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Yes, I do have hope for the future, but I resent how much of the present is occupied with dealing with bullshit. We'll get to a better place, but we're taking the long way there.

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This whole thing is amazing but I was not prepared for the reveal that Atrus was wearing a Hard Rock Cafe shirt the entire time

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Here's a cheat sheet for whenever you read an old sci-fi author

submitted 11 days ago • 103 comments

*Fetch, boy

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They should invent a season that’s less warm than summer but not as cold and rainy as winter

submitted 13 days ago • 46 comments

watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

I keep seeing ads for ChatGPT specifically aimed at students and we should treat this shit like it’s cigarettes.

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

Let's show and tell your favourite underdog games! Below 500 Steam user-reviews. 100, even better! Link it and say why you love it! Copy Kitty is a dense, technical Treasure-inspired platform shooter with heart, and a fantastic NG+ mode that continues the story. It gets better the deeper you go.

submitted 20 days ago • 218 comments

ok but for real if you want to make a really good indie (or AA) games the number one way is "be financially comfortable via other means" blue prince guy owned a popular website generating income, toby fox was a successful musician... frankly if we had a UBI youd get SO MANY GOOD GAMES

submitted 28 days ago • 32 comments

Today in #DROD video editing: I'm going to spell the number 101 as "One Hundred One" so that later on when I get to e.g. "One Hundred Twenty-Seven" I can linebreak it much more cleanly than I could "One Hundred And Twenty-Seven".

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starting a thread of NPC names I invented that made my D&D party so mad they yelled at me

submitted 121 days ago • 139 comments

" We have the right to go out and put together a sandwich and have it not kill us. That's a fundamental right, and the country is stronger when that right is in place." from the woman who literally wrote the book on food safety in the US: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 39 days ago • 32 comments

Snood cookies, ca. 1999

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

listen to chronically ill people. it will make you better at caring for all the people in your life

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

we used to have principles.

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Absolutely grotesque. YouTube has made a feature where they train an AI on your voice, and according to the FAQ it's opt out, but if I go to opt out there's… no opt out, because I haven't been opted in yet. At some point they're just going to turn this on, at a different time for every account.

submitted 50 days ago • 20 comments

Here’s @blackle.bsky.social showing a few of the CSS hacks from Cohost.org before the community shut down for good. Use these if you dare, lest you too get labelled a #CSS criminal. css-tricks.com/the-lost-css...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

submitted 57 days ago • 117 comments

FOOTSTEPPR, generate footstep sounds for your games games.increpare.com/footsteppr/i...

submitted 58 days ago • 23 comments

future historians debating whether dow jones, nasdaq, and S&P 500 were three separate gods of ancient America, or just three aspects of the same god

submitted 62 days ago • 96 comments

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 76 days ago • 919 comments

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

submitted 63 days ago • 917 comments

alt added:

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Alright, I'm breaking out the CLASSICAL MUSIC for this montage. That's how serious the puzzle-solving and pencil-and-paper note-taking is getting in an upcoming #DROD episode. freemusicarchive.org/music/alena-...

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GAMEDEV EASY MODE Character levitates off the ground, the air crackles around them. Magic suddenly erupts from their eyes, the pulsating beam hits a distant tower which explodes in an suitable cinematic way. GAMEDEV HARD MODE Character kicks their slippers off & picks up their phone from the table.

submitted 75 days ago • 31 comments

three ford pintos exploded in like 1978 and they got pulled and became the laughingstock of automobiles for thirty years and some poor soul gets fucking destroyed in one of these every four weeks or so and nobody cares

submitted 80 days ago • 16 comments

your daily reminder that chatgpt doesn't "think" or "understand" anything, and only spews out the statistically most likely answer based on its training data

submitted 82 days ago • 12 comments

The curse of spreadsheets has been with us for a long time.

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

the upside to S-E's stance on legacy reissues is that, for every ill-advised fad and contemporary stance on the aesthetic of vintage games & pixel art in particular, there is a corresponding Final Fantasy port—every attempt to time-proof these games has dated them to very specific eras, over & over

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Today I successfully resisted the urge to try to repair a broken microwave. It's important to know one's limits and choose one's battles.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Found while processing an archival collection

submitted 86 days ago • 11 comments

NEW PIECE- with a version in @rollingstone.com . Can the Trump Administration arbitrarily Take money from Anyone's bank account? The Federal Government debiting 80.5 million dollars from New York City government's central bank account suggests yes. www.crisesnotes.com/can-the-trum...

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Urban Dead is closing next week, forever. It's not the kind of game that wins awards or is immortalised by industry bodies or community grandees. But it remains one of the most innovative, anarchic games I’ve played, so I’m remembering it here.

submitted 94 days ago • 18 comments

The California Fire Relief Bundle is live!! Benefitting survivors of the SoCal wildfires through the Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE). Featuring 400+ games: Tunic! Tangle Tower! Catlateral Damage! Hidden Folks! Cook, Serve, Delicious! And more! $10 minimum!! itch.io/b/2863/calif...

submitted 101 days ago • 17 comments

This is really well reported and written and hits like a blade. There's no sugar coating this. It will get very bad.

submitted 101 days ago • 7 comments

real monkey's paw that we invented the ability to hold the sum of all human knowledge in the palm of your hand and then a few years later we're turning it into your stupid friend that pretends to know the answer to every question

submitted 110 days ago • 15 comments

2.17: Extremely Miniature Golf

submitted 111 days ago • 3 comments