Charlie Wacholz

posted mere hours before dude had two RBI at-bats in one inning. AND ONE WAS A GRAND SLAM??? this man isn't human

At this point I've seen different numbers from basically every source but whether it was 1 or 160 little girls the sentiment remains true: we have to know whether or not this was a decision left to AI and every single person involved needs to be tried for war crimes regardless.

oh yeah I've been so inactive on here I almost forgot...

I'll be at GDC! Say hi in the media room and the nearest dive bar when I'm not writing

post shift gin and tonic hits like mf shohei otani

how do I get into the GDC Polish party? Asking for a friend

We need unions right fucking now, this shit has got to stop. If I read one more story about a studio laying everyone off right after launch when they don't hit peak Fortnight numbers I'm going to lose it.

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new blog!

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oh how I missed my dearest friend/greatest enemy, the CTA

The very same one I left! I'll be around Avondale and the surrounding area

A screenshot from Michael Jordan's return press release that reads, in quotes, "I'm back."

CHICAGOOO

Gaming stocks are dropping today after Google's rollout of Project Genie, an AI tool that lets users create and explore virtual worlds for 60 seconds. This is the result of a market that does not understand how video games are made. Allow me to suggest that the Street read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

when all of this gets slightly less heated the NYT is going to be profiling anonymous ICE agents like they’re regretful Trump voters just you watch

Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...

ICE is getting ready to come for Haitians next week. Help the families JD Vance smeared with his ugly racist lies. This is an organization in Springfield connected to the Haitian community there. They need our help.
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Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

I have a feeling I'm gonna regret moving in the winter

never shoulda smoked that shit. Now I'm listening to Twinleaf Town (Day) and reminiscing over the lost innocence of childhood

the allure of a splashy, Apex Legends-style shadow drop, but after doubling back and deciding to reveal the game shortly before release, you can’t really have it both ways. Moreover, the internet of now is very different from the internet of 2019. Covid transformed social media into an endless, awful conversation; once you pop, the horrors never stop. Debuting and then disengaging isn’t really an option – at least, not if you want to keep the vultures away. Recent years have only worsened this dynamic, with short-form video content taking over as the predominant mode of expression and giving rise to a generation of caustic clip farmers who yank at the udder of any perceived drama of the week until it’s chafed and bone dry. Then they move onto the next thing and deploy the same playbook again.

But right-wing sloptubers have repeatedly harnessed this energy to feed their endless culture wars, claiming that diversity is the reason these games fail. More than that, they want them to fail; they approach the prospect with a sort of knives-out glee. All of it fits their narrative that even with hundreds of thousands or millions of followers, they are the brave little guy(s) speaking truth to power amid an industry of shill-happy journalists and agenda-pushing developers. Within this framework, there is room to advance conspiracies, to present the industry as a series of shadowy cabals working against The Common Gamer (rather than a series of out-in-the-open cabals working against everyone except themselves). Again, Highguard’s prolonged period of silence – after a push from Geoff Keighley, gaming’s self-appointed kingmaker – provided a perfect seed bed for those kinds of tall tales to take hold.

Fire flames from @nathangrayson.bsky.social in his latest piece about Highguard, which also fully triggered my PTSD -- not just because of how cogently he describes the sloptuber cycle, but because of the Vara Dark jumpscare lmfao
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I went to Paris in August and wrote about it last week, please go read!!!!!

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Headline 1, 1/21/26: Pregnant woman in medical distress deported from US, says attorney Woman who's eight months pregnant sent to Colombia by ICE, despite belated court order to keep her out of the air https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/pregnant-woman-ice-deportation-atlanta Headline 2, 1/23/26: A pregnant mother in ICE detention says she's bleeding — and hasn't seen a doctor in weeks Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children. https://19thnews.org/2026/01/pregnant-mother-ice-detention-medical-care/ Headline 3, 1/23/26: An asylum seeker found out she was pregnant in ICE detention. She says ICE refuses care. Couple's issue getting medical care reflects systemic problems detainees in federal https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/an-asylum-seeker-found-out-she-was-pregnant-in-ice-detention-she-says-ice-refuses-care

These three stories were all published this week. Abolishing ICE is a reproductive justice issue

Welcome to America, where a judge needs to order the president and his henchmen to not destroy evidence showing a federal death squad murdering another American.

Oh she’s EXTORTING US.

🎶I'm working laaaate🎶

Cause I went to art school 😃

I made double digit espresso martinis, old fashioneds, neat pours, and one or two other things I'm forgetting

just bartended a funeral

that's so cool and good

I cannot believe they got hashtags on bluesky

nobody ever met the prophet of truth and it shows tbh