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he/him Game designer, prev. Riot, Magnopus, Respawn. Loves dogs, pretzels, absurd humor, and magnesium. Shader truther. Reads too many TTRPGs, starts too many creative projects, never finishes anyt

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Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.

Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

12.03.2026 18:05 👍 5608 🔁 887 💬 148 📌 91
James Talarico saying he loves trans kids

James Talarico saying he loves trans kids

UNEARTHED: Texas Democrat admits to feeling LOVE, an emotion that is WOKE and GAY

09.03.2026 15:28 👍 2087 🔁 266 💬 49 📌 46
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07.03.2026 22:37 👍 13352 🔁 5043 💬 88 📌 246

Thanks for giving me irony poisoning

07.03.2026 02:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It is, ironically, a bit of a ‘lost cause’.

06.03.2026 18:13 👍 73 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

Why was this posted by polymarket. Are they taking bets on stupid things tech bros say?

07.03.2026 02:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

05.03.2026 20:32 👍 7070 🔁 1231 💬 90 📌 91
SEPTIC TANKS PUMPED SWIMMING POOLS FILLED
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SAME TRUCK

SEPTIC TANKS PUMPED SWIMMING POOLS FILLED NOT SAME TRUCK

Appreciate the clarity

05.03.2026 01:04 👍 2628 🔁 533 💬 24 📌 25

I love games and so many of the people who make them. It was an honor to accept the award on behalf of the team and a privilege to be able to speak to what I believe in. ♥️

05.03.2026 06:08 👍 9683 🔁 1758 💬 88 📌 17

That’s no moon! That is a photo of the moon.

05.03.2026 17:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh wow, I had no idea that was possible. I'm so sorry, but also go you! Hoping for many many more years

04.03.2026 23:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

02.03.2026 18:10 👍 7712 🔁 1436 💬 89 📌 62

When I lived in Germany I had an American friend visit and seeing a German sign for "Exit" on the Autobahn ("Ausfahrt") he was like "huh huh ass fart" for the rest of his stay.

03.03.2026 03:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also I had no idea Law & Order was this intricate

03.03.2026 03:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sometimes I feel like a werewolf in a dream sequence

03.03.2026 03:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Treatable but not curable applies to a bunch of cancers I think that don't have to be life threatening! My dad has prostate cancer and the line they kept telling him was "it's the kind of cancer you die with but not of". Hoping it's something like that.

Fuck cancer

03.03.2026 03:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD MOON

03.03.2026 03:36 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just looked up how many of those the US has because I figured this must be a big percentage and... the US has around 400 of these giant flying refuel planes? Wtf?

03.03.2026 03:34 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

is he a vampire

03.03.2026 03:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Marathon: Social – DanielZKlein

I've played a fair bit of Marathon over the weekend and I regrettably had thoughts. Had to exorcise them into a blog post so they'd leave me be:

danielzklein.com/marathon-soc...

02.03.2026 05:49 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A stunning orange red sunset against fluffy grey clouds with a foreground of a green chaparral landscape

A stunning orange red sunset against fluffy grey clouds with a foreground of a green chaparral landscape

And you’re telling me we get one of these for free every day?

02.03.2026 02:01 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unfortunately that means “autopsy”. It can mean section in the context of an organization but I was talking about a physical container.

Also I forgot how to say “purr” in German the other day. (“Schnurren”) what would I do without the internet? (Own a physical dictionary, probably)

01.03.2026 17:49 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A false friend in language acquisition is a pair of words that sound similar but have in fact quite different meanings. I just almost fell for one in a message to my mum. I wanted to say the English word “section” (as in a physical sub division of something) and I almost used German “Sektion”.

01.03.2026 17:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It is so strange to have lived entirely in one language (German) for the first two and a half decades of my life and to then switch to completely living in English. I can no longer tell when my intuition for German is right and when it is a “false friend” the other way around.

01.03.2026 17:49 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

To be fair, you do talk a lot about uhhh bodies in The Stars Are Legion. Probably not in the way this kind of man would prefer though :D

01.03.2026 16:44 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

28.02.2026 16:09 👍 13162 🔁 5327 💬 90 📌 185
A screaming cat

A screaming cat

28.02.2026 07:20 👍 279 🔁 95 💬 0 📌 3

my mini schnauzer makes little sniffing noise for this purpose

28.02.2026 21:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Killing schoolgirls in Operation Le Epic Bacon so people forget about the dead economy and the president's pedophile best friend for ten minutes.

28.02.2026 16:40 👍 2578 🔁 445 💬 78 📌 4

science

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