Goodnight from Scotland, catch you in the morning beautiful souls 😁

it's never been easier to boycott a video game company

microsoft funds genocide, fills their dev pipelines with ai slop and throws all the people who actually make the video games into the street. i cannot imagine, even if you are politically sheltered and just want your treats, ever buying and supporting an xbox game. theres no future here

What I'm listening to today: "Pond bass", Acoustic Explorer Dude shredding on his weird handmade banjo. It has a resonating plate as an acoustic amplifier, which here he plays dipped half-submerged in a river, to produce a literal watery sound. Apocalypse bluegrass. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh4d...

Pond bass

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El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

Roddy McDowall chilling on the set of PLANET OF THE APES (1968)

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

this is really sweet! lovely to see the vox pops with random san francisco people in 2000. starts at about 21m

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧@charliejane.bsky.social · 2d ago

Back in April 2000, I had barely started my transition. I was just starting to go out in public. I got drawn into an on-the-street interview for a local talk show, made by trans people for trans people. That's when my landlord (who didn't know I was trans) showed up! buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Of course this would never have to do it with to my child who is obviously [gender] I'm sorry Ma'am that's not how any of this works.

Lady with an opinion@ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 12h ago

No amateur sports program is worth sexually abusing children to prove their gender

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

This is the game that have said level design:

Rhythm Doggo on Steam

You wanted to play a video game and just got transformed into a dog! Rhythm Doggo is a classic platform adventure where you play as a dog and make music on the way. Can you go back to your human form?

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hey this modulation-by-texture stuff seems to be working! excited for what this means

DELIGHTED with Abdul El-Sayed winning. Was nervous this morning it became so tight. Maybe the biggest leftist win in the united states since ww2 probably. Zohran started this latest wave and there's lots of fantastic people in the house, but the Senate is the next level up in power and influence.

lexx enter the lesbo.

omg hiii, ok so I wrote a whole piece last year about the silly "bestiecore" name I offhandedly came up with around then and how, in contrast to AAA multiplayer titles, these indie games actually provide a really good map for what makes a good multiplayer title!! tl;dr these are NOT slop!!!

Smaller 'Friendslop' Games With Friends Highlight What Big Live Service Games Get Wrong | MMORPG.com

Live service games are losing the plot, and Victoria is here to tell you why.

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Matt Caulder (They/He)@mattcaulder.com · yesterday

Can Big Walk be the game where we stop calling them "friendslop"? It's feels incredibly embarrassing that professional writers are using this term, such a dismissive attitude

I wish I could buy companies and put the company I bought on the hook to pay for itself. make it make sense.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · yesterday

EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest

Cosmic horror in Antarctica? Penguin Colony, developed by @origamedigital.bsky.social and published by @fellowtraveller.games, puts you on the ice, seeing this mystery through a penguin's eyes. We spoke to Tali about their inspirations and what makes this cosmic horror take different. #cosmichorror

Penguin Colony Interview - Bringing Cosmic Horror to the Antarctic

Penguin Colony is the next game developed by ORIGAME DIGITAL and published by Fellow Traveller. Penguin Colony swaps Tauranga rooftops from its previous game, Umurangi Generation…

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positive election nights are cathartic lol. (not all good news, but big news good news)

you can encourage people to make art while also telling them that the closer they hew to telling their truth, the less likely they will be to make money

It does seem extraordinary to sustain a feud against a penniless, powerless, elderly man over decades when you're one of the most powerful people in British lit, but it seems that when you overstep the mark with these people, you need to be taught a lesson. And it certainly taught me a few things.

If I seem like a cranky old guy now, it is largely because I spent five years working on a film about how one of the most intelligent, talented & hardworking people I know wrote a best-selling book, had fame & money & lost everything because he spoke the wrong way to a powerful Eton graduate.

I wrote about my years filming with ex-wino turned chessmaster John Healy, exploring his bitter exile from the British literary world despite writing a runaway bestseller: www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

In the arena - John Healy's long road back from literary oblivion

Ahead of a special IFI screening of his acclaimed documentary Barbaric Genius, filmmaker Paul Duane reflects on the life and literary legacy of the film's subject, Grass Arena author John Healy.

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Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · 2w ago

Back in 1988 John Healy published his memoir The Grass Arena about his life as a wino turned chessmaster. This August the sequel, The Glass Cage, is published. To coincide with this @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social screen my 2011 documentary about Healy. Please share if you can ifi.ie/film/from-th...

to make this more enticing to many of my followers, that screenshot is queer couple goals, maybe yuri depending on how you feel? gay

Finji@finjico.bsky.social · 2d ago

868-BACK is part of Steam's Cyberpunk Fest! 👾 Save 10% until August 10th! 💻 Your mission: dismantle capitalism one server at a time in this computer-hacking strategy roguelike game! store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

AMAZING

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

I just love the Open Sea exhibit in the Monterey Aquarium. Simply magical and without parallel.

in case you were wondering how I feel about the saudi arabia deal going through

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d ago

The ghouls who run EA deserve to burn aftermath.site/ea-saudi-arabi...

I still can’t believe what they’ve achieved with the audio, it’s magic 🌿

A Shell in the Pit@ashellinthepit.com · 2d ago

Big Walk is out today! We've been SO lucky to get to work with @househouse.com on it, what an incredibly special experience. Here are some of @emaudible.bsky.social and @nicholaszhangaudio.bsky.social highlights that came up in one of our play tests, on working on the sound for the last 5 years 🔴🟡🔵

So so insightful, thank you @katemanne.bsky.social (as per usual). ‘ChatGPT fills and fuels a felt need for the female syncophancy that no human being should want, and that privileged men should be weaned off their historical reliance on.’

Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · yesterday

Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

and in case anyone is wondering: no @nsuttner.bsky.social has not beat my score yet

The Secret Lives of Games@secretlivesofgames.bsky.social · yesterday

All Systems Brough - HELIX We're joined by @foddy.net, @iznaut.com, and @v21.bsky.social to discuss this classic spiral-action shmup-like about staying alive, the 8th game in our yearlong coverage of @smestorp.bsky.social's wide-ranging catalogue. secretlives.games/all-systems-...