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YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown you can SEE HIM he is playing in town you should go and have a good time

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Happy tenth birthday to a real one

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a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com

submitted 15 days ago • 39 comments

This is about board games, but the story of how small-scale research becomes best practice dogma applies to many fields.

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Great listen, an early window into the kind of online drama, conspiratorial thinking and grievance politics that are now everywhere, unfortunately.

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oh, youre here from tik tok? (chuckle's lightly ) Is that like reddit for babies

submitted 38 days ago • 780 comments

i love the story about Elon lying about being good at a video game because it’s not the worst thing he’s done by a mile but it is maybe the most fundamentally pathetic

submitted 41 days ago • 150 comments

It remains to be said.

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this is so good. this is so so so good. i'm running around my office screaming the lev manovich quote about how software is ideology

submitted 42 days ago • 48 comments

Trying to bomb extremism out of existence has never worked. Pointing this out makes you naive while insisting it's effective makes you an elder statesman.

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Cool games I played this year (gonna be a short list). Solium Infernum: Weeks of asynchronous scheming in a hellish strategy game laser-targeted at our friend group.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Following the 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 roundups, writers deconstruct the year with short stories. This was 2024, told by 102 people. intothespine.com/2024/12/30/s...

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

The reactive nature of social media is wild. Do we really need to walk backwards into a "The graphics/hardware arms race is good, actually" stance because you dislike an article or can name a bigger problem?

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Dreams on a Pillow is racing towards its target now! If you care about video games and Palestine, please consider supporting Rasheed and his team 🇵🇸

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments

My phone generated one of those precious memories slideshows, but it's just pictures I took of hams and meats at the store to send to my partner like "You want this one?"

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As noted, the bigger problems are lazy arguing, weird potshots and the constant self-aggrandizing. But yes, it's also bloated beyond belief.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Tucked into the Cass Report, deep in the appendices, you'll find that they reviewed thousands of patient records and found no one who'd been harmed by puberty blockers and fewer than 10 detransitions.

submitted 77 days ago • 33 comments

a cloak believed to belong to the shooter transformed into a dozen beautiful white doves and flew away, Authorities said,

submitted 81 days ago • 322 comments

Just one of several moments in the last 14 months where I wonder whether this is when ostensibly progressive people in my life confront their indoctrination & experience the soul-shaking horror of their own mealy-mouthed complicity

submitted 83 days ago • 11 comments

sitting in a waiting room this morning while my partner had a 6 hour long cancer removal surgery when I saw the news that the insurance CEO was shot. Im paying out of pocket because the best alternative for us is partial coverage @ 1000 a month with a 15000 deductible. Anyway heres a unrelated comic

submitted 84 days ago • 497 comments

Kanit Niladon is a Dark Elf Barbarian at the Kaushtababi Ashlander Camp south of Molag Mar.

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

THEY DOXXED EA-NĀṢIR

submitted 95 days ago • 61 comments

I keep wondering what exactly it would take for Western leaders to reconsider their full-throated support for this guy, and somehow this still does not seem to be it - www.reuters.com/world/icc-is...

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A fun thing about the HL2 documentary is how many chuds probably see it as the prime example of before games went woke and how casually designers mention making City 17 as diverse as possible cause they wanted everyone to see themselves reflected in their world.

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ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY ROLL THE CLIP

submitted 103 days ago • 211 comments

Thinking of becoming an Elder Scrolls NPC

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jc denton: word is there's some secret, classified government program called 'operation updog'. deus ex npc: what's updog? denton: i just told you it's secret and classified. i don't know.

submitted 105 days ago • 16 comments

I still need a real job, if anyone is in need of a writer or editor or localization person or literally any work that involves either putting words in a specific order or making those words prettier I was narrative co-lead/loc producer on Cozy Grove & I’ve copy edited 20 titles for Choice of Games

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