Zack Zwiezen

(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

True Art

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living in a walkable city where you can get anywhere you need by walking, by bus, or train is goated in an economic collapsed based entirely on gas prices

i will never give money to this evil man but damn some of these rip

Nintendo Suing United States Govt. Over Trump Tariffs The Mario company wants its money back with interest according to a newly filed lawsuit

Breaking: Nintendo is suing the United States for the 'prompt refund, with interest' of the Trump-imposed tariffs it paid.

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

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I love that someone from a less popular online shooter showed up on the Marathon subreddit and was like "Guys, chill. Stop watching the numbers. Enjoy the game. Be free."

Marathon Fans Are Freaking Out Over The Game's Playercount 'Y’all got to let the numbers talk go,' said one player to panicking Marathon fans

Marathon Fans Are Doomspiraling So Bad Over Steam Numbers That A Finals Player Showed Up To Calm Them Down

Sure, I'll join the trend.

Stayed up to 2am playing Marathon oops.

There are some counters, for sure, but just feels like 90% of solo runs are me dealing with assassins hiding near exfil or camping early quest locations.

Lol solo Marathon is just 20 assassins cloaking over and over.

Hello, I'm here to share 7 (wink) things you need to stop doing in Marathon.

Trust me. This will help. I promise.

7 Things You Absolutely Shouldn't Do In Marathon Stop doing Rook runs. Slow down. Quit shooting everything.

Stop doing Rook runs and take some risks already

timeline cleanse 🧼

Oh yeah, I'm not on that side of things at all. i think remakes can be awesome and recontextualize a story/work in an interesting way.

So many great pieces of media are remakes or adaptations of something that came before.

"It's Just Emulation!": The Challenge of Selling Old Games YouTube video by GDC Festival of Gaming

I'd be more down with remakes if, like movies and books, old games were easily accessible on modern platforms and brought forward with new tech instead of being left behind.

Instead, old games are mostly left behind and remakes are instead offered up.

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A comic that has solutions to Gamedevs that can't draw without having to use AI

For my fellow #Gamedevs


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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Marathon Players Smuggled Powerful Loot From The Beta Into Game If you lent a gun to a buddy during the Server Slam last week, it might be waiting for you in Bungie's new FPS

Some Marathon Players Accidentally Smuggled Powerful Loot From The Beta Into The Full Game

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

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Agreed. Just posting a number isn't enough. When I've used SteamDB I try to include context like comparisons to other games, how the devs have talked about player count, pinged for comment, added posts from Reddit/Steam about queue times etc. etc. You can do it in a way that is useful, I think

Oh for sure. There are way too many posts that go "Game lost 80% of playerbase" but it still has like 20k or whatever playing on a Tueasday afternoon.

I think SteamDB player data can and has been used to write up dumb stuff.

But I do think there are times where it can be useful even if you don't have the full context. It can also be helpful to find new Steam games that are catching on and dig in/report on a positive trend, too.

Headline of a Q&A in New Yorker formatting Headline: A panicked middle-aged man refuses to tell me directions to the bathroom. Subhed: Please, I just have to pee. I'm in a hurry. By Isaac Chotiner March 4, 2026

Excuse me. Oh, God. Oh, no. Holy shit. Get away from me. I was wondering if you knew where the bathrooms are. Look, I'm ... it's not a crime to scroll through your high school girlfriend's Instagram account. We remained friends after high school! I was at her wedding! It's only natural to see how she's doing.

I'm in a bit of a hurry, and I'm afraid that if I choose the wrong corridor, I'll be late for my train. I think they're down that way, but I'm actually from out of town. Please stop talking to me.

Real quick, though. I agree that it's natural to be interested in an old friend, but aren't you afraid about the message you might be sending by liking a picture of her at the beach from 2015? If that did happen, and I'm only going off your word, it was probably an accident. They put the ... scroll bars or whatever ... close to the thumbs up button. People have been complaining about that for years. I've been complaining about that for years.

almost impossible to overestimate how many of these apple is going to sell. have you seen how bad the “cheapest laptop that gets me online” market is? this is gonna be like if the thing that killed all the dodos was a terminator. a t-1000 terminator.

Felt like I was going insane watching people accept an AI model's explanation for why that same AI model committed a war crime.