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20+ years as a professional game designer. Author. Football official. Board gamer. Dog lover. I was the main character of video games internet for two days in 2010. Opinions are always my own. No one else would take credit for them.
It's all third spaces, baby. Used to go bowling, used to cover Skynyrd in the garage, used to have a car club. Now we've got Theo Von on in the F-350 on the way home from your 11-hour workday.
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It’s not simply doing this, or doing it without congressional approval, or doing it without explanation of risks, or doing it without declaration of war, or doing it on behalf of an ally mid-genocide. It’s the fickleness that suggests what’s to come.
Rule, war, death by his whim.
There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
The scroll lock key would not be mourned if it went missing.
The MAHA report appears to be almost identical to a 2023 document put out by “Children’s Health Defense,” the antivaxx front that RFK Jr. used to pay himself >$20K/wk for spreading disinformation. It appears AI was used to make the tone more official sounding & add citations, many of which are fake.
Does Doom the Dark Ages pick up after the tutorial time? I played 90 minutes or so and it didnt hook me much? I like 2016 but didnt really like Eternal. I do dig the w40k-style setting.
Don't write headlines like this and then juxtapose them next to different stories if you don't want me to think they are related.
I taught for a decade in the pre-ChatGPT era, but it was already incredibly difficult to examine and give meaningful feedback with the student:teacher ratio we had (way more than 25).
Hooray
Got to see Devin Townsend last night. He's taking a touring break, so who knows if I'll ever see him again.
From NYT article about the increasing use of AI in the classroom: “Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students, which is why it is so tempting for some to ask A.I. to do it for them. In turn, A.I. can be useful for teachers who would like to assign more writing, but are limited in their time to grade it.”
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
When you lived in the year 2000, everything about humanity was solvable with technology. Hate and prejudice and war was just lack of information to the common people.
We were going to solve everything. It was so easy it was so obvious.
We went to Southern Hill Farms on this beautiful Holy Saturday with friends! I took so many pics but here are some of me and Zack!
Finally reached Room 46 in Blue Prince last night. I haven't felt triumph in a game like that in a while.
Screenshot for Promise Mascot Agency
Screenshot for Blue Prince
Screenshot for Monaco 2
Screenshot for Talos Principle Remake
Today is an ABSOLUTELY NUTS day for PC games:
Promise Mascot Agency
Blue Prince
Monaco 2
Talos Principle Remake
Crashlands 2
Hollywood Animal
Pilo and the Holobook
Girls Made Pudding
Signal Creek
Willow Guard
Harpagun
Kaya's Prophecy
Time Gal & Ninja Hayate HD
Snowrunner DLC
Dave The Diver DLC
Highly recommend the Boox Palma 2 for working towards curing phone dopamine addiction. (Yes I'm posting from my phone.)
Ominous New Report Just Lists Places To Hide
Ominous New Report Just Lists Places To Hide
theonion.com/ominous...
That boy needs therapy.
Blue Prince isn't just going to be the best game of 2025, it's going to go down as one of the best games of all time. If you're a puzzle sicko and you love nothing more than keeping a notebook next to you, this game was designed for you baby
I will sing the praises of Blue Prince everywhere. I played it for an awards competition and put it down after 12+ hours just so I could come back when it was done. Never done that for a game I've judged before.
Really making UPenn Wharton look stellar.
Don't be a PaniCAN'T. Be a PaniCAN.
AI calorie counter is smart to think that I would eat the entire package of Vanilla Oreos, but it shouldn't make that assumption.
My manager is sleeping on the job again.
image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
Nothing - absolutely nothing - prevented news organizations from running this headline before the election, when it was equally true as now and could have made a difference.
Economic Suicide by Dipshittery