finally i get the drinkable cheeseburger lore

is today’s HHN house announcement based loosely on the novel tender is the flesh

I wrote about level design readability: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

this is literally an american dad b-story

Judge Mark Pittman, who signed the case over to Judge Reed O'Connor, is who presided over the Prairieland trial in the US Northern District of Texas, where the protest occurred. O'Connor, who's had a role in several anti-trans DOJ efforts, handed down some of the sentences with Pittman yesterday.

This week I learned Photoshop can slut-shame. So I spent a video testing Adobe's moderation system, seeing what triggers it, and discovering that Photoshop may be judging my outfits harder than half the internet - youtu.be/sWcnBBrJ5cw

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

glanced at the list of top 50 played demos from last week's Steam Next Fest and there was no overlap (other than a game or two) with anything i was looking at or interested in. wherever the mainstream is at this point, guess i'm still very much outside of it store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfes...

On one hand GTA6 is The Most Video Game. It embodies more or less all of the worst excesses of a dying games industry. It is the capstone to an era of games that is no longer viable; a swan song to video games' monoculture and the idea of blockbuster tentpoles so important you *have* to play them.

this is what it feels like to make a game

I think the thing I like the most about Claire Valdez is that she not only takes bold stands in support of trans people, but that when people on the right try to use those positions to attack her, she's just like, "yes, that is correct."

"Are you playing like a spy or playing like James fucking Bond?"

More work on the inventory. Pretty happy with how its looking so far! #lowpoly #horror #gamedev #retro #PSX #PS1 #indie #indiehorror

Sorry, just checking I have this right, union buster rockstar wants you to pay eighty fucking quid for a box with no disc... And they still haven't shown a single second of gameplay? Videogames are a v unserious place

Christ. This is death camp shit.

there's always a bigger fish

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

It's doable in a major metropolitan area in a deep blue state where a once-in-a-generation political talent has become a beloved celebrity the city is still in its honeymoon phase with. This is not something you can, say, export to Texas or North Carolina.

Gawker, bless it, tried to warn us. www.gawkerarchives.com/gawker-was-m...

this happened back in May. I don’t understand why more journalists aren’t mentioning it in their coverage of the president’s latest tantrum.

personally I would stop fighting proxy culture wars in NYC elections

Hard to laugh at this when federal judges decided possessing antifascist zines are effectively a crime deserving of life in prison

brush burial: bruiseland.

It's hard to even know what to say or do when things get this bad, but here's one of Daniel's oh-so-scary drawings.

the "it's inevitable" narrative is load-bearing because the Silicon Valley model isn't to build profitable services, it's to build sufficiently persuasive demos to court funding and now they've grown enough that "funding" is going to start meaning "government bailouts"

The whole description of this game is hard to parse and feels like a forum rant, but I feel like devs would get a kick out of this paragraph

LRT: I mean it’s not “bizarre;” it’s entirely on brand for a trash rag in the tank for Trump They’re not makin’ journalism oopsies they’re weaponizing their platform to promote fascism

It's okay, and even journalistically responsible, to say he's probably lying, since that would fit a documented pattern of lying. Not raising it is bizarre. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

No one should mistake that not only did the vast majority of these defendants do *nothing but show up to a protest* but several are trans women who will now spend the rest of their lives being tortured by the state. This was targeted. This was a show trial.

It seems somewhat bad that the richest man in the world can use his money to bankrupt individuals or organizations -- including officials who are tasked with holding him accountable -- that accurately point out that his actions plausibly facilitated the deaths of millions.

It’s been a big “fascism is winning an awful lot of battles even if they’re losing the war” day

from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism

A 'must read'. "...there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia."

Land of the free

A credulous media will be the death of the republic

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are roughly the least popular people in the world and Trump is at the nadir of his power, so the Democrats choose *this* moment to give these guys a major domestic policy win by passing the bill the Republicans invented to scrub trans people off the Internet

The sentences doled out in the Prairieland case today are horrific. Des was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines. There is no pretense of "justice" here. The judge said, “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” crimethinc.com/prairieland

The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

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Federal sentencing has started. Zachary Evetts was just sentenced to 50 years by Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor. Maricela Rueda was just sentenced to 840 months / 70 years by Judge Mark Pittman.

the engine we use & the games we're making

cultic is so good

Anybody know of a gaming laptop they'd recommend? (specifically for game development). I need a new Windows laptop and I'm not even certain a good one exists

I reviewed Thank You For Your Application, a game about finding a job, which is released in the midst of rampant game industry layoffs report.wand.com/reviews/than...

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

There is going to be new movement on KOSA next week Contact your representatives and demand that they oppose KOSA and the KIDS Act www.congress.gov/members/find...

Shot… Meta left potentially sensitive information collected from a controversial employee-tracking program, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models, accessible to anyone inside the company, according to an internal security notice seen by WIRED.

Oh!Ware is a reimagining of the ancient game of Mancala as a deck-building roguelike rooted in African mythology ⚔️Forge alliances with Gods 🔥Build unique synergies 🍃Brave through treacherous hazards and challenges #TrailerTuesday

pretty bleak perspective on music and the sham and grift economy from James Blake on IG (posted by Pigeons and Planes on FB)