“call your congresspeople and beg them not to sentence trans people to death” is a regular feature of our politics now and it fucking sucks

You have a massive story in front of you that the President of the United States just broadcast on live TV: everyone in the US will get 400% off of their prescriptions.

You have a duty to report on that thoroughly, and if you feel as though you don't then what fucking good are you?

The left told em for several years "you will lose if your campaign completely fucking ignores the rising virulent transphobia and islamophobia and continues to defend a genocide"

And look, a campaign that did the exact opposite of that, won by a goddamn landslide and inspired people country-wide

this summarizes a point i was reaching for, thought i would share it bsky.app/profile/benj...

the oppression of children runs so deep in our society that one of the primary ways that we disempower people is by assigning them child-adjacent status as adults. license to abuse flows from that

I have yet to play it but, for me, two key designs of the series is that items restore a percentage of your max hp and you're limited to 15 of each items.

Items feel accounted for in the balance.

It's a cliche but you're 80s and 90s playlists aren't similar to what was playing on the radio in decades past.

I'll be honest.

For all my life, most media has been slop. Most games were forgotten mediocrity, most movies were crap thrown out of the shelves of video clubs to fill with new VHS and shelves were full of harlequin novels.

I know my opinion isn't that popular but I think it's very responsible for creatives to explore what the technology can do. It's become a problem when you're using the technology to remove the creative people.

And, I can't wait for the bubble to pop.

One of my favourite Mario 64 modders experimented briefly with using ChatGPT to help with code optimization. I feel that a 'Hey man, knock that off, it sucks' is a more useful response than 'You are forever dead to me, traitor to humanity, I can never trust anything you do ever again!'.

“Israel is an illegitimate occupying power in Palestine, and simply does not have the right to bar entry to Canadian lawmakers into the country,” the group’s president, Yara Shoufani, said in a statement.

“Just months after Canada recognized Palestinian statehood, Israel is demonstrating its apartheid rule over Palestine and fundamental denial of Palestinian self-determination. Canada must impose consequences on Israel in response to this major violation of diplomacy,” she said.

“Israeli authorities had issued electronic travel authorizations to all members of the delegation, yet lawful observers, including elected Canadian officials, were ultimately barred from entry as ‘public safety threats’,” he said.