GKOTP did the reading

the total lack of interest from business and media elites in defending the liberal norms that underpin civil society and like, modern capitalism for that matter has been truly shocking

I once had a guy say "we were out of 20 oz so I grabbed you a two-liter of orange soda" and I say unto you his name shall be sung in the halls of Valhalla until the end of time

I think B: northern Italy (red sauce, pasta, chicken parmesan), Germany, Eastern Europe

First ballot Reply Guy HOF entry

As far as bits go, hearing Jonny Lee Miller's American accent and saying "Yes, that's our guy" is a pretty good one

If you have ever said "dudes rock" but wondered *why* dudes rock, let one of the brightest philosophers of the age enlighten you:

The short version is that Metal Gear Solid 2 was a documentary

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

hoo boy

Photo editor picking Krookodile, I see you

Not my story, but: In Tales of the Borderlands, there was an animation direction for one of the characters to run down a hallway, turning off the monitors as they go. This was expressed "flip off the monitors." This wound up being animated exactly the way you'd expect. It made the final game.

If you want a good explainer of Commodity Fetishism, check out "The Fever" by Wallace Shawn (yes, really, that one)

Project manager: We need a new handheld Designer: What did you have in mind? PM: Powerful D: Sure. What else? PM: We hear having the FOV of a hammerhead shark is popular with the kids nowadays D: What

🎶My kind of town/Chicago is🎶

I'm not a hacker by trade or training but Mr. Robot is as close to real programming as I've ever seen on TV

Breaking Benjamin at the tiny hockey arena down the street from my house Boston Pops Orchestra playing the Star Wars Suite - John Williams conducting, James Earl Jones narrating

R&D 1: You know how Ragavan is the most powerful one-drop we've ever printed? R&D 2: Sure R&D 1: What if we printed a one-drop that kills it immediately R&D 2: Sounds like good balance R&D 1: And makes 1/1 tokens R&D 2: That sounds...powerful? R&D 1: And can copy all of your other tokens R&D 2: Wait

Me: I wish America would utilize the securitization of the economy to start pursuing state ownership Monkey's paw: You...do know who you're talking to, right

My old Algorithm Analysis professor used to refer to this as "putting on your big boy pants"

I have no particular love for Newsom and mostly find the Trump-posting kinda tiresome, but "he even flew back special from Mexico" should get somebody in that office a raise

love sitting through an hour worth of unskippable overproduced skit videos to answer a 5 question cybersecurity quiz that's like "true or false: cyber should always be secure"

Yep, we'll be getting a lot of mileage out of this one

Harry Reid used to be a boxer. I think about that sometimes.

Show me your getaway vehicle

BEING A TEACHER IS HARD! My partner recently switched schools and has to start from scratch with a lot of supplies. She put together a small little wishlist, if you can help great! If you can't no worries, I still love you! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Oscar Isaac said that, for the scene in TLJ where she slaps him, they had ~28 takes. Carrie slapped him in 28 different places just to make sure his reaction was genuine lol

Let Tony Gilroy do Mass Effect; give Titanfall to Gareth Edwards

Dishonorable swine, to a man.

If you want to drink Dunkin' and possibly get a sweet coat

Hello, I am a programmer in film. I pretend to type for two seconds and a professionally-designed UI saying "Now Hacking, Please Wait" appears on screen with a loading bar. I will rattle off a string of gibberish about the Dark Web, prompting the protagonist to say "English, please."

Gonna do this bit the next time somebody asks me about the Peano Axioms

Bookmarking this for Magic: the Gathering

As somebody who enjoys analogy-as-quest, I must bow to a master

On the Internet, nobody knows you aren't actually a cat.

The Super Password in the original Crash Bandicoot is: /\/\/\/\X[]/\/\/\/\[]X/\O/\/\/\O[]/\XXXX

The Olive Garden Theorem of America: When You're Here, You're American

You need to employ game developers to develop video games.

If you’re in North America, PLEASE consider joining @videogameworkers.bsky.social. We cannot allow these robber-baron execs to keep doing this to our profession and art form. We deserve dignity. Unemployed workers and freelancers/contractors are all welcome in our union. We MUST fight back.

Shout-out to @wyden.senate.gov and team for doing an exceptional job under tough circumstances.

You have to watch the birdie a little bit: "immigration" is an issue of us wildly underfunding our capacity to accommodate people fleeing poor living conditions (often our fault); "the border" is a fascist rhetorical construction to talk about a Stephen Miller-esque ethnic cleansing.

It's very funny that Chad Stahelski's current project is a collab with Shinichiro Watanabe but Anime. John. Wick.

If the airplanes have taught us anything, it's that wokeness is one of the four forces of aerodynamics: thrust, drag, gravity, woke

cc @sarakatew.bsky.social

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

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