i love all civ research flavor text, but especially this one

The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.

Turns out this was all much ado about nothing and Google isn’t using your Gmail to train AI and if wanna turn all that stuff back on you can get your spam filters back

You're too cool, Lucina

DOGE shitheads went barging into the government looking for fraud, waste, and abuse, and found jack shit because the fucking morons ignored contracting (the thing they wanted to get in on) and actually every fucking penny is accounted for by normies who don't want to waste taxpayer money.

Hey, immersive, larp, ARG, theater and game folks: I'm working on Immersipedia and I'm linking out to other design/knowledge wikis like the Puzzle Hunt wiki, Nordic Larp wiki and Game Detectives, plus the whole WikiBruce archive. Are there any others I should be including?

"you have not played the game unless you've played the game" is one of my more annoying but unshakable opinions

Reality to me: for your stories you should design economies that make sense Me to reality: you first

somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day

Catseye's iris design is inspired by the rivetted circles found around a camera lens with the centre of her pupil being the camera aperture! It was very Adachi Rei inspired.

• Trans Man class stealth effectiveness reduced by 20%. Now visible to allies when stealthed. Dev Note: TM are not intended to be invisible to allied players, & the degree to which they couldn't be seen by enemy mobs has proved to be problematic both for them and for other classes. (Ctd...)

Gay Agenda Patch 2.0.26 Balance Adjustments: • Trans Woman class aggro multiplier and arra of effect both decreased by 15%. Dev note: While TWs are intended as a tanking class, their passive AOE threat aura was pulling enemy packs inappropriately. (Ctd...)

Gay Agenda 2026 Patch Notes: • Fixed bug where trans women were automatically flagged as available for all users • Fixed "queer solidarity" bug • Fixed a girl • Added 4 new genders, including the much-requested Girl 2 • Added sexuality shooting range to test out new sexualities • 2 New Classes!

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

remember 'only Andrew Cuomo can handle Trump'

imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy

I closed social media for like three hours and the Pope threw a rave, MTG resigned, and Trump endorsed Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did? Now accepting bribes to close social media for all of next week

this prompted me to put on the postal service record which, surprise, still rules

YOU WANT TO BE ONLINE? ENDURE.

I love paywalls now.

the moon is still shining.

it is morally unacceptable to retain a wapo subscription right now.

Anxiety Wolf

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You heard it here thirst folks

I think it’s bad that ai allows people to pretend to live in completely separate realities so they don’t have to process news and events that make them uncomfortable. I think that is bad for the health of society!

atomic scientists moving the “a real guy gets Christmas Caroled” clock two minutes closer to midnight

Night like tonight you really start to think about how much fun it's gonna be when it happens.

it's pretty funny when there's a call for pitches like "has an unspeakable horror happened to you? Bink Dinkin is commissioning stories for $50 (flat fee.) $60 if you died"

it is remarkable how GOP was able to offset their entire fundraising apparatus collapsing in 2024 because of like six rich people

My favorite piece of content today.

Mamdani getting Trump to back down & even *compliment* him costs Mamdani absolutely nothing (& indeed actually shows his skills) & probably also saves a lot of vulnerable ppl in this city a trememndous amount of pain if it means Trump is less inclined to act shitty towards us bc of this meeting

It's so rare to see the old world dying and the new world struggling to be born in the same room together

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action. Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions. You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice. The working class has much more power than they think.

Oh my god that is the worst possible answer

GamerGate never ended. It just went mainstream.

Means testing is stupid and expensive and we simply shouldn’t do it. Feed people. House them. Provide them healthcare. Do it like you mean it.

So in Arc Raiders there is a door glitch. You don't need to know what it is, just that the gamers are brainstorming all the "easy" ways to "fix" the doors and it's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. My two favorite solutions are "add a kill volume" and "put a second door behind the door".

Get their ass Miyamoto An over-emphasis on seeing all game design through a carrot-on-a-stick lens drives me nuts. One of my least favorite trends in game design spaces, for decades. It's paternalistic and dismissive, not to mention flat-out incorrect. Luckily it seems much less common nowadays

Excuse to post a classic?

fyi I don't want to see anyone who isn't materially affected by transphobia engaging in the catharsis of suffering that is TDoR without materially supporting trans people. instead of doing a weepy "we support you" post, send $50 to a gofundme or something.