Nick Hide

ok I played some more Zero Company and it totally hooked me. strong game of the year contender for me

"He has always been likable, with that mild-mannered air of a kindly Victorian chimney sweep with a hamster in his waistcoat watch pocket"

it’s just the absolute best

Harry won it for the entire receding hairline community. This trophy is for all of us.

RIP Walter Koenig. Of all his moments on Star Trek, one of his finest was accurately portraying an officer stuck doing bridge duty while massively hungover (Star Trek VI)

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

Bluesky has four kinds of users

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

nationalise BioWare!

Wrote about BioWare closing for The Guardian. Still can’t really believe it. Thanks @mackeza.bsky.social ♥️ www.theguardian.com/games/2026/o...

I hate to hand it to Maryland but I love this guy

thanks so much for eating a plastic tea light and throwing up everywhere, Goose, cleaning up dogpuke is my *absolute* fave

The moral rot is top-to-bottom in the GOP. But let’s focus on the more specific issue here: Trump and his party like rape. Whether it’s child abuse or campus sexual assault, they think rape is ok. Maybe they even think it’s funny.

"At all costs, Trump’s treachery must not stand."

It is kind of crazy how much I used airbnb in the early days and found great cheap places to stay, and often would meet nice locals with friendly info to share about their neighborhoods. And now the entire thing just... sucks? I don't even consider using it anymore. It's been years.

Saying goodbye to BioWare, Mass Effect, and Thane www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G7c...

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

This the kinda news that makes you spiral about the world these ghouls are building.

The BioWare news is heartbreaking and infuriating in equal measure. That teams games pioneered choice-based storytelling in a way that fundamentally shaped games as we know them. It deserved that one last shot at Mass Effect. Such a shame.

Thanks for everything, BioWare. I wouldn’t be who I am today without your games 💔

Judge Dredd continues to be one of the most prescient comics of all time. From a story in a 1986 issue.

iPhone Duo reviews are out. @abraralheeti.bsky.social is the only one you'll need www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...

it gets later every year 😢

Horrific.

Developers and vibe coders are using AI tools like Claude Code to get rid of sponsored ads on their smart TVs, disable tracking features, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

How many times has this happened now?

Damn, we're speedrunning the cultural saturation of Biddy Blas right now. Already seen people turning on the character.

TIL there’s a federal law that says candidates who pay directly for ads get the lowest possible rate, whereas PACs pay at least 2x and up to 5x as much. And Dems are crushing their opponents in direct donations while GOP relies on PACs

to be clear, the supreme court justice says he decides cases by imagining himself hosting the 1776 version of fox news diner segments

Biddy Blas fan? of course you are. step right this way #scribdoon

I agree with this. One amendmwnt that I think could pass is to modify the electoral college so that winning > 50% nets you some number of bonus electors but that if no candidate reaches 50% there is a second round of voting.

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

This is the disease for which I research and advocate: #MECFS. Even mild presentation is life-changing, and this is what severe looks like. People are surprised so many of us were athletes. They want to believe this can only happen to people who were already unwell. www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...

Racism as an idea... kinda dumb Racism as a feasible functional praxis? a disaster

Thinking about when Victor Robles was telling the Praying Mantis on his cap how many outs there were 😭

this is a lovely feature, full of excellent quotes. to the many excellent adaptations the author notes, I would add my two favourites, both of which basically keep the characters and little else: Master & Commander and LA Confidential

All journalists should watch this

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

(sorry, I only just found the original post) So I Marred an Axe Murderer for Tax Purposes

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids for Tax Purposes

The Men Who Stare at Goats for Tax Purposes

Surprised the price is this low (for Apple). www.cnet.com/home/smart-h...

told my son he smelled really nice after his bath. he sniffs my arm and says, “you smell bald”

YOU GUYS TRAINS ARE AWESOME WHY ARENT THERE MORE OF THEM

Eternal gratitude to @grovejoel.bsky.social, who found the video highlights of the greatest game of the year. I shan't say more.

brilliantly dry factual reporting of Trump's unhinged Nobel rant. I think my favourite is "Trump also recited a list of wars he claims to have settled, some of which were not wars and some that are still not settled"