Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the postโฆbut now itโs back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenterโs SNL monologue.
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Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the postโฆbut now itโs back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenterโs SNL monologue.
Gotta be honest, seeing it framed like this makes it even more wild. Whitewashing a genocidal regime is more important than some of the most prolific Eurovision countries? One that is a major financial contributor?
There's something about this failed regime that rots the brains of its supporters.
One of the most frustrating things of resurfacing some of these discourses from a decade or more ago is that theyโre completely divorced from the original contexts that necessitated them. Most people wading in today are taking conversations at face value that were never about what they were about.
05.12.2025 21:22 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio qualityโyou name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
People are all sharing this approvingly, but the reason Halle Berry is mad at Gavin Newsom is because her scam AI menopause supplement health woo company can't bleed taxpayers because of the bill he vetoed.
A pox on all of their houses.
I really hope so. There are very few games like Sakura Wars.
05.12.2025 19:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Todd Howard? The radiant quest guy? Oh, yeah, he's a fan of AI.
05.12.2025 18:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The Trump Administration finds new ways to pull the rug out from under Americans every day.
And now they're putting babies in danger.
Illinois just enacted a law to provide our own science-based recommendations to protect access to vaccines so families get the care they need.
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
05.12.2025 16:12 โ ๐ 10095 ๐ 2343 ๐ฌ 358 ๐ 102Guillermo del Toro: 'I'm a Big Fan of Death ... I'm Certainly Looking Forward to It'
โWhy should you want to live longer?โ he asked the crowd of festival attendees, journalists and film students. โIโm a big fan of death โฆ I think death is really good. Iโm certainly looking forward to it, because itโs the day you go, โWell, tomorrow I wonโt have any problems.'โ
Guillermo gets it.
05.12.2025 14:50 โ ๐ 124 ๐ 41 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3Iโve been hit by a fiat twice in my life and both times it felt like being grazed by a large dog.
05.12.2025 16:37 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0If this goes thru it will accelerate Hollywoodโs precipitous decline. Thousands laid off. Creatives w/fewer studios willing to bid on projects. Fewer choices of what to watch for consumers. Possibly a death blow for theatrical filmgoing. Just terrible news all around
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Now that all my stretch goals got hit, the big giant 210+ game shuffler is gonna allow people to reset cleared games at random with tips.
I've cleared 110 games so far, and here's what the wheel currently looks like...!
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05.12.2025 16:06 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1As some of you are aware, part of Dragon Age day was to thank the DA Devs for all the hard work they put into the series we love so much.
This is also the first DA Day where we have no DA team, as they were laid off earlier this year.
So let's make an effort to support their new projects!๐งต
Screenshot of Discord's privacy settings.
Guys, do not use the Discord Checkpoint thing (Discord's attempt at Spotify Wrapped).
It requires enabling them access to scrape your data, and has an alarming amount of private data being used for it.
Make sure you have these disabled.
It bears repeating, as Ana does here, that video game stores banning HORSES was a *policy* decision, not a legal one. There's nothing in HORSES that hasn't been depicted in books, plays, or movies, so why the big fuss about this game?
04.12.2025 21:44 โ ๐ 103 ๐ 41 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1ROUTINE is officially out, and the team at Lunar Software has shared a new devblog exploring the gameโs journey.
Complete with a full timeline and a special message for players: store.steampowered.com/news/app/606...
HOLY FORKING SHIRT BALLS!
REPLACED HAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT DATE?????
March 12, 2026.
I helped announce this all the way back in 2021 to such an incredible response with this banger of a trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P5O...
Shoutout to Sad Cat Studios all the @coatsink.com team past and present!
Happy Dragon Age Day Eve, everyone!
Join myself and lots of other actors much more wonderful than I tomorrow!!!
#DragonAge
Haven't done a camera analysis in a while!
Here's a quick look at the camera for Metroid Dread ๐ฅ
Thereโs a kind of person thatโll defend Chick-fil-aโs homophobia or Steamโs censorship as a matter of personal freedom and when push comes to shove these are just libertarian-brained pedants whoโd rather argue the legality of something than engage with their own regressive views.
04.12.2025 13:22 โ ๐ 59 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0i am going completely insane watching gamers make up shit about horses and interrogating every single thing the devs have said for inconsistencies and then deciding well it probably had cp in it. this is the easy mode version of the kinds of censorship that are to come and you're failing like babies
04.12.2025 07:03 โ ๐ 2605 ๐ 654 ๐ฌ 37 ๐ 35Oh that's easy, Ikenfell.
In Stars And Time is also a tremendous favorite of mine.
You might mean something else by turn-based RPG tho? Like, dunno if JRPGs necessarily "count".
I need like, a Concierge job for indie games, to justify my useless knowledge
I'm a dapper transfem behind a very important looking desk in the hotel lobby and randos walk up to me and I'm all "Honored guest you need but tell me your tastes and I will find you the appropriate game"
(go ahead, ask)
mckitterick (ADE.............- Yesterday 601 irritatingly, the list of Al settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one): browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.menu browser.ml.chat.page โข browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge โข browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.link Preview.enabled browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate in addition to nuking Al, it'll also speed up your browsing
here's an updated guide on how to remove all of the AI from Firefox
22.11.2025 20:53 โ ๐ 889 ๐ 558 ๐ฌ 25 ๐ 23The indie of the week logo.
Over at Kotaku, we are trying to cover at least one cool indie game every week. It's called Indie of the Week!
kotaku.com/opinion/impr...
If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to Tips@Kotaku.com!
Spoilers for Horses, but like... this is it. This is the game.
03.12.2025 22:40 โ ๐ 239 ๐ 86 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 3They should do MyChart Wrapped
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