Every time they try to make a "cool" Pokémon even cooler with a new form or something, it always backfires. This is why the best Pokémon are the ones that know they aren't cool and never try to be. Goobers like Dewgong, Seaking, and Claydol are the ones out here keeping it real.

"Mario Kart 200cc turns the game into F-Zero." No it doesn't. "Fast Fusion is basically a new F-Zero game." No it isn't. "Have you tried Wipeout? It's like F-Zero." Not really. "Kirby Air Riders is-" Stop it. Closest thing to F-Zero is Aero GPX. But I still want a new F-Zero.

Kirby Air Riders has the same problem that Mario Kart World has, in that it is a racing game for a console that also has F-Zero GX

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

I'm so tired of having to entertain the idea of "debate" with fascist ideology as a necessity of democratic society. We agreed their ideas are bad a long time ago. They already lost. Debate should be about what color to paint our libraries, not whether or not people should have rights.

"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole." -𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

Any economy that requires me to constantly buy shit I don't want or need is an economy that deserves to collapse.

Kind of want to play Kirby Air Riders, but not badly enough to spend $70 on it. I generally think most Nintendo games are worth their asking price, but there's the occasional title that makes me wish they'd go on sale at some point. Kirby games I especially struggle to justify paying full price for.

The ugly secret is that AI is a narcissist machine that’s programmed by people who desperately need validation for a lonely, isolated population that desires an increasingly frictionless existence.

The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law. This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.

Just a reminder that Trump had his attorney general preempt the Mueller Report with a self-serving “summary” and the media ran with it and it defined everything that came after. Something to remember as we wait for a probably doctored and scrubbed “Epstein Files” report.

The Spongebob movie? But that came out in 2004.

I'm an Open Borders true believer. I think we should replace the entire DHS with a New American Welcoming Department that hands out Social Security numbers and green cards to new arrivals right at points of entry and helps them find places to live and work.

The presidency of Donald Trump should not only destroy the pernicious mindset that "government should be run like a business" once and for all, it should also expose the reality that *businesses* should not be run the way they are.

My favorite console of all time, edging out the Dreamcast. This stupid purple box and its bizarre library of games have had far too much influence on what I enjoy and value in video games.

Me: "You're not going to take over the Dems. You can't reform the party. We've been through this before." DemSocs: "Yes, we will! We'll run candidates, primary the establishment, and kick them out of office!" AOC: "Nah."

It's been raining for like 3 days now (my ideal weather) and man, seasonal depression is gonna hit me like a freight train when the sun finally decides to show up again.

Realizing I've only played two new games this whole year. That's a step down from my usual three.

One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.

I refuse to believe anyone with a fully functioning adult brain can look at the kind of transparent, childlike opportunism Trump operates on and not understand it for what it is. I refuse to believe his supporters aren't entirely aware of his corruption and aren't just feigning ignorance.

that people use AI technologies in their work and explain that it saves them precious time that they can devote to other more urgent tasks tells me less about the wondrousness of the technologies and more about the overextension and immiseration of workers.

"Peace Through Strength" is the slogan of a schoolyard bully. The US military operates with the "Stop hitting yourself!" mentality.

Republicans breaking from Trump isn't going to tank the administration. They'll defect to the Democrats, where they'll be welcomed with open arms, and simply push that party further to the right as usual, weakening any potential opposition in the long run.

Reflexively defending the powerful in the face of damning allegations and revelations is bad, actually. Your operating assumption should always be that the social, cultural, economic, and political elites are the worst people in the world and don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

other98 Musk sacked 80% of staff when he bought Twitter. Bezos is sacking 14,000 people to replace with AI. Microsoft are cutting 4.1% or jobs (9,100) to replace with AI. Intel are cutting up to 25% or staff to replace with AI. What's that about billionaires creating jobs?

We bought into the "post scarcity" narrative because digital tech feels so magic and ethereal but we need to get back to an understanding of the material costs and effects of those systems. They are not very post-scarce in reality.

Dementia test, question 1: “Why did you just get an MRI?”

Okay but what if instead of this Myles MacKenzie guy, it was just Slippy Toad and you had to keep him alive the entire game?

I think it’s cool when the grocery store asks you to donate to the food bank but also locks its dumpsters. It just makes sense

Honestly, the MacKenzie character's voice acting isn't even that bad in my opinion. Unfunny writing making for unamusing dialogue? Sure. But the vocal performance itself, working with the script they were given? I'll say it's leagues better than what's the normal quality for Nintendo games.

Also, like. We've been here before with games like Wind Waker. A series tries a shift in tone, and everyone disowns it immediately, even though the game could still be fantastic, maybe even partly *because* it decided to break from previous conventions.

My take on the MP4 thing is that mixing up the usual somber, isolated tone could actually make for an interesting, novel direction for the series, but also that Nintendo is really bad at marketing this game and doesn't seem to know what people like about Metroid in the first place.

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN And they are all Trump supporters "Liberal media" indeed

“If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency should end.”

I love this so incredibly much.

It’s so funny how the ONE thing that was actually pretty cool about the Roman Empire - their public works projects like the aqueducts and cloaca maxima- is also something the marble statue crowd has zero interest in, and consistently, vitriolically oppose in the present.

That penny's not so ordinary anymore, is it, Plankton?

The Democrats' election plan, as always, is to point at the Bad Man and say he's bad. But this is the time to talk about how this oligarchic political and economic system allowed this kind of person to take power in the first place, and how it should be changed. No appetite for that

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I don’t know how many times I can read takes about “institutions have to engage with gen AI!!” When what they mean is “fully embrace it with little reflection.” Because apparently “having lots of discussions and pointing out its flaws and problematic areas” doesn’t count as “engaging” with it.

Don't worry everyone. I'm sure the Dems will drum up just enough dissenting votes to make sure this victory doesn't matter either.

Most Americans clearly have no understanding of what grievances they actually fought a revolution over to begin with. Almost everything the Patriots took as a call to arms is accepted as standard business in the US nowadays. What do y'all think they were rebelling *against*? The Cracker Barrel logo?