In a lot of ways, Larian was a poster child (alongside folks like Remedy) for how retaining a team and continuing to refine a toolset makes seemingly impossible things achievable. Why spend 2 years talking about how critical this was to BG3's existence--and then say major parts of it don't matter?

A hero, someone we can all look up to

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High fiving 9-months-ago Jason

Priceless

A thorough exposure of the contemptible Chomsky

I mean also like, I *am* a journalist but I don't think it's my solemn duty to get shouted out and get sent death and rape threats most days just because I dare to exist as a woman online lol, amazingly it was never part of the job description, I can do my job without Twitter!

This will not go well. What this will do is push teenagers, already more digitally literate than lawmakers, into using increasingly sketchy methods to avoid age checks. Let me tell you how I know... 🧵 1/

*dies laughing*

As is customary, I’m indulging in comfort movie watching for my birthday. First up, Speed (1994). “We’re at the airport.” “Yeah, so?” “I’ve already seen the airport.”

Doubly offensive because the architects are never the ones sitting out on the beam

Doing some stuff with Americans and having to explain to them why "it's my work Xmas Party" means I will be unavailable both all day today AND tomorrow. #britishness

This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.

Trans people = Bad Nonces = Good

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

There's a real, actual, definable reason why nobody ever runs the Tarrasque in D&D. It's because the lore is *bad.* But what makes lore bad? What makes it good? youtu.be/KqTNeiefmPQ

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This pic of Vultan might be one of my favourite things I’ve ever drawn.

Is … is it a bomb? A nuclear bomb? Have I somehow triggered Judgement Day?

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Great #TTRPG 🧵

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Cannot imagine what would be so attractive about technology made in an era before everything was so aggressively abusive and predatory and pre-broken to people who have never known anything else

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. Ultra-hard mode: you made the GIF — gifs.cackhanded.net/wargames/the...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori

In an alternative universe, Netfix would have bought Warner several years ago, and being Netflix, would have cancelled Game of Thrones at the end of series seven. So we'd all spend decades being furious not knowing what we just dodged.

Zuckerberg has spent more than 70 Billion since 2021 trying to create a Metaverse, a virtual world for work & play. He doesn't talk about it anymore and is cutting the program by 30% next year. Imagine if he'd used that 70 billion to create a better world? These men dream too small and too selfish.

I have one fan and he is great.

First camera app I’ve tried that actually lets me select individual lenses from the seventy bajillion* my iPhone has.

If the BBC boycott, drink everything in your house.

Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.

Accenture claim that tech debt costs $2.4T in the US alone. Which they should know, because they caused most of it.

Firefox, now: AI all the things Firefox, then:

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must decide what a Christmas movie even is.

I remember when Firefox used to tout speed as one of the reasons it was a better browser.

so fucking tired of people saying AI "democratizes" creative skills, it's fucking privatizing it you dumb fuck, they're stealing your creativity from you and selling it back to you at a premium the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity

If I was the OBR, I’d go watch Trading Places (1983) for a hint on what to do.

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

They’re like junior programmers. Very excitable about new tech but also very wrong, don’t know how to architect, will follow patterns they’ve seen without understanding, and cannot properly follow instructions. But junior programmers learn between sessions and gain understanding.

I love this cat to bits and this is just the best BOINGGG leap you will ever see.

Bouncy jump time ft Smorky

The framing of that Telegraph article about D&D - and the framing of the responses to it, even on here - has been rubbing me the wrong way. Lots of, "No, the reason it's dying is it's not woke *enough*..." type sentiments, or talking about a gaming culture that hasn't existed for decades.

In related news, a bunch of transphobes have been trying to start an argument with me for the last couple of days and why would I engage in that when I could do pretty much anything else instead?

I don’t think the recommendation engine quite gets the brief

Underneath all of this stuff is a real economy where everything is both shit and expensive, nothing works and everyone is miserable and hopeless. Can you fucking focus, you hacks??

5 years ago today, Pandemic Year. It had been a month since I opened my "side project" (lol) cat rescue in the spare room of my flat in London. I saw an ad for a male kitten with "balance & walking problems" who urgently needed a home. And so it began. HAPPY SMOL PAUL DAY!

I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.

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We will do any amount of self-harm to avoid seeing what our real problems are