lol they have so little confidence in this demand being sustained, at all, that they're not wasting a penny of capex

jesse jackson was constantly played as a punchline on 90s late-night TV to the point that i didn't understand his history of activism and serious left-leaning political platform until i was much older. i have to think, to some degree, that was on purpose.

We have a new cozy game coming on March 11 🦊 It's called Piece by Piece! You run a repair shop, fixing up all sorts of items and heirlooms for deer, mice and badgers A lovely little experience for hiding yourself away from the world for a few evenings 🩷 store.steampowered.com/app/3179050/...

Update on HB 1834, about which I had an article on Saturday. Sounds like it's dead for this session. Age verification is definitely something to continue to keep an eye on, as well as the possibility for a more comprehensive data privacy bill for the state. www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/14/w...

so much this 💯 if people want shorter games with worse graphics made with less work many exist but not enough people buy them for developers to be paid more (or even recoup costs) similar to "there should be more variety in games" there's so much! gotta look for it! won't have CoD marketing budget

HAL JORDAN: In brightest day, in blackest BEASTIE BOYS: NIGHT! HAL JORDAN: No evil shall escape my BEASTIE BOYS: SIGHT! HAL JORDAN: This is awkward because when I invited you I thought I was messaging Beast Boy from the Teen Titans.

I totally missed this on Friday. Good news for Ring owners! www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/t...

To bring Valentine's Day to a close, i give you: Cony Hawks in love. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThxv5Gs1/

the 3 types of commercially viable videogames

This is a REALLY good breakdown on how to look at the news with critical thinking without it turning into magical thinking. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx2tdRK/

San Diego rents fall 5.5%—proof that building housing works. Add 6,000 apartments, prices drop. This eases pressure on voucher programs, helps low-income renters, makes the city more accessible. Want sustained affordability? Keep building. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/04/r...

Added these two buddies to my shop. A few more days of my Valentine's sale: code LOVE at checkout will give $10 off! wertle.bigcartel.com

The layoffs across games and games journalism have been disproportionately affecting the women in the industry, and even more so, black women. Support the indies that champion their voices before it's too late (& please share more in the replies) @aftermath.site @mothership.blog

Post a tree that you photographed

At the Seahawks victory parade and the vibes are immaculate.

in 1991 we thought for sure we'd see more and more morphing going on, had no idea that was basically going to be peak morphing. weird that somehow when we see the effect used in the past decades it actually looks worse? (ex. pure CGI, plus radically sharper display resolutions can't hide it as well)

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Digital asbestos.

I'm doing a Valentine's sale on my bats between now and February 15th! Use the code LOVE at checkout for $10 off! wertle.bigcartel.com

Quick reminder for folks looking to support original stories by real human beings that Kickstarters are the most direct way to do so! Our first project of the year launches in a bit over a week! click through to follow the preview page and score FREE domestic shipping!

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

No it was himself at 5. It was a story about his life in PR, his parents marriage, Ricky Martin being an influence. Dreaming of a Grammy at a young age.

thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...

Don't forget, Green Day is playing the pre-show, not the halftime show.

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

Even though I am working on new things now, please consider purchasing (or asking your local library to purchase) my GN series ORCS!, which I am still very proud of and think you will like if you like all-ages psychedelic fantasy. Previews at my blog: christinelarsenillustration.com/blarg/tag/OR...

My offer: a drawing from H G Wells himself depicting a Tripod attacking people, drawn on a cover of an early copy of 'The War Of The Worlds'.

Rian Johnson for Knives Out

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting. A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!

what are you doing!

I'm doing a Valentine's sale on my bats between now and February 15th! Use the code LOVE at checkout for $10 off! wertle.bigcartel.com

New batch of bats in the shop! wertle.bigcartel.com

Sadly, I have a personal ask: ICE kidnapped a staffer who works at my grandson’s daycare this weekend along with two other family members. Can you help the extended families with legal costs & famity support? It would mean a lot to me. I’m just sick about this. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Today is my birthday! I am 44 years old, which supposedly is the age where you experience your first metabolic aging event Will my lottery win of good skin genetics finally be thwarted?? Only time will tell!

While being told every step of the way that Texas should be abandoned and it was their own fault, by people who should damn well know better.

Going on a short trip to Death Valley for my birthday. It's one of my favorite places I've ever been and I miss it dearly.

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It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to - create safe spaces - protect schools - get kids TO school - check on neighbors - deliver groceries - help pay the rent - let people know of danger - feed the helpers, too! - and on and on

90% of my animation friends are unemployed. I'm on hiatus. The value of animation is proven every year. Greenlight new shows! Don't overdevelop. Don't chase trends. You can't chase trends w/ animation! It takes too long! Tell good stories. Take risks."Demon Hunters" was a risk & look how it paid off

"There are no games about friendship instead of violence" I don't know, man. There's an entire organization called Digital Thriving that is all about this. Papers. Examples. Conferences. Talks. So many games. So many designers. Literally a career. lostgarden.com/2025/03/22/w...

/extremely grandpa voice/ back in MY day AI meant Adobe Illustrator, and we hated that too

i used a manure rake to break up the ice into large chunks. Then used the snow shovel to push them to the sides. Worked just like an ice breaker ship.. was great.

Reminder that when shoveling snow, PUSH the snow, do not HOIST the snow. Lifting and tossing shovelfuls of snow is how you get a heart attack.

I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border. Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE). Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.

Sorry to anybody who followed me because I make video games. I would love to live in a world where video games are the most important thing on my mind. I do not live in that world.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.