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Lethal Jorts@lethaljorts.bsky.social · 8h ago
Big Walk… Marathon… Baby Steps… a decade ago, even the tenuous connection between these games could inspire a blog. Not so anymore…
I love biking in the city which is why I think we badly need a “how to use bikes in the city” literacy drive. Goes double for scooters/ebikes, which people ride in the craziest ways.
Wrote this back in December. Still a good primer on Saudi investments in games, I think. 🎁🔗: wapo.st/4gc0oZt
Column | Saudi Arabia’s great game
With a headlong plunge into the global video game sector, what is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman playing at?
wapo.st
Don’t see him too often but I’ve grown to really like seeing this guy in stuff
No thoughts about the politics of Substack or whatever but I do find so much of the writing it serves up in its For You feed to be totally risible, condescending, just awful. I tweet this thought every time I spend any extended amount of time on the app.
A New York Times investigation reveals that the law firm Paul Weiss’s surrender to the White House was the culmination of a reordering of power and finances behind the scenes at the firm for years. Here are key takeaways.
Trump, Paul Weiss and the Capitulation of Big Law: 5 Takeaways
The law firm Paul Weiss led the legal resistance against President Trump. Then it led a sudden retreat across the legal industry. A Times investigation examined how it caved to White House pressure.
nyti.ms
Don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this but the new Xbox startup sound never plays right. It’s always loud and choppy.
Doing some random research: Looks like in 2024 Take Two tried to contest the Dot Esports trademark in Australia. Seems like they were doing a lot of this sort of thing!
Rewatching Better Call Saul and was just re-jumpscared by “maybe we get married?”
Imagine the Minions running around Walter White’s lab, keeping tabs on him on behalf of the cartel
Gratuitous references to EWC on the NA Valorant broadcast test... wonder if there was a mandate from management to treat the Paris event as equivalent to Masters. Genuinely curious why it's coming up so often.
I had a chat with @harvey1966.bsky.social about growing up poor, dealing with the deaths of his parents, and how those things shaped his outlook on work and life. www.gaming.firezidechat.com/p/firezide-c...
Firezide Chat with Harvey Smith
A chat about deaths of his parents, growing up in poverty, and how those things shaped his outlook on life.
gaming.firezidechat.com
This is really demented. And Google's response is incredible, amounting to something like, Every extremely misleading image that didn't need to exist in the first place made by our dearest Gooberboo can be verified to be fake by means of a mechanism nobody will ever use. We're sure you'll love it!
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
404media.co
Can feel like shouting into the wind a bit but: I’m open to freelance writing and editing assignments! Interested in reviews, news, etc. If you have a project/assignment you think I’d be a good fit for, DMs are open!
Coming to peace with this but gardening on a tiny urban plot can feel so much like luck of the draw. Is this one plant going to produce this year? If not, I guess I’m not getting much of XYZ veggie this year, and also, that’s 1/10th of the space I have to grow stuff on basically doing nothing.
No snide remarks about this aging poorly… it’s just sad!
Had a genuine zero to hero run today in Marathon: Last game of the night, I load in with a free kit just to press my luck. Queue into a really sharp, well-kitted duo; we play smart and take down a team of gold shields. I make it out with one of those shields and two gold guns.
Hey editors/owners/publishers of games/culture websites and magazines...what is the current rate limiting factor keeping you from publishing more freelance pieces?
Playing Uno in an Airbnb with some insane house rules from the guests before us. We’ve been playing for over an hour.
new what i do! for hater week i spoke with someone about the parts of their job they hate, and what better subject matter than a community/social media manager
Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.'You should try making funnier posts:' the shittiest parts of being a video game's social media manager aftermath.site/video-game-soc...
Thinking about the ReaderGrev value prop: Articles that are interesting to the author, published occasionally. Pay if you are a wealthy cosmopolitan with money to fund the arts (throw away).
