Wrote about my friend @bencollins.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/issue-548/

Every time you see a retelling of someone playing Caves of Qud it seems like one of those stories where no sentence has any connection to the previous sentence. But after you play the game you kinda just think shit like "yeah, that makes sense but you could have avoided that by growing another face"

What would people think the value of the very first Space Ghost Coast to Coast script written in my handwriting on a legal pad would be?

This week I'm joined by @austinwalker.bsky.social to discuss his (and my) obsession with Marathon, his upcoming TTRPG (an actual book!), Pragmata, the new Jay & Silent Bob game (?), Call of Duty leaving Game Pass, and more. Get it ad-free at jeff.zone or find the video version here.

A grand jury has reached a unanimous verdict in the largest case of felony identity fraud in the Kanto region to date. paletteswap.site/dif...

sometimes I mention a subject I’ve done Special Interest Deep Dives on and my partner will be shocked anew. “I didn’t know but OF COURSE you spent a couple years studying and trying to practice magic with a k while also doing seven other things!!!” I used to be so powerful. (I can’t recommend it)

This is so monumentally fucked up on every level I feel sick to my stomach.

all right who has recs for like, fun femme button-up shirts in floral patterns and big sizes

a lot of folks missed the initial preorders/extras, so I’ve put up one more (final) round of preorders! ends April 30th

bloodborne doesn’t need a remaster or a 60fps upgrade. /you/ need to relax and appreciate a perfect object as it is

i hate to be that person, but if you (the author of the piece) are so dumb that you think that someone asking for more sensitive language at an event is equivalent to the use of state power to curb speech maybe your stupidity is part of the problem with higher ed

Why don’t y’all realize that we /hate/ this man and his ilk? I don’t want an apology from someone who has sown so much hate and discord! I want him banished! He’s a liar and an absolute nightmare person. You can’t complain about people not voting for you /while platforming our real opponents/

Overall I think valve publishing actual number of concurrent players has hurt the industry so much.

Corporate centrists are absolutely obsessed with the idea that defeating fascism is dependent on extremists “coming to their senses” when in reality the people moving away from Trump are becoming more extreme and will radicalize their followers if material conditions aren’t addressed.

It’s always striking to me how much the people who’ve been complaining about feminists being “man haters” for all these decades do, in fact, *actually* think men are monsters

and not unintentional - many cis folk need to cleanse any hint of queerness or transgression from their choices in order to feel comfortable. the current mainstream promotion of hormones for cis folk goes hand in hand with the removal of trans access to them

we've always advocated for change and access beyond our own needs - for bodily autonomy, names changes, hormones, identity construction, non-traditional family, transgression of gender norms - for everyone who might benefit from them

another thing which irks me about the Cis People Taking Hormones columns is trans folk have long said "maybe a lot of folk would be happier with a slightly different hormonal setup to what their body produces"

Babies

why don’t they know that we /hate/ these people, regardless of what they say? are dems clueless? mostly. gloating? probably. obsessed with proximity to power and exposure over all else? definitely 🙄 openly thrilled when a republican likes them, preferring maga over leftists? ALWAYS

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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog-ass word

can we please get a new word for “enshittification” that doesn’t sound like Ned Flanders cursing for the first time

tim cook has overseen massive tax avoidance, grossly-underpaying worldwide labor, pandering to at least the u.s. authoritarians, numerous flop products (car, headset, etc) and the utter degradation of the company’s software especially on desktops. fuck his legacy :)

It’s good that MAGA is fracturing. But for the love of god do not embrace this piece that’s breaking off. Do not hand it to them. Do not share their statements.

Dunked on this yesterday but in reality the first order of business needs to be punishment. I'm not kidding. We can't start fixing anything until we punish, and punish hard, the people who put us here. That needs to be done to send a message. And if we don't punish, nothing else will matter.

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future. It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

#crt #photography #snk

today’s gender

Constellation Mage #pixelart

dang, this poster for my film slaps

merritt actually should be on the new infowars. brilliant and funny @bencollins.bsky.social

A very good price on an amazing puzzler. If Void Stranger or Blue Prince got their hooks into you, this one's a must-have. Starts out as a simple Sokoban-esque block pusher. Grows into a non-linear five-dimensional puzzle tesseract where you'll often be looking at 2-3 more puzzles and not know it.

I love these guys so much. If you never got past Popular, pull up the album Let Go listen to it from top to bottom, and now that I’m truly envious of the fact that you just experienced one of my absolute favorite things for the very first time.

Wild DITTO used TRANSFORM!

like… most of america’s problems are in part due to terrible parenting, and the absolute taboo against ever admitting that your parents were the fucking problem. and especially not to EVER challenge them. the united states is authoritarian and it starts with the family

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My Superman tale

hey if people are talking about “spanking” their kids, lemme just say my parents hit me constantly for no fuckin reason, made me violent and maladjusted as a kid, and only stopped when I got big enough to threaten them back. We never had a healthy relationship and they don’t get to talk to me now.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

"I got smacked as a kid and it didn't do me any harm!" Yes, it did, my friend - you think it's okay to physically assault tiny people who are weaker than you with no power and actually look to you for protection. You are, in fact, really quite harmed.

There's something immensely sad to me in particular about books being targeted that are specifically written for those who feel lost in their own heads and hearts and journeys of understanding their identities and/or sexualities. Providing guides and mirrors for that is one of the best parts of YA.

If you folks like sterling and handmade goods and are not already following my twelve wonderful jewelry goblins while we fling shiny stuff into the universe, I would implore that you do so. This is our main revenue stream, and our community is great! @peculiarityshop.bsky.social

lyric video coming Friday! www.youtube.com/@Selfware_mu...

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

This is an extremely obvious and banal point that I have been surprised to find is hard to land with people both-sidesing the AI debate. The highest VC funded companies in tech saying “we want to ruin your lives” as marketing copy > any flavor of online poster anti-Ai hyperbole you can find.

like maybe the public would be getting less frothy and toothy about this if big tech hadn’t spent the last three years constantly threatening the public with impoverishment and feudal control, idk

There's some talk about how Capcom are keeping the spirit of late PS2/Early PS3 game design alive with their recent releases. If that's the vibe you're after, I HUGELY recommend Kunitsu-Gami, which sold very (comparatively) little and feels like a gorgeous modern remake of some obscure PS2 game.

first drawing in months