larians recruitment process features prominently in this:

larian studios ceo arguing that they don't use AI for concept art; just to create initial moodboards is like... fellas how tf do you need a machine to make a moodboard for u. that's pathetic

playing around during the unbearable nightmare hell stress of finals weeks, just "goofin'," anyway long story short accidentally shot myself w/ lae'zel/gale so now i'm into that . thank you

"valve is within their rights" is the most cowardly possible "I just want to shut down conversation" response imaginable to this whole thing. You can justify literally anything with "they're within their rights". things that are harmful to games, to art, to society, may well be "within rights".

i'm watching the mighty nein cartoon now and going CRAZY and if jester and caleb exist alone together in just a single frame i will have a heart attack and an aneurysm and further smoke 500 cigarettes simultaneously

Yes. Also voters like it when you stand for something. "I don't care if Republicans think we're wrong or if it's not popular, I'm standing up for my neighbors and friends" has benefits beyond the issue itself.

very funny to consider this is just the natural consequence of trump being surrounded 24/7 by the most sauceless dull textbook dorkass losers

girl what in the hell is going on with trump decorating especially for mamdani and granting him allowance to call trump a fascist

New on Tales from the Backlog- @duckvalentine.bsky.social is back to deep dive Heaven's Vault! It's a remarkable feat of storytelling, and learning the in-game language was a blast. As always, no spoilers for a while! LISTEN: talesfromthebacklog.fireside.fm/192 WATCH: youtu.be/dYsfc9wUdZ4

started a gofundme to help raise money for FFS (facial feminisation surgery) im stubborn and dont like asking for help, but as a trans woman in the gamedev space, i dont make a lot of money. i would really appreciate anyone that can donate or share ❤️ gofund.me/59ccb62c0

if i were keith olbermann i would just shut the fuck up in this scenario but then, ah, i'm not. continue with the hole, sir, the digging's going swell

I feel like I’m being non consensually pulled in to other people’s kink universe. Oh you sat on your hands and knees and arranged all her majesty’s shoes? And she still cheated on you with men she found in a peat bog? Should we throw a key party? Should we invite Keith Olbermann

read The Employees by olga ravn and went ehhh but i already had The Wax Child so i read that today and u know that kid who ate a maurice sendak original cuz he loved it so much

alexander skarsgard runs google images now

uspol / where in the fuck was this when she was blowing the whole campaign by condemning protestors and dismissing palestinian-americans

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

truly zero expectations for the new york times but a resounding Wow! @ everyone, everything, etc

it's just me, my iron gummies, my fish oil pills, my paxil, my buspar, my trazodone, my junel FE, and this six pack of butter croissants i bought at kroger against da world

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

uspol / not even sworn in as governor and already letting me down! www.reddit.com/r/Virginia/c...

Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”

Joyce Carol Oates with a HALO dive from an orbitally placed top rope

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

slightly absurd: i'm on the third day of an experiment~ my psychiatrist suggested, taking fish oil and iron pills along with my paxil, buspar, junel, etc. and i hope it isn't a placebo effect because i feel INCREDIBLE. energetic, optimistic, happy.

uspol / EYE feel like charlie brown teeing up to kick the ball lucy's holding, every time with the dems... feel genuine hope and every gd damn time the senate fucking collapses for trump and the gop

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

tim kaine, you will answer in hell

“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument

uspol / also interesting to see what new excuse johnson is going to pull out of his ass to "justify" not swearing in grijalva (az)

uspol / yeah my literal first thought was "ok and what's the guarantee trump & co are going to follow any of this"

it'll be interesting to see if hakeem jeffries is angry enough about the suggested deal in the senate that he actually sticks by his declaration to the media that he won't vote for the deal

The damage from things like hobbling the ACA or the huge destruction of American state capacity will be difficult if not impossible to cleanly reverse unless there is an extremely bold Democratic trifecta in 2028 able to overcome a civil service backfilled with Trump loyalists.

If this is the deal it appears to set up Dems to shut the government down again (potentially repeatedly) after the holidays, with carve outs for Congress, the VA, FDA, and DOA. If this is what they do it will reset the clock and we can try to roll into another shutdown Jan 31.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

i missed playing elden ring so much i loaded back in and killed 5 bosses in a row kjdglkdfg what up radagon u next (after i finish fucking around for the rest of the year)

it's soooooo exciting; the spiders, both species, have diverged from their "base" species outside the caves due to isolation, and they are flourishing in communion with one another on midges that feed on microscopic organisms fueled BY the sulphur

LOOK. you cannot ever truly trust a politician. even the most idealistic politician with the truest heart and the purest intentions will in time be broken down by the realities of the work demanding profound moral compromise. HOWEVER,

the effect elden ring has had on my brain in particular should be studied

Look at it.

apartment complex doesn't allow for hanging things on the walls (because it's student accommodation) so i'm trying to decide if it's worth spending the money on posters i'll have to just tape directly to the walls... but i'm sick of being surrounded by white walls and i do want to hang up elden ring

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

oh my gosh, bad hand books is republishing no gods for drowning by hailey piper! i really loved this book - have the og paperback - and i was astonished to find it was already out of print late last year. huge recommend if you enjoy weird fiction, noir, fucked up pantheons, etc

VIRGINIA BLUE SWEEP, HOUSE OF DELEGATES NOW 63 DEMS TO 37 GOP LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

i'm a lil antsy to get back into elden ring and finish my frenzied flame playthru tho'

not a speck of light also has many dogs in it and i love dogs kind of a lot as u may know.

for all the gleeful plans i made before the semester began none have amounted to much. i'm doing all right in my classes; everything's either a B or an A, although i worry the o-chem test tomorrow will drop me to a C. i'm doing undergrad research, 6-8 hours a week, no credit but yes $

went and did something i haven't done in years & subscribed to a patreon... i've blasted through four of laird barron's short story collections in the last couple weeks, which has taken me from a general fan (i love the isaiah coleridge books) to like. i wish i had more walking around money to give