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The only good alternative to cloud providers is a tranny with a huge rack and a huge rack

I cannot describe how fucking happy it makes me seeing journalists just pointing out that they're lying. Once again, if you're calling, bringing up these articles as why you're calling is a VERY good idea.

Why are they lying? Why are they refusing to process legal transactions?

Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story | TechCrunch Mastercard seemingly denied playing a role in a recent marketplace crackdown on games with adult content, while Valve says the pressure was indirect.

New story by TechCrunch just dropped

techcrunch.com/2025/08/03/m...

Stacey has what is to me the definitive analysis of all this discourse on games and art:

Edited screenshot from Disco Elysium that reads: RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] -- Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about video games. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about video games, the alpha and omega of video games questions, and that question is: 1. - (Whisper.) "Are games art?" 2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.

Every time.

i thought of plex as i was reading this -- it still falls prey to the "u have to have ur own hosting" but the service infrastructure means that a lot of the technical difficulties are minimized and stuff like sharing is easy.

oh: "i just think rope bondage is underused in medical settings"

[so ur "butch bait" crop top would fit right in]

I've seen: slutty crop top, harness, rope, latex, leather, semi-see-through clothing, and just like... every-day clothing with a collar. so like, basically whatevs kinky or slutty

hey moots/followers, any of y'all in portland? wanna say hi irl tomorrow (sunday?)

but this is extremely cute

I really liked project soli cause u could stop alarms by kinda just flailing at your phone

same, i wanna do something matter-centric that uses webassembly to do the actual automations

oh: "babe, im sorry, but you can't andrew-cuomo your way into dating a man"

although it has the nice side effect that u can't just use a really long bogus url to get around post length limits

this allows them to incrementally add rich text annotations without breaking clients that don't understand them.

unfortunately it does mean that urls aren't collapsed, and I'm not sure how they could fix it w/o breaking older clients at this pt

this is actually the consequence of a bit of design that's clever for other reasons -- "rich text" in bsky is normal text, with additional out-of-message metadata for spans that indicate what role a piece of text has

this is your yearly reminder not to use link shorters, unless they're just aliases on your own website.

too easy to have linkrot, too opaque for users.

Portfolio — Hazel Monforton Senior Narrative Designer (2021—2024)

It's been one year since I was laid off, and my contract with Blizzard ends in two months. I'm still looking for my next role as a senior writer or narrative designer!

I have over 8 years of experience working in AAA games from live service MMOs to single player. You can find my work on my website.

Not only does Hazel do incredible work and is responsible for some of my favorite writing in Destiny, she’s also a brilliant collaborator that enabled me to do some of my best work. She tackles depth and complexity with aplomb.

Your game and the work you do will both be better if you hire her.

lmao, this is why I usually have a soldering iron and multi-bit screwdriver in my bag

interesting. i feel like in new england growing up it tended to be nerds and {girl,boy}scouts (or ppl who were both).

idk, if ur gonna criticize the vibes I think u should criticize them in context. maybe say the bible and anime girl in conjunction next to the knife gives weird christian incel vibes or something 🤷‍♀️

but painting nice knives with a single brush stroke seems... ill-thought-out to me as an argument.

...makes her argument kinda transmute into "if u really just wanted utility/to signal utility u'd use something cheap, otherwise ur opting into/signaling weapon culture" which seems to ignore the point of accessories.

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...culture of "this is a tool, we can have nice tools that are well crafted/art pieces" culture, while box cutters have not so much (u see them occasionally, but it tends to be rarer ime, and she did not choose such a box cutter as an example). this ...

maybe? i interpreted her point downthread to be "weapons-as-male-accessory culture is bad" (which, sure), but in her example she seems to imply that the way to subvert the weaponness of a cutting instrument is to use a box cutter. but! pocket knives in general have broadly opted into the...