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Writer of Less Useful Things Books: Wrestling With Wrodger Wrestling and Poetic Collect Writing: __ __ __ __ Movies, video games, sports & pro wrestling My day job is in marketing. My night job is sleeping. T1D Advocate. https://lessusefulthings.com/

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There's a reddit post that is asking of RE7, 8 and 9 which is your favorite. It turns out that people are incredibly divided on this

08.03.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

08.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 3862 πŸ” 2340 πŸ’¬ 210 πŸ“Œ 153

*Pro Bowler Shedeur Sanders

08.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just heard someone say heralded and they pronounced it "her-rallll-dead" and I am confused. It's possible I have never pronounced this word right in the two times I have ever used it

07.03.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Light work

07.03.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm kiteman and not like the updated version either

07.03.2026 22:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This would also be the like "TBS Saturday afternoon movie" in 1992 before they started playing Star Wars or whatever

07.03.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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And with that, she got to work on the last piece of music
she would ever write.
By the time she was conceiving the sound world and structure of the piece, she was in the middle of her pregnancy. A significant portion of the work, though, came after our son was born and after her diagnosis. As the chemo cycles began, a friend and mentor sent her a supportive email, and in it was a line musing that the dual challenges of cancer treatment and newborn care must be "beyond the beyond."
"That's my title," Sarah said to me. "Don't you think?"

And with that, she got to work on the last piece of music she would ever write. By the time she was conceiving the sound world and structure of the piece, she was in the middle of her pregnancy. A significant portion of the work, though, came after our son was born and after her diagnosis. As the chemo cycles began, a friend and mentor sent her a supportive email, and in it was a line musing that the dual challenges of cancer treatment and newborn care must be "beyond the beyond." "That's my title," Sarah said to me. "Don't you think?"

My friend wrote a piece for Esquire about the passing of his wife (an extremely talented composer) and the music she left behind. It’s a beautiful meditation on grief and art and the way the two things inform each other; please read if you’re so inclined.

mcusercontent.com/b2fc960a6273...

07.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 1066 πŸ” 116 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 1

I don't care what anyone says: Ki-Adi-Mundi showing up in these files does matter. How many times was he on Tattoine, a nothing backwater planet? Why?

07.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Everything because I pay for every service to not have ads and I have somehow still seen ads for it

07.03.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's also why the vast majority of the US government is useless. They are all split and many are worried about no longer receiving millions of dollars from PACs with absolutely zero oversight. There is no interest in politicians on either side to rock the boat that pays for their lifestyle.

07.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I actually think it's extraordinarily simple. We want to believe there is some deeper reason but it is simply about a specific class utilizing their money to try to make their lives easier and get more money.

Every single action by Trump has a financial implication to his pockets and nothing more.

07.03.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the dumbest thing I've posted on here today so congrats on winning that

07.03.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In this economy?

07.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This was all pointed out two years ago by experts. There was always going to be a finite and limited amount of "just trust me" these idiots could keep conning out of the other rich idiots because at some point line go up does require reality to exist

07.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Game Poems #1 An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.

I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01

A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.

Thanks for playing and sharing!

13.01.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 241 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 19

Much like Animal Crossing before it, these are the real system movers

07.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today’s first workshop visitor with my Robin buddy.

07.03.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 164 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Richardson created and fostered an environment of excuses and cover ups for perpetrators assault for decades and that's only what we know from those brave enough to come forward. The success of Dark Horse happened in spite of him, not because.

07.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Losing money on consoles historically is kind of expected. That 30% they make per game though can really soften the blow.

07.03.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Steam should just release whatever it is they have stock wise. At this point though the only reason not to would be because of cost, as in, what it costs now is likely to dramatically increase by the next run. So either you jack up costs and hope to lower them or lose money on the hardware.

07.03.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Favour to ask - if you played Into the Slimy Mines demo (you should, it's fun) can you leave a Steam review?
We could really do with a bunch of nice reviews to go with the other 12+ hour playtime thumb up, before the Tower Defence fest next week. Ta!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639690/...

02.03.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Boxed Games β€” Products β€” Ad Astra Games

FYI, a sale of a boxed game or two would cover most of our bills comfortably.

Browse here! Everything's in stock!

www.adastragames.com/products/box...

07.03.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can theoretically draft well, but also it doesn't matter if you can't develop or coach those players effectively. It's one reason why we see good teams buy low on certain players who then end up being solid contributors.

07.03.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One aspect of Ravens whole thing for the last few decades was that they didn't overpay for free agents and drafted then developed their star players. This is also where the limits of that strategy sometimes held them back once there were injuries. How much of that development was from that staff?

07.03.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Shows like Silicon Valley tried to create comedic versions of these people but I think if anything it softened the way we as a society look at the depravity of vc culture.

07.03.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Music does have people that say "if they had better drums here" or whatever. Sometimes they are legitimate critiques from other musicians. Other times it's from people who have listened to six songs and are convinced they are special. But it's the same shit everywhere.

07.03.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These comments are not just bad faith, other media illiterates glom on to them because they have nothing of value to contribute to the discussion but they really want to be seen. So they parrot. Again though, videogames aren't special. Read through any wrestling threads and you see the same things.

07.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0