Howard the Duck: Refugee from Blue Hell
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Just a smartass pretending to be a duck. Quack. (Same as the Kinja dude. Press Secretary of #Twinja.) Started a blog. Here's hoping. (He/Him.)
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you can tell this is the case because more than once I've seen some game get glazed back and forth for their accessibility options, go into the menu and see two dozen granular difficulty modifiers that have nothing to do with accessibility
and no 'text resize'
and no 'text resize'
I do get really frustrated about "accessibility" discussion in games though because I feel like 99% of it is argued by people that don't actually need accessibility options
December 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
you can tell this is the case because more than once I've seen some game get glazed back and forth for their accessibility options, go into the menu and see two dozen granular difficulty modifiers that have nothing to do with accessibility
and no 'text resize'
and no 'text resize'
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I remember earlier this year when armchair tech experts were saying Gamers Nexus was fearmongering and overblowing how much of the consumer market was going to be fucked over by AI speculation.
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business investors.micron.com/news-release...
December 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I remember earlier this year when armchair tech experts were saying Gamers Nexus was fearmongering and overblowing how much of the consumer market was going to be fucked over by AI speculation.
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My YouTube recap was set to the Robot Hell cover. They couldn’t anticipate the stress that caused.
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
My YouTube recap was set to the Robot Hell cover. They couldn’t anticipate the stress that caused.
I’m not gonna argue it’s some masterpiece but when people still bring it up while completely forgetting the Illumination version even happened I don’t think it can be considered the worst Grinch movie
life is long and i've seen a lot of things come and go but i will not stand for the rehabilitation of the ron howard grinch. motherfucker i was THERE in the theater. i was there
December 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I’m not gonna argue it’s some masterpiece but when people still bring it up while completely forgetting the Illumination version even happened I don’t think it can be considered the worst Grinch movie
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strong bore, no feeling
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
strong bore, no feeling
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this headline, and much of the reporting, is the result of believing that the key to good journalism is never taking a position
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
this headline, and much of the reporting, is the result of believing that the key to good journalism is never taking a position
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the 'it's inevitable' argument requires me to believe that people will see the quality of their entertainment - their circuses, if you will - massively decline while prices remain the same or even go up and just shrug, and it's like, no they won't lol
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
the 'it's inevitable' argument requires me to believe that people will see the quality of their entertainment - their circuses, if you will - massively decline while prices remain the same or even go up and just shrug, and it's like, no they won't lol
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"GOP insiders are so freaked out Trump liked Mamdani they're internally putting out feelers for invoking the 25th amendment" lmfao
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"GOP insiders are so freaked out Trump liked Mamdani they're internally putting out feelers for invoking the 25th amendment" lmfao
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just two cool guys looking normal and alive, like humans
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
just two cool guys looking normal and alive, like humans
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so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?
Riley Gaines climbed the MAGA ladder by vilifying trans women in sports. Now, teammates are speaking out about the real problems on her team: abusive coaching, sexual harassment, eating disorders. ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
ow.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?
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Oh cool that's me aw ye
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Oh cool that's me aw ye
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i do not need to seek out movies to celebrate udo, i just need to watch the kind of movies i like and udo will appear in them. his presence is etched into the world forever
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i do not need to seek out movies to celebrate udo, i just need to watch the kind of movies i like and udo will appear in them. his presence is etched into the world forever
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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exposed too many Based White Race larpers as being the other kind of Aryan
that account location feature on twitter was the funniest shit ever
they shut it down quick lmao
they shut it down quick lmao
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
exposed too many Based White Race larpers as being the other kind of Aryan
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That Phil Spencer Magic!
Terrible launch for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in Europe. The game sold 63% fewer copies at launch compared with Battlefield 6. It's also more than 60% down over last year's Black Ops 6. (Digital and physical sales. GSD Data) www.thegamebusiness.com/p/call-of-du...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 European launch sales are 63% down over Battlefield 6
But a strong launch for Ubisoft's Anno 117: Pax Romana
www.thegamebusiness.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
That Phil Spencer Magic!
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reminder roblox has never actually made a profit btw
This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now.
They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.
They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
reminder roblox has never actually made a profit btw
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i'm developing a medieval open-world adventure game in which your character is immortal but has to sneeze constantly, so mostly you just wander the towns and countryside searching for kerchiefs and the like. sometimes you have to acquire oaken buckets or enchanted books to sneeze into
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
i'm developing a medieval open-world adventure game in which your character is immortal but has to sneeze constantly, so mostly you just wander the towns and countryside searching for kerchiefs and the like. sometimes you have to acquire oaken buckets or enchanted books to sneeze into
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I understand everything is harder than you think it is, but when Namco is cranking out these tales remasters at a rate of like one every six months I am unsympathetic to 'look it takes us 4 years to release a collection of PS1 games, best I can do'
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I understand everything is harder than you think it is, but when Namco is cranking out these tales remasters at a rate of like one every six months I am unsympathetic to 'look it takes us 4 years to release a collection of PS1 games, best I can do'
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I saw Marge with Piccolo's cape and I couldn't stop my hands from moving.
November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I saw Marge with Piccolo's cape and I couldn't stop my hands from moving.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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The internet was supposed to be very flatly distributed precisely to avoid things like “1/3 of it dies for half a day every few weeks”
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The internet was supposed to be very flatly distributed precisely to avoid things like “1/3 of it dies for half a day every few weeks”
Good. Burn it down and salt the fucking earth.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Good. Burn it down and salt the fucking earth.
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As part of this class action I have skin in this game, and let me tell you: I hope epoch-definingly terrible things happen to the people in this industry
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
As part of this class action I have skin in this game, and let me tell you: I hope epoch-definingly terrible things happen to the people in this industry