Katelyn Gadd

As someone who reads incoming job applications, I'm getting more and more evidence for this

Good timing on this, because I asked the Battlefield team about the new game's factions and why they settled on the whole private military corp villain story. The answer? "We needed a cool, badass enemy, and we believe that Pax Armata is awesome." www.polygon.com/battlefield-...

A reminder not to let the National Center On Sexual Exploitation's official-sounding name fool you: they're the rebranded busybody group "Morality In Media", whom you might remember from such hits as "Trying to have Life Of Brian pulled from theatres" and "trying to connect queerness to mass murder"

'Battlefield 2042' Turns the Climate Crisis Into a Playground DICE and EA's latest sci-fi shooter is an example of art imitating life, complete with the trappings that got us all here.

Was looking back at a piece I wrote for Wired about Battlefield 2042's depiction of climate apocalypse and... man... its wild how much worse everything has gotten since then. www.wired.com/story/battle...

people are bad at naming things, episode XX

this is a tax on people *making* over $1M a year, not people with over $1M of wealth. it does not impact a dentist making $200k a year who has saved up $1M over a lifetime of work.

messaging really matters for what people imagine they might be subject to

A reminder that Nintendo Japan's legal attack on Palworld wasn't because of any creature similarities. It's because Nintendo own the *fundemental concept* of being carried around by a creature, or summoning something by throwing an object.

Nintendo would do this in the US if they could, too.

How elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns A CNN investigation reveals how deceptive political fundraising has misled hundreds of elderly Americans.

Literally nothing can justify this. No matter how virtuous the candidate you work for, it's not worth bilking elderly people with dementia. The biggest offenders are GOP grifters, but Dem campaigns do it too – and it's crucial that progressives reject it. www.cnn.com/interactive/...

you might have at various points found yourself wondering: why are rich people so obsessed with big boats? well...

U.S. may require visa applicants to post bond up to $15,000 to enter country The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.

If you're from a country with a weaker economy or difficult entry requirements into the US: do not spend money on GDC. Do not book a ticket. Do not book a hotel. Do not pay for a visa. Skip that cynical for-profit extortion, or the US will take your money & spit you out.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

My theory is that if we taxed most of these people without telling them and the people they pay to manage their money didn't tell them, they'd never notice.

And if you'd never notice you should be taxed even more.

Am I misreading this or did the other types of spending tank

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

VatDS update!

Unfortunately, the answers Lycoris wants still elude her. But hey, vengeance is always cool!
Also a couple other (not so surprising, perhaps) characters making some moves.

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"they said have you tried turning her off and turning her back on again, i said, how about i meet you halfway"

my dudes I just realized we're building square-miles sized multi story datacenters packed to the brim with rack mounted servers and theyre all just reading reddit

god bless the wayback machine

Kaizen: A Factory Story Original Soundtrack, by Matthew S. Burns, Sam Kulchin, Drew Messinger-Michaels 20 track album

The original soundtrack to Kaizen: A Factory Story, by me, Sam Kulchin, and @drewmm.com is out now on Bandcamp and coming to streaming services soon! coincidencegames.bandcamp.com/album/kaizen...

you're gonna wanna see this

The Republican governor of Texas has directed state police to arrest his Democratic opponents

Nintendo are preventing RTA in Japan from showing speedruns of Nintendo games

What an absolutely disgusting overreach - I hate them so much

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Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

Post ‪Dia Lacina‬ ‪@dialacina.com‬ · 2h Every game should start with you in jail. 5 Dia Lacina ‪@dialacina.com‬ There, now its ultimate form... Screenshot of Twitter post by Dia Lacina stating "this is the only correct game design" showing a graphic from the design document for Diablo of an isometric image of a town with a path to a Temple/Dungeon that goes far below the earth in many layers. But photoshopped in is a sketch of a Panopticon with a road drawn to the town, and the word JAIL written over it. ALT August 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM 2 reposts 14 likes 1 2 ‪MercuryCDX‬ ‪@mercurycdx.bsky.social‬ · 4m Rewriting games like Shining in the Darkness and Fatal Labyrinth to start the protag in jail. Call 'em gritty reboots. Write your reply Screenshot of Twitter post by Dia Lacina stating "this is the only correct game design" showing a graphic from the design document for Diablo of an isometric image of a town with a path to a Temple/Dungeon that goes far below the earth in many layers. But photoshopped in is a sketch of a Panopticon with a road drawn to the town, and the word JAIL written over it. Screenshot of Twitter post by Dia Lacina stating "this is the only correct game design" showing a graphic from the design document for Diablo of an isometric image of a town with a path to a Temple/Dungeon that goes far below the earth in many layers. But photoshopped in is a sketch of a Panopticon with a road drawn to the town, and the word JAIL written over it. A blue lake labeled "lake for fishing) has been added near the town, where as flowing off of a lower level of the dungeon is a blood red lake labeled "evil lake (for advanced fishing).

Open world version

an illustration of my OC mimi sitting on top of her legs, extending her arm out holding one of the chicken orb chat mascots. there are many around the image. it uses sunset colors.

it's dangerous to go alone, take this #art #oc

hunter's moon // #Bloodborne

A screenshot of the original Age of Wonders UI with a big honkin' dragon just chilling behind the menu.

You: wants sleek, modern UIs

Me: Wants a big honkin' dragon sitting on the menu for no particular reason.

This video shows the process behind one continuous shot showing a condensed period of time in a woman's life and the changes to her apartment in the show Kidding. AI could make something that looks kind of like this but it could never make you wonder about it. You'd never discuss it with friends.