here since I got pushback on Reddit just for saying it was mid and wouldn't bring him back to his pre-feud glory days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=41A5...

Getting a sub at Harris Teeter and I must be the first person to order one today, the guy had to walk all the way to the far end of the deli to bring the bread cart over. 😝

The Kex port upload splits the WAD in two: the first half, which is what I was playing, is the vanilla-compatible maps (1-12), and the second is Boom-format (13-19, 31-32). It leaves out the rest because they're GZDoom-format, and based on what I've played I don't know that they're worth finding!

the two genders: melee and ranged

please, demisemihemidemisemiquaver is my mother's name. call me DSHSQ.

They made a better Cybertruck half a century ago.

I see the Microsoft dude who made an ass of himself yesterday deleted ALL his replies from all those arguments, so if you go to his page now the first thing in the replies tab is... endless arguments from 5 days ago where he defends the quality of Tesla's cars, and it's just as embarrassing.

Played Halls of Torment some more, I currently have a main quest to use the Scriptor's services, but I have no idea HOW to do this. When I click on him I see a book showing items I've found on my runs, but I can't DO anything with these entries. I'm guessing I need upgrade materials I don't have?

"The quality of DMP maps varies wildly, and the maps are not placed in order of difficulty, size or balance. Expect sudden drops in detail, difficulty and monster size." They sure weren't kidding, this is one of the most inconsistent and often outright bad WADs I've ever played.

How many toilet rats is everyone up to. I'm still at 0

I think I've reached the point where the WADs Vytaan is featuring in his videos are beyond my skill level, at least on UV. Haven't made it past the first map in Blues Brothers 2025, and these Dexcom competition maps are clearly more than I can handle at the moment.

Didn't get around to watching the new Techmoan until just now so I'm not drinking any coffee. Oh well. 😝 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwcF...

I see we're back to random posts on the timeline telling me about terrible people I didn't know existed and would rather not know about, this place really is just Twitter all over again.

kentucky fried chicken sign, marietta, georgia, 1992

Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?

The real kicker here is that "Disc 1 Not Working" sticker on Xenogears since that's where most of the actual game is!

surely there is a middle ground between sexualized/fetishized cis women with penises and horrifically hateful wojak/tumblr art

Claudia from Silent Hill 3. She may be trying to resurrect an ancient god to destroy the world by fire... but she sincerely believes this is the only way to save the world. And haven't we all felt that way sometimes? 😝

Met my sister for lunch and nearly had a panic attack because I thought I'd gotten myself trapped in an aisle of the parking garage with no way out. 🙃

This entire discussion thread feels like it's missing the forest for the trees. The reason SH2 endures is because of the stories of the people involved, the question of why the town is full of fog and monsters is irrelevant.

using AI to come up with ideas is like asking two friends if you should wear a coat today and one says "it's warm out! wear a sexy coat" and the other says "cold front is coming, though" and you go like okay. i'll wear a coat that is neither sexy nor will it keep me warm, thanks guys

being trans is funny because you can have brainworms a la "i only look like 5% different to when i was a guy" and be perfectly correct about it but miss the point that overall men and women simply do not look that different. a woman looks much more like a man than a chair, for instance

The greatest threat of AI has nothing to do with the human-replacement argument, bad that may be. It’s how its true main function, visually and verbally, is to provide the world’s worst actors with what they always wanted: a means to have the argument created for whatever answer they already want.

Cannot be stressed enough how quickly these fabricated “academic studies” will be used to promote the entire right-wing wishlist—hurting trans people, banning vaccines, inventing fetal brain activity, etc.—all only for it to be far too late when everyone points it out.

Hearing a lot of sirens outside this morning. 😬

Well usually my apartment doesn't give 3 day notices unless you're 2 months behind, but I guess I'm special!! I desperately need to raise at least an extra $1000 RIGHT AWAY so if you can share this around, I'd be very VERY grateful!

Ahlam has been going to dialysis in Gaza this entire time- as you can imagine this is incredibly difficult and she needs to be somewhere better to get treatment. Even a little donation can help towards an evac fund ❤️

the thing is I have never ever ever seen any other reporter admit this in their bio. "Finance is a new beat for me, so what I cover will be shaped by what I learn in the following weeks." "I've never covered the auto industry and I have never owned a car, but I'm eager to learn more about this beat"

People already having a normal one on here and it's barely past 8 AM where I live, it's way too early for this shit.

radioactive hot take but someone hurting you does not give you the right to hurt them back indefinitely

The Muppets are the best guys of all time. I love them.

I somehow missed that Dan Savage was on Bluesky now. If you missed the memo, consider this your reminder that Dan Savage is a racist transphobe who has allied himself with Jesse Singal (!) and written racist screeds attacking Black people while dismissing the racism of white gays.

Lol one time I had a post go extremely viral over at the Nazi bar. Like picked up in the UK gossip rags. It was about hard boundaries with racist relatives and *this fucking guy* Friedersdorf slid into my DMs *just asking questions*. I told him to get fucked. Highly recommend if you get the chance.

Honestly I've got to give them credit for having some restraint and not going for a Benson Boone "Moonbeam Ice Cream Sandwich" sponsorship deal.

We've reached the "listening to Japanese metal because the cover goes hard" part of the evening. 😝 open.spotify.com/album/0uU9m4...