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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

i owe so many video game designers an apology

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Not now, widening gyre

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

I’m one of more than 300 writers who have signed a pledge not to write for New York Times Opinion until the paper takes accountability for its role in the genocide of the Palestinian people. /1 boycottdivestunsubscribe.com

still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too. can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator

It should be pointed out that a 30% margin isn't really an 'ambitious target' so much as it is setting up future justifications for layoffs and downsizing once the impossible sales goal fails to be met. It's "Dead Space 3 needs to sell five million copies" but brand-wide.

A lot of good games and peoples' careers died on the altar of this frankly impossible goal and players should be more mad about this than they'll probably express. They'll feel it tho when Satya and Amy jettison Xbox en total to make room for more openai bullshit.

I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...

dont understand all the hype around The Brothers Karamazov. there's no progression system at all. who am i supposed to identify with if none of the characters is improving their stats and acquiring better equipment

I finished Act 3 of Silksong, & I haven't stopped thinking about it since. Getting to that true ending is BRUTAL, Sisyphean at times, & you're consenting to dozens of hours of failure. Yet, as difficult as the game is, Team Cherry deserves recognition for how well they teach you to endure & improve.

this is true and it was terrible and i used to complain about it all the time back then. but the backlash to this, resulting in the current near-total lack of personal memoir writing, is not great either. it was concurrent with the backlash to "identity politics" imo

I will go down swinging against Windows 11 aftermath.site/windows-11-nope

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Another reason why indie development is so important. There are important stories to be told in our medium, and large corporations are too scared to tell them. A story isn't watered down by fantastical elements and "finding the fun." It's watered down by people scared to speak truth to power.

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Due to a new bill signed by NC Governor Josh Stein (a Democrat), the moratorium on our state's death penalties has been ended and may now proceed via *any* method. Welcome back, barbarity.

This week I’m going to raise money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social to help Palestinians in need. On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh. Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!

If you're trying to remember your Urbans this rhyme helps: If your Urban's in Lord of the Rings, and not the one who croons and sings, seek ye Karl swarthy and gruff, and avoid Keith who is not tough.

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - Few of us can begin to imagine the horror of you -- with all of creation reflected in your forebrain. It must be like the highest of hells, a kaleidoscope of fire and writhing glass. Eternal damnation.

The real tragedy of the Nevermind baby is that even if he’d managed to grab that dollar it’s very unlikely he’d have been able to purchase anything with it

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Whatever the industry, it's never great when a handful of people own more of the things

I'm finished with Act 2 of Silksong and have seen *an* ending! Starting to clean up side quests and work on the prerequisites to Act 3. (That hour count's probs 10-15 hours off, as I tend to leave my Steam Deck open for hours at a time.) What an incredible game.

Too concise, please resubmit as a 50-slide PPT deck.

BDS works! also, they're still letting the IDF use their other cloud services, but they're starting to move on this, keep pushing.

A massive win for the BDS movement and for Palestine. Should have happened long ago, and the damage this type of mass surveillance has enabled can’t be undone. But still—an important victory.

democrats if this happened in the US

I know I’ll eventually regret saying this, but I’m really vibing with the level of difficulty in Silksong so far. On average, bosses take me no more than a dozen tries to beat, and during that time, it’s not just hitting my head against a wall; I’m seeing tangible growth with each failed attempt.

I’m 8 hours into Silksong, I just finished the Moorwing fight, and damn, that sequence was incredible. Each failed attempt, I learned a bit more of the choreography and never felt like I was wasting time. By the end, I was dancing; I almost didn’t want the fight to end. Brilliant design.

The Midsommar I Turned Pretty, send tweet

Sorry, i don't think the solution to "why we have such low approval ratings as a party" is shifting our message to "we're actually not much different from Republicans, and are also willing to put vulnerable constituencies in harm's way." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

respectfully, I think every single person in the country could stand to reflect on this

NINTENDO FACT! When you touch an Amiibo to a Nintendo 3DS, WiiU, or Switch system, enough electricity passes through the figure to give it 14 milliseconds of conscious life! Too quick to scream, this fleeting moment gives them joy of life before returning them to a hellish existence in purgatory!

On September 12th 2001 someone threw a rock at me in downtown San Jose. Please believe that some of us were permanently stripped of our American-ness that day.

what really gets me is that all violence is political violence and when powerful people say “political violence” what they mean is “violence that might include me” and you know this because they’re only talking about one of today’s shootings.

YOU - Wait, the pale is human made? INSULINDIAN PHASMID - It is a nervous shadow cast into the world by you, eating away at reality. A great, unnatural territory. Its advent coincides with the arrival of the human mind.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Kind of regretting not doing my year-long thread of games I played this year. I stopped because I thought it would force me to write more longform reviews/essays, but it's been a rough summer (depression, family emergencies, & whatnot), and I miss that easy microdose of writing criticism.

My "This update is not about reducing headcount" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Orange juice w/ mint toothpaste now available as a combo pack at Newegg.

reforming the entire religion so that all the followers pay indulgences to get their pope into heaven …evangelicalism has mutated into its final form as bizarro catholicism.

kinda impossible to separate the aesthetics of GenAI slop and the current wave of american christofascism at this point

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

Started playing Tomb Raider 2013 on a whim this weekend, and surprised at just how much it’s clicking with me. I was itching for something linear and action/adventurey, without a lot of bloat, and no one does that like late ‘00s/early ‘10s game devs.