The international standard for identifying postal items
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Who are the mascots of PC gaming?
I recently read a thread elsewhere that says one big reason for Nintendo's enduring popularity is their use of mascots: Mario, Link, Kirby, and Samus. But I have to say, PC gaming has its own mascots too. And if you grew up on PC gaming, you know exactly who I’m talking about. To me, these are the most obvious PC gaming mascots:
Sir Graham
Sierra’s signature character. He’s the protagonist of King's Quest, the game that pretty much "made" PC gaming. If you’ve ever typed "look at tree" only to die instantly, you know this guy.
Guybrush Threepwood
For a good long time, the Monkey Island series was the jewel of PC adventure games, and Guybrush was the poster child. For an entire generation of smart-alecks, Guybrush was what made pointing and clicking actually cool.
Commander Keen
PC’s answer to Mario, but with a football helmet and a pogo stick. If you played Keen, you knew that saving the galaxy could happen in between spelling homework and dinner. The alien menace never stood a chance.
Duke Nukem
Duke started out as just another run-and-gun guy, but Duke Nukem 3-D turned him into a legend. Those one-liners were the soundtrack of every ‘90s gaming session. If your parents ever walked in at the wrong time, you know exactly which line I mean.
B.J. Blazkowicz
Possibly the oldest mascot here, since Wolfenstein dates back to 1981. But it was Wolfenstein 3-D where B.J. got a face and a vendetta. He’s been fighting Nazis since before most of us knew what a floppy disk was.
Jill of the Jungle
Jill is the game that put Epic on the map. She was Epic’s answer to Commander Keen, and while the graphics weren’t exactly cutting edge, the level design made up for it. Plus, Jill could turn into a bird. That never gets old.
Doomguy
Probably the most recognizable of the bunch. When people think of PC gaming, Doomguy’s battered face at the bottom of the screen is what flashes in their mind. Doom is forever, and so is the guy with the shotgun.
Gordon Freeman
For a whole generation, Half-Life is PC gaming. Gordon Freeman in that orange hazard suit, holding his crowbar, is basically the Valve logo in human form. He never says a word and still manages to be iconic.
Vault Boy
You don’t actually play as Vault Boy, but he’s everywhere in Fallout. His little thumbs-up and cheesy grin follow you from the vault to the wasteland. With the TV series, he’s basically mainstream now. No mascot is more cheerful about the end of the world.
Kerrigan
The Zerg Queen of Blades herself. If you’re into Starcraft—and millions are—Kerrigan is the face you remember. Blizzard made her the ultimate badass, and she wears it well.
Geralt of Rivia
Geralt first found fame on PC. The original Witcher didn’t even get a console port, so for a while Geralt was our little secret. Now he’s everywhere, but if you played those early games, he still feels like a PC icon.
Chell
Portal’s silent protagonist. You only ever see her in reflections or through portals, but somehow she sticks in your memory anyway. If there’s ever a Hall of Fame for "quietly iconic," Chell gets a spot.
Faith Connors
Maybe not as famous as some others here, but Faith deserves her place. Mirror’s Edge is the best first-person parkour you’ll ever play, and Faith’s red glove and city-leaping acrobatics are instantly memorable.
Madeline
Celeste is one of the greatest indie platformers ever made, and Madeline is what makes it work. She’s determined, stubborn, and endlessly relatable. I’ve never wanted to climb a mountain so much in my life.
Goose
The newest mascot, but maybe the most beloved. Untitled Goose Game turned one honking bird into the hero none of us expected but all of us needed. An awkward bird never looked so adorable.
So there you have it: the PC gaming mascot hall of fame. They may not have a theme park, but let’s be honest, nobody’s ever wanted to watch Mario lock eyes with Doomguy at the breakfast table. The world just isn’t ready for that much star power in one room.
8658; Liveticker zum Iran/Israel-Krieg: Iran startet nächste Raketen-Angriffswelle auf Israel
8658; 3 Tote und 91 Verletzte bei 6 Angriffswellen iranischer Raketen auf das israelische Gebiet
8658; PFLP: Irans Reaktion ist eine Ausübung legitimer Rechte und eine Abschreckung gegen ungezügelten israelischen Terrorismus
Israel hat in der Nacht auf Freitag Iran angegriffen. Nach israelischen Angaben griffen Kampfflugzeuge mehrere Ziele in der Islamischen Republik an. Dabei seien Militäreinrichtungen und Atomanlagen getroffen worden.RT DE (RT)
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Remember, remember,
the 14th of June.
When peaceful protests
made government swoon.
The ones in control
are beginning to dread.
Soldiers not willing
To shoot their friends dead.
The King has no clothes
and his power is waning.
The gibbous moon shines on
democracy straining.
We are the people.
You answer to us.
Now do what we say or
we’ll spill your guts.
Derek Martin
June 14, 2025
#nokings
It's good to see our congressional rep is at our local #NoKings event. I think they need to be.
However…
They said a lot of rah-rah words (which are necessary), but I heard no plans of action.
Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models
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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
To steer pretrained language models for downstream tasks, today's post-training paradigm relies on humans to specify desired behaviors.arXiv.org
#Fascists will always characterize their aggression as #selfdefense & they will always characterize your self defense as #aggression.
They control the #media so there is nothing you can do to prevent the "violent #protesters" narrative.
The articles have already been written.
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Swedish pension fund AP7 blacklists Tesla, has sold entire stake
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"AP7 has decided to blacklist Tesla due to verified violations of labor rights in the United States," the pension fund said in a statement.Reuters (CNBC)
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Back from a local No Kings protest. Absolutely gobsmacked at the size of the crowd.
It was good to not feel so alone. And the signs were AMAZING.
This Pride Month, there are many reasons you might want to protest & fight for your rights.
If you do decide to join the action, make sure to prepare properly to keep yourself safe.
Your smartphone is an essential tool to organize and report, but it can also make you vulnerable to the mass surveillance many protests are targeted with.
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Your phone is an essential tool, but it also represents a huge risk to your privacy and security. Understanding these best practices when it comes to securing your smartphone will help keep you and your data safe.Privacy Guides
Iran’s security establishment still does not understand where they are. This is an existential regime change war, not a bit of light evening sparring to be conducted in rounds of orderly miss…INTERNATIONALIST 360°
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So funny story at #NoKings today: On the way to rally, I played Peter Paul and Mary's classic protest song "If I Had a Hammer" for our "youngling" (12 y/o grand-nephew) explaining how it was significant for its use during civil rights and anti-war protests.
We start marching ... and someone starts singing it. 😢
To encourage the crowd nearby, between 3rd and 4th verses, I shout out "C'mon all you hippies!" and everyone laughed ...
... and then really started singing louder. 🇺🇲
J'ai testé une animation de #thérémine vocal au festival #NoWatt aux #MondesFlottants.
Ça a bien fonctionné...
A refaire !
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Coucou @Muriel de Relikto
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I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch
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A reimplementation of Stable Diffusion 3.5 in pure PyTorch - yousef-rafat/miniDiffusionGitHub
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ugh I hate to post public but inbetween getting hatecrimed bc the racist white neighbors vandalized our abode which I need to repair,
my arm gave out again from repetitive stress injuries of working 2 jobs for my already disabled family to survive. I have to get xrays + wait for a specialist just for a paper to approve more treatment while obviously the injury is impeding my ability to work.
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Biggest rally so far this year in #CharlestonIL, easily 350 - 400 people (which is good for our area).
Very aggressive trucks revving intentionally as what I'm assuming was a planned counter action.
But all in all, a really great turnout and much more energy than past events. Hope we can keep it up.
Mark Ruffalo on why he’s at the #NoKings Day event in NYC: "Because we see our democracy's in real trouble. We see a president who has made himself a king and dictator."
"We're disgusted and we're scared, and we know the only way to fight this now is for the people to come together."
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“What is true or false is what human beings say; and it is in their language that human beings agree. This is agreement not in opinions, but rather in form of life.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif stated that Israeli aggression is currently targeting Yemen, Iran and Palestine, but if Islamic countries do not unite and jointly resist aggression, they will face a similar fate.Max_Svetlyshev (Военное обозрение)
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Americans head to Middle East to participate in their national sport: dying for Israel
This is so exciting...
The Americans who can't have healthcare are ecstatic they are about to get something much better: an unwinnable war in the Middle East. Life just isn't the same when they're not fighting an unwinnable war in the Middle East, is it?
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We're showing up in #Minnesota.
#NoKings #FDT #GOPtraitors #trump @uspolitics #USpolitics #WeThePeople #protests @minnesota
@pluralistic On the paradox of the world's 7th largest fossil fuel producer having the worlds highest rate of electrical vehicles undark.org/2025/06/09/norway-e…
(the article doesn't touch on the fact that in addition to producing fossil fuel, Norway also has ~90% hydro electric power in the domestic electricity energy mix and have traditionally had very cheap electricity (though that have changed in the last couple of years...))
Norway's crusade to eliminate gasoline powered cars was years in the making. Can that achievement be replicated?Rod McCullom (Undark Magazine)
There were about 1000
people at American embassy in Ottawa! Enough to surround the building.There were tons of really clever signs. My sign had a slogan I copied from someone on Mastodon ... "No Truth Decay". A dentist came up to me with appreciation for that : -)
I think the crowd might have been bigger but quite a few people went to the Palestinian support protests which in today's case was at the same time.
Waymo's market share in San Francisco exceeds Lyft's
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If a data-backed trend plays out, Waymo could become San Francisco's biggest ride-hailing service before the year ends.Matt Charnock (Underscore_SF)
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*Gasp* another middle aged failed male.....waiting for the Law Enforcement connection.....
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#Minnesota #MinnesotaAssassin #USPOL #Terrorism #Fascism
Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.Ryan Pattee (KSTP-TV LLC)
“Suspect exploited the trust of our uniforms, what our uniforms are meant to represent. That betrayal is deeply disturbing to those of us who wear the badge with honor and responsibility,” he said.
Yes, NOW the Police look bad, NOW they do...../s
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"From our colleague, reporter Dan Boguslaw: take a look at the bio of the suspect in the Minnesota killings — at his security company, "Praetorian Guard Security Services"
Fash LARPer....seen action in Gaza as well....'Security'....hmmmm
#USPOL #DrVanceBoelter #Gaza #Terrorism #Fascism #Genocide #Minnesota #MinnesotaAssassin #VanceBoelter
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I wonder what things in Gaza and North Africa he saw and did....
...he's basically a mercenary for the Dollar and American interests around the world, and his latest job is murdering Opposition politicians back in the ol' US of A!
#DrVanceBoelter #MinnesotaAssassin #VanceBoelter #Gaza #NorthAfrica #Security #PrivateMilitary #Mercenaries #USPOL #Terrorism #Fascism
Melissa Hortman was a Democrat.
Murdered for being a Democrat.
Every headline should say so.
This was political terrorism.
Instead of receiving permission from Egyptian authorities to march to the Rafah border crossing, participants have been subject to hotel raids, harassment, arrests, and deportations.Ahmed Dahaby (Drop Site News)
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They also say they found flyers for “No King" rallies in his car.
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You want THE PC gaming mascot? It's Steve from Minecraft. No other character, not even Doom Guy, comes even remotely close.
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