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· Feb 28
Rather than study
I'll be a frill-necked lizard
Mogami River
I'll be a frill-necked lizard
Mogami River
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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The modern world is just pro wrestling and a gambling addiction standing on top of a mechanical Turk.
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The modern world is just pro wrestling and a gambling addiction standing on top of a mechanical Turk.
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Every great product, once it's established itself as a primary operator in its market, is deliberately made worse and worse by its provider in pursuit of greater profit and exploitation of the consumer. I don't know how we can observe this process & still believe in the rationality of capitalism.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Every great product, once it's established itself as a primary operator in its market, is deliberately made worse and worse by its provider in pursuit of greater profit and exploitation of the consumer. I don't know how we can observe this process & still believe in the rationality of capitalism.
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Remember when Steam said everything would be allowed on Steam as long as it wasn’t illegal?
www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/174...
www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/174...
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Remember when Steam said everything would be allowed on Steam as long as it wasn’t illegal?
www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/174...
www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/174...
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The cool thing about having a flat organizational structure with no real job descriptions is that no one specific person is to blame when your company unilaterally censors art
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The cool thing about having a flat organizational structure with no real job descriptions is that no one specific person is to blame when your company unilaterally censors art
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steam's declaration that even the suggestion of sexual content involving minors will be banned is obvious horseshit when games like Persona 5, Blue Reflection, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Silent Hill 2 and countless others are all sold freely there, but also bans like this are simply wrong.
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
steam's declaration that even the suggestion of sexual content involving minors will be banned is obvious horseshit when games like Persona 5, Blue Reflection, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Silent Hill 2 and countless others are all sold freely there, but also bans like this are simply wrong.
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i played for judging this and liked it. super sad for Santa Ragione, and the general state of game censorship. re: Steam in particular, a landscape where everyone has to depend on a totally unaccountable monopoly to survive is not one that benefits artists in any way.
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i played for judging this and liked it. super sad for Santa Ragione, and the general state of game censorship. re: Steam in particular, a landscape where everyone has to depend on a totally unaccountable monopoly to survive is not one that benefits artists in any way.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
illustration, login, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/logi...
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I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
Harry Potter x Fortnite coming in Chapter 7
(In other words, Fortnite is adding a transphobic authors work into Fortnite)
#Fortnite #FortniteNews
(In other words, Fortnite is adding a transphobic authors work into Fortnite)
#Fortnite #FortniteNews
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
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everyone loves ysme so much. thank you for "supporting women's wrongs" and actually meaning it
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
everyone loves ysme so much. thank you for "supporting women's wrongs" and actually meaning it
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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I think social media might be bad for you. I don't know if you're meant to have loose non-interactions with people popping up in front of your face all the time. It might be driving me crazy to be honest, lol.
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I think social media might be bad for you. I don't know if you're meant to have loose non-interactions with people popping up in front of your face all the time. It might be driving me crazy to be honest, lol.
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
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After hearing a lot of people go off on One Punch Man S3, all I can say is, we've been seeing headlines like the following below for years at this point. Not sure what people expected to happen in the industry. Maybe it's not laziness but people actually starving.
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
After hearing a lot of people go off on One Punch Man S3, all I can say is, we've been seeing headlines like the following below for years at this point. Not sure what people expected to happen in the industry. Maybe it's not laziness but people actually starving.
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now that all the games press is gone, we only have the loudest gamers to rely on when trying to get a vibe of whether a game is good, which is extremely worse than nothing
all you hear about any game that comes out now is "it's shit" or "it's fucked" regardless of how shit or fucked it is
all you hear about any game that comes out now is "it's shit" or "it's fucked" regardless of how shit or fucked it is
December 1, 2024 at 6:07 AM
now that all the games press is gone, we only have the loudest gamers to rely on when trying to get a vibe of whether a game is good, which is extremely worse than nothing
all you hear about any game that comes out now is "it's shit" or "it's fucked" regardless of how shit or fucked it is
all you hear about any game that comes out now is "it's shit" or "it's fucked" regardless of how shit or fucked it is
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symptom of a sick society that the popular gaming service "Steam" has official tags for "roguelike deckbuilder" and "extraction shooter" but not "virtual pet" or "burgertime clone"
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
symptom of a sick society that the popular gaming service "Steam" has official tags for "roguelike deckbuilder" and "extraction shooter" but not "virtual pet" or "burgertime clone"
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i don't really like to give creative advice so much anymore, but i hope i can at least encourage other creators to stop writing under self-inflicted disney s&p
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
i don't really like to give creative advice so much anymore, but i hope i can at least encourage other creators to stop writing under self-inflicted disney s&p
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...