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Wife and I went out for dinner at Kura Sushi/くら寿司. Spent too much money, but it was worth every penny. They sure know how to not cook a fish. I didn't know they did dishes with beef, though I didn't try any.

we used to have Gaming Goodness. we used to say "fans of the genre will find much to like here". UI used to be visceral

Autistic people don’t need to be cured. We need to be smoked

Descriptions should be precise, if not technical. Connotation and metaphor need to be backed by something tangible, a box spring for a mattress

We've been playing Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition ahead of launch, and here's our spoiler-free preview on what's new and adjusted in the upcoming Switch version (that we can talk about): www.rpgsite.net/preview/1689...

I would imagine this means they've found a buyer in the intelligence industry for their LGM product

where the Wes heads at

wizard who only drinks sparkling mana potions

I actually jumped through the hoops to repost this on Mastodon First Mastodon post I'd made in years. Because yes, it is real. I found it on my phone yesterday and removed it. Google is scanning all images on your phone and potentially modifying them without your permission -- maybe more.

Thinking about FFX Columbo

A lot of Skinner and Sephiroth dialogue is interchangeable

crazy how Birdhouse In Your Soul is the greatest song of all time and also not even in the top 3 greatest They Might be Giants songs

the boys are back in town. that gives us a +2 buff to defense at the cost of 3 units of grain

The Palestinians and their supporters didn't create our current predicament. It's a convenient, counterproductive deflection to lay the blame at their feet, and given the degree of destruction and suffering they've endured, it's also sadistic.

A little tired of hearing people blaming Trump on Arab-Americans in Dearborn who stayed home instead of voting for the administration that murdered their families out of pure bigotry

- Yukio Mishima (1970)

a 12 year old 4chan fascist controls the entire american administrative state and global warming hit like seven tipping points last month so remember: make sure to get in as much gaming as you can now because you dont know how much gaming you'll get to do later

been watching Bob play Ace Attorney Investigations 2 and all I can think of is this

I think it's very funny that one of the main criticisms I see of the Civilization games' theming is that they're End Of History nonsense and in response, Civ 7's victory conditions are: build the World's Fair, create a hydrogen bomb, establish the World Bank, perform a manned space flight. yep okay

Actually that would be DNEI. DEI stands for “did earn it”

I wrote about Peter Beinart's muddled book "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza" and the necessity for anti-Zionist Jews to face the truth: a neat bifurcation of Judaism and Zionism is neither possible nor politically useful. proteanmag.com/2025/01/31/b...

This is terrible framing, actually. Autistic people do not need guilt-ridden mothers. I don't care why I'm autistic, though I strongly suspect autism runs (gallops) in my family. We DO need acceptance and support. And to not be demonized for weird antivax reasons.

everything I learn about Star Wars is against my will

Pentagon Warns China Developing Love, The Greatest Weapon Of All theonion.com/pentago...

the entire chip industry went temporarily insane trying to chase the infinite spigot flowing from the pockets of brainless dolts who'll throw money after garbage as long as it's promised to be faster than whatever slop was served up the previous quarter. but they already had that. from gamers

It's a good verbal tic. If that makes me an Eagles fan, Go Birds

He's a month late, but I like Brad Pitt's take on Jacob Marley

To plug yourself into the infinite chain of signifiers that never reaches fixed meaning, to thrust your unconscious wide open and retreat from the world of animalia - an entrance into the world of not only language, but deception - is a decision worth being skeptical of.

Every time my wife's MacBook fucks up and she asks me to help, I have no response other than "wow, I've never heard of a computer being fucked up in such a bizarre way before. I'm glad I've only dealt with normal computer problems."

You read this and it’s clear, on a basic editorial level, NYT doesn’t consider Palestinians fully human. Every Palestinian is presumed a cartoon terrorist, every Israeli a smol civilian. If you’re Arab, show trials by occupying armies and “admin detention” magically turn a hostage into a “prisoner”