Mr. Riceman

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

“MTG’s latest stunt is a gift to white weenies” could literally be either

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

seems silly to be talking about if people who play AAA games have long enough attention spans when the people who own AAA game studios don't have long enough attention spans to let teams actually make stuff

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]

🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga

A comic panel from Watchmen, showing a partially muscled skeleton (Dr Manhattan) screaming in pain in front of two horrified security guards. Text reads: “November 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing…”

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

Brazil's Revista Animal. Published at the height of the '80s, it was our attempt at a Heavy Metal style publication—many of its titles were published in it, plus some ASTOUNDING originals by local legends. Got the whole collection at an used bookstore for 10 cents of a dollar each.

This is actually sending me

valve you magnificent bastards

tetsuya mizuguchi truly, earnestly believes, with his whole heart and whole mind, that generic vocal trance from 2003 has the power to awaken humanity's shared consciousness and guide us to universal peace. The strength of his conviction is so powerful that it might actually cause this to be true

post from Renan Porto's twitter, the post says "É Brasiiiiil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Nem nos meus sonhos mais malucos eu imaginei que um dia faria uma pintura do Bowser gostosão para um material oficial, anunciado pelo Miyamoto em pessoa. 😭 Eu ri tanto de descrença enquanto pintava, vcs nao tem idea kkkk" attached to the post is a screencap from the Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer of Bowser holding a painting of Buff Bowser with Princess Peach

"Not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine that one day I would paint a picture of hot Bowser for official material, announced by Miyamoto himself. 😭 I laughed so hard in disbelief while painting, you have no idea lol"

caralho GABE CUBE, esse é o nome oficial!

This is so disturbing and dystopian. Holy shit.

I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.

Well, fuck. Revoking any and all Peripeteia recommendations (and I wish I could un-back it on Kickstarter) based on the very thinly veiled transphobia from the dev (the first one in the screenshots here).

I hate this.

as the buffett warren billionaire once said

low polyamory

Picture of chapter 55, "The Venerable Dialogue of Adam and Eve." The chapter fits a single page, and it's a dialogue between Braz Cubas and Virgilia, except all "speech" is made of ellipsis, exclamation marks, and question marks.

I'm quite partial to this page, from "Epitaph of a Small Winner" (1881)

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

the silmarillion is in many ways the homestuck of its day

Square Enix wants 70% of its QA work to be handled by generative AI by the end of 2027, in partnership with the University of Tokyo's Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory. https://bit.ly/4qKdyQR

The Game Awards Are Still a Total Fraud The Game Awards are a fraud and a joke and nobody should pay them any attention.

www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

shoutouts to toby fox for just doing this when a platform tells him he HAS to add achievements to his games

bearded man smoking a pipe standing at a payphone connected to an accoustic modem with a keyboard, caption reads a travelling executive receives messages from his office electronic mail system by means of a hand-held computer and modem at a public telephone

this is the coolest online has ever been

Simply cannot stress enough that you’re gonna have to leave corporate media behind; it is hostile to you, and your lifestyle.

Oh, Dick Cheney died? Well-- *sees Bluesky mod around corner* What's really important is championing the open protocol.

Thanks so much for reaching out and for the kind words about the game, we're thrilled you're loving Outer Worlds 2! It's great to hear you're even trying to contribute feedback on the issue tracker. You've run right into a common security feature where disabling 2FA also requires a current code to prove you're the account owner making the change. Since your issue is with the Obsidian account system (for the issue tracker) and involves account security, this is something our specialized account security team needs to handle directly. They're the only ones who can verify your ownership and safely disable the authenticator app link without a current code. Please email their dedicated support channel directly right now at support@obsidian.md. - In your email, explain exactly what you told me: you lost access to your authenticator app, you used a backup code to log in, but you can't disable 2FA because it still asks for an authenticator code. - Mention that you can provide any proof of account ownership they need. The support team at that address is equipped to work through the necessary identity verification steps to get that 2FA disabled for you.

When you email issues to Obsidian Entertainment (the video game company) their AI support hallucinates and tells you to email Obsidian (the note-taking company) instead.

If the reward function is to reduce the number of touches in a support ticket, this is one way to do it.