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  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:59:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Supreme Court sharply limits use of race in redistricting in a win for Republicans&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-limits-use-race-redistricting-win-republicans-rcna245856&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;The court agreed with Republicans that the congressional map Louisiana drew is a racial gerrymander, making it harder for civil rights plaintiffs to challenge future maps.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;...Alito wrote that &apos;allowing race to play any part in government decision-making represents a departure from the constitutional rule that applies in almost any other context.&apos;&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise&quot;&gt;Oh,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separate_but_equal&quot;&gt;really,&lt;/a&gt; &quot;Justice&quot; Alito? Race has never before played a role in government decision-making based on the Constitution?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The very fucking reason the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965&quot;&gt;Voting Rights Act&lt;/a&gt; came into being was because people (including previous SCOTUS assclowns) were abusing and misinterpreting[1] the Constitution in ways that allowed them to be racist shitfucks. The Voting Rights Act was meant to prevent that shit. And now the SCROTUS IMPOTUS-packed SCOTUS is basically saying that pretty much any congressional district map that was made to conform to the Voting Rights Act is itself now inherently racist and open to being declared unconstitutional. That&apos;s definitely a &quot;win for Republicans,&quot; to be sure, because this very SCOTUS decision itself is an explicitly racist shitfuck one, while deceitfully claiming to be the exact opposite of that. To hell with the (Conservative/Republican/Trumpanzee majority of the) Supreme Court.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism&quot;&gt;Institutional&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism_in_the_United_States&quot;&gt;racism&lt;/a&gt; exists, and the current SCOTUS is actively perpetuating it while disingenuously pretending to combat it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In any case, this is just yet another bizarre, ass-backwards, expressly racist decision by the Trump-stacked SCOTUS (and which is, of course, also in alignment with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+vs+voting+rights&quot;&gt;Trump&apos;s ongoing war against voting rights&lt;/a&gt;). *weary goddamned sigh* I really fucking hate that six goddamned unelected asshats are able to increasingly ruin the country like this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[1] - I think there needs to be a new word like &quot;disinterpret&quot; (or, perhaps, increased use of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=define+disinterpret&amp;amp;nfpr=1&quot;&gt;already existing one&lt;/a&gt;) which differentiates between &lt;i&gt;accidental&lt;/i&gt; misinterpretation and &lt;i&gt;deliberately malicious&lt;/i&gt; misinterpretation (in a sort of &quot;It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it&quot; sense), because &lt;i&gt;none&lt;/i&gt; of that shit was &quot;accidental&quot; or &quot;by mistake,&quot; nor is &lt;i&gt;this current&lt;/i&gt; shit, either. Sort of like how we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/tag/misinformation+vs+disinformation&quot;&gt;&quot;misinformation&quot; and &quot;disinformation&quot;&lt;/a&gt; now to differentiate between accidental and deliberate falsehoods being wrongly spread as fact. Too many misinterpretations being spread as misinformation by otherwise well-meaning people are the direct result of explicit disinterpretations being spread as deliberate disinformation by evil shitbags.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1780090&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:07:41 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;How conspiracy theories spread after the White House Correspondents&apos; Dinner shooting&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-conspiracy-theories-spread-after-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting&quot;&gt;PBS gives some possible reasons why&lt;/a&gt;, but one reason they &lt;i&gt;don&apos;t&lt;/i&gt; give is the demonstrable fact that far too many people in this country are simply very stupid and very gullible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asinine, bullshit conspiracy theories and the credulous, blithering morons who believe in them are, at least in part, why the United States has been afflicted (again) with the plague that is the Presidency of Donald J. Trump in the first place, after all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1779717&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:54:15 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;White House ramps up pressure on ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel over first lady remark&quot;</title>
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  <description>All I&apos;ll say (for now) about &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/white-house-ramps-pressure-abc-fire-jimmy-kimmel-first-lady-remark-rcna342486&quot;&gt;this dumbshit&lt;/a&gt; is that if the milquetoast things that Jimmy Kimmel says on late night TV is continuing to disproportionately rustle the jimmies of Dumbfuck Jizzstain Trump, the members of his hideous family, and his tumid horde of snowflake lickspittles, then Jimmy Kimmel is &lt;i&gt;doing something right&lt;/i&gt;, and he should continue doing it and be &lt;i&gt;allowed&lt;/i&gt; to continue doing it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shit like this is explicitly what the First Amendment is there to prevent. The United States government should never be applying pressure on a media company to fire someone, just because what that someone said merely happened to hurt the President&apos;s wittle fee-fees. Trump can publicly seethe and make himself look like a tantrum-throwing manbaby all he wants, but the moment he actually applies governmental pressure to get Kimmel fired, he&apos;s gone too far. (Not that &quot;going too far&quot; isn&apos;t a thing Trump does all the goddamned time, of course.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual, and the sooner the better. I think that &lt;i&gt;Trump&lt;/i&gt; should be the one who is fired (and also thrown into prison), but failing that, may he accidentally tumble feet-first into a(n) (in)conveniently placed industrial wood chipper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1779582&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:33:38 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;This Week&apos;s Weird Sideswipe by Current Events&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/04/27/this-weeks-weird-sideswipe-by-current-events/&quot;&gt;A post&lt;/a&gt; on John Scalzi&apos;s website, mostly about his tangential relationship with the White House Correspondents Dinner shooter and &quot;right-wing chudguzzlers&quot; futilely trying to use that flimsy connection against him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I still pretty much agree with this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;I certainly don&apos;t condone attempting to kill the president. &lt;/i&gt;Any&lt;i&gt; president, and also, this one in particular. Among other things that would take away the fun of watching him one day rotting in prison along with the rest of his corrupt and horrible family and administration. Keep him alive! For justice!&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s just that Trump is more likely to die of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donald-trumps-hamberder-dinner&quot;&gt;hamberder&lt;/a&gt;-induced heart attack or stroke or whatever dumb thing before he&apos;ll ever see the inside of a prison cell, which is sad. (The latter is sad, I mean, not the former, because I definitely prefer him dying of some dumb thing like that, rather than continuing to waste breathable air. It&apos;s just that I&apos;d rather he die of a hamberder-induced heart attack or stroke &lt;i&gt;from the inside of a prison cell&lt;/i&gt; is all.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1779352&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:41:33 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Sydney Sweeney&apos;s Gundam: What&apos;s a Polar Bear Doing In Arlington TX? | Castle Super Beast 369&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/7TMHvMA6Jkk?si=mg7RPuTDpPmV1HrS&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had to look up that whole &lt;a href=&quot;https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/polar-bear-in-arlington-texas&quot;&gt;polar bear in Arlington, Texas&lt;/a&gt; thing, because I&apos;d never heard of it before watching the above video. (Spoiler alert: there was no polar bear in Arlington, Texas.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking as someone who has yet to watch anything &lt;i&gt;Gundam&lt;/i&gt; at all outside of maybe meme clips on Youtube or whatever, I am going on record as saying that I do not want or need a live action Netflix &lt;i&gt;Gundam&lt;/i&gt; thing starring Sydney Sweeney (or anyone else, for that matter). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pat: &quot;I genuinely don&apos;t believe Americans can make a &lt;i&gt;Gundam&lt;/i&gt; movie that isn&apos;t just &apos;Wow! Cool robot!&apos; Like, I don&apos;t believe they can do it. It&apos;s gonna be fucking &apos;Wow! Cool Robot!: The Movie.&apos;&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Woolie: &quot;Yeah... I have not heard that &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiyuki_Tomino&quot;&gt;Tomino&lt;/a&gt; will be there in the room with a gun, right? So, um, if they&apos;re willing to, you know, wheel him in there and load a pistol and have him point it at everybody...&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pat: &quot;If Tomino was in the room with the American staff of &lt;i&gt;Gundam&lt;/i&gt; with a gun, he would hold it and put it down on the table and go &apos;I should not use this gun,&apos; and somebody from the staff would pick it up and go &apos;Wow! Cool gun!&apos;&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pat: &quot;Was I dead before I was born?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Woolie: &amp;lt;looks up, thinking, and stares off into space, just as the clip ends&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a feeling that might be another one of those bits from the end of one clip that returns later as the start of a new clip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1779112&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Why Does Everyone Think &apos;1984&apos; Agrees With Them?&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4cdowB9udPc?si=03-B2WiNNcTgadOQ&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1667266.html&quot;&gt;Relevant&lt;/a&gt;, I suppose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also relevant...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/1357/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free_speech.png&quot; title=&quot;I can&amp;#39;t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you&amp;#39;re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it&amp;#39;s not literally illegal to express.&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Link to comic.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And also relevant...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Joyce Messier, &lt;i&gt;Disco Elysium&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the end, it&apos;s all garmonbozia. It&apos;s why I put &quot;perpetual Weltschmerz&quot; as my custom mood so often lately, especially on posts such as this with similar topics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Honestly, I&apos;m seriously considering subbing to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_(streaming_service)&quot;&gt;Nebula&lt;/a&gt; and have been for a while, at least for a month or two as a start. And not just because of Jacob Geller plugging it in his video description, the pinned comment, and at the end of this video.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1778884&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:12:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;A Tournament of Trees!&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jjsfNXwGrsY?si=Ibmzb9b0jmCQykBY&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;&lt;b&gt;Celebrate Arbor Day with Stephan, Lani, and Jesse arguing which Tree can win a battle tournament!&lt;/b&gt;&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is kind of nuts how in depth they go with some of these match-ups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1778560&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:08:52 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I really loathe how Walmart does &quot;deliveries&quot; these days.</title>
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  <description>Utterly despise it. I made an order with eight items in it yesterday, and today they sent a driver all the way out here to where I live in the relative boonies[1] just to deliver &lt;i&gt;one&lt;/i&gt; of those eight items. The rest of the order indicates that it &quot;arrives today by 10pm.&quot; I&apos;m (half-)facetiously expecting each item to be its own separate delivery now. I &lt;i&gt;would have&lt;/i&gt; picked the &quot;save gas/fewer deliveries&quot; option or whatever it is, had that been presented to me, but it was all showing as one single delivery, so I didn&apos;t even get that to select. And yet, here we are, with someone coming all the way here just to put 1/8th of my order on our porch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as I&apos;m concerned, they really can/should wait until the entire order is ready before dispatching a delivery driver, and especially not just deliver a single thing (unless it&apos;s the &lt;i&gt;last&lt;/i&gt; thing left to be delivered that might have been somehow missing from a prior delivery, which was not the case here).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They used to allow a &quot;shipping&quot; option, in addition to the &quot;pickup&quot; and &quot;delivery&quot; options, in which case, things would just be sent by FedEx or UPS or whatever, and it would usually be delivered in one or two packages tops. However, I did not see the &quot;shipping&quot; option when I made my most recent order at all, which was annoying because I&apos;d have picked it had it been there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(EDIT - 4:15pm)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just received a text saying that the remaining seven items I ordered are estimated to be delivered by &quot;5:06pm&quot; today. Also, the delivery driver, according to the fancy-pants active-time map associated with my order on the Walmart website, apparently is &quot;3 stops away.&quot; However they are also approaching from a &lt;i&gt;southwesterly&lt;/i&gt; direction, which is extremely odd considering that &quot;my&quot; Walmart is &lt;i&gt;northeast&lt;/i&gt; from here. Like, seriously, the delivery driver is currently about twice as far away from here to the southwest than &quot;my&quot; Walmart is from here to the northeast. So, possibly, they&apos;re delivering from a Walmart that is even farther away than the one I had selected as &quot;my&quot; Walmart, or else they delivered first to people who live even farther away from &quot;my&quot; Walmart than I do. (There are definitely other Walmart stores closer to where that delivery driver is at the moment than &quot;my&quot; Walmart is, though... but &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; closer to &lt;i&gt;here&lt;/i&gt;). Go figure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(/EDIT)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(EDIT 2 - 5:25pm)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then, on top of all that, the stupid motherfucker delivered it to the wrong goddamn house, and I had to walk over to the next door neighbors&apos; house and get my shit before one of their several dogs tore it up or pissed on it or whatever. At least the first driver managed to deliver to the correct house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(/EDIT 2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[1] - The closest Walmart to where I live, i.e. the one I have selected as &quot;my&quot; store, is around 12 (driving) miles away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1778372&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:53:40 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Nerf Now - &quot;Superior Tastes&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/3391&quot;&gt;Link to comic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.nerfnow.com/img/3391/5063.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Link to comic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, Demo-tan/Morgan (the one on the far right in panel two) has always been the character in this comic that I identified with the most (usually). Though I agree with Engie-tan/Angie (the redhead closest to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_management&quot;&gt;reputation management&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1761550.html&quot;&gt;drone&lt;/a&gt; in panel 2) as well, in that I simply wouldn&apos;t be good at games like that (though that&apos;s not why I avoid them like the plague).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1777934&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:16:54 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;It Was Always The Yellow Hat Man&apos;s Fault | Castle Super Beast 368&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gTWqQDuBZdI?si=psO8hHvSGKkEX7jt&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&apos;s a video in which two dads criticize four different pieces of media &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curious_George&quot;&gt;meant&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_the_Big_Red_Dog&quot;&gt;for&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caillou&quot;&gt;small&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;children&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1777917&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:12:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;44% of games industry professionals have considered leaving the industry&quot;</title>
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  <description>Full headline, yadda Dreamwidth subject field deficiencies blah: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gamesindustry.biz/44-of-games-industry-professionals-have-considered-leaving-the-industry-as-a-result-of-redundancies&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;44% of games industry professionals have considered leaving the industry as a result of redundancies&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The modern video game industry is actively, willfully shitting itself to death. Upper management makes asinine, ridiculous, unsustainable, greedy, borderline evil decisions, the inevitable, inexorable, ineluctable failure of which causes them to make the &lt;i&gt;definitely&lt;/i&gt; evil decision to treat employees like disposable chaff to prevent the upper management from losing (more) money. And now, more and more such employees and future potential employees just say &quot;well &lt;i&gt;fuck you&lt;/i&gt;, then&quot; and look elsewhere for work, leaving behind only the desperate, unqualified dregs who &quot;just want to make video games and don&apos;t care how or under what abysmal, nebulous conditions.&quot; And, thus, the cycle continues to spiral down the toilet, through the sewer pipe, and straight into the ravenous mouths of oblivious (or militantly disingenuous) consumers, who continue to buy and eat the fetid fecal matter, no matter how putrid it may be, which somehow continues to provide undeserved life support to the continuously death-shitting beast that should&apos;ve already been worm food decades ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1777506&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:05:49 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Stop Killing Games has its day in European Parliament and it seems to go very well&quot;</title>
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  <description>Full headline, for the usual reasons: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eurogamer.net/stop-killing-games-european-parliament&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;&apos;A real concern for millions and probably hundreds of millions of European citizens&apos; - Stop Killing Games has its day in European Parliament and it seems to go very well&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(The guy down in the comments &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eurogamer.net/stop-killing-games-european-parliament?view=comments#comments-2p2z1mq&quot;&gt;lamenting about the inevitable fate of &lt;i&gt;Elite Dangerous&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; demonstrates why I never touched &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/tag/elite+dangerous&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Elite Dangerous&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with a ten-foot pool from the very outset. Same for any other game like it.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1777299&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:40:32 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Visiting a REAL 90s Pizza Hut (kinda)&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/eot4NJwbr3M?si=Zot8D4dYiwdZQsAN&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;We took a trip out to Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania to check out one of the last remaining Pizza Hut Classic locations… and it honestly felt like stepping back into the 90s. (This was actually filmed a while ago, back in September of 2025, when we filmed at Reaper&apos;s Revenge haunted hayride near Scranton, PA for Monster Madness. Same day!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you grew up going to Pizza Hut, you probably remember it as more than just pizza. The red cups, the dim lighting, the buffet, the arcade machines… it was a whole experience. Something you don&apos;t really get anymore. So I went out there with Justin, Ryan, and Patrick and just started talking about all the weird, specific memories that come with Pizza Hut. The ads, the promotions, Ninja Turtles, demo discs, Friday nights… all of it. But at the same time, it&apos;s kind of a weird feeling. Because these &quot;Pizza Hut Classic&quot; locations are both a time capsule… and a modern attempt to recreate something that&apos;s been gone for years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the question is… what place would YOU want to see brought back like this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit the Tunkhannock Pizza Hut:&lt;br /&gt;828 Route 6 W, Tunkhannock, PA 18657&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah... &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bookitprogram.com/&quot;&gt;Book It!&lt;/a&gt; Yeah, I remember getting at least one of those free personal pan pizzas as a kid. (We didn&apos;t have a fancy pants website/app for it back then, though, or a fancy pants Internet at all, for that matter.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pizza Hut is also where I got a cassette tape (sadly vanished into the ether now, not that I&apos;d have a way to play it, even if I did still have it) of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLswJI_iksYCzC4nwCtck7yagjGFTENECx&amp;amp;theme=dark&quot;&gt;&quot;Coming Out of Their Shells&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/tag/tmnt&quot;&gt;Ninja Turtles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Coming_Out_of_Their_Shells&quot;&gt;music tour&lt;/a&gt;, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1640381.html&quot;&gt;I&apos;ve mentioned before&lt;/a&gt;. (And speaking of &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/405646.html&quot;&gt;TMNT, Cinemassacre, and pizza...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I... do &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; remember &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqxN9dgBKL4&quot;&gt;&quot;Pizza Head&quot;&lt;/a&gt; at all, though. o_O Nor do I recall ever getting a Playstation demo disc at Pizza Hut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The old, red-top Pizza Hut in my hometown is basically an abandoned building now, as far as I&apos;m aware. You can see it &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.app.goo.gl/iu9cPYtwAwa1z73dA&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; in a top-down view in Google Maps. Street view for the old Pizza Hut barely exists. You can &lt;i&gt;kind of&lt;/i&gt; see it &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.app.goo.gl/Cut9DurLeoCregn86&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, poking up through the vegetation that has partially overtaken it, but that was about the best I could do. (Google Maps erroneously claims that Tiano&apos;s Pizza is there, but Tiano&apos;s is actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.app.goo.gl/qWwjZUyX6DoEYvKHA&quot;&gt;across&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.app.goo.gl/9dhoymbGrYrGnWUFA&quot;&gt;street&lt;/a&gt; in a shopping center, not its own distinct building. I&apos;ve submitted corrections in Google Maps for this error, so maybe they&apos;ll fix it someday. *shrug*) For what it&apos;s worth, Pizza Hut in my hometown moved down the road a bit to &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.app.goo.gl/X5iLzgunLYHsXf4d8&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.app.goo.gl/iJgxZ44dVafaUwTk7&quot;&gt;location&lt;/a&gt;. It&apos;s still a fancier building than some generic rectangle or whatever, but it&apos;s definitely not &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=original+pizza+hut+building+shape&amp;amp;udm=2&quot;&gt;the original, iconic building shape&lt;/a&gt;, as seen in the above video. The Pizza Hut closest to where I live now is just &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.app.goo.gl/qq7vktjohpt1ximz6&quot;&gt;some bland, delivery/carry-out only hole in the wall place&lt;/a&gt;, which kind of sucks. I mean, the food&apos;s still fine, but it&apos;s definitely not a place like the one seen in the video above (they don&apos;t even have anywhere you can sit down, aside from a couple chairs for people waiting for take-out orders).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In any case, after watching this video, I kind of want a pizza from Pizza Hut now. Don&apos;t even care that it&apos;s almost 5:30am and I should&apos;ve been in bed ages ago. ¬_¬&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Been a while since I used that &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/tag/pizza&quot;&gt;pizza&lt;/a&gt;&quot; tag, though it&apos;s likely that I could probably find more recent posts in which I&apos;ve mentioned pizza than what&apos;s there now.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1777022&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:47:52 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;American YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in South Korean prison for offensive stunts&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-johnny-somali-youtube-statue-prison-9491a8f50244798c27fa794a8f2b07e4&quot;&gt;Good.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps if more asshats like this were imprisoned in other countries for their stupid, worse-than-worthless horseshit, there might eventually be fewer such asshats like this (looking at you, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Paul&quot;&gt;Paul&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Paul&quot;&gt;brothers&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That said, even this one particular &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Somali&quot;&gt;fuckwit&lt;/a&gt; has already been arrested in other countries, so... maybe not. Then again, this time, he has actually been sentenced to six months hard labor, so I suppose it&apos;s &lt;i&gt;possible&lt;/i&gt; this &lt;i&gt;might&lt;/i&gt; cure him of being a complete dipshit on the Internet. Time will tell, I guess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1776845&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:05:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;River City COWARDS | Cast;e Si[er Beast 367&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/9jOqYf5uNdo?si=RQWW0i9QcxqK1h6s&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Typos in the video title are theirs, not mine. I mean, yeah, I&apos;ve made typos exactly like that in the past, because it&apos;s just a matter of having one hand too far to the left or right, but I&apos;ve also instantaneously seen that it looked illegibly screwed up and immediately fixed it, before I ever posted or sent or otherwise made use of whatever I was typing. At least it&apos;s still not as &quot;Did the title writer have a stroke while typing that?&quot;-worthy as &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1525548.html&quot;&gt;&quot;Why IHNMAIMS that it is Made Noise Now? Because Amazing Digital Circus,&quot;&lt;/a&gt; which still to this day has yet to be corrected into something resembling proper English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Pre-post EDIT) They&apos;ve already changed/fixed it, before I even finished writing this post. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jOqYf5uNdo&amp;amp;t=1m37s&quot;&gt;The level of cowardice on display has never been higher! I am aghast at the level of bitch in these podcasters&apos; hearts!&lt;/a&gt; *eye roll* (/Pre-post EDIT)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, regarding the topic of the video itself, as is pointed out in the comments below the video, the ending wasn&apos;t &lt;i&gt;changed&lt;/i&gt;, an additional ending was &lt;i&gt;added&lt;/i&gt;. The original ending is still gotten if the game is finished normally, without fighting the secret bosses, and the new ending is what is gotten after fighting the secret bosses. Prior to the update, the original ending was what one got, either way. At least, I assume this is true, because I have never played &lt;i&gt;River City Girls&lt;/i&gt;, but Google seems to agree with the commenters. Was it &quot;shitty&quot; and &quot;cowardly&quot; and &quot;lame&quot; for the game developers to make this change? *shrug* Hell if I know. It&apos;s their game. They can do whatever they want with it, I guess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Woolie really seems to like using the phrase &quot;bitch in [insert thing here]&apos;s heart&quot; when referring to anyone being a &quot;coward&quot; or whatever. Go figure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, Pat&apos;s response to the original question was just &quot;remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Ingrid&quot;&gt;Ingrid&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i&gt;Street Fighter 6&lt;/i&gt;,&quot; rather than remove/fix/change &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwKn95GAz9I&quot;&gt;that whole&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40FB2gSI1zU&quot;&gt;Alex thing&lt;/a&gt;? Weird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1776619&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:45:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;&apos;Arc Raiders Was an AI Trojan Horse&apos; | Castle Super Beast 367&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ZzMEnpwgyQ?si=9ysgc1BXFNkT7ESY&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is this Junghun Lee dumbass not aware that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse&quot;&gt;Trojan Horse&lt;/a&gt; was a &lt;i&gt;bad thing&lt;/i&gt; for those who received it? Even the more modern meaning of &quot;Trojan Horse&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_(computing)&quot;&gt;in computing&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;i&gt;bad thing&lt;/i&gt;. Calling your thing a &quot;Trojan Horse&quot; is asinine, at least if you&apos;re trying to make a good impression on people. And, yes, trying to be &quot;Trojan Horse&quot; sneaky with the AI slop infecting your video game is, indeed, a fucking &lt;i&gt;bad thing&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good thing I already had less than zero shits to give about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Raiders&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Arc Raiders&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since it&apos;s just &lt;i&gt;yet another&lt;/i&gt; worthless multiplayer-only extraction shooter GaaS, same as all the others (well, aside from apparently being &lt;i&gt;even more&lt;/i&gt; infested with gen AI).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s like Woolie has said multiple times before (and repeats here), the problem isn&apos;t if the gen AI slop is &lt;i&gt;detectable&lt;/i&gt; or not, because it&apos;s inevitably going to get to a point where it&apos;s not. It&apos;s the fact that it&apos;s being used &lt;i&gt;at all&lt;/i&gt; that is the problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1776369&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:33:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Pete Hines says he left Bethesda because he didn&apos;t want to watch it being &apos;damaged&apos; and &apos;abused&apos;&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/pete-hines-says-he-left-bethesda-because-he-didnt-want-to-watch-it-being-damaged-and-abused/&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;Hines, Bethesda&apos;s former vice president of marketing and PR, left Bethesda in 2023, three years after it was acquired by Microsoft.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bethesda was a smaller company that was bought out by a much larger one (or, in this particular case, it was a smaller company whose slightly larger &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeniMax_Media&quot;&gt;parent company&lt;/a&gt; was bought out by a much larger one). So, of course, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;getting damaged and broken apart and frankly mistreated, abused, whatever word you want to use&quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; is par for the course in such situations. There is absolutely nothing surprising about any of this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yet, smaller companies still sell out to bigger ones, hoping they might be the ones to buck the trend and that only &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; things will happen to them in the aftermath. It would be funny to an outsider like me, if it wasn&apos;t so tragically banal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Micro$hit sucks, as usual, as does every similar big company who likes to hoover up smaller companies like Bethesda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/tag/selling+out+%3D%3D+doom&quot;&gt;&quot;selling out == doom&quot;&lt;/a&gt; tag. I think I got most of the posts I&apos;ve made in the past decades that even tangentially touch on my lamentation and derision of game companies being bought by other game companies (or companies that like to badly playact at being game companies). That said, I&apos;ll (probably) be going back through this new tag later and fixing a bunch of broken lj-embeds of Youtube videos and links that still point to posts on my old LiveJournal instead of the Dreamwidth equivalent posts, but that&apos;s not something I&apos;m going to do now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1776114&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:42:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Anthropic&apos;s new AI model is too dangerous to release to public, developers say&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/anthropics-new-ai-model-is-too-dangerous-to-release-to-public-developers-say/&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;Experts warn a powerful new AI model could exploit major systems and browsers using simple prompts. Its maker calls it too dangerous to release.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;&apos;This is the kind of thing that should keep us up at night,&apos; tech expert Carmi Levy told CTV News. &apos;We knew this day would come, that AI would get so good that it would be able to break into even the most hardened cyber defences. And that&apos;s kind of what we&apos;re at with Anthropic&apos;s Claude Mythos model.&apos;&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;&apos;It&apos;s like using ChatGPT to be a hacker,&apos; said Levy. &apos;It means that our existing defences are no longer sufficient to protect ourselves against these newly emerging threats.&apos;&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;While some online have called Mythos &apos;AI doomsday,&apos; others caution Anthropic&apos;s announcement could be a savvy marketing strategy in the race for AI dominance. It could also be both.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;&apos;Many people would be right in saying that this is a little bit of hype, a little bit of press release, a little bit of publicity stunt,&apos; said Claudiu Popa, a cybersecurity expert. &apos;But we certainly need to acknowledge the capability of that tool and we need to start preparing for such a time when there will be lots of AIs scouring the internet, looking for vulnerabilities.&apos;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Popa says one of the most worrisome elements of Claude Mythos is that it does not require a sophisticated level of understanding of cybersecurity making it potentially harmful in the hands of bad actors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;&apos;That&apos;s why this acts as not a reason to practice fear mongering, but to raise the level of awareness and concern amongst organizations,&apos; said Popa.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So... yet another reason why this asinine AI bubble needs to burst, and sooner rather than later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1775641&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:15:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!</title>
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  <description>Oh... right... I apparently never actually got around to writing a post about &lt;a href=&quot;https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388880/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club_Plus/&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, even though I played it back in September 2024.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So... &lt;i&gt;Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!&lt;/i&gt; is essentially the same game as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/?tag=free+game/no+money+required+to+play&quot;&gt;freeware&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://store.steampowered.com/app/698780/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club/&quot;&gt;original game&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It comes in a new wrapper, which simulates a computer desktop environment (whereas the original game just literally dropped metafictional files into your actual game file folders [none of which are required to complete the game and were things I didn&apos;t even know existed during my first playthrough back in 2017]).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, vague spoilers, DDLC+ has some additional meta stuff that was not included in the original game. I will not discuss the nature of the additional meta stuff beyond acknowledging that it exists. I&apos;ll just say, though, that accessing some of this stuff requires even more screwy UI manipulation than the original game did (which was simply to go look at the game folder from time to time to find the newly generated files). In &lt;i&gt;Plus!&lt;/i&gt;, it requires specific (in-game) system clock manipulation, among other things, to find it all. I eventually ended up just looking up the conditions on the wiki to find everything I&apos;d missed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and the extra side stories that focus on the origins of the Literature Club (prior to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/959459.html&quot;&gt;asshat main character&lt;/a&gt; of DDLC proper showing up) are pretty cool, too. If you&apos;ve never played any version of DDLC, I would recommend playing the main game first, before playing the side stories, even if the side stories are technically prequels to the main game, but if you &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; played DDLC before and are planning a replay, might as well do the side stories first. Or not. *shrug*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, lastly, here is the obligatory comment that &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc5ZKngbAPXObXf6u1ywg1zZJIlQwO9nF&amp;amp;theme=dark&quot;&gt;the soundtrack&lt;/a&gt; for the sides stories is pretty good. Some of it is original stuff, and some of it consists of remixes of tracks from the (warning, possible musical and music title and maybe even video thumbnail spoilers for the actual game here) &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvBpq6ur-vO5za0B9WdnELyhWQ5e5zd6B&amp;amp;theme=dark&quot;&gt;original game&apos;s soundtrack&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUKN_ySpqU4&amp;amp;list=PLvBpq6ur-vO5za0B9WdnELyhWQ5e5zd6B&amp;amp;index=9&quot;&gt;For&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9blYij5ax0&amp;amp;list=PLc5ZKngbAPXObXf6u1ywg1zZJIlQwO9nF&amp;amp;index=4&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1775360&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:16:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Google removes Doki Doki Literature Club from Play Store&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gamesindustry.biz/google-removes-doki-doki-literature-club-from-play-store&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;Game creator and publisher say game &apos;violates Google&apos;s terms of service in its depiction of sensitive themes&apos;&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is... a pretty fucking asinine thing to do, on Google&apos;s part, in my opinion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/883547.html&quot;&gt;Some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/959459.html&quot;&gt;relevant&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/959824.html&quot;&gt;links&lt;/a&gt;. Kinda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And... I just made another &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/tag/doki+doki+literature+club&quot;&gt;new tag&lt;/a&gt;, too. *shrug*)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1775105&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:52:19 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>This subject line links to Google&apos;s homepage and not to this post&quot; href=&quot;https://www.google.com&quot;</title>
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  <description>This is an additional test that came about after a &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1773235.html?thread=950707#cmt950707&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; (particularly &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1773235.html?thread=951731#cmt951731&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) concerning this &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1174173.html&quot;&gt;longstanding&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1174568.html&quot;&gt;issue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note that if one were to click the above subject line as a hypertext link from &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/&quot;&gt;my main page&lt;/a&gt; (or, presumably, from one&apos;s own &quot;/read&quot; page, which I can&apos;t personally test, obviously), they would be sent to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/&quot;&gt;Google&apos;s home page&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1774353.html&quot;&gt;this actual post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(EDIT)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the page source is viewed from my main page, the above subject line shows up as:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;a title=&quot;This subject line links to Google&apos;s homepage and not to this post&quot; href=&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com&quot;&gt;https://www.google.com&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&quot; href=&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1774353.html&quot;&gt;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1774353.html&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is pretty clearly a bad thing, not intended behavior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(/EDIT)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(EDIT 2) &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/see_request?id=51169&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the associated Dreamwidth support ticket. (/EDIT 2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1774353&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:31:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Invisible Baby Meters | Castle Super Beast 367&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/iZAQ0P3DV5E?si=IMpRe5cc6W5iAhX2&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Woolie, after talking about &quot;hidden meters&quot; and &quot;UI&quot; when it comes to his baby: &quot;Does that make sense?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pat: &quot;You&apos;re mentally ill. You have an illness in your mind.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, this has been another quarter hour dad-cast with Woolie and Pat. Still probably my favorite part of their podcast these days, mainly because it&apos;s one of the increasingly rare parts where it&apos;s not just super depressing in the way that is most news about modern video game industry stuff (which is what they normally talk about roughly 90% of the time).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1773357&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:11:17 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Penny Arcade - &amp;#34;Hidden Mechanics&amp;#34;</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/04/08/hidden-mechanics&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://assets.penny-arcade.com/comics/panels/20260408-h5R99a58-p1@2x.jpg&quot; style=&quot;width:28%&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://assets.penny-arcade.com/comics/panels/20260408-h5R99a58-p2@2x.jpg&quot; style=&quot;width:28%&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://assets.penny-arcade.com/comics/panels/20260408-h5R99a58-p3@2x.jpg&quot; style=&quot;width:28%&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Link to comic.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/04/08/hidden-mechanics&quot;&gt;Link to blog.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is another one of those &quot;the associated blog is actually of more interest to me than the comic&quot; comic posts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(EDIT) Yet another post to fall victim to that bizarrely still existent &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1174173.html&quot;&gt;can&apos;t have &apos;Hidden &apos;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://kane-magus.dreamwidth.org/1174568.html&quot;&gt;in the subject line&quot;&lt;/a&gt; bug. (/EDIT)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1773235&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:47:24 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;No Man&apos;s Sky goes full-on Pokémon in new creature-battling update&quot;</title>
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  <description>Sounds like Hello Games might finally be &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eurogamer.net/no-mans-sky-goes-pokemon-in-new-xeno-arena-update&quot;&gt;scraping the bottom of the barrel&lt;/a&gt; of updates for their space sim game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1772862&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:12:52 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Miracle Piano (NES) Lost Angry Nintendo Nerd episode from 2006&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/09PdyvID56E?si=0hhGOrISSfNzatO-&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;April 6th 2006 was the day that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/@JamesNintendoNerd&quot;&gt;&amp;#64;JamesNintendoNerd‬&lt;/a&gt; channel was created (even though the first video was posted on April 8th), making today the 20th anniversary of the Angry Video Game Nerd and Cinemassacre on YouTube! For the special occasion here is a lost Angry Nintendo Nerd episode from 2006 on the Nintendo Miracle Piano. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the past 20 years, this &quot;episode&quot; only existed as raw footage. I didn&apos;t think it was very good, and I later covered the Miracle Piano in the NES Accessories episode, deeming the original footage obsolete. But after all this time has passed, I decided you may want to see it, since it&apos;s a vintage piece of Nerd history. So I finally edited it!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah... ...I can see why he thought it wasn&apos;t very good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kane_magus&amp;ditemid=1772616&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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