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Hahahaahhaa hell yeah. The future rules! THE FUTURE RULES!

A screenshot of a text box from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown. Kathryn Janeway: Follow them! We'll get Tuvok's lungs back.

This is what gaming is all about

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We are about to run face-first into a combo of:

- Covid development delays (2020-2022)
- End of Zero-Interest Rate Policy (2022)
- Overinvestment in games-as-a-service (2021-2025)
- AI-based hardware shortages (2025+)

AAA games take 4-7 years to develop and bring to market. It is going to be BAD.

The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...

doing research

also one of my favorite “drop in for one scene and absolutely kill it” performances, as kelso in “heat”

One of those actors who could create a fully formed sense of a character in the viewer's mind even with relatively little screen time, as he so memorably does in Heat as well as Manhunter, among other films. Was always glad when he showed up in something. May he rest in peace.

Listening to Shelved By Genre talk about Tolkien's drawing of Bagend, I mocked up a quick Blender scene of the perspective to see just how big that door really is.

Answer: Quiet Large.

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Finally, as what we call devices that strike us as cheap even when we know they were expensive to develop, the gimmick is a judgment that asks us, in a well-nigh blasphemous way, to conflate aesthetic value with economic value—money—and more specifically, unproductively utilized money. For one of the gimmick’s paradigmatic instances is the overrated product one would be a sucker to buy, and thus an unsold commodity whose value cannot be realized. Yet from the stainless steel banana slicer to the cryptocurrency derivative, our very concept of the gimmick implies awareness that, in capitalism, misprized things are bought and sold continuously. Its flagrantly unworthy form can be found virtually anywhere: manufacturing, law, banking, education, politics, healthcare, real estate, sports, art. The gimmick is thus capitalism’s most successful aesthetic category but also its biggest embarrassment and structural problem. With its dubious yet attractive promises about the saving of time, the reduction of labor, and the expansion of value, it gives us tantalizing glimpses of a world in which social life will no longer be organized by labor, while indexing one that continuously regenerates the conditions keeping labor’s social necessity in place.2

returning to sianne ngai for the homestuck book and realizing yes we do indeed now live in the the age of gimmickmaxxing

okay goodnight😴

And as a reminder: through the rest of February and all of March, we'll be sending ALL of our profit (from all items) on friendsatthetable.shop to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. But the ICEBREAKER merch seen here (design by @badbucket.bsky.social) is only available during this period!

Thank you all SO much for joining us for our ICEBREAKER Immigrant Justice marathon. You all raised $130,772.53 over for the WFM's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund in the last two days. We're just floored by the turn out and support. Again, thank you all so so much.

We've finally come full circle. People are longing for less chatter dialogue in their games by referencing ocarina, a game that people consistently complained about Navi being too talkative to the point of it being a meme for 20 odd years.

So far we have raised $111,152.69 for the WFM's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund, and we are going into our finale game: KING OF THE CASTLE! It has GREAT Twitch integration and we play it in a really fun way. COME HANG AND DONATE

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This is weaponizing the very decency that made the Minnesota Resistance possible. It’s grotesque.

we're in the final stretch of our two-day marathon to support WFM's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. watching and sharing and donating is one small way you can say fuck ICE, especially on the evil President's Day. Fuck Presidents and fuck ICE and fuck all cops everywhere.

FriendsAtTheTable - Twitch Immigrant Justice Fundraiser CONTINUES!!! It's time to activate your imagination.

We just hit $100k raised for the WFM's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund! But we've got HOURS to go still, and next up, Jack, Keith, Sylvi and I are going to play some CK3: All Under Heaven at the top of the hour!

twitch.tv/friendsatthetable to watch!

tiltify.com/@friendsatth... to donate!!

Video games are great. Twitch.tv/friendsatthetable

We are going live with YAPYAP a co-op game about wizards yapping, casting spells, and, if I have read this board right, sneezing on things???

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There's good stuff coming today. Our first game, at 11.30 ET, will be the voice activated wizard experience YAPYAP... the 2026 Scintillation Fashion Contest... Accidental Medieval Block.

Twitch Twitch is the world

Join us in half an hour at 11am ET for the second day of our ICEBREAKER marathon, raising money for the WFM's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund! Yesterday you went to Flegg Hell, watched Austin crash a truck through a bridge, and raised over $61,500! twitch.tv/friendsatthetable bit.ly/icebreaker2026

THANK YOU

i wear this shirt more than any other shirt i own, i think. always sneak it to the top of the laundry basket

It’s the end of our first day! Thank you so much for helping raise $61,500 for the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota’s Immigrant Rapid Response Fund!

FriendsAtTheTable - Twitch ITS TIME TO BREAK STUFF. COME SUPPORT OUR FUNDRAISER.

Thanks to y'all, we've just crested $60K raised for the WFM's Rapid Immigrant Response Fund!

AND we've got one more segment for the night. Jack, Dre, Keith, Sylvi, Janine, and Austin are headed back in to play a little Repo.

Watch: twitch.tv/friendsatthetable

Donate: tiltify.com/@friendsatth...

FriendsAtTheTable - Twitch ITS TIME TO BREAK STUFF. COME SUPPORT OUR FUNDRAISER.

We're back live and we are about to start WRECKING SHIT in Teardown Multiplayer! Come hang out and donate to support the WFM’s Immigrant Rapid Response Fund!

twitch.tv/friendsatthetable

Over at the @friends-table.bsky.social ICEBREAKER fundraiser we have raised over $50,000 and we're about to send Dre to Flegg Hell twitch.tv/friendsatthetable

The excellent @badbucket.bsky.social

In addition to our fundraising stream, all profits from friendsatthetable.shop for February and March will be donated to the Immigration Law Center of Minnesota!

We've added new ICEBREAKER merch but any purchase will be donated!