Since apparently it now needs to be said: @bearwaves.com do not use GenAI tools at any stage of development: from ideation, to production, to release, it's all real, organic, ursine contributions.

It goes without saying that I think everyone, morally, should boycott R*, probably permanently But I'd go further to say that if you are in any way a part of the game dev community and you buy GTA6 you are honestly a fucking fool

The true tragedy of a cashless society is not being able to watch your charitable donation slide around a spiral bowl

Jon Bernthal played the Punisher once so now he wants every podcast host to think he's the most badass guy ever who totally gets into loads of fights in real life

Capitalism is a predictable system. If I buy a box of eggs that says L on the box, they'll all be large eggs. If it says mixed M/L, they'll all be medium. If it says S/M/L, they'll all be small.

Totally hooked on @blakemanorgame.bsky.social after my first couple of hours with the game. The way all the bits of evidence add up and intertwine, with the gentle pressure of the clock making you consider every action, makes for a really tense experience

Well we were going to announce it anyway so

If you use the words "Fatwa", "Sharia", or other "Muslim words" with the intention of creating a fear response, you are doing racism. These words are not, and should not, be used as symbols of extremism.

Portal-likes are a real genre, but the best of them define their own themes and stories. I've played a lot of these, and I often have a great time with their puzzles and mechanics. I do always do a cringe when they imitate the Aperture science announcer or intro yet another bootleg GLaDOS though

I played Radiolight and honestly the writing and story make such a hamfisted turn into shallow and poorly thought out that it's clear that every reviewer who compared it to Firewatch did not understand Firewatch beyond "walkie talkies in a national park"

Spaghetti squash doesn't taste like spaghetti at all

Also, these libertarians were such jerks as well, this was a meeting in our local area for our community to ask questions to a few candidates, and we discovered 20 minutes in that they had brought 3 people as backup to try and dominate the conversation

I've never met a waterproof plaster that didn't instantly slide off my finger the moment I washed my hands

Had the chance to call out a local politician on their Islamophobic dogwhistling and rhetoric today and I made them very uncomfortable and I'm in a great mood now

I'm sorry to say this but tennis balls are green, not yellow

Hate when people use the word firebrand for Wilders. Makes him sound like some cool, edgy dude. Call him by his proper title: dickhead

I am NOT voting for Mamdani, and nothing you say to me can change my mind, because I do not live in new york and so I am ineligible to vote in their mayoral elections

Autumn is pretty good you know Earns the hype

If a politician puts up their "vote for me" boards, and doesn't bother to take them down again within a couple of days after the vote, that's a metaphor for how they will approach their campaign promises. Their interns slap them up in a matter of hours, there's no excuse to see them weeks after

Why do all the new Microsoft Office icons have massive foreheads

I didn't know who this Leslie fella was before he completely lost his mind saying the whole world was out to sabotage his lukewarm game concept, but I sure will remember him for that alone

You are not eating enough fibre

Ice in water is bad, because - it makes it too cold - it tries to jump into your mouth when you drink - room temperature is perfect, why are we interfering with that?

Games would be better if they didn't have achievements I'd rather hear socially about a cool thing you managed to do in a game rather than chasing some arbitrary list the dev came up with under protest It takes the joy away to turn everything into a checklist of stuff to complete

I always get so pissed off reading Murakami because he settles you in, the mood is great, vibes immaculate, then he drops some of the creepiest, shallow, over-sexualised trash you've ever read and ruins the whole thing

Right so can we just acknowledge that white pepper tastes and smells like fertiliser and is NOT a substitute for black pepper. Always makes me gag

Filling your room with HP merch and telling people you're a ravenclaw officially became creepy 1 year after you left secondary school which statistically, was at least a decade ago now

Imagine cancelling a game because you decided to take seriously the racists who were mad about a black character being in AC Shadows

Hey guys, did you know that more than 9% of voting-age residents of Denmark are disenfranchised? In Copenhagen, closer to 20%. That's because they are not Danish citizens. Some of them can vote in local elections: only if they are EU citizens, or have had permanent residence for more than 4 years.

While it is absolutely valid to criticise the recipients of nepotism, I think it's vital that we make a conscious effort to demonise their benefactors as well: systematically consolidating power without a thought towards competence

When people spend time on social media smugly and deliberately making strangers angry for no real reason other than to be pedantic, do they realise that they're destroying all of their own credibility or?

At this point we've definitely crossed the Streisand threshold, where the Streisand Effect is more well-known as a concept than either Barbara herself, or the thing she did to cause the term to be coined in the first place

If you don't have an emotional reaction to this image then I don't know if we can be friends

It’s the spooky season again, so we’ve put the Halloween skins back in the Feud piece store! Get em while they’re, uh, spooky

Every time I see a video of those "sandwiches" where they wrap a slice of bread up with some ham and cabbage on the *inside* of an omelette, I'm left wondering who on earth would willingly pick that up in their hands. Greasy egg is not an appetising feeling on the fingers

Hollow Knight: Silksong 100% / 5 ⭐ Silksong rewards patience, practice, and diligence, and is ruthless in its punishment of hubris. You are given the chance to truly earn victory, with a visceral challenge that has been diligently balanced just barely within your reach. ggapp.io/null/reviews...

There is no method of preparing potatoes whose results wouldn't be improved by removing the skins

Yeah, social media is a great way to make yourself feel moody and generally anxious, but have you tried procrastinating something you really should have started weeks ago, drinking too much caffeine, and being paralysed in the face of having to act on it?

So if you pour your tea into a cup from really high it kinda foams up and that's the kind of whimsy you need now and again

Definitely in a phase where I'm exploring vegetarian food a lot more, but not really in principle - it's just kinda fun to make the most of good produce, with the upside that it tends to be rather healthy as well

Constantly struggling these days to find joy in new developments when feelings of "This new technology is awesome!" are so rapidly discovered to actually mean "Marketing departments belong in the lowest levels of hell"

Probably soon gonna be that time to replay the Portal games since I'm almost finished with Skong

Bulgur works better than rice for fried rice and I'll die on this hill

It is extremely cool that showing the completion % in Silksong is both optional, and unavailable for the majority of the game

So he just admitted proudly to the UN that they've hijacked every phone in Gaza to spread his propaganda?

I can think of no faster way to ruin the experience of a metroidvania game than looking up a guide. Like all the little secrets (and the design that went into the world to hint you towards finding them) are totally ruined.

Imagine a world where we didn't give a platform to opinion columnists who think they're being very clever but are actually making the stupidest point ever Oh but I guess rage bait is the engagement meta right now so

Ope, guess the youtubers who post spoilers without warning have caught up with silksong, guess I'm not going on social media until I'm done with it

There's an insidious undertone when an article underplays the contributions contracted workers made to a game. They're contextualising the mass layoffs by pushing the narrative that workforces were too big. But they have to lie about how many people were involved in projects to perpetuate this

Without going into details, it's clear that Team Cherry and all the people they collaborated with these last 7 years have put a huge amount of work and thought into making Skong play and feel amazing. The movement and systems keep gaining layers of depth - exceeding already high expectations