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Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.
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who was on here asking about measuring the ROI of user research recently?

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Compare Vonnegut buying an envelope with this tech bro running from his life

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A lot of pro-AI people will be like, “This technology constantly makes mistakes and adds unneeded steps to work, but you’ll have no choice but to use it for every facet of your life whether you like it or not” and then furiously wonder why some folks aren’t instantly on board with the pitch.

submitted 6 hours ago • 44 comments

Trump in WWII: “I have just spoken with Hitler and Churchill and Stalin. I have urged them to stop this UNNECESSARY WAR. I am sure they will come to an agreement, because all three countries are eager to TRADE with the United States!”

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it was a huge fuckin scam? and none of you were designing actual video games? hope that helps!

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Spring in Canada…

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Apparently I’m closest to Tyrion (“I Drink And I Know Things”), which just possibly tracks a little bit. I have no idea how other people get 4 images to show up. openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

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Pence: "To have POTUS in Saudi Arabia questioning America's global war on terror & describing is as nation building & interventionist I thought was a disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform..particularly giving that speech in Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed from"

submitted 3 days ago • 1558 comments

Immigration anniversary for Jill and I today, and I’m at the cottage opening but Jill’s stuck in Montréal another week, so here’s this underrated Dylan tune.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Businesses forcing Ai on employees is infuriating. At least with previous techbro scams—the NFTs, the crypt—you didn’t have to get involved unless you bought into the lie. But now with AI, they’ve has decided the problem isn’t that they’re selling shitty scams, it’s that they gave us a choice.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Really loving our new weekly national tradition of asking the Supreme Court "hey, are there laws?" and getting back "I guess," 7-2 with Alito and Thomas dissenting

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Look at this beautiful data visualization by a man named Colin

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Hey, my fellow senior engineers? We’re load-bearing and often get to say LOL NO FUCK YOU to those kinds of things despite policies, so make sure you do that and not in a “fuck you got mine” kind of way. Stand with juniors, more “replaceable” crafts and disabled colleagues, thanks

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Fuck off Notion - ‘this shitty feature you didn’t want was $8 per month but is ‘free’ now! Btw also we’re increasing your monthly rate by $6’

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

Am I now trapped in some sort of time warp?

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"You get two dolls and some pencils. I get a golden 747 jumbo jet. See? You get more things than I do. When was the last time you said 'Thank you, Mr. President'?"

submitted 10 days ago • 934 comments

So I'm at a diner, there's a mexican family behind me. Tom Petty's "Free Falling" is playing. As they're walking out, the guy right on cue busts out "FRIIIIIIJOLES!". I laughed so hard the waitress started laughing at me.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

It's all fun and games until it has to be fun and a game

submitted 358 days ago • 19 comments

I was panicked that my 7-year-old might freak out during the face melting scene in Indiana Jones but she said "I guess he shouldn't have opened that" as seriously as possible and I've been crying laughing for 10 minutes

submitted 11 days ago • 187 comments

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

submitted 13 days ago • 1561 comments

So here is an article about the creation of the “Ghorman Massacre” from the TV series #StarWars #Andor. Funny story: turns out I invented it 35 years ago. Who knew?! www.theringer.com/2025/05/08/s...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

me: I'm done with the pope posts conservatives: we are having the worst day of our lives, woke marxist pope will give your kids gun control & health care in their sleep me: I would like a few more pope posts

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

I feel like they should really be working harder toward Sixtus the 16th

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In so many subtle ways an improvement on the original card...

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My characters in Caves of Qud die the same way scuba tech divers do -- they get tempted to go too far into a cave :( Also, "Djathripater" is my new favorite sultan name.

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