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Former boy adventurer, now Unwinnable columnist. Also found at PC Gamer, Kill Screen, Bullet Points, Heterotopias. chiltonm.bearblog.dev
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Walz: I own this. We wouldn’t be in this mess if we'd have won the election and we didn't. We have to make sure that Americans know it's not just that Donald Trump is bad, but we're offering them something better

"Blooming All Wrong (Witch Jar 2)" Prints Available! 🧡 www.inprnt.com/gallery/mari...

NEW from me - Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

Champion of the Battlefield. 29/31. #knight #armor #ink

Musk is unilaterally wrecking the government from within and lining his own pockets. Get him out, terminate his access to all government systems. If you can't rally the public against a cartoonishly corrupt bond villain who's stealing from them in plain sight then get out of politics

has anyone else decided to opt out of gdc this year specifically due to the rapid and intentional degradation of the US government? if so, I want to speak to you for a possible article. DMs are open, and my email is [email protected]

Spending all day getting random texts like “HOLY SHIT I’M SAD😭😭😭😭” because @ehnnerjamez.bsky.social started Disco Elysium and didn’t know what he was getting into

“We don’t have leverage but we have responsibility” is the epitome of Democratic Party brain damage. YOU DON’T HAVE RESPONSIBILITY! NO ONE IS GOING TO REWARD YOU FOR “ACTING RESPONSIBLE” IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DESTRUCTIVE REGIME FULLY CONTROLLED BY YOUR ENEMIES!

www.pcgamer.com/games/sports... Missed that this went up: I talked to the dev of FEAR FA 98 about how sports would be better if they were bloodier

wip

this, to me, is the key to why video games were so important for the far-right: as a medium they've really never been able to disentangle themselves from the overwhelming influence of tech. and so they're the site where pushing back against this tide of technocracy is met with the largest resistance

“There has been too much violence. Too much pain. None here are without sin. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. Give me your deviled eggs, the omelette, and the Benedict, and I'll spare your lives. I will give you safe passage in the wasteland and there will be an end to the horror”

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war god

back in like 2019 i made a mostly-to-scale map of the entirety of dragon quest 11. it was a lot of fun making this - walking around locations in-game and drawing landmarks bit by bit from 'live' reference

pizza plate floating island

Strongly encourage people to use an encrypted messaging platform, wear N95 masks in public to prevent the spread of disease, and fight fascism in whatever ways possible.

Strange Horizons' articles department invites contributions (articles, essays, conversations, interviews) to our special issue on Ageing and SF, which is scheduled to be published on March 30, 2025. Please send your pitches/pieces to [email protected].

JOYCE MESSIER - “Of bodies of water and forest-covered surfaces, clusters of light where the cities lie. You've seen the montage, we all have -- this world is enough,” she concludes. CONCEPTUALIZATION - It *must* be. This is the greatest and kindest arrangement the atoms had in them.

Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

It is the fourth anniversary today of the best lede for a newspaper article ever. I love the Irish. ☘️

bad timing

With the Amazon boycott starting I think it's important to understand what we CAN accomplish this week, cause I would be stunned if this hit Amazon hard enough to get their attention. So here are 3 potential wins...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza.

Fungal Cleric 🎇🍄 #dailysketch Day 66 #art #illustration #darkart

this is a Theophite thesis I’m riffing on here but I think that the conflation of consumer choices with civic choices in both directions has been kind of a disaster. “supporting” a business by transacting with it is really very different from supporting a politician with your vote.

Referenced Planet of the Bass and not a single person in the room knew what I was talking about so now I have to go into witness protection

to be clear, I don't think moral purity is a useful metric in media consumption - what I think is important is for both devs and players to be thinking about what message their games are conveying so that they can INTENTIONALLY shape the things they make and the conversations they have about them

Me on book panels: Sex scenes can explore dynamics between the characters that might not otherwise be expressed, as a moment of intense intimacy is also a moment of intense vulnerability. Me when somebody asks what's the point of my sex scenes : *blows cigar smoke* cause it's hot

Now this is a mood: "I think that in moving [my books] from one home to another I have conceded their importance, which means that if I were to leave them behind, I would be missing some part of me, which means that, if I am being honest with myself, my days of flight are over."

"When we ask tropes to carry the full weight of the book they appear in, we de-incentivize the deep work of building meaningful characters, textured worlds, and emotionally honest relationships."

if we're gonna be interrogating power fantasies in games on here I regret to inform yall that you will also need to interrogate the Productivity Fantasy that underlies nearly all sim and casual games

architecture~

trump: "democrats are weak, they're pathetic, they are like sick dogs to me. not people! they are not people!!!" democrats: *silently holding a tiny sign that says "not true" like daffy duck*

dressing matching to present a "unified front" except it's 4 different colors so no one will even notice is like, the ultimate Democrat move. i couldn't write something this perfect

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAn3... New billmakingstuff is what my friends might affectionately refer to as "maddicore"

①Путешествие Муми-тролля, Муми-мамы и маленького существа. 𖢖𖠰ଓ 𓊈20:15 17-19.02𓊉 ②Бабушка из электрички. 𖡟𖡛𖠺 #art #traditional_art #арт #sketchbook #sketch #art #traditional_art #herbarium #landscape