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Wanderstar is a heartfelt, word-based RPG that wears its anime inspirations boldly while telling a wholly unique and engaging story. Read @exalclaw.bsky.social's review:

"They phased in and out of sync, just the right amount to remain human while playing music that disregards our usual natural affinities." @rubeck.bsky.social sees Beau Navire play live after over a decade apart:

PSLF changed my life by allowing me to take jobs that I could never have afforded to take without PSLF. Please comment by TONIGHT to oppose this harmful attack on a [checks notes] GW Bush administration law that changed many lives, including mine.

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times. (1/3)

Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.

For @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social, I wrote about Mafia: The Old Country, its contradictions, and Pope Francis' Laudato Si'. Special thanks to @lewisgordon.bsky.social for the inspiration. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/09/17/n...

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

this is such a great piece and it's a true delight to get to work with Matt!!!

Do you have a passport? Community organizations have been working to help queer and trans people secure the ability to travel out of an increasingly authoritarian America. Here's the story of one passport clinic in Atlanta, Georgia. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

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Great piece by @youmeyou.bsky.social on Mafia: The Old Country & "the magical space of a well-executed game world." Every environment — lemon grove, market, or mansion — is an "audio-visual cacophony," possessing something of the texture of life itself. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/09/10/a...

Words included in my Nuremberg script: kill, murder, suicide, hanged, genocide, Nazi, holocaust, Hitler. The video is still monetized. Using bullshit algo-compliant words like unalive, sewerslide, mustache man, etc. is not just embarrassing - its NOT EFFECTIVE.

Been thinking about this all week; but really this just brings a bunch of stuff bubbling up that I've been sitting on for way longer. On the death of criticism: noescapevg.com/games-critic...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

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Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

Criticism is dying, for video games and all arts, and by foregoing reviews Silksong helps speed up the process, writes @gracemachine.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/article/silk...

I'm beyond happy to announce that I have an article published on @unwinnable.com It's been a wonderful experience and I'm very thankful for the opportunity. unwinnable.com/2025/09/04/t...

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This is a killer interview that I was so pleased to get from Luis. Don’t sleep on it!!!

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

"I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

"What is a person without their past? Would your body without any memories still be you?" @vehement-ly.bsky.social reflects on memory and the act of looking back in Severance:

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reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.

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Gavin Newsom is a demon. Truly. Just a vile excuse for a human being,

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feeling very seen by @jhensliterature.bsky.social’s piece on achievement hell for @unwinnable.com: “So many of us are desperate to feel like we’re working towards something in a decade of stagnation and outright regression.” unwinnable.com/2025/08/15/a...

I think the thing we're doing at @unbreaking.org is *exactly* the kind of thing so many people rely on LLMs for. We take the (apparently wild!) position that getting as close as possible to ground truth—with our human brains—is better than working from plausible machine guesses about vital events.

Kind of damning of games criticism that it’s still positioned as “hey I get to play that hype new game first” rather than something necessary in order to advance the cultural understanding of games as art

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Y'all need to stop using Duolingo. Your library probably gives you free access to Mango or other language learning programs which haven't been sloppified.

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I have a project I've been working on all of this year: it's called DESCRIBE WORLD. it's made up of zines and free games and a new podcast feed where I do whatever the hell I want. the first pod ep is a 6 hour episode about criticism with @nochorus.bsky.social ckunzelman.com/describe-wor...

on the one hand language follows usage and policing it is futile and on the other hand I believe this p strongly & have a similar schtick about calling one’s work “content”

"Playing through Detroit: Become Human, it seems unbearably short-sighted in its view of humanity." After playing Detroit: Become Human in 2025, @rubeck.bsky.social finds its future visions lacking:

Shin Godzilla is back in theaters today and to celebrate I republished an old Tumblr post about my thoughts on that final shot. breakingarrows.substack.com/p/372-words-...

The popular perception of critics has never been great and defending the field often comes across as self-serving but in my mind the job has never been just about me. If it was, I wouldn’t really be a critic. I joke that it is, but ‘having an opinion’ isn’t actually the job.

We already saw this happen in videogames. A genuinely independent and critical press began to emerge, Gamergate happened, the industry sided with the Gamergaters, videogame press largely returned to its 90s tendency toward enthusiast/hobby press, slowly died and was cut into irrelevance

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