people will speak about a game they played as a kid with the same reverence that they might a great song or novel, about how it engrossed them totally and completely. They may even tear up talking about it. and then you ask what game it was and it was Spongebob battle for bikini bottom
Game studio announcements be like, “We laid off all your favourite devs! But don’t worry, all the people actually responsible for the horrible decision-making that led to this massive failure are staying on :) and they will still be driving their new Porsches :) all is well!!!!!”
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
the reason gen z doesn’t care at all about “china having their data” is because gen z knows that the US government has collected their online activity data since they were born
Jentry Chau vs the Underworld and Invincible Fight Girl are 2 of the best animated series out right now and it's the kind of stuff I hope to work on down the road.
They're where we should be going industry wise for more YA content.
And not be afraid to make stuff like it
Been devouring this the last few weeks and I cannot believe how essential it feels for understanding our current moment
susanfaludi.com/backlash-cha...
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X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.
Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?
If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
Streaming in 2010: You can watch an entire catalog of amazing movies and TV shows for a reasonable monthly fee
Streaming in 2025: our library is Batman movies and 28 seasons of a Tim Allen sitcom, it costs $159/month. We just destroyed the last piece of evidence that Mister Rogers ever existed
Scoop: Warner Bros. Discovery has quietly pulled "The West Wing" from its Max streamer as part of a cost-cutting move following a ROI evaluation. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/3C72V5Z
The alleviation of women's abuse "is made less likely by the mandated subservience of women by Christian fundamentalists. What is especially disappointing...is the docile acceptance by so many strong Christian women of their subjugation & restricted role." - Jimmy Carter (RIP)
“Haha can you believe McDonalds is doing a Squid Game promo” easily yes because capital subsumes all critiques of itself and no popular TV show or piece of art will ever threaten or unsettle it
New dress alert!
Made from left over silk scraps from my Eisner's dress. There wasn't enough of any color to do anything so I cut them all up into diamonds and sewed them back together into a repeating pattern.
David Zaslav, like so many other execs in creative industries and beyond, can’t imagine that something can be thriving and essential if it’s not growing exponentially forever.
Who hasn't bowed to the Felon
publications:
Pro Publica
Rolling Stone
PBS
Vanity Fair
(I’m not sure, but maybe The New Yorker?)
Mother Jones Deadline Whitehouse with Nicole Wallace, The Rachel Maddow Show, The ReidOut with Joy Reid, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, All In with Chris Hayes.
I’m 100% ok with gatekeeping incels. If you can’t handle a woman being the protagonist or a non-white person being the protagonist of a video game, I don’t think you deserve to play games.
I will only vote for people willing to undergo an audit of their campaign to prove that no one on the payroll was an incumbent Democrat or worked for one ever again. We cannot afford to take risks with these losers anymore
The purpose of sports is to feel sad in a group reposted
me: LET'S GET IT ON NOW (select and make your first pick)
LET'S GET IT ON NOW (10-9-8-7-6)
LET'S GET IT ON NOW (choose and pick the best one)
LET'S GET IT ON NOW (5-4-3-2-1)
them: mm, I'm not feeling this any more
me: YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE
Got to do a shoot in our Dungeon Meishi cosplay at AX Chibi earlier this month~ I love this photo in particular.
Marcille is @chiptunekitsune.bsky.social, Falin is me!
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Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like