@rincake.bsky.social ayyyyyyy

No. Your childhood nostalgia does not matter more than the lives of real people.

And frankly I'm fucking tired of having to pretend that isnt a fucking insane thing to say in response to "please don't support the hate monger lady's soggy, reheated nachos"

don't mean to blow anyone's mind with this shocking insight but the direct line between epstein, 4chan, gamergate, tech bro fascists etc is misogyny. prolific rapists, guys who believe women have inferior intelligence, and guys who hate women for rejecting them all have something big in common!

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

*does illegal thing*
You can't do that, that's illegal!
*Does it again*
You can't do that, that's illegal!
*Does it again*
You can't do that, that's illegal!
*Does it again*
You can't do that, that's illegal!
*Does it again*
You can't do that, that's illegal!
*Does it again*

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Been forever since I posted anything, but I wanted to share some pics from a recent end of arc battle in one my current games. Needed a sea serpent monster to accompany some sirens, went with the gyarados design from Kaijumon. First time painting so many scales, lots of lessons learned.

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Games Journalists have watched the trainwreck in slow motion for a literal decade.

Culture matters. It is a microcosm of the larger ecosystems.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

never stop doing new stuff. never stop getting better, never stop pushing yourself. it is never, ever too late

My only issue with the teacher supply list is that they should never have to do that. Cops in small towns can get tanks, teachers shouldn't have to beg for pencils.

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Been thinking about this one a lot lately

Role-playing games are scavenger media, in which available materials -- whatever's at hand: stuff you've read, stuff you've experienced, stuff you're anxious about, stuff you wish would happen -- are then transformed into an emergent narrative via active engagement by one or more players.

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

There should be an official state Pokemon for all 50 states

The white men fantasizing about the return of American manufacturing don’t actually think they or their kids will be working in the factories. This is their American individual idealism at work: they believe there will always be someone else working hard for their benefit

Screenshot from Castlevania Season 3. Alucard sits alone with a cup of white wine and a meal of fish and garlic. The quote reads: "Oh, my God. I am losing my mind."

The 2025 experience

Folks legitimately have mo idea how much space they would need to grow wheat to support their family if it came to that. Or how much food we actually eat, period

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Person who's only lived through three era-defining crises before: "getting some era-defining crisis vibes from this"

GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse

ME IN 2025: ah, okay

Huge!! Congrats!