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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.

And it's obviously not good in the quality of what it produces. It has the most uninteresting expressions and artistic choices. It sands edges and planes narrative arcs leaving the audience with nothing to react to until it screws up and is just confusing. Burning the world to create the forgettable

We have an exciting update!

We have just launched the Creator Discovery feature!

On AbleToPlay, you could already find games that match your accessibility needs — now you can take it one step further and discover inclusive, accessibility-focused creators who do the same!

A screenshot taken in Sea of Thieves at the Fort of the Damned. A ship at shore has a figurehead with ghostly green hands extending out. Before the hands on the rocks, a green ghost dog has rolled over to receive belly rubs.

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Theme: Haunted Hulls

Title: Ghostly Belly Rubs

The worst part of having a ghost dog is not being able to pet the belly when asked.

A screenshot from the game Sea of Thieves showing a black ship with glowing green and red sails against a sunset. Glowing, ghostly, green hands extend from the figure head. They are reaching toward a glowing green ghost dog; sitting on the seawall ready to receive pets.

@seaofthieves.com
#SoTShot
Theme: Haunted Hulls

Title: The Good Boy

Scarlet Hollow (Black Tabby Games, 2021)

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

PSA for everyone going to protests

A large pirate in a menacing hat stands with their back to the sun, enjoying a hot drink. To the right, words read "Creator Spotlight: Makakar. Lifelong Gamer and Stream Team Chaos Wrangler".

Who loves chaos, hates cucumbers and is making a talking Flameheart skull? It's Makakar! If you already knew that then you're him, his mate, or you've read the new Creator Spotlight already. If you didn't, go enjoy those facts and more right here: aka.ms/CreatorSpotlight

Finally all the pirates who sail the seas solving crimes will be able to show off their detective duds.

A brief guide on writing good alt text for images, which suggests including 1. Who or what 2. Their expression or emotion 3. A description of the image 4. Notable colors 5. Interesting features The included example image and description: "A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara's head." Dan's addition: saving the "interesting thing" for last is a bit like writing a joke - end with the memorable punchline!

Irregular reminder that alt text on images is a valuable accessibility tool, and also lets your images show in search results or respect mute lists. For instance, I found the below image by searching "capybara alt text".

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

THIS SUNDAY! COME HANG OUT FOR ALL THE GILDED PHOENIX GIVEAWAYS!!

I also suffer from this problem, and interactive fiction makes it worse. Fields of Asphodel on Steam has this as an option, but also Hades is understandably socially awkward, and a really good dad.

A photo of a possum on a tree branch. In white text it says “thoughts intrusive, ass protrusive, trans inclusive.”

I’m looking for pirates who want to compete for a good cause! We’ll be raising money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. If interested, please fill out this form. forms.gle/SpmBxRRAGraJ...

Screenshot of an announcement from SESAME WORKSHOP. The Sesame Street library is coming to YouTube! Beginning in January 2026, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with hundreds of full episodes coming to the Sesame Street channels. Join us as we help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder, one episode at a time.

Oh HELL yes

Has a What We Do In the Shadows quality to it

Blow up the Black Powder Barrel.

popping the hatch in a sheltered inlet scouted by resistweebs and offloading crates of pusheen washi tape, GQuuuuuuX high grades and softwood yaoi paddles. they pay in light sweet baja blast -- the only green currency worth anything in their country.

sitting on the bottom for sixteen hours while coast guard depth charges go off fathoms above my homemade submarine as i smuggle idiosyncratic stationery and fansubs into the united states

Erika Moen draws in a cartoony style with round, strong lines that contrast against the soft, water-colory texture of the pastel pink background. Fabienne is a retirement age French woman with long purple hair and wearing a collared blouse with slacks. Erika is a middle age woman with a poof of short hair and wearing a t-shirt with shorts and short leggings. The two sit at a table together. Caption: My French Mother-in-Law stopped me during today's chat to correct my pronunciation of the word "quand" ("when"). Fabienne: Ah, it is pronounced KOHN not KOHN. Erika: KOHN. Fabienne: KOHN. Erika: KOHN. Fabienne: KOHN.

Fabienne: KOHN. See? KOHN, not KOHN. Erika: They sound identical! Fabienne: Erika, the word you are saying is "CUNT"!

Caption: What our exchange would have sounded like to a French observer: Fabienne: When. Erika: Cunt. Fabienne: When. Erika: Cunt. Fabienne: When. Erika: Cunt. Fabienne: When. Erika: Cunt. Fabienne: Whe- [text cut off by edge of page]

Such a beautiful language 🥲

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Someone left this on my desk at work today and I am dying

YouTube video by Atoga blahaj goes to waffle house at 3am

I lost it at the influencer blahaj

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

A screenshot from a YouTube video showing subtitles available in english, french, german, japanese and spanish.

Hello! Bonjour! Konnichiwa! Hallo! ¡Hola!

We're working on spreading the word about SpecialEffect in as many languages as possible, starting with subtitles in English, French, Japanese, German and Spanish!

Subscribe to our YouTube to help us reach 10K subscribers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZgV...

A Halloween decoration of a skeleton fly. It has solid bone wings, bone antennae, a skull, leg bones, and an entire thorax and abdomen made entirely of ribs.

My favorite time of year has arrived, during which I play a game with friends. The game is: Things that don't have skeletons as decorative skeletons!

Also acceptable is crimes against anatomy.

A new one this year: Skeleton Fly