Since I REALLY enjoyed #HopShot, I'd been telling myself to return to Jump King given it was a core inspiration. Confronted with the subtitle; "There is a Smoking Hot Babe at the Top!" you know what? I think I'm good, actually, and should simply move on to #BabySteps in terms of Foddian research!

I'm guessing some of the US presidents were somewhere on the spectrum, it just didn't happen to be labelled/diagnosed as autism at the time; they just really, REALLY liked trains or whatever.

Weird guys that are famous for their gameshow hosting abilities have revealed that the consumption of String Cheese may increase your chances of becoming a Gamer. The speedrunning community might exist because String Cheese was consumed by pregnant mothers?!

Well into Act 3, it's MUCH more obvious that a pretty full experience of #HollowKnight is required to get the most out of #Silksong; not for skill or training reasons, but because you'd miss all the subtle ways Team Cherry is playing on those specific expectations, fears, and experiences.

Truly experiencing the main difference between being an Aging Gamer™ and having what seems like infinite time/life ahead of you... You can't lure me in with "we added 10+ hours to our 60+ hour open world," man. I wanna hear about the director's cut where you trimmed 10+ hours of fat!

Holy shit, First Sinner. One shot. First try. Trick your brain into thinking you're skydiving or rock climbing or something potentially fatal today; the only drugs without drawbacks are inside you! I now need to take a shower. That's how drenched I am in fearful, adrenaline-tinged sweat. #Silksong

Being at the epicenter of the grand self-driving robotaxi experiment affords one a view of all the ways they're not ready to pull all the way up to a hotel so Important Man In $10k Suit doesn't have to angrily stalk half a block swinging his leather attache and pulling the door open in a huff.

Something that isn't getting talked about in the great #Silksong damage/health debate is that many of the "double-hit" attacks actually only deal 1 damage in glancing/iffy collision situations where they just barely grazed Hornet such that there's no "dead to rights" follow up...

Well, that's the bad ending earned around 50 hours in... (My style of exploration and wandering is like a permanent 40% metroidvania playtime inflation trait) Now to poke around for more abilities and perhaps transcend Farloom?! #Silksong

A machine made of meat that ingests coffee and poops out weird little guys at an alarming rate...

*Squints* Team Cherry dabbling a bit in Pokémon design? Would be a helluva thing to see @tbskyen.com review these red coral bugs as if they were an evolutionary line! What type(s) would they be, Ground/Flying? #Silksong

The only negative #Silksong experience I've personally had thus far is one of isolation; ridiculously cool things keep happening, but I don't have anyone to talk to about it, and vagueposting hard enough not to spoil stuff simply doesn't hold any appeal.

Standing in the elevator, you see a light switch mounted to the wall of the shaft on the other side of the glass, and wonder what the level designers of your reality might have hooked it up to...

More old ladies in video games! (Especially in roles other than Helpless NPC and Evil Witch) "The Crone" is a core cultural archetype, dangit, and gnarled/wizened old men play tons of key parts and get proactive narrative positioning by comparison.

Maybe I'm the strange one here, but given the whole morph ball thing, "Samus has a cool motorcycle" sounds inferior to "Samus becomes a cool motorcycle"

Deduction puzzle games like Blue Prince have rewired my brain to do inane things like this JUST IN CASE, and then get unjustly disappointed that the devs aren't on my exact bullshit easter egg wavelength.

Am I crazy for wanting more in-depth journalism on the origins of dumb memes? Half the historical documentation of our shared "culture" is gonna be, "One of the many random attempts at virality worked. No one tracked them down to discover what inspired it though." knowyourmeme.com/memes/why-do...

New Blog Post: About the Egg game - distractionware.com/blog/2025/09...

Sneaking suspicion this is gonna be one to watch... I guess this is Radical Fish putting me on notice to finally restart and follow through on the impressive #CrossCode!

#Silksong on the brain, transforming even the mundane details of a walk into game dev symbols and signs.

This has been my experience so far, with no boss exceeding ~10 attempts, which has given me a lot to think about WRT tuning targets. I'm not used to being the ideal skill bracket, with From and other 3D soulslike devs regularly aiming just over me and most of the industry justly well below...

Applying the Fortnite infinite IP crossover business model to MtG has sucked almost all the joy out of the longstanding tradition of creating custom cards with jokes and references... Anything remotely well done now just reads as some Secret Lair drop, transforming joy into cynicism...

*slowly, passionately clapping now that I've experienced what THOSE Hornet sprites we saw existed to pull off* ...Bravo, Team Cherry. I should've known!

The crest system is such a smart evolution of Hollow Knight's simple charm setup; impressive yet elegant! Shifting notch costs to class slots lets niche charms breathe, promoting more experimentation and less well worn, "this is the setup I'm used to." #Silksong

Now auto-translating all posts maligning Silksong's tuning into egregious requests for cozy devs to step up their art, animation, worldbuilding, characterization, sound design, and kinetic friction... -and/or laments that Team Cherry serves hard enough to goad you into having such a bad time.

A gentle reminder that some players who enjoy difficult games don't have the luxury of self-possession and impulse control you do around difficulty modes and accessibility features. Sometimes a singular tough-as-nails experience is designer-player trust and freedom from gnawing impatience & doubt!

I'm gonna be extremely disappointed if the evolution of Silkposting is just creatively lying about a game that's already shipped, instead of making things up about what Team Cherry is working on next...

It's so... lush! Especially in the sound department. There are SO MANY VOICES. Is there going to be a whole series of, "yes, I was the voice of [sonorous insect]" small time voice actor reveals? Imagine everyone trying to get you to "kai-lai-lai-lai-laai nyesh-ka-low, nyesh-ka-LOW!" #Silksong

Happy #Silksong day for all those who celebrate!

A tiny smart car just drove by blasting some EDM remix of the the first level music from Super Mario Land... Normally that would have been a delightful recognition, but today it's a source of anguish. I am surviving. The world of video games lives on without me; I am not merely the things I know.

All the cries of "Playing #HollowKnight for the first time a week before Silksong!" are reminding me of the way "game of the moment" FOMO and the desire to be part of the conversation drive people outside their usual patterns to play FromSoft games...

This "postmortem" (if you want to call it that; it's NOT formatted the way you've seen these at GDC) is wild! Would say we need more of this, but Strange Scaffold doesn't work like any other studio I'm familiar with, so who knows what that would even look like... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtLE...

Despite Konami jumping back into the fray with re-releases, it's heartening to see so many indies with #MetalGear vibes sneaking into the space. By the time Sony announces anything about what they have Kojima building, there's gonna be like 5 MGS PSX style spiritual successors out!

Becoming somewhat afeared that all this sexy Watto business will get back to Disney and trick them into thinking we need or want him to start popping up in shows or something...

So THAT'S happening. The landscape of post-Silksong unlocking world platformers is gonna be real interesting. Wonder what the new pogoing is gonna be... Which part of Hornet's kit will get ripped out of context, and why couldn't that have happened with Ori's bash?

"Kill the homunculus in your head that demands comfort and familiarity in play! At the end of the day, ludic friction is the only thing preventing all of gaming from fusing into one giant virtual blob of IP content you think at and receive dopamine from..." steamcommunity.com/id/xeneth/re...

Ah, I see Greg Longstreet (the CEO of Del Monte) has been hanging out with some silicon valley types... "There has GOT to be some way all this AI and robot stuff can pull Del Monte Foods through bankruptcy!" Sometimes companies that are trying to get acquired collectively go completely bananas.

we love that you made a graph about this 😍🥰

Really enjoying the chilling simplicity of #CaputMortum so far. Reminds me a lot of pre-Amnesia Frictional Games and the kind of FPS mods you saw more of when walking sims like Dear Esther finally gained some traction. Not being able to carry more than one item at a time can be TERRIFYING!

"No type of person that a lover of video games hates more than a game developer..." Hyperbole of course, but the relationship between Devs and Players is drifting closer to Dealers and Users, or Gamblers and their Bookies over time, so it may be less illogical than might appear on the face of it.

When you hear about MMOs at this point, it's basically just World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XIV, but props to the smaller games out there that carved out a functional little niche. (This post brought to you by my being made aware that Guild Wars 2 is still a thing and getting updates)

Even just watching my partner play through #Herdling, @okomotive.ch has completely blown any predictions or expectations I had for their games creative trajectory out of the dang water...

I can be monetarily forced to concede that creative soft disciplines like game design are being eclipsed by LLMs. But the kind of AIs replacing me don't understand idioms or turns of phrase well enough to conduct the interview I need to get a blue collar job, so... Feeling pretty great today!!!

Ah, the good old days when you could make minimum wage working in video game QA... Those jobs aren't here for you American kids any more, but feel free to do ad-hoc quality assurance in exchange for "Razer Silver, a digital currency that can be exchanged for rewards via the app."

A turn-based hex strategy driven arena fighting game?! #TheUnholyWar is a VERY ambitious hybrid genre piece that was ahead of its time, but felt underbaked because it only really shines competitively. Unhinged tuning and balance; the AI/PvE devolves into cheese country, so you need a VS friend.

I got an email invite to join/sign up for NextDoor yesterday... Obviously I'm not gonna do that, but where did that come from? Data brokers made a new link between email/physical addresses thanks to all the job searching/posting I'm guessing?

I too am somewhat spiraling at the Giant Squid layoffs. Timing indicates that success isn't relevant; the studio, (and by extension the project, the scope) was simply the "wrong" size? This was NOT the usual burst of contractors brought on to finish a project and then not being renewed...

Having your release displaced by Silksong sucks, but in some cases isn't entirely negative; what's left of games press wouldn't normally report on your date changing, but in exchange for being able to put "Silksong" in another headline as the cause, that might actually lead to more impressions.

Realized what was actually bugging me about the broadening use of "raw-dogging" in common speech. This is yet another case of incel culture managing to memetically infect all other branches of online communication, isn't it?

You know what, sure. "Out over your skis" IS an underrated idiom, and I WILL be putting it back in rotation. Yeah.