Fedule

*shakily removing glasses*

this is very cool! i immediately went to the cert page for achievements.

"Unlocking achievements in the base game or a content update must represent a thorough exploration of or engagement with game content."

i absolutely HAVE to know how this is assessed and enforced

That bit in Metroid prime 4 where we are hanging out with the chozos and one of them flies past and samus says "they fly now?" And her sidekick Cuthbert says "they fly now" is a chef's kiss

No, actually.

realtalk; i thought that having read the article and the discourse i was ready, but nothing could have prepared me for this fucking guy doing a "oh nononononononononono" as he fumbles his pistol. i want to know what writer/executive is responsible for this, who insisted on this, who iterated this

Celeste Developer Crashes Out Over Metroid

re prime 4 discourse, todasy is as good a time as any to say:

video games talk AT you way too much in the 2020s!

i'm not talking abt too much narrative (not a real issue). i'm talking abt a constant, patronizing use of narration to /predigest/ everything from challenge to mood to emotional impact!

"excessive generosity." "excessive generosity." "excessive generosity." "excessive generosity." "excessive generosity." "excessive generosity." "excessive generosity." "excessive generosity." "excessive generosity." "excessive generosity." "excessive generosity." "excessive generosity." "excessive g

reputation injured in reporter-involved email

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."

Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.

How Palantir infiltrated the state At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company

Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself.

Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.

Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.

Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.

You can't make it up.

"oh, look at me, i'm an ADULT, i have a MEETING"

i think peter thiel should have his fortune stripped on the way to prison and everyone who worked at gawker in 2014-16 should get $100 million

I dunno about Trump but I sure hope these emails take down the NYT

every single one of these emails is someone I already hate messaging a notorious pedophile to say "Thanks for the great time! I had fun doing pedophile stuff with you. P.S. Trump was there with us the whole time"

"Streeting: Like Starmer but stupider — the choice for Britain."

NEW: the IWGB has filed formal legal claims against Rockstar after it says the company refused to meet to discuss bringing back fired developers.

"Rockstar has declined to meet with the IWGB, leading the union and barristers to issue formal legal claims on behalf of the Claimants."

All my homies this morning are excited about that Steam box but mostly because everyone agrees that A Fuckin' Cube is just the best design for this stuff.

it's not wavy or wacky!
yeah man, put it on your shelf or entertainment unit. no weirder than having some Bose speakers or whatever

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

i often tell people that the heart and soul of all game design is making the player want something and then using that want to manipulate them, and people often laugh when i say this, like i've told a funny joke

oh there is no telling *at all* how stupid this is going to get is there

this entire lineage exists from dragon quest making a joke out of pretending your choice will matter through chrono trigger making a setpiece of briefly pretending your choices *won't* matter through to multiple stories about a choice that seems not to matter but which fractally branches a timeline

the very nasty people of Avalanche have been very unfair and hurt our beautiful mako reactors which are so green, so beautiful, we love them, we're all going to see mother

youtu.be/DGscoaUWW2M?...

evergreen educational material on this subject... for the UK. i wonder if there's a US equivalent

Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison. “If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.” Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

In the cases of queer and trans kids and teens, social media is actually frequently cited as a lifeline to being able to survive in oppressive transphobic and queerphobic communities and cultures. It’s an essential tool of connection, socialization, education, and yes, safety

It’s disturbing and discomforting to examine but there are several anti-phone and anti-social media initiatives weaponizing murders and suicides of teens, leveraging grieving parents, and exaggerating or inventing causation to try and limit speech online and restrict tech freedoms