Steve Emberton

On BBC news this morning this was framed as "disabled people are going to cause a recession" and talking about how to make disabled people get jobs.

There was no mention of how the govt has restricted covid vaccinations so most of us have to pay £100 if we want one.

The Fortnite Battle Pass screen showing the Simpsons, with Marge standing in front of a blue cartoon sky

Lisa needs braces
BATTLE PASS!
Lisa needs braces
BATTLE PASS!
Lisa needs braces
BATTLE PASS!

there's about a ten-year arc after a site whose brand was established by its users gets injected with rot spores by its owners under cover of "innovation" et al. in this ten-year arc those users pretend they can will the good old days back into being. we're in year one over here

Nintendo Power September/October 1988 $3.50 Castlevania II - Simon's Quest 14 Pages of Gory Details Bionic Commando Monster Review Plus Foldout Poster More Super Mario 2 Powerful Pointers from Programmers and Pros Nintendo: The Source for NES Players Straight From The Pros

Nintendo Power's September/October '88 issue featured Konami's Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, an action RPG for the NES

The controversial and creepy cover has an armored Simon Belmont holding the decapitated head of Dracula; a nod to the game's quest to recover the vampire's dismembered body parts!

I think video games discourse online would improve markedly if saying "bad game design" when you mean "I personally experienced frustration" got you a six month timeout from posting

Yong people are broke bc they buy Starbucks daily ($42)

Became

bc they buy avocado toast in a sitdown restaurant weekly ($20)

Became

bc of a weekly to-go pastry ($6)

Will soon be

You're broke bc you buy one non-gruel item EVERY month

Even the inequality-absolving caricature is shrinkflating

i wish dead rising was ahead of its time. but its 19 years later and i look around and i dont see any risinglikes. we have failed

I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play

level progress diagrams of all of the maps from The Ultimate Doom - check the thread linked more more details

was just reminded of an old great thread on Doomworld: the Doom level progress diagram. it was created to address the age old question about when a map should be considered linear or non-linear www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

Why Trump’s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE A recent spate of posts has garnered attention, but Trump and his allies have long been using gaming imagery to mobilise a toxic subculture of ‘rootless white males’

This appropriation of gaming imagery and culture to push authoritarianism is, as @alyssamerc.bsky.social points out here, the natural extension of what Gamergate began

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Dodonpachi (1995, CAVE)

we’re entering a whole new era of broken ass games, good luck to those keeping the ships from sinking 🫡

What's your number one personal game design principle? And even better - does it have a cool name?

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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Winamac, IN

Jinx the black leopard at Florida Big Cat rescue absolutely tearing into a pumpkin. You can read more about Jinx (and his rescue story) here: https://bigcatrescue.org/jinx/

The news in the world is awful, but it's almost Halloween, so let's talk about pumpkin enrichment for big cats.

This is Jinx the black leopard (Big Cat Rescue, Florida) enjoying shredding a pumpkin.

tearing into the mod files for the mysummerdog addon and finding the funniest UV unwrap ive ever seen in my life

Making a settings menu and got an idea:

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

Incredible NYT headline and subhead where the writer has to remind you that this is a bad thing lol

Media literacy is being able to understand why that last part is included here, but not for any story about the US abandoning its clean energy initiatives.

Myself and at least three acquaintances have gotten Covid in the past month

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

get equipped with life frustration

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh

Anyway, back to toiling