And I hope Newsom can maybe read the God damn Bible

Hey girls. It's my birthday, it's new year's eve, but most importantly: it's buddy list day. For the fourth time, here's my annual tradition where I invite my friends to take up some space on my newsletter and talk about how they spent their year. Thanks for reading. 💜 www.shy.center/p/buddy-list...

Picking apples for the kings and queens Of things I've never seen

Several hundred more scare quotes needed around the words gold standard in that headline lol

What if you could guarantee a game wouldn't be made with genAI but in order to do so you had to kill a Christian baby, how many angels dancing on the head of a pin would that take?

If you get the opportunity to see this in theaters then jump on it. I've never seen anything quite like it. Simultaneously a love letter to 20th century cinema and one of the best films of the 21st

Look, I already mostly play games that are 10+ years old. I'm 100% willing to never spend a dime on a game that has ever been touched gen AI. I don't care if it's everywhere, I don't care if all the cool kids are doing it. It's not a hard decision. I think we all need to be way meaner about gen AI

One of the most fun multiplayer games ever made, never before ported to home consoles, is now out on all of them.

I will simply never buy anything I know was made with AI. the best we can do from a consumer POV is make AI shameful and embarrassing to admit to using while we wait for the machine to explode as soon as it tries to turn a profit.

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Responses to "games can't tell stories as well as films" make me think people don't care about stories or games. Counterexamples I heard yesterday: Metal Gear Solid Red Dead Redemption Fallout New Vegas Portal Dark Souls If you think these hold up to films I'm begging you to watch better films

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It took a while, but Nuclear Throne Update 100 is out now! (and 50% off on Steam) store.steampowered.com/app/242680/N...

This whole thing is incredible

This phychic once tried to convince a woman her husband drowned during 9/11

Words cannot express how important Becky Heineman was for video games. I can't believe she's gone, but her legacy will last forever

The Pinball Primer (which you may have seen linked from matchplay) has taken down all its pinball strategy guides, in protest of the IFPA. pinballprimer.github.io

Tatsuya Nakadai (1932–2025)

Who says the pico 8 isn't fit for 3d platformers

Biological pronouns? She's the only one I got.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

You can make this argument for any year but like, it's a little bizarre to make it for this one lol. Sure She Drives Me Crazy is a once in a generation bad song but I'd rather listen to half these songs than anything off Bleach or Pretty Hate Machine.

That classic pasttime: making 3d work in Pico-8

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

People will yell about accessibility, but accessibility is a braille translation, not a book rewritten as if it was a simple english wikipedia entry. Sometimes the friction is needed to appreciate the art, and sometimes you have to build your fluency up to appreciate something. That's just culture!!

battle garegga has diagonal movement speed boosting like most 90s FPS so therefore it is the best shmup

idk the line of "but what if I want to experience the art and story" just feels gross to me at this point it never feels like it's said in good faith and is more just "this game isn't what I want it to be and should change to suit my desires"

In what other medium are you expected to make a whole separate version of your art for people who don't want to engage with it? Difficulty is framed as some cruel trick being played on the audience but like no one is forcing you to engage with art you don't like.

shit is bad enough for trans people. do not. i repeat. FUCKING DO NOT start talking about things that might happen in the future as though they are already happening now.

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

The Assassin (2015) dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien

happy labor day

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Mandatory hrt until 30 for everyone. You need to wait until you're 18 to vote and 21 to drink, so I think maybe even 25 is a little too young to decide that you're cis. Your brain is still developing, what if you end up regretting it later? Might as well make it 40, just so you're absolutely sure.

The low grade discomfort ordinary people felt about trans people's medical needs was used to smuggle junk science and conversion therapy into the mainstream, and now you're running around like "how did all this junk science and broad based attacks on expertise get normalized?"

You can tell people have no fucking clue just how environmentally damaging LLMs are when they think any world where they're around in ten years has anyone left to make art in the first place. In the US alone they're projected to use 120 gigawatts. For context, the UK peak demand this year was 30.

The #HugoAward for Best Game or Interactive Work goes to Caves of Qud.

Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul

If you've got the time to harass people for smoking weed on their front porch then you probably don't have all that much violence to prevent

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...

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The entire experience of being trans in the English-speaking world right now feels like arguing with a toddler who has a loaded gun pointed at you.