Grant Goodman

Among many other things, David Lynch understood that there was evil lurking beneath the fabric of America. He knew how evil the atomic bomb was, and what kind of evil. I think often about episode 8 of the Return, about the creation of a metaphysical evil that stretches backwards and forwards in time

VILE: Exhumed is a game about searching through an old computer, uncovering dark secrets, and experiencing the horrors of parasocial obsession and misogyny. There are references to sexual assault and violence against women, as well as depictions of gore – this was never a secret. This was the point. It was intended to be released for sale on July 22, 2025 on Steam – the largest video game storefront in the world. Instead, it was removed from Steam and banned for sale. VILE: Exhumed was not banned for its use of gore, or its intense themes – themes that are sensitive but many players related to – it was wrongfully banned for “sexual content with depictions of real people.” The game covers topics of assault, abuse, and entitlement, and uses a combination of FMV and practical effects to create images as horrifying as the themes. This was never a secret. There are a lot of intense visuals in VILE: Exhumed, but there is no uncensored nudity, no depictions of sex acts, and no pornography whatsoever – which is one of the justifications bad actors are using right now to censor games. What this actually results in is taking power and storytelling away from women, other marginalized artists, and ultimately, from everyone. This censorship of my work is a direct attack on creative expression and artistic freedom, and it will not stop with false accusations of sexual content. They will come for anything that speaks more loudly than they do. By giving the game away, for free, to whoever wants to play it, I am doing the same thing I set out to do when I started working on VILE: Exhumed, a game about sexual assault, male entitlement, and misogyny. Taking back my agency. No one is allowed to dictate what kind of horror is acceptable, or what stories are allowed to be told. VILE: Exhumed is now available to download for free as shareware under a CC BY-NC-ND license through a few different methods on this page. This felt like the best option to make the game available to …

VILE: Exhumed, which was banned very shortly before its scheduled Steam release, has been released for free online, including on Github and the Internet Archive. Cara's statement, per the IA page:

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yeah it's really freaky. I've been nervous about taking my dog out in this

My dog Eloise, a black and tan chihuahua. She is completely flopped over on her side in a pile of blankets. Her eyes are closed.

Tech headline: mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body

*immediately begins learning how to get on mushrooms' good sides so they know I'm cool when the revolution starts*

payment processors strike again

Judge halts deportation of non-binary American in landmark ruling after Trump’s gender edicts Advocates have been calling on the government to provide a safe haven for gender-diverse U.S. residents

A Canadian judge has halted the deportation of a non-binary American, effectively ruling that the immigration officer failed to consider the conditions in the U.S. for trans and non-binary individuals when assessing the risk of being returned www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

10 handy quality of life tips for working in Unreal Engine. No weird, edge case stuff here, I use this stuff almost every time I open the editor.

"My T-shirt with the entire text Of Borges' theoretical Library of Babel is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt, somewhere." - a tumblr post by sufficientlylargen

screenshot of re-body, a video game. organisms with big, long heads, and swirls for faces, inside a rusted structure

screenshot of re-body. dialogue screen showing a confession. the ui appears to be a rusted, metal interface, bundles of wires coming along the side, and a dark screen with yellow text

screenshot of re-body. an organism stands upside down on the ceiling, down a long, dim hallway.

screenshot of re-body. view of a large dilapidated slum scape. it is barren and gray/green.

Re-body is out. explore a dilapidated world while uncovering real personal confessions focusing on queer bodies darionmccoy.itch.io/re-body

Meme d'un dinosaure qui voit arriver là météorite qui va détruire les dinosaures et il demande "@grok est-ce que c'est vrai ?"

ah that makes sense. I might finally need to check it out!

What game is that? The character portraits look wild

after considering this for nearly fifteen seconds and looking at these four photos I am now convinced that bigfoot is bears

Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.

So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.

They opened the drawbridge to block them.

So they marched to a different bridge.

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Zenimax Union which represents over 300 QA worker reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft. The agreement includes wage increases as well as new minimum salaries for workers, protections against arbitrary dismissal, a crediting policy and more.

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The 5 stages of grieving, UK edition

Poster of Kiki's Delivery Service but Kiki has been replaced with Bouba from the Kiki/Bouba linguistics study. The text reads "Bouba's Delivery Service."

Despelote

Despelote

Many Nights a Whisper

Many Nights a Whisper

It can feel like facing a wall of pessimism when reading and thinking about the future of games, so I’m deeply thankful for Despelote and Many Nights a Whisper reminding me of the human heart of the medium that will never go away.

You can’t stop people telling stories with the forms they love.

Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.

Girl #theadventuresoftintin #art

I don’t break my games industry NDAs and this dude is out here like “hey honey isn’t this airstrike fucking awesome”

I don't know how to structure the argument, but "Souls games focused on parry mechanics have dominated the market mostly because parry is the least specific-skill-required form of combat that never the less makes you Feel skilled" would be a fun article that would piss off a whole bunch of dudes

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I grew up on these streets, y'all don't understand

The Morrowind box art divided into three stages. Stage 1: "yo this game sucks, i can't hit anything for shit" Stage 2: "Wow, I'm super overpowered and the lore is incredibly deep, this is truly an amazing once in a lifetime experience" Stage 3: "I should take estrogen"

Beware the TES pipeline.

Boulet reçoit un coup de fil d'un numéro inconnu. Il décroche en disant "Oui allô ?" et soudain des tentacules sortent de l'appareil pour lui engloutir le visage. La légende dit: "L'Appel de Cthulhu"

Boulet est à la plage et fait des pâtés dans le sable. Arrive Cthulhu qui lui dit "Broögl." Boulet lui tend une petite pelle en disant "Ha oui pardon, je te l'ai prise une minute" La légende dit: "La Pelle de Cthulhu."

Boulet a reçu une lettre, qu'il a ouverte. Il se tourne vers Cthulhu, assis sur un canapé avec une bière à la main. Boulet: "Ils te remboursent 163€ sur le loyer" La légende dit: "L'APL de Cthulhu"

Boulet et Cthulhu sont au bar. Il y a une jolie fille à côté d'eux. Boulet, à demi vautré sur le comptoir, dit à Cthulhu: "Sérieux, t'es relou, va lui parler si elle te plait." Cthulhu fait un "Broögl" intimidé La légende dit: "La belle de Cthulhu"

Random Repost - "Cthulhu" 1/3

I’m not a producer but if I was I would start every meeting by getting people to plot their status on this