Finished Outer Worlds 2, had a great time with it. A small moment that sticks in my brain - when I first got to Auntie Cleo's hq, I had to take a short break from the game because the constant barrage of AC ads got on my nerves. Which was the point and A+ env storytelling about that faction

Scriptwriters brought credit-default swaps back, sure why not

As we celebrate Cyber Monday today, please save a thought for everyone responsible for bringing it to us.

@jonbois.bsky.social watching football

As everyone predicted, heading into December the Bears are the #1 seed in the NFC

Prompt Alchemist would be a better term than Prompt Engineer, and AGI is the philosopher's stone.

Detroit Lions Rookie Asks For Thanksgiving Off

evergreen

Open sourced Zork today opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... and ran it on a swarm of containers in the cloud 😂

Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Northern lights in the Chicago area tonight!

We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

That's the whole idea of a structured roll call. It gives people cover. This has long been openly discussed regarding Illinois politics, but the national media has never quite grasped that reality and instead reported on the show. It's important to know that it is a show and what that means.

This was a Senate leadership deal with a structured roll call. The real question is if Sen. Duckworth still supports Senate leadership after they made that deal. If she does, then her statement means little. I've asked her staff

You're telling me this guy -- Chuck "Rawhide" Schumer, the o.g. badass, the man who never met a bareknuckle brawl he didn't like, the meanest, toughest son of a bitch in U.S. Senate history -- *this guy* might cave to Republicans without getting a good deal? I'll believe it when I see it!

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Uncles are always getting roasted on here and I'm tired of it. The only misinformation I tell my nephew is that he's good at drumming and his mother loves snakes.

When Matt Levine starts writing about your industry in a numbered list, you might be in a bubble

As someone who does not live in New York, my desire is simple and, perhaps, a little self-serving: I would like to never see Cuomo's stupid fuckin' face or hear his stupid fuckin' voice ever again. It'd be great if that creep just lost this election and went away forever.

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

i owe so many video game designers an apology

Former MultiVersus devs "try something different" with indie studio, Airlock Games, moving away from "horrific" AAA space www.gamesindustry.biz/former-multi...

AR-PHARAZÔN THE GOLDEN: What you have to remember also is he appeared in fair form. CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened. AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it. CHOTINER: Right.

So Microsoft wants Copilot to play the games, Twitch wants AI to stream the games, and a whole bunch of publishers want AI to make the games. Very sustainable much inspiring.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...

Taking things to the next level by insisting everyone refer to cornfield mazes as "metroidgrainias"

CHOTINER: So you're attending a No Kings protest today. ME: That's right. CHOTINER: But according to Steam, you've played over 450 hours of Crusader Kings 3. ME: Okay, well- Now hold on. That's sort of unfair. CHOTINER: Oh? ME: Sometimes I play as a duke or a count. CHOTINER: I see.

A grain bin filled with soybeans collapsed in Iroquois County, Illinois, taking out power lines but causing no injuries.

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

DOINK

Holy hell, y'all - nextfest is *huge*. Seems wise to speak up elsewhere, too. Want to play our demo - which includes a pretty meaty chunk of our historical / occult horror story + deckbuilder gameplay w/ a twist? It's here. If you're into it, please review!🫀 store.steampowered.com/app/3987180/...

Pivot to live service.

"We're taking dinner orders" (Game developer)

developer: put it down. we don't need another one concept artist: (clutching tighter) no. this is my emotional support sky whale

There’s a neat new Blender plugin that does color transfer/matching for textures. Histogram matching is a helluva drug, kids. superhivemarket.com/products/sty...

If you come for my people, you come through me.

This is one of the rare times in Illinois politics when you could call for the governor to be jailed and be incorrect.

The Triumph of Death (flipped), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1562

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

I think Bluesky could still be saved. Won't be, but could. They should hire me as Head of Comms. I could fix her (Jay) azhdarchid.com/jay-graber-c...