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Gamedev designer/writer/director - Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Pajama Sam, Sam & Max, Wolf Among Us, etc. Most recently, Return to Monkey Island! Currently fiddling around with a game about paper. Halloween-liker, food-maker, dad.
Day 2 I found a Rarity-81 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. SHARPSHOOTER · 897 points · 10 rare words. No one else in Outlier has ever found it. 9 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/WC67ZX
OUTLIER · Daily Global Word Game Scored on Rarity
The daily global word game where rare words win. Same grid worldwide. Can you find what everyone else misses?
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I’ve been dwelling on this for a couple of minutes now, and I think, if @theonion.com can do market manipulation at will… we might not be as bad off as I thought.
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2mo agoThe 'I mean, it's not even off the table in reality' comment is truly a testimony to the times we live in. Also congrats to @theonion.com on becoming one of the most high-impact news organizations in America.
The 'I mean, it's not even off the table in reality' comment is truly a testimony to the times we live in. Also congrats to @theonion.com on becoming one of the most high-impact news organizations in America.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2mo agoNot a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.
This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up
*Fake inside-traders going viral with their imaginary Polymarket winnings, that's a pretty good Trump scam even by Polymarket standards tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/...
Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves 'Winning' With Fake Bets - Slashdot
In January a college student posted a video showing him winning $100,000 on Polymarket — one of 145 that appeared to show bets adding up to almost $410,000, reports the Wall Street Journal. "Bu...
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I don’t know about you but I’m fairly tired of everything in this country being a mob boss pressure tactic
Cyd Harrell@cydharrell.bsky.social · 2mo agohey, this is a fairly nerdy news item, but you should absolutely know about it. (looks like there are links in other posts in the thread.) the Post Office is really contemplating not delivering ballots unless states expose their voters' data to DOJ. I hate saying read that again but, read it again
This post was of course brought to you by my own filthy real life glasses
Dave Grossman likes pizza@thatdave.bsky.social · 2mo agoIs there a game where keeping the character’s glasses or visor clean is part of the play?
I figured this must exist, happy that it does.
✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨@ericgerhardt.com · 2mo agoIn fact there's an achievement in Metro 2033 for wiping your gas mask 20 times.
It wasn’t up to me, but Alzo was my top pick too.
Is there a game where keeping the character’s glasses or visor clean is part of the play?
This is an insane solution. And needs to happen immediately. VA legislature should retire the whole state Supreme Court and appoint a new set of judges who will uphold the vote of the people.
The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 3mo agoWe don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.
“Cruelly shape each orphan into a ball.”
Skunkape@skunkapegames.com · 4mo agoOrder Up! was an opportunity for us to share some of our favorite family recipes in the voice of a game character. Lord Rumplebottom's Thoroughly English Muffins were contributed by Ian Dallas, who was a writing intern on the Sam & Max team at the time.
![ORDER UP!
This month: Lord Rumplebottom's Thoroughly English Muffins
[picture of Bosco in his English disguise from Sam & Max Save the World, saying “I just call them 'muffins'!”]
Yields 6 perfectly charming muffins
2 1/4 cups unbleached bread flour
1/2 tablespoon sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 teaspoon yeast
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup buttermilk
1. Be so kind as to marry the flour, sugar, salt and yeast in a mixing bowl. Add butter and milk and stir until the awful mess forms a proper ball.
2. Step lightly and sprinkle the counter with flour. Drop the dough on the counter and knead for 10 minutes. Oil a large bowl, stuff the dough inside and cover with some of that delightful plastic wrap.
3. Take a brisk stroll across the moor for 90 minutes or so, until the dough positively doubles in volume.
4. Separate the dough into 6 pieces like so many helpless orphans. Cruelly shape each orphan into a ball. Grease a baking sheet and arrange the balls on it, 3 inches apart. Cover everything you see with plastic wrap. Everything!
5. Consider founding an overseas colony and levying a repressive tax on tea for 90 minutes or so, until the balls have doubled.
6. Kindly heat a skillet to medium and warm the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
7. Brush the skillet with a spot of vegetable oil. Slide a few balls onto the skillet, making sure to leave at least 1 inch between them. Cook 5-8 minutes or until their little bottoms are a rich golden brown.
8. Flip them over and cook for another 5-8 minutes. Toss them in the oven for 5 minutes to ensure the center is baked properly.
9. Now hands off! It's vital to king and country that these muffins cool for 30 minutes before serving.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tprqo6yhkdd6kobab44hq45e/bafkreienxrokomqswa3mk2sgnjh6y7tp7vi4v7lp5qands2qpfja2x4c5a)
Congrats to @theonion.com, now do whitehouse dot gov next.
Oh thank goodness, I’ve been needing one of these
20-year-old me would not have believed it if you told me I’d be getting coupons in the mail as advertising for the grand opening of a cannabis store
I see your and raise it: cemetery. - hello, what are you doing here? - (raises urn) my father. - my mother. (Raising urn too) Happened in my family.
Incidentally, top ten awkward places to bump into friends contender: the emergency room. Oh hey, uh…nice to see you guys?
AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”
I think a 20 minute session of doing an expressionist painting of Bert was the break down I needed to have today.
“All the bullshit fringe opinions that are patently unfit to print.”
Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.
Just a friendly Thursday reminder to NOT SUPPORT bigoted right wing grifters like this guy. Folks like this will poison your hobby if you allow them to continue to operate without any pushback. Unsubscribe, block and warn the people they're attempting to work with. Show them they're not welcome.
Yep. Mimicry is an important skill for writers in my business, and it's fun, it's like acting for writers. And you can't leave it to AI - if you're telling a story in someone else's IP, you've got to get yourself into the mindset in order to do anything new. It goes far beyond the feel of the text.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 5mo agoNo, this isn't it. I did years of consulting and marketing and writing everything from financial brochures to sports newsletters in client-specified voice, and was so good at it that I made a six-figure salary entirely from word of mouth. An "AI" isn't going to do any of that better than I did.