A reminder that private equity is the equivalent of buying a football team and their stadium, stripping the copper from the lights, selling the bleacher seats, stealing the trophies and concessions, then handing the team a bill in their name for not only your "services" but the cost of the stadium.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 21h ago

Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666

Let's be honest, "the water I threw at her wasn't technically scalding" and "they found evidence of child abuse but not enough to convict" were some pretty nuclear-grade foot-in-mouth takes as well. But if you know someone who refuses to ever be held accountable, it's no real surprise.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h ago

It was over for Max Miller politically when he said his wife couldn’t have been abused because she offered to make him dinner 6 days later. He may not have known it when he said it, but that was the end. You have to be a sick bastard to come up with that as your defense.

Note that every last scrap of "this is the benefit we're offering you" is completely gone from most of the industry. All they can offer is another outrageously priced, largely pointless purchase. Private equity is the exact opposite of the entire concept of providing you any value for your money.

Decker Doberman@deckerdoberman.bsky.social · 16h ago

Sony's announced strategy for how to win PC players back is...offering more peripherals🤨 Yeah no Sony, that's not why people like gaming on PC.

Remember: shame is such an effective tool against transphobia that Walz had to be ordered by centrist party leaders to stop calling transphobes "weirdos" because their regular dinner party buddies across the aisle were getting upset about how wildly effective it was and how they couldn't counter it.

Emily AF 👩‍🎤✨@rockstarelise.com · 20h ago

I got into it with someone today who called the people booing Sophie Cunningham, performative allies. Telling people you support them and not doing any meaningful shit is that. Loudly booing a bigot, plus getting angry on social IS actual support. We need more people doing that!

A lot of folks are focusing on how "later in life" doesn't sync with how they see themselves. We should remember that so many people are worried that "too late" is a real thing. Emphatically, it's not. I've never met an older trans person who regretted transitioning. They only regretted waiting.

Hannah Who@notablyuncool.bsky.social · yesterday

If you have transitioned later in life, please know how deeply you are needed here. Your story is the exact proof someone else needs to finally take their first step.

I have an urgent minor surgery Friday. After pushing one-ton loads and tossing 70 lb pallets around like I'm a twenty-something Amazon, my body just cashed a reality check. It's all going to be fine. But pushing myself this hard physically wasn't sustainable. I need to get back into my career.

Started at 41. This week marks five years. This was a life path that, from an early age, I was told I was not allowed to take. Pursuing it meant letting go of trying to be acceptable, of trying to win approval, and instead trying to be authentic. Embracing it gave me my life back. It's worth it.

Hannah Who@notablyuncool.bsky.social · yesterday

If you have transitioned later in life, please know how deeply you are needed here. Your story is the exact proof someone else needs to finally take their first step.

I beg people to understand that trans men are not some secret "gotcha" that exposes the hypocrisy of the anti-trans argument. They are a group being placed *in danger*, the same as trans women and nonconforming cis women. Anti-trans arguments justify violence against ALL gender nonconformity.

When I broke free of abuse this year and integrated radical acceptance, people who've known me for years - but not before the bad times - remarked on how much warmer and chattier I came across and how easygoing I'd become. Part of that process was reframing problems as challenges, not more burdens.

Science Says Chronic Stress Actually Changes Your Personality (and Not in a Good Way)

But not if you do a little cognitive reframing whenever you feel stressed.

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I had a half-dozen failed attempts where I tried to really get into Vampire Survivors, had a rough ten minute run, and put it down for awhile. Then I opened the coffin in the forest and Pugnala (the Bayonetta expy) changed everything. Soon I had most of the game unlocked. (Credit to @ultruno on X)

MiniGolf the Bunabold ➡️ CanFURence@bunabold.bsky.social · 2d ago

Restarted my Vampire Survivors save, and I swear this game has the only good grind

It was paved with stones thrown down the ladder by people who failed to recognize that they can be both oppressed *and* privileged; whose desire to change the system evaporated the moment they were asked to build a world that didn't consider them inherently superior to those they look down upon.

Talia "Pre-Order CALL ME KIMBERLY" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · yesterday

The road to fascism was paved with "Reddit atheist" and "shrill feminist" and "blue hair and pronouns". The vanguard wasn't the rabid reactionaries. It was the "normals", "apoliticals", who tolerate occasional sexist comments but mock the "cringe" of well-meaning and earnest but awkward people.

This is still one of the coolest things my brain has done that I wasn't trying to learn. Predatory monetization tactics are now treated as negative emotional manipulation, meaning they're such an absolute deal breaker that they completely *reset* any value I had once perceived from the experience.

Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 2d ago

OW was the title that broke my FOMO response. They switched to cash-shop exclusives so aggressively in the OW2 era that my brain recalibrated FOMO to oppositional defiance. I can't have most new content? Then I don't care about *any* of it, including my existing collection and the game itself.

He could have chosen confidence and deeply integrated self-acceptance, and laughed off how misguided people's mental framing of him is now. But he chose to punch his feelings instead of process them, and ended up at "still insecure, but now literally begging for permission to get violent about it."

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d ago

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

people are talkin about video games just straight up dying off because consoles are getting too expensive for the mass market and I just feel like that's an absurd take on an industry w/ so many different avenues of onboarding. Consoles might go away, but games as an industry...?

Im just ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY devastated: turns in order to publish a book you have to WRITE said book.

Making games is a business. But without people who genuinely love making games, there won’t be much of a business left. The industry doesn’t just need better numbers. It needs more passionate people in leadership, more new talent welcomed in, and more belief that games are art worth fighting for.

I've had some people describe it as an abolition from worry. If life has been Too Much and you're entirely too self aware to prevent hyperfixation on problems, the idea that you hold such blatant, obvious, visible value that others will always want to treat you well and meet your needs is appealing.

Abnormality Dancin' Princess 🦋@autumnbutterfly.fruitbowl.systems · 6d ago

Oh, into bimbofication? Let me guess, labeled a gifted kid because you coasted through early school, and never developed study techniques or discipline, so when things got harder you crashed out hard? You desperately crave being loved for something that isn't your perceived intelligence, yes?

The more this gets dog-walked in the quotes, the more he becomes the joke he tried to turn us into.

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 6d ago

This may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.

"Good-faith people who care a lot about women's sports" do not care even a little about women's sports in literally any other context,and since their "reasonable concerns" could be 100% debunked in a single YouTube short, they are also not in "good faith". They are, at best, dangerously uninformed.

victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 6d ago

enough of this shit

A few comments on "run the dishwasher twice" thought the original events happened to me. I hadn't realized "[this is how] this was introduced to me" was misunderstood, but I take full responsibility for it. I saw it four years ago, unattributed. This is the source. My apologies for the confusion.

Casey@thecasey.bsky.social · last wk.

If you want to read the life-changing piece “Run the dishwasher twice,” it was written by Kate Scott in 2020.

I believe that was Mitch Maddox.

Jon 🎄@pifflevalve.eurosky.social · last wk.

Back in the late 90s or early 2000s I remember reading an article online where the writer did an experiment to see if he could survive solely on stuff bought online for a month or something. I think he gave up.

This would make sense if eighteen years of mobile gaming hadn't taught everyone that controls without haptics or physical presence are kind of awful.

The Duality of Dan🪣@nemox2001.bsky.social · last wk.

I've got it on good authority that after eliminating physical discs and buttons for the PS6, the PS7 will just be you buying a license to imagine playing the game

Shout-out to the devs who put out demos to their games. You're the real heroes of gaming.

We used to do genetic testing in college biology courses, but it was dropped almost universally because roughly one in 10,000 students would learn their chromosomes didn't align with their AGAB, and that's literally traumatizing to discover when cis normativity is part of your internal self-value.

A secret third thing@secretthirdthing.bsky.social · last wk.

I know that making sense isn't the business of transphobes but like... If your gender is supposed to be entirely determined by chromosomes, then it is impossible to know the gender of anyone before 1905, and was nearly impossible for most people until the past few decades

I think 23 is the stopping point for me. Money, community support, accepting office, supportive friends, and distance from unsupportive family all lined up. Earlier than that, and I could learn the truth and plan, but I'd NEED to be told "your family will never accept this, so keep it to yourself."

Ivy - "Perfect Pervert"@ivynyx.bsky.social · last wk.

"I tried going back to my teen self, and I couldn't convince her. So instead I went back and convinced myself to start at 37 instead of 40. Then *she* went back and convinced me to start at 32. Then *she* went back to when I was 25... It's all about remembering what I felt like at those points."

I like how the most important factors to the results were whether external scaffolding was provided (by presenting the box as an item the challenge's scope and not a container outside the scope), and whether external pressure was provided (which made results worse).

Kate Sills@katelynsills.com · last wk.

It seems like extreme rigidity of thought is paralyzing. But the strange thing is that the comments mostly see that rigidity as normal. I'm curious how people do on Dunker's candle problem, and whether it differs based on depression, autism, etc en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_...

I still remember this picture of Lia, because terves held it up as a clear visual example of her "inherent advantages" when this is actually a bad start (you want in the water ASAP because you can't propel against air) and she literally scored last in this competition.

Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · last wk.

"I had to share a fifth-place trophy" isn't a systemic structural barrier. It's one more person in the competition who was as good as you. It's an anecdote conflated with a dataset that forms a line in the exact opposite direction from where you claim it leads: underrepresentation, underperformance.

First: it's empirically true. Second: You're falsely assuming equal access to training, coaches, facilities, nutrition, medicine, recovery, scouting pipelines, cultural permission to play, financial incentives, childhood encouragement, and absence of harassment, ridicule, or institutional barriers.

Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 2w ago

The last time I researched this, I discovered the timeline "sport is open to all; woman wins; sport is immediately closed off to women; women's league is eventually formed years later" is almost universal. Women's leagues were overwhelmingly created *strictly* to protect the egos of men.

Just heard a good idea from @jbf1755.bsky.social : If you read something online that enrages you, ask yourself who out there might want you to be enraged, and look at why they are sharing it now. This goes along with the necessity of checking what you read to make sure it's true.