The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

"Surely expanding the list to 20 would show plenty of new games" Well. Sure. Each list had exactly one new game reach the top 20. The rest were mostly long running live service or annualized sports titles. This is just the PS/XBX market right now.

Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · 2d ago

Circana Player Engagement Tracker - US Top 10 Titles by Weekly Active Users (Not Concurrent) - W/E Jul 25, 2026 - Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls debuted 17th on PlayStation - Shift at Midnight ranked 17th on Xbox in launch week - Path of Exile jumped to 19th on Steam from 119th a week ago

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 4d ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

One thing video games have over film is collecting shards. Regardless of how big Christopher Nolan goes with his camera, his movies will never allow us to collect shards.

This administration truly cannot live down the assessment that they'd all prefer to be podcasting than doing their actual jobs.

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 6d ago

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Yeah, we celebrate our democracy in the fuck whale. It's tradition.

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button

Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.

404media.co

Rush Creek Reserve is a limited seasonal release from Uplands Cheese in Wisconsin and I make sure to secure one every year. Soft and custardy and intensely savory, this cheese is an umami bomb in a spruce bark wrapper. IMO Best paired with potatoes, thick bacon, cornichons, and beer.

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.

People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese

I know Midwest Nice is real because I moved from Illinois (where I grew up) to Texas and all of the sudden I've had multiple occasions where fast food workers have thanked/complimented me on being friendly.

Meanwhile, over on the other site, Governor Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick are being attacked as Soft on Islam RINOs by... ....Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo star Rob Schneider.

hardware prices 🤝 astrology keeping an eye on chinese ram

In the last week, a GOP nominee for statewide office: -Apparently invoked the conspiracy theory that led to the Holocaust -Called to round up Chinese people -Quoted an obscure white nationalist novel -Called the nonworking "low IQ parasites" We asked GOP leaders to respond. None did. (Gift link).

A GOP Nominee for Texas Office Keeps Peddling Fascist Ideas

Bo French was once criticized by members of his party for his offensive posts. Now that he’s the nominee for the Railroad Commission, they’re silent.

texasmonthly.com

The adoption of the 'ty' beanie babies tag logo into corporate Slack emoji culture is fascinating to me. Personally, I can't *not* see it as the beanie baby tag first and foremost even though I haven't seen it in that context irl in decades

Common example I've prob mentioned before: I'll ask them to make a board game in class. I come over. They mention rolling 1d6 to move. Me: "Why are you rolling to move?" MOST COMMON RESPONSE: [entire group stares at me for a second] "It's a board game."

Fox Harper@foxharper.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sorry one of the first lectures I give my advanced design students is "right tool, right job" and randomness is the tool I use as an example of something that frequently makes it into game designs by INERTIA, not because it adds something meaningful to the system structure.

The world may be a dumpster fire but there is both a DFW stationary store crawl *and* a DFW indie bookstore crawl in August so I have something to rejoice in.

JIMOTHY TRIBUTE

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

This feels gross. https://kotaku.com/this-feels-gross-2000717133

Xbox Is Begging Us To Think About Fallout 5 Instead Of Layoffs

'What matters the most is that the games are good'

kotaku.com

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

we are looking for a UI/UX director who's passionate about D&D to join our digital games team at Wizards 🪄 job-boards.greenhouse.io/hasbro/jobs/...

NEW: I spoke to multiple people impacted by the job cuts at Xbox to understand how the latest round of mass layoffs played out and what it means for the embattled video game division moving forward. This is their story.

Inside the latest round of mass layoffs at Xbox

Multiple workers impacted by the latest job cuts at Xbox believe the decision will hamstring some studios.

gamedeveloper.com

I just want everyone back home in the Midwest to know that here in Texas they only recently got Jets Pizza so I keep getting review videos gushing over it as if it’s some exotic gourmet restaurant and I’m dying inside 😂 They’re even romanticizing the ranch dressing

It is incredibly hard to relax when the radar is clear, there are no warnings or alerts, and yet your Midwestern brain cannot stop looking outside at an eerily still and sickly-hued overcast day and thinking, “Tornado weather.”

How Regimes Rely on ‘Loyal Losers’ New research sheds light on how low academic performers with poor career options tend to be assigned the most brutal tasks, including torture and murder. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

I hope it was from the explosive diarrhea, it just seems fitting.