This man came WEIRDLY CLOSE to running Canada.
Despite having a -20 Charisma score.
Despite offering no policies or vision for the future.
Despite copying JD Vance's playbook (right down to demonizing minorities while marrying a Brown lady).
His party still ALMOST WON. It genuinely scares me.
Pombon > POMBON > POMBON!!!
ME: Physical media is making a huge comeback! So are you going to-
NINTENDO: Zelda on vinyl
ME: nice!
NINTENDO: 300 dollar
ME: ok what about
NINTENDO:
clock for single people
talking flower
cardboard VR
gameboy juke box
ME:
NINTENDO:
each song is separate tiny cartridge
45 cartridges total
A NOTABLE chunk of the most popular streamers and YouTubers were homeschooled, did not pursue post-secondary education, and have never worked a full-time job beyond running their own channels.
It clearly shapes how they view the world and shape it for their audiences, but it feels under-discussed.
Ghost Trick Enjoyer?
Buddy, you've got a follower for life.
Three things that happen in the first 30 minutes of this game:
1) A widower silently builds his wife's funeral pyre
2) A father teaches his son to hunt while confronting his own failings
3) A guy gets Superman-Punched through the ceiling of his log cabin, flying 200 feet before using his magic axe
They just got furious for 8 months and then decided to make Sinners With A Hard R, goddamn.
Last year, @afsulli.bsky.social asked me to read EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD due to my credentials of "Having Watched Blade/Blade II A Lot."
He takes ideas you know (old country demons, old money families) and twists them into unpredictable shapes. Newer, sharper.
You shall love it and despair; I did.
Really really want to thank @adashtra.bsky.social and @aftermath.site for covering the work we've been doing to #FreeLud, I am so glad we trusted them to tell this story.
We will bring him home and we will see justice
I’ve been crying laughing all morning fr
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EVERY OTHER STORY ABOUT REVENGE:
-Destructive and pointless
-Will leave the whole world blind
-Please do not consider righteous, methodical retribution against systems and people that hurt you
THE COUNT:
-Revenge is meditation
-Revenge is the hope you give yourself
-There are literally no downsides
[Scrambles to write "SEA OF PEES"]
[Smiles proudly]
[Remembers the years he's spent on the craft of writing and communicating]
[Deletes his original post]
Sea of Pees.
[Smiles proudly]
YOU: angry that A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms rolled credits on a classic 1950s country western song about coal miners, breaking your suspension of disbelief
ME: angry that A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms didn't use "Big Iron" by Marty Robbins, revealing the cowardice of all involved
starships
were all AI
hands weird
cause they're AI
CC having the vision to make first-run physical editions of streaming exclusive movies feels fully in line with their whole THING of valuing, celebrating, and protecting the art form. The streamers themselves have little interest in this, and when it DOES happen, it's years later and outsourced.
Does that make Phil Spencer the Ultimate Gamer Executive?
-Paid too much to play Call of Duty
-Gave toxic assholes a pass because they were his bros
-Dropped mid-match once his performance tanked
-Is probably gonna get really into AI for some reason
-Knew one (1) Black Person
I'm haunted by the ones that ALMOST got there, you know?
Feels genuinely insane we're not talking about Noah Hawley's slept-on 3-season run of Chew, or how 100 Bullets Predicted Modern Outrage Culture, or whatever.
If y'all think Yoko Taro got called in to give the fans what they want, I'd love to introduce you to a little-known phenomenon called
EVERY
SINGLE
YOKO
TARO
PROJECT.
Anno is too un-depressed to recapture his mindset from the original series, so they hired a guy who made a CARD GAME ABOUT GENOCIDE.
I wonder if it's the same shit we're seeing with VR and (in a much worse way) AI. The tech and infrastructure isn't accessible, affordable, or robust enough for it to be adopted at the scale they're looking for.
I have NEVER used cloud gaming that doesn't feel floaty or crash within an hour.
"i've heard OF them, totally"
"THIS IS AN XBOX" was a good campaign...for a reality where they put Xbox Cloud/Game Pass on all devices with a strong lineup of games from their many developers.
I thought we'd be seeing controllers bundled with a Cloud Stick, and that would be that. Instead they did Nothing, Destructively.
also: if it's the result of a Professional Wrestling tournament, with the winner being crowned and IMMEDIATELY becoming evil and adopting a British accent
(this has happened no less than 15 separate times for the men's tournament, and 100% of the time for the women's tourney)
I regularly inspire my loved ones by quoting a man who just got arrested for being a human disaster in New Orleans!
it basically rhymes with "great year"
The "Magical School For Children With Charismatic Teachers, An Immersive Setting, and A Message About Discrimination and Disability" story that YOU ACTUALLY DESERVE to build your personality around.
I DON'T SEE COLOR
Summer 2027
Congratulations! We now have a job market with a tiger behind EVERY DOOR.
Punishing entrepreneurs by making it impossible to go solo without a pile of money or an existing audience.
Punishing success by allowing corporations to acquire and destroy those formerly indie workers to boost earnings.
ur not cookin
It's a genuine feat to take a LITERAL UNIVERSE OF INFINITE POSSIBILITY and make it feel so small, rote, and predictable.
The Sequel Trilogy is more or less a case of cowardice flinching away from creative instincts in the service of turning a story into a Brand.
