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Interested in science, geopolitics and pretty much everything in between. Amateur writer (kind of a shitty one, but working on it.) As good as a boss as I can, I design & maintain complex online infrastructures for multiplayer games.
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Yoko Taro, creator of Nier and Drakengard, laments the decline of 'weird' game developers in AAA gaming. He argues that while indie games thrive on oddity, major studios shy away from risk, stifling creativity. #GameDevelopment #YokoTaro

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Important thread about how the collapse of gatekeeping institutions has ripped the threads of factuality that otherwise bind society to objective reality. In a previous era, Hannah Arendt documented how the collapse of institutions was key to the Fascist project. What’s old is new again.

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If Florida Man was a law school.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

GOG Summer Sale buff.ly/ieC6jcw #ad

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Eternal Strands is $19.99 on GOG buff.ly/bCNz4Ij US PSN buff.ly/vilHhCJ also on Game Pass Ultimate

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Such an intense short story followed by a powerful poem by Praise Osawaru and interview with the author.

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Video Games In 1970: This is Fruit Man. He wants to get all the fruit in the maze Video Games Today: Jethro Frëutmahn is the last hope of a dying world. This grizzled veteran of the Sustenance Wars bravely explores the onyx halls of The Labyrinth to seek fruit and redemption

submitted 774 days ago • 6 comments

Right. Niche question, maybe. Anyone got any good recommendations for academic analysis of queer (female) erotica, erotics, the queer (female) gaze in film or literature? Not really sure where to start looking, or even if there is much in the way of a body of work on the topic. (Must be, surely?)

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

posting this bc if I see one more doomer take im going to kill someone with hammers

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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look - say what you will about Hideo Kojima... but he is maybe the only person with that kind of platform and budget who is actively trying to do things that push the boundaries of games forward artistically... in his own Kojima-ish way.

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A few missions into the campaign (Slitherine sent me a key), and I'm really quite impressed with Broken Arrow. It kinda sits at the intersection between World In Conflict (singleplayer focus, accessible, cinematic) and Eugen games like Wargame & WARNO (technical, multiplayer-heavy) and does it well

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I think even well-meaning people outside of the sectors that have been directly targeted by the Trump/Musk junta don't really understand that for those of us *inside* of them, almost everyone we know has been rendered suddenly unemployed (or terrifyingly close to it) since January.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Shaw! Pose cutely with the new ARC so I don’t have to do something artful with flowers and a coffee cup.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

Qu'est-ce qui est bien connu dans votre milieu pro mais surprend les gens ? Dans un jeu multijoueur, tout est compliqué.

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? We’re really not clear on what religion IS. At all.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

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Ce sergent chef et sa famille, qui font des vidéos sur les réseaux sociaux, m'ont toujours paru dépoussiérer la com. Ils montrent très bien l'intérêt d'horizontaliser la parole au max et d'arrêter de se faire des nœuds au cerveau pour pas grand chose. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEuw...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you don’t get why people were sucked into Qanon, yet you pay the blindest bit of attention to anything this account posts, you do get why people were sucked into Qanon.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

A decade later I still don't understand how the response to stuff like this isn't "What the hell is wrong with you?"

submitted 5 days ago • 101 comments