happy thursday

ok I read the interview in full and notably he does not say that *no* minions worked for Hitler, just that the ones viewers have met so far did not. there is the opportunity to shut this down more explicitly and he does not take it. this is actually the funniest possible way to answer the question

Shin Godzilla (2016)

I think a big part of the Dicastery repeatedly hammering on the name Lefebvre here and framing the whole order as "the Lefebvrists" is to remind people for whom that's a familiar name (esp in Europe) that they are in fact not nearly so innocuous as "The Society of St. Pius X" makes them sound

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

I've been rewarded for going to the mall during lunch

this doesn't even have the full context which makes it funnier

even as a die-hard physical media guy, this is really how it should be some folks don't have the space for physical media but still want a large collection, and digital allows that (digital should also be across-the-board cheaper in addition to protecting your purchases)

safety first!

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

Microsoft this week: We're laying off half the industry. Sony: We're ending physical games. Nintendo: have u seen this splatoon weapon we call it the bloblobber

“None of the seven technology companies interviewed by the Guardian said they sought consent directly from workers, instead some stated that permissions were obtained through factory management.”

Includes comments from myself:

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

To my understanding, this is an accurate summation of the state of schism:

here we gooooooooooooooooooooooooo

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

CGE is making a Kingdom Come: Deliverance board game. Kingdom Come: Deliverance was created by this guy. kotaku.com/my-e3-meetin...

Nearly every mobile game I’ve ever worked on is gone, “sunsetted” rather than made playable on current OSes. Their titles mean nothing to recruiters and hiring managers, let alone players. Even if players remember them fondly, they couldn’t play them anymore if they wanted to.

Anyway, the larger conversation to be had here is around digital rights and what a license should enable. This needs to be a larger consumer rights issue going forward to push for new rules that allow for clear rules around refunds and end of life access etc.

Prior to the launch of the PS4, less than 10% of PlayStation full game sales were digital. In the last quarter, 85% of full game sales were digital. This move guarantees the PS6 will ship without a disc drive and Sony is embracing an all digital future. (I'm surprised Xbox wasn't first)

Saying we should all go back to physical media I think misses the point. I actually *like* buying games and movies digitally for a bunch of reasons. What we need is better consumer protections so the things we do buy digitally are actually owned and companies cant delete/revoke access!

I posted my History of Games keynote: - A materialist reexamination of the canonical game crises from a developer's POV - Thoughts on the ongoing game industry restructuring - Indiepocalypse, AAApocalypse, deprofessionalization, games at the knitting stage www.molleindustria.org/HistoryOfGam...

"We're ending physical disc production, but don't worry — we're ALSO shutting down our digital stores!" blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/a...

Bookmarking articles to read instead of reading articles

Look what arrived!

Hellur KL/PJ friends, my friend made a docu on Bajau Laut youths in Sabah and I still have some free tickets for this weekend at MV/1U pls hit me up by today if you want to see it (subbed in BM and English) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZWU...

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

Be somebody. Else.™ Play as yourself or your outrageous Sims persona, and meet other people doing the same. Will you be: a recluse or raver? Prince or pauper? Casanova or clown? That’s up to you. — The Sims Online print advertisement, 2002.

you can play it in standard english or broken/malaysian english

this is slander i did not say that i gestured angrily to his talk show

i guess you need to be tall, white, and AAA to be considered in the “first real mom game” discourse 🤠

A few weeks ago I sat bolt upright in bed with this image in my mind as if imparted upon me by the coelacanth deity themself. Happy pride! Available as a sticker in my shop!

HELLO!! My summer YCH comms are open on vgen! Come get some cute blorbs buried.... vgen.co/4threset/ser...

Actor and singer Akihiro Miwa, known for his roles in Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle, has died at 91.

Khazrak just walked up to my pillow when I was in bed on my phone and very politely tapped me on the shoulder to tell me her bowl was empty what a good cat

To be clear I DON'T want to buy the plushy toy panzerfaust from the tank museum but I DO want to know if there's a funny story about why the tank museum has now stopped selling it

Mr Meow Meow here sitting in the sunlight getting a rainbow surprise when my kids got out the prism.

Oh hell yeah thanks Ontario Federation of Labour

if you don't know, you should know that Edward Steed did a treatment of one of the most iconic Magic cards of all time in the style of a New Yorker comic a few years ago

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

get out of there #KhazrakOneEye

It is so the great british war off lmao and the historical segments are also so interesting

god what an unforced disaster to take the team that built and maintained Destiny 2 and just smash it into the rocks instead of investing in whatever that big pile of talent and skill can build next

can't believe that I, a buddhist/taoist, am joining the catholic holy crusade against AI 🫡

It is embarrassing and borderline insulting that a new 38km metro line for the city is instead reduced to a banner that doesn’t even show an opening date or evokes any form of excitement or jubilation other than being a list of stations already visible on the official maps

I forgot to mention they are also at their highest discount: 70% off for Citizen Sleeper 50% off for Citizen Sleeper 2 Enjoy!

me: hello uni library can I get a full ebook pdf bc I only have online access and it is a pain to refer to library: