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where were you when Hatsune Miku was irretrievably lost in space

Everyone could use a reminder that the idea behind our system of government is that we cede some of our power to it in exchange for it working on our behalf. When it stops doing that it becomes illegitimate and must be changed. The idea that the people can "betray" a government organ is perverse

Figure I'll see what's in the news

geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI

there's always a John Waters quote, it seems

Do...do you...r-remember...?

ordering a pup cup for my chikorita in lumiose

On another note, what would Metroid look like if Samus went to the planet where the Chozo were Catholic? lmao I hate to say it but it could be sick as fuck — Metroid Dread was already about Samus wrestling w/ how to separate the identity of her heritage with its material extremism

Ok it is a little bit surprising how many Catholic-core Metroidvanias there are lol Like not just about “cool cathedral aesthetics” but specifically games in this genre themed around faith, idolatry, penance, hierarchic abuse, etc.

I was in the official Sinclair memorial of Charlie Kirk lmao

Winners of this year's Ig Nobel awards: Inspired by the observation that zebras aren't plagued by biting flies, this group that found that painting zebra stripes on cattle reduced attacks by biting flies by 20%. This reduced the no. of fly-repelling behaviors (tail flicks, skin twitches) needed.

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Ok mine is the most successful vision of social media was being post-college-aged on early 2010s Facebook. Def doesnt HAVE to be Fbook. But what it meant was you could reliably make event invites; could reliably learn ppl’s names; could turn a cool stranger u met at some party into a lifelong friend

Here's another part of my semi-autobiographical post on expressionist game design that I like. I found this way of thinking about acting very challenging at first, as an intuitive "work myself up in order to cry" kind of performer. But real craft in art is about developing care and consistency.

there’s no real point to “dems suck” posts anymore once they hit the point of voting for charlie kirk remembrance day. That’s the end of the game and now you start over with new game plus and everything unlocked. It’s 2007 and you’re about to tell politico Hillary Clinton had slaves

I can't sit on this, it's too good. ISO 9000 idgaf 🪶

someone said "adam sandler as sleggar law" in my tiktok comments so Yeah

An update on The Dinner

you: what are we having for dinner game designer: great question. i wrote some pillars to help us align on a good outcome here. you, reading: wait, this pillar is just "food must be edible," that seems pretty vague game designer: ah, that's where the secondary pillars about Edibility come into play

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

it was about a dozen variations on this image

Deltarune is beloved by many, for a variety of reasons. But as much as an immensely popular and talked about game can be undiscussed, I think its RPG systems aren't given enough credit, relatively speaking. In this article, I've written about some of them! medium.com/@lozangenet/...

reviewed Silksong, whose friction is fundamental to its humanism. (may we, twisted by this historical moment into alienated vermin, be like the bugs) www.slantmagazine.com/games/hollow...

It is basically impossible to ship packages into the US right now, which is very cool and normal and not at all an economic and social disaster of unhinged proportions

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

ah, well

I spent five years pointing out how the TikTok stuff was never about privacy and national security, it was always about wealthy U.S. authoritarians wanting to control information flow, and integrate the country's most popular short form video app into their growing propaganda operations

Jungle Pocket canonically has a huge female fan base in the game and I love it. I love her 🌴 🐆

春うらら #ウマ娘 #ハルウララ

We already have 1000+ reasons to hate """artist""" James C Mulligan (see below), but it was extra enraging to see him stealing and taking credit for the work of actual Bambi artist and all-around Disney legend Tyrus Wong, so here's a mini Ted Talk 🧵

rapid shifts in "vibe" are like one of the hallmarks of a capitalist economy that constantly needs new markets to expand to reproduce itself but the shifts become increasingly more extreme and violent and absurd and self-contradictory as technological capacity increases

The honored tradition of KyoAni directors going the extra length to depict the pecularities of amateur art. Doesn't matter if it's Niikura's poor chroma key & cheap assets, the deliberately janky cinematography and acting in Hyouka's student film, or the entire episode #0 of Haruhi. Always good

Multiple VAs have talked about being extra motivated to work with such exhuberant visuals, so shout out to Yui Ishikawa also getting to act out as multiple characters concurrently. Given how other cases have workeed, I assume it was done in a single take as well

CITY has already received over two episodes' worth of extra footage compared to a regular broadcast. In no small part, because they'll do stuff like complement a goofy gag with an ending that involves licensing a song that must have been a pain in the ass. True dedication to dumbassery

Our Moore unit is off and running now that we’ve completed V for Vendetta, a comic I forgot so much about because the film had taken its place in my mind. Much more Moore-y, largely I think for the better. More than that, it’s also so much more direct about what contemporary fascism would look like.

really big fan of this post. goated imo

bro i am so high off that shit that got me sending private msgs like a 1950s schoolboy

ohhhh i thought you guys were saying auron farming. which likes doesn't make sense because you mostly just need yuna to learn holy and you're set

ate a Miku weed gummy at Anamanaguchi @ The Wiltern tonite

oh okay thanks for the email. I definitely forgot I already ordered Metroid Prime 4 six years ago

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

this is seriously fucking good and you should read it in full

i burned a capcut free trial to make this

This is the correct take. We cannot allow payment processors to decide what types of art can be made because they will *never* stop tightening that noose