My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

been laughing at this for like 2 days

Incredible delivery from Tim.

however much you hate will stancil, it's not enough.

Editing is a skill, being well-edited is a gift, having to choose between one's voice or palatability is a scam (ask me how I know). You deserve to grow as an artist with the support of genuine mentors, and your work deserves to exist beyond a closed newsletter ecosystem that leaves us all poorer.

dude it’s actually crazy to me that they actually had Sphene appear as a featureless doll lashed to the Queen Eternal’s chest with SHODAN wires hooked up to her brain and we just kinda move on from that immediately

HEAR YE, HEAR YE: God Herself(!!) has come down and given us a decree: YOU MUST THINK OF A BIGGER NUMBER. big fucking number (April 2026, digital collage) is a MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER WHATEVERTOP ROLE PLAYING GAME in which you must think of a bigger number. Think big and maybe something will happen.

it's a shame nobody remembers the pandaemonium raids, which put out bangers like -the entire soundtrack -AoE visibility discourse -giving a character with a canonically deep voice twink form -daddy AND mommy issues -fuckable monsters -lesbians

roommate: why are you "yay" me: because as long as there's some dude in a shitty hat shuffle-dancing to electroswing online, the internet's not dead

So first of all, before I reply to the meat of your post, I want to be absolutely clear that I am definitely normal about Star Wars, 1/?

You really can't expect VAs to know a game they're recording for uses genAI art, and yeah it sucks that now every time they audition for a gacha or similar content they're essentially doing a gacha pull with their careers hoping it won't be riddled with the stuff. Let your complaints be heard.

don't worry everyone

fuck it, everyone pivot to hatsune miku www.youtube.com/watch?v=s742...

anyway I post like shit like that and constantly feel like I'm shouting into a void about the state of things and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

entertainment journo and crit aren't taken seriously enough, period. people increasingly want "realities" separated from "escapes" when it's an impossible separation. if you don't challenge conditions and outcomes of art, even if it's just spitting at a stage, art becomes mold grown on rulers' shit.

McCormick Introduces New Transdermal Gravy Patch https://theonion.com/mccormick-introduces-new-transdermal-gravy-patch/

MAGNET REMAKE!!!! MIKU IS STILL FOR THE LESBIANS ALL THESE YEARS LATER!!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf1r...

No games being made no games media to write about them next they're gonna start laying off gamers

oh of course it was a fucking private school bus that struck a kid in williamsburg, where the same groups that use those private bus services have been pushing against street safety measures. like no fucking shit. the most obvious strawman hypothetical brought to life like frosty the fucking snowman

Games criticism owes so much to Garrett Martin. Quietly one of the most influential people in the space, a guy who was happy to publish anyone that had something interesting to say. A shame AV Club is shuttering its games coverage. End of an era, long live Paste Games

we are not pissed enough at google and facebook for gutting the media industry

timeline right now

Every historian worth their shit that studies fascism & domestic discord is so funny because they’re all the nicest people alive & they all come to the same conclusion which is that yeah you just gotta kill these guys. Can’t leave one alive.

picked up my custom earplugs from crystal guardian.... they're so pretty ✨🥺👉👈✨

I think this is a "fit check" of sorts

Wise words.

have you watched witch hat atelier? no? fix that. the mangaka is pro-palestine, the animation is stunning from bug studio, the elden ring composer is on it, and it exists thanks to the mangaka's musings on how ART IS ITS OWN MAGIC

The Wachowskis built 1.5 miles of highway for their Reloaded set piece, got 300 some cars from GM that were not deemed to be road safe for consumers, and after filming one of the five best car chases in cinematic history, recycled all that material into affordable housing in Mexico

going through my mmorpg tracking channels and getting jumpscared by an ash/s of cr/ation screed is not how I expected my "morning" to go

Chinese companies cannot legally fire employees simply to replace them with cost-saving Artificial Intelligence (AI), courts in the country have ruled, setting a significant precedent for labor rights as automation sweeps the tech sector. www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-30/c...

good morning bsky, but not to this broken app, nor the team

I'm fairly certain I will not be reviewing 007 at this point, but eh, last shot, let me know if you're looking for a reviewer.

The studio behind the Plague Tale series says the third game, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, is now "almost here" with development wrapping up in "the coming months". www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-rel...

My Threads feed is full of Black folks absolutely gutted and despairing over today’s Voting Rights Act ruling. I love Bluesky for so much, but today is one of those historical moments where it is stark that we really live in two different Americas.

honestly nippon sangoku's world recognizes how ridiculous the protag is at face value, and also keeps the coolness and absurdity of the rest of the world in a way that seems really grounded. I can't find myself hating it as much as I thought I would

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I should stream and start my path to becoming the unreformed toxic streamer

alright chat, ffxiv fanfest is over, what are we hyperfixating on next (wrong answers only)

rolling up to heal an army of pictomancers is like, a core memory now. but also I don't wanna hear nothing from the influencer men that were there acting like running synced dungeons w/o a healer was somehow a new and novel concept!!

sorry onion, this one's off the mark (they know it's meant to happen)

"i don't want to read a book about someone else's oc" hey quick question what do you think books are about

CLEARS MY FUCKING THROAT. I know my colleagues will tell you I pulled the weight at my dawntrail media tour date trying to get dungeon and ESPECIALLY hunt parties together. I literally STOOD UP AND SHOUTED TO THE ROOM to try to recruit people. but like, you know who didn't join..........

I already bully smokers and especially vape users bc what do you mean you're all congregating outside over oral fixations

Resident Evil 6 is filled with bespoke details unique to their different stages. My favorite is this mahjong table that looks like it was left in a hurry. It was, but not due to zombies. One person got Four Concealed Triplets (one of the most valuable hands) and everyone else quit.

I'm going to be honest, I don't think we're ever getting a yoshida shirt class tease as good as the TMNT one

i think a lot of people who were not alive or old enough to be really cognizant when smoking got banned indoors have a memory of just how fucking bad everyone and everyone smelled all the time