*stares into the middle distance* They’re… they’re gonna license “My Neck, My Back (Lick It)” for a hundred different senior medical ads starting in about 15 years.
Ben Johnson 🏺👻
@gamedesignerben.bsky.social
Best of the Web. Minnesotan New Yorker in Oakland, CA. Game Designer. Previously: Psychonauts 2, Dead Space (2008), Babycastles. He/him.
If you love music in any capacity it is imperative that you voice your hatred for Live Nation whenever given the opportunity.
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 3h ago“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
I am honored to announce that in cooperation with the Toth family, I will be working on the official Alex Toth typeface in the coming months. The plan is for this to be a commercially available font via the official Toth estate. Stay tuned for updates.
@rangedtouch.bsky.social @ckunzelman.bsky.social Thank you for calling out The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age on Shelved By Genre, my first-ever shipped title, the most brutal crunch of my career, and one of the games that exists.
RIP Electronic Arts. Brütal Legend as we know it would probably never have existed without their ability to forcefully negotiate the rights for all the music on the soundtrack and celebrities in the cast.
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 21h agoEA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
David Rivkin, architect of ‘Minneapolis Sound,’ dies at 78.
David Rivkin, architect of ‘Minneapolis Sound,’ dies at 78
The producer worked with Prince, “Funkytown” and Jonny Lang as well as Etta James.
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Seems like a good time to mention my friend @garre.tt's AQI widget/app Breathable, super useful for up-to-date AQI monitoring: breathable.app
Breathable
An air quality index widget for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS.
breathable.app
The story of Kid Cann and the Minneapolis mob is, I think, ultimately sad, with its roots in the city's history as home to some of the most oppressive antisemitism in 19th century America—which is saying something—but he really did team up with Wall Street to fuck public transit for cash.
Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 3d agoThere was, however, one exception to this: Minneapolis-St Paul. There, a finance bro, the mob, and a crooked lawyer really did buy the trains and sell them for scrap - but that was the exception, not the rule. 12/12
If you haven't spent time in around the Great Lakes, it's hard to convey just how much local organizing there is around the idea that somebody is going to "steal" (i.e. sign a contract with the government for) the water, even before AI.
Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 2d ago"You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts. "You're here to steal our water!" yells another. Hell Gate spoke with activists in Wisconsin fighting a proposed data center....and Eric Adams?
Nobody needs to share the neoconservative zombies at The Bulwark, but a Republican congressman asking “If I abused my wife, why would she still cook dinner for me sometimes?” after January 6th is so pathetic it’s beneath contempt.
In that state of mind-racing distraction where I can go to the gym, pop in my earbuds and not realize I didn’t start listening to anything for 45 minutes.
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
This is hella bad ass, but the all the social media accounts I’ve ever followed that try to pull this off make me feel really sorry for anyone whose job depends on this.
Space Leech @ Otakon@spaceleech.bsky.social · 4d agoAt the Ghost in the Shell panel. Not even the screenwriter and producer have seen Shirow in the flesh. Shirow communicates only by photographing hand written notes and sending jpegs to his editor, who relays info to the staff.
Listening to what sounds like a sincere cathartic discovery of the psychological benefits of hooking up with your personal trainer while going through a prolonged divorce. Prestige dramas could never.
As time passes, I become more privately charmed when some young, energetic game-art-community person wants to ask me about “Baby’s Castle” and I feel the weight of cultural sediment pressing down, pulling the idealism from my bones to build new futures as I slowly turn to stone.
🎉Excited to announce I've adapted Party House from UFO 50 into a physical card game! 🎉 Teaser trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHNF... Kickstarter prelaunch page (shared w/ a Baba is You game!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit... Brought to you by @bitewinggames.bsky.social More details soon! 🥳
Party House: The Deckbuilding Game — Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by Bitewing Games
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A thing that lives in my head forever: for ADV’s original English dub, the actor of Shinji and the actor of Rei were married in real life, and they did a joint Real Audio interview on ADV’s site where the host asked if they ever “did the voices” when having sex, and they said “sometimes.”
Giant Robot FM@giantrobotfm.bsky.social · 6d agoin honor of the eva criterion news let’s all remember when wes anderson watched eva
Happy 65th Birthday to Laurence Fishburne
A thing I learned a while back that blew my mind is that men almost never receive compliments, especially cishet men. Giving a man a compliment will literally make their year
Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · 6d agoThe other day at the grocery store I told a woman I loved her cute green shoes, which matched her cute green top, and her whole face lit up and she told me the story of how she bought them Giving another woman a compliment is a great way to get a little serotonin boost btw
🕹️Wonderville Weekly 7/30/26: Wonderville's 2nd Annual Alt Ctrl Festival! us20.campaign-archive.com?e=[UNIQID]&u...
Flanders should go to Japan because there's a left-handed store in Gifu (appropriately called Hidari, which means "left"). They also have an online store that ships internationally! hidari.com
After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”
Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...
