Evan Backlog

Got to exchange a knowing smile and nod with the clearly gender queer barista while out for lunch with little man. The chicken banh mi was good but that was better

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

blood money is a great pick, it's completely seared into my brain

Would have loved to have gotten the original Dragon Age or Oblivion in here too, maybe in place of Sorcery, but I played the Sorcery book before I ever played either, and Inkle’s adaptation felt like it finally realised the promise of open world fantasy. Something round every corner, no dead ends

Was considering Mirror’s Edge, but couldn’t axe Spyro - it was the first video game I ever played, and it was an action platformer! Can’t guarantee I ever would have picked up ME if Spyro wasn’t my introduction to the genre

Maybe Might and Magic VII should be on there instead of GoW, and I wish there was space for Kentucky Route Zero. Norco should definitely be on here, but I couldn’t justify getting rid of Gone Home

There’re definitely games that I’ve played a lot more of, but in terms of what has influenced my taste and had the most significant impact on me personally, these are pretty set I think

Man the game with the AI slop voiceover is a data privacy nightmare, no way, who could have foreseen

My partner and I had a little argument the other day and she said to me “you’re not even trying to have a good day,” and I fear that a lot of people who use the internet are also not trying to have a good day

Just passed on my Marshall Major IVs to my partner, and loved those. Probably will just get Major Vs, but if anyone has a better option I’d be happy to hear it

Ideally I want something with Bluetooth capability but also a 3.5mm jack, will stay on my head while running but also allow me to sit in my office listening to my records at a reasonable level of quality

Buying new headphones, have about a hundred quid, recommendations from audio freaks welcome

Very special game

What the fuck is happening at Polymarket. Is the company run by Mr House from Fallout

Quoted text: Al Pacino in heat, 1995. Text in the QT: This reads different if you were unaware there was a film called heat. Two pictures of al Pacino, one where he looks normal and one where he looks like a crab is pinching his penis

No matter what this image never fails to cheer me up

I wrote ages ago about how seeing non-binary people casually existing on Erlin’s Eye gave me hope for a future where the most remarkable thing about people like me wouldn’t be their gender. I think the casual-ness of gender diversity in that story is what I was talking about

We have this view of gender as complicated and consequential, almost as religion - something that defines our internal sense of self. Maybe transness and gender diversity can be easier and more casual than that

Transness as a malicious spectre out to snare unwitting victims is a bizarre way of conceptualising gender. I don’t buy it. “If someone had told me I was a girl I don’t know what I would have done.” Maybe you would have transitioned and led just as happy and fulfilling a life

Maybe you’d just be happier if you had boobs. Maybe transitioning would just suit you better. It doesn’t have to be this thing where you have to unearth a buried truth about yourself. Being trans and being cis should be value neutral. An effeminate man deciding to transition should not be a tragedy

And like. Here’s a radical thought. So what if gay men transition? So what if a gay man decides that trans womanhood is a better fit? I think we need to move away from an understanding of transness and of gender as some inherent switch that’s either flipped or not

The anti-trans movement’s fascination with imaginary harm that could hypothetically befall non-existent people if healthcare is provisioned to real, flesh and blood people, is deeply sinister. A belief system that necessitates a phantom world to justify it

Nobody

Albert Wesker: 😎

I’m going to become the joker

Imminent generative AI project announcement

YouTube video by Klav Echoes of the Eye Soundtrack - The River

Apropos of nothing

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Thinking about the moment when you first drop into the Outer Wilds DLC area. Moebius are sick fucks, I hope they make another game

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

People use their tech the way they’re gonna use it, they don’t like you telling them how to do it, and they don’t like weird new unreliable shit being bolted onto the side of their apps

My word processor already works fine, I don’t need it to tell me about this new thing that I have to take the time to learn how to use. Nobody wants to have to dismiss an instructive slideshow about their phones new AI features every time they download a software update

I think that the tech people who are folding AI into their operating systems fundamentally misunderstand the idiosyncratic way that people use technology. Constantly having new tech need to suggest itself to you makes it feel intrusive, hostile, clunky and annoying