This is why I'm still on mastodon.social; Website Boy learned early on that the only way to win was to not play the game. (Individual fedi servers self-destruct regularly, of course, but the big ones persist due largely to managerial indifference.)

silver lining is we now know, with certainty, how little happiness you can buy with money

If you see this, QTP with your top 4 Final Fantasy games 🎮

This is an interesting thread because it makes the case that (a) the platform is behaving as intended, and (b) that can be a good thing (if we make it one). The problem is management can't have it both ways; they can't be the moderators and also insist that communities do the moderation.

You can tell the "don't call ai a slur" people are not serious because....well if they're people why are you making it perform labor for you without recompense.

When a character has a Shape

Explaining core color words to my kiddo and how cyan has effectively become English's twelfth core color word basically within my lifetime.

OK let me do a little thread. Contrary to popular belief, state funding for public colleges did NOT go down overall during the neoliberal era. That widely repeated result seems mostly be be an artifact of unusually low post-2008 levels. But... rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

If you want this platform to survive, figure out a way to fill this role, cause they DEFINITELY need it.

Shots fired by a European head of state. (His argument isn't wrong.)

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This is the research I didn't know I needed, and it confirms every one of my priors.

If I were I would simply not. But I guess I'm built different.

Hades II was pretty good, but I am personally extremely done with games that don't respect my time. A US$20-30 indie should have 20-30 hours of gameplay.

Everyone is a virgin once, and somebody needs to be the first person to have sex with them, but all things being equal, why would anyone seek out someone to do a joint activity with who has never done that activity before?

My ffxiv character lies down with her spear strapped to her back; fantasy characters are fashionable but they are definitely not comfortable.

Apropos of nothing: I moderate an internal forum at my company, entirely as a volunteer. My job is to enforce the rules in a way everyone understands and that is fair and reasonable. I am operating entirely from a policy document that is publicly available.

We are all pining for the fjords of Google+

retribution incarnate

Hades 2 is eating my soul

I hate that we no longer live in that brief window where we could share pictures of our lives online without having to worry that some freak will figure out exactly where we are *at that exact moment* and fuck with us.

O hey, the Kickstarter for the Monsterhearts video game just went live. Wouldn't it be interesting to see how that turns out?

The immigrant you’re most likely to meet in the ER is probably your doctor

princess of the underworld

Dems defunded ICE, huh.

Dems defunded ICE, huh.

Hades 2 thoughts so far: - Gameplay is more compelling than the original - The weapons are all good except the staff, which kinda sucks - The writing is good; but I get the distinct feeling that: * Everyone is fucking with me * The game desperately wants Moros and Melinoë to kiss

Is there a good way to get adult and kid kn95-type masks in relative bulk in Canada that doesn't involve Amazon?

Hades 2 is good Despite the combat being being basically the same as the first, it somehow feels a lot better. I think the ability to drop a binding and dash away makes it feel less like a clusterfuck, and always having a long-range attack is nice. (Obviously other weapons might work differently.)

Remember do NOT high guard the grapple men, you'll end up in bed on a first date, Always zone and punish with series of delicate hand touches over the popcorn at the movies

Adler makes a point: Any game excludes people. Every decision excludes people. The impulse is "exclude no one" but this is wrong, impossible. The question you *should* ask is: Is this game excluding *the same people who every game tends to exclude*? *That* would be wrong. This point generalizes

Louder for the people in the back

Imagine living in terror of Lin-Manuel Miranda

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

I want to propose something different: - These people are not eloquent - They have been deceived for the benefit of others - They are genuinely worried and hurting - They deserve a measure of compassion It's notable that republicans are saying, "hey I don't love immigration but this is wrong".

We weren't disempowering GMs, we were shifting part of the burden of GMing onto the players, because "the person upon whom a majority of the responsibility for the game's enjoyment rests" is not who we wanted to be.

Back in the Forge days, and I still see it occasionally, there was a story that in our games we were disempowering the GM because we'd had bad experiences with viking hat GMs in our pasts. It's not at all true! Our bad experiences were AS GMs.

I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with: 1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable. 2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable. 3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.

The problem with "feed that collects all posts using a hot meme format" is that the vast majority of people are terrible at posting. Just absolute garbage.

Apropos of nothing, making Dies Irae the primary motif of Silksong was more than a little on the nose. *same four notes play for the hundredth time* yeah yeah we fuckin get it church scary whatever

"What is RtL?" Oh you sweet summer child...

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Some people should really know better. It's like the old song says: You don't tug on Superman's cape You don't spit into the wind You don't take a call from Isaac Chotiner And you don't mess around with Jim

Watching @shenpai.gay and @vulpixie.bsky.social play through the Naadam in #FFXIV Stormblood and honestly, even back then they did a great job creating an epic battle in an engine mostly designed for MMO exploration and set-piece boss battles.

What if the rapture happened, but the people who were taken were the kind of people who disappear every day and nobody notices.

Bluesky allowing you to fullscreen an embedded video without spontaneously reloading the feed challenge 2025 (difficulty: impossible)

Acetaminophen won't give you (or your kid) autism, but it absolutely can fuck up your liver. Please read the dosing instructions before taking any medication containing the drug* or administering it to someone else. * There are a lot of formulations that have it + something else.

That's why I turned out normal

Autistic people are cool actually. There's nothing wrong with being autistic. Having an autistic kid doesn't make you a bad parent. (Also fucking Tylenol doesn't cause autism; neither do vaccines.) I can't believe we continue to have to say these things.

We're watching this playout in some of the dumbest ways possible right now.