If you are in the area and seeing this. Leave. Take your pets, your family, tell your neighbors, and make sure the have a way out. And go.

Seeing people in the comments saying that To a T was unfun and essentially that he deserves this if he can't make a good game. Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have

I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)

Update: YouTube straight up removed another video about loot boxes. They’re just hitting anything that mentions gambling regardless of context. What a ridiculous platform.

Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social

Vtubing already shares so much DNA with pro wrestling (character gimmicks, kayfabe, alter egos, improv, evil IRL corporate overlords, etc) When will they fully COMMIT Vtuber heel factions. Scripted rivalries. Stunt choreography. Steel chairs.

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

The thing that's never sat with me re:criticism about Expedition 33 being "baby's first JRPG" is that the people who actually made the game couldn't be more consistently reverent about their influences.

Jesus fucking Christ how the fuck do you look at everything going on, clasp hands with Republicans and gleefully try to make it worse? You all deserve a primary for Christmas.

We are not backing down. Our response to @rockstargames.com's latest statement.

The best way to grasp the situation in the computer market right now is this: One incredibly rich guy keeps showing up to all the grocery stores in your area and buying all the sugar. All of it. Every variety, every type, the entire stock. Got a whole parking lot full of trucks to cart it off.

Rockstar now claims it was, in fact, the leaking of “specific game features from upcoming and unannounced titles” that led to the firings. We’re going to have to see the company prove this in an employment tribunal & more than that, it’ll need to prove it for all 31 fired employees in the UK too.

trust and safety is like HR, they're not there *for you*, they're to protect the company *from you*

If you haven't picked up Rhythm Doctor yet, you absolutely should now that it hit 1.0 - easily my favorite rhythm game so far. If you already have it though, pro tip: Re-run the previous chapters as a warm up before launching into Chapter 6. Because uh. Hell of a difficulty spike otherwise.

every steampunk game is lies

Let me tell you it has been a rough month or so. But I just got back from accupuncture, am drinking a homemade mug of Heiße Zitrone, and am going to listen to some music...which means...I'm doing a 10 Song Wander. I know where I'm starting, but I don't know when it'll end. Start chill...

My point is that the problem with good practical governance is the same problem with vaccines. When it works too well, people stop believing they need it. DOGE dissolving a massive amount of the federal workforce is going to open up chasms in service and competence ppl would have never anticipated.

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

one day these awards shows will realize how fucking embarrassing it is to have a separate "games that are actually ABOUT something" category

pals you gotta quit spotify

The idea of a DVD being "a copy of your favorite movie/TV show that YOU own forever" probably sounds like the ultimate cheat code to the generation who has only know the streaming ecosystem and, as such, more aware of its shortcomings.

I’ll be streaming with famed American Girl Shoe Doll Designer Brennan Lee Mulligan!! Make sure to tune in Monday, Dec 8 at 6:30 PM CT on Twitch or YouTube! Drop any snack-related questions I should ask below : ) @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here www.vice.com/en/article/s...

First the stomach bug, then the cold, now I get scratchy throat hurt I swear, if I get a new cold for the third time in as many weeks I am going to be *livid*

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

Almost fifty years since Renee Richards fought for the right to play. The New York Times covered the controversy closely, running this collection of responses from their readers that sounds like it could be run today

Blue canarye yn the outlette by the lighte swicche Who waccheth ovir thee Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul

They do not care about legality

Cannot stress how bad shit is about to get if you want to build any kind of PC.

Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

I don't think there's a kind conclusion to draw here except that gamers and much of the gaming audience is *weak* in a real way. Soft, lacking callouses. Any "solution" to this issue has to come with first admitting that so much of the audience is comprised of, frankly, little babies.

every artist can easily do this when this happens, and if they don’t, we should ask why

was discussing this stuff with someone recently and i said that the 'games are art' conversations frustrate me cuz they're often about perceiving games as products worthy of accolades and praise, not seeing them as Art - the raw, messy, fallible end-result of human creativity. and welp!

incredible sentence here

Imagine calling your instructor Demonic in an essay, getting a poor grade and having school admins and state politicians back you; that's how out of balance and proportion the right has become.

Frog knocked at Toad’s door. “Toad, wake up,” he cried. “Come out and see how wonderful the winter is!” “I will not,” said Toad. “I am in my warm bed.”

The dang thing is it works! Shoutout to the old heads at farm jobs over the years who got me in the "warmup & PT before starting work, you 20-something IDIOT" habit a long time ago. Preventative maintenance goes a long way! Then you're already in the habit when it becomes mandatory.

5 out of 6 games Quinns mentions in this review are available and in stock at heartofthedeernicorn.com! Desperation, Skeletons, Tacklebox, Better Strangers, Fall of Magic, AND City of Winter!

it's advent you know what that means

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

this is so far down the list of actual problems with it but the idea of using LLM slop for journaling/diary/scrapbooking/etc completely baffles me. there are few other things that are -more- "the process/journey" is the point than that. even the most manufactured plan-with-me stuff is about process

The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical. They're AI-generating the music here. Fuck that.

I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked. Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight? Also go support Nakufin.

Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...

How much money must you have earned to have paid “millions” in taxes? Follow up question, how have you earned enough to pay millions in taxes, but somehow a few grand extra has ruined your retirement plans?

The internet according to Megaman Battle Network

ah the holiday season everyone's tabletop rpg schedule is fucked the grocery stores are more packed than usual and by all means against god, you bet construction is still underway

After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!