This real-time recap thread made me realise (again) how much I love Dumbing of Age and also to get back into it after having lapsed in my daily read for about 3 years or so.

The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”

Trans people were not born in the wrong body. They were born in the wrong society.

Here’s to an authentic new year

this post is now 10 years old and nothing has changed

please help me report these Steam reviews (that ridicule my SA) made to my games. steam moderators cleared them as acceptable (so i can’t flag them) but i don’t think calling me a slur & bringing up my r*pist is acceptable. steamcommunity.com/profiles/765... steamcommunity.com/id/Luceres/r...

Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/

you don't know me

Old Skies made it to over 800 Steam reviews! Thank you, everyone. I’m worried about sounding a bit insincere because I say this so often, but it means more to me than I can say.

willis can write as many trans girls as they want if this is how they're doing it i approve completely

eyyy Old Skies is in there at number 37! Brilliant! Get it on Steam (currently 20% off!) and you get to hear me as your trusty floating head, man-in-the-chair guide: Nozzo!

Hmmm. Does this imply that I'm going to be running into a lot more bougie people than the norm, or am I myself destined to become bougie? Either way: troubling.

My review of The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling 4/5⭐ Absolutely cracking world building and characters, falls a little short at the end though. Representations: trello.com/c/Pb1IASs2/1... PB: pagebound.co/reviews/7225... GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚👀 🩸📚 🪐📚 #BookReview

new year new me

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

A new year, a new day

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! 🥳🎉 This year I'm going to seriously consider moving to Bluesky because the recent changes to Twitter got me TWISTEDDDDDD I really fought against doing this move because I have a sizable audience there but I can't ignore how easy it is to bastardize art over there anymore 💀

A year full of smiles☺️☺️

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

We need to kill everyone involved with AI immediately.

Update: I emailed the opt-out address listed on their website and got a reply. But, I never. Should. Have. Had. To. Opt. Out. I’m so tired of these tech companies & their entitlement. DoorDash putting small restaurants on their apps w/o permission, AI scraping our sites, & now this? It’s exhausting

If you've noticed that your IMDb page has shrunken dramatically, here is the "original voice" purist hall monitor below supposedly responsible for that:

"What was your biggest impact on the internet?" Oh. You know. Stuff.

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters ($FREE!!!) - the legendary Star Control 2, but with the name stripped off due to a long and messy legal battle. listen, this is a classic and wildly influential ambitious sci-fi game and it's FREE, you got nothing to lose! store.steampowered.com/app/2645580/...

heyo! the winter sale rec thread continues! splitting it up cuz the other one got past 100 titles and was getting unwieldy to browse through, so the next chunk'll all be through here. who knows, maybe we'll even end up needing THREE threads by the end of this sale.

I haven't actually seen this, but if you legitimately have been arguing for them to be banned too please just unfollow and block me, save me the effort of blocking you myself.

Expedition 33 is a psyop to distract us It’s bread and Serkis

Some of you might know this story, but someone requested it as a reply to this thread, so I'll do that. What you should know about me is that I've always had trouble with airport security, especially in the United States. I have 7 very Arabic names, and I travel a lot around the entire planet.

Making references to 30 year old Sierra and LucasArts games are so overdone and played out, especially since there are 20 years worth of Wadjet Eye references that nobody has made yet.

Less than two days left to get the Bundle With Benefits! This is your last chance to support 25 indie queer creators and get a TON of SFW and NSFW content - games, books, comics and more - for a ridiculously low price!

Twitter is now a perfect monument to capitalist rot. Ever since Musk monetized engagement, it’s become a stream of enraging vagueposting. Cryptic statements, unidentified movie/tv clips. No protein, just bait. Unusable, an absolute joke.

Just saw someone describing Death Note and Evangelion as "Unc Slop." ....i think the word "slop" is dead.

Hey, kids! Do you like Arcade Spirits? Then you'll love... MORE Arcade Spirits! The standalone sequel story, The New Challengers, is on sale now on Steam! Become an arcade esports competitor, find friendship and love, and outlast your rivals! store.steampowered.com/app/1484620/...

i think what gets overlooked is that part of the humor and charm of edits like these is that you're perfectly aware that someone sat down and spent their own time making it. they chose to do something cool or silly or stupid or genius, regardless of the results that human element elevates the work

Western romantasy has entered its light novel era

I can’t stand anybody who wants to tell me consumer-facing LLMs and/or genAI are good. You are trying to convince everyone that it’s actually better to use a knife with no handle. Your hand is bleeding as you tell me handleless knives are inevitable and we need to get used to them or fall behind.

I tap the glass again, my finger is broken

one great thing about generally ignoring Jordan Peterson is on the occasions when he does crest the timeline you go oh wow, somehow he looks even worse, even death has rejected him and his decay is eternal

RIP

I like to imagine the family reunions between these two types of elf

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

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Waiting... (I need to be more active over here💔)

Happy Holidays, yall

Tifa

We ended up accidentally watching this whole video yesterday, and against all odds, it ended up being one of the greatest pieces of cinema I've ever experienced: youtu.be/ef568d0CrRY?...