SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 3h ago

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

*chuckles in old man voice* that's crunk my baller

— cmm for @lynnlandra.bsky.social The vampire Caroline, and pirate Lina the Red, love and blood on the high seas.

Mom's report on day 1 of post knee surgery: she's SUPER happy with her new knee, she can straighten it, walking around is going remarkably well considering she got a knee popped off and replaced (she's using a walker and following all the instructions, so it's normal PT)

gonna make a game with guns that have absurdly short ranges "because it's easier to fir on the battle map please stop yelling :("

there'd be a lot of discourse to be had about this article and book if there were more than 4 black Brits on this website

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2h ago

In Britain, we equate blackness with the working class. It’s time for a rethink

Hello, I thought about Strange New Worlds for a few minutes today. So, in penance, here's my old thread on how La'an could be the best character of the new era if the writers weren't blithering morons.

Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎@rvengefulobster.bsky.social · last yr.

Y'know, of La'an had some fix-its she'd probably be a top tier Trek character. Keep the backstory of landing on a Gorn nursery planet and having mega racism. Have her racism be actually WRONG a few times.

A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING ELFGAMES

VERMIN@legendaryvermin.bsky.social · 2h ago

This movie feels like someone's fetish escaped containment.

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h ago

i'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else

...so, is Bullet Hell a bad genre name? because, like, Bullet Heaven is a reverse Bullet Hell, and that kinda shoots this whole concept in the head considering Bullet Hell came from the 90s. Which also gave us fuckin' Metroidvania, dude

Chris Franklin@errant-signal.com · 3h ago

The blog era gave us Ludonarrative Dissonance and Immersive Sim This era has given us Friendslop and Bullet Heaven. I think it speaks for itself.

"AND NOW, for my MASTERSTROKE—!" "Sir Pureheart, this madness has gone on far enough! There's no humour left to be mined from this premise!" "No! NO! THIS CANNOT BE!" "Surrender now, while you can." "Surrender?!? NO, DARKHEART. I'm running this joke into the ground, AND I'M TAKING YOU WITH ME!"

Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs@opensketchbook.bsky.social · 3w ago

"NOW SEE, DARKSTAR! My Rotational Device is now spinning EVEN FASTER, thus indicating an even GREATER degree of power! IT MAY EVEN BEGIN TO VIBRATE!" "My God, you madman!" "WITNESS as the lights slowly turn on one by one. In a CIRCULAR PATTERN!" "No, not—" "SOON, I WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE!"

i watched a youtube video talking about the beep chair from star trek and squaring that 1960s silliness with modern technology and understanding of disability and the solution is easy it's called "write new fucking stories with new characters instead of rehashing old shit from the 1960s, you hacks"

The challenge that pretty much every secular designer has not overcome is that religion is rarely, and only temporarily, top-down. It is maintained, cultivated, and shaped by its believers.

Clayton@explorersdesign.bsky.social · 5h ago

A short musing today about religion in fantasy worlds, childhood, statues, fish trophies, The Chicago Bulls, pancake breakfasts, and a dog named Scott. Hope you like this break from the usual. www.explorersdesign.com/religious-by...

:\ i gained 4 pounds over the past two days because food is delicious. If this keeps up, I will have to talk to my doctor about my serum

ya know what I'm curious about? What happens to people who go *off* AI Like, the deskilling happens fast. But do they get those skills back if they stop? Or have we not seen anyone go the other way yet?

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com · 4h ago

several studies that go into how fast/severe your brain atrophies even with short term use makes me think a lot of people will be severely fucked in the coming decades

several studies that go into how fast/severe your brain atrophies even with short term use makes me think a lot of people will be severely fucked in the coming decades

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 11h ago

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

Listen, strokes/folks etc, but "Batman Begins > Barry Lyndon" should trigger a wellness check

Die hard Nolan fans are out of their minds.

Dan Schkade@danschkade.bsky.social · 12h ago

Listen, strokes/folks etc, but "Batman Begins > Barry Lyndon" should trigger a wellness check

wowww i...totally beat Neverwinter Nights 2 guys I didn't hit export character and start Mask of the Betrayer!

I was having a super fun time in NWN2 with a few minor exceptions and then the final dungeon is just...the most...insanely, impossibly stupidly ridiclously difficult and annoying as fuck dungeon I've ever played in the game, I hate it? I hate it hate it hate it

the people of the dragonstar universe for the 5,000 years of rulership by the metallic dragons of the dragon empire: Haha, yes! Yes! the people of the dragonstar universe when, in the year 5,001, the red dragon Emperor Mazorgrim I takes over as was agreed in the empire's charter: fuck! SHIT! FUCK!

i will roleplay a chatbot for you for slightly less than the cost of subscribing to OpenAI, and I'll even suck your dick

i played metal gear rising: revengence without playing or even knowing a single thing about the metal gear universe but it made total sense because I just pretended it was in the same timeline as Deus Ex, perfectly coherent

*dangerously sleep deprived tweet* clusstery munitions

anime gave me unrealistic tiny vocalization expectations. I grew up expecting to be always going "hn!" and "hmm!?" and "gnnh!?" and "hnrn!" all the time

if i was a moose, i'd fuck up a car just for the fun of it

I'm listening to a MAGA vs Leftist debate and god MAGA people are...real fucking stupid.

iunno man if you get addicted to an AI chatbot that constantly spits out fawning praise that seems like a skill issue now let me stare at the website that constantly updates how many people love my dumb thoughts

elfen lied is like chobits for school shooters