Were I the wind, I’d blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - Few of us can begin to imagine the horror of you -- with all of creation reflected in your forebrain. It must be like the highest of hells, a kaleidoscope of fire and writhing glass. Eternal damnation.

Subnautica 2 Preview:

Reject Slopenheimer www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

How Characters Change and Die: Interview with @chrisavellone.bsky.social Part II

ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it -- no larger than a single grain of malt. You don't have to do anything anymore.

🇧🇷Araponga 🌎Procnias nudicollis Conservação: Vulnerável *** Ameaçada de extinção *** 📷 Rudimar Cipriani

How Characters Come Alive: Interview with @chrisavellone.bsky.social

I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.

LLMs killed the em dash. It’s dead and there’s nothing we can do to bring her back. Stupid, shitty future.

If you have ever written or created anything that was published online in the past 30 years or so, you should be entitled to royalty checks from Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and every other data-scraper.

My best moment so far in KCD2.

"Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper." David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish (2006) RIP

The Invincible review:

Frostpunk 2 review:

Some of the best demos I tried out this summer: blockhead.cc/p/indie-summ...

The Alters preview:

Riven review:

INDIKA review:

The Clam Man Cometh: Interview with Martin Hanses

Inkulinati review:

The Thaumaturge review:

I might actually sell my Switch and use Yuzu instead, just to spite Nintendo.

"Nintendo, a lawsuit-filing company that occasionally dabbles in video games..."

Clam Man 2: Headliner preview:

Monomyth preview:

Finally got around to watching Poor Things. What a romp. Now watching this cool documentary on Alasdair Gray's vision of the novel, which is quite different from the film.

New Cycle preview:

New Star Citizen DLC Only Costs Customers One 30 Minute Video Crawling Around Oinking Like Filthy Little Pay Pigs They Are hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

Sovereign Syndicate review:

New Bsky logo is much better; it reminds me of Nabokov's Karner Blue butterflies.

Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! archive.org/details/Stea...

Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game review:

Alone in the Dark preview:

Best Audio Design for me this year was the System Shock remake.

I suspect the real reason Kojima makes games as he does is that it's a like a paraphilia. He gets off on making people go wtf did I just watch.

Kojima's translator is like an old Greek rhapsode who memorized the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Yesterday I had an urge to read the Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas in a new translation. I ordered a copy, but it's not here yet. I was looking for reviews of the translation and found this blog, Old Paper & Cats: book reviews and cats (and a skull) oldpaper.uglyporcelaincat.com/bras-cubas/

Mobygames should have been an independent non-profit. What a glorious fuck-up that arc has been.

This is my feijão-com-arroz. There are many like it, but this one is mine.