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Politics hits different when you're an "issue" instead of a citizen

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

What I wrote about Gavin Newsom a year ago is never more applicable to several Democrats today. I foresaw this coming, and I continue to hold this true.

man who has a load-bearing belief that girls are bad at math: coding is hard :( luckily, with vibe coding,

storygame theoryslop: i've invented a new categorization system to describe all modes of human behavior using one of 8 Valences OSR theoryslop: finally i have proven once and for all that system does or doesn't matter (it depends) trad theoryslop: here's how to replace levels with feats

You can pay for this with a credit card, but don't dare think of commissioning art of consenting adults having fun sexually, credit card companies (and PayPal) will de-bank you. Our systems are so screwed up. :/

A fullly-illustrated hex-map for a #Cataphract game. I was given free rein to add all sorts of weird points-of-interest throughout the map, so we've got all sorts of weird ruins, caves, giant birds, monster habitats, colossal fertility statues, and oversized vegetables.

Please, PLEASE, be loud about this topic, Android being open is what makes it useful, you own your phone and you should be able to install apps from wherever you wish to, don't let Google tell you what's allowed on the device you payed for! keepandroidopen.org

I hate that I have to re-up this today. as I detail in this piece, abandoning trans rights is not only immoral, but it's also BAD POLITICS for Dems, as it will turn away their own pro-LGBTQ base without winning over a single new voter: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

some small but nonetheless significant UI tasks have been checked off the slarpg v2.0 to do list

No remakes. Treat the original games as art pieces to be preserved and understood in context. The way the games look with more limited technology is not a problem to be fixed.

listening to hoyoverse ai discourse really is like "i can excuse being a massive new age gambling company hellbent on sucking every single one of its players dry and intentionally making itself as addictive as possible, but i draw the line at AI"

In every creative industry worth speaking of right now, there is a boggle-eyed billionaire fresh from an ayahuasca binge, slowly sawing the head off the goose while it's laying the golden egg, while a stadium full of shareholders clap riotously. They do not have a plan. They're acting on impulse.

I made a little mockup menu to play around with Godot's themes. Here's something I put together using theme variants for the panels. #pixelart #godot #gamedev #ui

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate

every time they send other peoples children off to die in foreign wars, they say it's for the safety of your children. it's not. when they take healthcare from trans people, when they limit where trans people can go in public, they bring up your fuckin children. your children don't need these things

i think the worst part of the r/rpg self promo rules is that i understand where they're coming from. ive seen what happens to subreddits that don't have self promo guardrails and it can be genuinely radicalizing to see what could've been useful communities washed in waves of ads

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

*eyes alight with cosmic insight* Actually, the Fromsoft poison swamp is the much more player friendly iteration of the Final Fantasy dungeon where all the enemies poison you

You can disagree with him on policy*, but you have to applaud his courage in sticking to his principles even when confronted with some very rude criticism from the left. *Dronestriking children in dusty countries

every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

"once in power, we will not actively hunt and kill you" is considered a progressive position right now. "the government should not hunt and kill you, personally" polls well in red states with only 32% responding "strongly disagree"

Saw a couple of posts from US artists saying BSky is now asking them for age verification. Please follow the link in this repost. I’m the UK we’ve had this crap going on for over a year. The methods listed here work great, it’s what I use it (no way I’m providing personal info!)

narrowing section 230 ensures only giants like meta have the resources to allow for people to post on their platforms while everyone else has no choice but to end their user-created content platforms. this is just big tech trying to make the internet consist of only their walled gardens

ttrpg discourse is often some variant of this

Heads up for any artists/writers/etc currently using Linktree to point people to their work: from 5 July they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E.

"It's a fun idea to think about, but it just isn't practical for a tabletop RPG to do [thing]" buddy, I can name five different commercially published tabletop RPGs just off the top of my head that successfully do [thing], at least one of which is older than you are. Sit down and shut up.

Termination without cause in Japan is complex and workers have a lot of rights and protections we don't in the US. If Japan had employment laws as weak as ours, Nintendo would undoubtedly lay off workers just the same. It's not management's benevolence or farsightedness, it's labor law.

These are the exact words she posted: “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”

By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court reverses a decision in favor of Pedro Hernandez, a mentally impaired man who was pressured into an allegedly false confession of murder through these👇unconstitutional tactics. The supermajority says he did not face a deprivation of "clearly established" rights.

half the time "quality of life" feels like it just means "bypass this entire mechanic" lol

it's not like this is a hardline stance. i don't like sfc/gbc dragon quest more than the originals but it's close. i like the 70s body snatchers more than the original. but the moment i see a youtube thumbnail about the pixel remasters being the definitive versions of the old FFs i go incandescent

i feel like we gotta kill "quality of life." i see people play remakes that drastically change things all the time, knowing nothing about the original games but being absolutely sure that they're getting the superior QOL experience. based on nothing but youtube scuttlebutt

As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.

New on the Ponett Gazette: I wrote about Mina the Hollower, my favorite game of the year so far, and how its design quirks, balancing decisions, and sources of friction actually aren't odd at all if you just know the right retro games to compare them to ponett.dog/blog/mina-th...

FF7 Demake Mockup (2019)