Honestly thought MO Amendments 4 and 5 would be closer. This backwards little state still surprises me sometimes.

"Waking up every day is a skill. Clocking in every day is a skill. Finding scraps of resistance and joy in the bleak fields of our work is a skill. Tomorrow is a skill."

My body is for rent

Visions of labor in the Citizen Sleeper games

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I've spent the past 8 years writing 777+ articles on everything from big hits to indie gems and untranslated treasures across dozens of formats. Japanese tape-loaded adventures, Taiwanese horror, Korean RPGs, British strategy... I bet I can show you something new! kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com

Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster

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Aonishki may have won the Nagoya Basho, but Atamifuji won the basho for my heart

Here’s hoping Shishi can give Onosato the name of his shoulder guy before the next basho.

nagoya basho: day 7 sketchbook - #sumo #相撲 😎🎂

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

The Henka-ing of Takayasu by the Coward Takerufuji

Employer-based healthcare is a form of labor discipline that our ruling class is not interested in ever relinquishing

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E

Jaylen Hotdogfingers

In no particular order: - Tetris DS - Tetris DX - Tetris PSP

lex luddy@lexluddy.xyz · 3w ago

OK, enough fucking around. Top three versions of Tetris?

what do you MEAN THERE’S NO ARCHIVE OF SCANS OF SUMO WORLD MAGAZINE FROM 1973 TO 1999 WHAT IS THE INTERNET EVEN FOR THEN

Fuck this high-T bullshit, real ones know you just need to CRACK A SOLO youtu.be/CCkz0JsaU8k?...

Solo (Australian ad) 1983

YouTube video by retrooldcommercials

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Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting

Sadly, I updated my LinkedIn today. I still have a job and stuff, but maybe I could have a different one that I like better? As a treat?

Wild to think of how many people the sentence “Fuck, I wish they’d die shitting themselves on national television and that shit would come out of their mouth and ears, and their eyes would pop out because of the shit” could refer to at this point

related, for Kotaku, clones are especially prolific on Roblox. not only are there copies of popular steam games, but clones of those clones and other original Roblox games. it’s super normalized! bsky.app/profile/kota...

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 3w ago

Meccha Chameleon's Steam success has fueled an entire grey market of knock-offs on Roblox. A lot of the people on the Roblox platfor... https://kotaku.com/more-people-are-playing-meccha-chameleon-knock-offs-than-the-original-hit-steam-game-as-the-roblox-clone-machine-goes-into-overdrive-2000715371

for 404 media, i wrote about video game clones—who makes them, how they make them, and where the line gets drawn between inspiration and cloning

404 Media@404media.co · 3w ago

Vibecoding has made it possible to create a cheap rip off of a video game in just a few hours.

Metroid II is a fantastically creepy and uncomfortable experience. No other game in the series feels quite as dangerous as this does: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2022/09/26/s...

Metroid II: Samus’ spooky adventures on SR388

The 3DS remake was… fine, I suppose, and the fan remake swiftly shut down by Nintendo’s ever-vigilant lawyers was nothing short of fantastic, but what about the real Metroid II, the ori…

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I want to echo her sentiment that 70s coin-op (and even home) games operating with TTL logic are extremely cool and among the most endangered for preservation and historical purposes. Anyone doing this kind of work deserves their kudos.

Press ‘start’ on ’70s arcade history

A UVA graduate student is documenting the overlooked “Bronze Age” of arcade gaming before its stories disappear.

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Love to hear folks rave about Mina the Hollower’s ending but I’m begging those same folks to please play Beast Breaker.

aw FUCK sorry I don’t want to be greedy but godDAMN it

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mitch McConnell has released a photo and the first statement on his condition: "I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia."

I haven’t seen this many crab raves since Blaseball was around

wait WHAT

The Dark Queen of Mortholme offers a thoughtful, melancholy window into the self-destructive and small life of a last boss: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/09/05/t...

The Dark Queen of Mortholme: Breaking the cycle

[Spoiler warning: This is an extremely plot-heavy game, and the text below discusses many of its themes and twists. There wouldn’t be much to say otherwise. The TL;DR version is: buy it now.]…

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need you all to see this deeply indescribable cooking video

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4w ago

The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.

"One Billion Players a Day" isn't a business declaration, it's a bullet loaded into a gun aimed at everyone you *didn't* lay off today. It is setting an unattainable standard to justify further missed expectations.

Colin Spacetwinks@spacetwinks.bsky.social · last mo.

asha sharma going "we want 1 billion players a day" a nice reminder that these execs are fundamentally incapable of understanding that their customers do not have infinite money or even just that time is finite. they just think you haven't been fed the right marketing yet to get you on board

Steam's refund system is deeply flawed, because it disincentivises one of my favourite things: games of a sensible length. Honestly, a lot of games should trend to the length of a movie.

John Walker - Industry Analcyst@botherer.bsky.social · last mo.

I chatted with @zoroarts.bsky.social about the experience of making a game that can be finished in under 2 hours on Steam, and the 55,000 refund requests he's received as a consequence of people gaming the system. kotaku.com/steam-indie-...

Game Pass will go down as one of the most destructive programs in gaming history. “Netflix for video games” bought up dozens of huge studios that are now screwed, the value of an individual game heavily damaged, countless unseen negative effects to come. And no consequences for the execs who ran it

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last mo.

Xbox will lay off 3200 workers and cut four studios loose aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-j...