Columbo Board Game Where is the 'Just one more thing' card.

Wim Wenders: [sharing grandly philosophical thoughts in German-accented English over lingering shots of 1983 Tokyo] Me: Impeccable vibes... this could only be topped if, like, Werner Herzog showed up Wim Wenders: Then I ran into my friend, Werner Herzog, at the top of Tokyo Tower

This week: Literary editions, punk rock, TikTok nostalgia bait--oh, and videogames, too, we promise: critical-distance.com/2025/09/21/s...

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Rapture theology - that the holy will be beamed to heaven before a period of tribulation - is a concept younger than the steam-powered locomotive. It's neither widely accepted as a Christian doctrine nor widely believed outside the United States.

Sex is great, but what about the inescapable allure of the inclined elevator.

Introducing the latest and greatest in generative AI technology: you Play YOU ARE GENERATIVE AI now! direkris.itch.io/genai

Taking All The Vaccines before brainworms man can ban them and whoo I've never seen colors like this before

We are at 89 out of the 100 new Unwinnable Magazine subscribers we need to unlock a Final Fantasy and politics issue, so the gloves are off. This is an image of the social media vulture's cat. You will be denied future images unless more people subscribe to Unwinnable. You know what to do.

most of life is believing you have bones without ever actually seeing them

6 years ago we unleashed OVERLAND, the hugest most polished most complex game I've ever worked on store.steampowered.com/app/355680/O... it's beautiful and weird and i'm still so proud of it!! happy birthday overland, you were not easy to make but you turned out preettty pretty special <3

Ah yes, who can forget Saul’s conversion on the road to Damascus when God demanded “Saul, Saul, why don’t you persecute black people”?

I've got a book coming out soon, and if you sign up for my mailing list, you'll be the very first to know when it comes out—and when you'll get to read about Eris, Comet Halley, and how one romance in Neptune orbit will change the fate of the Solar System forever! news.loveconquersallgames.com

People keep posting that these two are the same age like it’s some kind of inconsistency as though it isn’t the perfect representation of 1980’s 40 vs 40’s in the 2020’s

you: what are we having for dinner game designer: great question. i wrote some pillars to help us align on a good outcome here. you, reading: wait, this pillar is just "food must be edible," that seems pretty vague game designer: ah, that's where the secondary pillars about Edibility come into play

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders. But the soul has so much more individuality🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each other♡

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Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

The three types of game dev job listings

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game

"Content" is a blatantly misleading term to use for fanworks. Fanworks are the antithesis of content; content is produced for individual gain and consuming, whereas fanworks are created out of inspiration and the communal experience.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it. It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

I "met" Robert Redford as a baby when they were filming A River Runs Through It. My mom wandered onto set with me in a stroller and sat down at the craft services table for a break, and Redford came over and sat with her

Screenshots you can hear

Worth mentioning that in Europe, Japan, and many other countries, firing someone for protected speech outside of work would be absolutely illegal and would expose the employer to all sorts of liabilities.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Homodoxian [ho-muh-DOKS-ee-un] (adj.) & (n.) - A person who just happens to have the good sense to share the same opinion as you. Used in a sentence: “It’s not that I surround myself with groveling yes-men; I simply have a remarkable talent for attracting—and then hiring—homodoxians.”

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One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

Imagine what it would be like to have freedom of speech. I bet it would be pretty awesome.

After being stuck in Teepublic moderation for ages, this is now available as a print on demand sticker, shirt, and more! www.teepublic.com/sticker/7944...

It is ridiculous how many game companies expect you to relocate for a job they’re obviously going to lay you off from in 18-24 months.

I was talking about this with my uncle the other day. I thought Einstein was reclusive for the last few decades of his career and life. He wasn't. He was denouncing racism by teaching & speaking at Black collages and organisations. White people need to know that for his work to be understood

Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour. "Manben" is such a great TV program. >> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate. It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Timeline cleanse. An orange cat is an orange cat.

Faye Wong in Chungking Express <3

THEY CALL IT THE SPICE MELANGE, COOP. THEY SAY IT EXTENDS LIFE. EXPANDS CONSCIOUSNESS. IT IS VITAL TO SPACE TRAVEL.

I love this Grilka/Quark piece by @nuriamurogio.bsky.social: www.instagram.com/p/CjEwMits5Sg/

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.