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Happy for them to delay and do it right rather than have it flop and have to wait another decade before they try again

06.03.2026 22:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good website: www.youraislopbores.me

06.03.2026 09:58 👍 746 🔁 285 💬 32 📌 114
The PIGCON: Portland Indie Game Convention logo, depicting a large Cubepig over a city with a bridge.
Text also reads "May 30th - 31st, 2026 Norse Hall, Portland, OR"

The PIGCON: Portland Indie Game Convention logo, depicting a large Cubepig over a city with a bridge. Text also reads "May 30th - 31st, 2026 Norse Hall, Portland, OR"

ANNOUNCING:
PIGCON, the Portland Indie Game Convention
A weekend for indie devs of all kinds to learn, share, and connect
May 30-31 at Norse Hall, Portland, OR
pigcon.pigsquad.com
See you this spring 😉🌟

03.03.2026 19:38 👍 159 🔁 56 💬 5 📌 17
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02.03.2026 22:45 👍 92 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

02.12.2025 19:02 👍 3450 🔁 1277 💬 38 📌 122

The liberal rationale often quoted in US media is that we simply have to intervene in Iran to support women’s rights in the country.

Anyway, here is a video of Iranian citizens distraught over the death of young school girls because of US bombs.

28.02.2026 16:34 👍 337 🔁 92 💬 5 📌 2
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

28.02.2026 15:50 👍 13791 🔁 3341 💬 111 📌 70

This drink is WAY too strong, but I happen to like it in a big glass diluted with 2 parts water. Then it becomes protein iced tea that gets me hydrated.

26.02.2026 19:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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kill all fake lovers

25.02.2026 23:31 👍 4177 🔁 1454 💬 34 📌 51

Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list

13.02.2026 12:30 👍 2303 🔁 894 💬 10 📌 8
A whiteboard leaned against a shelf with many trinkets. On the whiteboard, it says “When you look at a blank page, think of who you love”

A whiteboard leaned against a shelf with many trinkets. On the whiteboard, it says “When you look at a blank page, think of who you love”

In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work

23.02.2026 16:02 👍 2672 🔁 707 💬 25 📌 0

Does your body ACTUALLY feel like it vibrating? Because that happened to me last year when for 3 months after a period of intense stress

24.02.2026 05:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think a lot of people are insecure about whether compliments are coming from a place of pity or earnestness, and sometimes sandwiching it in this way is intended to show the authenticity of said compliment. But I agree to your point, direct kindness and honesty is the solution.

24.02.2026 00:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

21.02.2026 21:47 👍 10075 🔁 2274 💬 52 📌 14
a ink drawing of a man tackling another man swinging a sword by grabbing him around the waist and putting his face in his crotch

a ink drawing of a man tackling another man swinging a sword by grabbing him around the waist and putting his face in his crotch

swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century

19.02.2026 13:36 👍 9193 🔁 2368 💬 236 📌 798

It definitely helps with feeling a little more akin to playing on controller, just a few too many inputs on the left hand for comfort

13.02.2026 06:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
interview with David Cronenberg for the 1999 film existenz
If videogames are aspiring to become art, does this mean
that the future of art is interactive?
Western culture's view of the artist is still Romantic, with a capital R; the artist has a vision
other people don't have and he uses his skills to take people to a place they wouldn't be
able to visit otherwise, where they discover truths about life and the human condition.
That doesn't really include interactivity, as it assumes a largely passive audience. Could
there be a truly interactive, democratic artform? My films certainly aren't democratic – their
creation is more like a dictatorship. Would interactivity drag art down to the lowest
common denominator? I don't know, but these are questions I find exciting to explore.
Do you think the videogame industry encourages the
idea of videogames as art?
In the graphic sense, many videogames can already be viewed as art, but overall I see a
propensity to imitate Hollywood, which could be termed the anti-art. Great videogame
designers may have to struggle against this trend.

interview with David Cronenberg for the 1999 film existenz If videogames are aspiring to become art, does this mean that the future of art is interactive? Western culture's view of the artist is still Romantic, with a capital R; the artist has a vision other people don't have and he uses his skills to take people to a place they wouldn't be able to visit otherwise, where they discover truths about life and the human condition. That doesn't really include interactivity, as it assumes a largely passive audience. Could there be a truly interactive, democratic artform? My films certainly aren't democratic – their creation is more like a dictatorship. Would interactivity drag art down to the lowest common denominator? I don't know, but these are questions I find exciting to explore. Do you think the videogame industry encourages the idea of videogames as art? In the graphic sense, many videogames can already be viewed as art, but overall I see a propensity to imitate Hollywood, which could be termed the anti-art. Great videogame designers may have to struggle against this trend.

Man, was not expecting to feel so heard and seen in 2026 by the 1999 film, eXistenZ, as a game developer. These quotes from David Cronenberg in particular are wild.

Guess what David, you were right 😶‍🌫️

12.02.2026 18:14 👍 70 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 3

Yeah the hut and base building were very fun and customizable, felt like actual architecture building instead of just “make walls for your square domicile”

05.02.2026 18:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

one thing you can say about jeffrey epstein is that he simply loved emailing

02.02.2026 20:32 👍 4444 🔁 344 💬 115 📌 31
Person: say, i am alive.

Computer: I am alive.

Person: oh my god.

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

01.02.2026 23:48 👍 23430 🔁 5147 💬 85 📌 141
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Microsoft banned Jeffrey Epstein from Xbox Live in 2013 for “harassment, threats, and/or abuse of other players” that was “severe, repeated, and/or excessive.”

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The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

24.01.2026 22:03 👍 9979 🔁 2520 💬 80 📌 45

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

23.01.2026 15:46 👍 18631 🔁 6017 💬 197 📌 108

God, thinking about trend chasing and the big companies trying to emulate Fortnite and Roblox, I found myself just wondering how in another world PlayStation’s “Dreams” by MediaMolecule could have been an Earth shattering success. I wonder what makes it so different from other mixed media platforms?

23.01.2026 00:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"What's your favourite Beatles album, then?"
"Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"

20.01.2026 09:58 👍 2479 🔁 626 💬 77 📌 95
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Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

08.01.2026 13:00 👍 8822 🔁 4226 💬 308 📌 728
spongebob screaming at a fish saying "I FUCKING LOVE SEQUALS THAT REUSE ENGINES AND ASSETS FROM THEIR PREDECESSORS"

"I WANT TO FUCKING EXPERIENCE GAMES THAT EXPLORE THE CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES OF A WORLD WITHIN AN EXISTING FRAMEWORK"

With a bunch of pictures of games that did so

spongebob screaming at a fish saying "I FUCKING LOVE SEQUALS THAT REUSE ENGINES AND ASSETS FROM THEIR PREDECESSORS" "I WANT TO FUCKING EXPERIENCE GAMES THAT EXPLORE THE CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES OF A WORLD WITHIN AN EXISTING FRAMEWORK" With a bunch of pictures of games that did so

06.01.2026 22:00 👍 1729 🔁 466 💬 28 📌 26

One thing people forget is that the US supports plenty of dictators right now, it has supported dictators in the past, and it has installed its own dictators in other countries through regime change operations.

The US doesn't care that Maduro was a dictator or bad, they care he opposed them.

03.01.2026 21:15 👍 1110 🔁 328 💬 7 📌 4