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uh he's clearly inaccurate. he predicts war in march *2027*, and he predicts trump would actually try to drum up support for it instead of just blasting and asking for permission never

oh yeah HL2 was all GORDON IS HIDIN' OKAY I'M GONNA THROW A GRENADE AT 'IM THROWING GRENADE OFF IT GOES BEEP BEEP BEEP

one option is to have sufficiently generic achievements that they can be acquired in several ways

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half-life 2 did it explicitely as an anti-camping measure, no?

me skipping the 1989 miyamoto interview because i've already read so much from him

Even further and faster than I expected. news.sky.com/story/greens...

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Re ally makes you think

This man has made BILLIONS of dollars for corporations and now he’s wasting away penniless while they still profit. It disgusts me. We have to do what we can to help

UNBELIEVABLE: McDonald’s already got a NEW CEO to take another stab at eating the Big Arch burger. Much better than the first video!

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@JoyceCarolOates X.com speaking as glibly as Beavis & Butthead. does T***p even grasp the profound significance of what he has set in motion in the Middle East? this person whose most essential self is riding in a golf cart fatly, cheating at the profoundly insignificant game of leisure golf when he assumes no one is looking.

if “for sale, baby shoes, never worn” are the saddest six words, then “riding in a golf cart fatly” is the opposite of that

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News article: Iran can't hit back over Soleimani's killing because America has only fictional heroes like SpongeBob SquarePants, a prominent cleric said. There's a picture of the killed Iranian general next to the cartoon SpongeBob

Thinking again about the guy who knew us better than ourselves

Them: Are you going to be part of the problem or part of the solu— Me: Oh problem, definitely Them: That wasn't...it was a rhetorica Me: I have some ideas on how to make the problem even funnier than it is

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday!

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Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

new york magazine has a very nasty article out about my beautiful golden throne, which they say is the only thing keeping me alive. when I'm sitting on my big beautiful throne I am NOT ASLEEP!! I am directing the beacon of the astronomican, something sleepy joe did very badly may I add

I don't know that I'm responsible enough to raise a Batman

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

we don't play chess for this girly "checkmate" nonsense. we play chess to fucking win

just wait 20 years until hes widely hailed as the boldly transformative figure who bucked conventional thought in order to solve problems previously thought intractable such as venezuela, iran, and cuba

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