Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Mamdani yes / and’ing the party brand. IMO this is the best way to do it though ideally I’d like to see the party formally change its name and logo at some point.

Taco Bell was one of the first companies to sign the "Yes, we WILL only buy tomatoes from farms that stop doing slavery" pledge with Coalition of Immokalee Workers. @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social

I am genuinely losing my fucking mind the ancient greeks thought women were animals you're losing chess to a DEAD dog at this point, Nolan!

What did I tell you guys

Oh fuck here we go. The escalation spiral begins. So fucking evil, so fucking dumb, and so fucking hard to avoid when three kleptokakistocratic criminal shithole regimes are involved.

its very much in the general pattern with trump where he is a fuckup who screws up anything he attempts to do directly but has a huge media apparatus behind him (both conservative and mainstream) to do cleanup duty and bury embarrassments or retcon them into successes

Don’t make the Spartans mad they might dramatically lose a battle and then never shut up about it for the next 2000 years

Groceries Be Shady now

And I think it will be interesting to watch the fallout as retailers are exposed for disparate pricing— it attacks one of the core “faiths” people have about retail, that you’re buying and experience the sale like other people, at least on shelf price.

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If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT

What did I tell you guys

microsoft is in full damage control mode following last week's layoffs. its main strategy so far? namedrop sequels to popular series at every turn. but despite what execs like asha sharma might want you to think, those series were made by people, and now they'll never be the same

The throughline of everything that's happened at ZA/UM since the release of Disco Elysium is the incuriosity and boundless contempt executives have for their own workers, their customers, everyone.

What isn’t said often enough is that Zohran has a convert’s faith in American pluralism, in The New Colossus, in e pluribus unum. He believes in his heart of hearts that anyone can become a New Yorker, and he practices that faith.

A real one on Reddit put together a master list of all the PS3 games that are truly not available on any modern consoles once the store closes. They list prices, if they're on PC/Xbox, and they even list DLC for physical games that'll be permanently gone too. VERY good list to check!

hell of a job, donny

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

"He’s shown that he considers his success to be everyone else’s failure, and so everyone wants him to fail."

The main reasons you dont know hardly any AAA craft-level game makers names is because the machines that make money from those people don’t want to give any visionaries on the team camera time in case they want to fire them to save money. And the smaller game makers hate doing press

Alternative title: the Pentagon decides to show China just how far 90 miles can be in the dumbest way possible

BTW I don't think escapism is a major theme of Deltarune at all. I think that's a pervasive misreading

not feeling terribly good about the number of people on this website who are happy to pitch the consensus of people who study the public health implications of daylight saying time overboard so they can see their emotional support numerals on the clock more often

“merit” means illegal gender discrimination because women in command make pete hegseth’s dick feel soft www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

the tl;dr of Trump roomba theory is that Trump has a selected set of brainworms that his brain prioritizes until he hits a roadblock, at which point his staffers and his brain go off in another direction

evelyn normielib is real and she is coming to a primary near you I cannot count the number of conversations I’ve had with normal offline liberals that would be TOS violations over here

it’s hard to explain how much shit like this has radicalized people. like i’m a white middle-aged broad who’s always been liberal but i’ve gone full-on “abolish ICE/reform scotus/the next dem candidate must commit to mass prosecutions” and you will not sway me from that position.

this really was an all-timer comment

me, imagining the word

One thing that we’ve learned over and over again in the last like 5-10 years is that politicians and leaders are no more resistant to online brain worms than the average person, yet nobody’s really sure what we can do to prevent it. I’ve read troubling things about Putin as well.

One of the things that, as lead writer, I had to bang into the head of senior leadership sometimes was that writers were not interchangeable even within a project. One writer knew a certain companion inside and out. When we lost that writer, a new writer coming in took twice as long to do the work.

I was literally just last week talking to a friend who is miserable at his current job, was offered a great new one, and genuinely did not know if he was going to be able to take it because they use United Healthcare and none of his shit would be covered. thank god his wife's plan can cover him

an issue with how we talk about the games *industry* is that i think we have normalized talking about studios like interchangeable labor pools instead of groups of artists making creative work

It's not a historical accident that almost every country in the New World has birthright citizenship. It's just the only fucking way to manage a country this diverse, restless, and inherently a bit rootless.

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I hate that I'm defending Christopher Nolan who I can't stand for other reasons but too many people are being wrong about this: the ancient Greeks did not think of their gods as being essentially Greek and having a true appearance that looked like Greek humans.

In case anyone missed my little X-Files point and click daydream

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Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

as a games industry Person i have to actively remind myself that there's folks at risk of taking the gun-to-the-head company-line statements of gutted microsoft partners at all seriously. people are simply saying the shit they have to say to survive this atrocity www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/el...

Rest in power, Holden Bloodfeast ✊😔

It’s very funny that all indications are that an adaptation of Homer could be one of the biggest movies of the year with both critics and the box office and this is universally interpreted as a catastrophe for the conservative right because they’re poisoned themselves against culture

Begging people to understand re: Lindsay Graham that the number 1 rule in politics is don't scare the normies and dancing on someone's grave is easily among the top normie scaring behaviors possible.

Really great chat with Steve-O. If you love to get into the nitty gritty of combat design and/or love the last two God of War games, you should definitely give it a watch. Not often that you get to hear a lot of this insight.

Because outlets still don’t take China stuff seriously for the most part, but also because Western readers don’t care as much and game outlets don’t have budgets to fly to China.