reiterating what I've said before: I'm not going to yell at individuals for "failing" to adhere to the boycott. BDS itself has tiered guidelines reflecting different levels of commitment. but I am going to give media people some fucking side eye getting excited for a new Gears game in public.

Scenes from LA: SGF does not have the E3 sauce because the Figueroa doesn't have a game ad on it

Hey, remember this? Well, for entirely different reasons than last time, it's happening. I'm looking for any of the work below, and frankly anything else.

How many more devs are going to give this exact same quote about their game

enshittification will come for just about everything that is useful in your life and you'll have to pay more for using it, whether that be in money, time, or sanity

God of War

I scanned all my Magic cards into ManaBox over the last few weeks and it got me thinking I should probably track some of my valuable Pokémon cards and my eyes about bugged out of my head when I checked the prices on the cards in my top loader binder.

Does anyone have recommendations for a dual-monitor mount that stacks the monitors vertically? Thrifted a third monitor but there's no space on my desk to add another horizontally.

everyone's talking about the hammer but the sleeper hit of Mina the Hollower is the SHIELD: a weapon with a BASH, a GUARD, a SHIELD SURF, and (holy shit) a PARRY!

Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Definitive Edition) - Nintendo Switch 2 Version

now

I also reviewed, and loved, Mina the Hollower. I could spend forever diving into its world. Yacht Club knocked it out of the park with this one.

I haven't meaningfully scrolled through this site for like, a week now and the moment I start to again you all accost me with weapon durability discourse.

SYKE It's the intro now.

Sometimes "writing" isn't writing at all. Sometimes it's research. Sometimes that research is manually counting (and re-counting) how many blocks wide and tall Pokémon Red and Blue's map is so you can do the math for Kanto's dimensions in pixels for a dumb, fact-based segue that'll probably get cut.

tbh I kinda wish I could get a pair of smart glasses that isn't bogged down with AI or cameras. It'd be nice just to try out a tech-enhanced version of something I'm wearing every day anyway.

Playoff hockey is so goooood

Steam Controller production lab

Petey Piranha is a games industry plant save to drafts

Nice to see my baseball team be talked about for something other than being terrible this season, I guess...

What if… she was my Commander

Been a week and no update either way. Kind of driving myself crazy waiting to hear something.

Cut my genus into species That’s how I like to sort. Evolution, cross-breeding Don’t give a fuck about Kingdom seeding.

I was hired as a consultant for a game last year and essentially all they wanted me to do was play their game and tell them how I felt about it with other games from the genre in mind. It's a broad field and latching onto it as a bad thing is very, very weird.

Fox MCCLOUD (Scottish) Peppy O’HARE (Irish) Falco LOMBARDI (Italian) Slippy TOAD (Frog)

Great day to remember that Falco Lombardi is a Vietnamese Pheasant and not any sort of falcon.

That was the funniest way a shadow-dropped Star Fox Direct could have gone

Nintendo is not a serious company

If you remember Ted Turner for nothing else, remember him (and definitely not Will Forte) for berating Conan O'Brien on his brand-new TBS show while displaying his penchant for naming things after himself.

Timeline full of bangers from my favorite games of all time tonight.

Fixed it

always yeah

Quite frankly they’re all bangers because Motoi Sakuraba is THAT DUDE

Not sure I play enough Pokémon in-person to justify this but after dismantling all my pre-rotation decks and picking up some new cards I'm on track to have nine or ten different post-rotation decks built by the end of the week.

I forgot how nerve-wracking it is to have to wait to hear back on a job interview.

I’m happy to say that I’m contributing to this! I’m excited to have the chance to write a bit about a franchise that changed my life in celebration of its 30th anniversary. You can back us on Kickstarter right here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...

"You like Krabby Patties, don't you Squidward?"

Round 2 in the bag. Should know early next week if I got it.

Got called back for a second interview the next day, in an hour and a half from now. Let’s go.

Well, it’s out of my hands now. Felt like it went very well and I’m 100% convinced I am the person they need for what they are looking for but that self-doubt always creeps in.

Pretty huge job interview in four hours. Landing this will be genuinely life-changing for me and my family. Send me your best vibes, thoughts, prayers, spirit energy, whatever you've got.

Greatest sport on earth. Playoff hockey is insane.

Going to a Pokémon TCG League cup tomorrow and haven’t built or practiced any post-rotation decks. How cooked am I?

My hands and feet when I take my adderall and forget to eat:

"Mike smiled, and his canines and incisors were white and sharp. The smile itself was a mere flexing of the muscles around the mouth; it never touched the eyes. They retained their original dead blankness." — @stephenking.bsky.social, 'Salem's Lot

fun idea tonight :)

How is there still not a card scanner app as robust as Manabox for the Pokémon TCG? Everything else I try either sucks at scanning altogether, doesn't have all the cards I'm trying to scan listed, or doesn't have an easy way to change what edition/variant the card is if it grabs the wrong copy.

Guess who just realized that he can log all the birds he’s taken pictures of on vacations over the years in Merlin Bird ID? I’m a habitual bird picture taker and newly into Merlin and this is huge for me.

I KNEW this was going to be rad