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“They keep screaming about indoctrination, but that’s exactly what they’re doing with these bills, is they’re forcing kids to be subjected to Christian ideals. They’re basically pushing one religion over another.”

if you work or worked at tesla - if you drive a tesla or hold shares in TSLA & want to talk about any concerns (or why you’re not concerned) about the Musk-Trump feud… hit me up. dm’s open or ping me on signal: lorakolodny.55 or work email: lora.kolodny[at] nbcuni[dot] com

Thoughts on yesterday's Summer Game Fest, which had its typical ups and downs that stand out even more amid the industry tumult and the event's (and host's) inability to fully nail whatever tone it's going for:

"The hat says what it says" okay well that cuts several ways bud, can't really play the nonpolitical card in *2025*

The river is a god & they killed her. It’s time for ordinary people to hold them to account. Excited to share the first trailer for our new game about dead gods & taking billionaires to court — All Will Rise 🌏⚖️✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXQa...

*Scarlet Witch voice* No more using “slop” willy-nilly

I think I've sold myself on the Bond game solely by looping through the trailer and listening to its very good music these past few days

the people who make this country unsafe aren’t immigrants. the people who make this country unsafe are cops.

"Don't murder Greta Thunberg and half a dozen other people in cold blood with US made weapons" gets a whopping 11 signatures in the House

I do like me a heist, and it sounds like I'll *love* this

This is the framing they’re pushing and it IS damaging. Animation has already seen it, shows slimmed down to one or two names that foregoes the entirety of the team, therefore you can manipulate that into saying the team is worthless/fat to cull when eventually you want to make things “efficient”

watching CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD and had a chuckle thinking about the in-universe tell-all book about the aides who knew president ross was the hulk the whole time

People and media often say Balatro was made by 'one guy'. I feel like that unfortunately may be stoking the flames of this David vs. Goliath narrative a tiny bit No it was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits

Gay appropriation of Narnia, but the only change is: Do not recite the deep magic to me, BITCH—

Kinda hope the Wu-Tang game has a reference to this somewhere www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB0W...

Yeah that guy sucked www.theverge.com/games/682033...

Do we think Capcom will be nicer or meaner to Grace than they were to Ethan Winters

all i will publicly say is that that showcase showed just how deep the cracks in the industry are; there's no hiding them anymore

That was....Okay. It still feels like SGF is in need of a stronger identity than "Game Awards, but Summer." Bigger issue might just be the industry is in such a weird state atm that the constant hyping of small teams feel weirdly inappropriate

Resident Evil babyyyyyy

LMAO NOT THE BIRACIAL REVEAL

No shade to the Splitgate guys, but they stopped supporting the first game like 6 months after it "left" beta to focus on the sequel

"This is an original, independent game made by 8 PEOPLE, as long as you don't count any support staff that definitely helped get it past the finish line"

OOOH

Resident Evil: You'll Get a Reveal When We Say So, Dammit

Mr. Zombie, I'll get back to running from you in a sec, but do you wanna put some pants on first

IO, I hate to break it to you, but *killing* Mads Mikkelsen isn't what people want to do with him these days

I know several people on my TL who would give anything to have Maggie Robertson sneer at them face to face

I'm glad we all agree The Raid is still sick as fuck a decade later,

Teasing a Deadpool game that turns out to be for VR is honestly a funny gag

Tom Kenney will play Spongebob til that laugh makes his lungs bleed

"This game has a friend pass" will be an easy sell to family and kid-oriented titles

Surprised the Dune devs didn't get any of the movie stars to cut promo where they play the MMO just for that extra "seal of approval" flavor

Sure, I'll play a Muppet game--oh, did he just curse

...did people like Atomic Heart?

Is there any guest spot Joker from Persona 5 won't jazzercise his way onto