"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?"

I called myself 30 for 3 years because when I turned 28 I was like “eh close enough, I’ll just round up”

They all look like suspects in a high school murder movie

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

Working in video games

Ahahaha, as if all EA does isn’t cost cutting to the bone and then wonder why skeletons can’t run

Back in my day, EA bought things and dismantled them, not the other way around

happy birthday to autumn and the best internet writing of probably all time!

omg why are you awake, go back to bed lmfao

I for one welcome the opportunity to be at a cognitive disadvantage. Sounds relaxing.

I fucked up my foot walking up the stairs yesterday and I have remembered it's nearly impossible to look cute limping.

Nearly.

Mike is the Ted Mosby of stranger things

His last name is literally craven?! Unreal.

It actually goes hand-in-hand with another assertion I’ve been seeing go around lately that I fully agree with: if you’re at the point where you can walk into Restoration Hardware and spend $10,000 on a bed?

What the all FUCK are you doing in Restoration Hardware.

Go hire a local artisan.

Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars

Theo Von: Yeah

Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money

Von: Right

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

All of my work friends took today and tomorrow off so now I have no one to talk to about Taylor Swift and I'm mad about it.
Like wym I need to just quietly do my job. Gross.

I brought my family to NYC to see the theater district.

The first thing I saw when I exited the subway was a youth killing a dental professional, chopping up his body, and feeding to a hungry plant.

So forgive me if I doubt that crime is down.

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser