fromsoft game narrative discourse often misses how the words are very good. item descriptions blah blah yeah sure. but "all things flourish, whether graceful or malign" is very good words

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

Dogmouthing- the practice of previewing an in-development video game using B-Roll footage of someone doing something mundane or pointless in the development software, as made semi-infamous by this Call of Duty Ghosts clip a million years ago

remember talking to my mom right after this happened. i said i didn't think it was a big deal at all, it was just the energy in the room. she said "yeah but honey he really sounded like some kind of animal." wild how the media made him seem completely unfit based on that, vs. the sanewashing now.

The pope is tweeting like a wide receiver. cc: @dennycarter.bsky.social

The "Dean scream"

I had better see a record number of reposts on this.

I've also noticed this shift, which was inevitable under Trump. At the end of the day, the US has produced a society that can oppose the war, but have no real mechanism with which to end it given the weak political opposition, material consequences of direct action, and broader individualism.

Almost every moderate anti-US person I know has shifted from "well, we are getting murdered by the US government but we hope the US population will do better in the future" to "the US population will just let their government murder us, why should we afford them any grace or kindness"

𝓗𝓮 𝓘𝓼 𝓡𝓲𝓼𝓮𝓷

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

this is the sixth time bluesky had a brief service hiccup today, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

Heard through the ceiling of my apartment tonight: (cat wailing) Person: No!! (cat wails some more) Person: You do not want that! Spit it out! (even louder wailing) Person: That is a potato! You are an obligate carnivore!! #ahcats #lifeinapartments

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Taken literally this is the Times saying it doesn't have an opinion on if women should vote and I for one do take it literally

The death toll from the USAID cuts is already in the hundreds of thousands Musk, Trump, and the Supreme Court have already killed over half a million children You may not know this but the Washington Post Editorial Board surely does

Spoiler: It's because he and his boss are racist and sexist pieces of shit

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

me in 2075: and then one day someone drew a human lady version of bowser from Mario and everyone online wanted to have sex with the drawing grandson: i’m not real. none of this is real. let go. time to rest now

This is fully where I land every time nowadays. It’s like… you can’t even think up NEW fatphobic trope shit, video games! It’s always like the same five things!

Thinking about this tweet

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Don't know about Twitter, but this is my favorite Tumblr post

I love this

Do you guys care for grass crest shield

Microslop

So fucking funny to sell this to big businesses and world governments

you can read any business tweet with "with AI" the same as "with cocaine" it's the same attitude

by far the worst tendency on this platform is its tendency to interpret a description of something that happened or is happening as an endorsement of that thing I have been reading Mark on conversion therapy cases for years and he has always been very clear about how awful it is

Excuse me, what did you just say? WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY??? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

welcome to froggymart 🐸☂️ #lowpoly

It came to me in a dream

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Coke Zero is probably healthy for you

Legacy of Kain: Ascendance is out today! It's been an honor to help bring back a franchise that I played growing up! Thank you to @freakzonegames.bsky.social and @bitbotmedia.bsky.social for making it happen! youtu.be/pumfG8OjXFA

panel from last summer

Perhaps the most appalling example of the evils of capitalism I could imagine

And now we throw the whole man in the garbage and find a new one.

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

Play some new games! Talk about the things you like! Tell the people making the games you appreciate them. Find that joy and cherish it! Themoreyouknowetcetc

Reading this piece, it's worth remembering is the role that NYT played in painting Caster Semenya as a cheat in the first place. Her first mentions in NYT in 2009-2010, which I wrote about in 2019: www.cjr.org/criticism/ca...

The president is a rapist pedophile

It’s very funny to include the “far left” here when the DSA mayor of New York City just ran an entire campaign on affordability and making cities work while his main opponent ran on Israel, a country almost 6,000 miles away

Yup, I'm definitely mentioning this in all my classes this week