My biggest hope for Elder Scrolls 6 / Fallout 5 is that Bethesda drops the way they currently program "essential" characters (wherein you try to kill them and they crouch for a minute before getting up and fighting back, and this repeats until you take a nap) and brings back this good Morrowind shit

One of the best things about having a beard is how sometimes my cat decides I'm not paying enough attention to him so he'll slowly reach out and gently grab or bat at it

It's somehow rude and polite at the same time but definitely cute either way

Using a combination of glitches in Super Mario World, Yoshi can be taken into the final battle, where he can eat Peach upon Bowser's defeat. With Peach gone, the ending will not play, and Mario and Yoshi will simply stare at each other forever.

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

Holy shit it's real

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

yesterday while I was at the gym listening to gaming podcasts talk about their personal goty lists (as you do), I realized that I already collect data about all the games I play on my website so could easily build a ranking system to make my own list... so I did: tekniklr.com/goty/2025

tekniklr's top 10 games of 2025

#1: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 #2: DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH #3: Blue Prince

https://tekniklr.com/goty/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

You’ll be surprised to find out there are some historical inaccuracies in the Flintstones.

Dan Cerinthedark

@etbeeegood.bsky.social

how the fuck do the Flintstones know about Christmas

HATCH THE FROZEN FLESH EGG

🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵

@huwupy.kawaii.social

cool, cool cool

PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you.

Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings:

For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages.

For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody

Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it

Steve Randy Waldman

@interfluidity.com

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html

Advising all fishermen in the Carribean to put a giant THERE'S OIL ON THIS BOAT to get Hegseth and Trump care about the human life inside.

Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry

Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

jesus christ

I'm offended it's telling me I should play the fucking TERF game, even though I know that I'd like it if it wasn't associated with the wicked witch of the UK.

Got my PlayStation wrapped. I am obviously a very social gamer, with my 0 multiplayer hours 😂

But, ten platinums is pretty good!

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri

The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-font-times-new-roman-calibri_n_6938c4e6e4b0fc6751e2aa6c

Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

tai.

@theothertaira.bsky.social

mas é óbvio que ele iria se arriscar pra ir tirar um cochilo no melhor lugar

Has anyone else found it weird how little buzz there seems to be around Metroid Prime 4, being that it's a well loved (and neglected) franchise, and it dropped last week? Like, I had to actually search for it to find anyone streaming it on twitch.

I like how much of our modern discourse seems to centre around pull-ups.

It's like a kipping pullup without any of the benefits of kipping

Razzball

@razzball.bsky.social

In line for the TSA behind this guy

[on the set of Scarface]

AL PACINO: say hello to my little friend [opens jacket to reveal a tiny kitten]

DIRECTOR: son of a bitch CUT

I'd never heard of Horses, or it being banned, but this article makes me curious aftermath.site/r/3c3de4d4?m...

Horses Is Tame

Horses, the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale i...

https://aftermath.site/r/3c3de4d4?m=ac2fc3e0-e89e-463c-af60-04adbf02a8d2

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/fda-official-proposes-impossible-standards-vaccine-testing-could-curtail-access

My Spotify wrapped feels more incongruent this year

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

PBOT won’t happy until every last trace of pandemic era outdoor dining is eliminated

Fischer 🛠️🚇

@fischer.bsky.social

coffee beer (lovely little coffeee shop/taproom on se 42nd and gladstone) posted on instagram that their patio is going away because they can’t afford $3000 in fees on top of another $3-5000 in construction costs to bring the patio up to code

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year,...

https://theonion.com/crypto-leaders-call-for-infusion-of-20-million-dopes-to-1850544377/

(the only time it's acceptable to offer unsolicited form advice to strangers at the gym is when they are likely to kill or injure themselves if they keep doing whatever it is they are doing- at worst, this person is just wasting their time)

Repeating the mantra "don't offer advice to strangers at the gym" to myself as I watch someone do every exercise with half-quarter reps and momentum

Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide

He really does think the whole thing is kayfabe.

Joshua J. Friedman

@joshuajfriedman.com

A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.

Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."

Sort of wild that American Democracy is being dismantled by a guy who can be charmed into basically anything by any New Yorker will to talk to him while wearing a suit

Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

MAMDANI: I've spoken about--

TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.

Charlie Warzel

@cwarzel.bsky.social

omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world

Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com

You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 202...

https://jmail.world/

genuinely can't tell which part might be funnier, MTG slowly putting together the dots on this, now, at the end of all things, or the possibility that she thinks that nobody else has already

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Marjorie Taylor Greene on Trump: “It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.”

(It seems you can take them out and turn off optimized battery charging "until tomorrow", and then put them back in the case; but that is entirely too many steps)

And, unlike on other devices, it doesn't seem you can force "charge to 100%", as the phone only allows fiddling with those settings when the AirPods are out of the case, and thus not charging.