visual novels are an innovative medium because they combine the joy of reading a book with the agonising tedium of clicking a button every 1.5 seconds

I just wish there was a videogame where I could go in guns blazing, OR take the stealthy approach...

Still remarkable to me that half the world is doing 'unrestricted social media usage is bad for kids' and 'we need to put chatbots that tell you to kill your family in every classroom and every toy' at the same time

The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

For those counting this would be relaunch number 16.

do you ever sometimes think "there is Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast on the Sony PSP" and remember for the faintest moment that somewhere out there we are being nurtured and protected

There's no way we could switch to the planned economy you'd need to radically overhaul the country and radically rebuild the state capacity we spent decades destroying. Imagine trying to run a wartime economy when your primary goal is making sure venture capitalists can still profit from water.

it is inarguable at this point that there will be not one day of peace not one second of returning to any workable international status quo until israel is disarmed entirely

Average U.K. protest and counter protest.

(Picture of vampire) John Rentoul tweet: "This is what I mean. This is a conspiracy theory." over a screenshot of the guardian with words from Hannah Spencer, Green MP: "It's baffling to me that keir starmer and his cabinet can be so unimaginative and lacking in boldness at this point in time. All they need to do is look at how angry people are, look at how much their constituents are suffering, look at the mood of the country. Maybe they don't understand it. Maybe they just don't care. "

There's something particularly sickening about the way people in media & politics are so eager to take a term that describes a serious problem, like conspiracy theories or antisemitism, and then heedlessly warp the meaning in order to deploy it against their political opponents.

US financial markets now in unique and dynamic position, which economists call "Coyote Time"

"Tankies" are people who still support the Labour Party despite them tanking in the polls. 😏

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

I'm still of the opinion that we shouldn't be getting this company to run our healthcare system. Sorry if that offends.

All of the programs people assume are there waiting for desperate people are just like “Well we can’t give you any money, but we would like to make your life a lot worse for no reason.”

A Canticle For Leibovitz but the monks preserve complete romsets for everything up to the PS3.

Temporarily subsidising employers to underpay staff has literally never worked. Not once. Ever. Anywhere.

Another stunning victory for Blue Labour.

the arc of gambling legalisation being less than a decade from initial test balloons to white house staffers betting on active wars they are starting is one of the great pr victories for authoritarian communism

british person here: this unfortunately isnt true

When we get 9/11’d again I don’t wanna hear shit but ‘Yeah I kinda get it’

Attacks leave dead vs killed

the strategy the british state are using with trans care is the exact same as with disability benefits; overwhelm undesirables in bureaucracy then definitively remove any positive outcomes, leading to excess death statistics visible from space

to me it rocks that this company that has never come within light-years of making money and has a bad product with zero practical use cases is the pivot point of the global economy because a bunch of embarrassing Burning Man dorks just decided it should be

I'm the dude in charge of ordering stock for manga shops.

I'm the guy who's like "Gimme three copies of Vol.2, a single copy of Vol.8, and nineteen copies of Vol.10".

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

"Do not forget it, i can remove you from this transaction" goes so hard

Hard same, I know it's a marketing gimmick (I hope like most marketing gimmicks all this booktok shit evaporates in the cleansing light of day) but the "tropes checklist" is one of the worst things to happen to the public's relationship to books, every time I see it I feel the call of violence

i know it's not the most important thing going on right now but it's insane car alarms are legal

Labour act like strategy is hard but right now you could become PM just with the slogan "I legitimately have never met nor spoken to Peter Mandleson"