This and the rise of far right politics are a kind of chicken and egg situation

when admin spokesppl follow the Hegseth directive to refer to soldiers as "warfighters" it's nearly impossible to not picture a three year old in a sandbox. whaddaya got there little buddy? oh these are my warfighters! aww that's swell. honey did you hear, he called them "warfighters"

You would think that finding out the whole heroin chic waif look and ubiquitous fatshaming of women in the 90's was influenced by a handful of elite pedophiles as both their preference and a way to sex traffick more easily, would have made a bigger splash in the news.

They think punk means *acting without consent* not *acting in defiance of power*

sales of dipshit freak box lower than anticipated

if you left me and the biologist from Annihilation in a locked room one of us is leaving it pregnant and it’s not going to be me and it’s not going to be her but it is going to be an unexpected third presence

What I like most about spending years establishing a career in games and tv is that both industries are competing to see who can collapse faster

i wholeheartedly believe half the reason xbox fell off so hard is the fact that they never named their consoles normal style

How many days until it's confirmed the next Xbox is canceled? Like, unironically.

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

“why do you lock replies” people don’t realize that the kind of entitlement they have towards interacting with a stranger is a new phenomenon and the internet incentivizes a certain level of anti social behavior one should have the agency to spare oneself from

Oh my cog! Are you alright? Sorry, I'm Tick. And I'm Tock. Like a clock. Is that gear lubricant escaping your retinal orificers? Are your sprrrrrockets in a twist? They're crying. What happened? Holy shift! Your boyfriend said that to you? Sounds like he's got a couple of loose screws!

This is something I go back to pretty regularly in discussions: that even in 2018 only one third of employers said they would consider hiring a trans person and that *of that third* only 8% felt we should have the same right to *a job* as the rest of the population.

Prime example of why there is no safe level of exposure to X propaganda, no matter how immune you think you are. One day you're a highly intelligent, influential political leader. The next you're sharing content from an Infowars conspiracy theorist to your millions of followers. Get off that site.

This is what gaming is all about

i like how a lot of the history of asian empires involves an emperor being kidnapped by their own military/factions within it. cracks me up. power, barrel of a gun, etc

live service has been such a plague on the industry lmao it's like when everybody thought they could make a wow-killer

One must imagine the itsy bitsy spider happy

one thing i find a bit grating about how people talk about AI chatbots is how they supposedly "isolate" us, and i don't think that makes sense. people turning to chatbots for company and comfort feeds into people's isolation for sure, but it's the isolation itself that makes them susceptible to em.

A source confirms reporting that Bluepoint Games will be shut down in March after five years without releasing a game. A live service project it was working on was canceled in early 2025. kotaku.com/bluepoint-so...

If executives were soulless husks purely motivated by profit and made decisions purely based on metrics things would actually be better, but CEOs aren't even that. They're all complete fucking morons who lead based on vibes, and will torch the company they run before admitting their strategy was bad

This shit was *EMBARRASSING.*

in a good world there would be a 7/10 spop fighting game

mortal engines. i went with a bunch of friends and family who all really liked the books and ive never felt that kinda collective anger in that friend group lmao

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you can show Burnout 3 footage to people two decades later and their reaction will still be "hell yeah, this rules. I wanna play this right now."

lore heavy game with extremely complicated ARG that all leads to one thing:

Soul Calibur 2 (2003 | Namco/Project Soul | PS2): wuwuwuwuwu

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

everyone needs to be more suspicious of the health claims that are made about ozempic and other glp-1s. there is an astronomical amount of money and social pressure behind the idea that they're miracle drugs

the ai situation is a nice summation of how capitalism's deepening crises and cannibalisation are also a way by which it launders its own reputation and protects itself. everyone is constantly nostalgic for the exploitation of ten years ago

its so frustrating living in a world where resources are directed primarily at gambling on them becoming profitable sometime somewhere with no proof

Truly the most stupid timeline. At a point in time where renewable energy has tipped into genuine widespread viability, capital invents whole new ways to fabricate waste and scarcity.

Discord is washed. You need to migrate to Meep. Brindle is good but in early access. Goop is promising but hasn't released their IPO. And definitely avoid Scringle, they've got ties to Sproink

caprica was so prescient its insane

im very comfortable financially but i grew up with my parents giving me money for lunch/gas each month and expecting me to budget it, so despite the fact that i can afford it i really resent having to pay 3x as much for what used to be budget eating

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

love that i managed to squeeze my computer updates out between the era of bitcoin ruining pc part prices and the era of ai ruining pc part prices

someone just liked this which reminds me that the 7 year anniversary is coming up in less than a month

i can’t think about deer anymore without thinking of this tweet

Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign.... funded by automakers because their cars were killing pedestrians So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

As a trans person, whenever you go in public you constantly feel the wraith of becoming the subject of national outrage hanging over your shoulder, just for existing visibly.

lol

AAWAWA RARRF

One of the funniest things about the old school mario cartoons is how they took the Airship level design literally

A while ago, one of my managers (who's broadly pretty good, let me be clear) told me something chilling: I almost didn't get the job. Because I'm trans. That was it. I was a really good candidate on paper & at interview. But there was a moment where she was going to go for a different candidate 1/2