It's pretty cool how the market has gone all-in on AI, such that if the AI enthusiasts are *right* then the entire white collar world is about to implode, and if they're *wrong* then we'll have a global depression when the market figures that out. Either way, everything's coming up Milhouse!

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I was in musicals back in school and I’ve worked with computers for decades soooo can I update my bio with “veteran of stage and screen”?

oh hahaha no, I'm sorry apparently a full half of the 3000 settlement per book goes to the publisher, so I think my total share is $3750 for stealing my work in an attempt to replace me

the best unpopular opinions make everyone mad but nobody hurt: a truly victimless crime www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Hot damn, Ghost of Yotei has a strong opening. :)

"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Oh, bonus episode of The Backdrop now up at @secondwindgroup.com, looking at how the whole Jimmy Kimmel farce was just the latest in a recent trend of corporate capitulation. In this era of corporate consolidation, money wins. Everybody else loses. WATCH: youtu.be/hJXEezyF2Rw?...

I look forward to the day when I can talk about Iron Man without Marketing detonating the bomb in my skull. The team’s doing some really cool stuff. :)

Majuular’s Ultima retrospective series continues to be amazing.

Well don't I feel stupid

I realize this position will be disappointing and upsetting to many of you but I personally do not think we want a new civil war that will kill tens of millions of people. Please just hear me out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMya...

I JUST finished replaying this (GMDX mod this time) a couple weeks ago.......... Ok fine, I can do another run.

As I was saying…

In June 2002, Avril Lavigne claimed that “five years from now” you would see the titular Sk8er Boi “rockin’ up MTV,” but by June 2007, MTV had replaced its full schedule with reality programming and aired no music videos. In this TED Talk, I will

In the old days, you'd occasionally run into somebody totally normal who had one utterly insane belief, like a co-worker who just causally says he thinks the sun is alive. Social media is like if we extracted all of those individual bits of madness, cooked them into a stew and ate it for every meal.

You don't want a new civil war. "Oh, another coward who wants us to work through the system! You just want the status quo!" If you prefer civil war to the status quo that tells me you have no concept whatsoever of what a war would look like or *what the new post-war status quo would be*

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

No.

I don’t have a fancy dice problem and can stop whenever I want.

Every time a dev implements sprint-swimming or sprint-ladder-climbing, an angel gets its wings.

Emmy winner! Outstanding writing for a drama series! For a Star Wars show! 🤯 More than deserved.

Finished the rest of the Delian Tomb “tutorial” tonight as a one-shot. I liked Draw Steel quite a bit, and the minion rules (I initially hated) are growing on me. One takeaway: I suspect it would be dramatically easier to run on a VTT than it was in person.

They published it, and it's even worse than I thought www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

imagining michael caine on a caribbean island sipping a piña colada while reading this script and then slowly sitting up, removing his glasses to wipe a tear, and calling his agent, “i’m coming back”

I recently completed the original Deus Ex again (with the GMDX Augmented mod this time), and now have moved on to Human Revolution. Given the impossible bar set by the original, the team over at Eidos Montreal did *such* a good job with DXHR, it’s incredibly impressive.

I’ve unfortunately been pretty disappointed by this season of my beloved Strange New Worlds, but tonight’s episode was a proper banger.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

We played MCDM’s new TTRPG “Draw Steel” for the first time tonight. It’s got a lot of fiddly bits so can be a handful to manage, but the tactical depth at level 1 is really cool and the Delian Tomb starter adventure does a good job of tutorializing features.

‘Adamant’ and ‘diamond’ are related. Both are from 'adámas,' a Greek word that means “material of extreme hardness.” 'Adamantium' is a virtually indestructible man-made steel alloy controversially used in the Weapon X Program.

Spending this Labor Day weekend the way God intended: replaying the original Deus Ex on my Steam Deck, with a new mod. www.nexusmods.com/deusex/mods/85

OMG this makes me so happy funko.com/pop-bent-nec...

Goddamn, show & tell day on Project Iron Man is always inspiring. o.O

Mike and his team are great, excited to see this! :)

Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places

And that’s a wrap on “Against the Ogre Horde,” probably the last of my Hero Quest mini painting. It’s been fun. :)

Finally, the two Druids and their wolf companion. This concludes the “Against the Against the Ogre Horde” HQ expansion.

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

Sandman season 2 is excellent, particularly the ending. I feel bad for all the incredibly talented writers, actors, costumers, VFX artists, etc. involved, because their work was great, and through no fault of their own the shadow of once-beloved Gaiman now looms over it all.

So now Trump seeks to end mail-in voting, effectively stripping me—a tax-paying US citizen, even if I currently reside in Canada—the right to vote. Cool. Cool cool cool.

Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.

Next up: orc archers! I am alllllmost done with Hero Quest minis now. Just one batch left.

The design trend of removing any character or personality from branding for the sake of “minimalism” and being taken “seriously” is a big pet peeve of mine. It’s ok to have a weird lil guy in your logo.

Making video games is comically hard. But it is also, on occasion, very satisfying.

Next up: Goblins!

I’m the guy who rebranded HBO Max as just Max, here with a brand new idea for you: what if a name alone was cringe?

i think about this tweet every single day

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’ You don’t ‘run the gambit.’ gamut = entire range or series gauntlet = severe trial Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

Another small batch of Hero Quest minis done: skeletal archers!