Andrew: weird and loud

There can never be another "water under the bridge" administration ever again, and part of that is going to involve shaming everyone on board with this one - voters included - as the disgusting pig racists they are

🫩 don’t make me tap the sign.

Sometimes it just dawns on me how deeply weird and wild this situation is. A company making a crappy, unchecked and badly designed product, but thanks to pre-existing science fiction narratives they can aggressively tout their own failures and inadequacies as reasons for self-regulation

People are sharing all sorts of stories of Bauza on the picket lines fighting for artists and standing up for the craft of animation but I just keep thinking about the time he went to Tara Strong’s birthday and stopped by 6Point on the way home with a tray of cakepops for the artists working late

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

I hate this noble savage shit so much. Americans do not think Cheesecake Factory is a nice and fancy restaurant. Just because people eat there because they can afford it does not mean they think it's nice. People aren't stupid. They know what a fancy restaurant is.

"I was a dumbass for X, Y, Z reasons. Material reality made me see the error of my ways" is actually incredibly uplifting stuff, especially from a 25 year old with a blue collar job and a HS diploma. He was a teenager during Trump 1

My equality under the law is not a gift that can be gotten for me by a political party to ensure my loyalty. My equality stems from my humanity. All humans are created equal. You can choose not to recognize my humanity, but you don't own it, and you can't give it to me.

repost if you will never vote for a democrat willing to harm trans kids puberty blockers are medicine hormones are medicine nobody is carving your kids up children know who they feel like

Bad Art response to bad art

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I want a blue wave that excludes every one of these craven, bigoted motherfuckers.

Josh, you mean to tell me, in the US, in Oct 2026…you couldn’t find ANY BETTER MESSAGE to spend your precious political dollars on…than to punch down on ~7 people, who have done *nothing* to harm you…while there are masked, armed militia out here *kidnapping people off the streets*?? REALLY?

if you're at the top of your field and you don't even want to try anymore, then get out of the way and let someone else take the wheel for a change. jesus christ.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Once upon a time, Americans took pride that people would leave other countries and come to the USA because it was so much better

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

just stumbled across a nightmarish new app that’s trying to gig-ify retail jobs by offering up “flexible” shifts at understaffed stores to a “vetted pool of retail associates.” these tech ghouls keep chipping away at the few remaining broadly accessible jobs. soon there will be nothing left.

sigmund? sigmund it's your cousin marvin... marvin freud... you know the thing you've been talking about where there's some libidinal force inside us that seeks egoic shattering even unto death... well you're not gonna believe this but I'm looking at the news and im thinking, call it the death drive

The DCCC funding this means that the Democratic party itself, not individual politicians, is endorsing anti-trans policies as an electoral talking point

Based Sonicfox.

I meant what I said. Saved. My. Life. kotaku.com/dragon-age-i...

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

Hundreds of thousands of children were literally killed due to Elon Musk’s actions. Yet you will still see people treating him like just any public figure, buying Teslas, etc. The world is a dark place. Especially the parts that treat the rich as inherently more valuable than everyone else.

Casting a net of questionable size here, if you’re an ex-BioWare dev (or know of one who may not see this) working on something cool you’d like featured in a roundup at Kotaku, drop it below. Store page links helpful, and let me know what your role was at BW. Projects big and small welcome! RTs plz!

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

it's a dream of abused boys everywhere to beat the shit out of dad in the most emasculating way possible and i hope for junior that can take the form of testifying in a rico case

The funny thing is, so many centrist white male pundits of a certain age insist that what we really need to attract young male voters is a tough talking young manly dude sporting facial hair and tight tshirts that belie his time in the gym who will engage in debate a la the ancient Greeks.

if you've convinced yourself it's ok if you cross a picket line (I wish you wouldn't) at least keep that shit to yourself instead of broadcasting shit that will do nothing but weaken other people's resolve and increase pressure on people who are holding the line you couldn't.

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

It is wild that The Prisoner and Evangelion both came to Criterion Channel this year it’s like hey you want to corner the market on people who think twin peaks is for normies

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your harry potter fandom is killing trans people. full. stop.

for real: get your ass to the polls, folks we’re gonna see some weird shit out there this year, you never know

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

STOP LETTING JD VANCE MEET POPES

A reminder for those at the back.

The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!