This week I'm joined by @austinwalker.bsky.social to discuss his (and my) obsession with Marathon, his upcoming TTRPG (an actual book!), Pragmata, the new Jay & Silent Bob game (?), Call of Duty leaving Game Pass, and more. Get it ad-free at jeff.zone or find the video version here.
Has anyone asked if Stanley Tucci has watched or read Dungeon Meshi? Would he be interested in a voice roll.
Under the warrior ethos every US soldier now has the flu and barely any food.
blaming zohran mamdani for the mets being bad is really funny after an offseason where they lost multiple good players and replaced them with guys who are considerably less good
very hard to top this comedy titan but ik tim heidecker is the man to do it
During Trumps first admin I interviewed Carlson and talked to him about how his rhetoric specifically hurt my life and he treated it like a big joke. Remorse that only comes when it’s convenient isn’t remorse at all.
surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters
"City prosecutor Marcus McDowell said it wasn’t a free speech case but argued 'no one has a Constitutional right to dress up as an erect penis and stand on the side of the road.'"
(For the record, the costume had, erm, somewhat deflated by the time of the arrest.)
Y'all couldn't write "Connie Ballmer"???????
User dratsab huffman asks the question: To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism". Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?
Recalcitrant Jester replies: Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.
"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."
All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
Booker is complaining about people who didn’t support Harris enough just because they disagree on 10% of the issues (the issues includes genocide and the mass murder of children). Ironically, Booker’s long support for Israel’s apartheid government is in disagreement with about 90% of Dem voters
Hashtag Hokies sending me on this one.
new vlog: super loud brutalist noise art show inside an old cement silo in Tāmaki / Auckland
I think WWE is at a crossroads for, like, several reasons but with this money stuff they either hear the crowds and pull back on prices and ads or they charge ahead and probably lose a lot of fans in the process.
Either way I think the ownership change is going to eventually destroy the company.
at least once a month i read about how they're banning trans women from some shit i've never seen a trans person care about
Among the many should-immediately-end-this-presidency daily scandals is the fact that the current administration is dismantling research on the most incredible new scientific advance in the last several decades. Literally killing people.
today I was pooped on by a bird, then angrily cursed the sky and pointed to the chicken i was grilling. "you're next motherfucker"
Child: I know your name. Mamdani.
Obama: What’s his first name?
Child: Mayor.
it's sooo endearing. every game ive played that people have called a dad game is always, like, "having a child is a burden unlike no other and these challenges teaches me they are human just like me"
pragmata is nonstop "oh a kid is an endless font of surprises, new experiences, and joy"
A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s
Looks we love
I was mocked because I thought it was Coolio and the Gang
“frustrated with modern dating” you mean frustrated with treating women as human beings with agency
I can think of a lot of more accurate and less flattering terms for dudes who travel to other countries to trap foreign women in subservient relationships than “passport bros”
Lol and people were falling over themselves to say the manosphere was leaving Trump. Cmon now they know where their bread is buttered.
Tell the truth and get fired.
gets really, really underdiscussed but public transit literally saves people heaps of money in the places where it renders cars useless. Imagine not owning a car. Not paying for insurance. No gas refills. No maintenance. it's all just your money.
