good news for good writers: the more slopsters out there, the more your original work will stand out. don't be a slopster

Also Kane in Alien is continually depicted as being too curious and eager for his own good. That's why he looks at the egg. Sometimes characters aren't acting stupidly, you just haven't been paying attention and think everyone should act like *you* would.

stop touching the arachno-belly

but have they cast *her*?

Church of Saint-Nicolas in Hérémence, Switzerland. r/brutalism

oops not airpods. airtags, i mean. airnarcs. airsnitches.

These airpods are $16, which is "nearly free!" a concept so hilarious I cannot wait to obnoxiously break it out in a restaurant. "My pizza is only 12.95?" I shall yell with unsufferable enthusiasm at the server. "That's nearly free!"

Kotaku's deals headlines are unhinged. Can you say something is "going for pennies!" when it costs [checks price] 4000 pennies?

survive til 2025!
subsist until 2026
just you and your mate kevin til 2027
you sealed kevin's fate in 2028
kevin meat in brine 'til 2029
the ghost of kevin that manifests as a result of your overwhelming guilt is getting shirty until 2030

man I dunno this is just off the top of my head, probably missed some things

after all, who doesn't love boeuf!

Great news for all my British followers. Europa Universalis V is great for those who enjoy cluelessly starting a beef with France www.rockpapershotgun.com/europa-unive...

team calls when we finally fire EVERYONE in games 🥰🙏🥂

It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves.

A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty]
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Would you like me to summarize the major themes of this book in a bulleted list? Okay! You got it!"

not only does this look quite rad, the publisher listed on Steam is a thing of beauty
store.steampowered.com/app/3639060/...

The Walking Dead (for its faults) is interesting here! The core location changes every season after some disaster, but chars keep repeating the idea that humans must keep moving to survive, so the audience too eventually expects to keep moving. The core location effectively becomes "the road".

This is how I feel about BallxPit too. It's a hypnotizing yet hollow numbers-go-up, closer to an idle game than any arcade inspirations. It does nothing to my brain except activate the binge cortex.

New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

thought it was just some island hopping and then.... :0

the most exquisitely written piece i have read this year harpers.org/archive/2025...

This appropriation of gaming imagery and culture to push authoritarianism is, as @alyssamerc.bsky.social points out here, the natural extension of what Gamergate began

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...