Every time I want to like GOG they do the stupidest thing possible. At least once a year they fuck up ao, ao badly. Considering I first found out about them from the flak they caught for falsely claiming they were 'shutting down' almost 20 years ago, I should be surprised.

For all the love they get, I can't stand Remedy games. They struggle to find a tone and don't feel like original games, they feel like cobbled together references and out of context clips of tv shows. Their arthouse vibe dies if you know what shows and pop culture they shamelessly steal from.

"You lose such an extreme degree of creative specificity." As Demi Moore and Martin Scorsese rave about AI, Kane Parsons, who recently became the youngest director to ever helm a #1 film with "Backrooms", is no fan of AI in filmmaking.

Artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.

I am only halfway through the show and a few weeks late to the party but Jesus episode 4 of Widows Bay was one of the funniest, creepiest and most personally affecting episodes of television I've seen in ages. Also has my favorite trope of of captivating scene with blink and you'll miss it horror.

So glad Rue Valley has ways of going 'you built your character wrong so you can't continue playing. You wasted hours of your time and there were only two solutions and you can't complete either of them. The Inspiration you spent to unlock these quests are wasted. Fuck you.' Awesome. Uninstall.

Happy pride month. My wife is bisexual. I'm biromantic. I have gay, bi and Trans people in my life and they deserve as much respect and rights as anyone else.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Time to delete your Linktree!

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

So this happened and I thought a car or explosion hit my building. A meteor was not on my bingo card. Been a funny sort of day. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

I dont know what algorithm YouTube decided I should be part of, but I'm getting tons of recommended videos of right wing and bad faith game reviews yelling at games I genuinely like and it's just making me so fucking tired.

...I just realized the few game's that released this year that I picked up on launch were all music themed (Dead Pets Unleased, People of Note, Mixtape and Waxheads). I wonder if my subconscious is telling me something...

The only reason he was ever labelled a genius is because his clumsy mishmash of ideas creates the perfect gaps for nitwits to mistake for depth and the juvenile industry was screaming for an auteur to validate its artistic credentials.

why is everyone shocked that the video game auteur who only cares about stuffing as many celebrities as possible into his vanity projects is in on AI?

My wife got me my Steam Deck a few years ago and it has been a wonderful device. It was such a thoughtful gift and it was well within our price range. It's become essential in my free and travel time. If they paid these prices for them I'd be mortified.

I dont know whats changed, but opening Bluesky shows accounts I follow yelling and screaming at each other over videogames and politics and trying to start drama and beef nonstop. The Twitter days are back baby. Great.

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Some of the comments I've gotten on my Zero Parades videos, man. It's one thing to not want to give za/um money and I even say that in the video but I refuse to insult the developers who went out of their way to do what they could to ensure that what happened will never happen again. :/

Happy world goth day. My unemployment officially ran out today, its been a week since my beloved dogs passing and I see no hope in the future after visiting two doctors to try and fix me this week. If that doesn't make me feel dark, hopless and melancholy I dont know what will.

Fuck this is genius and may have single handedly cured my depression.

Oh boy, both Mechanicus 2 and Zero Parades are both out today and I don't have the time or money to play either. Wild that two of my most anticipated games just kinda snuck up on me in my current state of mind.

Oh shit I've reached the stage of depression when im reading old Something Awful image Lets Plays. That basically means Im a lost cause at this point.

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

I lasted until noon before crying about her being gone. I cant take this. I miss my puppy so much. It wasn't fair that she got cancer we needed more time with her. She was so happy right up until the end and just wanted to give everyone kisses. I dont know what to do anymore.

This is the last picture Im taking of her. I dont want to say goodbye. I keep lying to myself that she will be okay but the cancer is too strong. Taylor was a very special dog.

I barely talk on bluesky, but with my dog nearing the end of her life and my own being unheaved I'm...not really talking much. If you message me and I dont respond im sorry. I just want to try and be there for her and my parents.

Made the mistake of typing Mixtape into Bluesky and mixed in with praise are people saying its a game for pedos (no?), racist (what?) nostalgia bait with no gameplay (huh?) Or is wrong about its music choices (what the fuck?). Its like Gone Home "discourse" all over again and its just as dumb.

Uh oh Mixtape is going to be a strong contender for my personal game of the year isn't it. It's giving me all the feels.

If you can, please help donate/share this for my friends mother. She has pancreatic cancer and needs to start radiotherapy, and unfortunately they don't have the finances. A little goes a long way with conversion rate. If the language barrier is making it hard, I've attached the English version.

I wrote a messy run through about the messy history of a beautiful, complex movie for Fango. Find out some of the puritanical reasons you couldn’t watch Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS as intended for nearly 60 years. www.fangoria.com/directors-cu...

Amberapire is one of the coolest looking games I've seen. It looks like a city builder mixed with Citizen Sleeper and that sounds right up my alley.

Not in a good mental headspace right now, but finishing Esoteric Ebb helped. A phenomenal RPG that really takes a good look at political systems and the (imagined) belief of what makes us masculine and strong in a fantasy setting and deconstructs them. This will probably be my game of the year.

Probably my final big vinyl purchase for a while, but had to show off Riven from Fangamer. Its still such an amazing world, and the soundtrack is so...otherworldly and haunting.

Finished People of Note by Iridium Studios and I really had a great time (more games need an option allowing puzzles to be turned off because the last few HARD). Soundtrack was the highlight. Might have the most adorable end credits sequence I've seen with a song showing off the people who made it.

Took me YEARS thanks to scalpers making me wait for represses, but finally have all 4 Phantasy Star vinyls to complete my collection.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice remains one of my favorite games and one of the ways I deal with grief and anger, so it's very timely that this arrived when it did.

So uh technically one of those enthusiasts in this gif is me, because the creator needed an npc and I fit the bill. I made it. Through no work of my own, I am technically immortalized in a video game. My digital self will become a god. I will become the next SHODAN.

My unemployment runs out in three weeks and there are no jobs hiring that aren't 'AI' based. My health is getting worse. My wife's family's dog is so old im scared for their health and my own dogs tumor is progressing so rapidly that vaccines are poinless now. Life's unfair and I'm just so tired.

You can find the campaign at launchgood.com/1948 where Rasheed will have to figure out how to promote a Palestinian-made game about Palestinian history, all while his people face genocide and apartheid. Palestinians are not even allowed to ask the world if it wants to hear their story.

"Disco Elysium depicts these men not solely as individuals making bad choices, but also as products of their environments: imperialist violence, the drug trade, and economic plight." - from @madisyn-writes.bsky.social 's first for the site www.mothership.blog/disco-elysiu...

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

At long last the full Chrono Trigger soundtrack on vinyl. Now I just need the complete Chrono Cross soundtrack and my life will be complete.

I've picked up a few really intriguing RPGs released this year will every intention of playing them, but life's been so...let's be kind and say 'hellish', I keep putting them on the backburner and getting sucked into cutesy life simulators and crafting games. What has happened to me.

(every dad game is also bad because they are never about being a dad, they are always about some dork's dramatic fantasy about what being a storybook dad might be like)

Alex and I took on a massive project yesterday and built storage for/moved every single record we own. Now we just need to catalog and organize them. ...send help.

I hated Graveyard Keeper but when they were giving it away I did encourage people to give it a try. Man do I regret that now. Fuck their embrace of AI. I know they co-developed Bloomtown: a Different Story which I DID love, and that hurts.

It is never just about porn. Even if you don't care about porn, it's going to spread until it engulfs everything you love

They're going after horror, we said this would happen