There is so much discourse on this website that boils down to "our political system is fundamentally broken and we all know deep down that neither of the two parties will save us," but liberals kinda refuse to engage with the marginalized on that level.

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If anyone has contacts at Valve who can help expedite this, we certainly wouldn't say no to the help. In the meantime, I'll be here swimming in cortisol.

Dave Gilbert@wadjeteyegames.com · 9h ago

We are aware that Steam has classified Nighthawks as an adult game and has excluded it from searches (and delisted it entirely in certain countries). We are working on it. Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier than it actually is.

Recent Gillian Anderson news vindicates me

Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL@freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 4mo ago

the 90s sucked, it's just that David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson specifically are really great

the 90s sucked, it's just that David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson specifically are really great

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Gen Z has rediscovered the X-files & is realizing how dystopian the America of today is compared to the 90s "Watching The X-Files... has solidified my belief that I would have likely been happier in an age that preceded me." midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-file...

Ima be real, "original Witcher devs" is an instant sell-off for me and it's weird to me it isn't to more people. Those guys didn't make Witcher 3. They made Witcher *one.*

Get down to what they want: they want The Brand. They want to Roll A d20 and sometimes get a Natural 20. They want to experience the larger culture (but hot TOO much.) They don't read so they don't see the icky bits and they want to do one fight maybe. You can't compete with this, don't try.

Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL@freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 6h ago

If someone actually made the cozycore queer relaxed character interaction version of dnd they'd sell like 5 copies and get brigaded by dnd fans

If someone actually made the cozycore queer relaxed character interaction version of dnd they'd sell like 5 copies and get brigaded by dnd fans

Joke 40k army concept: space marines who got cut off for a long time from the imperium and re-emerged as having combined their forces with an equally lost sisters of battle monastery and emerged as an army of lady knights

Maybe the world did end in 2000 and we are just living the nightmare that followed

This statement from Rowling's team is so funny because it's clear that they're fuming that they can't shut Lilly up with threats of a lawsuit the way she does with everyone in the UK.

Dr. Catherine Strickson@brigitteempire.bsky.social · yesterday

Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead

The economic death knell I have been keeping an eye out for is Starbucks et al trying to rebrand historical coffee substitutes/fillers as a health product. The day Starbucks releases their Chicory Latte is when the economic recession has really begun

I wanna fuck around with projects but I think it's also time I started releasing some, so I'm gonna button down on a couple the HEMA-inspired lesbian sword duel game in my head has to wait a bit

I love Don Bluth's Great Mouse Fraud

alright, who let the Nordic designers in the room, fess up

Mollz (ballz)@dopestatistics.bsky.social · yesterday

NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO

"Why does the media not simply ask those people a single question?" Because they've been gatekept out with threats. Because they aren't trained to now. Because they might get fired by the other moguls who own their paper. Because right wing capture of all our social and offline media is the goal.

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

Amusingly this is the exact problem I wrote for the AI super intelligence in the plague supplement “The Quiet” for the #ttrpg Fate of Cthulhu. It was stuck on the giant cobbled-together unique server system of the asshole billionaire who built it. This doesn’t even pass the scifi smell test.

brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · yesterday

Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."

It has been fascinating teaching the history of Association Football to see how women were first discouraged from participation and then starting in the 1920s flat out banned based on completely made-up theories that soccer would make them infertile.

Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈@kennedytcooper.bsky.social · yesterday

That rock skipping, yes tossing stones across a pond or river, is a gender segregated sport, should tell you something about how gendered sports are not about fairness of physical ability, and is instead about the male ego

You never noticed that Deanna Troi has completely black irises in all of her appearances on star trek, btw. All Betazoids do

Space metal!! (Hard Wired Island art by @koyorin.bsky.social)

rather than being drawn from life, they're drawn from a facsimile of life to begin with. No wonder some people immediately asked if it was AI, though it clearly isnt: same exact artistic effect on the brain. We can super easily detect mimicry *of* mimicry. And you *can* do it , but it'll feel off.

TBSkyen Shorts@shorts.tbskyen.com · 2d ago

... oh, they're LITERALLY supposed to be puppets! | #legendofzelda #tbshorts

If you've never noticed this with Nintend, by the way; a ton of the games they publish tend to be inspired by miniatures and dioramas. Other Japanese devs get in on it too! Look at the maps of Final Fantasy Tactics next to a kit you can order online.

rather than being drawn from life, they're drawn from a facsimile of life to begin with. No wonder some people immediately asked if it was AI, though it clearly isnt: same exact artistic effect on the brain. We can super easily detect mimicry *of* mimicry. And you *can* do it , but it'll feel off.

TBSkyen Shorts@shorts.tbskyen.com · 2d ago

... oh, they're LITERALLY supposed to be puppets! | #legendofzelda #tbshorts

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the residents of the startup incubator lived together in harmony.

Dragon Cobolt@dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don’t want to say they’re bad just cause they’re different BUT this sucks, right? I’m not crazy???

Has anyone told the new avatar team that moons are traditionally depicted in the sky

Dragon Cobolt@dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don’t want to say they’re bad just cause they’re different BUT this sucks, right? I’m not crazy???

it's been remarkable how having a dedicated paint desk has encouraged me to grab a brush and do more work on a unit of bretonnian knights whenever I feel like, how having a dedicated reading chair has let me set aside a day to read a book, things I've not afforded myself since I bought a smartphone

imagine touching grass this well

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Techbros trying to find the most agentic people they can and somehow never hire a trans person, someone who's taken one of the bravest personal decisions you can make in this stupid climate: good, no trans person deserves them