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dubbed this one forever ago, forgot to repost it
my favorite “modern classic” tumblr post
"Mobert Roses". I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards! (thanks for the reccy Casey)
Hey folks, added Car Park Capital to my Steam Curator, an absurd and brilliant satire of car culture with a nice isometric artstyle, feels like the kind of game Bullfrog would've made at their peak, jammed somewhere between Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper, except you play even more of a villain.
they're out there, but a warning - we can be demanding
Something I love to do in my writing is to make antagonists reveal something personal early on so the protagonist can weaponize it and taunt them with it during later confrontations. Players can have a little toxicity, as a treat!
Emperor Vitellius may not have known the North American continent existed but he was spiritually from New Jersey
Daily life of Ordo Mediare Armed Sisters #3 "Jesus Christ! Why do I always have to wake up by these noisy jackdaws? How I love watching you poor nuns train so hard every day, with all these shabby equipment."
Those Landsknechts know how to put their fashionable weapons to good use, not just treating them as decoration.
Robin (Fire Emblem Awakening) becoming corrupted by the Grima dragonstone (in her Fell Tactician form in Fire Emblem Heroes) and becoming possessed by Grima 🥰🫣 From June 2025 rewards
I can't wait to hear all the disingenuous arguments about how this would "destroy the industry" or whatever.
Democratic Congress member Ritchie Torres is introducing legislation in Congress to regulate digital video game ownership. "A game that can be taken away the moment a company pull... https://kotaku.com/rep-ritchie-torres-announces-congressional-legislation-to-protect-video-game-ownership-2000746395
Let's extend that to all digital licenses, not just games. Adobe should be required by law to allow me to download the version of Illustrator I bought from the student bookstore in college with my employee discount from the campus newspaper.
I've only recently realized the potential of the musketeer design.
Just like when a man stormed a Planned Parenthood and shot five cops and six civilians looking for the people selling "baby parts" and then Fox News never mentioned it again.
some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from
people who get super aggro and holier-than-thou about metric are so fucking annoying. like honestly i get it if you hate america but at least hate us for something that matters and find something less lame to care about.
Trans people get called extremists for saying “hey don’t watch a wizard tv show.” Meanwhile people out here literally calling for legislative bans on our existence are propped up as feminist icons. Really just shows how those who make people uncomfortable or disrupt consumption are vilified.
Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food | CNN
Hackers raised the temperature of refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets to as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, causing fires and spoiling food.
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watching this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=spq0... and he just said an RPG "featured AI images in place of art" and i fucking love that phrasing not "AI art" but "AI images *instead* of art"
I used to like AI...
YouTube video by Mystic Arts
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lot of people whose greatest contribution to freeing Palestine is Posting suddenly determined to prove that Mahmoud Khalil is a Zionist plant on the basis of some work he did in Syria (where his family was after being expelled from Palestine)
Everyone in creative work for hire knows most of the job is clients asking you for something bad and stupid and you figuring out how to make something completely different while convincing them it's what they asked for. The AI era means everyone gets to see what clients actually want
Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners