Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

there are an astonishing number of libertarian weirdos out their whose entire worldview you could shatter if you just said "windows is capitalism linux is communism" to them

I put up with GNOME for over a year on Pop!_OS 22.04. It's a fine, perfectly serviceable Desktop Environment. but my god when I tried KDE Plasma for the first time it felt like I was moving from the year 2000 to the year 3000

This comic has always been grounded in reality.

"Dreamcast", a haiku Each day he rises. Asks me, "Is it still launch day?" "Yes," I lie. "Always."

When you meet another Sonic fan

I will not get my hopes up, I will not get my hopes up, I will not get my hopes up

Consider: 1. OpenAI is projected to lose fourteen billion dollars in 2026. 2. Oozeposting this year will cost me only pennies in electricity and internet costs, plus possible extra costs equal to the value of 1 (one) copy of The Ooze. 3. Oozeposting is therefore vastly more profitable than AI.

"I Can Safely Say Its B**locks" - Ex-Rare Devs Debunk Killer Instinct 'Panel De Pon' Rumour.

it's pretty funny that that guy trying to prove that bluesky has no sauce because his mediocre post didn't go viral on here is literally proving his own argument wrong by trying to argue with thousands of people on here about it

Animal Crossing New Horizons update is good

I've finished the first Ecco multiple times, so I've sort of taken the time travel, ancient Atlantean ruins, and aliens in my stride. But I confess that "dolphin prisoner of war gets tortured for information on the dolphin resistance" is a development that even I didn't see coming.

after over a year of owning our 4K TV, we finally realized that our PS5 was plugged into it with an old HDMI cable that couldn't do 4K and it had just been regular HD the whole time. I want to make a joke about how we didn't notice but I genuinely feel like I'm enjoying it more with 4K + HDR

Animal Crossing New Horizons update is good

Partner sent me this

hehe :3

I think the other part of this equation is why people insist BlueSky is "boring", because they join, don't follow a lot of people, and expect an algorithm to serve them Endless Posts. Even if you use the Discover tab, well, the Discover tab sucks ass. You just need to follow a lot of people.

it is interesting to live in a world where the united states has declared people of my heritage 'public enemy number one'

Here's a blocklist for DHS (ICE) followers as well:

I highly recommend subscribing to blocklists of people following the fascist government accounts as well. If you take a gander they're clearly full of new accounts that followed over from Twitter, and yknow, fascists in general.

Officially announcing my next game, and it's about: ...driving a 4x4 in a Furniture Store 🤣 (physics-based precision driving in a mini open world mega furniture store) Please help spread the word and ☆WISHLIST ON STEAM☆ s.team/a/4135570

a lot of people make media threads on here I don't really do that but if for some reason you're really interested in what I've been up to I've been posting pretty regularly about the games I've been playing on theunderscore.xyz

can't wait for 20 years from now when we'll start getting mainstream video games where you get to kill ICE agents like Nazis in Wolfenstein also hoping the same for IDF soldiers but I feel like that'll take some more time

My son’s name is also #$BORT

A reminder that a lot of oooooold MMOs are still alive and kicking. The original Everquest? Still going. Ultima Online? Yep. Star Trek Online? Sure. Dungeons & Dragons Online? Still gets expansions. Completely shuttering a game like this is always a choice, because small servers are cheap to run.

i can't believe this is working

Durante continuing to do the lord's work after all these years making Japanese PC releases shine their finest and often putting AAA releases to shame. You ain't gonna find anyone going above and beyond to ensure a current gen game originally released in 2024 supports GPUs a decade *older* than that.

a certain nazi streamer has been popping up a lot in leftist circles like "wow can you believe this guy is so popular???" and it cuts to a clip of him saying he lives among rat corpses and I'm like, "no, actually, I do not believe this guy is organically popular" and wouldnt you know it

lol

underrated aspect of being an adult: you can just buy Potato Salad from the grocery store and start eating it as soon as you get home

once again, defender of the future, secretly the craziest ecco game, is ignored.

I remember when Ed posted a pic of a broken down lawnmower that was painted gold while walking in a forest Then after some time, he got into N F T's. Unfollowed. I hear things are worse now So keep in mind there's a big possibility that said new game has a big chance of being made with big slop

I hate how comically dystopian all the issues with video games in the 2020s are. Everything costs too much because of corporate greed. Many games come built in with software that spies on you. They're using robots to replace the labor of humans. Croc is being sold by a war criminal. This sucks.

oya oya 👁️🔻👁️ #inART #いなート #art

new Ecco games in the news again and it made me wonder if Ed Annunziata had updated his LinkedIn Page now that gamers are much more vocally against AI bullshit. Nope, his "near term goal" is still to "create a AI system to generated ergodic game content."

Gamer Gup

Things you eventually learn once you've been gaming on Linux/Steam Deck long enough

REMINDER: The greebles come in two genders and five families.

I do agree though that at this point we've had ten years of callling crunch "bad strategy" and "unsustainable" and it has not stopped execs and directors from grinding people to dust with crunch. You are never going to stop crunch by making an argument against it.

The only answer to crunch is building worker power through unions. Executives would crunch even if they 100% believed it was bad for business because executives are motivated by wanton cruelty and a desire to exercise power as much as anything.

Things you eventually learn once you've been gaming on Linux/Steam Deck long enough

REMINDER: The greebles come in two genders and five families.

need to examine my brain as to why, after booting up Hades 2, a game I've been looking forward to for ages, I stop playing after 40 minutes. Later that same day, I play Quest 64 for several hours despite barely even making any progress.

Lots of possibilities.

Industrial design was perfected in 1996.