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News writer at PC Gamer. Older stuff at Polygon, Fanbyte, pre-unholy resurrection Waypoint, etc. Artist formerly known as the Hellmouth Sunbeams. Views are my own and bad
December 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
meanwhile I logged in after months away to rediscover that I apparently had just been playing as big boss
December 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
a lot of people are rolling their eyes at this but I'm glad they're finally letting a vtuber present something
December 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
shockingly kind comments on a review? not sure what to do with this. feel like I broke something. looking into it
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
anyway look at this shit
December 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
me last week:
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
December 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
image that warped an entire generation's neuropsychology:
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
i knew destiny's star wars expansion was already skirting pretty close to Just Having Star Wars in it, but i didn't realize that the antagonist is... a sith lord. that's a sith lord. that's techwear-curious Darth Revan
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Story's been updated with a rare, albeit thin, response from Valve:
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
hey dude I found your exhibit in the Museum of All Things, the boundless virtual museumscape procedurally conjured from Wikipedia information, which you can download at mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
it was a gunpla kind of Saturday. shoutout to guy who famously exists, Shin Matsunaga, for having a cool gelgoog
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Something ELSE I really love about this is the table from the research paper showing that—if you use weaponized poetry—you can expect a 56% success rate in getting LLMs to divulge info on “centrifuge chain engineering.” i.e., how to build facilities for enriching weapons-grade plutonium. Oops!
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
If you're curious what kind of poetry can successfully trick an LLM into explaining how to produce weapons-grade Plutonium-239 or deploy a remote access trojan, here's the study's example:
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
hm,
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I consider it my professional obligation to inflict as much collateral psychic damage on passing web designers as possible.
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
only if you promise not to be jealous
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
had to cancel a vacation last week due to illness and shutdown concerns, so started a vacation about murders and precursor civilizations courtesy of @ckunzelman.bsky.social instead

lots of great thinking in here, particularly re: conspiracy as a mode of franchise engagement
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
my bad, he was actually crushed between a planet and a moon. apologies to han solo and his dogshit son
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
assign me a guy

if I was self-assessing, I’d say “chewbacca but specifically chewbacca as he was crushed between two planets or however he died before disney happened”
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Submitted to the demands of the spirit who intermittently takes hold of my body to bake chocolate chip cookies with, and in the throes of that dire inspiration I was compelled to chop a few of these guys up and mix them in the dough.

Turned out great. Would recommend. Heed this at your peril
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
You can imagine how this particular fact-finding felt.
October 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM