Exit South

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

the woke right is is so whiny. also mike johnson is speaker of the house and russell vought runs the federal bureaucracy.

Disco Elysium, Outer Wilds, Thief II: The Metal Age, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Half-Life, Kentucky Route Zero, Planescape: Torment, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, DOOM

the games I loved most (via my9games.com)

Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.

also framing this as "punishing incumbents" when every last Dem incumbent who was "punished" had famously sided with the GOP

the character whedon said he related to the most, ofc

instead of parroting your elite private j-school training, maybe pause to consider who benefits from indulging bad policy? because it's not the newspaper's readers.

it is both an excellent film and an extremely disappointing adaptation, so I should probably just uncouple movie and book in my head

In a Lonely Place is so good it retroactively ruined the movie (which I had previously loved) for me

Back to the Future With North Carolina's Modernist Design Advocates North Carolina looms large in the history of modernist design. Today, dedicated local preservationists and architects keep the dream alive.

Smart estimates that there are 800 modernist homes in the Triangle today, and as many as 5,000 across the state—the largest concentration outside of California and Florida.

the current "AI" landscape is controlled by a small, insular group of class-conscious capitalists. there is no vision for the left somehow harnessing AI that doesn't reckon with the material reality of who owns and develops the tech, to what ends.

Mamdani was at <10% of the NY mayoral Dem primary vote this time last year, is the thing I would come back to. the "Dem establishment" is as weak as it has ever been

"polling" has her as a distant third (Harris is the other), but 2028 is so far away and the political environment so volatile that I think it's entirely speculative. Newsom could be a nonentity by then, especially if the contradictions continue to sharpen.

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

all the kinds of modern Indie Games:

-"roguelike" (slot machine)
-feelings
-unlock/tech tree simulator
-"god we hope northernlion plays this"
-crunchy first person shooter
-morrowind built by a single lunatic

"its hard to talk about a complex and multi-faceted subject that's also one of the most hotly debated topics on the planet that potentially touches many aspects of everyone's lives" yeah man this is the About Forty Words app. why're you trying to do all that on the About Forty Words app

albert camus nodding dot gif

The year was 1998 and all across America it seemed as if everyone was doing the group dances from the music video for Cross Bones Style by Cat Power

the way I'm definitely getting old is I think charli selling poppi ads is kind of a drag. sabrina carpenter selling pringles. addison rae x ubereats? you wrote "Headphones On." you shouldn't be seen with a food app.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

my millennial ass feeling like "neo" in "the matrix" (1999) as I watch the "good will dunkin" and "coinbase backstreet boys" ads flow past me like bullets through treacle

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

tarot reading! though you can also play cooperatively

the Tigers' "window" hinges on Olson/Melton/Jobe more than I would like. maybe Ty Madden still exists, idk.

it is entirely possible scott harris is going for it in 2026, which means they trade him at the deadline if not in contention, and let him walk with a qualifying offer otherwise.

and the best quests, like the one in the piece above, know this, own it

a thing I unironically love about Cyberpunk 2077 is how exhausted it feels (laudatory). astonishing fidelity, took an army of like 500 people to make, and it still feels like a cultural dead end. Cyberpunk 1997-ass game.

real good:

'Music, games, movies, everything in culture seems to hang by a thread. Zero interest rates didn't save anything but the tech companies who turned your delivery apps into a spying regime. Pondsmith as Johnny as CD Project Red as me as you asks, "This is the best we could do?"'

everyone's speculating about Bezos's "reasons" for destroying the Post, but maybe he's just a divorced loser who cooked his brain in group chats with other reactionaries of his class