You need to work pretty hard to make FIFA embarrassed about anything.

Whichever one has life-deranging haemorrhoids.

I’m gonna get a stupidly-hot wife despite being a fat layabout piece of shit with a clear neurological condition.

I guess that’s not really physics related, so I’ll also add “gracefully float towards delicious food on a wafting scent trail”. I could toss a burger down a canyon and use the scent trail to lower myself down safely. Like a Portal gun, but for fat layabout pieces of shit with clear neurological conditions 👍

The Hottest of Takes:

If we’re talking artistic credibility (as opposed to job security, plagiarism, and environmental impact), I want anti-AI people to uninstall their desktop graphics applications like Photoshop and GIMP. If you depend on buttons, value inputs and algorithms to get the art you want out of the machine, as opposed to using an easel and scanning your work into the PC without minimal touch-ups after the fact, then you’re no better than the person typing book-length prompts to get what they want. If you animate with key frames instead of hand-drawing every frame, you’re likewise just as credible (or not) as the prompt jockey. Hell, if you at any point use CTRL+Z, CTRL+C, CTRL+X or CTRL+V, you’re as artistically incredible as Paulie Promptnuts.

Just to be clear, I don’t think any of those things. But if you’re dismissing art on the basis that AI was used at some stage in its development, you should be thinking those things.

With the insane temperature of US politics these days, I almost don’t want her to run…

Evil. Gimme a better term and I’ll use it. But for now: evil.

I wanna see the log files from her phone’s face unlock feature during the period when she Mar-a-Lagoed herself with a brick in a sock.

Gavin: So, Supersemite Palestine Crusher, welcome. Can I call you Ben for short? OK, so Ben; what’s the deal with all these transes that they have now?? Have you seen them? There’s gotta be literally tens of them out there at this point. It’s out of control.

Ben: Renée Good tried to fly her car into the Israeli Embassy and it was only the quick reactions of that ICE officer that prevented 9/11 2.0.

Saved you 90 minutes 😴

I was gonna give it a chance back when they were letting people reserve their usernames. When the site first went live (in beta, I guess?) they wanted me to pay them money to gain access. Enshittification is baked into the platform.

Why now? Why not 20 years ago?

• I don’t give the slightest fuck who provided the middleware for the cloth physics, stop impeding me from playing the game to show me this shit every fucking time I launch it.
• Continue and New Game are often the wrong way around in the main menu. Why would you have New Game at the top/default selection position? How often would someone be clicking that as opposed to Continue?
• Unskippable dialogue and cut-scenes. I’ve read devs describe cut-scenes as a reward for the player achieving a certain milestone. I see them as punishment. Especially so if I want to replay the game. It’s a game, not a movie. Leave me the fuck alone already.
• It should be forbidden to sell a game on Steam that requires an account and launcher from Ubisoft or whoever. If you sell it on Steam, you use Steam, and if you wanna use your own shit then you don’t get to use the Steam storefront and must forgo all the advertising and exposure you enjoy there.
• Walk-and-talks, especially when my normal walk speed is like a sprint compared to that of the NPC in question.
• Narratively, my character is a saviour to a group of people who provide me with weapons and ammo to help me save them, but the cunts charge me for it?? “Hey thanks for single-handedly saving us and fighting the tyrannical evil empire, while you’re out there risking life and limb for us please use our cool weapons and bullets! That’ll be 500 credits, cheers!” Motherfucker? What are you even spending it on? WHERE are you even spending it?
• Fake endings. I was playing RDR2, and thought I was coming to the end of the game, all signs pointed to an imminent ending. So I was mentally in a place where I was ready to pack up and uninstall it, just had to finish the last few quests, already wondering what I’d play next. Then there’s an entire 500-hour chapter that comes after. So I keep going, and am constantly thinking “surely it’s just another quest or two…” but it just never fucking ends. Had I known or expected all this extra shit, it would be different. But I was already halfway out they door before you called me back in for another week’s worth of the same malarkey.
• Time-wasting as a core mechanic. I love No Man’s Sky, but so many of the quests in that game involve literally waiting 24 real-world hours for the next phase of the quest. Which, when completed, leads to another 24-hour wait. Who exactly does this serve?

You would never find a nicer, kinder person…

Hey have you heard of this woman called Renee Good?

I so dearly wish I had these kinds of skills!

Rich humans*

What it means for you

What does it mean for Red Candle Games?

The “do your own research” people need to have it explained to them that even experts in their respective fields aren’t automatically capable of parsing scientific literature. A family doctor with 50 years experience who prescribes antidepressants every day will have no deep understanding of what any particular scientific peer reviewed study on SSRIs is telling them. They need a grounding in statistics more than anything else, which most people just don’t have. So the idea that a non-educated, non-scientist can read peer reviewed studies and come away from them with some sort of understanding of the issue is the thing that needs to be highlighted, preferably in high school science class (earlier, frankly). A willingness to slog through scientific papers in pursuit of deeper knowledge is admirable, but is dangerously misguided without proper training. I don’t even mean training in the specific science, but just in how to speak the language of peer reviewed studies more generally. It’s very much its own discipline.

I want someone to ask Joe Rogan what ‘regression to the mean’ means. I want someone to ask him what a ‘standard deviation’ is and how to apply the concept. I don’t want to know what papers he’s read, because you could read 50 true scientific papers a day on one topic and still have no idea what the current scientific consensus is on said topic, absent the requisite training. You’ll almost certainly come away from it with a very wrong but very confident belief. Dunning-Kruger on steroids.

I love this shit, it really shows how ludicrous those “deep state” conspiracy theories are. They can’t even blot out a document that incriminates their own leader.

It also goes some way towards showing how unlikely it is that Epstein was murdered and with no evidence/perpetrators of his murder showing up in the last 6 years.

Juxtaposing cattle trains with the Holocaust was all I needed to dismiss this organisation as chronically unserious. They’re the equivalent of those antiabortion activists who think showing disturbing gory photos of medical procedures is a moral argument against said procedures.

The thing that made me question my meat-eating was not images of slaughterhouses, battery farms or being harangued by tone deaf social media posts that scold me as immoral. It was watching animals playing and showing affection for each other and for other species. Gifs of cows playing with a ball, a lamb begging for pets from a human, chickens recognising their human friend and running up to them for a hug, a cat and a crow being pals; that’s the kinda shit that changes hearts and minds. PETA’s tone and behaviour makes animal rights activism look like an emotional outlet for narcissists who don’t actually have any expectation that they’ll achieve anything, but just enjoy the recreational self-righteous hectoring.

Is there like a petition or something we can all sign to show that literally no cunt wants this?

Heady times for the patient necrophile.