As a fan, I am excited to see Haunted Chocolatier news! As a games industry person, I am not stoked to see: "He said that he’s now trying to work on Haunted Chocolatier five days a week and spending the other two on Stardew Valley." We gotta rest, man

It’s all free and clear now. No preclearance, no effects test, and no partisan gerrymandering claims. Of course, this could still have other problems, but this is absolutely the kind of bullshit John Roberts and Sam Alito have been making possible.

I am here, begging people to check out what their local library has to offer. Even the most non-comics-friendly libraries often have ties to digital systems like Hoopla or Axis 360 where you can read lots of comics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJoY...

“There are two ways to make life more affordable: one is to put more money into people’s pockets, the other is to reduce their need to pay so much out of their pockets to meet their needs.” My latest. www.christiancourier.ca/i-didnt-ask-...

The Tsar and boyars pillaging the treasury as much as they can before the revolution

Not Pew!

Came home late to the news a majority of major outlets are mostly flat out not reporting: trans people labeled by our government a terrorist group and threatens to kill them all. I should have called these prejudiced fucks out everyday.

please understand. artists don't get nearly as much feedback (praise, comments or otherwise) as you think they do. much less than years and years ago. we don't know how much you like it. we don't know how it affected you. unless you say something, or recommend it, comment, reblog. anything.

Ah, the same OLC that has this in its manual regarding opinion preparation?

Spotted at the M14 bus stop a Lyft add encouraging people to take Lyft mind you that line also parallels the fucking L train for most of its run. IDK an ad on mass transit designed to undermine mass transit seems gross.

If you just unplugged all the AI data centers today, life would go on just fine for everyday people. Better, in fact. The only people who would be hurt are the ones who seek to exploit and profit from it.

care > punishment

If the website says it’s Fintech, it’s not a bank! 👏👏 If the website says it’s Fintech, it’s not a bank!!👏👏 If there’s Fintech on the label, no FDIC will keep it stable. If the website says it’s Fintech, it’s not a bank!!👏👏

There is a big difference between "people who are 'scared' of AI and don't want to learn new things" and "people who have deep moral objections to AI's underpinnings, impacts, and the systems of power behind it." It's wild to me that institutions pushing AI adoption don't seem to understand this.

I’ve seen this so many times. And not all of them can qualify for alimony so yeah…

It’s so good because it’s sooooo accurate. Most folks can’t really wrap their heads around it, but trump thinks of himself as a world-conquering emperor, not a president. He thinks he’s the owner of the United States, instead of its servant. Hence the ballroom (trump temple), the arch, etc etc

It's the exact same playbook that segregationists ran against the NAACP in the 1950s. They sued to get membership lists in Arkansas during Little Rock, hoping to single them out for retribution. Meanwhile, Alabama -- this same state below -- just outlawed the organization entirely.

Animation takes so long to produce you have to invest in 2 seasons to build any momentum for a show. You can't wait & see. Once studios started treating cartoon shows as something you wait to see how season 1 performed first before greenlighting a 2nd season it has devastated the animation industry.

Identity doesn’t give people a free pass but why is it that BlueSky seems to enforce the rules more stringently (or make new ones up entirely) when the transgression is by a trans and/or Black person? Aaron isn’t addressing this and that’s what makes it DARVO, yes.

State sponsored grocery stores.

What if you want to live your life not delegate it

Bioshock Infinite. I'll note I definitely didn't have the language or the philosophy down when I played it the first time, but like... starting off with the baseball incident to go into a explanation that fate sort of exists (and this isn't getting into the DLC) along with everything with Daisy con

once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

7 months to go

Humantities education declined specifically because it was targetted for destruction.

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

Historically speaking you generally have to *win* the war to get the triumph and the arch apnews.com/article/trum...

Any time I see a platform say “we’re getting rid of the depictions of illegal stuff” added on top, I’m like “cool, so you’re banning any projects depicting murders in them too?” Because last I checked… Absolutely insane

This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

I could not agree more with this. What makes a sex scene hot is the character work, not the mechanical bits, and absolutely not buffer track dialogue

as someone who worked on bg3, I fully agree - it's so utterly hypocritical how these platforms treat sex and eroticism - they want to make bank off big releases (and payment processors conveniently look the other way when this happens!) but strangle entire swathes of content from indies

Not to doom about automation and job destruction (I’m not even a doomer!), but leaving my apartment today and seeing the Latina custodial workers who usually clean the hallways have seemingly been replaced with a vacuum/deep cleaning robot *that speaks Spanish* feels… ominous

Every game this studio puts out rules and has something of worth to say. Don't let white expectations of audience shut you out of a good time. If mass media can expect us to find every white young suburban adult story universal and relatable, you can do the same here.

Every time I hear someone ask what writers are supposed to do instead of starting a Substack, all I can think is, my god, literally anything else. Go create something! Start a blog with your friends! Make weird stuff! Let some of it fail/succeed unexpectedly! It's 2026—you've got dozens of options!

There’s truth to this but there’s also the problem of bad landlords that would rather keep the building closed instead of taking a lower rent. Recent example of East Finchley and Black Gull Books. Thriving business, agreed to pay more. Landlord rejected it and has stayed empty the last two years.

but at the end of the day, games should not be able with the goal to make money. games are art, and its still art if it makes $100 vs $10,000,000

A lot of games with strong and interesting protags are never given a chance to succeed because so many people with money truly believe there is no audience. That isn’t sustainable! You have to give games a chance to breathe before you declare if it is or isn’t profitable

People want games with non white characters going through real life experiences but the people with money want Balatro clone 3.0 and other games with repayable game-loops. What the people want vs what people are willing to invest in is not matching up!

Wasps, once a common summer sight, are now in decline yet they remain vital pollinators and we must learn to live alongside them | Vanna Bartlett

Look, my first western was The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, we had DVDs of Philedelphia Story and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and I introduced my class to The Court Jester to the point at least one other family got it for themselves. Just watch older stuff.

"Spicy comics are allowed!" "Sexually explicit comics are NOT allowed!" THEY'RE THE SAME FUCKIN THING LITERALLY

i have so, so many furious things to say about this but just to scream about one: when corporations declare themselves able to decide what art is or not made specifically for getting off, they are absolutely going to use that power to target even the tamest of queer art first.

in an era where many of us are living under a fascism regime that governs through fear, this feels especially dangerous no matter how much fancy vocabulary and justification this behavior is couched in, in the end, it’s the same behavior—community boundaries are enforced through fear.

incredibly weird behavior for this website to allow one member of their team to singularly decide that any/all criticism of them is harassment to the level of a bannable TOS violation it cultivates an environment where no one is able to criticize bluesky and that makes everyone less safe

I’m heartbroken. I care so deeply about adult game devs, other adult media creators & free speech. Just for context, here is some award-winning media that’d be banned on Kickstarter now: -The Witcher -Game of Thrones -Cyberpunk 2077 -Castlevania -Baldur’s Gate 3 -God of War -Dragon Age -Mass Effect

In regards to Kickstarter: start fucking calling and clog up those lines. This fight ain’t over. Cede no ground. Call PayPal and Stripe too. We go down biting the hand.