scientists have discovered that there's actually an entire article of additional text between the headline and comment section. some even suspect it elaborates on the ideas involved

"Earlier this month, that commitment suddenly looked a lot more firm, as Activision confirmed that players' cosmetics wouldn't be carried forward into Black Ops 7, thus banishing Jay and Silent Bob to forever linger amongst the battlefields of the past." www.pcgamer.com/games/call-o...

This is real btw

"In Lithuania, small businesses that earn under €45,000 per year are exempt from VAT obligations. Having handily cleared that threshold, our industrious gold sellers were expected to pay the appropriate taxes. They did not." www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/eu...

"In Lithuania, small businesses that earn under €45,000 per year are exempt from VAT obligations. Having handily cleared that threshold, our industrious gold sellers were expected to pay the appropriate taxes. They did not." www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/eu...

idk what they should do but i suspect their aspirations are somewhere around "celebratory pizza party"-tier

dudes rock

Ishmael is spending the current chapter making up a guy to get mad at so that he can defend Whaling, an occupation he took up on a whim. Poster.

I still firmly believe that the most successful framing for confronting rising authoritarianism is to emphasize that it's loser shit. Yes, things are bad. But they want to feel like bad guys. That's harder to do when what you're saying is "Aren't you sick of these fucking losers?"

This is also how I've learned that I'm the most cited author on the Wikipedia article for videogame HUDs because I wrote a shitpost ranking of HUD elements in which I declared that "mana bars are where power fantasies go to die" and navigation arrows are "irredeemable."

This is the best day of my life

But they were all of them deceived, for a 5th mambo was made...

aside from the rampant hatemongering, I wonder how much of this phenomenon is driven by the fact that trans shitposters are the best in the business to the point of achieving omnipresence

"Team Reptile announces Hyperfunk" might be the most semantically potent sequence of word-sounds I've ever written in my life

HYPERFUNK www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...

to be fair, arrow-tossing rules

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

Finally, a chance to write about my passion: Rotating shapes in my mind. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

Finally, a chance to write about my passion: Rotating shapes in my mind. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

I dunno if it’s a blip or a groundswell but it feels like something’s happening. We don’t have to like these people or be friends after this but everyone who likes free speech line up over here.

the production staff has just rolled out a big clock labeled "COUNTDOWN TO BALKANIZATION" and there's been a stark shift in the studio atmosphere

made my triumphant podcasting return talking about THEE game of the year, Despelote it also is national hispanic heritage month, so it’s praxis to listen to this

sorry

dude makes me ashamed to have a beard

mark

I often lose faith in humanity and then I remember shelf-stable tortellini exists and I can have it for lunch in ~15 minutes.

This great piece from @mmasnick.bsky.social is a classic two-fer: First of all, a comprehensive argument for why staying on Twitter is fruitless. Best of all, it adds to the argument of why freeing ourselves from algorithmic chains is such an important mission. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...

Caves of Qud

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING. WE'RE ALL JUST MAKING SOUNDS

This is the bill to call your reps about and the relevant text in it

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

"I haven't enjoyed Claptrap's presence in roughly 16 years, but in that time I've come to understand him as a form of karmic penance." www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/bo...

"I haven't enjoyed Claptrap's presence in roughly 16 years, but in that time I've come to understand him as a form of karmic penance." www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/bo...

the shooter was an online gamer. it's important for newsrooms to understand video games more than ever. that's where i step in. so umamusume: pretty derby (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー) is a gacha horse racing simulator based on real life japanese race horses. in the world of umamusume, anime girls replace horses,

Oh so Alolan Raichu hates waffles???

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

is that good

thank god no new animal crossing announcement so I still don't need to get one of these fuckin things

poke...world. no. pal... topia. fuck,

New Old Donk Island

samus aran-da motorcycle

A second Kirby Air Riders Direct has been announced.

the tormented spirits of the past still have business with the living

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”