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Does this make any other gamers just not wanna buy it out of spite? This type of everything’s-an-investment capitalism is the death of the consumer.

is this thing on. can anyone hear me

I remain convinced that age-gating social media is largely an effort to keep kids straight, cis and apolitical. If you’re a Washingtonian, call your legislator.

Back in my day you could get a computer for basically nothing. Can't do that anymore, because rent-to-own places lock their dumpsters now.

this one is being advertised backward as sr3 is far and away the better game (tbh i'm not a huge fan of the remaster either but)

my boyfriend made this sweatshirt in 2018 and he’s proudly wearing it around town today lmao

150 bucks for shoes that look like they let you walk up context sensitive videogame walls and activate pads with icons of bricks on them that appear 6 times tops

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

someone made a nice launcher/updater/mod downloader for all the n64 recomp projects so i was fiddling around with it. and perhaps you can, too github.com/SirDiabo/N64...

Love this world we have now, where consoles get more expensive the older they are instead of cheaper. This is what desperation looks like. Desperation to keep perpetuating the lie of infinite growth, a scam they’re running out of ways to keep up. It’s so utterly fucking pathetic.

yuuuuuuuup

Generative AI has really revealed that people just do NOT see coding as a creative process. So many people out there say they don't want to use the slop machine for art or music, but are more than happy to use it for code. There is very little respect out there for technical creativity.

I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

it's crazy how we teach kids that failure is an important part of learning but then just punish them for failing at anything in school

Pressure VRchat now, they also use Persona. Vrchat uses persona. Vrchat uses persona. Persona is backed by Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is pushing for a surveillance state in the US and appears in the Epstein files hundreds of times.

Also: the ads for the first game had a touch of the mid to late 90s edginess that looks, frankly, psychotic in retrospect. bsky.app/profile/leaf...

Command and Conquer may be the perfect '90s game. Its main influences were Dune and the Gulf War. It has those post-Cold War brainworms about Europe and it feels like what happens when NATO has to fight Goreans. Completely alien now, like finding a T-shirt of Bart Simpson bombing Bagdhad.

Look I don't wanna boost that Elon post about English / Scots / Irish stuff more than it needs to be boosted but anyone claiming that English / Scots / Irish culture are the same inherent base culture is inherently disqualified from any further commentary on English / Scots / Irish culture.

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

I like seeing the artists and mutuals saying things instead of the same recycled tweets for engagement, and sometimes yes the algorithm pull is golden (thank you everything I’m seating on SEA vs SK) but surely this isn’t the only way

I don't get this whole thing about bluesky being boring or a punishment, like sorry i don't enjoy my face being forcefed algorithmslop from twitter’s trough as the only way to engage with the internet or social media

also how trying to enforce a fake "sex/gender distinction" that mystified "gender" into the ether opened the door for conservatives to reassert the "realness" of sex. gender & sexuality (as its social dimension) often is "lived" communicating embodiment, desire, & (place in ever-shifting) history

dude.

Just wanted you to know how great you are 🫶

OK Tracer Bullet was good but I assume we're all in agreement that this is the all-time BEST Calvin & Hobbes strip, correct

The gambling ads are so awful that I’m legitimately relieved to get the slightly less awful TurboTax ads

"Why is therianism so popular" idk man, being a human sucks.

(EGGMAN): WHO posted my NUDES on Twitter dot com?!

I love when they show the blowjob brothers railroad interacting with the real world

The idea that woke 2 tolerates a figure like platner and his Nazi tattoos fundamentally misunderstands the woke 2 project, which is about being woke but also mean about it

Sajam losing his biggest sponsorship for boycotting evo and still sticking to the boycott, mad respect

i keep thinking about these tacos nobuo uematsu posted absolute spot-on representation of mexican food in japan

Time to dust off a classic

keep cancelling your nitro

One of the things that really fucking annoys me about AI is that people *do not understand it* (on purpose, bc these companies want it that way) and they assume it’s as reliable as the computers they’ve been using their whole life when it’s actually about as reliable as your least capable intern

"A Saint Louis scientist has discovered that we shall all be crazy by the year 2016. This, alas, is not the worst of it. We shall also be dead." The Evening Herald, Ottawa, Kansas, January 27, 1902

Roses are red Vice is inherent

The messaging is also important in this case. It’s not necessarily that you have to cut off every single vital thing you need to survive in solidarity but doing what you personally can and at the most visible targets so some result is found rather than just tell everyone to stop using everything.

If we live in a world where it’s extremely impossible to avoid engaging with something on some level, then strikes at specific choices that make the message loud and clear and if one backs down, their competitors may see the message. That’s why the boycott against Target is extremely successful.

Was casually reading this thread about everyone learning that every major deodorant brand is in support of Israel and I think it illuminates why targeted boycotts are more effective over basic blanket bans because it’s about sending a message specifically. www.reddit.com/r/MuslimLoun...

“Please enjoy the museum”: Relooted is OUT NOW! Please share!

When you’re a UK trans woman, you roll invisible dice every day before work. All sixes, and a coworker with billionaire money will take your employer to court over you, you will be on the news, and when you leave the country, men with abuse allegations against them will call it a victory for women.

cosmic princess kaguya's moral is that if you post good enough she will fuck you

There's this weird assumption that absolutely everyone who criticizes establishment democrats and wanted them to do better didn't vote. The VAST majority of progressives and "leftists" who are politically engaged voted for Harris in the last election. Politically engaged people knew the stakes.

YOU THINK YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A GODMOTHER? I'LL BE SURPRISED IF YOU SURVIVE BIPPITY-BOPPITY-BOOTCAMP

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.