Manhattan, May 2025

Manhattan, May 2025

Manhattan, May 2025

Your friend who loved the city

Manhattan, May 2025

Manhattan, May 2025

I will always choose to make The Straylight Run.

Manhattan, May 2025

Citizen Sleeper (XSX) Everyday I looked at the hand I was dealt and tried to play it to the best of my ability to keep my failing body moving. I bit my lip and crossed my fingers hoping the moves I was making would be enough, would make it in time. Other left, but I stayed. Ohh... yes, the game.

Manhattan, May 2025

Brooklyn, April 2025

Brooklyn, April 2025

Brooklyn, April 2025

Wario Land (GB) I don't think I have beat it since I was a kid. Masterpiece. In the voice of an Irish SF podcaster, "It's a game about a fat lad who can't run very fast or jump very high, and you'll never believe this, he's greedy." I joke, but the game is so much defined by being NOT Mario.

Brooklyn, April 2025

Queens, March 2025

Games of the Year 2025 Inscryption (2021) Astrobot (2024) Sin and Punishment (2000) DK Bananza (2025) Star Wars Dark Forces (1995) Wipeout 2048 (2012) Senua’s Sacrifice (2017) Another Crab’s Treasure (2024) Suicide Squad (2024) Resident Evil 4 Remake (2024)

Flintlock the Siege of Dawn (PS5) Not as memorable as the team's previous game Ashen (because that one was super weird), but also a way more polished experience. Though also what feel like an unfinished one. There just aren't enough weapons / items to feel like you can make more than one build.

Queens, March 2025

I have no boughs and I must deck

Dr. Sleep (2019) Long overdue. That it survives the impossible task of following The Shinning and has enough moments that are distinctly its own makes this a success. All the things that King frequently uses about the terrors "out there" and "in here" still have the power to get under my skin.

Brooklyn, March 2025

Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom (STM) When it apes Mario 64 or its level or precision platforming the controls and camera just aren't up to the task. When it tries its own thing and lets me zip and boost around a level discovering paths forward it is a delight. Fortunately more of the latter than the former.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Brooklyn, May 2nd 2025

From Hell: I could have sworn I had read this. I had not. I had seen images of it in comic shop catalogs in the 90s. I had seen it on other's book shelves. I had probably bounced of the dense line work and glacial pacing if I ever tried picking it up. Now those things are what I love about the book.

Brooklyn, May 2nd 2025

Lot of shit things happened this year but on the other hand I just scared my cat laughing after suddenly remembering that Fat Joe tried to claim the Taliban both took a day off when michael jackson died and were shown on CNN solemnly body popping in his memory.

Maison Ikkoku vol 1: Solidifies that this is my favorite of Takahashi's works. The Rom-Com beats land with me more in this grounded story. I enjoyed they way all generations and romantic statuses are weaved into the main plot. People! They want you to find love but they ALSO want to torment you.

Brooklyn, May 2nd 2025

Final Vendetta (STM) Nothing flashy, but incredibly polished. Some painstaking animation and sprite work that only suffer because it came out in the modern brawler era. Your foes mostly get you by surrounding you, but that I can see them flanking me in a way that feels natural is kind of amazing.

Brooklyn, May 3rd 2025 6:25PM

Invincible (S1-3) The 1st season is SLOW, especially since it has been memed to death. But the 2nd and 3rd which grapple with the 1st's never ending fallout do a lot to keep me on the hook. My favorite character being the hard nosed head of Global Defense sure says something about my current outlook

Manhattan, Jan 3rd 2025 4:25PM

Manhattan, Jan 3rd 2025 4:14PM

VWestlife has been putting in the deadpan delivery work for old tech heads like myself. Please enjoy this video he made highlight an old piece of video gear I used from 1999 until the early 2010s. youtu.be/OTOChbbTRgs?...

Donkey Kong Bananza (SW2) Super fun in the moment to moment but cannot sustain itself in the long term. Everything that is a blast in the first level becomes routine by the end. It's a hard call, do you spice things up or do you let the experience remain something you casually chip away at?

Manhattan, Jan 3rd 2025 4:11PM

PYPY - Sacred Times: Synth laced garage psychedelia. The kind of music that feels enough like an occult ritual that it can still hit me when little else can. Shadows cast by strobe lights climbing up the empty church walls music. pypy.bandcamp.com/track/sacred...

Need some Parappa on BlueSky.

Manhattan, Jan 3rd 2025 4:03PM

Manhattan, Jan 3rd 2025 4:00PM

Manhattan, Jan 3rd 2025 3:56PM

See ya down the road big guy

Manhattan, Jan 3rd 2025 3:53PM

Providence: I feared Burrows' art would cause me to bounce of the work, but in time I came to appreciate the labor that went into telling a story composed almost entirely of conversations. There' a good portion of the work I could do without. But rarely have I felt so on the ground / in the moment.

Usher voice: “Happy birthday Xbox”

Tonight taking in the chill air as I stepped out from the mist of the forest the music started to pick up

Manhattan, Jan 3rd 2025 3:53PM

Virtua Fighter 4 Evo (PS2) This is where the series took a turn to being more reactive and expressive in the play over the high speed guessing game of VF1-3. Just that little touch of being able to cancel from one move to another connects you so much more to your fighter. Still looks great too.