The saddest part is even if you *try* to talk about games you like and want to uplift, undoubtedly somebody else comes along and wants to say "You like THAT game? Pfft. LAME! This other game in a totally other genre/gameplay is where it's at!" Like its some kind of video game Highlander.

Just give money to open-source developers and projects that you think are important and/or enjoy, if you can. If you can't give money, give them a kind word. That's it.

I just realized that Trump probably thinks hes going to buy Greenland with Venezuelan blood money stashed in Qatar and avoid congress all-together. Didn't think that sentence could ever exist before 2026...

Sometimes people on this site have such stunningly bad takes that there really isn’t any other option than a silent block and username mute and just go back to life one minute earlier where you had no idea they existed at all. 📼

i think this is insane to even talk this way. but I dont think I've seen anyone ask this directly, but when they say "Make it part of the United State, are we talking about *statehood*?" Like two senators in the senate kind of statehood. And everyone in greenland today gets citizenship?

Post the first game you actually completed! The Black Cauldron on the IBM PCjr. My family had a couple of other games on the IBM PCjr, and my "cool" uncle gave us some pirated games like J-Bird, but the first game I ever *actually* finished? The "good" ending of The Black Cauldron.

This guy is basically if you played Bioshock and got to the end and thought: "You know, Andrew Ryan had really only *one* flaw, he wasn't nearly racist enough."

Confession Time: I have no idea of Will Stancil is, at this point I'm too afraid to ask, and really don't want to know. I wonder how long I can keep it up.

I remember going to SciTrek in Atlanta in the late-80s/early-90s, they had a giant flash-screen installation tunnel, with a strobe light set up on a regular timer. Kids and adults would make shadow figures and time jumps for floating shadows. The 90s were a wild time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciTrek

I know this is "a joke", but we did lose something when we divested from physical media—not only "streaming" but digital media in general—I can't remember the last time I gave someone a USB drive with a movie/album on it. But I have distinct memories of letting people borrow a VHS, CD or a cassette.

community college here, the best/biggest one in the u.s. iirc, weirdly seems to cost about the same as it did in 2001, adjusting for inflation books cost more, but are more available in cheaper digital form than before- dang. i might complete an associates this decade. how stupid would that be

The right-wing fascist dog-whistle of "milk"—being indicative of the "master race"—is so weirdly off the rails. These are the same bros who believe God is infallible and evolution is a joke, and we should eat like cavemen. And yet, here is this mutation that originated in Turkey like 8,000 years ago

Another Maxell Massacre. A good reminder of why we GET THE BATTERIES OUT. #retrocomputing

Well, are YOU going to wear hiking boots with your tuxedo when you go to Lady So-and-so's dinner party? Unless you're Steve Dorian, I don't think so. ;)

An example of the sartorial standards prevailing in an age where "dressing for dinner" was still common among the elite: I distinctly remember the mnemonic "Never wear brown in town". That is, within London (the only Town of importance, as then thought) only black shoes or belts were acceptable!

Defense contractors weighing losing revenue from every EU nation for defense sales ever again against the profit of all-out-war with the EU.

Personally, I don't vote for politicians who are anti-trans because they are anti-trans

[Miserable, unlikable middle aged white guy in Breaking Bad]: Haha fuck yeah! Oh, wow, so edgy, so representative, so amazing. Yes!! [Miserable, unlikable middle aged lesbian in Pluribus]: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

I think I speak for all sane Americans when i say... "what the fuck, man..."

That feeling when you invent the 40k Mechanicum from first-principles.

I fear my "Old Man Yells at Cloud" mood over the next few decades is going to be "I really do not want to befriend the machines in my life, thanks"

Yeah I’m doing important indie games preservation today (My MobyGames credits submission for the 1994 Myst parody Mylk got approved)

I honestly cannot tell if this is GenAi or an actual photo. It would actually make *more* sense to me if it *was* GenAI, because a) that steak don't look good, and b) what kind of psychopath cuts into the thing—cake or steak—with the candles still lit and melting into the thing?!

50% off THE APPLE II AGE audio book until Feb 20! nothing your beloved wants more for Valentine's Day than the opportunity to split headphones and listen about the origins of the microcomputing industry

The reason I asked was cause this is a key plot-point in Christie's Murder of Roger Ackroyd, where Ralph Ackroyd brings *three* sets of footwear along on an emergency visit to King's Abbot. I've always felt thats a *lot* of shoes, and a part of what I miss about the LLMification of current internet.

There’s a guy on Facebook who hates the queer romance in Old Skies so much that he’s hopping on every recent thread related to the game to rant about it. Lesson learned. More queer stuff.

I'm going to use this as a way to force myself to use my tablet more. I will state a random OC fact AND I will also draw that OC!! Because I don't draw enough!!!

bella's emotional support stuffie

I was half asleep when I read this, and with all the Trek talk going on around here lately I read this as “Worf” and was *really* confused for a minute or two.

Random question: when you go on a trip or vacation how many pairs of shoes/boots/footwear do you generally bring?

Two week ago: Look, man, like international law isn’t even like a *thing*, man, like whatever, it’s like not even real, dude This week: Look, international law for the past 500 years clearly states, if you don’t officially *call* “dibbs” when you show up, then we can call “backsies” anytime!

Like Pavlov’s Dog, I’m beginning to associate “It’s not ____, it’s ____. let me explain…”-framing with a blind, incandescent rage. Doesn’t matter if it’s in prose or in a short or on a live stream. Its mere existence will instantaneously short circuit my brain and I want to be anywhere else.

I made pizza. #foodsky

Who knew that telling people to put wear a mask, stay away from other people when you're sick so they also don't get sick and possibly die was such a radical cultural revolution!

now im regretting going with that image for the featured image, when this one is also extremely powerful

Apologies to the late Dick Cheney. I was wrong. There are people more evil than you.

My blog post about how software rendered depth based occlusion culling in Block Game functions is out now! enikofox.com/posts/softwa... #GameDev #ProcGen 🎮

On the one hand, its easy to dismiss the whole "upload a photo of everyone in the group" being a silly take on "I'm too lazy to count" On the other, I thought we just figured out first-gen audio assistants, like Alexa, were listening to us way more than they let on, and using that data unethically

A lot of male nerds have this weird movie-fed entitlement to not just have a woman but the hottest cheerleader on campus. Meanwhile they scoff at girl nerds with total contempt.

Excuse... what? I've known a lot of of ex-LDS over the years—being an ex of another less well-known fundamentalist that was in the news a while back—and hearing their stories missionary work, conditions, and what the Church's position… …actually—more I think about it—kinda on brand for MrBeast.

This doesn't surprise me... At all. If you've watched anything that Filoni has worked on, it should be pretty *obvious* that he would have that kind of take, tbh. And I can see where he's coming from—to quote Kenobi—from a certain point of view.

I totally agree, however, I will say, anybody who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian household/church is well acquainted with "Rules for thee, but not for me" hypocritical core that powers almost all of these worldviews.

Maybe I’m just not in the right circles, but I’m kinda amazed how little I heard certain people complaining about Pluribus, Murderbot or even Fallout being woke. A new Star Trek drops and weirdos come crawling out of the woodwork.

I’m not sure I’m going to make it this long but the movies/tv-shows that end up getting made in the future are going be wild. I’m imagining an AI generated Stranger Things-like slopshow in 2060 set back in “simpler, less hectic times”… Minnesota, 2026…

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.

I can almost guarantee that Trump is the kind of guy, even at 80, that thinks “whole milk” is like an extra 98% milk than 2% milk. 🥛 Even that might be too much actual math from him based on the way he talks about drug prices.

Tomorrow for my fourth Twitch streamiversary I’m playing Space Quest 4! This will include a brief rant about cursor design but overall it should be fun for everyone. Starts 6PM EST. For last year’s streamiversary I played Space Quest 2 for Macintosh II, now on YouTube: robotspacer.tv/archive/spac...

“No papers?” “No papers.” 1776–2026.