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bond villain who has captured me and now... I will inject her ...

2026-01-23T21:57:46Z

*bond villain who has captured me* and now... I will inject her with the deadly poison!
bond: no!!
villain: ...
villain: where... why are your veins so hard to find???
(calling over another henchman) hey can you.. you've had nurse training right? can you find a vein here? hey clench your fist please

speaking as the kind of person for whom "is the new arrange ...

2025-10-12T20:26:35Z

speaking as the kind of person for whom "is the new arrange soundtrack good" is 75% of why I would buy a remaster, finding out that the FF6 pixel remaster arrange tramples Searching for Friends' incredible bassline into inaudibility with bland orchestration is the hardest no-sell imaginable

one of the weird things about using an RSS feed in 2025 is that ...

2025-10-08T18:23:22Z

one of the weird things about using an RSS feed in 2025 is that it becomes exceptionally transparent just how much kotaku - which only has the "all stories" feed and nothing else - pivots to genuinely like 80+% of their articles being amazon prime ads during this period

What? They programmed it by doing what??? ...

2025-07-03T01:54:34Z

What? They programmed it by doing what???

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Astrocade

IGF Games I Want To Talk About 2025 is now up on my blog! Please ...

2024-11-10T20:26:29Z

IGF Games I Want To Talk About 2025 is now up on my blog! Please enjoy reading about 10-and-change games from this year's Independent Games competition that I thought were really cool and worth your time.

I'll be live-threading an abbreviated version of this to this site on monday, so consider this your bonus advance preview if you're the sort of person who clicks through to links.

https://auratriolo.com/blog/2024/11/10/igf-games-i-want-to-talk-about-2025/

#IGF #Indiegames

hey if you buy frozen waffles: check your fridge, don't get ...

2024-10-21T19:18:13Z

hey if you buy frozen waffles: check your fridge, don't get listeria and die

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/listeria-frozen-waffles-1.7357978

Crunch is always a failure of project management, but the biggest ...

2024-10-02T20:37:11Z

Crunch is always a failure of project management, but the biggest mistake that it makes is the assumption that forcing people to work 7-day weeks actually makes them more productive. Inevitably and almost immediately, crunching workers results in sloppier work, more bug regressions, mistakes, etc. And that's before you even get to the damage to people's health and morale. Anyone who crunches their employees doesn't deserve to be in charge of any other human being.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/report-cloud-imperium-enacting-temporary-seven-day-work-mandate-for-star-citizen-devs