It's because you skipped First Blood Part 2.

It's worth pointing out that Google tried it hardest to kill search even before adopting AI. See famous article on enshitification.

Potentially of interest!

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Waffle House Teleportation System sounds like an intended emergent but now load bearing DF mechanic.

I have nothing to say that matches the gravity of the situation. I just want peace and safety for everyone targeted by the insane whims of a madman.

Has she returned?

How could you?

It's subjective, of course, but if I had to pick a place to divide the history of games into early and modern, for me that line is Doom.

Wolfenstein 3D certainly helped define the Boomer Shooter, but Doom was the first to allowed more flexibilie vision in a textured 3D space, plus network multiplayer, plus mods.

This

Doom, if you're accepting video games.

I heard there was
a secret cord
that David kept
in his cable hoard
but he can never find it
when he needs it

and casting Sean Connery as a Russian sea captain and Tim Curry as a KGB spy somehow works.

If someone tries to sell you a robot that mines for gold, ask them why they aren't selling you gold.

If Claude/Copilot/etc. were as good as human software engineers, they wouldn't sell you the agent. They would sell you the software it makes.

Same as the others, but you start with Pikachu.

Wait, is it possible to actually like politicians?

Debugging does a good job of casting programming as *science.* Forming a hypothesis, testing, revising, etc.

COKE: is pepsi okay

DR PEPPER: *removes surgical mask* we did everything we could

Fire and Blood, the Martin Silmarillion, is written as a history compiled after the fact by a Maester who frequently comments on his sources, their reliability and bias, etc. It's the source material for House of the Dragon. You might enjoy.

They smell... uhh... warm.

*sniffs* Are those colitas?

Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.

It's been a few years since my last FDG, but I enjoyed the ones I went to a lot!

Website doesn't say they've picked keynote speakers yet. Last time I was a conference organizer, I would have been excited if someone like you had volunteered as a keynote. Just sayin.

@galaxykate.bsky.social Denmark conference?

I recently discovered just how amazingly cheap it is to commission art. Makes me feel like some kind of Renaissance nobleman.

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)

"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.

Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.

Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/

(new piece)
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ok, this was was percolating in my head all evening so I had to diagram it

The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified.

Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.