I would be worried about this because it’s such an obviously stupid idea, but this an announcement by a liar who lies about stupid shit all the time, so I’m not that concerned.

I'm playing Tactical Breach Wizards and holy shit do I like Tactical Breach Wizards. It's a very fun game and also a very funny. This is world-class turn-based tactical tomfoolery. It's 35% off on Steam right now and it'd be absolutely worth it at full price. store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...

Sometimes you just wake up and the first thing you see is some good news.

Musk is precisely the kind of person who, in the Culture novels, encounters the Culture for the first time and is neither capable of seeing the paradigm gap nor comprehending to how deep an extent the Culture regards his methods, motives and behaviors as foolish, immature, and unacceptable.

This "you need AI to communicate your ideas" thing is just incredibly stupid. The AI doesn't pick it out of your brain. You type out a prompt. That prompt is you communicating your idea to a disinterested slopmachine instead of an actual creative person who cares about what they do. Just... c'mon.

I’ll be honest, I can’t wait to read about how they fucked this up mostly because they couldn’t stand each other and everything fell apart when they couldn’t deal with basic practical issues.

"Hey some people got murdered but you know who really should get the spotlight in this situation? The star of the show, ME."

Unless that game comes with J.K. Rowling suddenly evaporating, just turning into a cloud of vapor and being blown away and shutting the fuck up forever, "free" is just too expensive.

Honestly, pretty much the same.

I could get into this. The Imgur front page right now:

If you see this, post a comics cover you love.

Being deprived of sleep because you're begging the computer over and over and over and over and over again to make the video it generates less shitty and constantly having the "which clips are the least bad" fights within the team, and finally ending up with this travesty? Jesus. That's torture.

Been doing a rewatch of Bond movies in chronological order. Going from Goldfinger to Thunderball is rough, man. It's like you have a really nice meal and you're looking forward to the dessert and the waiter comes along, yanks your head back by your hair, and just pours loose gravel into your mouth.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

It was always an execution. There's no moral difference between firing on the boat and firing at survivors. If you shoot 11 random guys but two of them survive so you finish them off a little later, that's not where it gets nasty. It might be ugly but that's not where it crosses a line to murder.

The idea that the second strike on that boat was somehow extra awful is ludicrous. If the second strike was murder, so was the first one. Follow that thought through. They are all murder.

There are people who will be like "how could this happen?" and "what went wrong?" but you really have to understand that from the perspective of the IDF, this happened because it was the plan and nothing went wrong, everything went right. There's nothing exceptional about this. This is what they do.

I’ve named my fists Tug and Buster because MAN! Even settin’ on the crapper, they sure cut a mighty imposin’ image.

Having considered this issue carefully, I have come to the conclusion that we could really use a movie with Don Johnson and Kevin Costner starring as rival sheriffs whose feud gets out of hand. Just two charming, rakish authority figures who are deeply shitty people, one-upping each other.

I got this piece of spam. Man, when you're trying to get people to buy into your shitty NFT scheme on the tail end of the year 2025, you really are scraping the bottom of the ol' scam barrel.

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

Random NPCs being little weirdos is where I fucking LIVE, man. Some of the most fun parts of the job. Having some shitty AI fart it out is like taking photos of the foods you like, putting them in a blender and then eating the resulting paste. And then wondering why people think you’re an idiot.

I'm about to go to a party. Like, literally, I'm leaving in an hour to go hang out with my friends and celebrate a birthday. It would be utter social suicide for me to suddenly go like hey everybody hey uh hey everybody listen hey listen to my phone everybody oh my god wait it's gonna be NEXT LEVEL

the rest of my life is gonna be every month or 2 getting a text or pm like "hey i saw your old tweet on ____ and it had a bunch of updoots and imbeciles arguing in the comments"

There is still beauty in this world.

I don't think a lot of writers are worried about being replaced by AI in terms of actual writing. I think a lot of writers are worried that AI slop will flood the marketplace and utterly not only devalue actual work and but make it impossible for the audience to even find it.

My mouse was kinda jittery. I flipped it around to check the sensor. There was something blocking it, so I got some tweezers, and, uh… I guess puberty hits us all hard. There’s probably a physics paper in the mechanics of how this happens.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

APE OUT is 80% off on Steam. It's a smash-'em-up game where you get to be an escaping gorilla and turn people into smears to a great jazz soundtrack. Clearly, a lot of thought went into the presentation. A lot of very stylish fun for just a couple of bucks! store.steampowered.com/app/447150/A...

Out of nowhere, I was suddenly reminded of this nice little horror short. It's a very simple, clever and creepy little thing that does everything it needs to do in literally two minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKql...

This thing about how they're struggling with how to bring James Bond back is bizarre. It's not like there's a firm James Bond continuity. Casino Royale was an obvious reboot. You just cast a new Bond and do a new Bond movie like it was his first adventure. Or the tenth. No one will give a shit.

The concept of government shutdowns as seen in America is just weird. You know what happens in Finland if they can't get the budget through? The government falls. They're done. It's a huge political failure that will affect your career. So you better believe they're very motivated to solve it.

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This is one of my favorite RPGs. Partly because of nostalgia -- it hit just right back in the day -- and partly because it's just a really cool game.

When I was a kid, we'd sing some Russian songs in school. We'd also sing Swedish, French, American and English songs, among other. That wasn't particularly significant as such. But context matters. With an Ukrainian student, it suddenly becomes very significant. This teacher was a fucking idiot.

I've had these experiences. It is shocking how bad some people are at understanding intent or imagining what something is supposed to look like, but doesn't yet. A little anecdote about that...

My sister’s trying to figure out Christmas presents for my nephews and subtly probed the boys for what they might want. One of them wants a toy truck. Classic. Easy enough. The other wants a ”new shirt with sausages and potatoes and kettles on it.” Highly specific. Possibly hallucinatory.

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Oh, for SURE this is going to happen. One million people will definitely leave New York over this, that is absolutely a realistic thing to say and definitely reflects their true intentions, it's not at all performative bullshit. I'm reminded of this other thing for no particular reason...

It’s a good day to buy Tactical Breach Wizards.

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Little hand drawn animation and banjo theme I made. It's been a year since my brother's passing, it's hard to type stuff so l'll just let the video speak for itself. Thank you for watching. Keep going, enjoy the sandwiches.

Just saw some concept art for a thing. Seeing concept art is always the coolest thing, it's genuinely like a little moment of magic in my day.

There's another thing I want to say about this in particular: it's not that it's wrong to want profits, but that whole speculator mindset is so skewed that it makes it impossible for a game studio to operate with any longevity. The demands for return on investment are just so out of proportion.

Soon we're going to have movies where the hero's montage is not them going through arcane and brutal physical training so they can win the fight, but them sitting down and scribbling their own thoughts with a pencil grasped in both hands

A lot of the business failures of the games industry are really rooted in this desire to create a product that dominates the market. The recent Amazon thing really highlights that: they wanted to create a product that outperformed Steam, but they didn't understand Steam or what the audience wanted.

It's not very surprising that Danon can't respond to the substance of her findings. The only real response he could possibly give is variations of "but we really want to murder Palestinians." Israel can say that internally (and they do, all the time), but not in a U.N. context. So witchcraft it is.

Big "the suspect was reaching for what we thought was a gun but later turned out to be a doorknob" energy.