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a videogame has content in it that i personally dont like which of course mirrors what i see as objectively good and moral so it's a net good i think it was banned

i was in the top 0.02% of his listeners this year

given how checked out he is there's a real temptation in the second term to ascribe a lot of the most extreme remigration stuff to the various ghouls propping up this administration but he really is as vile and racist as they come

I swear to god none of the people involved here have actually played this game because if they did they’d be embarrassed that this is what they’re afraid of.

Have to chuckle at the folks going “no, no, Ken Levine was explaining the monologue he wrote for a character.”

We know.

Believe.

Spotify Wrapped is out?

There's no plan and the proof is that he spent two weeks going "affordable, what a word, I invented it you know" after Mamdani and now he's like "what? afforda-what? sounds made up."

feel like I'm going to snap one of these days, tear off my shirt, and run down the street screaming TRUMP PARDONED A 400 TON COKE TRAFFICKER

Correct! Gotta use the right terminology! 😤

All of this happened in the time span of an anime opening

While numerous interviews have been conducted about Sonic 1, half of its developers have rarely been asked about it. Among them is the graphic designer Jina Ishiwatari, who said this in 1997, the year she left Sega:

Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.

Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.

Committee hearings begin tomorrow.

Nvidia: For all RMA requests, our chatbots will be happy to help start the return process

Also Nvidia:

message to everyone who loses to me in Kirby Air Riders: it's pathetic that you're this bad at a kid's game
message to everyone who beats me in Kirby Air Riders: it's pathetic that you try this hard in a kid's game

I wish I understood why people are turning on BOTW all of a sudden...

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

I remain convinced that Amazon did not get permission to do this and as soon as the licensor got back into the office, some strongly worded emails were SENT

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

remember that your ring doorbell starts using face recognition on every face it sees today :)

very dumb Shadow doodle

• “I didn’t watch it, but TikTok told me it’s problematic.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”

Of the Game Awards controversies right now this one is the most frustrating.

When I attended via Future Class, I was seated next to an award-winning game dev. We were both on our phones. During a break a director came up to him, got in his ear, and said "seat fillers shouldn't be on their phones".

the 'it's inevitable' argument requires me to believe that people will see the quality of their entertainment - their circuses, if you will - massively decline while prices remain the same or even go up and just shrug, and it's like, no they won't lol

Finally had that big fight with a Trump supporting family member over the holiday? Struggling with how to move forward as a family after they've endorsed inhuman atrocities?
Well, if you're looking for permission, here it is: You can cut them off. You don't owe nazis anything.

“I was just following otters.”

"Don't replace the culture war with class war - Alice Thomson" the article snippet reads. Then beneath the snippet appears a crying guy who is saying "bro please don't worry about why you pay more in taxes than billionaires. Worry about the war on Christmas and the trans agenda. Please bro. Stay distracted bro."