I would argue that even the flat and cynical crap made by a human being is categorically of the same class as the Good Stuff, and as categorically different from a generative-AI output

My toxic trait is that I think Standard Time (where your time zone’s noon is solar noon) is Good. Basically changing the time zone because all our jobs fetishize getting there on some number is ridiculous. We couldn’t just let people show up at real 9am, we need to change the zone an hour!

Trump can only understand the world transactionally — literally everything he sees and does is reduced to it — and his heuristic is that if he is not being paid, he is the loser of the transaction

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

When It Happens, if any Democratic politician utters a single word for him other than pure contempt and scorn, I will be waging a holy war against that person for the rest of my natural life

I always laugh when idiots here claim America has some kind of special great warrior culture. Read history. We ain't unique when it comes to skill at arms. What we are best at is entertainment. Rap and rock will outlast the U.S. Army in human memory.

OH MY GOD its $6 this game is so freakin cute and funny its just such a good time, pick it up and be merry

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

"If we do unambiguously good, necessary things that could inspire resentment in assholes" sounds to me like a bonus, not a reason against doing it

I'm no expert, but between local 58, candle cove, broodhollow, etc., it sure seems like kris straub was a key tributary to the cultural river that produced the current moments being had by analog horror, creepypasta horror, and lovecraftian comedy. Maybe try hiring/funding him directly?

Had McDonalds twice today and after the second time the lady at the window called me bourgeoisie scum

00 still human my new album coming soon x

oh, soulsov is 20% off. let's go crazy together gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

I really like queer narratives told subtextually and I respect that creative impulse. Simultaneously I hold the belief that the world needs more queer stories of queer characters queering queerly on screen without using cute language to skirt the topic. I think both things can and should coexist.

i'm happy for all knicks fans, of course, but this win means a little more to those of us who jumped on the bandwagon over the last four years. unlike the lifelong fans who root for any knicks team they put out there, we chose this team specifically. these are our guys. this is our championship

We all love our national abusive parent, don't we?

/2 Anyway I guess it’s a good thing streaming and YouTubing are things because these gamer dudes strike me as permanently unemployable

watching the summer games fest i saw the adult woman with a toddler's face & was like ah, stellar blade sequel. iconic series imagery. it's like mario's hat

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

Marjane Satrapi passing at 56 is so sad. My daughter will be devastated, Persepolis means so much to her.

Not for nothing but freedom of navigation has been a core US foreign policy objective for 200+ years and preserving the Arabian Gulf from domination has been one for just a hair under 50. When I say things like “calamity” or “inexcusable defeat”, I am not being partisan or exaggerating.

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

A game doesn't need to be 'by and for fans' aftermath.site/life-is-strang...

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

Hello I am the president of a country whose economy depends on consumer spending. My two major initiatives so far have been a sales tax on everything and then a war that sent all prices skyrocketing

some ppl just cannot wrap their heads around the idea that u can just change ur name. u can just do it. it doesn't even have to be legally recognized u can just choose a new one. u don't even need to be trans. its allowed

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

A related piece of advice that I stand by is "fiction isn't real," ie: there's no such thing as a 100% internally consistent fictional universe, nor should there be. If you want to make something that feels real, you make it *feel* real. The world isn't in your notes, it's in the mind of the reader.

New yap blog on Patreon (patreon.com/killsixbilli...) about punching a dragon but I want to highlight this section in particular.

Fourth Edition Dungeons and Dragons was the best Dungeons and Dragons Edition.👇

trans people deserve to live, freely and openly and safely and unconditionally

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

I have a new life goal if I become rich

I tried the Pilk at Dunkin Doughnuts and had a slight crisis when I realized that it tastes just like every other thing at Dunkin Doughnuts - because it's just milk and corn syrup. Like every other beverage available at the establishment.

my big takeaway as always is there seems to be pernicious online culture and understanding that media has to be made for you and specifically you and if its not its bad somehow, and not only that but if you don't like something you have to be loud and insufferable about it lol

Dicey Dungeons is $3.74 right now, and that is crazy. Impeccable design, music, and art. store.steampowered.com/app/861540/D...

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

i believe that harnessing solar energy is immoral. that energy does not belong to us, it belongs to the sun, and it's going to come back to get it when it consumes the earth in several billion years. don't take what isn't yours. you don't need lights at night if you just remember where everything is

MAY THE FOURTH BE PAT YOU! lol we're putting Later Alligator on sale today the 4th for FOUR dollars! $4.13 US, $4AUD, $4CAD, 4 euros! FOUR! Buy it for 4 friends. Use your last 4 smackers for a fleeting moment of alligator passion. Play it four times. Send me four angry emails. Later Alligator!!!!

it's so fucked up that 'roguelike' now means you get three random upgrades at the end of a level instead of "occasionally the game will generate a gnome with a wand of death and obliterate you (in the event that you havent already died accidentally falling down a set of stairs while overencumbered)"

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

Eliza McLamb had an apt analogy abt modern fandoms: Fans no longer treat creators as creators. Fans treat creators like stock options they’ve invested in; like they’re part owners of a creator’s work just by *being fans*, and therefore get a say in what creators make/how they act. And it sucks.

what if we made the whole country out of ballroom

"surveillance is good if you don't like the people that are being surveilled" is a deeply unhealthy mindset even if you have a good reason not to like them

Had to do AI training which basically concluded with "you can use this for everything EXCEPT where it could impact health/safety/quality/compliance/etc or where you need the information to actually be correct." Cool so I can use it to make a slide deck about how I spent my summer?

Kid me: There is good and evil. Teen me: There's no good or evil everything is shades of gray. Adult me: There is evil and it's revolting.