Peter M.J. Gross

@petermjgross.bsky.social

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I'm an editor. I make games. I have terrible opinions. I live in Central Virginia. These facts are unrelated.

AI-summarized search results confidently asserting that Sauron's one ring plus sixteen additional rings "brought the total number of Great Rings to 20"
Johnsonville “inspired by Dr. Pepper” smoked sausage
An offer from Dominos pizza for a discount on menu "prized" pizzas. I have no idea what that means.
A golden retriever on a leash.
A brown rabbit, sitting in a patch of dirt, flicks its right forepaw twice.
A screenshot from the game "Golden Axe" where the heroes kick a little guy so that treasure pops out of him, but the heroes are labeled "Doctor" and "Insurance" and the guy is labeled "Me"
Screenshot from the Adobe Software blog, dated April 20, 2017, with text stating: "Michael Collins explains how, since joining the largest association of investment professionals in the world, he has set about reorganizing the marketing group to increase its understanding of local customer needs and launch a global brand repositioning campaign."
A list of questions that reads some of the things on my mind as the game begins: Do health and mana restore automatically, or do you need resources to restore them? How precious are those resources? How do you distinguish important NPCs from generic background characters? Is this the sort of game where every item has potential value, or are there too many items in the world to possibly grab them all? Is it the sort of game where a thorough player can find every bit of treasure, or would that be insane? Is this the sort of game where when you see a valuable item, you take it, or does it have an ownership/theft system? If the latter, what are the consequences for violating it?
CFA Institute sold its Charlottesville office in 2023 and announced that it would be leasing space from Lo-Hi, a coworking company.
Black and white image of a chicken. Ink on paper, probably.
Screenshot of a Mastodon post from June 2025, before ICE agents killed two people in Minneapolis, stating "The fact that no ICE agents have been shot yet seems both a statistical absurdity and proof they aren't really going after criminals."
Image of classified documents stacked in a Mar a Lago bathroom as a response to Trump’s statement, “He gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that.”
A chart showing midwestern drinkers getting more friendly as they drink while southern drinkers get more combative.
“The Man Inside Me,” a fictional book from the TV series Arrested Development, written by a deeply insecure character.
"Of course, no one wants to be a 'stupid newbie', and very few people will actually pay for the privilege. Yet, in Ultima Online, people did. Because quite literally, that’s all there was. Ultima Online was the only large-scale MMO on the market. If you wanted to play an MMO, you dealt with the PKs and the bank thiefs and the miner killers and all the other great examples of humanity UO brought out in people. The fact that people actually played in spite of all that actually speaks a great deal to the potential of MMOs."
Outside of classified national security material, the monthly jobs numbers are typically among the government's most closely held figures.
Penny Milliken, a Stanford graduate with over a decade of Disney experience, took the position of CEO in late 2014. She fired fourteen people, shrinking the company by more than 50%. She got rid of Lani Minella, the voice actor behind Nancy’s character since the beginning, a choice that all but guaranteed that the games would never be successful again. Milliken wanted to give the games a more sophisticated look and feel. Because the staff was so small and Milliken was asking them to learn entirely new programming software, Midnight in Salem, which had already been announced to fans with a promised 2015 release, got delayed indefinitely. In the meantime, HeR released a mobile game called Codes and Clues, built for a younger audience.
Booking agency profile showing that Nate Silver's speaking fees range from $75K to just short of $150K.
top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby
The phrase “screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices”
A parade balloon that is just Ernie’s disembodied head.
A microwave cooker that no sane person would ever want.
Tom Haverford from Parks and Rec wearing a ridiculous hat.
A dog struggling to keep its eyes open in a dimly lit room.
A loose-lipped Cayman Islands banker.
A screenshot from the game "Project Arcmor"
Image of the actor John Banner, playing Sergeant Schultz on Hogan’s Heroes
“ Ultimately, the bad news for the company was that employees, on average, earned larger bonuses because they had improved their performance. The good news was that the intervention provided the company with a simple way to eliminate people who are overpaid and don’t contribute significantly to the business in the first place. The research indicates that the company's bottom line was positive.”
Throughout the interview, Agnew emphasizes how often Hannah is not alone, as her husband, Daniel, lurks in every conversation. Despite being assured Agnew would get a chance to do one-on-ones with the former ballerina, Daniel spends almost the entire interview glued to his wife’s side. Some might find this endearing; they can’t spend more than two seconds apart. Some might find it suffocating and controlling. Judging from how the rest of the interview goes, it’s fair to say Daniel has some serious control issues.
Pete Hegseth accompanied by the words "be thin, do war crimes"
Captain Barbossa with a neon overlay and text reading “You best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias, you’re in one.”
“Do Not Comply In Advance” ❌bossy ❌already a cliche ❌ implies permission to comply later “Fuck You, Make Me” ✔️ leads by example ✔️directs yelling at opposition instead of allies ✔️ easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner"
Fiedel was at heart an improviser. To create the Terminator theme, he first set up a rhythm loop on one of the primitive, early-’80s devices he was using. (In those days, Fiedel was firing up a Prophet-10 and an Oberheim.) He recorded samples of himself whacking a frying pan to create the clanking sounds. Then he played melodic riffs on a synthesizer over the looped beat. Amid the throes of creation, what he hadn’t quite noticed—or hadn’t bothered to notice—was that his finger had been a split-second off when it pressed the button to establish that rhythm loop. Being an old machine, there was no autocorrection. Which meant the loop was in a profoundly herky-jerky time signature.
CNN headline: Trump inherited a worse economy from Biden than previously thought
A picture of Luigi accompanies this post because it's about healthcare companies using strategic delays to protect their profits.
In Vance's social media post, he cited other types of decision making by the executive branch that he suggested were outside the law. "If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal," he wrote.
Marge Simpson looking at a poorly disguised FBI surveillance van.
Screen from an RPG with the prominent phrase “Forest Invasion” followed by paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum text.
A 45-pound dog precariously clinging to a person seated in front of a keyboard.
You must also understand that, soon after she gained these powers, the little match girl was adopted by the famous old philanthropist Ebenezer Scrooge, who gave his new daughter the name Ebenezabeth Scrooge—an impossible name to forget, and just as impossible to improve upon.
Picture of a salt-based cleaning solution.
“She’s on her knees all night,” Loomer rails in the post. “And it’s not for praying.” Throughout Monday night, she continued reviling the GOP congresswoman with more attacks. In another post, she wrote, “it’s called the Trump administration. Not the Hump administration.” Jezebel reached out to Loomer’s and Greene’s team for comment, and will update if we hear back.
"Trickledown economics is when we let the rich piss on you, and we tell you its raining"
When I think of modern Disney storytelling, I think of three core power fantasies: * You will achieve what your heart desires. (Princesses) * You have the power to save the world. (Marvel) * You are on the right side of history. (Star Wars) We empathize with a well-written character, but we want to be a character who unlocks a power fantasy deep inside us. We want to buy that character’s lightsaber, get a cute makeover to look like them, or visit their boring-looking superhero office park “canvas” in California. We want to become more like these heroes. That is Disney’s core business.
Video of a rabbit browsing in some grass.