I know it's silly, and I wasn't in the situation that character was, but I felt genuinely seen by that episode.
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I know it's silly, and I wasn't in the situation that character was, but I felt genuinely seen by that episode.
When I was very young, I went though a "pretending I'm a robot" phase where I spoke and moved like Lieutenant Commander Data. Nobody noticed.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
A devastating new milestone: key indicators confirm that conditions have officially reached famine levels in the #GazaStrip. Our colleagues are on the ground doing everything possible to deliver for children in #Gaza, despite the immense challenges. Follow us for humanitarian updates. #promoted
This is effective protest, and I hope it continues. In general, I think Microsoft is an underrated company that makes underrated products and doesn't get enough credit for a lot of what they do, but they deserve *every degree of heat* on this.
After more layoffs, unionized IGN workers are done picking up the slack aftermath.site/ign-layoffs-...
If you don't love me at my seaQuest DSV you don't deserve me at my Star Trek TNG.
For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
a friend of mine who's worked on a somewhat recent free multiplayer game says this about player feedback that I feel like is very astute hearing the feedback is frequently important but responding to it well almost never means just doing what the players say they want
It's also odd to make "open-source" a main point here, especially when *the* reason so many other browsers are based on the Chromium project is specifically because it's open-source. It's not an easy problem to explain to people, so I appreciate the challenge, but you can't be flippant about it.
Fair enough, but it's important when making these kinds of arguments to reduce ambiguity. For example, if most people don't know what Blink is, and your goal here is to explain rendering engines, it's bad form to perpetuate the ignorance.
The general thesis of the thread is spot-on (more voices in the market means more interests are represented in the development of the web), but getting these basic facts wrong makes the argument sound disingenuous and hurts the cause. Please do better when posting about this stuff.
The near-monopoly of Chromium is a problem, and a reason I'm a Firefox supporter, but this thread got many facts incorrect. - Chromium is not an engine. It's engine is a fork of WebKit called Blink. - Blink and WebKit are also open-source. - Ad-blocker limits in Chrome are unrelated to the engine.
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ATTN GAMES PRESS MUTUALS: you want to play my game, right? It was made exclusively by big-hearted weirdos.
Hey folks I'm delaying the mobile game I'm working on due to Silksong, but don't worry you'll be able to play Cosmic Collision Course soon. yes this is an announcement/teaser yes it's a real game yes it'll be done likely by end of September yes it's free yes it features flappy-esque difficulty 🌠
There's no way Trump knows what the term "industrial policy" means. The problem with both methods of questioning him, trying to coax info out or using gotchas to trip him up, is that he literally never has any idea what you're talking about, so he just answers the question he *thinks* you asked.
this is fucking so insane as a 90s teenager
As a reminder: DK says trans rights. #DonkeyKongBananza
I am so available. But nobody gets me! store.steampowered.com/app/2000120/...
Like, they literally used sarcastic scare quotes in the subhead.
The headline and subhead do a good job implying the content of the article. I certainly knew what it was about before I read it. The only way you can interpret it as some kind of puff piece or flattery is if you live in the world completely devoid of context and history.
This article is a takedown piece about how he is merely play acting in the role and how his personal neurosis about surface-level issues, coming from his time in New York, are driving his current obsessions. I'm begging people to read these articles before deciding what's in them.
The article is about how he is merely play acting in the role, and how his history of complaining about and disrupting city government in New York is driving his current actions. I swear people need to read these things before they post their sarcastic takes.
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
Housing! www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
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"Here’s one of the more unbelievable stats I’ve ever seen: scholars believe that something like 40 percent of *all murders* involve the use of alcohol." www.vox.com/future-perfe...
one reason it is especially frustrating that centrist writers keep doing this "well crime is a problem" two-step is that the administration's approach to "fighting violent crime" is basically guaranteed to make actually reducing violent crime even more difficult
How have I not posted about Ra Ra Boom here yet??? I did the level design on this and it just launched!!! Go play it!! store.steampowered.com/app/2335060/...
Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.
Cities aren’t scary. You are scared. There’s a difference
Would the world be composed all such as you.
The word on this video game I developed is that you should buy it for your PC or Nintendo Switch when it comes out on September 23rd, 2025.
Listen... I have a video game coming out next month (Blippo+, PC/Switch, Sept 23rd, tell yr frens). Frankly, it needs to do big numbers so I can afford these two essential items this year:
I must continue to insist that this is not a strong regime. It does not have the kind of pan-societal support needed to enforce Gleichshaltung. It has significant elite buy-in and a small popular coalition, but it is brittle and feeble and will collapse if pressed hard enough.
27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
This is the kind of local journalism that feels frivolous but is actually important: www.startribune.com/we-asked-whe...
my serious analysis of the idea of a stewart run is that he is too much of a "pox on both houses," anti-politics, anti-partisan to be able to do the work of reconstruction and reform in the wake of trump. zeteo.com/p/should-jon...
Finally getting around to "Station Eleven" because I'm going stir crazy in my apartment. I've avoided it because I feel strongly that all post-apocalyptic fiction is morally bankrupt power fantasy, but turns out I like it because it's actually about how crushingly silly being an artist is.
One is actually a cute li'l scared-y and the other is a psychopath who don't give a single fuck.
Been stuck in bed sick for the last few days. My immune system sucks so these things always hit me hard. When this happens I always get revved up to start making progress on some neglected project, but all I can work up the energy to do right now is eat pretzels and play Donkey Kong. It's torture.
Alien: Earth features yet another amoral genius "tech CEO" cliche. This pastiche character is always depicted as an inventor or engineer, but in real life these people literally just run ad-supported websites. Can pop culture please stop imagining that Snapchat is going to cure cancer or whatever?
Exactly. "Complicate these dynamics" is such a great way to put it.
Totally agree, but so many games are *made* with that lens, too. Some of it is how the industry (including indies) regularly reaffirms those labels and aesthetics.
[Onion sicko voice:] Yes... ha ha ha... YES!
I'm not sure why no one has ever mentioned this to a YouTuber before, but when making a long video about a potentially hot button subject, you're not actually required to mention something that happened while you were making it which changed your approach. We all assume that happens.
Even as someone who *does* a podcast with three people around a table, I feel the same. My podcast diet is largely NPR refugees/wannabees. I'm always trying to keep our show from devolving into a "hangout/comedy" podcast (or going over an hour) because I don't fully understand the appeal of those.
As the person developing that version, I've had all the reactions to this news. 😉
Blippo+ in the news 📡 🌴 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
i think chatgpt has really illustrated how, for many people, the answer to “how do you know something to be true?” is “someone tells you”
Capitalism creates perverse incentives, but Apple is one of the only companies that could stand up to the US government, lose even, and barely feel the hurt. Tim Cook should never sleep again having done this. It should haunt him forever, and be the last thing he thinks about when he dies.
Same. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Not to discount the situation we're in, but I worry people have developed a perverted romanticism about being sacked by the Visigoths.
I am BEGGING people to READ articles like this before posting their pearl-clutching posts about them. I swear if someone posted an excerpt of "A Modest Proposal" to Bluesky a ton of folks would be like "I knew it! The corrupt media want us to feed our children to the rich!"
I spent my 20's in heavily male organizing/political environments where the bar was just where you went to finish talking out the project. There was a lot of sexual misconduct and I am reflecting more and more now on how speaking up about the repeated nature was seen as "proof" of fabrication.
These things are all connected. Gen Z doesn't drink as much is because they haven't been pressured into normalizing all the shit that comes with drinking culture like older generations have, and which Millennials tried and failed to mitigate. It's not a silver lining, Gen Z just figured it out.
I had to buy one recently and thought the same thing. Like, it's a very simple device, right? Then I thought about the safety requirements, tolerances, testing, and regulations that likely drove up the cost and figured "ok, fair."
Watching "Only Connect," and got the dreaded music round question right immediately when the second clue started. Yes, the first two songs are in heavy rotation in my personal playlists, but still. Normally they play 80s Britpop that never made it to the US and/or 18th-century fugues.
I don't really promote this much, but the 400th episode of my game development podcast "Nice Games Club" is out today. You can hear how exhausted I am, but I promise my co-hosts are more than enough fun to make up for it. It would be quite nice if you spread it around. nicegames.club/episode/400
The first thing I would do if given ultimate power over the whole of Earth is remove and then outlaw the missing vowels round from Only Connect.
Yeah, the problem is that the left-wing is as anti-globalist as the right-wing is. A future Democrat is not just going to need the political capital to undo this, they're going to have to make an affirmative case for global trade.
I believe that was their reaction, yes.
I feel like "people fool themselves into believing crazy things these days so I might as well join in" isn't a rational reaction.
"Colbert is 'off the leash and out for blood.' They continued, 'We’re scared. He knows the secrets. He knows where the bodies are buried. If we push him too hard, he could take us all down with him.'" Does this sound like Stephen Colbert to anyone? 🙄 And real evil executives don't talk like this.
These are unsourced quotes from a LA-based gossip writer passed on by a UK-based nerd-culture aggregator. Neither have any credibility on the musings of NY-based CBS executives. Anyone who actually saw Colbert's "scorched earth" Monday monologue would not describe it the way it was described here.
This kind of interaction is deeply exhausting.
France will recognize an independent state of Palestine in September at the U.N. General Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron said. “The urgent need today is to end the war in Gaza and to rescue the civilian population,” Macron wrote on X. wapo.st/45jiof3
Yes, okay. You're not arguing with me.
I wish movie theaters still did midnight/1am showings. That's like the only time I have available for that sort of thing.
I don't really know what that has to do with what I said, but I don't disagree with what I think you're saying. Corporations don't care about societal mores, they just want to avoid being caught selling child porn, and they're they're much too willing to disenfranchise all queer people to do it.
This is about liability, not art. Corporations don't hate smut (sex sells, the saying goes), they hate taking *any* risk of facilitating illegal or abusive material. This is a legit concern, but because they're too lazy to do any active moderation or KYC work, they just say "throw it all out."
I keep thinking about this one
@hodgman.bsky.social I laughed out loud when you said "I hate all fruit, because here's why" in the latest episode of E Pluribus Motto. I still don't know what you said afterward because I paused the episode to write this post. Truly, some of your best work.
As a Beck fan who loved "Mutations" and thought "Midnight Vultures" was meaningless swagger, "Sea Change" made me believe for a time that sadness was the highest form of art.
🎵 Hey, listen! I don't know how to describe this new David Byrne material other than "meaningfully dull." The lyrics are a bit cliche and the music doesn't innovate... ...but you know what, it *works.* But I'm a sucker for art that says "all humans are human." www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM-B...
Tired, but not a bad day today. Important to note sometimes.
Every time. If popcorn were a new invention, it would not survive focus testing.
You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?
Spent days on a webdev workflow. Decided today I gotta do it all differently. Times like these hit home that while I code every day, I don't think I'm a programmer. It's a *consequence* of being an artist. I *like* coding, but I feel less good about it every day. TL;DR: Webdev can pound sand.
I really thought this was going to be my year.
🎵 Hey, listen! It's sultry and innocent. Slow and urgent. It will set you to sleep and get you on your feet at the same time. #aldousharding www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnB9...
That's a really good point.
Plus, people seem to forget where they heard about it. So many "why isn't the media reporting on *this*?" posts that include a shared article from a national newspaper.
Trump having a goldfish-memory and being generally unaware of the things happening around him is baked into the cake.
People act like this is some normalizing conspiracy by the media, when it's literally a consequence of how human brains handle this kind of thing. Newspapers could be writing the "Trump forgot he appointed Powell" story for weeks and it wouldn't give it more impact in the minds of the public.
More and more the case these days.
Yeah, that sounds like what you'd expect it to look like. Security cameras encode at super low bitrates in segments, often with proprietary codecs. But this is just the total lack of faith populist movements have in *any* authority. They think if it's not mint in the original shrink wrap it's fake.
Like, we already have *plenty* of evidence that Trump was a sexual predator. So it is almost better if there's nothing to see, because even if it were revealed that he was on the guy's list as "#1 repeat customer" the MAGA faithful would have something to build up an alternate narrative around.
There's probably not too much there there. I know enough about video metadata to recognize a smoking gun and this ain't it. But, watching the authority-distrusting culture they created and fed now devour them alive, knowing that if they *are* telling the truth it's actually worse for them... 🧑🍳🤌
For a week I've been playing telephone tag trying to make a doctor's appointment. Someone there suggested I should leave another message and I asked if I *needed* to or if I could just wait until they call me back, and they told me I "should advocate for myself." Brother, I'm trying.
If saying "trans rights" a lot and featuring queer speedrunners proudly is too "woke" for some people than they can go form their own speedrunning community. Good luck with that.
Telling that Andrew Cuomo would highlight the problems of New York City's car-owning demographic.
My hot take on Donkey Kong is that his tie really shouldn't have his brand logo on it. Nothing, or maybe a yellow star from the logo, would be 100x better. Diddy can keep his Nintendo hat, tho. #DonkeyKongBananza
There is a video of it in action in this article, by the way.
Hashtag release the Goomba-with-arms cut. #DonkeyKongBananza www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/...
Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds are excellent, but they're also familiar. I hope their success doesn't encourage future Trek productions to play it safe. Trek is only as rich as it is because shows like TNG, DS9, and yes, Disco, rejected the status quo and expanded the definition of Star Trek.
The Orville makes no secret that it's "cover band Star Trek," but it also gets a lot about Star Trek wrong, in a way that doesn't just miss the point, but sends the opposite message. Like there's that episode about how cancel culture is bad, or the one where the slave revolt needs to be put down.