feel like you could write an insightful book about why America feels like living in a death cult where everyone hurts themselves by getting into just how much and why we ignore the flu every year

abstaining from the devil while traveling this week but there will be some episode 1 thoughts out,,,soon

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need the 2000 word heated rivalry review from someone who knows too much about yaoi and sports anime

ICYMI

@chicagodissenters.bsky.social and Consumer Strike for Palestine remind us that the season of hyper-consumerism is here. As we navigate this time, they urge us to support comrades in staying committed to global solidarity with those around the globe facing the worst of imperial violence: genocide.

hardcore history dropping episode 3 on alexander a month after fall of civ's achaemenid episode giving me whiplash

ICYMI

(bravely) i wrote about star wars

This month's column is in fact NOT a column. What could it possibly be?! What madness has @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social let me unleash?!? How much of it involves genres other than games?!?! Well...

stuck on a bus for a few hours incase anyone else wants to do a libel I can gawk at for 20 minutes

forest fire yuri

Been feeling insane the depiction of indigenous people is not a more salient criticism of these movies cus they look pretty and you don’t read good sci-fi

FFC review: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...

Went to a punk show in a different city

tall fern

the real problem with traveling on mass transit is you can’t listen to fast car correctly

playing god (setting up scrivener cloud saves)

(watching flower and asura) ayano takeda we need to talk

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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"

Alright, it's time to ruin your holiday budget! It's big sales recommendation thread time! I'll be updating intermittently, so check back. This year has had some ups and downs. Income isn't awful, but less stable. If you want to support my work, tips always go to buying more indie games to research

Holy shit, Retro Dodo, I said "call out" not "challenge!"

object lesson

imo if all the richest ppl on the planet are at once begging you to lower your standards for art and media consumption you can bet that it benefits them more than whatever they selling your ass on and should consider the opposite of what's suggested

the street fighter trailer was ok but i prefer the original www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw96...

Death of a Wish is 50% off, lowest price ever!! Get it bundled with Born of a Dream for a nice holiday action rpg catholic horror experience!

In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.

(bravely) i wrote about star wars

Ten years after its release, the failure of The Force Awakens is that it didn't sell us nostalgia—it just burned it for fuel.

autumn is one of the best to ever do it and, in a just world, would be a salaried and celebrated voice in this space. fighting back tears reading this one.

fantastic piece -- understatedly fiery, taut, each word an arrow

In Ruins. An unlikely game from me, I grapple with what all is there to say about war games during war. On Battlefield 6, destructible environments, and gardening:

Please do not purchase Luck be a Landlord on Xbox. I will be making a $10,000 donation to The Palestine Children's Relief Fund to (hopefully) help offset the revenue the game has generated for Microsoft.

damning

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

maybe this time Loewe will find his audience (elder zoomer mall weebs)

karen mentioned!!!!

kinda crazy to realize I've never published anything about star wars would'nt wanna wade into that tho

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PR emailing about review codes for a game releasing next year in the week before Christmas, as I'm trying to finish up the last of my 2025 backlog www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE--...

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Another one of those articles where it's like 'this is why we started Bullet Points'. Lucky to be able to publish this. Please read and share.

My most recent thing for @unwinnable.com isn't calling out anyone specific, but make no mistake, it *is* meant as a call out.

lute choir where have you been all my life

If we get 100 new subs by the end of the year we'll be adding at least one Final Romantasy fan fic into the Final Fantasy x Politics issue courtesy of @derekkinsman.com. Make him regret it folks!

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"-the ruins of Battlefield 6 are evocative of the faux ruins of other representative mediums. The color grading and lighting mimic the distortions of lens and film. Its most immersive audio settings, War Tapes, promises to echo not combat, but mastered recordings of it." tight, solid reading here

In Ruins. An unlikely game from me, I grapple with what all is there to say about war games during war. On Battlefield 6, destructible environments, and gardening: