Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

It’s so funny that the era when video games died was when they tried to be prestige movies and tv and now in a time when all mass culture has died they’re making tv shows of the shit cinema videogames. They should make a god of war the show the game

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

Try a couple decades of shitty emails ranging from simple insults all the way up to death threats from idiot fanboys who can't handle you giving a game "only" 8/10 and see which one puts more calluses on your soul, dummy. You'd fold in six months or less.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

KENNY ROGERS: hey you got any gambling advice THE GAMBLER: basically if you're gonna gamble it helps to be good at gambling. Also none of it matters for the greatest mercy life offers is parting from it in the peace of slumber KENNY ROGERS: thank you the gambler that's real inspiring

Fuck there are so many contenders But come on

“Maybe I’ll just die, how bout that” makes me think he’s further along in the book’s creative process than anyone realizes

In multiple group chats poring over the single available paragraph about Highguard gameplay like it's the Voynich manuscript.

Invoking "wine mom gangs" is what made Stephen King the biggest fictional author in modern history. Some forces aren't to be triffled with.

holding my breath for every chicago bears fan i hold in my heart right now

Despite Liverpool's form of late, I always have United for a laugh

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

The Lord of the Year begins! Read along with us in 2026 while we go through these books at a leisurely pace!

2026

Billionaires are bad people because if i was one I wouldn't be and would spend most of my extra income on master and commander sequels

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

It's that time of the year again

PKAY THIS GAME ITS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE YESR AND THE WRITING IS STELLLLLAR

thinking a lot about the douglas macarthur cosplayer on xiaohongshu who dances while giving you helpful life advice

Never forget that Neo canonically won at #TheGameAwards and immediately tried to jump off a roof.

The most compelling argument for this is that Sam was once a baby raised without ChatGPT, and look how he turned out.

[something billions of people have accomplished, including the ignorant and illiterate] "finally, i can ask software how to do this"

Here's my top ten list of videogames I've played this year: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/a...

Liverpool are speed running how to destroy a club

RIP a legend.

56 years ago today, the CPD / FBI assassinated Fred Hampton. Hampton brought together the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (white Chicagoans with southern roots, based in Uptown, who flew the Confederate flag), and Young Lords (Puerto Ricans). The FBI saw (and sees) multi-racial unity as a threat.

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.” Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

For those who observe

While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH

I’m pretty sure doing sets of more than five squats is a violation of the Geneva Convention

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

do yourself a favor and dont even hate-watch that shit this year, man. go see a movie. edgar wright's new thing is in theatres. demonschool is out in 2 days, birdcage is out tomorrow. play something from your backlog. tron 2.0 is $10 on gog. catch up on some tv. do groceries. whatever.

It really needs to be pointed out how every one of these embarrassing statements is made by a c-suite executive and not an artist or even art department lead

I’ve heard that 4 in 10 cops are planning to leave the force. Google “40% of cops” for more info.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

just made a cover that i recorded two years ago public on my youtube 🥰 youtu.be/CAnKzSmVzaI

Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet