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Maker of Organic, Artisanal Video Essays About Interactive Media | Professional also-ran | Cringe Elemental | (he/him) | linktr.ee/campster

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Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

06.03.2026 13:38 👍 6232 🔁 1454 💬 69 📌 28

Bottom line is AI users are lazy & incurious and that isn't limited to ChatGPT. The selling point of these things isn't accuracy, right? They keep telling us it has hallucinations. So then why do we still use them if they're often wrong? That's right. You are lazy or too dumb to learn a new skill.

06.03.2026 15:00 👍 218 🔁 33 💬 8 📌 2

you can watch the anchor's brain short circuit in real time

05.03.2026 22:55 👍 739 🔁 151 💬 8 📌 3
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Horsey Game on Steam Collect Horses. Breed Horses. Race Horses. Genetically Modify Horses. Create a Horse paradise or just get rich!

Watching a lot of people playing Horsey Game lately. I think it's very cool how it is just a bunch of interlinked systems that doesn't really preoccupied with enforcing a style of play to reach your goal. It just gives you the toys and lets you play.

store.steampowered.com/app/3602570/...

05.03.2026 22:53 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Do I want to try the new McDonald’s burger they embarrassed their CEO for

05.03.2026 22:54 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

First reported by @decaturish.bsky.social, GA State Sen. Elena Parent will not seek reelection.

In 2025, Parent, who represents one of the most progressive districts in the South, east of Atlanta, dared a trans parent to find someone to challenge her for reelection in a recorded anti-trans screed:

05.03.2026 22:03 👍 885 🔁 257 💬 43 📌 93
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

05.03.2026 21:49 👍 6817 🔁 1605 💬 86 📌 81

There are so, so, soooo many reasons not to do this

05.03.2026 21:57 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With no offense meant to the original game, You Are Elon Musk is even funnier. Grim, cathartic, hysterical: direkris.itch.io/elon

05.03.2026 21:42 👍 43 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Oh yeah, they do some EQ crap to the sound that just sets it to max volume. It's incredibly frustrating.

05.03.2026 21:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I see it constantly on multiple machines and I feel like I'm hallucinating because it's been this way for months and months and I feel like I'm the only one who hears it

05.03.2026 21:05 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

Or like, halfway through the word "dude" in "Dude fuckin' an alligator":

05.03.2026 21:04 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

Like you can hear it when "Sense and Simplicity" is on screen here:

05.03.2026 21:02 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Has anyone else noticed the weird audio blip that happens on every embedded Bluesky video three seconds from the end, like the volume goes way down or the sound cuts out for like 25 milliseconds

05.03.2026 21:01 👍 41 🔁 4 💬 9 📌 0
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MONEY PLANE (2020) predicted polymarkets and kalshi

05.03.2026 20:58 👍 1144 🔁 246 💬 58 📌 100

Ethan Winters is the guy who says "this is the worst part" before he pulls out the pizza from the oven bare handed

05.03.2026 18:39 👍 2140 🔁 714 💬 14 📌 6
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‘Chikn Nuggit’ creator Kyra Kupetsky announces her departure from the show after BuzzFeed made a requirement to feed the show to AI.

“I am very anti-Al and cannot support this. Thus I am leaving to boycott this. I am so upset it's come to this and I cannot apologize enough for this happening.”

05.03.2026 19:46 👍 2490 🔁 870 💬 26 📌 54
04.03.2026 22:55 👍 2966 🔁 1061 💬 19 📌 9

I cannot believe the Harris campaign backed away from calling these people weirdos

I mean, I can, Democrats are incompetent losers

But still

05.03.2026 20:51 👍 93 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0

How...

How bad are you at studying World War 2

05.03.2026 20:48 👍 38 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's great, though

They're stuck in here with us. They have built a cage of their own making - one they are responsible for maintaining, even!

They sit, trapped forever at the uncool kids' table, looking over at X and yearning for what they wanted this to be and lamenting what it became.

05.03.2026 20:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That's wild. I guess don't use @proton.me anymore

05.03.2026 20:41 👍 321 🔁 184 💬 10 📌 2

so much of tech innovation is trying to repackage blatantly abhorrent ideas into forms you don't think so hard about

05.03.2026 18:20 👍 387 🔁 120 💬 5 📌 0
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More wok i did for Where the Water Tastes like Wine. 2015-2018

05.03.2026 17:37 👍 311 🔁 80 💬 7 📌 2

someone kindly modded LOVE ETERNAL to be much easier, if that speaks to you

05.03.2026 19:24 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
A picture of Wario64 posting the active user counts of Slay the Spire 2 and Marathon

A picture of Wario64 posting the active user counts of Slay the Spire 2 and Marathon

Can we not do this weird shit please

05.03.2026 19:11 👍 599 🔁 72 💬 13 📌 15

Clever little budget-priced CPRG just left early access with a good launch discount, too.

A weird swampy fantasy setting, semi-real-time combat ala Vagrant Story and a cool claymation-esque art style. Also hugely undersold so far.

Go check it out, RPG folks.

05.03.2026 17:07 👍 288 🔁 116 💬 5 📌 0

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain says an Iranian missile hit a state-run oil refinery.

05.03.2026 16:39 👍 235 🔁 82 💬 7 📌 21

I'm gonna need just one lawyer to explain why Sheehy hasn't been arrested for assault. Because if I broke a Marines arm like that, I would have been arrested for assault.

05.03.2026 16:37 👍 841 🔁 134 💬 20 📌 4