The Avengers Doomsday Chris Evans reveal trailer has the stinkiest "This Is What They Took From You" ICE tweet vibes

God it’s actually crazy that I beat the Escapist

Oh gross, the fampany got worse

Each year Black Rose/Rosa Negra engages in a bottom-up conjunctural analysis. We do this both to understand the correlation of social forces and their emerging contradictions, and to refine our strategy for intervention in the moment. Read it in full below: www.blackrosefed.org/conjunctural...

This fucking state has no respect for trans people living or dead

Thing I did not know until four minutes ago: Heated Rivalry was made by Jacob Tierney, the co-creator of Letterkenny

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 5/5

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5

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so here's a fun problem for you: what happens when a content creator who by necessity trucks in speculation over small bits of narrative in a game suddenly has access to the game's narrative director and at least one voice actor seemingly at-will? How does that change the discussion of "lore?"

genuinely, straightforwardly terrible

I think one of the more pathetically sad things about that Greg Grandin piece about Noam Chomsky is the way it tries to portray Chomsky as a doddering, low-information old man who "didn't even know what Saturday Night Live was" while also trying to uphold the general fiction of his personality cult.

i think that if you are a member of the games media disgusted by this (and you should be) you have to really, genuinely ask yourself what the difference is between this and saying "Microsoft is on the BDS list but [game] is good in XYZ ways"

I've been catching up on music from this year and I gotta say, the main shit that keeps me paying attention are tempo and melody. If you're constantly two-chording shit or going below like 90bpm I'm gonna turn your shit off consistently.

In a slightly fairer world all of my friends would have gainful employment in media and Bari Weiss would be doing The Free Press part-time between shifts at a marketing company to a patreon subscriber base of 25 people

The Escapist: Blue Prince used AI too, so nyahhhh Everyone, including the Blue Prince devs: uh... source? The Escapist: I asked ChatGPT probably

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ever since the nerd allergy to sports has kind of weakened there's been some weird shit going on, like: The Denver Broncos' 2025 12-2 season is being attributed to Umamusume, of all things.

That's a wrap on Skate Story. one of my very favorite games of all time. Makes my heart feel full.

incredible review of Avatar: the Third One by Walter Chaw. "Cameron is, in a sense, no different from J.K. Rowling. He found a weird fucking drum, and although he has the resources to do anything else, he’s going to beat it until he’s dead."

With Critical Reflex being such a major player in the indie space, these accusations of covered up sexual harassment and unfair labour practices are all deeply disappointing and distressing. I hope this all gets tackled quickly and decisively. noisypixel.net/critical-ref...

we love to see it

Every time I tell myself I’m constitutionally disinterested in games like The Sims I see quote chains like this

there's a great interview with a bds coordinator in here where she explains much better than i could that its not about purity, its not about guilt, its about about applying strategic pressure in a movement of solidarity over the long term

if there's one takeaway i hope the audience has from this video (though doubt they will) is that this is not about consumer ethics. please resetera stop derailing every discussion of bds by going ok should i feel bad if i do this? can i do this and still be ok? literally not about you

the detail about IGN not running a single solitary article about the boycott is actually crazy

i appreciate its directness over what the boycott is, how its strategies work and the recent victories it has had. at this point it is pure wilful ignorance on an unfathomable scale to throw your hands up and be like ah whatever bad things happen in the world my gaming doesnt make a difference

really important video from pmg to the point where even complimenting it feels in its own way like a damning failure because this is a couple independent games journalists covering one of the most sophisticated systems of extermination in the history of humanity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

I still have most of these prints if anyone wants them? There's also Bandcamp: satellitesound.net and Ampwall: ampwall.com/a/andrewelmore

Some other methods as well. Again I am so so sorry for posting any of this, especially right now. But 26 months is a very long time to be out of work and it's not looking particularly hopeful out there any time soon. paypal.me/amelmore venmo.com/code?user_id... cash.app/$andrewmelmore

Help Andrew out if you can.

got bamboozled into looking at a stencilpost again

“Don’t buy the war crime game boy” going up on the shelf next to “don’t support the publisher that also does war crimes” and “don’t play the video game that enriches a terrorist billionaire”

lmao

Eight days ago it was like 13 degrees outside. On Christmas Day, next Thursday, it’s supposed to be 76. I hate weather

The mindset shift needed here is to acknowledge that while Matthew Yglesias is real and harmful, climate change is indeed something the oil and gas industry tricked the public into—now with the assistance of @nytopinion.nytimes.com.

I don't want to shit on anyone here except if you're doing markedly worse at covering a boycott of a whole ass video game console manufacturer than PC "Sponsored by Game Pass" Gamer I don't know what to say. When doing your best looks like nothing at all that's really, really pathetic.

damning

idk man the whole point of a boycott is that it slowly gathers steam over time. you can't rsvp to a boycott, and asking why someone didn't talk about it sooner (especially when they've been talking about issues surrounding a given boycott for ages) kind of feels like useless browbeating to me.

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

Antifascists have been saying for years: They will find a way to criminalize protests no matter how peaceful you try to make them. Demonizing other protesters only made this easier.

"Tim Pool had a punk roundtable you should check it out" why do you want me to suffer so badly? what did I ever do to you

I got Shantied watching a YouTube short and now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier

Respectfully, your reporting didn't cite @atlantaantifa.bsky.social who originally broke the story of Patriot Front's eastern Tennessee compound over a year before you reported on it. atlantaantifa.org/2024/01/30/r...

Man I made the mistake of reading that greg grandin piece about Noam Chomsky in the Nation and lmao it's like the academic marxists are taking Chomsky's unveiling as, at barest base, a hanger-on of power worse than any anarchist I've seen talk about it

may we all never be used as a "teachable moment" to such a significant degree

The Arctic Eggs developers are back with About Fishing, a surreal fishing game that's equal parts Dreamcast and David Lynch. www.avclub.com/about-fishin...