I've never seen the kid laugh harder than they did when we read this sequence

we are entering a golden age for indie 3D platformers and I could not be more excited

Oh my God a literal wallet inspector

I do not watch football but I do love that I can probably BS my way through a conversation about it tomorrow thanks to everyone's liveposting

look he's seen the polling, this is not a statement about what's effective, it's a statement about what they want to be committed to doing with power should they win. if they run on opposing ICE then they'll have to actually oppose ICE. this is ideology masquerading as electoral strategy

all I want is someone to draw fan art of something I made. financial security would be great too, but secondary.

one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen

we are entering a golden age for indie 3D platformers and I could not be more excited

I should just make this. the first ethical gacha game by virtue of its milieu

This! I see people in replies to posts about games, silly movies, funny videos, and trailers etc going "Hard to enjoy this while Minnesota is..." Or "We need to focus on..." Stop! If all you do is fight you will burn out and help nobody. You gotta enjoy your life. Live to live, not to fight.

I'd love to see how people would've reacted to Prime 4 if it had a different aesthetic. I actually like it, but it doesn't really look like Metroid to me. I see how you get here — "Metroid was inspired by Alien!" — but it's never been *this* Giger-esque.

SHELVED BY GENRE awakens far below the Misty Mountains, and with riddles and talking eagles and exploding pine cones, the hosts continue their discussion of THE HOBBIT! Also, we learn so much about what Tolkien thought of airplanes. rangedtouch.com/2026/01/16/t...

this is not a quote from someone who has ever loved movies

I made a site (thewarped.zone) the last time Critical Distance did this and it was one of the most fun creative experiences I've ever had; in hindsight it also helped me overcome terrible burnout after years in the content/slop mines. Make a fan site! They're good for you!

I made a site (thewarped.zone) the last time Critical Distance did this and it was one of the most fun creative experiences I've ever had; in hindsight it also helped me overcome terrible burnout after years in the content/slop mines. Make a fan site! They're good for you!

another day, another set of outlets undermining the long-term health and institutional memory of video game journalism and criticism. Love too sacrifice good writers on the altar of profit margins. fucking ghoulish

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

okay, so I know a couple of 3-4-year-olds who, for some reason, have decided they want to play Dungeons & Dragons. we're not doing actual D&D, obviously, but does anyone have recs for something rules-light with lots of visual cues (since they can't, like, read) on character sheets and such?

counterpoint:

now wait just a second

Our devotion to brands and franchises — rather than to the artists who create the stories we love — has turned fandom into a seemingly inexhaustible resource to be consumed forever by a class of corporate Doomsday Machines. I’ve decided to re-examine my attachments.

🧵: There's been a lot of back & forth from a lot of thoughtful folks over the past day or so regarding what should be done, what various elected officials are saying versus seemingly doing, what could be done, what isn't being done, why you don't want to do certain things, etc. 1/

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

"like hashtags, but for stocks" that is enough internet for today, I think

Animal Crossing

okay, so I know a couple of 3-4-year-olds who, for some reason, have decided they want to play Dungeons & Dragons. we're not doing actual D&D, obviously, but does anyone have recs for something rules-light with lots of visual cues (since they can't, like, read) on character sheets and such?

let me join the chorus of people saying yeah, that'll work

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

Minnesota residents proving to be incredibly badass, once again

Frodo, on watch as the other members of the Company sleep, sees two glowing eyes peering out of the dark—his very first glimpse of Gollum. When the eyes quickly disappear, Frodo thinks they must have been a dream.

This is accurate. I'm not even under direct threat because I don't fit the profile of what they're looking for in terms of abduction and arrest, but living here has become extremely fraught in ways we never imagined.

Hey everyone, We literally just added 100 more trans girl scouts to the trans girl scout cookie list. The list is bigger than it has ever been in EITM history. Go get some cookies and make a trans scout's day!

we already have Medieval Madness, we just decided to call it Army of Darkness for some reason

pinball-inspired cinematic universe when?

The world is a slightly better place now that Scott Adams is no longer in it.

today's bad news for vr is a reminder that valve could, at any time, with almost zero effort, stimulate vr into being massive, but instead have let facebook destimulate it into being nothing valve is planning on putting out a new headset soon. seems like there is no plan tho or we'd know about it

ATTN: I have a BIIIG project idea -- i need kid-friendly styled art. tag your talented friends! mutuals only please!

Dilbert was the favorite comic strip of the most boring people you've ever met, but hey! at least it was as ugly as sin, too.

newspaper comic strips were one of the great twentieth century art forms and even though millennials were only there to experience the worst decade for comic strips that the twentieth century had to offer it was still better than what the next century had in store

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

pretty cool that Warner Bros patented the Nemesis system and then never did anything with it ever again

A lot of us have actually made a webcomic ring called Chimera Comics after we left hiveworks: chimeracomics.org This isn't the full list as some artists want their hands completely washed of the situation, but this is a start!

you want to know how it feels to not have to care about the Golden Globes? great. it feels great.

After 11 volumes of Hilo we have moved to Jeff Smith's Bone. There's no such thing as a perfect comic, but also Bone is a perfect comic.

y'all Kristi Noem absolutely deserves to be impeached but please, please be wary of Dems who try to use an impeachment vote on Noem (fine, but not gonna end in removal) as a substitute for action on ICE funding (real, hits them where it hurts)

Nancy undefeated.