@edzitron.com did you catch this whole the ballroom might be a data center thing? it seems up your alley youtu.be/VbJ4ilDvGyc?...

Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources

in a just world we get inside job season 2 after this

Not fair that as someone who was both too whimsical to be on the chans and too young to ever go on something awful that i have to deal with All This

Caught up with the news. As a writer, I'm once again dismayed that real life is sicker, nastier, and dumber than any fictional cyberpunk dystopia

channeling all posting™️about current events into game dialogue like god intended

We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

imagine having a media not run by malicious incompetent sycophants 💀

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing? ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW. I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

"a game is a dream you have with your computer"

Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil

This is an excellent piece

Call it what it is. Door to door concentration camp round ups. You know when the full record comes to light there *will* be horrifying degrees of intentional genocide of non-whites in ICE facilities due if nothing else to over crowding. It is happening.

i like how abolishing ICE is seen by dems as extreme. like, a world without murderous cops is such a fanciful concept.

the people of MN have been murdered, brutalized and kidnapped for weeks now and have remained *amazingly* peaceful in the face of it. lecturing citizens to not “take the bait” etc is pretty disrespectful after a point and avoids the real question: how long are they supposed to take this, undefended?

east coast wheast coast

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

i can't stop thinking about how the US's stance is that the US can prosecute foreign Presidents for crimes allegedly committed in the US, but that the ICC and UN cannot do so, and also that the US cannot prosecute *its own President* for crimes committed in the US

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine. No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment. Impeach. Convict. Remove.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

We have to impeach him.

dog-can't-play-basketball ass government

they’re going to want to kill him for this but he’s so right, individualism as an ideology needs to end

Happy New Year. We’re going to win.

happy new year fellas ✌️

America, how long? How long are we going to tolerate an insane leader, a compromised Congress and a corrupt Supreme Court? How long?

the true spirit of Christmas is staying up all night playing a new game you're obsessed with

finally finished clair obscur, holy shit this game is cracked

“What radicalized you?” Being alive in the world with eyes?

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

Q: Well how would that even work? Have you thought of every single mechanic and eventuality of this scheme? Do you realize how hard it would be to accomplish? A: oh then I guess we shouldn’t try. sorry

Q: you’re really supporting another GOVERNMENT REGULATION? A: uh huh

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

have we considered doing a ladies' choice awards for videogames yet

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

ok big broad question what does effective leadership & direction look like in games? I picked up @amandalitman.bsky.social's When We're in Charge over the summer, along with Crucial Conversations, which were both quite good, but I'm curious what other folks like/dislike in that space

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

you should be able to use your amiibos at the grocery store to give food different attributes and items. big food. food that's harder to launch. food has a big hammer for a bit. invincible food (can't eat). food is just a bomb. stuff like that. sourdough loaf hits you with a bat. this could be huge

Ok quick thread on Game Mechanic Museum-like resources 1. Geoffrey Engelstein & Isaac Shalev's Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, genuinely changed my brain chemistry www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...

it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this

sometimes i think it would be very funny if there were nazi bait in games, but engaging with it corrupted your save, shut down the game, and uninstalled it from your computer