blacked out, woke up with 1600 new words on the children of lightning project. these probably won't see the light of day for a hot minute tho

Can anyone out there be or recommend a good webdev for But Why Tho?

unironically this is the title of one of my favorite Dillinger Four songs, I had no idea it was from Conan www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o5...

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I think it's tremendously funny that the *last* major bsky outage was the site DDOSing itself because of shoddy code. I wonder what caused *this* major outage that seems to also be attributed to DDOSing. What prize do we get if it's shoddy code *again*? pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...

i don't think esp younger game developers who are more attached to particular content creator personalities or subcommunities truly realize the value and importance of bigger tent stuff, especially as it goes away or becomes more precarious. it's bad for culture to live on a siloed internet.

even if it doesn't quite hold the same place as it used to, this is bad imo. there isn't any kind of similar game jam that is that broad and not community/content creator specific or whatever. hope something similar comes along to replace it.

while the site is stabilizing I think everyone should go listen to this episode of side story if you're interested in having a discussion about the type of game Marathon is/should be. directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

I would love to sing the praises about the Road To Vostok (and Marathon by proxy) discussion on the latest Side Story episode but I CAN'T because THE WEBSITE won't LOAD because EVERYONE WHO RUNS THIS SHIT SUCKS

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Reading from bits of The Storyteller, Walter Benjamin's obituary/rumination on the life and works of Nikolai Leskov. It doesn't occur to you at first but at some point while reading you realize that Benjamin is *practicing* storytelling in the way he weaves his observations on craft w/ Leskov's work

Unpleasant and brusque reminder that your AI generated featured image looks like lazy shit

I broke the top 300 in Oklahoma in Trackmania this last season. Which, listen, it's not good, but considering I was in dead last ("top" 1100) at the beginning, I'll take it

in that case oops I dropped something

I am not allowed to answer the question of "where do you get your games journalism and criticism from" because I can cheat and give you a big fucking list

man nah fuck that I'll fucking fight everyone

This is the first track on the Vampire Crawlers OST, and it’s by Yoko Shimomura, and it fucking goeeessssssssss brotherrrrrrrrrrr youtu.be/s4zN7PtCWsA?...

Thinking about Lilura1 and her incredible haterdom I think games criticism could honestly benefit from like, 1% of 1% of her level of grognard obstinance like if more critics were haters, had convictions, stuck by principles, etc. even when they were unpopular.

April 15 is Steal Something from Work Day! Bosses, landlords, and billionaires steal from us continuously. It's not just wage theft—they've robbed us of the entire world, reducing everything to private property, commodities, or wreckage. Let's snatch back what we can. stealfromwork.crimethinc.com

So I was just laid off from Vicariously. If you‘ve got an opening in PR/marketing and want to hire someone who does good work and has a family to support, I’m your guy. Any reposts super appreciated.

My husband was laid off and we’re kind of at a loss right now. If anyone has any leads on PR jobs, please reach out to him.

reading that blog by lilana1 has me thinking about Tim Yo from Maximum Rocknroll and how his definition of punk was too stalinist for the scene. when he died everyone still showed up to his funeral tho

posted a free update to Patreon! march-April has mostly been a back-end projects kind of month www.patreon.com/posts/brief-...

This is an incredible thread about the world's biggest hater. Puts all of us to shame. She's fucking ten toes down about Oblivion With Guns and she's not gonna budge.

Marathon just got a major update that changes the whole damn thing lmao

if there's something other than the German blog full of old white men happening today in terms of games critics internecine fighting it must only be between like two or three people, in which case I say: let them fight tbh

Coming soon to Critical Distance's special programming: The Games Critic Battle Royale. [undefined number] critics enter, only one leaves alive

lmfao

Moves of the Diamond Hand - out now! store.steampowered.com/app/2778210/...

Man are we about to enter the dumbest holy war since the last crusade lmao On one side: fascist Christians & zionists led by a guy who posted AI slop of himself as Jesus healing the sick On the other side: an interfaith coalition of Catholics and Shia Muslims and whoever else wants to party

oh no not the christofascists and the catholic church being at odds with each other!!

It’s going to become increasingly harder and harder for people to separate mass deportation from policing and Mullin and the administration are quite sure there’s no appetite for addressing policing.

Ooh the girlies are fightingggg

Woke up from my fitful sleep lamenting the death of UPN for some reason

not to give the game away but if you blame the media for individuals with grievances showing up to your house and either wanting to burn it down or shoot it up, insisting that their investigations into your history of being an abuser and other horrid shit caused people to want to shoot you, uhhhhhhh

Hell wasn't real until Trump posted that image tonight, then it categorically had to exist so he could go there

when the traxus free kits encounter a rook on their way to extract

do you think we'll get any evangelical preachers claiming the President can faceswap himself with the Son of Man and that that act in and of itself is not definitionally antichristian this weekend or nah

this is an excellent example of status-quo politics; the border regime we have was built up brick-by-brick by successive republican and democratic governments since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Both Reagan and Clinton sought to limit immigration in different ways thru regulation;

not to put too fine a point on it but this firmly includes architects of the Bush administration like Bill Kristol and any spawn of Dick Cheney's as well

pretending like the United States isn't objectively one of the greatest sources of unmitigated evil, pain and suffering in the last like four centuries is getting a little old

The only inaccuracy to Piker's statement is that it's actually the US government that's the biggest terrorist organization in the entire world, but that conversation makes y'all sad so

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Updating my website (jessmorrissette.net) with recent publications and syllabi for some of my favorite courses. - Media, Culture, and Politics - Politics of the Undead - War and Popular Culture - Politics and Video Games I'm teaching that last one again this Fall. 👾

*crashes out*

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thing I hated learning last week: there is a corner of the misogynist internet that believes a childless woman over the age of 30 should be referred to as a "hag"

if you play marathon you have good taste. come read my weird writing bsky.app/profile/uel....

Everyone should be paying very close attention to this.

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