Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)

I’ll never be anti-anime. I will always be anti-weeb.

NO! MAO’S OTL IS CHIANG AND NIXON IS IN LOVE WITH JFK!

I've changed my mind on AI. I need this more than humanity collectively needs rivers and oceans

The hard part is explaining that right wing us culture isn’t down stream of video games and Warhammer but YouTube videos of video games and Warhammer.

Lots of people acting shocked that this Congress is basically voting to actively abolish itself and I’m not sure how you can be shocked anymore.

I will officially break when that happens.

The White House literally just proved this thesis an hour ago by posting a bunch of killcam footage and framing it like it’s in COD.

Agreeing to be interviewed by Chotiner thinking you’ll come out better than you went in is the height of hubris

'those movies where people watch a video because it's supposed to make you die in a week are unrealistic' I say as I watch another person take a Chotiner phone call

Seeing someone unironically claim that the Brits “conquered” the Falklands and slaughtered the “natives” and buddy, just fucking say you hate white people. The Nazis aren’t trying to mask their racism anymore, why even bother hiding behind “anti-imperialism” anymore.

Love to see it

A Gorgeous Video Game That’s Also Very Jewish The ‘Eternal Life of Goldman’ is the rare video game to feature a distinctly Jewish protagonist

The Eternal Life of Goldman is one of the most beautiful games of 2026. It's also nice to finally see some video-game representation for people like me: aging Jews with back problems.

For this week's column, I spoke to the director of this stunning platformer: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

It's fascinating in retrospect to see how Americas were trying so hard to reverse engineer Power Rangers.

The wild thing is you never see the baseball guys use WAR for future projections like this. This is like saying Tarik Skubal needs a WAR of 7+ to get a $400 million contract.

you’re a humanities critic who naturally assumes that bc you take a game to be a story driven object, everyone else does. but acti-blizz disagrees

i think there is a very simple explanation for this, at least in 2026. the cultural apparatus orbiting around Trump lives in a world entirely governed by short feedback loops.

gambling

social media

meme stonks

junk cryptocurrency

LLMs

This is a pretty good point about how much of the current political right is defined by video game culture.

but more seriously have you ever wondered why DoD, cough cough DEPARTMENT OF WAR PR now seems to largely consist of killcams

Hoi4 released an update a few weeks ago that buffed strat bombers a lot and now we are attempting a “Bombing to Win” strategy. Coincidence?

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

You need to accept the truth that the whole market is just a meme market now, Sharon. Fundamentals, risk, actual value…none of that matters in the face of the all important VIBES.

It’s interesting that Talarico’s religious appeals are framed primarily as a reach across the aisle here.

In his particular case, I think that’s *part* of the effort come the general. But his slogan was “let’s flip some tables” — a theological argument aimed at the Democratic base, not Republicans.

*aide walks up and whispers something into Rubio’s ear. Rubio pauses for a moment, deep in thought before speaking*

“I’ve just been informed that this Chang fella that I’ve been threatening to unleash has been dead since 1975. I no longer know what to believe.”

*Rubio pulls out a brown paper bag*

PlayStation is reportedly moving away from PC ports Console exclusives are back

Sony is reportedly moving away from PlayStation PC ports. It’s a big change from a few years ago, when Sony said it wanted half of its games available on PC and mobile by 2025 www.theverge.com/games/888908...

.@SecRubio : "We're going to unleash Chang on these people in the next few hours and days. You're going to really begin to perceive a change in the scope and intensity of these attacks as, frankly, the two most powerful air forces in the world take apart this terroristic regime."

oh my god they USED CHANG

HE STILL DOESN'T KNOW

Cartoon titled "know the work rules". The first panel, labeled "appropriate" depicts Garfield the cat in a business suit leaning around the edge of a cubicle and pointing to a woman at her desk while saying, "coffee lasagna Mondays am I right?" to which the woman responds, hands clasped together, "awww you're so funny" The second panel, labeled "inappropriate", depicts a far side cow leaning around the edge of the same cubicle and speaking with a word bubble which contains only the shapes of the 4 cow tools. The woman fearfully picks up the Phone and says, "hello , complaint department??!"

know the funny papers rules

i don't really like to call people out but a lot of online discourse on reading and literacy seems motivated primarily by a desire to make the original poster seem morally and intellectually superior than their peers

Absolute Borderline: The Early Days of Evangelion Fandom, Part One

Brian Stremick crosses the Absolute Terror Field to chronicle the inseparable mingling of technology, early fandom, and Evangelion in this three-part retrospective.