is this a sherlock holmes reference

Only haters will say @ayshaufarah.bsky.social and @rareandradiant.bsky.social didn't cook here.

stoked for more of the Fallout show, New Vegas is the game i actually like

Really good noms this year, all my 2025 faves are indies

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

Idk what it is but for some reason my kitten loves to watch me brush my teeth. As soon as I turn the electric toothbrush on she comes running and jumps on the sink and watches me avidly

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

You’d best start believing in pedophile conspiracy cabals, congress. You’re in one

My heroes are all dead and my enemies are fucking morons

it's always wild when people reach out to you for a job and then you get a form rejection immediately. bro YOU called ME

We love to see it honestly

Good episode where we descended into Christianity corner for like ten minutes but considering our guest that’s not surprising

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

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Dog what is in those files

It should not be that difficult to force a historically unpopular president who is also a pedophile to resign. And yet.

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Gaze upon my rat princess

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.

the year is 2035, pixar just released toys story 17 part 3, elon musk has fused with sam altman to become OpenGrokAI but they look like MODOK (marvel) so no one takes them seriously, game devs are still arguing over GDC and the game awards despite California being 80% under water

It’s darkly funny that q anon said they were terrified of a pedophile cabal eroding their freedoms and then the guy they backed is literally a pedophile eroding their freedoms and stealing their money to give it to his pedophile friends

having a job is meetings and emails and not having a job is meetings and emails and it's all meetings and emails

Beyond the ethical and quality concerns, why would you want to cut voice actors out of your process? They’re the hot people with media training and a camera presence. You need a Laura Bailey or Neil Newbon out there to do panels or it’s just a bunch of sweaty devs in t shirts and blazers

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One of the constant refrains I repeated when I was a lead was yes, my team can pivot, yes, we are happy to rework an idea. But it’s going to take time. Changing any element in a story has knock-on effects.

I use a scene from double exposure as a portfolio piece, and I link to it on YouTube because it doesn’t have the same impact without Hannah and Sam acting their faces off. Actors give words texture. Without them what is even the point

Beyond the ethical and quality concerns, why would you want to cut voice actors out of your process? They’re the hot people with media training and a camera presence. You need a Laura Bailey or Neil Newbon out there to do panels or it’s just a bunch of sweaty devs in t shirts and blazers

It’s really worth retraining yourself to be able to sit down and read a book.

The future class debacle is a great example of why DEI is such a bullshit concept. A way to receive the accolades without changing your behavior.

This is why they should let me write the new James Bond

Forgot I yelled “grow your own penis!” right before we cut the mics on the latest episode of worker’s lit

Extremely sick that my first official ep as third mic we discussed Lee Mandelo’s back breaker of a historical novella.

Dialogue choices are literally the most fundamental aspect of game design. Go play a King’s Quest game and get some culture in you

Suggesting that dialogue choices are bad game design is like saying that jump buttons are. Sure, there are plenty of good games that don’t have a jump button, but suggesting that its inclusion would be negative or disruptive when implemented well is just a fucking ludicrous take.

I’m trying to geolocate the discourse and it seems to be some guy wrote a novel-length article about how dialogue choices are bad writing. My takeaway is it could have used a couple dialogue choices to break up the pacing

i think the kitten got turbo-bapped by one of the other cats because she's acting super timid all of a sudden lol

The dems won a huge victory last week which means they immediately have to turn around and shoot themselves in the dick

The sequel to disco elysium is what happened to disco elysium

My god these fucking people are worthless

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day to all who celebrate

This is out of character for me because usually when I see a movie over two hours I’m like “this could have been an email” but I honestly think GDT’s Frankenstein should have been a mini-series. The stuff that was the most interesting went by way too fast

Disco Elysium blowing up the way it did should be evidence that there’s no predicting the games market. Imagine trying to tell a money guy that game of the year was gonna be an Estonian visual novel by communists where you can pet the mailbox and say “I want to make fuck with you”

"dems cave but the republicans won't let them" is the funniest possible way this ends, which is why it now has a non-zero chance of happening

guillermo del toro’s frankenstein: the blorbo essay

Do I think del toro’s Frankenstein was a particularly good adaptation? No. Did I have a great time watching it? Yes.

Me: okay so del toro’s frankenstein was fun but the end was ass My wife: Aysha, that’s his blorbo, do you think he was going to make him sad

(Silksong) babies!!!!!

The dems won a huge victory last week which means they immediately have to turn around and shoot themselves in the dick