DW Hartman
@dwhartman.bsky.social
Political junkie, PC gaming enthusiast, science fiction nerd.
A large part of the population doesn't seem to realize that headphones exist, and I find that remarkable.
December 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A large part of the population doesn't seem to realize that headphones exist, and I find that remarkable.
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Try this instead: I was wrong. I overstated narrow election results, underappreciating how many Trump voters didn’t believe he’d do what he said. I miscast fascists and oligarchs gaining political power as a popular cultural shift. I got some of this on X, failing to recognize it’s skewed that way.”
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Try this instead: I was wrong. I overstated narrow election results, underappreciating how many Trump voters didn’t believe he’d do what he said. I miscast fascists and oligarchs gaining political power as a popular cultural shift. I got some of this on X, failing to recognize it’s skewed that way.”
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Fallout (1997)
December 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Fallout (1997)
I don't live in Washington state, but I may have nightmares anyway.
Toilet rats? Washington health officials warn of possible rodents in sewer systems after floods
The rodent advisory comes after Washington was hit with devastating floods this month.
www.nbcnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I don't live in Washington state, but I may have nightmares anyway.
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I wish discourse about AI in game development would distinguish between "making new kinds of games that couldn't exist without this tech" and "making the same kind of games as before but cheaper and worse with fewer humans involved"
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I wish discourse about AI in game development would distinguish between "making new kinds of games that couldn't exist without this tech" and "making the same kind of games as before but cheaper and worse with fewer humans involved"
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"And by the end of the day, everything in the house was broken."
I bet they got into a lot of trouble together. 😊 Photo from my collection, no date/info.
December 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
"And by the end of the day, everything in the house was broken."
Treated myself to some Christmas gifts and now have a small collection of "classic gaming" refrigerator magnets.
December 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Treated myself to some Christmas gifts and now have a small collection of "classic gaming" refrigerator magnets.
My office let us out a little early. I made it!
This is my last week at work before two straight weeks of vacation for the holidays. I'm launching myself in the general direction of end of day Friday and hoping I make it.
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
My office let us out a little early. I made it!
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“These are troubling times.”
It’s impossible to name a more iconic Malcom McDowell performance.
December 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“These are troubling times.”
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America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
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Reminds me of Doom.
December 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reminds me of Doom.
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We used to build special airplanes specifically to explode these guys.
BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.” The manual is now in effect, despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. (Washington Post)
December 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
We used to build special airplanes specifically to explode these guys.
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Half-Life (1998)
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Half-Life (1998)
One of the better games based on a film franchise, in part because the game took the setting and used it to tell its own story. Interestingly, while the game largely took place within the film's setting, it also incorporated elements from the original novel.
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
One of the better games based on a film franchise, in part because the game took the setting and used it to tell its own story. Interestingly, while the game largely took place within the film's setting, it also incorporated elements from the original novel.
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If people really believed that you needed to engage on conservative-dominated platforms to be effective they’d be active on Truth Social, Rumble, and Kick. They are not. They just don’t like X as much anymore and they want it to be your fault
December 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If people really believed that you needed to engage on conservative-dominated platforms to be effective they’d be active on Truth Social, Rumble, and Kick. They are not. They just don’t like X as much anymore and they want it to be your fault
This is my last week at work before two straight weeks of vacation for the holidays. I'm launching myself in the general direction of end of day Friday and hoping I make it.
December 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is my last week at work before two straight weeks of vacation for the holidays. I'm launching myself in the general direction of end of day Friday and hoping I make it.
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Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
I stopped following the news as much as possible for most of the time on my weekends to get a break from the horrible things. But sometimes that just means getting flooded with horrible things when I start paying attention again.
December 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I stopped following the news as much as possible for most of the time on my weekends to get a break from the horrible things. But sometimes that just means getting flooded with horrible things when I start paying attention again.
These were fun games to play! Some of the rare "platformer" games that I ever bothered with. UsuaIly I found them at a local computer fair, which was a pretty common way for me to discover new game franchises in the 1990s.
Happy 35th to the original Commander Keen trilogy. 🎂🎉🥂
($15 back then is approximately $36 today.)
($15 back then is approximately $36 today.)
December 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
These were fun games to play! Some of the rare "platformer" games that I ever bothered with. UsuaIly I found them at a local computer fair, which was a pretty common way for me to discover new game franchises in the 1990s.
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You know, part of me is really glad for humanity that splitting the atom happened back in the 40s and decided *not* in the current billionare techbro hellscape.
Can you even imagine? 50s nuclear-futurism was wild enough, but with these bros in charge? We would have definitely glassed the planet.
Can you even imagine? 50s nuclear-futurism was wild enough, but with these bros in charge? We would have definitely glassed the planet.
December 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
You know, part of me is really glad for humanity that splitting the atom happened back in the 40s and decided *not* in the current billionare techbro hellscape.
Can you even imagine? 50s nuclear-futurism was wild enough, but with these bros in charge? We would have definitely glassed the planet.
Can you even imagine? 50s nuclear-futurism was wild enough, but with these bros in charge? We would have definitely glassed the planet.
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There’s a line I like in the demo that was cut from the final script about how the Emperor has granted Thrakhath the title of Slavelord of Terra.
December 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
There’s a line I like in the demo that was cut from the final script about how the Emperor has granted Thrakhath the title of Slavelord of Terra.
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Sid Meier's Civilization (1991)
December 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Sid Meier's Civilization (1991)
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I say this with zero hyperbole.
SOMA hit me on a deep emotional level. I thought about it for months after it was over and I still randomly think about it.
Pretty sure it rewired my brain a little bit.
SOMA hit me on a deep emotional level. I thought about it for months after it was over and I still randomly think about it.
Pretty sure it rewired my brain a little bit.
I’d be nuts not to get it now
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I say this with zero hyperbole.
SOMA hit me on a deep emotional level. I thought about it for months after it was over and I still randomly think about it.
Pretty sure it rewired my brain a little bit.
SOMA hit me on a deep emotional level. I thought about it for months after it was over and I still randomly think about it.
Pretty sure it rewired my brain a little bit.
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“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there