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what, a gif of jake paul getting punched in the face AND a gif of andrew tate getting punched in the face??? for me???? oh gosh, how did you know

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✅ Paid ✅ Remote (if preferred) ✅ You get to hang out in Slack with a bunch of idiot bloggers. What else do you need from an internship? defector.com/would-you-li...

on one hand, i've been writing posts on the internet for money for the past 18 years, which means i am one billion years old. on the other hand, i can remember a series of absurd micro-beefs from the subcultures i cover, and not many people can say that. on the other other hand, almost no one cares

i think i managed to play more games than ever this year (or at least, in a long time) so i was excited to put together a personal goty list but it's actually really hard bc a ton of the games i played were Fine. anyone else feeling like this? like yeah the top 5 is pretty clear...but not the top 10

You can message them and get a thoughtful reply based on their reality instead of what they think you'll like, and they can set boundaries. They can push back on fans acting badly. They can let you down, and you can learn what you value in people and in your life from such moments.

it makes me sad to think about people talking to chatGPT like it's their best friend. why can't they just form parasocial attachments to video essayists and podcasters like i do? this sounds like i'm telling a joke except i actually do think that what i do is healthier lol i have no evidence though

i know i've been doomposting about AI a lot lately but it's because i've been reading a lot about it the past few days and it's really upsetting me so now everybody gets to hear about it because this is my account weeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEE

I had also never read this one! A good short story should have you feeling something at the end of it and boy does this one do that for me.

i saw ray bradbury's short story "the veldt" referred to in a discussion about AI and i had never read it before. it's really good! yes i know the man got brain rot later in life on many social issues but in his writing prime he had some real good ideas. www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader...

i get the sense that ppl who are super into AI think that AI skeptics are only against it for moral reasons, which is part of it (and is also true for me). but another issue i have with it is that it is actually bad at what it is supposed to do, with no way to improve (look up "AI plateau" for info)

just to see what would happen i asked gemini AI to write something in my writing voice (goodness knows there is plenty of it online to check against) and it was absolutely nothing like me at all. idk if this is comforting per se but it was very funny to me

me: (making a video) ok time to have a ton of energy and express emotions visibly. this is gonna be so over the top, it might be corny but that’s fine, people love videos with expressive human emotions in them me: (records video) (watches it) where did this live-action recording of daria come from

it sucks to work on something that's important to you because then if people don't like it, it really hurts your feelings. i solve this by using my superpowers to explode those people with my mind

i wrote about prime 4 and the history of samus not talking, and then talking, and then not talking... and why this situation is the way that it is

mark your calendars for a really nice time on dec. 21st!! we're going to stream some games and raise money for a good cause. it's the holidays, after all <3

i wrote about prime 4 and the history of samus not talking, and then talking, and then not talking... and why this situation is the way that it is

tool and evanescence are retro throwbacks and leon kennedy is 48

group chat going off over "playable old woman"

a funnier bit would have been miss piggy throwing shade at geoff as she is wont to do but instead we went with "geoff fucked miss piggy" sorry i'm actually not over it as a choice for the show

Truly nothing could have captured the vibe of the Game Awards better than reviving Star Wars Knight of the Old Republic seconds before it's heavily implied Geoff Keighley fucked Miss Piggy. You just can't have one without the other and still call it the Game Awards

there's an unexpectedly high "theater kid" energy level at this game awards

tip: i would say it's generally not good if i read a reply you're making to a post of mine and i have to go all the way to your profile to find out if you're a fucking asshole, or if you were just being ironically bigoted as a joke. this is a tough one for a lot of people, seemingly

If you are a comic artist or writer that wants to talk to me, on or off the record, about the Disney OpenAI deal, shoot me a line. [email protected]

mel bryant and the mercy makers' album Every God Forsaken Morning from earlier this year has ended up being one of my favorites of the year melbryantmercymakers.bandcamp.com/album/every-...

how would one go about NOT having imposters syndrome. btw i only want fake easy answers not the real one where i just work on this more with medical professionals.

i loved @jaymcastello.bsky.social's analysis of the original ending of hades 2 (aftermath.site/hades-2-endi...) and now i also love jay's new analysis of the new/patched ending of hades 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMa6...

unfortunately metroid prime 4 is mid. this has been the long-awaited update with my thoughts on this game. you can hear them in far more detail on triple click this coming thursday and i am also going to write a story about it but yeah

reading history is wild because it's like, wow, shit was extremely fucked up the entire time and remains so. wow

it took me until today when "girls on film" was playing in the trader joe's to realize that when @pftompkins.bsky.social sings "two minutes later" on @threedomusa.bsky.social, it's from "girls on film." unless it's not. but it is, right? it has to be? this is what it's like to listen to threedom btw

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changing this setting is my hot tip for having a better time while playing prime 4

we've been watching Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (the 80s cartoon) on my podcast @themutantages.bsky.social where we watch every adaptation of the x-men. it rocks. you can't convince us that bobby drake wasn't always written to be gay. we REFUSE to acknowledge it soundcloud.com/themutantage...

I bet I know some folks who know how much The Game Awards is charging for trailer slots this year! Kotaku would love to know. I can work with you to make sure the information is used responsibly and won't be linked back to you. [email protected] [email protected]

we've been watching Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (the 80s cartoon) on my podcast @themutantages.bsky.social where we watch every adaptation of the x-men. it rocks. you can't convince us that bobby drake wasn't always written to be gay. we REFUSE to acknowledge it soundcloud.com/themutantage...

this is why being a leftist means that you sound like a conspiracy theorist sometimes too, which is also really frustrating and makes me feel unmoored from reality sometimes. there ARE powerful actors working to keep us down. and far too many of them DID hop on epstein's private plane

right. meanwhile, "voter fraud" is not a statistically significant problem. it's like how crime has been decreasing for decades, but politicians can always say "crime" is a problem. and "people who aren't actually poor and/or disabled are stealing social services" is another classic of the genre...

i think this is likely correct, and that "save the children" is just an extremely popular format of smokescreening, so it's what is being used in the case of TERFs as with so many other bigotries with conspiratorial recruitment strategies

has there been any research done on the idea of bigotry operating in people's brains in the same way that a conspiracy theory does? jk rowling's TERF era, as well as mainstream news orgs embracing TERFism, makes me wonder. but also other bigotries are similar in that they don't have factual basis.

just a nice eye makeup day for me so have some rare selfies

If you're trying to ditch NYT Games, which you should be since their games singlehandedly prop up the entire dogshit rag financially, you should switch to Puzzmo. An annual sub is 50% off today for a crazy $19 and as a bonus doesn't enable the genocides of Palestinians and trans people

luckily i have a lot of patience for metroid games that are uneven and inconsistent in terms of samus' characterization and took too long to make and maybe aren't reflective of modern design ideals as a result of that. so i'll probably like prime 4. but i have to keep waiting to find out. sigh

what's the game that you're going to replay endlessly when you're living in an elder care facility? and you'll be insisting to everyone that it's still the greatest game ever?

googling pics of leo in romeo + juliet again and being pissed off that i can never seem to get my hair to look anything like that