Honor Vince Zampella's memory by remembering the time he and Jason West sued the pants off Activision after they tried to fire them in order to hoard royalties. Anyone who spits in Bobby Kotick's eye is OK in my book. RIP, man.

It would be very, very funny if the Epstein non-story turned out to be Bill Clinton.

This is about Palworld AI accusations, but I'm also a little bit salty everyone was cheering on Nintendo for giving them shit, and the best they could ultimately come up with was some dubious software patent shit 'I don't like this thing' is not an excuse for that kind of behaviour

What they're banking on is the same phenomenon that happened with Twitter. Inertia or whatever is going to enable CBS to retain a portion of the already captured audience and corrupt them. It's not a bad bet.

There are few things in this world I find more entertaining than smart people making good points in incredibly crude language

For a second I thought this was an actual product and I'm disappointed to discover otherwise

I dream of a Canadian history that is not defined by the United States. I don't suspect I'll live to see one. But hey, y'know. Canadian fentanyl, amirite? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/w...

meanwhile, a degenerate research program may *once* have attempted to engage with the world, but in the face of repeated predictive failure, it finds cunning ways to cut itself off from actually having to ever deal with recalcitrant reality it stagnates, it repeats itself, it becomes--tedious.

cheering on an irrational harassment mob that's currently pointed at people you dislike while admitting that they're behaving irrationally isn't actually you doing a solid for the people whose irrational mob you're approving of, btw. that's you being sadistic & having others take the risk for you

LA machinists -- we need 12 of these ASAP. 12x quantity to start, 7075 Pu-Ga, dimensions 8.9 *8.9* 8.9. Dm me if interested in taking this on

This is worth reading because I do think there are Christian Nationalist elements at work in Alberta politics and that’s a problem. However, the article also compresses a few too many things in ways that are a bit unhelpful. 1/ perspectivesjournal.ca/christian-na...

Bloodborne, in both cases. Hilariously enough I have never actually gotten around to playing more than a few hours of Witcher 3

interesting twist that reddit (of boston bomber sleuthing infamy) actually did play a key role in identifying the brown shooting suspect www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Honestly, you just hope people like this don't have a family or cosigner.

Something interesting about this wave of recalls is that the threshold for getting these petitions approved is pretty high I really did not think we'd see more than one or two before the next election

Just reflecting re: those ridiculous WH plaques that Trump is the first President in half a century to come anywhere near claiming the worst-of title from Buchanan. He may claim it yet. (I suspect some would credibly argue he already has)

I really cannot overstate how good Half-Life Alyx is.

I miss travelling to America, man. This may be baffling to some Americans right now, but I actually LIKE America; it's the third most populous country in the world, for God's sake, tropics to the Arctic. There's so much I still want to see. (And rollercoasters I want to go on lol)

Guess we can add Indigenous treaty rights and Canadian environmental regulations to the growing list of complex topics that Matt Yglesias believes he can wave away with a stroke of his mighty keyboard

It makes me sad that this game has apparently insurmountable English localization issues, because it means a bunch of people will never get to enjoy it. Celebrate your fluency by playing!

Many such cases in discourse tbh

Didn't play Disco Elysium or Outer Wilds when they first came out, so my fave at the time was probably Three Houses. If you asked me to chose a favorite between the former two now, I doubt I could do it even if you put a gun to my head.

the right attitude

Man, we should do more terrace farming in North America. They just look gorgeous.

people crying over chomsky on this website are repulsive frankly. he was quite plainly a piece of shit long before anything related to epstein came out

Watching someone crash out because people agreed with them too annoyingly and nodding sagely, we’ve all been there

You'd think this was an exaggeration, but it's true; studies do indeed show that Will Stancil comprises approximately 1 percent of all social media posts.

Dad of War on both counts, and that's against some stiff competition that year (Dead Cells, Celeste, League of Legends at its height)

This is actually a pretty accurate description of many manic episodes lol

Made the mistake of arguing with someone in Will Stancil's replies and now my notifications are dumpstered I brought this on myself

A common symptom of Internet brain poisoning is the belief that the person who annoys you online is actually the greatest monster in the world.

On this point in particular, I expect to see coherent responses to this from people who support age verification Not vague sentiments about 'developing supportive spaces' or whatever. Concrete ideas: regulatory carve-outs, funding proposals, etc. Actual responses. This is not an abstract harm.

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Seeing honest to god anti-interlock device takes because interlocks cost money so poor drunk drivers can't afford them is giving me major tumblr vibes.

His dialogue is killer. Glengarry Glenross is more than just good, it's seminal and indispensable. His entire career has pretty much been predicated entirely on those two things.

These Substack guys come out every day & sing out to the chattering classes "here's your slop, piggies!" It's hard to stay angry at something so dully mendacious but it eats at everything it touches

What if we made sycophancy accessible to the masses so everyone can cook their brains on it

Tbh this is exactly what we deserve for calling it Hawaiian

Oh, the latter. Definitely the latter. In fact, I'm not entirely sure Nuzzi's not a character from Gone Girl who somehow escaped fiction into the real world.

Okay first of all. You have to pull off a *very particular* kind of style to write a 303-page book with zero chapters. And the unintentional subtext of this book is quite clearly, “Olivia, you are not pulling that off.”

so basically we’re going to have to figure out how to go back to building systems of knowledge based almost entirely on confirming sources - like you needed to do pre-photograph and video - since all true videos will seem fake and fake videos will seem true

Now, this is unfair; you can also be extremely sincere in politics if you have no intention of getting anywhere near power, at all, ever.

Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid

A funny thing about Contact is that it's a pretty mediocre movie until the climax. I mostly just rewatch the last fifteen minutes or so, instead of the whole thing.

We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.

hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it

Speculating on what specific dysfunction the UCP is blundering through this week is my new favorite involuntary hobby

Can "most Canadians" accurately describe its content?