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Mate Sršen
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You can't see her because while they are foolishly standing up she is wisely kneeling in solidarity and therefore has a lower visual profile.
Members of Congress seen introducing the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 by kneeling swathed in identical kente stoles in the Capitol Visitor Center. Kamala Harris is center frame, kneeling.
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The FreeSpace 2 mod scene at the Hard Light forums. These days they use the Knossos.NET integrated launcher/mod manager, so just getting FreeSpace 2 off GOG.com and installing Knossos gives one easy access to a heavily updated FS2 engine and countless mods. The best BSG game to date is an FS2 mod!
A screenshot of the Knossos mod manager for Freespace 2 - the window is showing the 'Play' tab with over 20 mod tiles currently visible.
July 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Yes - among many, *many* other things.
A screenshot of the Memoria Patcher startup window, with a very wide variety of options to adjust FF9 gameplay, graphics and sound.
July 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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More in the Cronenbergian sense.
The poster for the 1996 David Cronenberg movie Crash, depicting a closeup of a man's hand caressing a woman's leg in a knee brace, splayed over a car seat.
June 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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These somehow both feel true simultaneously.
A screenshot of two other replies - one from @melstefaniuk.bsky.social saying "Big 'please clap' energy", and another from @stephanewithane.bsky.social saying "This is why we miss E3 :D"
June 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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That's... very much not how I've read this. It seems to regard Reubens himself with sympathy rather than celebrate his decision. The article discusses open secrets and 'those who know know', and how that may seem like a smart 'third choice' but it's still a way of staying dangerously silent.
The opening two paragraphs of the article, which read as follows: EARLY IN THE biographical documentary “Pee-wee as Himself,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the actor Paul Reubens makes a statement about his sexual identity that even in 2025 feels jarring to hear. As he discusses his years as a budding performance artist, he reveals for the first time that, soon after leaving California Institute of the Arts in the early 1970s, he began a romantic relationship with an attractive artist named Guy. They moved in together and started to build a life; Reubens introduced Guy to his parents. And then he came to feel that he was losing his identity. The relationship ended and, soon after, Reubens, who would later come to be better known as Pee-wee Herman, made a decision that would shape the rest of his life — a professional choice with a great personal cost: “I was as out as you could be,” he says. “And then I went back in the closet.” The moment feels painfully confessional — all the more so because it isn’t clear whether Reubens, who died at 70 in 2023 after living with cancer for six years, knew he wouldn’t be alive to experience the public reaction to it. The revelation isn’t that he was gay. In the first minutes of the film, which will air on HBO on May 23, he teases that fact with droll self-amusement. (“I was extremely sensitive and romantic. … I like to decorate,” he says. “Whatever that suggests to you watching, go ahead — make those connections!”) The shock is that, out of what he acknowledges was “self-hatred” and “self-preservation,” as well as ambition and the practical impossibility of surviving as an out Saturday-morning children’s star in the 1980s, he hid his true self even from many close associates and friends. It turns out that Reubens, a figure of irrepressible joy as Pee-wee, felt that he was harboring a dark secret — and decades later, he found himself trying to explain not homosexuality but a lifetime of concealment.
May 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Not necessarily.
Screenshot of a Bluesky post by Luke Plunkett (@lukeplunkett.com): "kotaku was profitable for almost its entire pre-G/O existence, raking in 20-40 million unique visitors a month on a relative shoestring budget (6-15ish people, vs competitors with dozens or even 100s of staff)."
May 2, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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As the number of game releases continues to explode while the gaming press is being disintegrated, you're going to be getting that feeling more and more. Gamer media intake is increasingly getting atomized, it's easier and easier to miss even big industry events.
A graph labeled 'Steam Game Releases by Month', with 2006 to 2024 (and early 2025) on the X axis, and 'Games released per month' on the Y axis. Also 'Steam Greenlight' is marked as a point in 2012, and 'Steam Direct' is marked as a point in 2017. The graph line is practically flat near zero up until 2014, where it starts noticeably climbing, and it continues to climb (with minor fluctuations) until it reaches 1818 games released in March 2025.
April 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I'll be the annoying person:
In-game screenshot of a location from Skyblivion - at the prison sewer exit right after the tutorial, looking northeast across the small pier at the ruins across the lake. The low sun bathes the entire scene in light. Another in-game screenshot of a location from Skyblivion - on the road next to the inn across the bridge from the Imperial City gates, looking back east at the city walls and White Gold Tower. The morning sun behind the Tower again floods the scene with light. An armored player character is walking down the road towards us. Another in-game screenshot of a location from Skyblivion - an armored player character is riding their horse down the road through the stereotypical Oblivion biome: a lightly forested area on top of low rolling hills, with green grass everywhere, blue skies and hazy air. A large tree outside the frame to the right casts shade on the road and the character.
April 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM