Wow this new Charli XCX song has some distinct Nine Inch Nailsness

This is also why I LOVE when "the art came in" on a project. There's the creative effort of the writer/ developer to establish the concept, and then there's the creative effort of the illustrator/ artist to visualize it, and it's wonderful to see the alchemy where those disciplines interact.

Shared an elevator with Patrick Duffy, who was staying in my building while filming the Dallas reboot. It was the same building where an off-duty cop walked into a guy’s apartment and shot him dead because she thought it was her apartment. Sorry this story is such a downer.

Especially as policy dictated by people whose own lists of crimes are as long as their arm, implemented via methods and tactics that are themselves criminal.

This is a super-cool premise for a game, a poignant inversion of the Tomb Raider-style fantasy.

Hmm, I wonder if there's a word for this.

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This came out in the same year as Electronic’s “Getting Away With It,” and it is astounding to me how much more absolutely out of its gourd this song is, let alone the tooth-achingly earnest corporate messaging taking place.

The minimum wage was literally established so that a person earning it could sustain themselves and some amount of family on it. It made no provision for “youth minimum wage” because the labor is the labor. Anyone who says “You were never supposed to live off it” is either incorrect or just lying.

SAW A KID WITH A DRACULA HAIRCUT HE WAS LIKE SIX YEARS OLD OR SOMETHING I’M AT THE LIBRARY

Feels like we’re seeing two very distinct visions for the world and government’s role coming out of NYC and the US federal.

So it's Black History Month and that means I think it's a good time to get familiar with Mike Pondsmith, if you're not already. When you see R. Talsorian Games, that's him. When you see Cyberpunk 2077, that's his world. Mekton, Castle Falkenstein, also him. cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Po...

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Seriously. I wish everyone had this joy.

In self-determination theory (one of my favorite game design toolboxes), this is "relatedness": the demonstration of how the players' choices and game systems affect the game world. Players thwart a dragon? Have NPCs call them "the dragonslayers," for example, and start a new community in the lair.

I would have described it as a "speculation economy" or a "gambling economy," but "scam economy" works well. Nothing created; fortunes wagered on quarterly line-go-up mining a finite amount of cultural objects that the wagerers believe to be infinite. Investment is a bet on "Can I flip this?"

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

You could tell the Traitors producers really wanted you to hate this dude when they repeatedly showed him shoveling his food from the edge of the plate into his mouth.

This is also the reason Vampire has Humanity, Werewolf has Hauglosk/ Harano, and Hunter has Despair. The game acknowledges that you are likely to do Bad Things, but the more you indulge Bad Things, especially to further your own ends, the more likely you are to lose the character to monstrosity.

If you asked me what's my favorite band in the genre of guitar-driven songs about a very specific archetype of hard-luck loser, I'd have to say Social Distortion.

Isn't it nuts that in the "Teapot Dome scandal" a government dude went to jail for blatant corruption.

Pendragon but you’re cockroaches: Blattidae knights all fight in chitin.

I'm gonna become the first guy to walk out of family court sentenced to death

Happy Black History Month

Think about how much better things could be if all that money were spent improving material conditions in those districts instead of recurring electoralism carnivals.

I had no idea who this Peter Attia joker was but about a year ago I was having a cocktail and reading at a bar and someone came up to me and asked me if I was reading a Peter Attia book and then he harangued me about the dude and it made the hair on my neck stand up. Sure enough, apparently.

I dunno, man, seems like a functional democracy would hold people accountable for things like this as an expression of cultural values.

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The purpose of a system is what it does.

And the worst part is that making the game is the easiest part of getting it into players' hands.

$40 million in seized crypto held by the US Marshals was stolen in 2024, and crypto sleuth zachxbt has now linked the thefts to the son of a contractor managing the agency's crypto assets. The incident has renewed concerns about the government's ability to manage its crypto holdings.

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Mentioned this at a different site: When we did Werewolves Within, wisdom was that players like to see their comparative ranking on leaderboards, but I cut them because it added an element of hardline competitiveness that I thought was at odds with the casual, light, social game we were making.

Here is the child’s drawing.

Oh no! All of the Succubus Club events were hosted with some amount of Traktor apparatus in the production.

When profit is the sole motive, knowing something is wrong and doing it anyway is just cost-of-goods.

One thing you need to know is

Man, I am not a fan of the internet being five sites, each just showing screencaps of the other four, but there is some divinity-grade fash cope happening over there.

It is critical not only to hold accountable the people directly responsible for policy, but those supporting and encouraging it.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

It's really distressing the extent to which in all of this Silverio Villegas González, the first man to be murdered by ICE in the streets, has been almost completely forgotten Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Renee Good's last words: "I'm not mad at you." Alex Pretti's last words: "Are you ok?" These are the people they're trying to paint as violent and dangerous

The Democrats are not an opposition party. In fact, Democrats are often obstacles to any meaningful change given that they are generally more committed to order, routine, and procedure than justice. They are just the -other- capitalist party in a country that refuses to acknowledge its electoralism.

While this is true, there is no "zinger" or hypocrisy so naked that it will course-correct people who are committed to exercising their own power at all costs. It's not about consistency or coherent ideology, it's about harming those judged. A perspective incompatible with any functional society.

This place has a Greek salad called the Tzatziki Stardust. Boy, can this salad play guitar.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune