Sure, the normal people playing aren't noticing so much that they universally "he" that character... but I'd argue that this unobtrusiveness is the correct way to do representation.
One thing I appreciate about Saros, having played it and watched streamers play it, is that normal people don't even notice that one of the characters is a they/them whose pronouns are respected by everyone else in-game, even the heartless corporation.
It's funny, I've been playing Saros, which is a harder game than Crimson Desert and I've been dying much more in it, and not once have I yelled "what the fuck are you even doing! just fucking move! you fuckwit!" at the screen because I'm frustrated at the character's movement 🤔
In a terrible position wherein I want to play Saros because Rahul Kohli is awesome, but I don't want to play Saros because the gameplay loop is not my jam
Listening to the Portland In-N-Out buzz on today's @citycastportland.bsky.social podcast, and wondering if there's some way to drum up enough excitement for White Castle to come here instead
iOS 26.4.2 dropped today, addressing the thing where old notifications (like from signal) stayed cached on the device and were retrievable via forensics
this was predictable, but i don't feel all that good about it. among other things, if she can't fly out of the country she's just gonna wind up driving more.
This is right up there with when I forgot the name of the movie "Requiem for a Dream" and searched "movie with Jennifer Connolly ass to ass" and it gave me the correct IMDB page
The dungeons in Oblivion have to have been procedurally generated, right? Just from a time when that was pretty universally considered "cool" and not like laziness?
And it was considered cool until pretty recently, too- the procedurally generated everything in No Man's Sky was sort of the point.
That being said, don't pay too much attention to things like speed of light or distance or time or temperature when any of these things are provided in numbers as none of the math checks out consistently from one part of the movie to another
I saw Project Hail Mary last week and my first reaction was that it was sort of overhyped, and while it was a very good movie it wasn't the best sci-fi movie ever, which it seemed like people were implying
But it's been growing on me as time goes on, and now I think I agree it's up there
I had so much fun with it, it's like a modern Oblivion with parrying and Elden Ring dungeon design
But like a modern Oblivion, the jank adds character (later in the game there are multiple bits of dialog with voice actor errors/retakes, for instance)
Crimson Desert has dropped to a “mixed” Steam review rating, with most of the complaints revolving around the controls. Now, the PR and marketing director at developer Pearl Abyss has responded. https://bit.ly/4sy0huY
Okay, so I've played a bit of Crimson Desert and you can't remap the controls on PS5 and I've been playing FO76 recently so keep trying to open my map with the touch pad and instead zooming in on my character's goofy ass bargain bin Verso face, lol
If someone had told me the new Super Mario Bros movie had the theme from the Super Mario Bros Super Show as an easter egg I would have tried watching it much sooner
ChatGPT: you’re so right, Leto Atreides II. Merging with a worm would give you unconscionable power that you, alone, could wield — you, alone, could be trusted with. You wouldn’t be committing a genocide. You would be saving humanity
This is right up there with when I forgot the name of the movie "Requiem for a Dream" and searched "movie with Jennifer Connolly ass to ass" and it gave me the correct IMDB page
The lesson of Y2K was this: if you fix the problem and do a very good job, you will be treated like you didn’t do anything and that the problem wasn’t real to begin with.
New plan: Be a completely selfish sociopath and when people call me out, respond like an LLM.
"You're absolutely right, I did slap your baby and steal groceries out of your cart. I should not have done that. I have apologized to the baby and put the items back." (I keep the groceries and slap the baby again.)
for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter". he's full fash at this point. totally gonna deliver AGI by 2030 though. increasingly disgusting that he named his shitass company after Commander Keen, a joyful little video game from before he became a millionaire and was empowered to become his worst self.
I got sick of trying to open my map in Crimson Desert and accidentally changing the view to the main character's goofy ass budget bin Verso face, so I made this
Perhaps his fear center in the amygdala was activated while his reasoning center in the prefrontal cortex was impaired? Or maybe he just became mean and weird.
June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”
March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”
UPDATE (2026-03-02): This toot has gotten a lot more attention than what I would ever anticipate. Some clarifications are needed. A follow up is here: https://infosec.exchange/@dazo/116158898983233133
PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this:
Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item from themselves as a gift for you. Bam, they have your address.
In particular, attack does not depend on an existing third party seller having poor PII handling hygiene, like the articles have implied.
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JP![from March 28-30th 2026, Palmer Luckey is quoting a WIRED post about a story it ran.
WIRED: "Like Trae said, we spoke to 37 former and current Anduril workers, in addition to investors, experts, and former military officials, for this deeply reported story, which you should read: https://www.wired.com/story/andurils-real-war-is-with-itself "
Luckey: "This 'deeply reported' piece from WIRED is inexcusably bad. First, it is just wrong. Not nitpicky things, fundamentally false jabs and premises. Second, it completely ignores the stakes of supporting active troops to push r/antiwork softboy talking points. Examples below."
John Carmack responds to Lucky: "It would be delightful if you pulled an [Elon Musk], bought WIRED, and changed the editorial tone to Technological Triumphalism. Then maybe do MIT Technology Review."](https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/cache/media_attachments/files/116/355/757/115/545/554/small/3d0cf1d79dab4a6d.png "from March 28-30th 2026, Palmer Luckey is quoting a WIRED post about a story it ran.
WIRED: \"Like Trae said, we spoke to 37 former and current Anduril workers, in addition to investors, experts, and former military officials, for this deeply reported story, which you should read: https://www.wired.com/story/andurils-real-war-is-with-itself \"
Luckey: \"This 'deeply reported' piece from WIRED is inexcusably bad. First, it is just wrong. Not nitpicky things, fundamentally false jabs and premises. Second, it completely ignores the stakes of supporting active troops to push r/antiwork softboy talking points. Examples below.\"
John Carmack responds to Lucky: \"It would be delightful if you pulled an [Elon Musk], bought WIRED, and changed the editorial tone to Technological Triumphalism. Then maybe do MIT Technology Review.\"")
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