Russ Maybe

Editor For @SSundee, One Half of @ChadAndRuss on YT, formerly of Indy Mogul.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“You picked Johnny Cash’s picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.”

@HunterBiden putting on a master class

[Zito @_Zeets]

The fact that video game nerds throw a tantrum when they have to play with a female character is legitimately so funny. Grown men going “ew a girl!” and not experiencing any kind of embarrassment over it.

[Paul Rieckhoff🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PaulRieckhoff]

This is painful to watch.

I always have an issue with anyone using veterans in their family as a shield for their own actions.

That said, I don’t think this statement will unify the team, remove the distraction, or put it to bed.

Dart (and now, the team, because of his selfish decision alone) will have to deal with this all season. And probably for his whole career—and any team he’s on. Forever. Unless he condemns Trump.

Especially because you can be damn sure Trump will keep bringing it up. Trump will never let it go. Never.

This is what happens when you stand with Trump. And when you put him ahead of your team. Any team.

Trump contaminates and consumes anything he touches.

And unfortunately for me and all Giants fans, that now includes our QB and entire franchise. And history will judge him and anyone who stood with Trump poorly.

Teachable moment, kids.

[Skoom🔻☭ @SkoomaBoofer]

Lately I've noticed an increasingly popular archetype in modern horror

I want to talk about what it is, and why I think it's so popular 🧵

It's a trope seen across countless different films, TV, video games etc

It's in Squid Games, the Saw franchise, the Portal series,
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[Chuu Shiesty 🛢️ @piskooooo]

boomer brain is literally "my parents lived like peasants and fought in two world wars so i could retire with an 8 figure stock and real estate portfolio funded by an entry level 9-5. you dumbass kids don't know what real hard work is"

[Russ Maybe @Russ_Maybe]

@filthytimm @ABartholomew_05 "Skattebo only pawn... in game of life."

[mike freeman @mikefreemanNFL]

Jumbo is one of the great all-time Giants (should be in the HoF). Was a tremendous leader in the locker room, respected by all, including all of us in the media who covered him. His words carry huge weight.

[✪𝓙𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓼 𝓢𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓽-𝓕𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓬✪ @sirjamesa12]

normalize destroying ronald reagan's legacy.

[Jess Margera @jessmargera]

If you find yourself donating money to “chud the builder” pretty much everything about your entire life is wrong

[Russ Maybe @Russ_Maybe]

@CasperOnChain Literally every car I've driven in, as passenger or driver, for my four decades on this planet, has someone pointing out every cow we've passed. At times, I have been the one to point it out. It is one of the great pleasures of driving with others. See also: horses

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

Big Tech’s “threaten everything beautiful, while immiserating you, ruining your opportunity to work, rendering you servile and dependent forever” campaign is for some reason not a huge hit with the young.

[Russ Maybe @Russ_Maybe]

Still better than Jelly Roll
#WWEBacklash

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Noah Hawley attended Jeff Bezos's private Campfire retreat in 2018. His wife broke her wrist. He told Bezos directly - not as complaint, just as human information from one husband and father to another. Bezos looked horrified, an aide materialized instantly, and he was whisked away.

No "I'm so sorry." No "do you need anything." Just escape.

Hawley's thesis in The Atlantic is not that the ultra-wealthy are evil. It is something more precise and more unsettling: that moral reasoning develops through consequences, and the environment of extreme wealth systematically removes consequences from a person's life. When you can buy your way out of any mistake, fire anyone who disagrees with you, and exist in a social circle entirely composed of people who need something from you - the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.

This is different from classic narcissism, which typically masks insecurity. What Hawley is describing is something rarer: a self-definition in which the individual has genuinely grown to the size of the universe and the universe has contracted to fit. Elon Musk calling empathy "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization." Trump asked about checks on his power saying the only thing that could stop him was his own morality. Peter Thiel concluding that freedom and democracy are incompatible.

These are not poses. They are the logical endpoint of a psychology shaped by years of operating in a world that never pushed back.

The Bezos encounter is the piece's sharpest detail because it is so small. He was not cruel. He was not contemptuous. He simply could not locate, in that moment, the impulse to respond like a person who understood that another person's wrist hurt.

[Elvin Calcaño @elvin_calcano24]

Estamos presenciando, en vivo y en directo, el colapso del imperio estadounidense. Trump pasará y vendrán los demócratas a intentar arreglar las cosas. Y algunas podrán recomponer. Pero ya nadie confiará en Estados Unidos sabiendo que cada cuatro años puede llegar a la Casa Blanca una cosa como la que hay ahora. Y he ahí, pues, donde radica el derrumbe de lo que sostiene todo imperio en el sistema-mundo EE.UU incluido: la confianza. Sin confianza no hay como establecer hegemonía, esto es, que los otros te sigan por convencimiento en tanto asumen que representas un bien. Eso no volverá para EE.UU. Y lo destruyó este populista de ultraderecha que ganó prometiendo hacer a Estados Unidos grande nuevo (mega sic). Tiempos de ver para creer.

[2 TUFF JIMMY @jimmyscabbysboi]

Let me tell you as someone who has all non wrestling homies

NO celebrity, none, is gonna make them watch WWE, they'll watch the clip on yt or socials but they won't watch RAW and definitely won't buy a PLE

[Der Kernel @Der_Kernel_]

The more I look at my childhood favorite games, and look at where the companies are now, I’ve realized that triple A games have never been good. A lot of our old favorites like Halo, Oblivion, Fallout New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed 2, Spyro, Sims, and so many others were developed by teams of 20 bros making some shit they’d want to play.

It wasn’t until these companies went corporate, shareholders, bureaucratization, teams of over 300 that they started to fumble, lose sight of the vision.

It feels like almost monthly we see some of the talented minds of our “golden age” leaving these corporations to peruse their own independent projects. 20 years, dedicated to something you created, and walking away. Then of course it always comes out later that there was some colossal miss management, miss treatment, broken promises and threats that inevitably become the tipping point for these minds. The minds that built the worlds we loved. The minds that built the foundations these companies stand on.

I think gaming has always been at its best when it’s a small team of like minded individuals, building a game that they all would enjoy. Not as some unrepeatable art project or means to a quarterly revenue, but as something that’s just fun.

[cav empty @cavempty_]

one of the best to ever do it. when it’s all said and done his jersey will up in the rafters

[Rizki Salminen | 🩷💜💙 @tilehopper]

The fact that Kojima Productions can achieve this level of detail with Unreal’s Metahuman techstack, specialized scanning equipment, and understanding of the cinematic medium WITHOUT having to rely on 2 RTX 5090s only proves the AI-infected techbros has lost their capability.

["All I do is" Nguyen @Nguyen_anime3]

If they are “kids” then they had no business making these decisions.

They are adults, and they couldn’t even define what they were doing and on what grounds they made their decisions.