Patrick
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There’s not a single filmmaker who is so magically good it should excuse them being a bully. Not one. Give their money to someone else. We have plenty of talent and too many assholes hogging the resources.
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
There’s not a single filmmaker who is so magically good it should excuse them being a bully. Not one. Give their money to someone else. We have plenty of talent and too many assholes hogging the resources.
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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A byproduct of the streaming only / shift away from physical is the launch of something is the worst it will be with the implicit promise or incremental improvements and corrections rolled out over time as opposed to having to get it right for a cutoff print and ship date.
December 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A byproduct of the streaming only / shift away from physical is the launch of something is the worst it will be with the implicit promise or incremental improvements and corrections rolled out over time as opposed to having to get it right for a cutoff print and ship date.
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nevermind im laughing so hard im got lightheaded
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
nevermind im laughing so hard im got lightheaded
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if you make games that are too much like actual art you wont just get banned but you'll also be refused keys for your own game and locked out of external bundles too, should have made a survivors clone you idiot
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
if you make games that are too much like actual art you wont just get banned but you'll also be refused keys for your own game and locked out of external bundles too, should have made a survivors clone you idiot
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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 5:05 PM
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...
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Air Riders is fun, guess my favorite character
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Air Riders is fun, guess my favorite character
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Jump scared by zooming out of the Campbell model from MGS2 only to realize he's only an upper body. It makes sense since that's all you ever see in-game but I just didn't think about it lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Jump scared by zooming out of the Campbell model from MGS2 only to realize he's only an upper body. It makes sense since that's all you ever see in-game but I just didn't think about it lmao
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"If you fight back [while] still in the sell mode – you fight back still hurt – you’re not throwing away the heat. When the heel stops you, and goes right back to the heat, it’s not a rebuilding process all over again – you stay with the flow."
If you've ever wanted to learn the art of pro wrestling from Ricky Steamboat, then you need to read this mini interview that I did with him for Fighting Spirit Magazine in 2015: web.archive.org/web/20160602...
Some fantastic stuff, especially about selling and comebacks.
Some fantastic stuff, especially about selling and comebacks.
Internet Archive: Scheduled Maintenance
web.archive.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"If you fight back [while] still in the sell mode – you fight back still hurt – you’re not throwing away the heat. When the heel stops you, and goes right back to the heat, it’s not a rebuilding process all over again – you stay with the flow."
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October 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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If you are posting publicly about revolutionary action and lamenting that others aren't taking it, you should be taking revolutionary action yourself.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you are posting publicly about revolutionary action and lamenting that others aren't taking it, you should be taking revolutionary action yourself.
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"Buy an antique toy bank, or savor Mrs. Knott's chicken"
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
"Buy an antique toy bank, or savor Mrs. Knott's chicken"
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why do we constantly need to "fix" basic fundamental things with a quicker or more supposedly elegant solution"? usually because of austerity - budgets are being cut, less time is being allocated for basic needs, and it further necessitates finding solutions that help justify doing that cutting.
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
why do we constantly need to "fix" basic fundamental things with a quicker or more supposedly elegant solution"? usually because of austerity - budgets are being cut, less time is being allocated for basic needs, and it further necessitates finding solutions that help justify doing that cutting.
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i'd never heard of three cueing but it does kind of match with this consistent movement in public sectors towards the constant need to "fix" everyday things by finding supposedly more elegant/simple shortcuts or hacks that end up having unintended horrible consequences further down the road.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
i'd never heard of three cueing but it does kind of match with this consistent movement in public sectors towards the constant need to "fix" everyday things by finding supposedly more elegant/simple shortcuts or hacks that end up having unintended horrible consequences further down the road.
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Any Democratic senator, at any moment, could've derailed this by calling for Schumer's replacement and casting their colleagues as MAGA collaborators, thereby shifting the Overton window. But they're all in on it. This was always a team effort.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Any Democratic senator, at any moment, could've derailed this by calling for Schumer's replacement and casting their colleagues as MAGA collaborators, thereby shifting the Overton window. But they're all in on it. This was always a team effort.
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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#25YearsAgoTodayAtDisneyland (11/6/2000) Scrooge McDuck was in an Emporium window display to advertise Disney Auctions Presented by ebay.
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
#25YearsAgoTodayAtDisneyland (11/6/2000) Scrooge McDuck was in an Emporium window display to advertise Disney Auctions Presented by ebay.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Looney Tunes remained popular for decades precisely because it was airing in widespread syndication on TV all the time. Old cartoons should be FREE to find new audiences, ESPECIALLY when their rights holders don't even care enough to platform them anymore.
After leaving HBO Max earlier this year, ‘Looney Tunes’ is a hit on Tubi, the company says, and popular across generations. It should be a model for every classic cartoons trapped in streaming limbo.
Make All Classic Cartoons Free
After leaving HBO Max earlier this year, ‘Looney Tunes’ is a hit on Tubi, the company says, and popular across generations. It should be a model for every classic cartoons trapped in streaming limbo.
www.vulture.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Looney Tunes remained popular for decades precisely because it was airing in widespread syndication on TV all the time. Old cartoons should be FREE to find new audiences, ESPECIALLY when their rights holders don't even care enough to platform them anymore.