you there boy, what bullshit is this

"One present on Christmas eve" has turned into mayhem. My children are pelting me with candy canes and shouting "Excess is praxis!" They are quoting Georges Bataille. Please help me

mark cuban, a man who sold his beloved basketball team to richer people with the promise that they would let him be involved in key decisions, then had to watch from afar as they ignored him and dismantled it with an incompetency never before seen in sports, still believes in private enterprise

Welcome new Japanese users. If you have any rare tapes or LaserDiscs you need transferred let me know.

My house has a new familiar. If you are near 39th and Holgate in Portland and missing a delightful black kitty, this guy or gal seems to clearly come from a home and is also desperate for food and shelter

tis the season for Maggie Cheungmas, everyone

my body is a machine that turns disk space into not enough disk space

My new years wish is that the next time I see a "Ghibli Inspired" game, it will be a work entitled BETTER A PIG THAN A FASCIST.

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

hrt won’t turn you into an anime waifu, but it will make you look like your mother. and i’d really like to fuck your mother. so take the fucking hormones.

tis the season for Maggie Cheungmas, everyone

Welcome to the resistance *checks notes* Global TV?

My house has a new familiar. If you are near 39th and Holgate in Portland and missing a delightful black kitty, this guy or gal seems to clearly come from a home and is also desperate for food and shelter

up there with this classic:

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

Of all the bizarre decisions... After years of development hell and Kickstarter drama, SpaceVenture, the new point-and-click adventure by the original Space Quest guys, leaves early access. On Christmas goddamn eve (GMT-wise). In the middle of a Steam sale. With no discount. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy???

ROSEWATER is an adventure game set in an alternate Wild West, currently 20% off on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/... Featuring: - Hand-drawn and animated graphics - Choices that actually affect the story - An IndieCade-nominated voice performance But don't just take my word for it:

Got super glue on my fingertip and now I have WORK to unlock my phone, fucked up

in the Windows port of Wizardry VII -- called Wizardry Gold, and the version you're most likely to find today -- combat is paced by length of sound files, but the .wav files used for sound have over a second of dead air at the start and end, MASSIVELY slowing down this combat-heavy DRPG (cont'd)

I just wrote an article about this and decided not to publish it yet. It is in the DOJ files (file got renamed after originally published and taken down. It’s online now). But too many unknowns about whether the letter itself is real or not. Some additional info though:

Oh a self-important king drew cool plans for a gilded, cannoned-up fantasy ship? Cant wait for it to sail several hundred meters in a mild wind, over a bed of anaerobic silt.

You can pickup three issues of my new ongoing series with @morganbeem.bsky.social, The Author Immortal, right now at your local comic shop or digital. A beautiful watercolor portal fantasy that explores death of the author, identity, and what happens when you outgrow stories that raised you.

jesus christ

You're laughing? Somewhere out there Bari Weiss is crying like a little girl and you're *laughing*?

allow me to tell you about a little band called Cream...

yesssssssss

hijacking this extremely correct post to also add The Zombies into this particular mix

Look, the Beatles were HUGE for me as a kid, and I still love them as much as, if not more than, the next #BeatlesGuy. But I’m BEGGING someone to put this kind of energy into the KINKS, for the love of god

Important news for the Bluesky userbase (37-year-olds who went to the free Prospect Park shows every summer): Wolf Parade has the No. 1 song on Spotify right now because it's in the gay hockey movie.

I agree, Lucy Liu.

good lord this bari weiss shit has mueller she wrote getting linked unironically, the people are RILED

Every 3 years for the rest of our lives

And if they don’t - wow, that’s great for you! You’re going to leave your competition in the dust. “Don’t be stuck in the past,” Or what, Good Samaritan? Why are you so concerned for me? Won’t you benefit if I falter and stumble into the dust bin of history?

I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere. Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

Billionaires who believe that their every impulse is true and wise, and therefore don't do any deep reading, are gonna be the easiest marks for Weiss' brand of superficially-reasonable fascism

On steriods when paired with a nepobaby like David Ellison.

what's neat about this is how much it represents Weiss' entire career: attempting to tilt every story toward the conservative viewpoint as much as humanly possible but framing it as "reasonable" questions and concerns

It is *very* important that you play Paradise Killer, truly one of my all-time favourite games

You're laughing? Somewhere out there Bari Weiss is crying like a little girl and you're *laughing*?

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

A reminder: Bari Weiss signed the Harper's Letter.

the game league of legends has a role called “bottom lane” (or ADC) so they handed out a ✨BOTTOM OF THE YEAR✨ award 😭

Thinking about it, perhaps the funniest thing about Bari is that she's one of the most talented grifters around except for her secret weakness which is that she doesn't realize it's a grift and that she's actually a talented journalist and thinker

I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today

remember when Bari Weiss went national by saying "I'm a liberal woman but even I think MeToo is going too far"