Umberto Echo Chamber
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Ex-Senior Narrative Producer for Camouflaj; former Senior Manager of Global Production at Capcom; posts about AKIRA, games, translation, and bad comedy
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I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc
I don't know anything about "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" aside from what I've seen in the trailer, but I feel VERY strongly that Peter Stormare should be in it.
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I don't know anything about "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" aside from what I've seen in the trailer, but I feel VERY strongly that Peter Stormare should be in it.
Bought this for $1; the cover was cool and it sounded fun. (An even more sardonic “Running Man”? Yes, please!) But it was the laudatory pull quotes from Douglas Adam’s AND John Le Carré that persuaded me.
It was fine; I had higher expectations based who the quotes came from.
It was fine; I had higher expectations based who the quotes came from.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Bought this for $1; the cover was cool and it sounded fun. (An even more sardonic “Running Man”? Yes, please!) But it was the laudatory pull quotes from Douglas Adam’s AND John Le Carré that persuaded me.
It was fine; I had higher expectations based who the quotes came from.
It was fine; I had higher expectations based who the quotes came from.
Read the first two books in the Heechee Saga by Frederik Pohl. Knew he was important in SFF, but only knew him from that quote about not just predicting cars but being able to predict traffic jams.
Both good, but liked Gateway more.
Both good, but liked Gateway more.
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Read the first two books in the Heechee Saga by Frederik Pohl. Knew he was important in SFF, but only knew him from that quote about not just predicting cars but being able to predict traffic jams.
Both good, but liked Gateway more.
Both good, but liked Gateway more.
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first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know
Is this good? It doesn't seem good.
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
Walgreens Cuts Pay for Hourly Store Workers After $10 Billion Buyout
Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know
Read ババヤガの夜 (Night of the Babayaga) a few weeks back. Pretty fun action-crime story starts straightforward but takes a few sharp turns I didn’t see. It definitely falls into the category of fuck the yakuza and doesn’t romanticize them at all.
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Read ババヤガの夜 (Night of the Babayaga) a few weeks back. Pretty fun action-crime story starts straightforward but takes a few sharp turns I didn’t see. It definitely falls into the category of fuck the yakuza and doesn’t romanticize them at all.
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These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.
Always exciting to a Richard Corbett cover in the wild.
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Always exciting to a Richard Corbett cover in the wild.
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“0% woke shit”
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“0% woke shit”
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
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Imagine going to court demanding for the right to starve both your people and their children for no other reason beyond malice.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration turns to Supreme Court to block order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Imagine going to court demanding for the right to starve both your people and their children for no other reason beyond malice.
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I would just like to remind everyone of a very telling and substantial report of Rockstar's abuse and disregard for workers that came out...... 6 YEARS AGO youtu.be/4xTDVlNGKng?...
Fear & Fury: How The Rockstar Sausage Is Made (The Jimquisition)
YouTube video by Stephanie Sterling
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I would just like to remind everyone of a very telling and substantial report of Rockstar's abuse and disregard for workers that came out...... 6 YEARS AGO youtu.be/4xTDVlNGKng?...
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The Economist is shitting its pants
Moderate governors offer a better model than a charming socialist in New York
Democrats risk drawing the wrong lessons from one good day
Moderate governors offer a better model than a charming socialist in New York
econ.st
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The Economist is shitting its pants
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“One good day” lmao
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“One good day” lmao
Does the hammer and sickle even strike fear into anyone under 35? My generation, X, was the last to suffer US Cold War propaganda and most of us realized it was BS as adults, so even I don’t have a knee jerk negative reaction to it anymore.
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Does the hammer and sickle even strike fear into anyone under 35? My generation, X, was the last to suffer US Cold War propaganda and most of us realized it was BS as adults, so even I don’t have a knee jerk negative reaction to it anymore.
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GET FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
GET FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED
🥳🎉🥳🎉
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
🥳🎉🥳🎉
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
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This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...
Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a ...
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...
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Klein is right that Dems have to win in red states and that the party should be engaging in some soul-searching right now.
But the soul-searching should begin with basic facts. Moderation *is* the current strategy and Dems are losing despite having a popular agenda. More of the same won't fix it.
But the soul-searching should begin with basic facts. Moderation *is* the current strategy and Dems are losing despite having a popular agenda. More of the same won't fix it.
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Klein is right that Dems have to win in red states and that the party should be engaging in some soul-searching right now.
But the soul-searching should begin with basic facts. Moderation *is* the current strategy and Dems are losing despite having a popular agenda. More of the same won't fix it.
But the soul-searching should begin with basic facts. Moderation *is* the current strategy and Dems are losing despite having a popular agenda. More of the same won't fix it.
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I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
November 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Curious how this would have been worded in Japanese because “Arashikage” literally means “Storm Shadow”
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Curious how this would have been worded in Japanese because “Arashikage” literally means “Storm Shadow”
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gonna reiterate a hobbyhorse of mine: 'let the ATF keep electronic records' is a good fight to pick on guns. it doesn't impact normie gun owners at all, it's an insane bit of GOP mandated dysfunction in government, and it's being "tough on crime" in a way that actually matters
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
gonna reiterate a hobbyhorse of mine: 'let the ATF keep electronic records' is a good fight to pick on guns. it doesn't impact normie gun owners at all, it's an insane bit of GOP mandated dysfunction in government, and it's being "tough on crime" in a way that actually matters
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"Why don't people support welfare programs?"
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Why don't people support welfare programs?"
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
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Joe Biden would have been impeached and removed from office for this answer.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Joe Biden would have been impeached and removed from office for this answer.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.