Aura’s right. Games are a luxury entertainment product. The hardware cost and time commitments to play them are greater than other entertainments. Gamedevs have (or should have) a vested interest politically in widespread leisure time and disposable income.

So deeply unfair. She did nothing wrong at all, was the victim of a vicious, grifting, bigoted bully. And she's the one who has been forced out of public service.

This is probably ok

manscape: torment

the LDS Church did not allow black priests, opposed interracial marriage, supported racial segregation in its communities and church schools & taught that righteous Black people would be made white after death until 1978 unsurprising they're making a big PR push during the Nazi revival

What a terrible day on the inter— Yay!

Happy Valentine's Day! 👻🔮🖤

Oh the irony's going to be lost on him and his supporters, isn't it? Irish passport holder, living in Spain, with a residency visa for UAE, of fighting age, fleeing to somewhere NOT the immediate adjacent safe country, and without his family. A thoroughly loathsome tw*t.

Aside from being pretty, it's a fidget/focus/to do help/

In nicer things, a colleague just launched this. I'm clearly going to have to get another (4th) monitor, just to have this. :) store.steampowered.com/app/4255630/...

Also just darkly funny that Meta thought people would be less concerned about secret surveillance glasses during a time of political unrest. How's that been working out

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

OH YEAH and here's the link to buy it in such a way that you DON'T HAVE TO GET IT FROM AMAZON: www.penguin.co.uk/books/180872...

I think if I met a mountain lion in the wild it would understand that I love it and would take a gentle nap curled up with me. If I met a bear it would understand my love but would not let me cuddle it. If I met a rhino it would neither comprehend nor care how I felt and would kill me immediately

So far it seems it’s not an either or, but a both.

I'm sorry to start this again but is aphantasia actually a real thing or is it actually about the inadequacy of language to describe a thing that will only ever be in our heads and can never be externally checked to compare?

Wait hang on is the new Silent Hill set in a small Scottish coastal town? SHIT THEY'VE GOT ME AT LAST I'M SO IN

There are some Star Trek fans weirdly obsessed with “decorum” and they really fixate on how Holly Hunter sits in the captain’s chair on STARFLEET ACADEMY. One guy left a comment on the official FB whining about it and so Captain Janeway herself responded to drop the hammer

What????????? youtu.be/YMmOMfu6znk?...

Vandalism.

This is Elon Musk territory, isn't it? A woman's purpose is to bear children.

We are hostile to anyone being less than supportive because we understand where this two step you're doing into transphobia leads. And that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity.

🧵 UPDATE FOR MY BIRTHDAY: Hi, so AI killed my career(s) and I'm still barely holding on. Some people tried to get me to start a fundraiser, but that felt weird, so I thought maybe if I was contributing something? So I started making shirts. Can you share this and maybe think about grabbing some?

honestly a little embarrassed I let the pitch get as far as it did, but I’m fine with that if this helps any other tiny pubs avoid getting scammed.

The aforementioned guidance for filling in the form. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

As a relatively recent citizen, this appalling "consultation" and surrounding issues are a special bugbear of mine. The deadline has come, friends. I also wish the Amnesty guidance had been available to me when I filled this in, so make sure you have a look at that. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

This is hostile to those of us who can only draw a horse facing left. :(

Age verification? I know how Caecilius and his missus died

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

amazing that every time i bring this up people are unaware of it. he really got away with it

seriously it's ten years on *from that incident* and you're STILL more likely to see really old mouldy "ooer Angelina broke him and Jennifer Aniston up" sort of women vs women hate instead. people suck

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

My parents have been back from holiday 1.5 days. I have already had to TeamViewer a problem and now they are asking me printer questions. ... I love them I really do.

Romance readers are voracious. They read an enormous amount and they’re always looking for more - that passion has made some people view the genre as disposable. As something you can churn out without thought because you expect the audience to take anything they can get

You see this in extremely short production timelines, in artists who phone it in as if they’re too good for it. But if you actually respect your audience, if you actually understand why people love these stories - that’s when you get something great. And the audience deserves something great

Most people don't understand how inheritance tax works. This is also true for many other taxes and the ignorance is encouraged/maintained by misleading reporting and politicians' politicking at expense informing.

“There,” said Toad. “Now my day is all written down.”

It’s true. And it’s much better to learn how to do that naturally. I didn’t really have a choice to stop drinking, a cardiologist basically made that choice for me. But I don’t miss it as much as I thought I did. I miss caffeine much more.

This is a pretty good example why, even outside of creative, if I find out your business uses AI at any point in your workflow, I lose 90% confidence. It’s not an ethical concern, it’s a competency one. I assume you’re an idiot if you think these things can work reliably in any critical role.

Not to be Too Spicy On Main, but I was reminded of the time a publisher wanted me to write a tie-in comic for a game, only for someone at my own studio to mock the comics I’d done up til then (My Little Pony + Godzilla), so the publisher withdrew the offer Game writers are treated this way a lot.

I am certain that whenever someone posts about “gatekeeping art” or whatever, they’re talking about posting drawings online for clicks. They never mean arranging rocks in the back yard. They never mean whistling to yourself and finding a tune that makes you happy. They never mean napkin doodles.

unfortunately we do not seem to have a ton of other alternatives available. current funding sources include: - directly on stock market - company who gives you money is on stock market - midsize deal with indie publisher (you do not have this) - pay your 5 contractors in gum. you also receive gum

This comes up a lot so I do want to let you all know that the option of turning the existing building into a heritage/museum site has been costed out and it is substantially more expensive

At 5-6 years ago I got this tee. I've no idea from where (online though, I think?). There are plenty with the same words, none EXACTLY the same. Anyone know where I got it? (It's fading and that makes me sad...)

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.