very happy to introduce The Spider-Man Complex: a new letter series between me and @dietdeitz.bsky.social on our time with spider-man 2, new york, and the selfless, self-destructive spider-men in our heads 🕸️ please give it a read 💜 ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev/the-spider-m...

"couldn't labour easily do this obviously good thing?" ah, I see you're unfamiliar with british politics

explaining something to an american: imagine a burger explaining something to a brit: imagine baked beans

Even if you, like me, don't really give a shit about Blizzard, Play Nice is a great read. Gives you a real close look at dynamics that played out across the whole industry.

bit late to this but this was a nice review that reminded me about growing up, using Vegas (shit video editor) to make Sonic and Dragon Ball edits on this bad boy. it ran very poorly, but it did run 🫡

What this type of disclaimer is saying is "I want to make a bad version of a game I can't afford to make rather than a good version of a game I can afford to make", which basically amounts to "ignore my game I'm not good at making them"

The limits of game design are very often not technological; you are more often limited by what you can explain to the audience without them feeling alienated.

good thing Starmer moved right on immigration and trans rights to placate these people- oh.

I knew things were really bad and it turns out they were worse than I thought. Brilliant video, but absolutely heartbreaking, too. Where do we even go from here?

everybody talking about SNL UK like it's normal to have Sky TV

fair to say the folks at an anti-fascist countermarch do not hold the current gov in high regard

No spoilers, but the latest eps of Invincible get more comedic mileage out of a single frame of animation than I've ever seen lmao

Sending a message to myself in 2007: ❌ "Buy bitcoin/nvidia shares/etc" ❌ "You're a girl, by the way" ✅ "Get a CD of Biffy Clyro's Puzzle. Trust me. You'll discover the album anyway in a few years, but the earlier the better."

the self is an illusion, so I won't do any introspection. colours are also an illusion, so I'm going to poke my eyes out.

warm take, but I believe Nvidia when they say that devs can have artistic control over the effects DLSS 5 produces, what's baffling about the reveal videos/images is that they clearly just hacked the tech in and called it a day, no collaboration with devs, no effort to match the art direction.

the nice thing about developing fangames is that you end up being able to play dolls with the original work

Netflix's recs are so bad. Hit "like" on the new Louis Theroux doc and it's recommending me any "documentary". Like oh, we see you like eating Nutella, maybe you'd enjoy dog shit?

WOO

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

"green-yellow coalition doesn't sound great" oh no, the piss coalition lmao although "liberal green"/"green democrat" sounds pretty good to me

Another thing I felt was missing from the doc was really prodding at their ideology, and questioning why the "make money at any cost" and gender politics have to go together. My guess... 1/

Watched the new Louis Theroux doc last night, and it's very good, highly recommend it, but I can't help but get stuck on this line from his closing remarks. To me, this gives the manosphere influencers too much credit, positioning them as masterminds of a "matrix" of their own, but the truth.. 1/

driving a truck out of a cargo plane. you gotta see this explosion, it's crazy

I'm so sad and angry right now. but..

if you're committed to just accepting public opinion as is & the right feels empowered to try & change it, the whole country will invariably get pulled right fast as we're seeing

new video youtu.be/zv1SFurxwbE

Here's why RR's drifting feels really good: 1. You turn without losing ~any speed 2. You can turn at basically any angle 3. You can perfectly hug corners Thankfully I already had an ugly little arcade racer prototype kicking around that I could mess with. We all have one of those, right? 🧵

the thing I've learned about these people is that the concept of truth just does not compute in their brains. what they're always doing is just saying what they want to say or what they think someone else wants to hear, they're not trying to reason out "is this true" "does this work"; they can't.

TIL Just Cause 3 has a "doge mode". It's pretty upsetting

I'm mostly an AI hater but on the rare occasion I interact with one of these things, Claude is the only one that doesn't make me want to gouge my eyes out

when your friend Steve Bikes comes out as non-binary

Here's why RR's drifting feels really good: 1. You turn without losing ~any speed 2. You can turn at basically any angle 3. You can perfectly hug corners Thankfully I already had an ugly little arcade racer prototype kicking around that I could mess with. We all have one of those, right? 🧵

@vicmsong.bsky.social 's unhinged furby story had me crying laughing, oh god

@colin-fraser.net sorry to bug you, but, to my point: grith.ai/blog/vibe-co... AI companies refusing to consider the obvious consequences of their actions is going to kill the open web. I can't really blame people for being so angry about this and similar problems that they miss nuances.

the best time to buy a car was last year the second best time is fuck you

Marathon is what I imagine Grimes sees when she closes her eyes.

Older woman at the supermarket today was looking for "car-june" chicken. Took me a minute to realise she was looking for Cajun chicken, bless

they got an exec from AAA to do these projections I see

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Jesse's whole shtick for a while now has been "gender-affirming care for minors is a sick, monstrous scam perpetuated by incompetent hacks who are torturing innocent children because of woke ideology, and how very dare you assume I oppose that, I'm suing you for defamation". It gets tiring.

we got senators talking about nuremberg 2

dunno if it was my reply specifically that made him delete it but, it was soon before, so I'll take the W Singal is fascinating to me. He seems to be a normie liberal on every issue except this one, where he employs rhetoric indistinguishable from a climate change denier.

mini 🧵: Been on a real Ridge Racer kick the last couple days because the drifting feels like magic. It's incredible. Unfortunately, I've come to realise that's because it actually *is* magic. In this clip, I intentionally turn *way* too early; I should just slam into the wall. But...

a lot going on here

some trans girls start life as effeminate boys, but for the most part that's not really the case, so a professional isn't going to see an effeminate boy and assume he must be trans. however, if you're a cis person who doesn't know the first thing about transness, this kind of thinking is intuitive.