It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

An absolutely baffling time to be an historian of apocalyptic thought. Like my man is just straight up doing Antichrist stuff and I am meant to be normal???

Let me get this straight: he called off global economic Armageddon right before the stock markets opened and announced a moratorium on blowing up the world economy, valid until the markets close on Friday night? Is that what happened, here

If you’re a Quest user PLEASE log out of Meta Horizon Worlds before June 15 or you’ll be trapped in there forever

Chance is up on Steam now and in the board games festival. Give it a wishlist! Also check out the trailer...

Please understand: just like Macron, these people will be just fine in a Sensible Centrists vs Fascists set up. There are jobs and influence for them in that system. There is no place for them in a Left vs Right one: in that country, they’re all back working in PR, lobbying and the law. Unacceptable

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

hot tip: every Brecht poem hits insane right now

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

this is what happens when the regime, at the highest levels, sends the express message that it will defend any and all excesses

Can you design game progression and also help with level design and other modes of design too? We would like to see an application from you, especially if you like games that encourage people to play together

This is really bad; Grok is now going into is third day of regularly producing nonconsensual deepfake pornography and nobody is doing anything about it. The "Mechahitler" and "white genocide" episodes were stopped much more quickly. I suppose this tells us all about relative priorities.

The EU GAME-ER project at Abertay University is looking for local expertise to help verify its map of Dundee's game development community

These guys are simply not smart.

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

It’s hard to look around—at Blair pitching a luxury resort to be built on the Gaza killing fields or Keir Starmer responding to anti-Asian hate by affirming his affinity for the perpetrators—and not conclude that the elite’s real problem with Corbyn was that he wasn’t sufficiently Islamophobic.

I think George Osborne openly musing to the air that the security services probably wouldn’t have tolerated Labour winning in 2017, because of our relationship with America, is quite helpful and I’d like to hear more.

Sensationally, it appears the grown ups have been put back in charge of the grown ups who were previously put back in charge

I missed this when it happened and anyone who has ever used an analog synth is going to embarrass themselves laughing at this. Thank u Greg www.tumblr.com/decanting-ce...

the last two news stories i saw, one after another, were israel bombing nasser hospital in gaza and then this one. genuinely ashamed of the UK right now

Compare the amount of coverage of a thousand or so fascist "protestors" has received with the tens and hundreds of thousands of left wing protestors over the years (austerity, Gaza, Iraq, BLM etc) Some are painted as "legitimate concerns", others as noise or naive demands Ask yourself why

(returning to work after a week of vacation and i don't remember how to do emails anymore): greetings, to my colleagues in officemongering

Still one of the best most important books of this century. Just saw fantastic in its clarity of analysis, and virtually unassailable in the breadth of its evidence from history and anthropology.

Labour MP: legitimate concerns

as someone who likes to see the best in people the number of fuckers falling for the computer saying "while i'm just a chatbot... i think you're really special! ;)" is testing me

The 'Play For Good' exhibition from Abertays Games Lab is a major part of the RSE's 2025 Curious festival in September 2025.

#GIGF25 is in full swing! With talks and games a plenty. Thanks to everyone who showed us support <3 #festival #indiegames #convention #scotland #glasgow

400 counter protestors vs 15 fascists in Bristol And yet it is the latter who are painted as expressing the "legitimate grievances" of "the people" by the mainstream media and politicians This leads to emboldening and mainstreaming and it is a top down effect

I have done almost zero promo/sharing of the work I've done this year, so let's correct that with a thread of stuff I've written, worked on, helped with, etc. I started the year with a post about European gaming emissions & what we can do about them. gtg.benabraham.net/european-gam...

Man Gave Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT 🔗 www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...

this will open the floodgates

It wouldn’t have been possible to turn aid delivery into daily machine gun massacres of civilians without all kinds of important people agreeing to pretend they were terrified that the UN aid programme was a terrorist enterprise. Specific people, whose statements are publicly available.

Agent Squidge is a silly, cooperative, physics based stealth game by @brainleakstudios.bsky.social! Go rogue or duo as the best of the worst that infiltrates a very evil corporation. Do wobbly, sneaky puzzle co-op games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play Agent Squidge yourself! :3

Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.

I imagine the public can see very clearly how this stuff doesn’t match up terribly well with what they’ve had screamed at them for two years: that the people opposing this are extremist “hate marchers”.

The Honours Project, an autobiographical walking simulator by Scott Cambell, provides dark and sometimes comical dialogue about being a student in game development. Do dream-like, relatable narrative games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play The Honours Project yourself! :3

A feature of the british politcial-media class is they exist in an eternal state of now. None of them gamed out "one day everybody in gaza will be starving." It is just a thing that has happened, now, like an earthquake

Riiiiidddgggeeee Raaaaccceerrrr Ziiiinnnneeeee aftermath.site/ridge-racer-4-...

If only there had been people ten years ago who said mainstream politicians and press were unifying around overtly racist, increasingly National Front politics, while terrifying the public with largely fraudulent concerns about Palestinian Solidarity as a way of suppressing and excluding the left 🤷🏼‍♂️

Drop In And Play x DARE Academy hits the DCA on Saturday August 30 - come and play brand new games from developers across Scotland.

Politics can be complex, but every so often it’s pretty easy to tell which side of history you’re on. For example, if you require the police to arrest elderly ladies for peacefully protesting against genocide, that’ll probably be the wrong side.

Sometimes, I long for him

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

the curse of enjoying the early internet is having to watch all its silly little aspects get churned up and spat out in its final form as a civilization-eating demogorgon

"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen

This has to be good - Roger Deakins & co discussing the brilliant & devastating French Resistance classic, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows. Watch it first if you can. teamdeakins.libsyn.com/a-look-at-tw...

Before & after you sign up to work as a Weyland-Yutani Corporation engineer

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

Israel, once again, used bombs to target and exterminate children. They weren't playing soccer this time. They weren't in the NICU this time. They weren't at school studying this time. They were getting water in the Israeli extermination camps. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

now that woke superman is a box office hit james gunn should announce his plans to start the next movie with a deep dive into the origins of pa kent, whose great grandfather moved to bleeding kansas to fight border ruffians