it is wild to think about how horny games media used to be global phenomenon

Leftwing radicalization moment: Never thought it could happen to someone I know, but my good friend joined the army because it was that or homelessness Rightwing radicalization moment: You know, my electric toothbrush started blinking when it was “time to change the head.” Okay sure. Okay yeah. 🙄

The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers —…

Karl Marx getting up and you hear him yelling in German from the next room while his wife goes in to try to calm him down

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

It's like if Linda Yaccarino was a sex criminal

Seems like a pretty significant change for the BBC to make in a story quietly

good evening cowboy

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

i don't think people in this country are feeling even one tenth of the level of shame they should be feeling

good evening cowboy

my like fifteen minutes of gaming time before i pass out after work can be happily filled with stuff i never got around to from the past forty years before they started doing shit like this

why did Swartz die by suicide, TNY

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for! If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.

Real looney tunes hours over here

there’s been a trend of what appear to be agentic bluesky bot accounts trying to follow anyone with marketing in their bio to promote some horseshit AI marketing tool and they all post like this

happy easter

two more data breaches and I’ll have enough free years credit reporting to cover me for the rest of my life

Remembering the legendary drummer, James Gadson. "Some drummers are soulful. Some drummers are funky. Some drummers are rockin'. Some drummers are swinging, but NO drummer has impacted the art of breakbeat drumming like James Gadson," said Questlove. Gadson was 86.

y'all don't even understand the dire circumstances that prompted this incredible shitpost

Trillion dollar idea:

thinking about my old hometown newspaper’s News of Record section

you claim to care about this site's daily activity, yet when i scroll through your feed i see you haven't posted a picture of your lunch in almost three weeks. very curious.

the people who need bluesky to grow are the people who intend to use bluesky the same way a lumber company intends to use most publicly owned forests the platform doesn't have an adversarial user problem by volume or %. it has a "bunch of whiny babies" problem which has become a vicious cycle

if the game is turn based & there is a long winded combat animation that does not become skippable after the first couple of times, i'm enjoying the game wayyyyyyyyyy less

"Are indie games developing a gambling problem? We'll discuss this in our article by focusing in solely on recent examples that have slot facades while ignoring the entire history of mobile games made by actual gambling industry designers"

*in bad faith* nobody reads me in good faith

this cost $1.99 on iOS in 2012

Welp. The Texas of Santa Fe County is about to pull a Brexit. This'll end well. www.facebook.com/TownOfEdgewo...

she's going to give birth to a puddle of molten tar

jealousy professor

Call for co-streamers! The triple-i initiative showcase is back and this year we have announcements from games like Windrose, Dead as Disco, Solarpunk, Risk of Rain 2, Far Far West & many more, PLUS new game reveals! All in 45 minutes of back-to-back trailers. Sign up: forms.gle/vtmjxBNiGrPX...

Anyone wanna see the funniest 12 seconds that include a murder?

of all the old twitter meltdowns, this is the one I remember most fondly. just a goofy old TV cop getting too horny for a law enforcement psychic and not understanding what DMs are. tale as old as time.

does anyone on this website that follows me play Marathon on PC, and if so would they be happy to teach me the basics on what I should be doing my first few hours

Third way shit is the absolute worst “I take off my v for vendetta mask to reveal joker make up” bullshit the world has ever invented

the podcast audio-book preview for "Alex Branson's The Money Wars" was one of my favorite Episode 1 shows of recent memory branson is a great writer & I would recommend The Money Wars

You dogs over here should buy my new novel www.amazon.com/Alex-Branson...

UNFAIR FLIPS UPDATE: THE FLIPS ARE FAIR NOW. For the next 24 hours, YOU can test your TRUE mettle in coin flipping. No more probability, just pure skill. store.steampowered.com/news/app/392...

happy 20th anniversary

We found about the same ($309M median for AAA titles) using a machine learning model to estimate all games budgets a few months ago. Super comforting to see that our data/model match Jason Schreier's sources! 🤓 more:https://open.substack.com/pub/hushcrasher/p/how-much-does-it-cost-to-make-a-video

After 10 years of offering first-class, complete (we thought) dialogue solutions, we learned we had been missing the most important narrative design tool of all time: Tarot. We're sorry. We're listening, we're learning. And today, we've taken the first step: adding Tarot to Yarn Spinner 💚

This is either brilliant or scary: Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA. BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!

happy trans day of visibility to the trans and gender-nonconforming homies. and remember: if you're gonna commit a crime, wait for trans day of invisibility.

adobe i am a loser. i puked in my bed and got all these tribal tattoos. i need to you to morph me into rock and roll tony, the famous musician

In retrospect this is very funny