If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it

Very on brand strategy for the Zionists and their allies.

A paywalled article about how to avoid persecution by the US police state is pretty on the nose.

I was vaguely aware of some of the early games criticism (critical games theory basically) at the time because I was following a lot of the discourse around ‘are games art?’ debate. It was a super niche corner of the internet mostly of leftish libs trying to do some critical analysis of games and gamer culture. The whole GG thing amplified this tiny niche ala Streisand Effect but with a lot more misogyny. That’s the basic contours from my memory at least.

If the GG escalation had not happened, we might not have developed “we add another gender every time you complain” for another few decades.

Day and night are always happening concurrently. This is one of those truths that the deep state doesn’t want you to know.

‘Are we supposed to take out Spiderman and Spongebob?’ Iranian cleric mocks US and says Tehran can’t strike back at targets of Soleimani’s stature because America only has fictional heroes

There was the cybertruck technical some wealthy Russian was posting about. Last I heard Tesla remotely disabled it.

The only way this makes sense to me is that Musk has to play nice with the last two, while the rest are happy to play ball with him as long as stocks keep inflating, regardless of how much of a rage baby he acts. If they are not playing ball, he can just throw a fit on X until he gets his way. No chance of that working so well with the last two. So he has to show fealty. Musk has much more leverage to get what he wants from the west. Outside of the west he actually has to make deals.

This. I have a nice 4k 120hz ‘smart TV’ that is not connected to anything. I use it only as a display for PC with external speakers. I’m pretty sure you can even do firmware updates without connecting anything but USB drive. Even if you have to connect to get updates, you can just disconnect it afterwards.

Mass Hannibal Event should be a black metal band name or something.

listening to Army of Me while enjoying this meme for the full effect

Read the title first as Vulcans are like Orions, and it made sense because Shrek is green.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy_of_Israel

there are significant resources deployed to shape Israel’s image favorably, especially amongst the US public

Ukrainian militias have been shelling Donbas for about 8 years before 2022.

when it’s just the two of you in the empty cube, and you end up sharing the same alcove

a bit more Mariner than Tendi, but it’s close and varies according to material conditions

I think the correct answer is sharks.

Damn this inflation!

This would be such a good horror comedy. Watching slave-owners getting eviscerated by gorn:

freeware mods continue to be the cradle of game development innovation