Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in a CORRIDOR! A room door is open, and we see two crewmen spilling out into the hallway in red and blue uniforms. They are otherwise indecipherable tho because they are entirely enveloped in a big cloud of smoke. It's pouring out all around them and into the hallway area, like there's a Phish concert in there. Closed caption reads, "[COUGHING]"

The Pitt

The Pitt is 'competence porn' in more ways than one
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god, Riker really is the perfect man

@mayor.nyc.gov: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

Yakuza's shopfronts are one of life's little pleasures:

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They don't make anime like they used to:

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Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

🌕 💛

Chiitan Phone Call Answering Service just launched📞

電話対応代行サービス始めましたっ☆

A drawing of a Muppet-y Cloud Strife riding on a Big-Bird-like chocobo.

From this day in 2021: My nephews were curious about Final Fantasy after seeing a Moogle I drew and I described Chocobos as looking "kind of like Big Bird" so then I had to draw it.

gowron billboard above a he is risen sign

important

Tapping the sign

two broken mannequins facing each other in a garbage bin, in what could be read as a romantic pose; the text reads "when you're both trash but the chemistry is insane"

oh look, it's my blorbos

Episode 138: The Lampoon (Tim Durham) // Indianapolis' most prominent businessman scrambles to preserve the elaborate financial fraud that funds his lavish lifestyle.

LISTEN: swindledpodcast.com/podcast/138-th

a tumblr post with a user named bvckbiter writing "is this character good or bad" "is this shop unproblematic or not" "is this arc deserving of redemption or not" girl... underneath it is a screenshot from the show shōgun of a character saying "i don't have time for this christian nonsense"

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

Bonus video:

Sora, the protagonist from Kingdom Hearts, poses with a peace sign over the grave of a bad computer program. It's also called "Sora," I think, but it's so unimportant it's barely worth mentioning.

are there any more things like this

The vast majority of research about diversity from the last 30 years shows, unambiguously, that diverse organizations outperform non-diverse ones. DEI policies are not some weird leftwing social engineering project; they are what happens when you follow the data on organizational performance.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

writing is:

20% saying dialogue aloud to yourself in the shower, 35% going on a little walk, 40% languishing, 5% actually writing

An RPG community in Iraq takes their first steps outside D&D Rascal talks to 3 Iraqi players about the good stuff.

“People sometimes feel embarrassed of acting in Arabic, so they try to act in English. I'm trying to encourage them to roleplay in Arabic, but sometimes [even] I feel a little bit shy."

Members of an Iraqi tabletop club discuss growing, teaching, and the oddities of RPG cultural barriers.

I cackled

The game industry’s obsession with graphics is so funny because every other year there will be some breakout hit called “Stick Figure Mansion” or some shit that outsells 90% of the market and runs on a toaster

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

A landline, wall mounted telephone. It is in the shape of Ireland and is entirely green, with the exception of a dozen cities labeled in white.

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Irish Reunification Landline

IKTRRRRRR

At a fundamental level, Copilot's designers misunderstand why we play games.

Games aren't meant to be endlessly optimized. They're an ongoing conversation between player and game. A third-party telling you the "right" way to do things undermines the entire point of play.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. A PADD is shown up close held by a pair of hands. (Kind of looks like an old palm pilot and if you're not old this will mean nothing to you) The beautiful LCARS user interface is displaying the text, "GO AWAY."

Parasite Eve remake but with more New York. And more mutant zoo animals