Ads misrepresenting mobile games is pretty old hat at this point, but i feel like you could have an entire side-gig trying to identify the real world game whose actual gameplay is most like whatever "Foundation: Galactic Frontier" is pretending to be in each of its many ads.

Show up in person if possible. Cheeto is still trying to muck with the postal service to screw up mail-in voting. Once you're in line, STAY in line, no matter what.

9 of the games that have had the biggest impact on me. (Except it feels weird that FF7 isn't on the list? But not sure which other FF i'd want to replace with it.) my9games.net/en

Skuld@bloodymorning.bsky.social · 3w ago

These are games which had the most impact on me, whether through introducing me to the genre, spending time in fun new worlds, or being interactive stories I could bond with friends over. my9games.net/en

This would have been such an easy yes. I don’t want to hear one fucking thing about this guy as a presidential candidate.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3w ago

Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.

New achievement! Doing something stupid and/or dumb but not being able to decide which it was in time before accidentally thinking to myself "well that was stumb."

for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:

Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery

Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.

deadline.com

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Golden Axe? They made a TV show out of Golden Axe? The game we had a cabinet of in the dorm lounge almost three decades ago (ouch) which was fun enough to play but had about zero story? That Golden Axe? ...and it's actually decent? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b1I... @jessiegender.bsky.social

Golden Axe’s Terrible Marketing Hid a Great Show (ft. Mike McMahan)

YouTube video by Jessie Gender After Dark

youtube.com

It's... Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious: I am the very model of a modern Major-General (My brain hates me today, apparently.)

Stargate SG-1: Have nudity one time in your very first episode because you thought you were going to be an edgy cable channel show. Then switch to "family friendly" for the rest of your 10 seasons & 214 episodes. Then have have an eternal "Nudity" content warning for the entire run on Netflix.

Several years ago Microsoft changed MS Paint to add (IMHO) unnecessary extra steps to "Save As" and "Image Properties" (for resizing), and my decades of muscle memory still has not recovered from the disruption to my workflow when using it.

"I miss AMVs" Good news! They're still around! There are 100-ish cons with AMV contests that get hundreds of entries, checking out their playlists is a good place to start bc you get curated, quality stuff. Last weekend there were 8 cons that had contests, here's a 🧵 with finalists playlists:

Trump has the ability to constantly prove that i'm even more naive than i thought i was. But i would think that even just suggesting the name of your state should be changed by federal mandate would piss off _everyone_ in that state, regardless of political affiliation.

Well i'm sad that Worldcon didn't give Amazon a big F you by awarding The Wheel of Time the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, but Murderbot was first in my heart, so i'm okay with this turn of events.

Maybe I missed something because I'm multitasking during the WorldCon Hugo awards ceremony, but did khoreo magazine just get screwed over during the listing of the Best Semiprozine nominees?

Me, a couple days ago to Avalyn: They can't just do book 2 for season 2 of Murderbot. They should probably combine books 2 & 3 in parallel. Chris Weitz at the WorldCon Murderbot panel today: Murderbot Season 2 will cover books 2 through 4.

It's day 4 of WorldCon, and my legs and feet are still recovering from the @scalzi.com party on day 2 of WorldCon.

I wonder if there are at least one or two people who signed up for both WorldCon and "The FitExpo" taking place simultaneously in the other convention hall next to us?

The "Barcelona on the Go" food truck was at WorldCon yesterday and again today. It's been about 13 years since i was able to partake of them on a regular basis. If i don't restrain myself i may end up getting food from them every day of the con =) (Wish the Lime Truck was here too though.)

Hey everyone at @laworldcon.bsky.social Someone dropped a large collection of different WorldCon badge ribbons between the Hilton and Marriott. We left it with the Marriott lost and found at the front desk. If you lost a bunch off your badge go check there to see if they're yours. #WorldCon

Down in SoCal for WorldCon, Either it's more humid this week than usual, or we've totally lost our acclimatization to LA weather over the past 5 years. We're used to the same temperatures in central CA, but the moisture is killing us =P

Make a band bigger: Brobdingnagian Balladeers

John P. Murphy@johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Make a band bigger; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

Hey @laworldcon.bsky.social i'm having trouble figuring this out on the site. If i'm physically at the con, and i want to see a panel that's in, say "Virtual 3", is there a physical "Virtual 3" room with seating, or are they locked in a closet and i have to go back to my hotel & get my laptop out?

For Worldcon Table Talks at @laworldcon.bsky.social, i wish there was a way to sign up as a backup. Like, "I am interested in this person but i'm not a fan (yet) so i'd like to drop in if there's an empty seat, but i don't want to be in the lottery if more people sign up than seats." #LAcon

I've been busy with work the past few weeks so haven't been doing much bsky, but here are some of the cats _not_ being destructive nuisances. They're generally not cuddly with each other, but the limited space by the window sometimes makes them accidentally _almost_ cuddle.

Wearing my WorldCon 2025 shirt while voting on the @laworldcon.bsky.social 2026 Hugos today. (Kinda wish the deadline was midnight instead of noon, but at least i actually got to bed early last night =P)

It feels chilly enough in this corner of the house that i decided to cuddle under a robe for a bit. But i don't want to turn the AC down now because it's going to be over 100 in the afternoon and i don't want the AC struggling to catch up at that point =P

So we were actually successful at keeping Fluffy Cat off the top of the fridge with the tower of boxes. But that didn't curtail his desire to get up to the ceiling The first few times he jumped up on the range hood we yelled at him & got him down. But we were a little slow at catching him just once