Not every problem but probably 60-70% of the problems online could be mitigated by understanding that people you don't know/don't like are still capable of kidding around.

The Nintendo Switch version of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker contains a model of a realistic man, called "Male". Despite Male being from a Nintendo 3DS development kit, the Switch version is the only one he appears in.

absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos

I barely slept... I'm really tired... and I want a rice krispies treat

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

I've almost completely lost my voice. Rats

can't win them all

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

For the past few years, I've been getting sick with a post-nasal drip in the winter, which makes me perpetually uncomfortable and badly affects my sleep, as is the case tonight. The first time it happened it persisted for months. I hope it's not nearly so long this time

Why is this tiny gesture so funny

Man, I was just watching Spinal Tap this weekend for the first time in 15 years

Holy fuck

Since the Analogue 3D is region free, I've been playing the two Japanese N64 games I have with Abby. Bomberman 64 (the Japanese traditional one) is fun, if bog standard, but Custom Robo V2 is a true delight. Has a Power Stone vibe. My friends would have loved it in high school

In my greatest hour of need, where were you

Looking at the reviews, I wonder if they're just trying to get rid of it

A favorite cartoon and also how I’ve felt about everything for too long

My favorite arguments against universal healthcare are ones where it goes “but imagine if we had that system and didn’t fund it and also it didn’t have to be universal?” yeah that wouldn’t be a great system I guess

I'm obviously bleaugh on AI guys being the collective Time person of the year, but inasmuch as they choose a person who shaped the year's discourse, I get it. With Kirk, it feels like two weeks after he got shot, everyone forgot it happened

We are sorely missing the kind of late night host who would say "wow, that's pathetic"

I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end

really enjoyed my time on the Playstation 5 this 2025 thank you to sony corporation

no idea

Here's a happy boy

It bothers me when I see someone who shares a lot of my looks (ringleted brown hair, close beard, glasses) because it makes me feel like I'm some specific genre of Guy

Ah, success. I corrected the checksum, and now can upload this illegitimate Pokemon Green cart to Pokemon Stadium 2

Keep measuring, never cut

I hate when I want to use a program with a niche application (right now I want something that can fix a checksum for a Game Boy ROM) and the developer's website is like "simply install by writing a bunch of gibberish in the command line. You might need to download 7GB of developer tools"

A weird difference with this administration is that when I see something like a recall on a child's toy because small magnets can come loose from it, I'm amazed that there's still a functioning arm of the government that hasn't been punitively quashed for performing a public service

It's very cold this morning. I got to school and saw blood on the snow by the stairs. I asked what happened when I came to the office and a kindergartner had gotten his tongue stuck to the stair railing and tore the tip of his tongue off. Egad

There was a rat with 13 two-week old babies at the pet store

hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone

Teachers are chiming in on an email chain about calling snowmen "snow people" and the importance of inclusive language. Meanwhile a nonbinary student told me that they and another NB student were told about this and they thought it was stupid. So who's to say

This PlayStation patent submission will never stop being funny.

Chalk is a cumbersome medium but I tried drawing Eno on this bar coaster

sometimes, which what i’ve learned from, of when’s all comes down to yourself — indeed, i might add — has always been them into some

Hey new MMO with gen AI powered NPC dialogue, how's that working out for you?

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Here they are being sweet

Snow day tomorrow........

Another communal crossword pet peeve: poorly written or otherwise ambiguous letters. Who the hell writes the letter I like a Z

I got the Analogue 3D. Remains to be seen whether it has significant flaws like the NT and Super NT, which have wobbly cart connections and (the Super NT especially) a tendency to fry saves, but it seems pretty solid so far

good news

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

it's itchio creator day today! Formless Star is "pay what you want", but if you want to pay, today i'll get a 100% cut! splendidland.itch.io/formless-star