Gonna have a review in progress coming in hot for Hytale soonish, but overall I think the pertinent question is, "Wait, is this just Minecraft 2?" And the answer is, "For almost all intents and purposes, yes."

Read (or watch) how we're building Dawn of War IV for audiences both new and old featuring our creative director and yours truly! #DOW4

My hottest take about the birthrate is that we could have way fewer humans and that would be fine. We'd have to plan policy around it, yeah. But there were a quarter as many humans alive 100 years ago as there are today. There were like half as many 50 years ago. Gradual decline is okay.

a poem for a fascist

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

I live on the South Platte now, but I'm from the banks of mighty Fountain Creek, a tributary of the Arkansas.

There are some things I'd do politically if I could wave a magic wand that I think might be unnecessarily disruptive if we did them all at once, but I legitimately believe we could just cut the entire DHS and nothing bad would happen.

Drink water, love yourself, and imagine your enemies at least as miserable as you are

Meditation is kind of like speedrunning (hear me out) Normally when I'm stressed about something like a big deadline, I'll finish it and then my stress level goes from a 9 to like a 3 or 4 over the course of several hours. Meditation lets you skip that part where you're done but still stressed.

I still think about this about once a week www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Oz...

Reddit has recently decided it needs to send me updates from r/asianamerican and I am fascinated to know what combination of factors has led them to this conclusion. Like I browse Hololive and TrashTaste, I'm not even really on anime reddit.

🏁TIME🏁 #AGDQ2026 has raised a total amount of $2,443,414 for @preventcancer.org! Thank you to everyone who made this marathon possible, and to all of you for your amazing generosity & support!! See you all next time at #SGDQ2026!! We are SO BACK!!!!!!!

“I need things online to react to” no you don’t, read a book

Man, Bubzia has a really good argument for being the most dominant runner of all time. In terms of, the categories he does are so difficult no one else even attempts them It's not just that nobody else can do what he does as fast as he can. It's that generally no one else can do it at all.

I might as well just put this out there, but DMs are open if anyone wants to hire a writer/editor/multimedia person with: > 15 yrs experience writing/producing video & podcasts for major outlets (PC Gamer, IGN) > Known for fast, clean copy > WFH with HD game capture and high-quality VO capability

so true, bestie. hey real quick,

The same people who gave Ant-Man 3 the green light

So from what I understand, Pathologic 3 is actually the playthrough you usually would have done first if you played the original Pathologic, so despite having a 3 in it, it's a good starting point if you've never played 1 or 2. Do I have that right?

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

I've extremely successfully lived with dyslexia by learning shapes of hundreds of thousands of words and roots as essentially ideographs, but every time I see, like, a proper noun I'm not familiar with and it turns into complete alphabet soup immediately I'm reminded I'm really freaking dyslexic.

If they ran on boiling him in oil on television they would have a filibuster-proof majority

It is a well-known fact that women aren't interested in historical wargaming, and we only paint fairies and unicorns and princesses. As proof, behold these four completely blank images that do not feature historical miniatures I have painted. Fellow femmes, share your own! #Nerdlings

Ubisoft Halifax union to 'pursue every legal recourse' after studio closes weeks after union vote aftermath.site/ubisoft-halifa...

"can't believe we survived four more years of this guy" "captain it's january 2026"

We are under siege by our own government. That's not being dramatic. That's a reality. Despite this, we have not killed anybody. They have. Despite this, we are holding them off. We held the line in LA. We held the line in Chicago. We held the line in Portland. Solidarity, MPLS. We are winning.

It’s exhausting and disheartening and brutally sad, not least of all because fundamentally, it could be a different way. We could build it a different way. But a lot of people who say they’d like that to be true are, themselves, too afraid to believe it’s possible. I wonder who built them that fear

I got to visit King Art Games and talk about Dawn of War 4 pretty extensively. I also played a fair bit of the campaign. Keep an eye out this month for lots of Dawn of War stuff!

it would not be all ages appropriate to draw any of my leon fanfics

One nice thing about games as a hobby is you don't really pay a premium for the highest quality, at least on the software side. Wagyu beef is way more expensive than ground chuck. Single malt scotch is a lot more expensive than Dewars. But Elden Ring and Lords of the Fallen cost about $60.

This week @len.bsky.social joins us to discuss Fire Emblem, Zero Parades, Persona, .45 Parabellum Bloodhound, Divinity, and many many more games that are coming out/we hope are coming out in 2026! www.patreon.com/posts/most-a...

stirring pureflix biopic of holden bloodfeast starring kevin sorbo as a young bloodfeast growing up in the shadow of the first world war

Because they like swords and can't read. Saved you a click

noooo you can't just demonstrate to the american people that you can just do stuff. the government can just decide something needs to be done and then do it in an expedient manner. they're gonna start expecting all of us to do that,

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

I might as well just put this out there, but DMs are open if anyone wants to hire a writer/editor/multimedia person with: > 15 yrs experience writing/producing video & podcasts for major outlets (PC Gamer, IGN) > Known for fast, clean copy > WFH with HD game capture and high-quality VO capability

I'm bothered by expressions that have survived but no longer make grammatical sense. For example: "It drives me crazy." It would make grammatical sense to say that something "drives you to insanity," but without the preposition "to" indicating the direction of the verb "drive," it's nonsense.

Everyone with a public-facing chatbot should be held criminally liable for everything it has ever told someone to do. And if that kills the industry: good.

In a world careening down the path of ensittishrinkflation, I have to salute Taco Bell for always putting like a month's supply of napkins in your take out bag

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

Death (at least without the consent of the decedent) is a cosmic abomination that we should make every effort to abolish. It has no silver lining and it does not "give life meaning." I don't want to be told stories to make me feel better about it. I don't want to feel better about it.

I'll be talking more about it on the podcast, but this is the first game since CK2 that replicated the feeling I had the first time I really got sucked into CK2. This is something that has happened twice ever.

Terra Invicta has officially launched into 1.0! Defend Earth from an alien invasion while navigating complex global politics and expanding your reach across the Solar System. Take command of your fleet in deep, tactical space battles. Get it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1176470/...

Good day to be someone who ditched Office more than a decade ago. Sorry for you if your work makes you use it but if that's not the case LibreOffice is free and better in every way.

saw this guy as a guard at a slaver camp in Fallout 3

On an internet full of poisonous gamer subcultures, this competitive scene has a giant crowd enthusiastically cheering "trans rights!" shoutouts like a dozen times an hour Obviously every scene has its pockets of toxicity, but this community could have turned out SO differently

The extent to which Games Done Quick has helped to steer the larger speedrunning community - one of the most hardcore video game enthusiast subcultures there is - into becoming something so welcoming, inclusive and supportive astonishes me

"Friendslop" isn't real, but people love posting about it anyway: aftermath.site/friendslop-pea...

Now that the break is over, it's time to get back to work. Anyone looking for a producer, creative director or lead, writer/editor — freelance or staff — please reach out! I appreciate any leads, too. Stay sane and safe in 2026, everyone.