lincoln carpenter
@lincolnhello.bsky.social
News writer at PC Gamer. Older stuff at Polygon, Fanbyte, pre-unholy resurrection Waypoint, etc. Artist formerly known as the Hellmouth Sunbeams. Views are my own and bad
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we weren't meant to trade follows. we were meant to trade secret oaths of vengeance against the count's men
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"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that
"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars
February 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that
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"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
www.pcgamer.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:21 PM
"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."
anyway might look into starting like. a vbulletin forum
February 14, 2026 at 1:10 AM
anyway might look into starting like. a vbulletin forum
"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
www.pcgamer.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:21 PM
"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."
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if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission
February 13, 2026 at 5:15 AM
if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission
"CiniCross is a new roguelike that hit Steam this week, and it turns nonograms not into pictures, but into a dungeon crawler—complete with collectible artifacts, class progression, and the thrill of slowly bleeding out because your brain doesn't handle numbers particularly quickly."
I can now say I've been killed by a nonogram thanks to this roguelike that turns Picross into a dungeon crawler
I always knew I'd go out this way.
www.pcgamer.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"CiniCross is a new roguelike that hit Steam this week, and it turns nonograms not into pictures, but into a dungeon crawler—complete with collectible artifacts, class progression, and the thrill of slowly bleeding out because your brain doesn't handle numbers particularly quickly."
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Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.
you'll be shocked to learn, I'm sure, that this earned me my first real hatemail in months
"It's a competent loop of heist setup and escape execution. But even when I piloted Nomali through a flawless getaway, I found myself more interested in being able to return to the relooters' hideout to learn more about the game's 70 reclaimable artifacts and their very real histories."
Relooted is a fine heist game—but it's a better history lesson
Correcting dark historic wrongs can feel surprisingly bright.
www.pcgamer.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:49 AM
you'll be shocked to learn, I'm sure, that this earned me my first real hatemail in months
I do think the giant warlike birdman is cool. but does he know there are other drinkable things
February 13, 2026 at 1:47 AM
I do think the giant warlike birdman is cool. but does he know there are other drinkable things
discussing the sony state of play
February 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM
discussing the sony state of play
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Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
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I'm going to raise my children like a savvy videogame businessman should. if they aren't billionaires within two weeks of birth I'll have them killed
February 12, 2026 at 2:59 AM
I'm going to raise my children like a savvy videogame businessman should. if they aren't billionaires within two weeks of birth I'll have them killed
i appreciate that you think i'm the one being paid to answer these questions but i'm mostly just here to frown disapprovingly when the children are showing insufficient growth
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 AM
i appreciate that you think i'm the one being paid to answer these questions but i'm mostly just here to frown disapprovingly when the children are showing insufficient growth
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finding a good place for this in my Dwarf Fortress headline scrapbook
February 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
finding a good place for this in my Dwarf Fortress headline scrapbook
does anyone know how to make an extraction shooter out of a human child
February 12, 2026 at 3:14 AM
does anyone know how to make an extraction shooter out of a human child
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The Attorney General of the United States refusing to look at or acknowledge Epstein Survivors today in a House Judiciary hearing. The world is watching. History will remember.
📸 Roberto Schmidt
📸 Roberto Schmidt
February 12, 2026 at 2:52 AM
The Attorney General of the United States refusing to look at or acknowledge Epstein Survivors today in a House Judiciary hearing. The world is watching. History will remember.
📸 Roberto Schmidt
📸 Roberto Schmidt
anyway follow me on linkedin for more career tips
February 12, 2026 at 3:05 AM
anyway follow me on linkedin for more career tips
don't worry it will never be my fault
February 12, 2026 at 3:02 AM
don't worry it will never be my fault
I'm going to raise my children like a savvy videogame businessman should. if they aren't billionaires within two weeks of birth I'll have them killed
February 12, 2026 at 2:59 AM
I'm going to raise my children like a savvy videogame businessman should. if they aren't billionaires within two weeks of birth I'll have them killed
sick. put me on a mailing list for the pdf
February 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
sick. put me on a mailing list for the pdf
olympic heavyweight luge, or "olympic large"
would watch heavyweight luge
Question about Luge Men’s Doubles: why not just have one heavier athlete? Two guys riding one luge seems a bit cramped.
February 11, 2026 at 10:34 PM
olympic heavyweight luge, or "olympic large"
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"It's a competent loop of heist setup and escape execution. But even when I piloted Nomali through a flawless getaway, I found myself more interested in being able to return to the relooters' hideout to learn more about the game's 70 reclaimable artifacts and their very real histories."
Relooted is a fine heist game—but it's a better history lesson
Correcting dark historic wrongs can feel surprisingly bright.
www.pcgamer.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:06 PM
"It's a competent loop of heist setup and escape execution. But even when I piloted Nomali through a flawless getaway, I found myself more interested in being able to return to the relooters' hideout to learn more about the game's 70 reclaimable artifacts and their very real histories."