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In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.

It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.

My months-long investigation 👇

honestly Berbiz's whole arc was one of my favorite bits in The Hayseed Knight

there are a LOT of things in there that are my favorite, to be clear XD

Berbiz, a blond fallow deer with glasses and a goatee, tells Ader, the yellow one-eyed deer an eponymous The Hayseed Knight: "I find that there's nothing more terrifying than ignorance, for it is comforting like nothing else in this world, it cannot be cured by anything less than the will to fix it, and it can never be recovered once lost."

This is one of my favorite lines I've ever written. It really makes me feel like The Hayseed Knight is an important game, when my confidence wavers.

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#thehayseedknight

Not all can return to the way it was, but much that they destroy can be made anew.

i feel great! i feel great! i feel great! i feel bad. i don't even watch football! i don't even watch football! i can't remember my legs

Fuck it I hope Jesus does come back so he can beat the shit out of his fanclub for being like that.

The future was stolen from us to riotous applause.

I will never comprehend why a generation was raised to 'come together, accept differences and heal the world' by the same people who are practically blood drunk giddy off the rancid mire of unending existential woe they brought into existence.

years ago (before all the AI bullshit) a friend and i discovered that putting the katakana モガディシオ (Mogadishu) into Google Translate would give the translation "Helsinki"

to this day this is an in-joke between me and said friend

a series of threaded replies: - my post: who up waning they gibbous - Papa Nurgle's favorite daughter's post: It's a waxing cresent tonight, JERRY - my post: who up waxing they crescent

i'm on bluesky for the scientific community

ABSONET and "OVER" By using Absonet, you become invincible. The score gets multiplied quicker so move quickly before it runs out. By collecting enough [symbol], your plane becomes OVER status and you're able to fly faster, but with more risk. By using Absonet and collecting [symbol] and achieving OVER status, you'll be flying fastest to the moon.

ABS-NET and OVER STATE ABS-NET is great; it makes you invincible and boosts the multiplier. Collect speed items to enter the OVER state for high-speed high-risk shooting action! ABS-NET, Speed items, and OVER state are the keys for reaching the moon fast! At least, I think they are! [big symbol] <- Speed item!

if you've ever wanted to see an incredibly stark comparison between a bad and good translation, check out this section from Radirgy Swag's manual: pic 1 is Dispatch Games' slapdash loc and pic 2 is the new steam translation

One of the biggest problems with having a perpetual imperialist war machine is that "our leaders lied us into a war again" should be considered a crime that permanently ends the freedom of everyone involved but instead ends up just being background noise.

A bunny on a skateboard rolls down a homemade ramp, in a backyard, about to go off a jump. Their friends also cheer them on on either side of the ramp.

Daily bunny no.3246 is about to break their record

the official pokemon account posted a reference to twitch plays pokemon and idk whats getting to me more the amount of people not getting it in the replies or the fact that TPP is 12 years old now

i'm sure someone else could come up with a better title for a hypothetical "Ernest P. Worrell ends up on Her Majesty's Secret Service through a hilarious mishap" film

i was gonna say Jim Varney but in retrospect it was a missed opportunity they never did "Double-O-Ernest"

THe bad guys are the cops and the KKK, who are the same thing, and they get murdered by cool monster people. That's not a TW, that's just more advertisement

this is my sense of humor exactly holy shit

Twin Peaks Logo Generator Turtle Power!

No thanks. If I wanted to hear an old man lie to me about how great of a job he’s doing, I’d go to church

a group of figures confronting the sun headline reads It's a Beautiful Day to Yell At God the figures are saying WHAT THE FUCK? COME OUT! WE JUST WANNA TALK! FACE US YOU COWARD

🌞

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

YOU - I am a detective.

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - So am I. I was born to detect sucrose rewards and semiochemicals. What were you born to detect?

YOU - I was born to detect you.

Report back to Talos about the Stupid Weeaboo's Menacing Vest, even if it kills you

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Years ago I read a webcomic whose title escapes me where a character threatens to subject another character to "[their] own personal Very Special Episode", and it's stuck with me because it feels like which specific genre of television we're assuming is in play is doing a LOT of heavy lifting there.

every time i think about what localizing Caves of Qud into other languages would entail, my mind goes, specifically, to the task of conveying these key phrases

I could write 10,000 words about Caves of Qud (and maybe one day I will) but I want to point out one thing about the water ritual, "your thirst is mine, my water is yours." I love that it STARTS with the empathy of acknowledging the other's need before moving on to the gift of one's own water.

now we have a crop of insane men with the power, capability, and will to try and force the apocalypse on their schedule, so they can "win" the world, humanity as a whole be damned

they think their place is at God's right hand and they'll kill everybody to get there

i don't think any of them have thought ahead that far

doomsday cultists have been around for millennia and, god help us, Christianity has an eschatology baked into its holy scripture