The Island of Dr. Oetker

I of course loved him as Chekov, but playing Bester on BABYLON 5 really showed his range. You really forgot the guy ever *was* Chekov in that role. RIP Walter Koenig.

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

Rip.

First 5 TTRPGs I played: 1. RuneQuest (3rd edition) 2. Call of Cthulhu (4th edition) 3. Rolemaster 4. Cyberpunk 2020 5. GURPS I am guessing a bit there since we played a lot of different systems a handful of times back then. The first two I stuck with for a long time though.

One week til Halloween. (He carved it with a shotgun.)

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

I regret to announce that a state of war now exists between Britain and Germany

I usually check out as many games as possible in Next Fest, but the tidal wave of AI trash has beaten me Non-AI indie devs please post your games below and I'll check em out instead Also @steampowered.com PLEASE add an option to filter out AI games in searches. It's killing discoverability #gaming

Also:

RIP Tom Skerritt, a reliable and enduring actor who you probably remember from...everything, basically. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Outta my sight, scrub

Every gothic horror:

Just in time. This'll be handy for the alien archeologists.

Super excited to be serving as custos in Josephine Baird's upcoming doctoral defence where her thesis "Role-playing Games as Transformative Spaces for Trans People to Explore, Express, and Embody Gender" is publicly examined. www.tuni.fi/fi/tau/ajank...

"Hey, are you a kind of pathetic dude who just has a real unpleasant vibe and an underdeveloped understanding of basic ethics? Boy howdy, do we have the product for you!" Jesus, this is some depressing shit.

please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

Diminish an anime Cowpoke Ska-punk

Diminish an anime Decent Periwinkle

How about your fair fucking share of taxes and stop trying to fool the rest of us by sweeping the crumbs off your table.

Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*

Can’t have American twilight without a little moonshine.

Finally got to see Emma Tammi’s THE WIND (2018). Seek it out. It’s on @kanopy.com right now. Wide-open folk horror with moody, slow-burn shocks. Don’t sleep on this one.

Wow holy fuck what a shit in principle but also at least have some selfworth and ask for more than an hour of time off for betraying your entire field www.verticalslice.news/rockstar-acc...

"Trans Lives are Real. Harry Potter is Not" Sticker spotted in NYC

after two years of bargaining thanks to activision's stall tactics, unionized workers have authorized a strike. I spoke to them, as well as an ex-employee with disability issues who was basically forced out of the company due to the return-to-office policies the union has been trying to fight

Put a sledgehammer to the server it runs on and then let it try. This is not some kind of magical entity we can't control, it's code, it is entirely controllable by the company that made it, and if it does something fucky, it is because the company allowed it to, either intentionally or by accident.

"We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor https://bit.ly/4hMHbi5

My apologies to anyone else who’s old enough not to want to be reminded just how fucking long ago it was, but: today is the 41st anniversary of the release of Cloudbusting—so it must be time to tell you about Wilhelm Reich and his orgasmatron...

A reminder for those at the back.

Yet another issue where the only reasonable position is "everybody goes to jail." Anything less is incompatible with the rule of law.

My brother’s sitting with a friend at a window table in a pub in Oxford. Friend says “Was that Brian Blessed in the street?” And then, right by the window: “YES IT’S ME, BRIAN BLESSED! BWAH HA HA HA!”. And then RAN away.

happy sickos day to all who celebrate

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I don't think companies realize this yet but going "complete AI game development" isn't giving "the future" it's giving "we're broke." Like y'all just don't want to pay wages.

Not a bad idea

I died in the shipwreck of a whaling vessel in 1798, but a few days later, clinging to an old rum barrel. Now I can only haunt this one specific patch of desolate ocean. I thought I saw a cruise liner once, in the distance. Had a scare ready to go and everything. Not much going on outside of that

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’

It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

This is fucking brilliant. minesweeper.mikelacher.com

Wow Chuck Lorre is pissed! Lol and I’m loving it 😍 #Pinks #USDemocracy