folks, it's bandcamp friday today. and i just happen to have a big brand new album out - my most ambitious musical project ever - that you should buy! ellaguro.bandcamp.com/album/saint-...
Man Pokopia is a better use of Pokemon than Pokemon
I think part of the issue is that there's a precedent for actors to get royalties for work, and not for artists. The two paths you can take is that to make it fair, no one should get royalties. The path I'd prefer is that *all* staff on a given project get royalties, but that's a larger topic.
I think people really need to realize that outside of some very fringe cases every 10 years you might as well assume the entire staff of the company who made the games you like is gone and replaced by new people. Bioware and Blizzard are functionally different entities than they were
Nazi Klan policies pair up with Kafkaesque bureaucratic incompetence to terrorize and waste the time of someone who was actually never even violating this viciously monstrous law.
Elite English-language journalism is at this point very much virulently infected with transphobia and every time an op-edoid or other hack gets dogpiled on here, the probability of the wagon-circling devolving into a bigoted incident approaches one
I know the bluecheck journalists on this website will intensely deny that this happened or act like the obvious, overwhelming signals emanating from the NYT's editorial direction are just some kind of coincidence or "legitimate debate" but many people simply do not buy that!
I'm sorry but if you take paychecks from the New York Times some segment of people will simply not take you seriously, morally or intellectually, because you're working for an organization that has spent the last 10 years deliberately building a hate movement.
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.
love to constantly write to government officials to go “don’t build camps, leave trans people alone, don’t bomb other countries, also have you noticed there’s het another ongoing scandal” so they can reply “actually this is all very good, to me” three months later
I've written up a brief script for anyone who wants to call or write your representatives regarding this bill (yes, even the ones you think won't care). PLEASE DO THIS IF YOU ARE ABLE. This bill *cannot* pass.
You can find your representatives here: www.congress.gov/members/find...
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.
The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.
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"Letting go of Evo"
I wrote about why I'm breaking my Evo attendance streak (every year since 2011; first Evo was 2003). It's sad, but I think this a good opportunity to celebrate the Evo moments that got me here before moving on.
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My buddy is unhoused in NYC during a history-making blizzard—I'm giving what I can, but any help is appreciated!
I am going to need help to weather this blizzard. I thought I was gonna be ok for a bit but this has wrecked my plans. I am so sick of winter. I like having to wear my coat. I like being bundled up. But man I am so sick of the snow and almost getting hit by cars because of the snow.
I cannot stress enough to people outside the US how dangerous coming to this country is right now. There is still time to cancel your GDC trip. Stay safe, and do not come.
Every billionaire in the Epstein files could drop dead tomorrow and the world would not only be fine, it would actually improve. The quality of our media would improve. Our environment. Our food. Our health care. Our technology.
A stylized ruffed grouse bird spreads its wings on this riff on the Rebel Alliance logo. The bird is in the center of a circle, painted in shades of red, green, yellow, and black, in the style of a Pennsylvania Dutch folk painting. A small eight pointed star is to the right of the bird’s head. Under the logo is the text “Pennsylvania Civil Resistance”
I love this spectacular Ruffed Grouse Pennsylvania resistance bird by Jen Rand ( @jenrand.bsky.social ). The star is a nod to the Quaker tenet of nonviolence, and the style harks back to PA Dutch folk art.
Discovering I was trans was the greatest blessing of my life. A simple explanation for a sense of wrongness I'd felt so long I thought that wrongness was me.
I credit the trans community for bringing society to the point where I could understand what was wrong and get help.
pretty sure the Ken Levine talk is on youtube. If I remember right, it was an attempt to create dynamic narrative through what was essentially just a reinvention of factions with a reputation system—something games like World of Warcraft were doing more than 20 years ago
What if Starfleet Command had storylets. What if there were dynamic stories but also there were firing arcs and an excuse to say “bring us about ensign” a lot
But why waste your time with either when you could DOWNLOAD THE SYLVIE COLLECTION which contains MANY GAMES, with MANY KITTENS, and even a YURI ROOM
Today @publicpubics.bsky.social & I are pleased to share our new research report:
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we clarify policies restricting bank access for many 🇨🇦 adult industry/SWers + offer recommendations to secure fair financial inclusion for all
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Still in this jam and will be for the next few weeks at least. Any help is appreciated, thank you to all who have lent a hand already.
I did get forced out of my home. I currently have shelter but it ain’t gonna last forever. Have received a lotta help but lemme tell ya I could always use more. So just bumping this, thanks.
king of websites. fuck everyone who ever said anything bad about it. I'll kill you
The Interactive Fiction Database Awards for games released in 2025 are open for voting!
✍️ The list of categories: intfiction.org/t/2025-ifdb-...
🚨 Seems a good reason to play my game, Murderworld, and see if it's worth a vote in something! patientrock.itch.io/murderworld
