Ben Johnson
Best of the Web. Game Designer on [unannounced] at Double Fine. Previously: Psychonauts 2, Dead Space (2008), Babycastles. He/him.
- Kind of embarrassing that nobody at the DNC had the power or good sense to veto “We should put this joke from the group chat on an airplane,” but at least no one could see it.
- When I was in elementary school, we were all trying to find an adult in an economically depressed Midwestern town who wanted a daily subscription to the Wall Street Journal so we could get points toward a touch-tone telephone made of clear plastic.
- Before I demanded the New York Times' editor's lunch money, there was broad consensus that it belonged to him.
- @nytimes.com I don’t know what you thought you were doing here but there is a broad consensus TODAY. You are actively contributing to the possibility that unserious, broadly rejected arguments will be taken seriously.
- Just down the road from Rusty The Dragon. mndragon.com
- You could do worse in retirement than make a big metal dragon sculpture and then make a website about it full of Dragon Facts.
- I had a chance to play some of these at a playtest a few weeks ago. If you’re in New York, go see the future tomorrow.
- NYU GAME CENTER SPRING SHOWCASE 2025 NEXT WEDNESDAY, MAY 14TH, 6PM - 10PM Play at least 50 demos of student work made over this past year from a wide range of Game Center courses. Meet and chat with the devs at this huge end of year celebration! RSVP Here: gamecenterspringshowcase25.eventbrite.com
- TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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View full threadCorruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
- If you love the conservative Supreme Court justices so much, why don’t you marry them?
- Student film season! youtu.be/6oYWBqKGyQQ?...
- If you see someone knocking F-18s into the sea, no you didn’t.
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- Before the internet, there were books and periodicals. Whatever Starhawk and a handful of others were doing. The Gen X quest for authenticity had you looking for authorities to claim a lineage from. Early Internet forums opened things up a bit, and then Influencers made the old ways new again.
