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January 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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January 27, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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Mayor Mamdani consistently and regularly demonstrates that your mayor, your politicians, could be doing this at any point and they just don't because they don't care, and that's exactly why the establishment was panicked and aggressively tried to make sure he lost. They didn't want you to see this.
Be safe and stay warm, New York.
January 28, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight
January 28, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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Rin Tohsaka... the Red Comet?!
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Again, not to dunk on the OP, but I have to bring this up. People don’t bounce off of fighting games because they’re not team games. It has less to do with Freudian concepts of ego, and far more to do with the psychological concept known as ego depletion.
My stance for years has been that people bounce off fighting games not because they're uniquely hard, but because they're not team games and are largely noise-free, so you are constantly confronting exactly how good you are, and people fucking hate that. They can't stand it. They crumble.
Trying to learn deadlock and I genuinely think it's insane how anyone could think fighting games have an accessbility problem when games like this are 4723458974389574 times more complicated and 854783647862347 times more popular lol
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Happy two year anniversary to the ultimate videogame launch announcement, the likes of which hasn’t been topped just yet
January 26, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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PC games giant Valve has been told it has to face a £656 million lawsuit in the UK, which claims the Steam giant's revenue share is too high and negatively impacts consumers.

www.gamesindustry.biz/valve-to-fac...
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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wrote some misc thoughts about selling visual novels on steam in 2026 and what sorts of vns tend to sell better than others based on trends i've seen with my last few releases

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Some thoughts about selling visual novels on Steam in 2026 | ebi-hime
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January 27, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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I was inspired
January 26, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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BIG NEWS
(I am not a lawyer)

Japan's Agency For Cultural Affairs announced upcoming revisions to copyright law. It supplements the existing system that guides permission of use for IPs whose owners are unknown and uncontactable.

Games are explicitly mentioned.
(1/3)
www.bunka.go.jp/prmagazine/r...
「未管理著作物裁定制度」が2026年度から始まります〜今は眠る著作物等の価値を再発見し、新たな創作活動へつなぐ仕組み〜 - 文化庁広報誌 ぶんかる
www.bunka.go.jp
January 20, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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January 27, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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How many legs does the elephant have? At first glance, the answer maybe be obvious - but look a little closer, and this fiendish illusion reveals itself. (HD reupload)
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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Street Fighter II and Soucalibur are only eight years apart, the length of time it now takes to almost make one game before it is cancelled.
January 27, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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FOUCAULT: I wrote "Panopticism" to show how people are enculturated to think of themselves as subjects and agents of surveillance
CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: at last we have invented the Panopticon from Foucault's famous essay "Panopticism"!
FOUCAULT: Jeremy Bentham invented the panopticon in the 1790s
January 26, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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mr. mamdani i sincerely apologize for the mileage this image is going to get
January 25, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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love ?
January 26, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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[commission] Height-Gap Yuri 📐
January 26, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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Lots of long tailed bits eating all the bugs in the garden today! This photo zoomed in on my phone makes it look like a sepia print.
January 26, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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The Minnesota civil resistance campaign has been remarkably successful:

- The GOP governor candidate dropped out
- Numerous DOJ officials resigned
- GOP members of Congress are speaking out; business feels pressure
- Noem has been relieved of operational responsibility

The campaign is winning.
January 26, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere.

Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
My conspiracy theory about genAI in games blowing up more and more by big companies is that they’ve all got a ton of investors insisting they use genAI tools otherwise they(investors) won’t be able to bankroll em anymore
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Certified woman moment is losing MVP with 5 in-game records to the man with 9 kills

I'm sorry McGinnis
January 26, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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January 26, 2026 at 3:44 AM