Jurph: a bright shadow behind a green bush

Every “buy it once forever” game is cheap, even at a $100 price point. The entire idea of a game you lose once you stop paying is just hostage taking.

"Why are younger players gravitating toward retro titles - and how should studios respond to this trend?"

Heroes III is the top-selling retro game on GOG... and almost half of buyers are under the age of 25.

GOG's theory: for younger generations that grew up with Minecraft and Roblox, graphical/technical fidelity *does not matter*, which is a huge market shift #GDC2026

It's a low bar, but he's roller skating under it like it's the first round of Friday Night limbo at the rink

Eh, threat model says the adversary already knows the difference, and I'm drawing her in. I'll keep putting out chicken feed and report her to the case officer when it becomes "tell me how the DF-41 seekers work".

I need a high tenor or an alto so the two of us can do "Anyway You Want It", or else I'm going to butcher the high part and someone else is going to stumble around the harmony and ruin our reputation. But yes, provisionally, I'm in.

Still a banger after all these years

FERNANDO ABBA

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"Tilly Norwood" is a clickbait concept designed to move the Overton Window and drive rage-clicks, and you're helping because they paid you.

It will never be in a film that makes back its bankroll but they're going to make that fucking film if it kills them, because that lets them bust unions.

Surely "un croque-rien" ?

While "oil tonnage through Hormuz" stays at-or-near zero, the US MOEs will continue to suck, and CENTCOM's commander will be forced to come up to the lectern and read off a mind-numbing list of MOPs, and pretend he's winning. And he knows enough doctrine to KNOW he's losing.

Just my dumb GenX ass screaming "BATS AREN'T BUGS" as the President bullshits another answer in front of the White House Press Corps

I work alongside people who are elbows deep in the technology and we *still* have to say to one another, all the time, "remember, these models are the worst we'll ever use". (We know providers could deliberately worsen them, or deprecate good models, but then we wouldn't use them.)

When you separate the LLM from the source of truth (like large unruly datasets) they allow good analysts to move 5x-10x faster, probably comparable to what "having an existing database and good data entry practices" did vs. the same analytical job in the 1980s. It's not magic but it's powerful.

We’re pretty good at saying “drones are big now”.

Very bad at saying “they’re bigger than XYZ, so cut that and study drones now, instead”.

Apocalyptically bad at resourcing accountable experts to deliver solutions that integrate well with today’s force, on useful timelines.

A sculpture with 76 pencils.

A sculpture with 76 pencils.

I just made this design, based on the "72 Pencils" sculptures by George Hart: www.georgehart.com/sculpture/pe.... George's design consists of 72 pencils arranged in a triangular lattice. His bundles of 18 pencils are arranged in a hollow hexagon pattern and are glued together. In this version, I

My oldest daughter is also all three...

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Yeah there's an enormous gap between "technically in-bounds" and "a good idea to do because our President thinks it's cool"

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Pull quote from the President's social media posts about the "SAVE" act where he says he "will not sign other Bills until this is passed."

I believe that if anyone ever told the President that his signature wasn't required for Congress to pass a law, he would immediately begin vetoing everything he could just to spite Congress, because having his Presidential power ignored would get under his skin in ways science can't yet measure

Could just as easily be "ask an AI chatbot (and hope it gets the answer)" or "turn loose an AI agent". I have started pushing back on "AI" as shorthand for "wish away the hard part" though, because so many of AI's proponents (and opponents!) are misinformed about what it can & can't actually do.

"send AI after that detail" spans a lot of interesting space, but for most people it won't work?

David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth (1986, premiered in June).

Robert Westenberg as The Wolf in "Into the Woods" ca. 1987 (premiere November 1987)

Just realized tonight that the costumer for Sondheim's "Into The Woods" had not only been influenced by Bowie and glam rock, but by Bowie in Labyrinth specifically. The timing is almost too perfect.

Can't help but feel like you're picking on Baltimore

The Ravens don’t need to say anything except “he failed his physical” which is sufficient to kill the trade.

That's on him for not waiting until the contract was signed. If I was the guy who said "I'll jump in the Harbor if...", I would definitely want a notarized copy of the contract (and all my shots) before I followed through.

He literally *can't* do a deal if he doesn't see a way to fuck the other guy over. He nearly tanked several amazing win/win deals by trying to fuck his counterparty at the last second, because to him, that's the "real" deal-making part. And Iran isn't fucking having it.

Matthew Cappucci is a ray of sunshine in an awful cruel universe, and while I am thrilled that he discovered this hailstone, having him anywhere near 5" hail makes me fear for losing the light of his joy

Let's dig in, while we're at it, on why the editors are sending their reporters to ask Talarico questions about trans athletes. Who convinced these editors that this was a topic worth centering?