Sam.END.ICE.Machkovech

if not, you can have my food, I just want the toot toot

I look fwd to us clinking and cheersing these at a game

"woah i've never downloaded actual shit before. first time for everything"

"I thought we only made bombs this big to drop on Iran."

"bwahahahaha waste of bandwidth, I'd rather leave Nyan cat on for 4 hours"

this is going to be a challenging wank

..continued. I'm not sure anything is more indicative of how hated something is (in this case, the Melania movie) than copyright-evading downloaders taking the time to comment on it. this has absolutely outpaced the likes of Morbius in the same community.

"Haha understandable, fuck this lady and her POS husband"

"You should be officially banned as an uploader" [laughing emoji]

"As always, thank you for the upload but Im not even gonna bother to pirate this lol. I'd rather buy a ticket to the next Uwe Boll movie."

"I wish piracy WAS theft. Just so I could steal this and save everyone else the trouble."

as part of my work, I track file-sharing sites - sometimes good places for scoops and leads, weirdly. they're not chatty spaces, generally, but this week, one file has proven an exception.

it's not hard to figure out which piece of media this thread is talking about.

I was gonna make a joke about how you could buy mine for thousands of dollars, but now that I see they don't seem to exist on eBay, that might actually be about right 👀

Throwing in my two least common Marios, I would believe it if you had 'em. One's a limited Mario Bros pair of minis, made before Amiibo existed, as 1:1 replica of Mario Bros cabinet art. One's a Nintendo of America xmas stocking pickup from my partner.

ooh I've got a spare robe and pair of purple nikes you can wear while we play

Instacart, but for just one thing that you'd rather not go out and get if someone you know is like out and about because you've got this dog and it's been a day

headshot of actor Donald Glover, with short black hair, a mustache, a soul patch, a black jacket, a white shirt, gold chains, and exposed chest hair beneath that, the text: Donald Glover "Yoshi"

I cannot WAIT for Spirit Halloween's interpretation of this

actually you need to play no less than 400 hrs of Push Me Pull You

the K2 and L2 envelopes! will we find out what was in those? or did their recipients already get fitted for cement shoes?

I saw they'd gone live, but they need to be accessed in a specific order?

After my local pal Mehal was on Jeopardy recently, I got back into watching. And, gosh, @kenjennings.bsky.social. Ppl really should watch his current streak as a fantastic host.

The world needs stans for knowledge/expertise now more than ever, and Ken nails it - I love his hosting tone. A+++.

a white sentient worm with red eyes named NONA delivers dialogue in the video game Marathon: "I would be pleased to see you take a destructive approach. I do love seeing your combat data evolve."

you got it, soft-speaking worm mommy

Honestly I think Bungie gets ahead of the Concord effect just by having a game with sick skins that ppl immediately opt to pay for. Early MTX sales are weirdly a helluva signal for games like these, much more than bot-powered online whining.

all the Machkovech that's fit to print: my Marathon coverage is in today's print edition of @nytimes.com! (top-left teaser on first image, I approve the counter-framing with Alysa Liu)

In other words, whatever $ you give to the ESA Foundation for its stated purposes (scholarships for young devs) may very well get funneled into greater ESA efforts (lobbying the US govt with stances that you may not agree with), and you'll never know which way your $ goes.

501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(6) - A Detailed Comparison for Nonprofits Learn the differences and similarities between 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(6), their purposes, activities, limits on political involvement, & more.

Big red flag on a "charity" basis. The ESA Foundation is simply part of the ESA, a 501(c)(6), meaning $ it collects via donations can be moved through its operations however it sees fit - with zero paper trail. Learn more on how these orgs differ from 501(c)(3)s. Then, skip this bundle.

They paid and credited the artist in question, and the MTX is all skins, zero mechanical content. Not that Bungie is not impugnable, but FYI.

nothing better proves that this industry is all hallucInatory BS than a product that attempts to extrude "editors' advice" without sourcing internal editors' notes/comments

like, did y'all break into their Google Docs accounts? what the heck else would you even use to extrude believable text?!

gonna need the @mariners.com to step up with their former corporate masters and make this happen locally. default Yoshi is already Mariners color-coded!! Naylor plz use your powers for good here

goddddd I hope SNL pivots for its cold open this week with Mushroom Kingdom V. Trump Admin and I will gladly chip in with free rewrites

best shape of my life, people say I've never been healthier, don't look at my weirdly colored hand, etc etc

NINTENDO is a VERY BAD company who has a FAILED Switch 2 launch and hasn't put out a good STAR FOX game in years!! It's no wonder they are once again being UNFAIR to me, the BEST president with the WORLD RECORD Super Mario 64 speedrun!! God bless the Sega Dreamcast, a REAL console

I'm working on an article about all of this, btw.

I'm the guy in the ERA thread who confirmed most GaaS launches include guidance like this. This landed 2 weeks before launch as a "while we have your attn" ask and again says right there it's NOT a mandate. They can ask, we can decline.

black and brown dog lies with paws dangling above, tongue sticking out

good morning from a dog

They interviewed outside candidates for this exact role roughly a year ago. I know because I made it through a few rounds of tests and interviews. And then, from what I can tell, they never filled it.

Marathon is fun as hell, a different memorable story via emergent gameplay every hour, it seems

I think it was George Orwell who said you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't finger the nostrils of your colleagues and spouses