FACT: Movies are lying to you – beating up an inanimate object is not an effective way to deal with anger. Usually it just makes you angrier. COROLLARY: Beating the shit out of an inanimate object is, however, often a very effective way to deal with *anxiety*. CONCLUSION: Anxiety is punchable.

The aging pedophile who wants to be a king has kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation without congressional approval. If the United States had an opposition party, they would treat this as an illegitimate act and start impeachment proceedings immediately.

god help me I will live to see hegseth behind bars

Venezuela hasn't done shit to the US. Let's get that straight. there is no justifying what's happening right now. not "drugs," not "Maduro's a bad guy," not shit. it's just unchecked, unmitigated belligerent aggression.

What's left to say? May everyone involved in dropping bombs on Venezuela be punished swiftly and finally in pursuit of a just society and a lasting architecture of peace.

Happy new year!

The criticism of D&D's alignment system here has once again reminded me of the fact that alignment in D&D is ultimately a bastardization of the law vs. chaos conflict that forms the central conflict of most of Michael Moorcock's work

As you might imagine, the PNW crowd absolutely loved this post. #rivalsofaether #rivalsofaether2

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

"Guts" Man. A simulacrum in many ways, that creation of "Doctor" Light's. A mechanical doll with 'guts' that he does not possess made by a man who really should go by 'Professor' instead. And his 'guts' aren't even that notable. Really, he should be called Ass Man, if you want me to be honest.

it's that time of year again

horrifying, but it does explain why I occasionally run into people who get very mad at me over things they think i said instead of things i actually said www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Switched to Pop!_OS on my GPD Pocket 3 I wish there was a good on-screen keyboard and support for auto-rotation, but I suppose that will have to wait.

bluesky staff misexplaining the torment nexus post, a post about how tech people don’t understand the media they read, is going to make me laugh for a long time

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

I'm old enough to remember when Stealth used to harass my colleagues at RPGFan (of course, mostly the women).

Honestly probably, like... Halo 4. I usually don't even bother finishing most games I dislike. Hell, there are games that I've loved that I've never rolled credits on. Halo 4 is just... I mean it had some cool new enemies and some neat guns, but I don't really remember much else

I'm pulling tricks with my Sega Genesis that would make Hiroshi Yamauchi rise from the fucking grave just to shit himself

Greg Johnson, the creator of ToeJam and Earl, has launched a Kickstarter for his next game, Dancing with Ghosts - it's about a young Thai girl dealing with loss and finding her way out of grief toward joy, I genuinely think it's a beautiful project www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...

bookmac amateur

i think sega fucked up not planning to drop the crossworlds mega man dlc on jan 7th. guess they aren't book smart or money smart

"It feels to me, after watching esports exist for 30 years, that no one in the corporate side of esports has literally known how to make even a single dollar." - @patstaresat.bsky.social

Holy shit its been happening for longer than we thought

twitter is currently a frankenstein combination of 4chan and tumblr. we all know this. but bluesky is a different beast that i don't think people born after ~2004 fully grasp. bluesky is a frankenstein combination of tumblr and somethingawful

If you see this picture post a random image from your device

Testing a theory: reskeet if "every ICE agent will be unmasked and tried for their crimes" would get your vote

On this day 7 years ago, "Shovel of Hope" Shovel Knight was released as a DLC playable guest character for Rivals of Aether. Shovel Knight was the initial final character distributed for the original game.

@cyndaquilism.bsky.social how do you feel about the Pokemon Fool's Gold romhack's variants on the Cyndaquil line?

i burned a capcut free trial to make this

charlie kirk died for what he believed in. in a very literal sense: he believed in a world where gun deaths are inevitable and the solution to problems is violence. he excused his own death years before it happened. and if anyone else had been killed he'd already be weaponizing and relativizing it.

there are a lot of people to be mad at right now but personally I think we should be like 600% madder at rupert murdoch than we currently are

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

Sometimes you receive a commission so powerful, you could stare at it for hours. Thank you @hiimbleep.bsky.social for this vision.

It bugs the fuck outta me there's this new wave of people who think Doug, Rob and his company are cool when it was proven ages ago through the Change the Channel document the Walker Brothers are massive assholes. I dealt with Doug's shit behavior at a con ages ago so I can back it up with how he is

I'm going to one of these later

Does this mean ACAB includes Hatsune Miku?

Yes, and also maybe try and help people understand that the technologies Trump is so against are the same ones which don't have ongoing costs in the form of fuel.

Damn you mean itch didn’t actually just abandon these creators but has been working hard with its limited resources to figure out how to continue supporting them? How surprising

y'know, in hindsight, I feel like spending a chunk of my formative years immersed in segments of online nerd culture with a large number of Joss Whedon fans did a number on the way I talk

No cheating, post your lock screen Legit just one of the wallpapers that came pre-installed on my phone

Thursday Rising 2!

I was super bummed about dreamsettler being canceled, but that was only because Hypnospace was already one of the most touching and impactful games I have played in my entire life. it goes beyond aesthetics and creates a truly living and heartfelt simulacrum of what the web used to be. buy it.

French's Classic Yellow Mustard Squeeze Bottle, 8 oz (12 pack) is $9.46 on Amazon buff.ly/72olHSQ #ad

I asked my friend Discord to make a bunch of game screenshot Rivals memes. Here you go.