Reposted by The Hounds. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 6hRepeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40! 622991427
Reposted by The Houndhillchaoui.bsky.social @hillchaoui.bsky.social · 9hi feel it might be necessary to remind people that despite the word "savage" being thrown around in the story that you should really be cautious in how you use it in roleplay. real indigenous people exist and every time it's used against one of my characters i get genuine whiplash 5208110
Reposted by The HoundJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 20hTurns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners 4060971122
Reposted by The Houndcavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 8hInterviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Game Designer: by leaving some elements undefined, we can create a fruitful void for creativity and exploration to flourish in. 013832
Reposted by The HoundRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5hrewatching True Detective has reminded me that at least one cop in Louisiana state history has a great idea, because those badges shaped like the actual state look incredible. 63984
Reposted by The HoundQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 5hthe weirdest thing about primetime, now looking up discussion after, are people going, "wow, pattinson really portrays hansen as caring about predators and is really traumatized by the final scene" which strikes me as a fundamental misunderstanding of the film. hansen's focus is reputation, acclaim 3442
Reposted by The HoundJason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 7hThe last half of this quote wasn't circulating nearly as much yesterday, but it's actually the clincher. God bless this brilliant, gifted, absolutely deranged man. 11505457
Reposted by The HoundFade In @fadeinpro.com · 5h"AI" does not *improve* human capabilities. It supplants them, crowding them out and replacing them (with something not nearly as good), and leaves people worse off. Of course you knew this already, but it's nice to have a sizeable study that clearly confirms it. 1348
Reposted by The Houndeerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 10hI mean, no, the reason cops are disproportionately likely to say they believe rates of false allegations are higher than they are is because cops are disproportionately likely to do things that would make them the subject of allegations that are true 141133237
Reposted by The HoundGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm not a King purist, nor a CARRIE purist, but if your changes to a story make it less complicated and less interesting, I think what you're doing should be understood less as adaptation and more as babyproofing 1462544
Reposted by The HoundGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I reviewed Mike Flanagan's CARRIE, a limp and lifeless adaptation which sands away everything ugly and difficult about the original novel and replaces it with... not much, actually. www.patreon.com/scumbelievab... 6776271
Reposted by The HoundChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Graham Platner and Ben Quadinaros getting into a really heated argument on reddit. 42455
Reposted by The HoundChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I like that one of the racers is basically a guy with a swastika tattoo. 1677247
Reposted by The Houndaustin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'll be on Remap Radio this week to discuss my time with Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, which I rolled credits on a couple of nights ago. In short: It's much more game than I expected, and I really enjoyed it. Norgan, the new area, is a joy to explore and the whole experience is 'moreish.' 1346315
Reposted by The HoundFoucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don't think there really needs to be a concerted effort to right-wingify Star Trek in some deliberate propagandist sense, because frankly the majority of people who get to call the shots in modern-day big media productions trend center-rightward at the best of times and do this stuff by default 1684
Reposted by The HoundFoucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Strange New Worlds opened its run with "what if the Gorn, originally a parable for how demonizing The Other is wrong, were actually just xenomorphs that wanted to rape-murder and eat you?" and they made a movie about a Section 31 black ops team, so it's not so much "taking" the bent as already there 510019
Reposted by The HoundStephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026BREAKING: Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor has brought some of its furloughed workers this week. Most of the studio was furloughed a few weeks before launch Over half of the studio is now back, a source told me. The rest remain furloughed www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...gamefile.newsSome furloughed Star Wars Zero Company developers are returning to work, studio saysBit Reactor breaks its silence with good news (for some) 430886
Reposted by The Hounddoctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026there's an idea--a very stupid idea--from around the ps2 era where people who were fundamentally very conservative basically couldn't imagine horror games being better than they were, so they insisted you needed "bad controls" to make the game scary fun fact: bad controls don't make a game scary 3144
Reposted by The Hounddoctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026there's just a loooottt of little things that feel like someone went "well, it's a horror game, not an action game, so combat should be hard, right?" and did not actually think through all of the ways you're supposed to make a game play 172
Reposted by The HoundDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026my favorite thing about Warhammer lore is that vampirism is basically a woman taking a man's slipshod, halfassed idea of undead immortality and then going, "okay but I made a version where you still feel pleasure, and fuck?" and he got so mad that he cursed them with OCD 35411
Reposted by The Hounddoctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I do not understand why everything is SOOO spongey in Sinking City 2, it makes no sense. It robs the game of any tension, it's not scary at all, everything is just a sponge, you kind of roll your eyes and go "ugh, fine, here I go again" and you empty multiple clips to kill a monster. It's bad combat 4101
Reposted by The HoundChris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 08/10/2026This becomes less shocking when you really reckon with the reality that this is an intentional, repeated, and committed editorial direction by evil people looking to do profound harm to people up to and including them dying and not just some wide eyed naïveté taking RFK Jr too credulously. 17714
Reposted by The Houndmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters. 1203071539
Reposted by The HoundKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 07/10/2026Wynn's Law remains undefeated. 1551636199
Reposted by The HoundDavid J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026One of my favourite recurring examples of "generically medieval" fantasy's tendency to jump directly from Antiquity to the Early Modern era and skip the actual medieval period entirely is the ubiquity of a VERY SPECIFICALLY 16th C image of the court jester. Jingling fucks as far as the eye can see. 211512
Reposted by The HoundSean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Bible Thumpers have been making their homophobia (or homosexual self-loathing) everybody's problem for my entire life. 0143
Reposted by The HoundPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is why imperial collapses can often seem extraordinarily sudden: They come as the culmination of decades of undermining the institutions, relationships, and structures that keep states functioning. A jenga tower can stand with missing blocks until it's given a tiny push. 934852
Reposted by The HoundPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Trump and his allies have spent most of the past decade doing the administrative equivalent of ripping bundles of wiring out of the walls. When everything's trundling along, you don't necessarily notice the missing wiring. When something goes very wrong, suddenly the damage becomes apparent. 539389
Reposted by The HoundBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026it's not great, incidentally, that *both* China and America have lost a bunch of their key financial and regulatory talent in the last two years, albeit that the American damage is more wide-ranging and stupider. 524441
Reposted by The HoundThe Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Universities having all of the problems of a small town where the mayor and sheriff are cousins. 26115
Reposted by The HoundThe Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The great thing about history is that something stops being impossible once it happens. 0264
Reposted by The HoundThe Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Also Washington trapped with his army on Long Island. 1335
Reposted by The HoundFoucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Gears has been doing this basically since...was 3 the first game that had female characters in your squad?...where the men are all enormous beefy dudes in slabs of armor and then female characters are just normal people, it's very World of Warcraft that way 0182
Reposted by The HoundFoucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's like that meme about "this is as butch as the average person can stand a woman being before they start freaking out," she's an extremely normal looking woman with short hair, but she's also a lesbian and black so she's basically the antichrist for people whose brains are cooked down to nubs 2181
Reposted by The HoundThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 187111281864
Reposted by The HoundErika Chappell 🏳️⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026regret to report the 11th edition space marine codex fucking rules and is exactly the kinda insane shit that got me addicted to this stupid universe as a kid 3797
Reposted by The HoundExtra Haunted Doll, Dana Lexa @authorx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oops, sorry, I read all your social media and forum posts and introjected a perfect copy of you into my headspace that I'm now torturing forever. I mean they're not technically you, but they *think* they're you so it's basically the same? So I think probably you should be nice to me just in case. 2164
Reposted by The Houndheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/10/2026sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan. 5156061331
Reposted by The HoundClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026back in the pre-marriage equality era I once heard a close friend from church earnestly say to someone “I just can’t understand why gay people want to DESTROY my marriage by redefining the meaning of it” I’ll remember the way she said the word “destroy” until the day I die, because she meant it 21231212
Reposted by The HoundMikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Has anyone heard anything about this guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...youtube.comBobby Kotick vs. The Games MediaYouTube video by People Make Games 9883286
Reposted by The HoundDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i love that basically every single friend I have who has read KSBD uses this exact comic panel for the exact same Star Wars point because it's fucking true 38118
Reposted by The HoundDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 7939081133
Reposted by The Houndmolly carroll @mollygos.com · 06/10/2026got so mad watching NorthernLion play Dressmaker that i bought Dressmaker. this is real Influence 41048
Reposted by The Houndgita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The hardest truth to internalize is that there is no magic bullet for escaping the patriarchy. It is everywhere. There is no way of dressing, of behaving, of fucking that will make you exempt. Deal with that reality, but away from me. 01203
