Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏

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Adult games maker and boring corpo programmer 💖 #WLCG #IndieGameDev

Data centers could have been built with hard reqs on water quality, power draw, and green energy. Instead, Elongated Muskrat powers his with gas turbines and says "I'll just pay the fine 😏" What have data center builders done to endear themselves to communities, exactly???

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · yesterday

First, and most importantly, anti-data center folks refuse to believe data center developers and tech companies engage in good faith. They have staked out a purely reactionary position. Negotiation is useless. Just reject everything by default. They're playing this as Always Defect.

I find it frustrating, personally, when anti-data center organizers say that the job creation is a myth. Because I think that 500 six-figure jobs, for folks who go through apprenticeships but maybe don’t need college degrees, that last two to six years — that’s enough time to build a family, that’s enough time to buy a home. I think it’s supermeaningful. And when I talk to technicians, when I talk to workers, clearly it was extremely meaningful work.

One of the things that was the most surprising to me, when I talked to data center activists, was that they responded to so many of the pro arguments with: I don’t believe them.

So this company says that they are going to treat the water with chemicals in it so that it doesn’t flow into the lakes. People would say: I don’t believe them. I don’t think they can do it.

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · 2d ago

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

Because games are empathy engines, they are at a disadvantage over classical literature in depicting horrible scenarios; games force you to be an active participant in the misery (Tyranny made me feel bad and then I stopped playing)

Rob Zacny@robzacny.bsky.social · 2d ago

Was Tyranny a victim of bad timing or was it a bit too honest about the subtext of its audiences’ fantasies? @duncanfyfe.net on a game that has remained topical, trenchant… and rather neglected. remapradio.com/articles/ten...