David Helmer (He/Him)

There must be a patent on 4 back buttons instead of just 2…

Oh man sorry, it just switches video (and audio obviously), my monitor is a KVM. So between those 2 things I have.
- work laptop
- Mac Studio
- XBox series x
- PS5
- analogue pocket dock
- switch dock

All hooked up, it’s a stupid silly setup.

Depending on your needs, I love my Astro A50 whatevers that also work as a KVM for my insane setup.

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!!!" right up until you suggest dropping the speed limit to 20mph.

I bounced so hard off of it at launch but am considering giving it another go soon. Need to recalibrate and ignore the dissonance of stopping to smell the roses when I’ve got a parasite in my head…

Tired: Choose your fighter.

Wired: Choose your strongly worded letter writer.

But in all fairness, saying that they can't fight is not accurate. Because they fight really hard, and viciously, when the opponent is AOC, or Mamdani, or Black college students.

When we talk about corporate disinvestment in local newspapers, what we mean is that rural communities have been stripped of their local journalism.

When local news dies, “It essentially nationalizes content for those areas, so that local cultures no longer exist to themselves anymore.”

Boiling Water The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.

I wrote about the debate with the Jubilee fascists, the overall idea of the utility of debate and the alleged need for it in order to arrive at truth, and the malicious and corrosive effect this false idea actually has upon the discourse and society.

www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/

How does that work. Is it the case that we can effectively have switch 2 optimized games without the ugly red margin box?

Like does this mean the red margin box only means “exclusively switch 2”?

this is so fucking funny. they put him in the black hole sun music video

Holy shit this is the funniest thing I’ve seen today. What a perfect reaction.

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

Erasing history

Ooooof good callout

Considering Switch 2 for the flexibility.

Whatcha playing on?

Portfolio — Hazel Monforton Senior Narrative Designer (2021—2024)

It's been one year since I was laid off, and my contract with Blizzard ends in two months. I'm still looking for my next role as a senior writer or narrative designer!

I have over 8 years of experience working in AAA games from live service MMOs to single player. You can find my work on my website.

Oh my god the PayPal call was SO FUNNY. The guy on the phone was like "We don't allow processing payments for explicit material." So I hit him with "So if I were to go and purchase a copy of Game of Thrones online, my payment would be blocked?" I think it clicked for him then.

screenshotting to agree not dunk since her quotes are disabled but; if you're making payment processor calls and you hit this, I think bringing up Game Of Thrones is such a huge brain strategy to throw at a layperson. GoT was HUGE and has all the shit Collective Shout weaponized to start this.

An eloquent image:

Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.

I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

Honestly if there are sniper holes in the foreheads of children, I don’t care if your own reasoning allows you to sidestep the G-word, there is no logical parsing that can justify these acts, there is no gentlemanly symmetrical warfare based on some colonial guideline, this is mass human hunting.

🚨WATCH: “THIS PROJECT & AIRPORT ARE IN MY DISTRICT.”

Lee has Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social BLOCKED from entering an event announcing a state-sanctioned private Tesla Tunnel from Nashville airport - Elon Musk will control. (Republicans were allowed in)

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DMsqzpJ...

Yeah but I absolute DO NOT WANT slop summaries of these things…

Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs "Cutting these women off from income streams and audiences does nothing to 'protect' them."

really good write-up of this whole situation with payment processors enabling right-wing censorship of adult games www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io Payment platforms demand services remove NSFW content after open letter from Australian anti-porn group Collective Shout, triggering accusations of censorship

The Guardian just covered the Steam / itchio situation

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The president calling for the prosecution of individuals & companies he doesn't like should immediately end a presidency like it would have for anyone before this One Special Boy

British doctor comes back from Gaza and confirms two things we knew: 1- the Israelis *specifically* confiscate formula feed to starve children 2- there is a clear pattern in gun shot wounds pointing to the fact that IDF soldiers are playing games hunting humans.

www.instagram.com/reel/DMm03Kp...

Whatever evil you think of when you think "supreme evil", Israel is worse. To destabilize Gaza, they armed the gangs stealing the UN-supplied aid, blamed Hamas & the UN for the theft, then installed shoot-civilians-testicles-for-points Israeli and US mass-murderers to "run the aid distribution".

Several people in suits reach towards a man with glasses sitting at a table, holding a microphone. The latter speaks into the microphone, while the former attempt to stop him.

Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls