Spinning up the ol' Ko-Fi again to cover some looming bills that are gonna hit between now and next Thursday. Not an emergency, but if you've got a buck to spare that isn't otherwise accounted for and you like the work I do (or just the cut of my jib) I'd be appreciative ko-fi.com/noescapevg/g...

don't start with this whole "there is no antifa organization lel" or "heh doesn't he understand that it's just a ~*state of mind*~," like, that dumb motherfucker just finished saying Tylenol caused autism, it's not about whether he's correct it's about whether his intimidation works

Look man if the federal government happens to find where we put the antifa funding can they let me know? I need to pay the electric bill

Rather than permitting the Trump administration to frighten us out of resisting, we must understand this broad, vague, and performative executive order as an effort to intimidate. It should catalyze us into urgent organizing, not paralyze us. Only collective action can keep us safe and free.

I have put together a SIXTY PAGE PREVIEW of Escape Velocity, available now for $3 members and up! Go check it out and support indie games media! www.patreon.com/posts/escape...

THE RETURN OF THE FUCKED UP KING

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

New video coming in hot, on youtube and patreon. I will elaborate. thank you for your eyeballs

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

If you'd like the whole story behind Consume Me, from its long development to life after winning the IGF award, you can hear it on Post Games.

I relate to this game, because it looks like my experience with disordered eating. It isn't all gloom, dark corners of the internet, and toxic memes. It looks like a normal, happy, colorful life. And so, it's easier for your brain to give it a pass. Plus, a fun game is just more welcoming!

I used to say ”I had“ an eating disorder,” but I’ve returned to saying “I have.” It never went away. skinny culture is feasting on the return of y2k fashion and the breathless Ozempic media coverage Consume Me couldn’t arrive at a better time to help people store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

Maybe the rapture will happen and take all the fucking assholes out of here ahh, when you say it like that the fantasy becomes so much clearer

I cannot stress enough how I literally woke up with this person's article link in my hands going "how did I end up here" and it fucking slaps. Absolutely nails how jarring FFXVI is in terms of its bitter, bitter misogyny, and how that casts prior games in such a strange, sickly light.

So when final fantasy sixteen came out I tried to write about it. Two years on I tried to finish that essay. Might be a lil shapeless? But here medium.com/@angsltersis...

At this point I don’t even remember where or how I saw this essay, I only know I woke up looking at it and it’s the best takedown of Final Fantasy XVI I’ve read to date and it’s almost scary how the essayist’s bead on the game matches my own medium.com/@angsltersis...

It’s disingenuous for the Bsky team to be like “you can just go elsewhere if you don’t like our moderation horseshit” because unlike Mastodon/the Fediverse there isn’t a metric fuckload of other ATproto instances to decamp to. And part of this is that Bsky itself was dogshit at promoting federation.

Other trans writers on here are taking the opportunity to push their books atm so I thought I'd stop worrying about looking opportunistic for a moment and shill the trans cyberpunk noir mystery I originally drafted in 2019. The world is vastly and grimly different than it was back then. 1/2

15 received so far, thank you. i only really need like a hundo i think to get enough soup to get till next payday, by which point they'll either have paid me finally or i will be more covid than person, if i get that ill delete this, if you dont have the means a share is appreciated. thanx

i didn't wanna have to do this but work is dicking me around for week and a half's worth of pay, covid is destroying me and yet im expected to be on call fulltime all of this coming week if anyone has the means to help w/ a few bucks until these assholes pay me what im owed ko-fi.com/plasmasword

I have put together a SIXTY PAGE PREVIEW of Escape Velocity, available now for $3 members and up! Go check it out and support indie games media! www.patreon.com/posts/escape...

While LCRW gives live updates from the Kirk memorial, I’ll be giving updates from outside. Follow along for both (if you care lol). This sums up the energy outside — lots of trash, lots of bad merch, medical emergencies everywhere you look. Also content warning because the bigots are out in force.

Let’s get weird- we will be watching the memorial today, this will be a thread.

I'm NOT saying Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 are racist or nazi-coded or anything of the sort. Just maybe, like you would if you start hearing sus shit come out of the mouth of a scandinavian black metal band's lead singer, maybe keep your eyes peeled when playing them

The writer of both Hellblade games (and the director on the first one) doesn't think Charlie Kirk is racist. kinda recasts those games in an odd light imo

The Republican Party got its first Actual Fucking Martyr and they still can’t fucking keep themselves from spray painting “Blacks Rule” on their own fucking driveway and calling it a hate crime.

I interviewed @sssuda51.bsky.social about Romeo is a Dead Man, making sure everyone on his team gets credit, his working relationship with co-director, Ren Yamazaki, what makes a character "punk rock", wrestlers, and a Batman game featuring BLACKPINK. www.shacknews.com/article/1456...

Fuck a bluesky blackout, we need a whiteout. Cum everywhere, a week of moderators being unable to escape The Cum.

“The algorithm will be controlled by America” actually you know what I’m good with Singapore holding onto it. Hell I’m gravy with china doing it, it’s fine. I don’t need Mayor McDipshit in the White House beaming his stupid face to the app like “time for your big, beautiful two minutes hate”

I’ve been on the Slam Frank awareness train for six months. Sorry everybody, welcome to Hell

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding Riot Munitions : And How to Defend against Them crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a... — @crimethinc.com

who cares lmao

I've been working on this all day. I finally figured out how I wanted to lay out my book, and it roughly corresponds to the goofy themes my website has been over the years

god I'm making something REAL fucking ugly and it's gonna be great

Where I’m at on this is like, fuck LLMs, fuck AI, shit’s the weapon of the enemy, etc. but this really just sounds like McConaughey wants a digitized archive of his papers and journals and shit. And as someone who *literally just* finished digitizing all their notes and writing, it kinda fucks.

I’m pretty sure there’s an auto repair shop where this whale used to be. It’s in the parking lot of Supermercados Morelos and less than a mile from my old LCS

driving into this thing to get a new paint job so i'm not wanted by police helicopters anymore

Between this, getting suspended for sending Charlie Kirk off with the salutations his tiny faced ass deserved, the constant, *constant* banning of Palestinian people, and the site’s general attitude towards trans, Black and other marginalized people as a whole, it seems like the end of the party.

The last time we lionized a photo of a marginalized protester waving an American flag amidst tear gas that protester “mysteriously” ended up dead a few short years later

I cannot wait to play Penguin Colony. Gonna be my game of the year whenever it comes out.

Tired: you shouldn’t buy an Xbox because its price is increasing $20-$70 across the board Wired: you shouldn’t buy an Xbox because Microsoft’s hands are stained with the blood of the Gazans it helped slaughter

Palestinian Voices in Games is a network that aims to help game developers in Gaza and the West Bank bring their stories to life.

You should also consider supporting @skyboxcritics.com, just saying. Help us pay our writers (a very diverse group from all over the world) write cool things about games/TV/film and so on.

the worst case scenario of all the worker-owned personality-driven subscriber websites we're getting lately is that in x years they all explode like a dozen tiny Studio ZA/UMs and each journalist goes on to found another tinier journalist equivalent of Longdue or Summer Eternal

Him definitely falls apart in its last act, but I don't think it's *quite* the tire fire some have made it out to be. Lots of solid ideas that don't coalesce the way they need to, but it's the kind of weird mess that makes for good conversations after you've seen it. My review:

A condition took away the use of my hands. Silksong helped me rehab them aftermath.site/silksong-hollo...

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Trailer for our new #inidegame called Penguin Colony! We are collaborating with Lenval Brown (Disco Elysium, Ultrakill) to bring this unique re-imagining to life www.youtube.com/watch?v=aylG...

"it's not real activism if you're not leaving a paper trail" —a bunch of you weird motherfuckers

Palestinian Voices in Games announced - a network of more than 50 industry professionals supporting Palestinian video game creators, with 4 games currently receiving help. (Read more: Palestinian Voices in Games)