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Software and content person. Writer only when there's a deadline. Video game and ttrpg nerd. Design history obsessed.
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ok I need to know what chemical is missing in my brain that I don't find what Nathan Fielder does "funny" or "brilliant." I've tried to watch but I just feel overwhelmingly bad for everyone involved

Hey so kind of confused why we're all taking off work to stand in line to get Real IDs due to the government's 20-year old fears of terrorists from the middle east while the president accepts a new $500M airplane from the middle east with zero discussion of implications

And when the store plays a little thunder sound effect? Incredible

I'm recreating the MicroProse logo (long story) and I was trying to figure out how I'd make the slanted M — should I skew it? To what degree? And then I remembered the best thing about old tech is that they did not overthink it — that M is simply highlighted and italicized.

The Spotify AI DJ just told me he has a set of music from a time when everyone was obsessed with fidget spinners and then he played a song from the Witcher soundtrack

On my walk this morning and I'm sorry but birds can't be real. You cannot convince me there's a brain inside that thing. And if there is? Too far from body

It's cool that Elon fired all my friends from the government to cut costs just that we can *checks notes* lose $200M worth of F18s in the ocean

It is so funny how it doesn't matter how many multi billions of dollars OpenAI or Google has, not a single dime of that money will go into making tables work on mobile

It's quite interesting to read about the CEO of Fiverr getting worried about how AI will undercut his business of undercutting labor

I went through a phase where I thought Chuck Jones was a little overrated but I'm smarter now. This is one (1) second of animation from Wearing of the Grin.

That scene from Rabbit of Seville where Bugs massages Elmer's head always brought me peace

If you're feeling down, please remember the Viennetta ice cream video set to Darude's Sandstorm

We are 100% building a new internet with even more duct tape and an even higher maintenance burden, meanwhile CEOs think LLMs are set-it-and-forget-it

Me going into a meeting at 4pm: well at least the days almost over and it likely won't get worse Me coming out of the meeting at 5pm: lmao that's an oops on me

Counter opinion: this game made me more irrationally angry than any game I've played in recent memory. But that's the beauty, folks

I saw Gavin Newsom load a homeless family into a Waymo and shout, “the ocean please” into the steering wheel and then slap the back of it to send it off like a horse.

This week, 27 years ago, Steve Jobs: We'd like to introduce our new computer. You can get it in any color of the rainbow :) Take it away, U2 Today: Should Tech Billionaires Run the Government? We Asked Four Different AI Models What They Thought

SVA's interaction design program naming their graduate showcase "Now What?" feels very right

Hallmark channel about to implode if they can't make the school teacher-turned-au-pair movies in Romania

Ok but like really, the ratatouille Remy makes looks so good. I would 100% let the rat make me some perfectly sliced vegetables

I miss editing dumb videos, and here's one that came to me today: Whatta Mighty Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Need something to keep you humble? Learn how to sew. Oh you've been sewing for 20 years? It doesn't matter, you will still somehow accidentally sew the crotch of some shorts to the collar of a shirt and spend 3 hours with a seam ripper while inventing new curse words

Babes I hate to tell you this but the water wheel and the washing machine and the GUI were not invented and implemented so that we could rest more arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/t...

Oh man they really got the Sherlocks out on this one

Unfortunately the button is back in rotation until conditions improve

When people meet me and say I'm much shorter in person than they thought I'd be, I find it thrilling. Why yes, I do project tall person energy

There are so many job titles in technology that should just be "Writer" but you have to call it something else so you can justify adding more decimal places to the salary

I'm so glad we've moved past pretending almond butter is a lateral substitute for peanut butter

I drew a little Lakitu to explain to a friend why I think maybe he's just an introvert

Could not have predicted that the timeline would get so rotten that I'd one day become nostalgic for being shut inside for months with the animal game

I think we should definitely make room for people to evolve as they age but also does anyone remember how this guy had a 117-episode tv show that featured a group of women called the Juggy Dance Squad who they got to end every episode holding beer and bouncing on trampolines

video games make eleventy billion dollars a year but we can only have one website about them, and it’s owned by The Bastard Group

Maybe crazy but I wish a place like Dropout would pick up all these Polygon writers and create a video game vertical. Would just be great to see more independent companies get into the games writing space.

This sucks so much.

Ok but what if I need the Tiffany crab lamp

does anyone else feel like gravity is inexplicably *heavy* in the original Castlevania? Like when Simon jumps it feels labored. He lands with a thud. It's like he's on Jupiter or something and I don't understand how they made it feel this way (I am sorry but these are the things I think about)

What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992

I don't know why society acts like 20s are peak, all my friends entering their 40s and 50s have only gotten hotter. We all looked like dorkuses in our 20s