Congratulations Chris, you won this one! You win a New Jack Swing CD starring Cave Johnson from Portal 2 in a big fuzzy hat. Yeah, it’s Jay Kay Simmons. This has been the Technical Difficulties, I’ve been Tom Scott and we’ll see you next time!

FNAF/Scott Cawthon should not be supported in any way. Don't buy/stream his games, give money to the franchise, watch the movies, etc. He uses his gains FROM FNAF to support harmful legislature and candidates on the right. Which is bad, yes? Stop supporting him. He deserves nothing.

we lost an absolute legend today - not only a trailblazer but full of wit and so happy to share her adventures with the world.

The Israeli genocide continues as expected: with all infrastructure brutally and intentionally destroyed, Palestinians in Gaza are dying from Israel's continued blockade on aid, Israel's continued land theft, and Israel's continued murdering. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

The Game Awards are not the Oscars of video games. The Oscars miss constantly but at least they are a bona fide attempt by an industry to legitimize and promote itself; TGA is not that, it's just ads for individual products masquerading as an awards show run by one guy's particular preferences.

Re-upping this for no reason! www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

100% this. therefore, i don't want the game awards ignored, i want them destroyed

How has nobody done a Vlambeer-ass screen shake plugin for Linux, at least not Mint/Ubuntu/Debian?

Deadliest war of the 21st century and everyone wants to make a profit www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

holy shit the pope was a blues brother

The 🅱️oswell Incident

I’ve written like 200,000 words this year on stupid and niche topics and never once did it dawn on me to use a language model to try and automate this, because genuinely every word’s important and every detail needs evidence to substantiate it.

Gabe: So what are you working on in hardware? Valve techs, in unison, clapping with each beat: Cube! Cube! Cube! Cube! Gabe, joining in: CUBE! CUBE! CUBE! CU

Mario Galaxy movie looks like another vehicle to make me look at Chris Pratt and Jack Black. Fuckin' sick of those two gotta be honest.

I am cautiously optimistic about Valve's 2026 hardware offerings. Reviving the Steam Controller/Steam Machines infrastructure is bold and I think having a single dedicated SKU instead of letting Alienware and Razer do whatever is cool, but I anticipate Frame and Machine running $1,000 USD or so.

One of my old coworkers came into my local big box specifically to tell me that they started estrogen and have emerged from their egg, because I told them I was trans the day they left for a better job. Hell fuckin’ yeah love queer folks 🏳️‍⚧️

A 28 year old woman couldn’t stop posting. Here’s what happened to her brain

Socially acceptable things to say to parents of newborns: -“What’s his deadlift?” ✅ -“Can I wrap him in ham?” ✅ -“Does your baby need smokes?” ✅ -“He’s gonna be in a lesbian polycule in 28 years” ✅ -“You should feed him red, tacky grease” ✅ -“Why didn’t you name him Bastard Bart the Violent?” ✅✅✅

We should invent a new pathogen that makes those infected seek out a vanilla malt at their earliest convenience, so they can enjoy a vanilla malt when they’re not busy.

Power Wash Simulator 2 has a level where you have to clean the House of Leaves and it softlocks at 99% cleanliness because new, dirtier and dirtier areas keep appearing the longer you play it.

George R. R. Martin’s “A Plate of Spaghetti and Meatballs”

Pestilence is the Horseman of the Apocalypse who has last been seen on Earth, having hung around Fort Worth, Texas in September-November 1999 taking a seasonal job at the local supermarket.

James K Polk is supposedly thinking about running for a second presidency term

I have a bunch of car stuff coming up that's going to wipe out like $1500 of my checking account. I have the money to spare but it's an amount I'm not the most comfortable with spending right now. If you're safe to do so, I would greatly appreciate your help. ko-fi.com/e3khatena

In Smiling Friends Season 4, James Baxter will get to animate a needlessly complex scene on 1s that’s Charlie getting punted like a fucking football by some guy named like Cheesy Whistles (voiced by either Michael Cusack doing a Will Stamper impression, or live action Bob Odenkirk shirtless)

Transphobes stay losing forever 🏳️‍⚧️

only shocking if you've just come out of a coma, maybe. donate to manna. please. www.mannafood.org/donate-to-ma...

The main problem with Bluesky is that some of you aren't posting enough Chicago content. This is the premiere Chicago-centered social website, please act accordingly.

Nonstandard’s just a setting on a washing machine

I don't take leaks as gospel but if this happens, y'all better show that your support of trans folk isn't purely performative and doesn't end at fucking Fortnite

Moment of levity: rewatched Trick r Treat today. Campy spook-em-up about a town of horrible people getting their comeuppance. The fact this is from the guy who wrote a film in which an Alex Jones type is not just right but a hero (Godzilla v. Kong) tracks and is also kinda wild. 7/10. It’s fine!

Writing about any game in the last decade has to come with an acknowledgement that GamerGate was blatantly an attempt by authoritarian conservatives to infiltrate diverse spaces and sow the seeds of the Trump Presidencies in plain sight. It’s evergreen at this point.

They’re already playing Christmas music in stores aaAAAAUGH

They’re adding an orangutan to Deadlock and his ultimate is called “Fucking Ripping a Guy in Half” and it’s where he jumps at a single target and fucking rips that guy in half

It is hard to get pictures of this freak he’s so small and so fast why did I take a coyote from the power line easement into my private domicile

Petitioning Congress to release Curly Brace (Cave Story, 2004) into the public domain because she deserves a million stupid video games about being a sick robot girl with a fucking LMG as an everyday carry

Under a full moon, ordinary single family homes turn into sprawling labyrinths of shelves and pallets. They call these mystic entities “Werehouses”.

Vampire Survivors’ late game is just solving puzzles by knowing which of the game’s 170 characters is best at completing a stage without a weapon or which of the 40 tarot cards can bust through a character’s soft stat cap

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels: • YouTube Studio • Settings • Channel • Advanced settings • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality" • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

I deserve an inconveniently fat rack, a ranch home in Suburban Illinois that can fit my girlfriends, and a sick-ass shotgun that deals mini-crits at point blank range

your regular reminder that this company can get straight in the fuckin bin

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

The boycott continues, simple as.

Replacing Ricky Gervais with a second Stephen Merchant who I’m referring to as Stefan Shopkeep, who is a different guy.

The fun part of writing about the history of a video game I once played is that I have to take a several minute detour to talk about my dad dying of cancer before my eyes because it happened just before that game I thought was done started updating again.

They're making the contestants say "I consent" enthusiastically before they spin on Wheel of Fortune so viewers at home don't think the wheel is problematic and toxic when it occasionally bankrupts a player just trying to win the $1 million space

so PAYDAY 2 is getting support updates going forward from Sidetrack Games! who are they? #PAYDAY2 well, i interviewed them a couple months ago about their work on RAID: WWII as The M.U.G Team, adding new maps and fixing the title for modern systems. chapter "Sidewinders" youtu.be/uAQzI8GLhXI?...

Balatro Mod that lets you use Strength on Cloud Nine to make it into Cloud Ten