Darla

"It's not much of a cheese nov, is it?"

"Finest in the genre!"

"Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please."

"Well, the mystery is so clean!"

"The mystery is certainly uncontaminated by cheese."

...literally none of those cheeses are "ooey-gooey.

So basically

Chased by every dog you meat.

Tree trunk being transported by bike using a trailer.

"But what if I want to transport a huge tree trunk?"
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There’s a principle I talk a lot about in relation to Lancer game design which I call the Knight Boat Principle. In Season 6, Episode 13 of The Simpsons, “And Maggie Makes Three,” this exchange occurs: TV Announcer: We now return to Knight Boat, the Crime Solving Boat! [a boat chases several men on jet skis] Michael: Faster, Knight-Boat, we’ve gotta catch those starfish poachers! Oh no, they’re headed for land! [the starfish poachers switch from jet skis to motorcycles and speed away] Michael: We’ll never catch ‘em now! Knight Boat: Incorrect. Look, a canal! [cut to the Simpsons’ living room] Bart: Aw, every week there’s a canal! Lisa: Or an inlet! Bart: Or a fjord. Homer: Quiet! I will not hear another word against the boat.

I actually hold the belief that it’s perfectly fine for there to always be a canal, or an inlet, or a fjord, because this is a show about Knight Boat, the crime-solving boat, and if you don’t have a waterway down which Knight Boat can travel, you are kneecapping the entire premise of your show. Lancer is a game about mech fights. Major problems in the Lancer universe must always, in some way, have a solution that includes fighting in mechs. If players travel to a place in their mechs, it should be a place with architecture sized to reasonably accommodate them. This is the guiding thematic principle around which I write for Lancer. I need to justify why the mechs are fighting in a theme park, but I do not need to justify why the mechs are able to fight in the theme park – In Golden Flame and in the greater extent the whole of Lancer is a setting about giant robots being used for things they definitely shouldn’t. If you need me to explain to you why the theme park uses fully-armed giant robots as mascots, you are in the wrong game.

I call this the Knight Boat Principle and it is an unironic, genuine game design principle that I have, which can be briefly stated as: "if your core gameplay has a specific premise, your worldbuilding should be structured around enabling it, rather than the other way around." #LancerRPG

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make." is one of the most consistent things about Trump.

The economy's leitmotif just transitioned into an ominous Latin chorus.

the economy's leitmotif has been reprised in a minor key,,,

EXACTLY what Canadian curling needed after the earlier scandal: A nice clean win through sheer skill. Dude absolutely threaded the needle there.

The greatest curl in history?

thank u @mjgault.bsky.social for suffering through the ai slop freedom truck so i could layer tuba music under it

MOUSEKA-GIGER [photo of HR Giger in a mouseketeer hat and holding an Oscar] ... As  fan of H.R. Giger, I have been collecting his prints and corresponding with him for some time. So, when he arrived in Los Angeles for the Academy Awards, I wasted no time in contacting him. Enclosed is a photograph of him posing with his award for ALIEN. He had just been to Disneyland the day before, which explains the hat. As a fan of STARLOG, I would like to share this picture with the readers. I’m sure they would enjoy seeing this Mouseka-Giger! Gary Randall 4094 Glenalbyn Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90065 PHOTO: GARY RANDALL

Here is a higher-res image of H.R. Giger holding his Oscar while wearing a Mickey Mouse hat, along with better alt text:

NHS England pauses new prescriptions of cross-sex hormones for under-18s The health service said young people who already receive the drugs will continue to do so.

The Cass review, used to justify an ideological decision to withhold medical care from trans teenagers, is throughly discredited.
The Health Secretary and NHS England are lying to patients and their families and to the public.
This is severe institutional transphobia.
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump's War with Iran Trump's unauthorized war in Iran has already taken the lives of US servicemembers and at least 1,000 Iranian civilians. It has devolved into a larger regional conflict, with missile and drone strikes,...

No Democrat should vote to fund Trump’s illegal war. Let your Members of Congress know you’re paying attention — demand that they oppose any supplemental funding package.

True redemption doesn’t usually involve an increase in power and influence for those redeemed, and we should be wary of those who try to gain those privileges from a pose of repentance.

Meanwhile affirmative action "meritocracy" manosphere tech bros wasting our taxes:

"OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."
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we joke but we're going to end up learning hegsgeth and/or his staff are really doing this

Almost all the cultural spaces and restaurants I've been in recently have switched to gender neutral toilets. It's indicative of how Labour's rabid hatred of trans people feels bizarre to so much of civil society which is asking itself, 'what drugs is Labour on, and how do we ban those?'

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

Remember when Garry Kasparov lost a chess match and they were like this thing gonna replace Grandmasters in 3 years

It's real.

Bigby's Ineffable Eldritch H̵̡̧̭͚̲̙͉͍̬̞͖͇̺͚̲̰̪͈̝̒͌͗̒͆̎͐͆̂̽͗̅͋̋̊̒́͂͆̑̐̓̚̚͝ͅÄ̴̧̳̝̠̥́̐̏̃̄̈̽̉̿̑̅̅̋͑̓̋̈́̕͘͘͝ͅŅ̴̛̙̥̼̩̭͙̳̫̲̹͓̰̔̓̊͂̀̇̓̔͌́͜͝D̵̨͍͐̇̈́̈́̓̂͒͂̈́͒̎̀̋͐̊̅͊̔̓͘͠Ş̷̡̡̣̪͚͎̝͙̝͈̲͙̟̤̣̲̼̪̺͈͕̟̹͍͓̌͋̓̿̽̄̈́͆̕̚ͅ

Console RPG character who's a literal puppet of some vast elder god, represented by a pair of impossibly long arms with long-fingered hands reaching in from off-screen to manipulate their marionette strings. All of their "spells" are just the hands doing stuff. No one textually acknowledges this.

There is no such thing as Tehran Square. He's thinking of a place is....wait for it....Egypt

the thing is that it won't matter because Americans react minor inconveniences the way people in other countries react to a sinkhole opening up and swallowing the national capital during a presidential address

I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth

Really there are only two kinds of nostalgia.

Personal: "things were better when I was younger, healthier, less aware of the world, and with fewer responsibilities"

Impersonal: "things were better in this past I read about in a storybook"