Saturday, November 8, 2025

Today's news and jokes

It's important to have very good concept art so your production artists know what style to match. Case in point this evocative drawing from our creative director.

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— Necrosoft Games (@necrosoftgames.com) June 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM






Fox goes with real-world math over WH gaslight.

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM








("Army officials said they could not respond to the new findings because of the government shutdown")







we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

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— Max Read (@maxread.info) November 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM








("Seven people were briefly hospitalized...An initial field test from the hazardous materials team did not detect anything harmful")







The article







NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

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— Alison Killing (@alisonkilling.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Very long article with a lot of unnamed sources basically saying, it's all MBS's fault, we tried to warn him







X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.

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— 404 Media (@404media.co) November 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Maybe in 10 years some of these executives can speculate on women's sports teams and talk about being girldads







Pretty sure this is not intended as parody







That's The Verge rewriting a WSJ article, which does apparently include the assertion that the process was still cheaper and faster







NEW: Big layoffs at Final Fantasy maker Square Enix, which is shrinking its US and UK offices as it looks to cut costs and consolidate publishing operations in Japan. Exact number isn't clear but the company says it will save $19.6 million due to the cuts www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM








This is still better than Wicked the novel, which tries to explain the origin of everything, you don't get any songs, and also the origin is always "Someone did a really depraved, taboo magic sex thing with a lion or a munchkin or something"

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— Ste Jormur (@stejormur.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
(Accurate.) (New S.H.Figuarts figures based on the movie up for preorder, btw.)







("the Browns have posted two winning seasons and a 56-99-1 record since DePodesta's arrival")































message discipline to make any PR proud www.rpgsite.net/interview/16...

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— Alex Donaldson (@apzonerunner.com) March 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM








If one knows Hawaii, this article he wrote about Hawaii is absolutely devastating toward him and the many ways he is being told to fuck off by locals. I love it because he wrote it in such clueless, arrogant self absorption. www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/paul-...

— Kate Elliott (@kateelliottsff.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Takes a few paragraphs to get going, and then yeah, it's one anecdote after another about how everyone he interacts with hates him















For no reason at all (really), I was thinking earlier today about that time I interviewed Johnny Marr, and how when I thanked him afterward for his time, he said, "I knew all the answers, so it was all right."

— Noel Murray (@noelmu.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM








remembered today that Watch Dogs: Legion (2020) let you recruit and play as a futuristic beekeeper who controlled swarms of cyberbees. am I gonna reinstall it just for cyberbees? may-bee

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— Christopher Livingston (@chrislivingston.bsky.social) September 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM








They should make an international franchise out of Murder She Wrote called Murder She Translated, where Jessica Fletcher's various translators in different countries also happen to solve crimes in their spare time

— Daniel Kennedy (@fliglman.bsky.social) September 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM








@chin_huisi that plop as she sat down I’m dead 🤣🤣 #maltipoo #maltipoopuppies #puppy #puppytiktok ♬ original sound - Chin




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