Good advice in this thread, and an enjoyable read, but lemme tell you what, a game isn't a game until it has both a colon and an em dash in the title.

A thing to bear in mind here is that these decisions are not made by people who like games or have an interest in games. They're made by people who consider the entire human experience to be a box that a moneyed class should be able to put a dollar into and automatically get three dollars out of.

I picked up a 1975 oscilloscope to make cool visuals with and holy shit it is so sick 😍

This is the doomed, monster-prowled hotel where the opening fiction for Hunter: The Reckoning 5th edition takes place. Most of the stuff that frames that story actually took place here: the wedding crashing, the weird hallway, the unsettling door half-seen.

I remember when this 15-dollar plate of nachos was nine dollars.

It’s wild how quickly we went from putting these everywhere to completely abandoning and neglecting them once we quit caring about the immediate response to the problem. Seeing these is like looking at social fossils.

man how did that lorax movie get made also, for a movie about anti-consumerism, why were there mazda and ihop tie-ins

Woman in a hurry Szék (Sic), Transylvania, Romania, Péter Korniss, 1973. hlo.hu/news/peter-k...

we are suffering a severe lack of Steinman/Meat Loaf-style songs, by which I mean soaring seven-minute ballads in which a guy sleeps with one woman and immediately afterwards dies in a motorcycle accident (he is also a werewolf)

I am not kidding when I say that thin-blood alchemy should have this sort of feel.

Decades ago, a group of hardscrabble weirdos made a game about the politics of being a monster among humans and an outsider among monsters. Along the way it became a world for telling stories about sexuality, alienation, substance abuse, societal collapse, and unchallenged power.

I WISH YOU WOULD STEP BACK FROM THAT LEDGE BAT MAN

Why don’t they just have Copilot generate infinite new blockbuster IPs for them? I have been told repeatedly that “powerful AI tools” are the answer so as not to get left behind. Surely the magic beans factory is the answer

The purpose of a system is what it does.

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It is my opinion that more people should enjoy gooseberries.

Billionaire-owned media sure doing its best to frame all this extreme heat as something that Just Happened Somehow.

ok new rule. if you see this post, for every minute you spend arguing today on bluesky you have to spend two minutes reading a book.

Beyond the fundamental idiocy of this specific example, it's is remarkable to watch Republicans and Democrats absolutely fall over themselves to oppose -government that looks out for and does things for its people- rather than perpetuating business-as-usual carceral capitalism.

Union workers establish hardship fund to support devs impacted by layoffs

Distribution is an unglamorous but extremely important part of having your games be able to sustain you, and IPR does an admirable job of it.

ciabatta baguette

I will never like. I will never subscribe.

This reminds me of that old joke about the Democrats finding a magic lamp and the genie inhabiting it grants them three wishes, which they "compromise" down to one wish and then use that to wish for something the Republicans might like.

This stinks. Absolum was a peach.

Not trying to pick a fight or anything but this is this band's best song.

Made a pot of ragù today (mostly alla napoletana) and man, I tell you, there's nothing like a four-pound plate of pasta and meat sauce when it's a hunnert goddamn degrees outside.

Saw "ski-ing" last night. SKI-ING, written in 1951.

Probably not for much longer.

it's what happens when commerce emerges around the expression of ideas and that commerce is dominated by people who themselves have no ideas and are averse to the idea of ideas

If you think Xbox is unpopular now, wait until it gets bought by one specific guy who likes things with X in the title.

I think the days are gone when "customer satisfaction" was important because that's long-term. The transition from regular old exploitative capitalism to modern exploitative hypercapitalism means that -what- the company makes doesn't matter. All the shareholder wants is to extract immediate value.

Man, you would think that Gen X would know better, having lived through Reagan.

The people who feed us are paying the price for rising temperatures 1/

The Myrmidons, of course.

Some people want to be seen doing something, and I've found that desire is often inverse and proportional to the drive to genuinely create.

This is a really good cover of a really good song, and I also appreciate seeing the vulnerability of an artist's decision to bare a piece of themselves, especially when "citing" another creative work that's meaningful to them.

Sure, the planet is unlivably hot, but here are some fake sentences and a video of a leopard riding a dolphin.

My whole life, I have been unable to read text when it appears in my dreams, but last night I did exactly that. (It was the name of a song I read from the screen of some sort of detached device showing what was playing in the… car? in which I was traveling.) What an amazing time to be alive.

i wonder if she survived

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

I dislike when it is summer and hot and it feels like the air conditioning is running all the time.

Just wow. I Googled to see if 18th century artist Henry Fuseli had ever painted Orpheus and Eurydice, and AI overview said: "It appears you may be blending the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with the distinct, spiraling noodle known as fusilli"

coagulated re-beef

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new interstitial circle of hell where the whole thing is just the soft drink fountain area at a fast-food restaurant, where people stagger around putting ill-engineered plastic tops on cups and putting the straws in them right there instead of moving on and also grabbing handsful of too-thin napkins

My favorite part about (briefly) living in Annecy was… Annecy.

As with every year, hooray! We've made it to the part where the days grow shorter ultimately resulting in the glorious cold and dark.