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“.. down more than 60% from a year earlier.” @bloomberg.com 🇺🇸 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Reading the reddit thread of the achievement people like 'yeah why would I buy a game without achievements?' has me so hot like oh god I would be so mean so incorrectly mean if I ran into a person in real life like this WHAT LITTLE DOG PEOPLE, wearing human clothes like they're people 😭

So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too

Lot of folks (self included) expressing despair that despite aggressive prosecuting fascists ("doing everything right") Brazil was still going to get Bolsonaro-ed and the fact this guy gtfo-ed as quickly as he did should be a big signal for the AOC DOJ to go *hard* in 2029.

This jerk right here is the first major American political figure of any party who simply refuses to accept the result of any election that his team lost. This attitude in a Presidents destroys the Constitution. It took the United States over 230 years to sink to this low.

Day 3. A piece of artwork from Game 1988 Illustration Calendar by Yoshitoh Asari used for the February page. Usual upscale/clean/retouch process applied.

Instead of getting angry at other drivers, I'm just going to assume this is what they are doing and I shall be at peace

* BRAZIL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO MISSES SUPREME COURT DEADLINE TO HAND IN PASSPORT TO FEDERAL POLICE -- SOURCE * BRAZIL FEDERAL POLICE CANCEL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO'S PASSPORTS AFTER DEADLINE MISSED -- SOURCE @reuters.com $EWZ

Not that long ago, three major lower-court rulings against the executive branch on three unrelated topics would’ve been a busy *month,* and outlets would’ve rushed to write up such a run of adverse rulings. Now, it doesn’t feel unusual when we get three on the same *day.* It’s all … exhausting.

When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Astonishing: Maxwell was willing to tell Blanche about some of Trump's rapes, and he ordered her not to. "Let's not talk about inviduals." WTF were they there to talk about? There's EVIDENCE on this.

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Okay, generalized optimization tips for game models. 1: optimisation means 'as efficient as possible within defined constraints". The important thing before you begin optimising is the 'defined constraints' bit. What are you optimising for? Framerate? Memory? Draw calls? Artist time? Cost?

Is it normal for an anonymous Wyoming LLC that sent mass mailers impersonating a transgender advocacy group to hire the lawyer who defended TX Attorney General Ken Paxton from impeachment in response to a court filing seeking to depose people who could unmask the LLC's owners

As a games designer I have to heartily agree. Minecraft does have a couple of good choices re design but on the whole is has a lot of bad design choices and a thoroughly broken progression path.

“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

The Justice Department is drawing up contingency plans to potentially intervene in next week’s midterm elections, three national security officials tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-prep-...

GS DESK: “.. Great parties can lead to hangovers, and it’s fair to call the current environment the latter at least with regards to the AI complex. .. .. This week we saw AI Beneficiaries (GSTMTAIP) having its worst day vs SPXXAI since DeepSeek Monday ..”

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I remember many yrs ago one of my regular customers asked another of my regular customers "I seen you in Shields th other day with a couple of [racial slur] teenagers, what was that about that?" And the other guy replied "Do you mean my fucking grandchildren?" Never seen a man visibly shrink so fast

A weird change that has taken place in my lifetime is that in the past, British racists were aware of what mixed-race people were and were furious about it, as opposed to the New Racism, which frequently seems actively confused by the birds and the bees.

I cant play Metroid Prime without thinking of this fuckass image and laughing my ass off

Good ol' Apple strategy of refusing to copy their competitors' cutting edge features until they've worked out a good implementation has paid off again *finger to earpiece* Sorry, reports are coming in that the opposite has happened

some good drawings of me over the last months i dont think i shared here that the world can see

There are individual cats with 3 billion views

Miller deserves everything that's coming. He's afraid of state prosecutors because a presidential pardon only covers federal offenses; and beyond prison, there's also future congressional investigations and civil lawsuits. www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive...

of all of the people in this administration who deserve to go to jail stephen miller deserves to go to jail the most

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[metroid] i had an idea for this in 2021ish but i can finally say i nailed it this time. go my gunship maid gijinka

“doesnt this mean she violently dies in fusion” we dont gotta worry about that . it’s okay.

GOOD life lessons learned from gamedev: - Savagely hacking down scope is the fastest and most effective way to make an awesome product - Limitations make you do your job better - A button or seam in the right place is all you need to turn a character from garbage to fuckable

once again tapping the sign

I am always thinking about ME2 because imo it's the apotheosis of what's great about Mass Effect & Bioware and it's also objectively a mess. It's got some all time dumb missions. The Illusive Man is nowhere near as interesting as it thinks. It makes no sense as the middle act of a trilogy.

The generality principle of the Rule of Law is its most essential concept. A class of people outside criminal law is incompatible with a law-based society.

This last point hits hard. Our in-house engine regularly makes me want to put my head through a wall, but I also worship the figurative ground it walks on (especially considering the state of Unreal and Unity these days).

Fascists don’t love big fantasy and science fiction because they find them artistically resonant or whatever. They like them because other people find them impressive. You’re thinking too hard.

‘Customers should be less informed about the products they buy’ is such a wild stance to take

Middle age is finding that all sorts of things you didn't value at the time--zines traded for, discography deep cuts downloaded from now-defunct mp3 blogs, hand-burned DVDs of gray market US releases with funsubs, master's degrees in 19th C American fiction--rapidly became One of the Only Ones Left.

making games so you can hopefully afford to make more games is literally a different industry from grinding up people so number goes up and it is harmful to pretend otherwise regardless of whether or not we share a platform or a binary format

Ah yes my favorite topic as someone with total aphantasia, who people LOVE to claim are utterly helpless without AI help. My mind cannot conjure images, sounds or any sensations. No inner monologue. No dreams. And SDAM, so I don’t even have vivid memories And yet I draw. Without the shit machine :)

There’s no discussion of potential penalties in this article, but if people don’t go to jail for flagrant illegality like this, it will keep happening. For companies like Google, fines are just another cost of doing business. Something to toss on the balance sheet and weigh against profits.