For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

People do not contain a boolean Has Mental Health Problems/Has No Mental Health Problems toggle. By treating "mental health problems" as a quality that is either present in a person or not, he implicitly fully forecloses the possibility of mental illness as a state that may be acquired/induced

"We have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues" is the really big lie x liability faultline but I think the casual invocation of "users who [have] no mental health problems" as a category of real existing human is also worth scrutinising

I haven't got around to checking out the show yet, sorry. But the theme tune's a banger so it is jumping up the queue

On course for a knuckle supper if he keeps this up

Do you have any idea how many metal songs there are about Warhammer

Harry Potter didn't, in the end, encourage people to read, it just encouraged them to read Harry Potter.

To be clear: the decision to deny most people in the UK the covid vaccine is related to money, *not* based on a public health concern. In other words, Labour did not allocate enough money for covid vaccines so their "cost-effectiveness" end up the determining factor. www.gov.uk/government/p...

always been fascinated by the Spectator's byline caricatures because it's like the artist has chosen to represent the writers' inner lives, showing us who they truly are, these weird deformed uncanny creatures with absolutely deranged opinions. bizarrely revealing

If it doesn't affect her like that then fair play

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Keir Starmer acting like the Colonel at the end of MGS2 when his Codec portrait keeps showing you the back of his head

Serious question: why does anyone eat Taco Bell when it seems to be infamous for killing you on the way out

polyamory is where ur unemployed and the more unemployed you are the more polyamorous it is

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Fuck, that really sucks, I'm sorry

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

Saw a post on here that claimed he adds himself as a producer on films, donating a few million to essentially buy himself leading or supporting roles. No idea if it's true, but it's the only explanation for his continued presence in big films that makes sense to me

Also, Gridlink's most recent live line-up have reformed with a new vocalist for a similar-sounding band barrenpath.bandcamp.com/album/grieving

I think you can definitely chart the impact of Gridlink's sound through Wormrot's discography, weirdly. First two albums are Riff City (complimentary), the most recent ones have been more complex in both technique and emotionality

I can see that. As much as I'm not a fan of power metal there's absolutely a power metal influence in there, too. Just with a much different emotional affect

Tbf Matsubara is such a tech-y guitarist it's probably inaccurate to even call it grindcore

Grindcore for the anime protagonist who is about to self-destruct their mech in order to avoid enemy capture

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...