There are a million children in Aotearoa, about 700 of them have been prescribed puberty blockers (that's 0.07%) Medication decisions should be decided by the child, their caregivers, and the relevant health professionals, not a party relying on imported culture wars to stay in power

imagine being good at things I could never

WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army

Where Winds Meet seems like it could be a good game if it was just a paid game, instead of having the whole experience undermined by free-to-play slop

why is it called "black friday" (implying one, single day) when it seemingly lasts for about two months? Just judging from the incessant spam that's been going for at least a month so far

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Mushi Futari Black Label is starting to click into place, and hoo boy, I think this is quickly turning into my favorite shmup ever. Scoring system in Original is simple but still very interesting and fun to engage with. Juicy juicy bullet cancels. Overpowered ships. I love. #shmup #stg

CAVE slowdown

let's go, please tell me who 💛

New best on #Mushihimesama Futari Black Label OG. Stage 5, just before end boss. I need to get better at scoring so I can get the extends earlier. And learn the final boss fight, because right now it feels like resource spam is the only way to survive. #shmup #stg

A quick Lulu✨ #ffx

(Waiter accidentally brings me the wrong dish) Friend: "Wait, isn't that chicken? I thought you were vegan?" Me:

Dead Static Drive https://store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/

Remarkable how far you can get in politics by focusing on the issues instead of whatever the fuck everyone else is doing

Chicago deep dish is a casserole.

HEY, you know what? You could literally be playing DEAD STATIC DRIVE right now. It is out. NOW. store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...

@leena.reuben.games My bad for not following news closely enough, but this was a very nice surprise!! Congrats on launch!!

Happy @powerwashsimulator.co.uk launch day to all who celebrate 🎉🚿

What is even the point of putting a game like Ninja Gaiden on cloud? Literally unplayable with even the slightest amount of latency.

This is one of the toughest things I've ever had to write. Hope you can make time for it. #Itagaki

@xtotl.bsky.social 4yo loves Pūkeko Who-Keko? and decided to draw his own version of his favourite page 💙 (numbers in the top right are unrelated) Thank you for writing such a wonderful, funny book!

There is no better dressed MP in Parliament than Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan and he NEVER wears a tie.✌️👍🥰 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

support @videogameschronicle.com @gematsu.com @rpgsite.net @trueachievements.com @vooks.net et al (there are many, many more, I know) for the love of christ

Videogamer's new logo a screaming exclamation mark on the 'support independent games media' argument. Legitimately thought this was someone taking the piss when it was first posted in a discord, but no, it's on the site. You have to laugh (or else you'll cry)

OK but what if I don't want to share a road with "self-driving vehicles"?

Got in car with Mr 4. The not-kid-friendly music I'd been listening to earlier came on. I hurriedly turned it off. "I want that song." "You sure? Bit screamy." "Yes." 5 min later: "I want that song again." This is how my 4yo child got his first taste of blackgaze. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh4R...

People get super weird about the idea of a PlayStation with no disc drive, but like. Switch doesn't have a disc drive and it's one of the best-selling consoles of all time???

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

Damn, they should have just gone ahead with it. Anyone who gets mad about KKK being correctly portrayed as villains deserves to be miserable.

It cannot be stressed enough that the majority of right wingers that engage in culture war nonsense are people who have PsyOp'd themselves into seeing "pattern recognition" everywhere in the same way that biblical numerologists have a heart attack every time they see the number 666 somewhere.

If Winston truly believes Chlöe is responsible for his broken window then logically it follows that he must be accepting personal responsibility for every single death threat made to Benjamin Doyle and their whanau.

Friendly reminder that every time you see a cosmetic you want in FFXIV mobile, you have to pay to get jobs beyond your first one, pay for the battle pass if you want to get it at a half decent level because xp gain is horrendously slow otherwise oh and pay to dye things.

Hear me out: Nintendo Switch Online - Dreamcast Classics

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

Please don't call it that

peak STG performance.....

I don’t know how to make this simple enough for our government. Best way make economy go Brrrrrmmmm is give $$ to poors cause they spend it.

Nats clutch their pearls and sanction Chloe in the house then call everyone a snowflake when they spout shit #nzpol

I'm taiko no tatsujin God✨ taiko no tatsujin is best🤍

🚀🚀LITTLE ROCKET LAB IS OUT NOW!!! 🚀🚀 4 years of development, finally available on Steam and Game Pass store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/... RTs unbelievably appreciated!! <3

I actually agree that MPs should feel safe in their homes*. Benjamin should feel safe in their home. They should feel like their child is safe. Hana should feel safe in her home. Winston *directly caused* AND downplayed the harm those two people faced. It's the hypocrisy for me.

So Flacco gets to play against Baltimore three times in one season?

it is imperative that we get Joe Flacco at least one start on the 2026 Steelers so he can complete the AFC North set

SOOOON

Get ready to suit up, Washers 💦 You'll be able to collect your keys and get busting grime October 23rd! Coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2

"We're putting the bad-at-maths hallucination machine to work in Treasury. This is fine."

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

OK so when do we get Pokemon Conquest on Switch