Spencer C.S.

Behavioral interventionist,

I like politics and video games to stop thinking about politics

Gundam breaker 4?

[yokotaro @yokotaro]

ヨコオが喋り続けているだけの本が届いてる様子。楽しんでいただけることを祈っております……

[☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 @LilithLovett]

>PSN goes down
>can’t press x to jump because Sony’s servers cannot verify my buttons license
>get booted from my single player game with always-online DRM because they couldn’t verify my digital license either
>last save was an hour ago

I 🩷 my enforced all digital future.

[Polling Canada @CanadianPolling]

Those with a positive view of Capitalism:

🟡 All: 33%

🟡 18-29: 30%
🟡 30-44: 31%
🟡 45-59: 33%
🟡 60+: 37%

🟡 Men: 44%
🟡 Women: 23%

🔵 CPC: 43%
🔴 LPC: 35%
⚜️ BQ: 27%
🟠 NDP: 18%

Abacus Data / July 15, 2026

[Spencer C.S. @spenraw]

The lack of emotional regulation of this man

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

Absolute crash out from Musk after he’s presented with the reality that many, many people fucking hate him

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

Absolute crash out from Musk after he’s presented with the reality that many, many people fucking hate him

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

Elon Musk says AI will replace all of our jobs, but don’t worry — he says, to live, we’ll also all have “universal high income.”

So would he be willing to pay more tax to fund that “universal high income?”

Oh…uh…Musk claims taxation “will not be relevant in the future.”

lol.

[Reece “Kiwi Talkz” Reilly @kiwitalkz]

This Miyamoto quote below is why Nintendo will probably long outlive PlayStation and Xbox, he gets it.

All these boom and bust cycles seem incompatible with game development.

"The people funding these projects are doing it to make a fortune, so why celebrate things like ‘we recouped our investment’ or short-term profits? To me, if you’ve burned through the talents of so many people just to achieve that, that feels like a massive failure."

"I might sound a bit arrogant saying this [laughs], but if you make things while constantly asking ‘will this make money right away?’ you can’t create anything truly unique or with broad appeal."

[Spencer C.S. @spenraw]

@TheDrewHaas @shimmerjade You understand yes your logic is sound in argument.

But your logic your own bias as if it's fact

What is human and at what point is it alive is either decided by science or it's not.

If anything with human cells is alive, it means we shouldn't cut out tumors.

[Jade 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @shimmerjade]

Conservatives are not well represented in academia because conservatism is, for the most part, the ideology of the incurious. Abortion is bad because the Bible said so. Immigrants are bad because Fox News said so. Capitalism is good because Reagan said so

[Christo Aivalis 🌹🍊 @christoaivalis]

Wab is right to note how Liberal and Conservative cuts to healthcare federally have caused real harm to healthcare

[Trust In Trump @Trustintrump47]

🚨 JD Vance is now claiming that when settlers arrived in the New World, they “found widespread child sacrifice” and that “Christian civilization ended the practice.”

Archaeologists and historians, including experts in North American Indigenous history, say this is a complete fabrication. There is zero evidence of widespread child sacrifice among First Nations.

This isn’t a slip.

It’s racist revisionism dressed up as patriotism.
And it tells you exactly how far they’ll go to rewrite history to justify oppression.
FOLLOW: @Trustintrump47

[Spencer C.S. @spenraw]

@MccheeseMecha @MightyKeef As a casual Canadian I can explain how it does alot actually

He pointed out he wants to but dies not have the power

Sure that sounds like nothing
But using his media attention to say hey not just trump but the NYC government can puts alot of pressure on people to speak up act

[God Empress of Mankind @nuhre_]

Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't amazing because it was Baldur's Gate. It was amazing because Larian made it.

Larian has made it painfully clear they want absolutely nothing to do with Wizards of the Coast or another BG3. They're off making their own games.

Hasbro looked at that success and went, "How do we recreate this without the people who actually made it?"

Good fucking luck with that.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

He gutted mental health and elder care services, ignored Indigenous rights and land claims to push through climate and water destroying projects, and wanted Trump to win.

He's dismantling Ontario on the behalf of billionaires and pretending to be a patriot while doing it

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

If you’d told me 10 years ago that, in 2026, a billionaire would accuse humans of using too much water because AI data centers need it, while that same technology is threatening jobs and reshaping everyday life, I would’ve said, “That’s a terrible Bond villain plot.” And YET here we are.

[Spencer C.S. @spenraw]

@Working0115 @mark_slapinski Mexico has alot more ability to move around.

We have too much tied up in states and trump thinks he can bully us and keep getting more because of that

Like he did business in the 80s

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

Trump: "I want to economically destroy Canada."

Normal Canadians: "WTF bro?"

Conservatives: "Why is everyone so mad at Trump in Canada?"

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Palantir sells governments a war room that costs millions a year.

So, a guy named Elie just rebuilt it, put it on GitHub, and gave it away.

It's called World Monitor.

Open it and you get a live 3D globe with 500+ news feeds pouring in across 15 categories, all summarized by AI as they land.

> Military movements.
> Economic shocks.
> Natural disasters.
> Cyber incidents.
> Flight paths.
> Shipping lanes.

+ 56 different map layers you can stack on top of each other.

It scores 31 countries on a stress index and updates the number as things happen.

It watches 29 stock exchanges, commodities, and crypto in one panel.

It runs local AI through Ollama, so you can use the whole thing without a single API key.

Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 25 languages. Works out of the box after one clone.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

For me, this is already a story from a career that spans the past 31 years.

I’m probably one of the people in the game industry who has traveled to the largest number of countries and actually met local fan communities in person. So honestly, I’ve been influenced by people and cultures from all over the world. More than race itself, I think I’ve always been influenced by “regional culture” and “organizational culture.”

One of the most fascinating moments involving your culture happened in 2019, when I revealed Leroy Smith. (The visual design wasn’t mine, but the original character concept was.)

Right after the reveal, I received this message from the American fan community:

“Can we… can we invite you to the cookout for making an awesome character like this?”

Now, as someone from my generation in Japan, I was actually considered relatively good at reading and writing English. By then I’d already been to North America over 50 times, had maintained the English I learned for university entrance exams, and had been communicating with people on Twitter in English long before translation apps became useful, let alone AI translation.

But honestly… when I saw that sentence, I had absolutely no idea what it meant.

In fact, my very first reaction was:

“Oh no… I’m finished.”

Here’s why.

Back then I was frequently arguing against articles spreading hate toward video games, and I kept seeing people replying with the word “cooked.”

As you know, “cooked” can mean you’re done, finished, or completely destroyed. I also often saw “roasted.” Because of that, I honestly assumed “cookout” was just an even stronger version of “cooked.”

So for one terrifying moment, I read it as:

“Hey… we… we… can invite you to a party where we’re going to beat you up and roast you?”

Even though I thought I knew America pretty well, I genuinely wondered if I’d somehow pressed some invisible cultural button that I wasn’t supposed to touch.

Later, I had another misunderstanding. People kept calling me:

“You are the fxxking GOAT.”

And for about two or three years I honestly thought,

“Damn… here’s another guy calling me ‘a fxxking goat… this animal bastard.’ Better ignore the bait.”

Some people even replied with 🐐 emojis, so I genuinely believed they were insulting me by calling me an animal.

Because of misunderstandings like that, I seriously thought:

“Man… getting our characters accepted by Americans is really difficult. They might actually be even more sensitive than Japanese people in many ways. We need to study their culture much more.”

Anyway, back to the cookout story.

Eventually someone explained that a “cookout” in the African American community is actually one of the highest compliments possible—basically saying:

“You’re someone we’d trust enough to invite to our close-knit family BBQ, where only real friends and loved ones are welcome.”

That explanation was a huge relief.

Then they started showing me BBQ equipment and ingredients…

…and I was absolutely shocked that everything was several times bigger than what we have in Japan.

Sure, I expected the smoker grills to be huge. But even the tongs and spatulas were enormous, and the meat looked like something I’d only ever seen as loot in an MMORPG.

Looking back now, I honestly regret not immediately flying to the U.S. and accepting an invitation to one of those community cookouts.

That really was the perfect opportunity.

Anyway… I’ve wandered way off topic.

Of course I can’t claim that I fully understand what you call Black culture. But if we’re talking about the parts that have genuinely influenced me, the cookout story is certainly one of them.

And the people in these photos have also had a significant influence on me. (I’d like to include many more, but I’ll limit it to four photos.)