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José van Dam 85, an award-winning Belgian bass-baritone opera singer who created the title role in Olivier Messiaen's “Saint François d’Assise," has died, a Belgian conservatory announced Thurs. Van Dam died Tuesday in Croatia, said Natsumi Krischer of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium.😢

“Make bad game? Fired. Make good game? Fired. Make incredibly successful game? Believe it or not, also fired.” Original source of meme is from Parks and Recreation.

the video game industry is a mess

Bro you have no idea how heroin works, come back to me when you’ve tried heroin before we have a discussion of if it’s bad or not.

Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment

Also: if this premise sounds cool to you and you'd wanna be involved we cannot pay in anything other than community but more folk are definitely welcome

(I have in my 1-piece-of-trash-a-day accidentally made over an hour's worth of serviceable music so comment if you want a link to the drive folder)

An ‘astonishingly’ large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara | BBC Science Focus Magazine This school-bus-sized predator was so unusual that scientists didn't recognise it at first

WAKE UP EVERYONE UNICORN SPINOSAURUS JUST SPAWNED
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Sometimes I remember that the Demon's Souls crystal lizard is unused content in the files of Dark Souls 1 and this pleases me greatly. Also, what is this pose??

There should be a bonus medal for dropping a perfect f-bomb faster than the NBC censors can catch it

Now that I've completed Lies of P and the DLC, I have a brief clip prepared to summarize my feelings.

Caves of Qud controls guide for Nintendo Switch, SteamDeck and controller.

Ready to play Caves of Qud on Switch or SteamDeck this weekend? We have beginner guides for you!

🎮Switch/SteamDeck Controls guide: youtu.be/SIJLbY0WqVs

🍄Complete beginners guide: youtu.be/jFtvzwK2jzY

'Sleeping Beauty,' 'Roger Rabbit' Animator Jane Baer Dies At 91 A world-class animator, producer, studio founder, and a founding member of Women in Animation (WIA) Baer worked with the Nine Old Men and into the digital age.

Jane Baer has died at 91. A titan, she worked on 'Sleeping Beauty,' co-founded Baer Animation, supervised 'Roger Rabbit,' and advocated for her fellow artists. Few careers trace the evolution of late-20th-century American animation as completely.
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this is actually not a staff choice. it is my personal choice and i had to fight the urge to use the same screenshot of shodan again.

Also: if this premise sounds cool to you and you'd wanna be involved we cannot pay in anything other than community but more folk are definitely welcome

Would YOU want to play a top down Zelda like where you explore a heavily Beksinski-influenced landscape helping the Souls of the dead find peace and gradually losing every one of your Zelda gizmos along the way? If so please watch this space for when we have time to finish it between 5-10 years =P

Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Buddy, I already do this and if you saw how little I make a year, you’d rend your garments.

here's the thing about george r r martin: writing outlines for a genre fiction story is one of the funnest things you can do, and "writing" is Adonai's final punishment meted out to the human race. he's living the fucking dream

first of all: lmao

(I have in my 1-piece-of-trash-a-day accidentally made over an hour's worth of serviceable music so comment if you want a link to the drive folder)

poly market on twitter: Polymarket 🤝 Substack We are excited to announce our exclusive partnership with Substack. Starting today Substack authors can natively integrate data from the world's largest prediction market. Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.

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Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

as scary as this is, it is only further evidence that they know they've got nothing. absolutely nothing. they now are reduced to threatening the lives of other people's children, in front of god and everybody, to keep feeling even the tiniest bit secure about themselves and their life choices.

“i was forced by a bleeding heart in the homeowners’ association to watch zone of interest and the tension for me the whole time was whether the kids were going to be weird to the parents about the neighbors or if they’d be grateful for all the free shoes.”

I have put 50-odd hours into Qud and never gotten more than 10 levels deep into a run, but I don't mind because I just keep looking at everything and reading all the beautiful, beautiful descriptions. This is a world that is loved by its makers and by me

Description of a limestone wall from Caves of Qud "Invertebrate life was sucked of its tissue and bled still over millions of years. The dusky rock is a necropolis."

Real talk though for every gonzo beat of randomized dungeon crawl there is also a quiet moment of place-making. Have a limestone wall

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,