Adam

i think what a lot of people never seem to realize is that a lot of people's vision of an "epic dream game" isn't actually very deep and comes down to scale and/or having a lot of features, whereas by embracing limitations you can be pushed in a far more radical direction.

I switched my gaming PC to running bazzite and honestly it works way better about 85% of the time and then the 15% of the time that it doesn't it's always some weirdly cryptic issue.

Like the time my audio devices changed priority and I had to go deep into configuration files to fix

something malicious is brewing

Steam is like how California operates as a second regulatory structure for the US because it's too big to not obey

Once again:

Review | ‘Silent Hill f’ is social horror that works. A therapist explains why. “Silent Hill f,” examining the social pressures on a girl in 1960s Japan, is one of the psychological horror series’ most confident and resonant installments.

For my Silent Hill f review, I interview a therapist. She beat the game twice.

We talk about how this masterpiece is about the horror of navigating the self, and the shedding and rebuilding of the self until you no longer recognize who remains.

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*sigh* Another day of not being reincarnated as a Pokémon...

Kid: "What's more important? You loved ones or you Pokémon!?" Parent: "You can't just ask someone that kind of thing!"

Old man: I only want to eat tasty food. Who knows how many meals I got left?

My bed's nice and soft, so I let my Pokémon sleep on it. I get the hard sofa.

Are the people of Lumiose City okay

Real shit I think this is a problem that's much bigger than Pokemon and Nintendo and extends to not just gaming as a whole but just online discourse as a whole

People who dont know what the fuck theyre talking about are more emboldened than ever to just fuckin post shit regardless of reality

If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff

THROW THE GNOME! THROW THE GNOME!

Acid Bath - Scream of the Butterfly

Ednaswap - Torn

Closure in Moscow - Seeds of Gold

Clutch - Ghost

Sleep Token - Jaws

I apparently really like when heavier bands do ballads lmao

a box truck wedged underneath a low overpass. the bridge reads "CLEARANCE 10'-6"

my sister googled "fun things to do in Boston this weekend" and it told her to go sit on Storrow Drive and watch a bunch of college kids peel their rented Penske moving trucks open like tin cans

the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now

An image of a proposed redesign for the Massachusetts flag: it is a photo collage with a huge Dunkin Donuts at the center with the Harvard "Veritas" seal on the front of the building and a huge lobster plush doll walking out the front of it. The enormous smiling head of Governor Maura Healey rises up from behind the building, with heart-shaped sunglasses pasted over her eyes. Three bros in the lower left of the photo are raising a toast in red Solo cups, and in the lower right a (possibly drunk) young white person wearing a white T-shirt and sunglasses is waving a huge rainbow flag and wearing a rainbow boa. The word "MASSACHUSETTS" appears in the upper right in enormous pink-sprinkled letters in the Dunkin Donuts font.

The submissions for the new Massachusetts seal, flag and motto are up, and my friends, they are a *trip* www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...

welcom back bonzi buddy

Linked In post from Mike Matsel, Principle Development Lead, XBox Graphics: "The XBox Graphics team is hiring folks with experience with device drivers, GPU performance, or related validation or engineering system experience. If the positions are closed and you want to apply, please message me!" And below it is an "AI" slop that reads in white on green "XBOX GRAPHICS IS HIRING" and an image of a woman in a green sweater wearing earpods typing on a computer, except the "AI" has put the screen on the back of the monitor.

The fucking head of fucking XBox Graphics used a fucking "AI" slop image to hire new engineers but couldn't tell that the fucking screen on the fucking monitor is facing backwards.

Luckily it's very easy to tell whether someone is "I'm trying to use automated pattern recognition to change the way we study linguistic evolution over time" kind of AI fan or the "I love not having to write letters to my grandparents" kind

This is an incredible story. Extremely well written deep dive into an entire generation captured by generative AI. Even professors are using AI to grade AI written papers.

Wild.

he lived to be 140 and died in a bed surrounded by family and friends, it's canonical

Yesterday in Lexington, MA, they tried to erect an arch to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our democracy. It crumbled.

If I ever get the note “on the nose!” on my writing ever again I’m gonna link this story

Bad AAPL

What time of day has the most songs written about it and why is it 3am

watched the unfinished cut going round of the minecraft movie with some friends. there weren't any subtitles so we loaded the the twin peaks fire walk with me subtitles over it

wow look at all of these better alternatives to Adobe that exist

ask me about Pixelart programs if interested in that aspect specifically because you *definitely* don't need PS for that, lol

I think the problem is that the nostalgia isn't for music because it's genuinely good, it's for things that are very much a symbol of a time that they weren't alive for.

And man, make yourself and morning rise are too damn good to be seen as that

Shin Megami Tensei lore. I got 96 games to cover, I can go long.

Isabeau Shin Megami Tensei IV

Commission work

The cover of the album The Stargate by Mortiis, which has a poorly photoshoped cover of a man in a suit with elf ears, bat wings and a giant skull codpiece

Why not throw back to this dungeon synth classic:

I basically trained myself to only be able to hear new music when exercising, so now whenever I want to listen to a new album, I *have* to be walking. And luckily I love music and always want to hear new stuff

Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

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