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I’m sure they have one but I wouldn’t want to hang my legal rep on it…

06.03.2026 22:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Really feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen

06.03.2026 22:30 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

NO DA

06.03.2026 21:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My 9 Games | 私を構成する9つのゲーム あなたそのものである9本のゲームをシェアしよう。

Seeing a lot of people doing this my9games.com thing makes me feel a bit like I put too much effort into #365games

06.03.2026 21:06 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

The So-Called Rise of So-Called Indepdendent Game So-Called Journalism

06.03.2026 21:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Well I mean... that's how I imagine it went down.
#pixelart #gameboy

21.02.2026 17:00 👍 407 🔁 109 💬 6 📌 1
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hope the editor who had Asimov interview Alf got a promotion

06.03.2026 19:08 👍 38 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 2

Lots of amazing things about this article, but the most striking to me was the PR person that actually addressed the specifics of the Colonel's complaints with (rather lame) excuses, rather than rehearsed corporate boilerplate.

06.03.2026 17:08 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It takes decades and decades of mind fucking manipulation to make it so that it's a 'debate' whether bombing another country and killing their leader is "a war"

05.03.2026 23:58 👍 59 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
NBC News: Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
Feb 5, 2025

NBC News: Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday. Feb 5, 2025

Washington Post: Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant's home
Aug 15, 2025

Washington Post: Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant's home Aug 15, 2025

In February, the Trump administration fired the Coast Guard commandant and evicted her from base housing with three hours notice. Then they gave the home to Kristi Noem — whose job does not come with housing or a housing stipend.

15.08.2025 15:22 👍 130 🔁 69 💬 9 📌 6

I know, "lol nothing matters" but it really feels like this quote is gonna stick to Trump (even if Iran doesn't attack on US soil)

06.03.2026 01:39 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think it's more likely just ignoring the feedback/lying about it rather than being cut off from it

06.03.2026 00:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It also depends how far back you go... people alive today were around in the 70s.

Regardless, the scale pre-2005 or so is just orders of magnitude smaller than today

06.03.2026 00:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Guy never met a quiet part he didn't want to louden

05.03.2026 22:05 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also almost every big TV reboot of the past ten years has been bad

05.03.2026 22:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really sad that Trump is being forced to us the military more than he likes. Really weak position for a commander in chief to admit to

05.03.2026 21:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seems like it. Also more headlines ahead of GDC

05.03.2026 20:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's unclear!

05.03.2026 20:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think this can be parsed to mean that it will play "Xbox and PC" games (i.e. games released on both Xbox and PC) but the plainer reading that it might just play Windows games is... interesting

05.03.2026 20:29 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 8 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/wyde...

05.03.2026 20:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also the time commitment to really get into a game is a lot more than, say, giving a new album a quick listen, watching the pilto of a TV show, or even enjoying a whole movie (books are different)

05.03.2026 20:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think it's because, in living memory, there were literally only a few hundred games released each year. You couldn't play them all, but you could know about all of them with a little bit of effort

05.03.2026 20:16 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

"Rebuild the White House" is going to be a literal 2028 slogan

05.03.2026 19:45 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Wait what?

05.03.2026 19:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think it's the faux broken glass that just looks like it doesn't belong on an Amiibo...

05.03.2026 16:46 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Something Awful photoshop threads had a LOT of work put into them, let me tell you

05.03.2026 16:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every time I see this it looks like a photoshopped Something Awful parody of an Amiibo

05.03.2026 16:42 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

This is probably a scam of some sort

05.03.2026 16:40 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just sitting on the floor, completely covered by four lovely ladies, as usual

05.03.2026 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is from the March 2025 Director of National Intelligence Annual Threat Assessment:

"We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear
weapons program he suspended in 2003."

www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...

05.03.2026 13:53 👍 47 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 1