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game dev. made a few indie games. worked on battletech and halo infinite. learning godot. amateur window gardener and corvidologist. hopelessly american and left-seeking. <gestures at everything>
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AI is part of the fascist project to make us all stupider and more impoverished and dependent on the tech overlords, pass it on

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

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

If you're not careful, the most tax avoidant and tax sheltered people in the entire world may move somewhere else and not pay their taxes in that place either.

i maintain that all of this can be traced back to the explosion of AAA budgets. higher fidelity means games become more expensive which means they must be designed to appeal to the largest possible audience. i think playtesting can be a good thing but not when it's used to file off every edge.

if only they had given 72-hour notice to all the people they have been detaining...

me: haha how could anyone be so gullible that they'd buy magic beans tech industry: the next big thing is a Money Algorithm that you run on a billion GPUs all at once to get Even Richer. Venture capital has given us infinity money for this concept. We have no business model. me: ah.

please don’t put in the newspaper that that i got swamp ass

I think it is underappreciated how many discourse takes are driven by intraprofessional competition and grudges

I don't want to exacerbate things. That would just make things worse

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

i do actual Computing on my computers that require beefed up devices, so any time i have to use the kind of entry level dell laptop that make up the bulk of enterprise computers in this country i am left amazed that anyone gets anything done at all

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

The Right branding the media as hopelessly liberal to create an entire ecosystem that benefits them is one of the better psy-ops of the 20th century.

The protests are nowhere to be found at all on the NYT homepage and merit only a tiny mention midway down the WaPo homepage. The NYT homepage does have three stories about Trump's parade and a story about, I kid you not, Kamala and the Clintons going to Huma Abedin's wedding to Alex Soros.

has that dude had his little birthday boy tank man parade yet? it’s hard to tell because the only thing the news is showing right now is how much people around the country hate him

the trains in seattle are completely full #nokings

I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.

I also realized that ICE are just pure uncut Slave Patrols. Snatching people off the street who then go work in private prisons for a dollar a day.

this statement was made just yesterday

When Stephen Miller gave the orders to ICE to conceal identity, Miller helped get these elected officials shot. He’s complicit in these attacks. Impeach, remove, prosecute, imprison.

“Honor your oath, bitch” is definitely constitutionally protected speech. This livestreamer was petitioning government agents for a redress of grievances

happy friday!

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Remember when that celebrity nazi got punched in the face so hard on the day of Trump's first inauguration that we just never heard from him ever again?

The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey. Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work. It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin

There's a fun little nesting doll of fascism in this, from -They tackled and handcuffed a US Senator -For asking a question of an admin official -Who had just stated plainly that the federal government wanted to "liberate" a city/state from its leaders

Important context for coverage of Sen. Padilla's getting manhandled and cuffed today at DHS Sec Noem's press conference: Padilla is ranking member on the Senate subcommittee that oversees immigration.

Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

The danger of the kind of escalation spiral we are in is starting to show its full face in that it’s not just the federal government. the parallel rightwing system that has been set up within law-enforcement is absolutely a paramilitary fascist force that will use violence to back federal actions.

noem saying thery're going to "liberate" california from its leaders seconds before federal law enforcement restrains and removes one of the state's senators from the room—like what else needs to be said

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I want to post about weird video games and all this fucking fascism keeps happening

When Los Angeles actually *was* burning down six months ago, these people didn't give a damn about us. Now they're spreading fake AI videos showing LA burning

Lol oh THATS why Whatsapp has been doing so many ' we cant read your messages its totally private' ads lately