People saying "10 EVOs is good! You're just hating because it's gonna give people opportunities!" is hyper reminding me of the last time I had to argue that, when all the best MKX players from around the US got flown to a compound in ATL and lived there for months/years as a front for selling drugs.

this is, to me, the strongest argument against the proliferation of easy gambling. the personal ruin is worth considering. it's nothing next to the erosion of public trust

This might come off as biased, but Climax of Night started out with less than 200 people and there were 1,000+ of us in the building when it wrapped up last year. Several of us were bawling our eyes out. There is so much that can still be done without EVO that will matter to a whole lot of people.

“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it

Did anyone make this yet?

If any of you make a single piece of information about The State of the Union known to me in any way you will receive an invoice for $100 per occurrence.

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I'm not really shocked when I see so many people clutching their pearls about the Evo situation when Evo has NOT been the center of community for quite some time. To say that fighting games/locals are doomed solely because of the new acquisition shows how little people actually supported the FGC

The EVO situation is dire.

This guy gets it.

Damn, there was some HUGE news regarding one of the backbones of the FGC today huh? 🎂HAPPY BIRFDAY @shib.live!!! They stay holding it down for every single FG, big or small. Give your flowers & coins to the dude who has saved the fgc more times than I can count! ko-fi.com/shiburizu

Seeing someone do the equivalent of shouting at the waiter over this EVO shit was very funny at least

what am i supposed to do now just donate & go back to work like usual? have a snack & look over some contracts like anything is normal, like it matters compared to the enormity of the kidnappings & deportations & concentration camps? like, hope he'll be ok, anyway, about these licensing terms? wtf

Rumbleverse needs to return!

I uploaded a thing. See you tomorrow.

I'm not even a fan of DOA's brand of horny but I hope it's just amazingly, unremarkedly the same. It's good for the ecosystem. We need stupid boob jiggle for proper biodiversity.

Really sorry to hear about all the layoffs at Riot today. I'm sad for so many of my friends who worked there for so long & had so little time with the release, that sucks. Imo the best part of 2XKO is that so many folks made salaries & careers out of it. I hope the future will be better for y'all

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Getting old is admitting that you wish your favorite series' would actually just die, because them continuing to be alive is a much, much worse fate

tbh imo it's less this and more that they could see the winds shifting and they knew they could materially benefit from stoking it further because they were in the perfect position to do so. that's what guys like this do. when you've already in a position like that you can do whatever you want.

People talking about events needing tighter security due to the actions of one psychopath after I spent a weekend in overflowing bag check lines behind hordes of stinky fucking people please be so serious right now

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

The craziest thing about using gen AI for any type of marketing rn is that beyond any & all ethical concerns, it's just social suicide. I would like to imagine that even if someone did not give a shit whatsoever about the ramifications of AI, they'd at least care about the optics. But nah lol

We need an Every Single ICE Employee and Republican Elected Official is Going to Prison party.

important message to all bluesky users

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

When are we making one of these for EWC?

How cool is it that Japanese fighting game fans use to distribute their combo videos on VHS?

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There needs to be trials and there needs to be people sent to die in a prison cell. Consequences must fall on the people who issued the orders and those who carried them out. We must make the punishment of these people a national spectacle that will be remembered for generations.

Had to share this from twitter just because

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

SWC KOF15 top 6 was really good! Congrats to Lauyagami, really fun to see Ángel doing big work

-citizen, do you know your Gestapo from your Sipo? Your SA from your SD? Your Waffen SS from your..

Love how file sharing was framed as stealing but a comparable situation where the only meaningful difference is that tech industrialists get rich is not supposed to be stealing. So it's only individual consumers who steal, and who they steal from is not artists but in fact tech industrialists.

I think a new bar should be set in presenting the history of multi-year tournament events, not necessarily just on the players that are well remembered, but the communities that propped up each year's individual successes. Not sure what that looks like yet.

I think its ironic and difficult that I think about this stuff so often but, like everyone else, feel caught up in the cycle of building new things for our generation because its the engine that drives growth in the here and now. But sometimes I just want to read old scrolls and peruse albums.

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

The 90s had a lot of missteps but the then-earnest belief in diversity and multiculturalism brought on by post-Cold War optimism was one of it better fruits

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

generals gathered in their masses/president calls them all fatasses

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

You have to admit it is an incredible act of propaganda as an academic and news outlet to publish there is less right wing terrorism at the precise moment that government is staffed by right wing terrorists who are carrying out the greatest state backed act of right wing terror in a lifetime

free your mind from Shareholder Disease! I cannot think of a less joyful use of brainpower than sitting in a theater wondering "How could this possibly be profitable for WB?"