Thinking a lot about The Last Of Us and wider entertainments treatment of it this morning The framing of it by suits as the first serious "game as art" by shallowly comparing it to movies without acknowledging that there's more to it as an interactive medium kinda grosses me out as it feels fake

i am forever mad about the kinekt stealing the eyetoy's credit

"goods and services", actually it's all services just sometimes the service is "producing goods"

sometimes when im alone i start muttering to myself like bae does :/

warehouse but for storing things which are not strictly wares

explaining 90s pokémon controversies by putting on the neil cicierga song

as much as i miss having aussie mutuals, at least im no longer exposed to nonsense takes about "splitting the vote" (we have preferential voting) every election

in retrospect this has been the peak of my social game so far, built my only strong alliance this way, i should probably in fact be doing more drugs

does anyone actually have any specific reason to discredit the u.n. report on october 7 sexual violence? like, im not sure that "israeli media lied about specific cases" should necessarily lead one to believe that it didnt happen at all.

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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

dandan secret lair would be a lot prettier than proxies, but i hate foils, so idk

OK, so if that's the case, how did DECember become the 12th month? And the answer is: even the Romans weren't sure.

i think they. rolled over to hug me. but fell asleep before they could.

if you understand that u.s.' refusal to provide public healthcare kills people, then the assassination of private healthcare ceos and other lobbyists is plainly proportional. the only coherent argument for public healthcare which condemns luigi mangione is hardline pacifism.

this is gonna pop off tonight!!!

The DS Spore game is a RPG with paper mache art style where you can min max your Spore Freak for combat or passive playstyle

"x tool shouldn't replace humans, it should augment them" you wouldn't believe what bosses do when they realise they need fewer humans to achieve the same task for no increase in wages

nobody would give a shit about the dalek's master plan if it werent mostly lost

assault knife forty-seven

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

idk maybe im giving gilligan too much credit here but w.w. comes across as a loser to me. "he's presented as a badass", okay sure i love the 'say my name' scene and/but that's not it, the reason it's fun is that he's fucking larping and everyone's like "fuck he's got money we need to put up with it"

Like AFAB is the category that specifically includes trans men. If you are posting about something that specifically excludes trans men, don't say AFAB. The right language is just say that if you like having a estrogen based endocrine system, supplement estrogen to keep it.

i love the giant snake plushies i want to cuddle a giant survivor snake

hate to be a buzzkill but i dont really like the "what have the romans ever done for us?" joke

did you know MOltres Zapdos ARTicuno MOZART

it feels bad to see everyone else able to profit off of selling sex (thinking about heated rivalry, sarah j maas, game of thrones, euphoria etc.) when avenues for online sex work get more restrictive every month.

If we keep this up, eventually there will be no one left able to evaluate LLMs’ output. Then we’ll be fucked.

i probably shouldnt post my workplace's international women's day word search, but i assure you this is a real piece of paper they handed out.

kinda think the age thing with politicians is a bit of a red herring; conservative party establishment (in any country) will just find (or even pay!) young conservatives if theyre forced to, policy is not that deeply tied to specific representatives.

i kinda hate work, i do get super anxious at work i hate being so unable to pass in a baggy hi-vis vest and jeans,, but i do also love work some of my coworkers are really nice and i kinda love people by default

Playing this house show in Narrm On 7 March!!! #narrmNoise #harshNoise #breakcore

IE, I had to enter information for "biological sex" on an academic conference registration fee bill circa 2019 because...apparently the org wanted to know that but wanted to pretend it wasn't institutionally transphobic. It's not information they needed to know in any way, but that's how they asked.

merzbow only tours so that he can afford his midjourney subscription

um, one of the two known gecs

electrolysis kinda fun, getting shocked just a pleasant environment for talking shit

ik the people bringing the valve lawsuit are weird anti-gaming conservatives but nah im with them on specifically the gambling point actually

is there a particularly definitive piece about the salvation army’s discriminatory practices? trying to persuade some older family members to stop giving them money

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

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it's funny how notorious the chaser's war was when actually its bread and butter was stuff like this

i dont think anyone should be allowed to discuss veganism on the internet something about this specific subject turns off quite literally everyone's ability to think

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I say "himpathy simulator" about disco Elysium and people say "no but the main character in DE is very clearly an unlovable asshole". And....

"airport" is also the name of the suburb the airport's in, constantly causing confusion to uber drivers. it's unclear to me why they did that.

almost every time someone in the popular music industry says "melody" im just like "literally what do you mean by that word?"

epstein conspiracism has nominal marxists forgetting that class interests foster current ruling-class behaviours without need for shadowy mastermind. "epstein invented microtransactions" no he didnt that's just ahistorical shut the fuck up.

stop dming me i havent verified age so i cant read them

9/19 But this does not erase the fact that Hamilton, and other folks at Gawker, are verifiably complacent in the Epstein scandal. They thought the NYP hit-piece on Ava Cordero was funny. They were obsessed enough with it to think it’s worth writing about to similarly mock Cordero’s transsexuality.

begging people to actually read the screenshots theyre getting conspirational about. no, epstein did not fund the gawker lawsuit, he "would have" (presumably, had he been in contact with the relevant parties earlier) funded it. and i need more than convenient dates to convince me he asked for /pol/.