René Martin
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He/him writer/game dev. culture/political posting, politics are in all aspects of life, including creative pursuits. #NAFO appreciator #BLM Writing sporadically @ https://talkandplay.substack.com
Still doing interviews. Still writing Four Corners puzzles. Any help here is deeply appreciated, even boosting it, tysm.
Thorne 🌸@ens0.me · last mo.Probably should've done this ages ago, but I just setup a Ko-fi page. Extra support is deeply appreciated. I'm paying for hosting out of pocket, now a couple of months into being unemployed, and my birthday is in a couple of days. ko-fi.com/ens0dotme
Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham thinking it's heaven they're seeing as they walk into the light
bakoon@bakoon.bsky.social · last mo.
Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.
When Matt Stoller, Gallego, Sanders, the Pod Save Bros, Ryan Grim, and MattY were all on team Platner, you cannot possibly argue that this was one specific faction unless that faction is "misogynists" and no one wants to admit they have those in their camp, let alone do anything about it
There's way too many people, including a lot of anti-Platner types, who are revealing themselves to just be campists by attempting to pass the buck to a faction they don't like and it makes you look like enormous fucking clowns
Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · last mo.The "this is a rejection of Dem HR lady politics" with an emphasis on the gendered aspect of that really is the throughline here and this is a throughline that transcends factional/ideological barriers Reject this at your own peril
This week, Microsoft GUTTED Bethesda, Zenimax, iD, & more. The C-suites treat the workers who make the games we love as disposable and don’t care they’re destroying the future of the industry! Let them know it has to STOP here: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...
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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union@bethesdaunion.bsky.social · last mo.One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...
Build a world where all Confederate generals are hung for treason and all Confederate politicians for sedition and all organizations trying to memorialize them are treated as terrorist groups and we have a VERY different 20th century.
This is what happens when seditious racism doesn't end in the execution of its leadership and sufficient fear and punishment in its base.
Jim Swift@jimswift.bsky.social · last mo.Yikes!
to celebrate me posting some real content again how about another AMA about DVTL
Along the WATCHTOWER
On a Wing, a Prayer, a SHOESTRING, and a 70,000 ton Cargo Ship
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THIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU
the studio that made the most important fps games of all time just got nuked into being a support studio you cant hate microsoft enough
dude what the absolute fuck
Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social · last mo.id Software worked with various ideas before Xbox cuts, including a new Perfect Dark, John Wick style new IP, and co-op DOOM id has been "nuked into the dirt" and "relegated to support studio size", said one former dev. gamesbeat.com/inside-a-stu... www.videogameschronicle.com/news/id-soft...
I wanted to write something thoughtful about XBOX's wanton destruction spree of their talent, portfolio, and future - on how XBOX has destroyed so much trust from both of its audiences - from developers and players. But how can I write anything thoughtful about such thoughtless greed?
i feel like drop site should remind us that ryan grim used to support platner openly because platner was his bartender in dc and that grim would find it personally advantageous to clear platner's name in order to not have to apologize for his lack of judgement and support for someone based on bias
Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · last mo.Rank misogyny masquerading as a criticism of journalism. Racicot saying that Platner had "'taken something that I said as an invitation' before she subsequently texted him not to come over" was an accurate description of the texts' content.
![🚨NEW: Drop Site journalist Ryan Grim has authenticated behind-the-scenes messages showing Politico omitted an important detail from its reporting on how the night began that led to the rape allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.
Before publication, a Politico reporter told the Platner campaign that Jenny Racicot, on the night in question, had been “texting [Platner] about needing her glute massaged.” The reporter added, “That detail didn’t make our story.”
Racicot told Jake Tapper during her CNN interview that Platner had “taken something that I said as an invitation” before she subsequently texted him not to come over. Tapper did not follow up to ask what the content of the message was, and did not respond to a request for comment from Drop Site. Politico, in a statement to Drop Site, did not dispute that the outlet was aware of the “glute masssage” text, and said that it would update its reporting if further information arose.
According to a spokesperson: “This story is based on extensive reporting and interviews and reflects our editorial standards. In interviews with us and in accounts she gave to other outlets, Jenny Racicot said that she told Graham Platner not to come to her home and that he nevertheless showed up there uninvited. POLITICO gave Platner and his campaign ample opportunity to respond to our reporting and to provide any information or documentation they believed contradicted it. If presented with information that materially challenges our reporting, we will report it.”
Platner is expected to drop out today.
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Imprisoning Kennedy, despite his family connections, would be a powerful signal that Democrats are serious about imposing harsh consequences for corruption and misrule. It would send a shiver of fear down the spine of Trump cronies, precisely what you want for future deterrence.
Sam@samd.bsky.social · last mo.RFK Jr. is clearly in the Elon musk zone where he has: -enacted policies that have killed tens of thousands of people -is a laughably corrupt person who has committed tons of crimes next Dem president needs to figure out a way to ensure both of them spend the rest of their lives in a prison cell
As a reminder, everyone needs to thank Jenny Racicot. Her courage was not making us choose between women's safety and progressive politics, she saved us from a very dangerous man with her bravery. She isn't simply a victim, nor survivor. She's our hero right now.
the gall of this man. "the dream" is dead? he is lucky he's not in prison, lucky to live in a society that privileges the dreams of white men over the nightmares of the women they hurt. enough is fucking enough. The time has long come to end male impunity before it ends us all.
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Imagine doing this to id and saying with a straight face "grow and extend an enduring portfolio of franchises players love"
VGC@videogameschronicle.com · last mo.An Id Software developer claims it’s been 'nuked into the dirt' and ‘relegated to support studio size’, as 136 layoffs are confirmed at the Doom and Quake studio. vgc.news/news/id-soft...
there is no new deal without the influence of actual socialists and communists within the larger roosevelt political coalition
this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last mo.Democrats became great by fighting the far left—and today’s party can learn crucial lessons from those battles, David Brooks argues:
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Many of you are not beating the allegations
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My countrymen are a bunch of fucking Russians
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If they ended up decimating id Software's tech team then I have no faith in anything they'll ever do again under the current leadership. Between last week and today's news...I just don't know what to say at this point.
It's really remarkable how the entire U.S. political and economic establishment is playing with a load gun with no safety so confident it couldn't actually ever go off
Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · last mo.i believe this the follow up part
So, @futterish.fsquared.biz and I spoke to CNET about what the hell is going on over at Xbox. www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/... I wanted to be spicier but I figured I’d save that for today’s @virtualeconcast.com episode.
