i wish i could be living in whatever era it was where you just had to learn how to make, like, fucking beads and that could be your whole thing for the rest of your life

Everyone understands why it'd be a supremely stupid idea to force puzzle games to adapt to widescreen monitors, yet few ever stop & think that maybe this applies to other 2D genres where players interact with the edges in some meaningful way

Really not in any fighting game mood at all these days..

The government is back with another political party privacy law. After the Bill C-4 debacle, Bill C-25 is supposed to provide real protection. But reality is that with major omissions and weak enforcement, parties will still not be subject to a serious privacy law
www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/stil...

on this note, anti-ai glaze/noise pattern and those giant AI学習禁止 watermarks i see artists putting on their art lately annoys me… why worsen the experience of viewing your art for your human audience, esp when it does literally nothing to stop scrapers from training ai on your art in the first place

YouTube: The Online Predator's Best Friend YouTube video by Stephanie Sterling

New video! We're looking at how YouTube linquistically disarms us all in the false name of safety. Social media policies are explicitly designed to protect the worst actors while punishing only those who speak up against them.

YouTube is the online predator's best friend.

youtu.be/40uR9nV4C9A

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” Snowy aka Milou is very excited about the drink he has found. Viñeta de Tintin El capitán Haddock, sentado a una mesa y con aspecto de estar agotado, dice: "¡Menuda semana, ¿eh?". Tintín, a su derecha, le dice: "Capitán, es miércoles". A la izquierda, Milú mira muy contento la bebida que está en la mesa.

Another one. Cuts (swords, knives, etc) feel MUCH more like cuts if the hitstop occurs after the weapon has passed through the opponent, with some kind of slash VFX / smear on top. Hitstop while the weapon is overlapping with the opponent can feel more like a blunt strike.
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Games Done Quick's long, difficult journey to a better gaming future

aftermath.site/games-done-qui...

Games Done Quick would be a lot better if it was hosted in Canada instead of the US. I no longer feel safe traveling to the US.

Three submissions to a math journal I edit received this morning.

Two where an LLM was obviously used, and one where it might have been used.

First two complete junk. Last one not important enough to merit a journal paper.

We get 2-5 submissions like this every week now. A large waste of time.

EGM #37, Aug '92 - Sneak Preview of 'Sonic 2'.

EGM #37, Aug '92 - Sneak Preview of 'Sonic 2'.

I can't believe I never made the connection about the Darkstalker merman Rikuo's name being a play on the Gillman suit performer Ricou Browning.

It's really funny to mew that larping is one of the newest internet insults since larping actually implies going outside unlike nyo know most of social media

Super Street Fighter II Turbo - promotional artwork.

Season 4 / Episode 19

"All right, here are your exams.
50 questions, true or false."

"True."

"Homer, I was just describing the test."

"True."

"Look, Homer, just take the test and you'll do fine."

"False."

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with

What’s at stake in the fight against age verification is not just a single bill in a single state. It’s about whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control online that reinforces specific moral and religious worldviews. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Season 7 / Episode 6

"Oh, lousy Smarch weather."

Unfortunately, the article significantly downplays the primary motivation for far-right women: religious delusion.

It's unhelpful to paper this fact over, or to pretend that MAGA women are just contrarians. No, they are in religious cults that demand their subjugation and that of all other women.

BREAKING: WE DID IT!!! LUDOVIC IS COMING HOME!!!

The judge, clearly moved by 20 people turning up in person alongside 20 online, ruled entirely in Lud’s favor with low bond.

Update to come when he is home. The team is optimistic about his hearing in May.

#FREELUD

An edited crop from the manga You're on Fire, Pen-Chan! (Atsui ze, Pen-chan!) chapter 6. Store Owner Kijima looking sternly and saying, "Daylight Savings Time causes great damage to the human spirit without a single benefit."

one workweek later

Official Trailer for "Dorohedoro" Season 2.
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQSz...

Yes! It’s called sortition and it has been used by actual polities!

Seems like I’ll be going go UMAD this year, after seeing +R announced as a main game like in 2023. Might also go with some family and do other things in Montreal too, depending on what works out planning wise.~

I wish videos at least came with transcripts attached so I could just read those instead. Video is an unforgivably slow way to communicate and it makes me feel insane that so many people prefer it.

In order to circumvent censorship, it's best to get an idea of what you're running into. Here's how to figure that out. ssd.eff.org/module/unde...