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Calling it a night, but a thought: Sometimes a videogame is an Product, created by a corporate edifice of thousands, designed to pass time and have Content extracted from it. Sometimes it is a baffling many-buttoned artifact made by one very odd person, crafted primarily for their own amusement.

#apod 2026-11-04 The Not-So-Hidden Galaxy, IC 342 Image Credit: Artem Mironov Web page: https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-november-4-the-not-so-hidden-galaxy-ic-342/

At Gamescom I was chatting with a couple devs at Epic Games and said 'I look forward to seeing a bunch of AAA pull a Helldivers 2 and ship games in 2031 on UE5.8', and they chuckled and said 'yeah, we've been thinking the same thing.

Andy Touch@andytouch.bsky.social · 2d ago

Both Blueprints AND C++ Gameplay Framework being removed from Unreal Engine??

The city of Tokyo just introduced posters designed to scare crows away from trash areas and I need all of them in my home

#apod 2026-11-03 Comet PanSTARRs and Rainbow Meteor Image Credit: Eddy Metais Web page: https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-november-3-comet-panstarrs-and-rainbow-meteor/

I’d have to say one of the biggest problems with politics is that a lot of the people who want to be in politics are crazy nuts

A giant inflatable Urbie is the perfect gift you never knew you wanted.

Kasey Kagawa@punkey.org · 3d ago

Found @funranium.bsky.social's birthday gift

I forgot I had on lipstick when I smooched the pibble this morning. Oops. Haha

It gives me great joy to announce that at 3.59pm today precisely, it will be the tenth anniversary of one of the finest things ever broadcast

We're just normal men, we're just innocent men (Lauren and Hacker: full clip)

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At this point I'm convinced that there's a cabal of like, ten mustache-twirling villainous billionaires who really DO want to be the corporate god-kings in a cyberpunk dystopia, but can't go ten minutes without stepping on each other's dicks. Aspiring neo-feudalism by way of the Three Stooges.

AI stans: It's just marketed wrong. That's the problem. You're just listening to the wrong people about this. It's not this big evil thing Sam Altman, King of AI: No one should have any RAM but me

1987 on Nine, 10:30pm. Welcome to Cougar Mobile Home Park. High is the hair, low is the humour and negotiable are the standards... and every Friday night one of the girls declares they've "finally met a gentleman" but by Sunday he's borrowed forty bucks and disappeared with Bev's '76 Civic.

ME: a witch put a hex on me FRIEND: omg when ME: about F minutes ago

This one hurts. 💔 Rest well, Patrick. 🖖🏼

Therapist asked me to name my emotions so I told him I’m feeling pretty Kurt right now which is too bad because yesterday I was so Tyler.

Grim Fandango (LucasArts) was released 28 years ago today. A masterpiece.

Grim Fandango Manny Calavera

Alt: Grim Fandango Manny Calavera

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Was going through my tweets archive and found this underrated gem

Whatever else you remember him for, remember him for this.

I'm really fucking devastated right now so instead here's the picture Patrick Stewart posted nearly 13 years ago to the day with the caption "happy halloween" of him dressed as a giant lobster in a bathtub.

consider also:

Paolo of Lost Pages 🔜 Dragonmeet@lostpages.co.uk · last wk.

Oh, captain. My captain. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86

He’s forever known for playing Jean-Luc Picard and Charles Xavier, whom he “admired for their morality, for their kindness, for their sensitivity, for their compassion.”

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"what if we invent a machine that kills golden geese"

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last wk.

Breaking news: Alphabet shares tumbled 13% on Thursday after the Google owner revealed that 'AI mode' searches were threatening profits at its core advertising business. ft.trib.al/g8Q9IPx

google earnings call today, they had to admit their own AI was killing search and ads revenue, literally their core traditional blue chip business. negative cash flow for the first time ever. would you like to guess how that went over

doodley 🌠@doodley.org · 2w ago

there has been a massive ai sell off in the stock market the past couple weeks -- aside from oil prices, it seems directly related to this. development has plateaued while at the same time massive risk is being exposed. the php vulnerability really put the fear of god in these mfs lololol

This comb was made by my great grandfather. It's a family hair loom