Ryan Dormanesh

A clip from a Steam News post reads "Just as before, you can purchase these awards using your Steam Points (earned by buying games), and use them in Steam Community to show your appreciation for things like user reviews, forum posts, guides, screenshots, artwork, Workshop mods, or even directly on your buddy's Steam profile. New: Awards no longer transfer points When we originally created Steam Community Awards, the idea was for them to not only look cool but to also grant a small number of Steam Points to the recipient, meaning they could be used as a tip of sorts for people who create and share amazing content with the Steam Community. However, we found that this encouraged and rewarded a narrow set of attention-grabbing content and didn't allow the focus to be as much on a broader pool of thoughtful, well-considered creative content. " The last sentence is highlighted. It goes on "Because of this, we're refocusing the system: The Second Edition of Steam Community Awards won't transfer points. Instead, the goals of the system will be solely about conveying the appreciation of the viewer to the content creator, and as a signal to others that someone appreciated the piece of content. Any pending point transfers will complete like normal, but new award applications will not convey points."

"However, we found that this encouraged and rewarded a narrow set of attention-grabbing content and didn't allow the focus to be as much on a broader pool of thoughtful, well-considered creative content."
Steam quietly solving societal problems on their own little social network.

Short Sword - You start the game with this sword. It is so weak, you feel lonely (you have no confidence in this sword).

the Deadly Towers manual has some absolute gems for item descriptions

No, I usually dont like seeing stuff from people I don’t follow. Maybe that’s my problem I dunno. I am so sad I deleted Facebook and lost so many connections but don’t want to go back.

I keep trying to post on here and put out a positive vibe but I barely ever get a single like, I jut kinda gave up but still post stuff for my own entertainment mostly and as some sort of public log.

Awe. I don’t know you but doubt you’d be bothering anyone. Sending positive thoughts.

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Eyeball

Our brand new Eyeball ep is here! Please share with everyone you know!

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Floor796 A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups

Floor 796 is a giant gif made by one guy full of Easter eggs that he keeps adding to check this out! Reminds me of a simpler time on the internet.
floor796.com

Saving the image seems like saving user data, for gdpr you’re supposed to let people delete their stuff. A kid could go on there and write their name and phone number or something.

Does it support the right to delete?

Key art for The Pitt season 2 shows “Dr Robby” and says “the work never stops”

Wow The Pitt S2E1, I was worried I overhyped it for myself but they delivered! Having worked in healthcare now I recognize more terms and stuff, it seems so realistic! Best show. You gotta watch it. If you did what did you think?

Happy The Pitt premiere day!

"I was a mineral. I lived for thousands of years, and then I died, and became a plant.
I lived as a plant for thousands of years, and then I died, and became an animal.
I lived as an animal for thousands of years, and then I died, and became a human.
So tell me, what is ever lost from dying?"
-Rumi

Oh we are doing this now? Ok.
My top films of 2025

In no particular order.

Frankenstein
The Life Of Chuck
Toxic Avenger
Not Just A Goof
When We Went Mad
Mickey 17
Weapons
KPop Demon Hunters
One Battle After Another
Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues

That is unexpected and pretty cool!

Double Toasted For movie reviews, funny trailer reactions of new movies, tv series review and more... subscribe to this channel for comedy, viral news stories and more every single day of the week! TICKETS FOR…

This Sunday's Random #YouTube Channel I Like: Double Toasted! These guys have hilarious movie reviews and will go pretty deep too. They have been around for a while so sometimes I'll see if they have a review after I've seen a movie and go back and watch it.

I want to go! Soon.

Should old acquaintance be forgot?

Lofi Girl Connecting people through music 🌎

This Sunday's Random #YouTube Channel I Like: LoFi Girl! If you need some background noise, or something to throw on a second monitor, this is always a great option.

Merry Christmas to my one or two BlueSky followers who still use this site.

Doug DeMuro Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

This Sunday's Random #YouTube Channel I Like: Doug DeMuro! "THIS!" is where I go whenever I am interested in a car to see if he has a video on it. I love how he gets into the nitty gritty of every little one of the cars "Quirks and features!"

Crunch is a failure of team and company leadership.

If you are sitting at your desk at 1am stressing on a problem and your manager is in their office playing with and modifying nerf guns your project has severely gone off the rails

Late to this bc I was in the desert but:

ND has a long history of this. It does not have to continue to be this way.

Talk to your coworkers (off company time, on Signal or a similar encrypted app) and contact @codecwa.bsky.social or @videogameworkers.bsky.social

You - we all - deserve better.

Work evacuated. Freeway is closed, commute doubled. Finally get back home, and power goes out. This storm sucks!

#BREAKING: New drone video from Pacific, WA, on Tuesday morning following a levee failure on the White River at Pacific City Park. Whole neighborhoods are underwater as water continues flowing out of the failed levee. #wawx #flood #drone

I remember logging in at midnight to all the local BBS’s to do my daily turns in that game. Loved it.

While watching #TheGameAwards, I couldn't help but notice a LOT of red and spikiness/thorniness.

I quickly assembled this collage; there are more instances than these.

Not to crap on these games and their trailers, but shouldn't they look more distinct from each other?

DF Clips Clips, reaction and highlights from Digital Foundry. Visit our website: https://www.digitalfoundry.net

This Sunday's Random #YouTube Channel I Like: Digital Foundry! These guys are practically a meme at this point, but I truly love how deep they go into how games performance and rendering.

😆….😔

E. H. Shepard's illustration of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh on a wooden bridge, looking over the edge into the water below.

🎂 E. H. Shepard was born on this day in 1879. A titan among British illustrators, he’s best remembered for his Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations. 🧸

The surprising ways his artwork & the text work together to shape the Pooh stories are a story all their own ⤵️
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