Doing a pre-order of my born to play indie games shirts in both a white muscle tee crop AND a cool brown tee, pre-orders are open now through August 12! www.smashbash.org/shop
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A company gets bought up and the first thing the new owners do is mass layoffs, take as old as capitalism really
Yeah we're going to see anything remaining of value at EA get chopped up or thrown into the fire to keep warm, and of course they're going to lay off thousands of people so that the company gets the privilege of disintegrating in a few years. www.gamesradar.com/games/mass-l...
Celebrating yesterday's announcement of the Hathaway sequel hitting Netflix at the end of the month by rewatching the first, the perfect summer film about a terrorist failing to stomach the violence his ambitions involve and also robot model kits
I used to think I'm an asshole whenever the thought of most people being as shit crossed my mind but nope turns out I was right most people are indeed dumb as shit
If anyone is wondering what is wrong with America we can now point towards this and the New York Stürmer piece promoting a meat-only diet where a guy boasting about his shits
i'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else
Listened to an hour of an Ezra Klein podcast where he interviews reporter Jasmine Sun on the datacentre/AI question but had to switch it off when he got to make a "bUt WhAt If ChInA iS rUnNiNg An AnTi Ai PsYoP??!!??" point fuck off why am I listening to this pro-genocide twerp
If a couple of years ago you told me that a Youtube channel named "Gamers Nexus" run by a very shaggy haired fellow would be one of the great allies in the fight against an American slop machine I would tell have told you hmm I'm intrigued www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WP6...
It’s Time to Poison AI | GN Mega Charts Update & LLM Countermeasures
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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ICYMI: A reading list for those interested in: Weird Cities, Invaded Bodies, The Street Itself.
Today is newsletter day! 🗞️ This month I explore the broad literary influences that have fed into the development of Signet City. 📖 Maybe you’ll find something fresh to read among them - open.substack.com/pub/jumpover...
If you're incapable of writing a text message asking to reschedule a fucking meeting you should be sent back to little baby school to relearn your A B Cs and 1 2 3s
The latest episode of the Ghost in the Shell anime opens with the Major and Batou talking about guns, a conversation that should have been at least 10 minutes long
How are we so jaded that we cannot feel excitement when seeing a man fight against a dude riding an ostrich
guys this is meant to be an exciting trailer
This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.
Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...
If anyone wants to know how my day's going I just had one of those calls with a recruiter that could have been an email telling me that my profile didn't fit a vacancy I applied for
Goddamn finally I can get to watch the film of the year (about scifi politics and giant robots but mainly scifi politics)
Half a year later, and pretty much as anticipated - pleased to see the latest Hathaway movie on streaming services! 🍿 youtu.be/VjGtDQvXu40?...
Good thing about this website is that it was actually designed for techbro freaks only it got taken over by the queer folks and furries so bless you and thank you queer folks and furries may your powers also keep the X The Everything Website people out
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
You mean pro-genocide fascist propaganda rag the New York Stürmer and right wing US-approved project run by German Nazi descendants the EU? How's that for liberalism!
From the New York Times to the EU, liberals defending Spain from far-right fearmongering are regurgitating the right’s anti-immigrant premise. interc.pt/3Rx5QNk
Rod Little wrote a whole screed about how he can't be a teacher because he'd end up fucking the students and this expression of the White English proclivity of noncery not only did not get him committed and chemically castrated, it was published in supposedly respectable newspaper The Spectator
Fraser Nelson reckons Rod Liddle was “the greatest satirist since Swift” while Michael Gove is comparing him to not just Swift but Orwell. Amazing the comparisons you can get if you’ll pump out exactly the racist opinions even they are too squeamish to commit to print.
Every time you use genAI, you're supporting an ongoing genocide in Congo. Earlier this year, the US and UAE (which is, with our help, also committing genocide in Sudan) created a paramilitary force to ensure the flow of cobalt and rare earth minerals extracted by child slaves to create GPUs.
Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding
The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.
bloomberg.com
Dang who's going to get me a Kojima Productions Tenugui
Taking advantage of a Monday off to catch up with Goodbye Lara, the show that somehow, miraculously looks like how I remember anime looked back in the 90s
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
This is very funny because AOC, being a member of the Donkey Pedophile Team, would be considered at best centre right anywhere in the goddamn world
well then I guess that's that
Watching the new Spiders Man movie the way Disney intended, with Hindi adverts for gambling websites popping up at random moments on the screen
Had fun watching Super Eyepatch Wolf driving himself insane explaining what is currently going on in Hunter x Hunter, a comic for literal children that at the moment has what feel like a dozen plots ticking around simultaneously on a big boat
Why People Are Going Insane Over Hunter X Hunter
YouTube video by Regular Eyepatch Wolf
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Oh I did get to run tarot-based trick taking card game-RPG mix Full Send yesterday and you know what it's pretty fun - it's very lightweight as far as RPGs go, and as such a bit limited when it comes to the actual mountain climbing portion of the game beyond the straightforward trick taking portion
Today I'm headed to an island so that I run a session of Full Send for friends
Imagine living in the Mediterranean and just going to the beach, what a wild idea