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/...

Hello. I interviewed one of the most interesting people in the world. Had a chat with Shoko Uehara, aka JON, and asked her about her long career as an outsider musician, why she performs in a dog costume, John Zorn, and more. www.shy.center/p/jon-interv...

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.

High up there in the running for Best RPG Ever Made, if you missed it on PC you're in for a hell of a ride

The sports thing is the only anti-trans thing that polls well, so they're going to force through every heinous rollback of our rights under the sports banner. All because people refused to believe the science.

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look, i know that it's a silly argument to say that leftists being annoying turns people right-wing, but let me make that argument anyway

Apparently literally everyone knows about the taco bell vampire and loves him dearly

Corporate: I can’t tell the different between these two documents. And neither can Councillor Ed Flynn

I need cis people to understand that this is the kind of journalistic rigor that the New York Times brings to their constant anti-trans coverage. Don't laugh at them when you're a subject matter expert and then believe them when you aren't.

Ah the r/atheism crowd is out today, you love to see it.

Caves of Qud

Like I'm sorry like I can't find this not funny like oh we're having lunch at a sponsors restaurant w/e product placement but the out of nowhere, mid convo, camera cut to glaze the pico de gallo is killing me just totally out of nowhere. Is this a big deal? No, but lol I can't NOT notice it

The pure cowardice of these institutions

Don’t vote for Gavin Newsom lol

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

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After a few years in the cooker (and a few left to go), I've finally taken the big step of getting a Steam store page set up for Bound City! store.steampowered.com/app/3871260/...

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Jake Sherman is reporting that the Medicaid gender affirming care ban has been removed from the reconciliation bill! Huge news!

Lord, I’ve seen what you’ve done for others…

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

i like many things about this city in general, but one of the big things i've learned living here is the idea that "nyc is different" is total bullshit and anything that is done here that is good and works can be done anywhere else

Top 20 all time film. If you haven't seen it then get on that shit

the bit in this movie where the mayor is too scared to appear in public because they always boo him -- and then later, two cops hear booing and go "oh shit the mayor's here!" -- is one the best jokes in any movie

The biggest mistake I see in discussions of trans people's healthcare is the idea that hormones and the like are some special service just for us when really all kinds of people access the same health care for all kinds of reasons but they are *withheld* from us because we are trans