Sigh. Okay. Let's try this again. My last time dabbling with Linux was 2014, and it was such a frustrating experience I swore off Linux forever and ever. But Microsoft's AI bullshit is worse, so here we are. This is a test run on a refurbished Dell laptop. Let's see how it goes.

Someone pointed out the cover for the art book is literally Irene Lew from Ninja Gaiden 2. This is NOT acceptable.

This is a paid internship, which is always great to see.

Any Sonic the Hedgehog nerds follow me who can recommend a Sonic level editor that's relatively easy to pick up and learn but that isn't the Roblox one?

OUT NOW: HONEYGATE - In 1972, burglars broke into the Watergate Hotel. In this special, @michaelnixon.bsky.social asks a question that has baffled historians for decades: "what if they were bears?"

A lot of people asking why Nintendo would do this, when really people should be asking why everyone else ISN'T doing this already. Lower prices was one of the things publishers were promising us about digital releases as far back as the Xbox Live Arcade days.

Come watch me make gay people do math! Tickets: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

I have friends on Facebook posting about Phantasy Star Online, and friends on Facebook posting about a recent Pole Sports Organization competition, and because those two things use the same acronym it's been a fun little game figuring out which is which.

Look. Yes, I AM paying for him to come back to Hamelin, guilty, and yes, children keep disappearing, but I just really like the song he plays!

I'm listening to The Adventure Zone: Amnesty again, mostly to remind myself how Monster of the Week works, but damn. It might actually be my favorite TAZ arc. It's such a rich, wonderful world. Still looking for other MOTW podcast recommendations, BTW. Any suggestions, @evilhat.bsky.social?

Listen. Picking apart and rules-lawyering what is/isn’t a good way to keep consuming a Problematic Thing is actually normal and fine! But doing it defensively and as public discourse suggests you want absolution from people who don’t know you. You’re making a personal struggle a public project.

And because I've seen the comparison: This is not an H.P. Lovecraft situation of "separate the art from the artist." Lovecraft is a century dead. He's not alive right now, trying to suppress records of his yacht visiting Epstein Island and swearing to make the lives of millions of ppl unlivable.

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

My relationship with my birthday has always been complicated, but it's now more complicated by the fact that the week before is now the anniversary of my sister's passing. The next month is going to be really, really hard. I'm not sure I'm ready for it.

They already have "lower priced tiers." They're shit.

Not gonna lie, I am heartbroken to hear about Starfleet Academy's cancelation. What a show. What an incredible piece of television.

Fun fact: From 2004-06 I worked in a call center for NTL, a cable/internet/phone provider in the UK. I mostly handled billing calls, often from people frustrated that they couldn't watch the football because they hadn't paid their bill.

Your periodic reminder that if you're an American whose primary means of watching Doctor Who has been streaming (whether on services like Netflix or purchased via iTunes or whatever), you've probably never seen the full-length version of the season 3 finale, "Last of the Time Lords".

this is the future Mark Zuckerberg wants

My birthday is a month away and I only have four seasons of The Simpsons on DVD if you're wondering what to get for the Ben who has everything.

My birthday is a month away and I only have four seasons of The Simpsons on DVD if you're wondering what to get for the Ben who has everything.

A reminder that we are still sending whistles to anyone who wants them! linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

[Sade voice 🎵]

Spectacularly damaging administration. This could have the electoral impact of gas rationing in the 1970s. And we might end up with gas rationing on TOP of this. If you're a leftist who's ever thought of running for office, now is the time. Never a better chance of being elected in this country.

Trying on a pair of Dr Martens: These look really good! I like these! Wearing a beloved pair of well-worn Dr Martens: These are my favorite and most comfortable shoes. Breaking in a new pair of Dr Martens: This is hell. I'm in hell. Why did I do this. Why does anyone do this. Oh god. Am I dying?

I've won a laptop in a work raffle. I'm seriously considering using it as a dry run for a switch to Linux - can I use Adobe Creative Cloud apps in Linux? Scrivener? Google Drive? This is going to be the best before I consider switching on my main PC.

I definitely should not have been allowed to read Last Human by Doug Naylor in my English class at age 11.

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

Wanna play a game?? 💖 I’m producing a festival with 30+ shows by 🏳️‍⚧️ artists! Describe me your favorite tv show or book and I’ll recommend a show you can stream or watch in LA next month for $5!

I genuinely think one of the most endearing qualities we have as guys is the need to do rankings. Doesn’t have to be anything important, if you gave me 20 different types of radishes and a list of facts about them I would have a great time telling you which type of radish is objectively 7th best.

Tabasco isn't hot sauce, it's slightly spicy vinegar, and that's also why i like it a lot. but that said, this news honks.

A new beginning at the end of the universe. Total K-OS returns April 8. Subscribe now at goodchaotic.com

God, these look stunning. Out of my budget for now, but stunning.

lol. lmao

Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator - Xbox Series X|S -March 26th. “I’m excited to have someone install this game on console, and hand the controller to a baby. In unrelated news, if a newborn hammering buttons beats my scores, I'm swearing off the stock market forever.” - @writnelson.bsky.social

Worms x Eric W. Schwartz Dual-layer custom level by @ericwschwartz.bsky.social, part of the free Worms DC Expansion Pack. Includes Llamasoft, Turrican and many other levels, as well as new landscapes and sample-sets. A 1.1 update to the game itself is also in the works. Details soon.

Blackadder is on Disney+. What a strange, strange timeline this is. Anyway, skip season 1 and start with the second season.

The big win in the Digital Foundry DLSS 5 debacle is their response to the audience reaction, maybe moreso than their response to the tech reveal, means we're no longer obligated to give a shit about anything they say or do. They're either bad at journalism, or cowards, or both. We're free!

I saw someone describe DLSS5 as "Incel Shading" and I am furious at how good a joke that is.

Credit: SourSasquatch on Reddit (unless they stole it from someone else)

post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid:

I think it's weird for people who are nominally journalists to say things like "We should have waited to see what people think." The issue isn't that you lost the coin flip of public opinion; the issue was that you gave into astonishment. The problem is that the keyjingling got you at all!

7-2?! Barcelona are trouncing Newcastle 7-2?! That's an absurd score. Wow.

So I have been loving Roguecraft DX, a psuedo-turnbased Roguelike that dropped earloer this year for the Amiga. Yesterday I learned a PC version is on the way via Steam. It's a fantastic game, and I'd like to encourage you all to wishlist it.

The other thing about this game: Despite the title focusing on the two characters it had absolutely no two-player mode to speak of. Not even a Super Mario Bros. style take-it-in-turns mode. But you could choose which of the boys to play as from the options screen.