I've been working remotely in digital media for the past 11 years and have, in that time, published something like 12,500 bylines. Imagine how much more productive I could have been with a commute!

...cats and dogs, living together...

And then everybody clapped. Especially the lesbians.

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

Both these people seem pretty insufferable, but Doctor "I put Dr in my username" has a definite edge.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Samsung's OneUI 8/Android 16 broke the universal fullscreen app option I love for browsers and other apps.

Android 16 is supposed to make transparent/hidden naviation and status bars universal. Apparently Vivaldi is not compliant yet.

Android fanboy that I am, sometimes I envy iOS its uniformity.

Oh look, it's me, being a work-from-home web writer and Netflix addict, and running my entire home network in BFN Texas off Verizon LTE unlimited tethering in 2013.

someone asked reddit how their 40s were going

I first thought "LitRPG" books (Dungeon Crawler Carl et al) were popular because video games were Gen Z's baseline for fantasy. Like LOTR and Harry Potter for most older English-speakers.

Now I think it's because video games are quickly becoming the baseline for ALL fiction, of any kind.

An entire industry of animators looks over at Disney, remaking a cartoon about a shapeshifting teddy bear from space that lands in Hawaii, in live action, with disdain.

Disney doesn't look up as it counts $400M in tickets.

Sony begins planning a live-action reboot of K-Pop Demon Hunters.

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

Data: I listened to that comedian podcast you recommended but couldn’t detect any jokes. Perhaps my emotion chip is malfunctioning?

Wesley: Nah bro, they’re not really trying to be funny. They’re trying to be curious

It's bad. It's so clearly twisted to keep the gameplay going after the narrative end.

The original Hades did too, sure, but it wasn't telling the story of a generational war across heaven, hell, and earth.

I don't envy someone writing under these parameters. But that doesn't make it any less bad.

So. The Hades II ending.

I think Supergiant has such a reputation for deftly combining gameplay and story that they felt they had something to prove...

But yeah, a Zelda style "story's over, keep playing if you want to" would have served better here. Certainly offered up something more satisfying.

This is a great way to think of it

Every team I've ever been on that succeeds inevitably has some spreadsheet cruncher come in and say "I like this number, we should have more of this number"

And that changes why we were so good at that number in the first place
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Dionysus has a little rubber ducky in Hades II.

It is wearing a fig leaf.

Starbuck Thrace is so cool-coded I can't handle it. you can't see it but she's also doing sick tech deck tricks with her other hand behind the console

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

Backing this up - Some of the worst humans I know and have worked personally with were some of the chummiest, "let's get drinks"-iest, "not so bad in person"-ey people I've ever met.

Some of the most astounding racists I've met said they were "big fans of my work." They know how to play this game.

Reposting and bookmarking to share with students in my sci comm class in the winter about why I believe that me telling them not to use genAI is in their best interest.

He didn't know who he was dealing with

"Who would have predicted this?"

- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.

"Well why didn't I hear them."

You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.