I have seen some idiots defending the Valnet “pay per session” model as a meritocracy for writers when it is actually, very obviously, a machine explicitly designed to destroy writing. Paying people based on raw traffic financially incentivizes the fastest most disposable sludge imaginable

increasingly curious about tastemakers in games. thinking a lot about how much i do/don't align with the ongoing canon of "10/10s" if any of us perceive a difference in taste between us and the shrinkingly small critical space, we probably have favs that no one gave a 10, right? tell me about em!

Mondays

this game is a masterpiece

could i feasibly play every platform-fighter? there cannot be that many of them, right?

every single person at any of these websites should take notice. This is bad in a lot of obvious ways, but it's also a sign of how things are going at these sites

Manifesting the Kingdom Hearts collection for Switch 2 with new content. Since the Switch 2 is a handheld it's the perfect opportunity to restore the handheld games!

the boys in the back just doing their jobs are my powerful than i

when exactly does Yoshi & The Mysterious Book sour? Increasingly believing it to be a masterpiece lol

everyone please send help my sense of superiority is making it IMPOSSIBLE for me to understand this comment

Jake, I gotta tell ya: it’s a cool, sunny morning in Chicago. I listened to the second half of this episode on a morning walk with on eye on the cloudy blue sky.

🧚‍♂️ HOW will we talk about the Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake? WHAT are you "allowed" to reference in a review? How do you decide what a game is 'TRYING TO BE?' 🎙️CRITICAL ERROR PODCAST: youtu.be/Fp85DM2Vy0E?...

been writing some good stuff on Pokemon Silver while participating in an ongoing book club hosted by @jakesteinberg.substack.com . would love if you gave it a read! medium.com/@andrew.bolc...

an important Nintendo Music update

“negative” criticism is just as much participation in a marketing machine as “positive” criticism. Marketing already decided the topic and convinced you it was important enough to talk about. If you’re still talking about X on cue, you’re still inside the machine.

I think I am over posts about how social media is bad they remind me of parties in high school where kids would go "this party sucks" but just stand there all night

what a run! i like destiny 2 a lot and i don't think this will be the end of this type of game from bungie. an extremely acceptable way to wrap this one up, i think

🧚‍♂️ HOW will we talk about the Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake? WHAT are you "allowed" to reference in a review? How do you decide what a game is 'TRYING TO BE?' 🎙️CRITICAL ERROR PODCAST: youtu.be/Fp85DM2Vy0E?...

$5 to get access to our BONUS POD! New episode just went up and I am on my hands and knees begging Peter to tell me something FUN GET THE WHOLE SET OF BONUS PODS AND SUPPORT CRITICAL ERROR: patreon.com/criticalerror we have had INSANE growth over the past 2 weeks and we want to keep it going!!

should I get into Hockey?? (90% for Gritty)

bought a house :)

we have a critical error topic for this week....... but maybe you have a better one?

climbing over my peers at the press conference, clambering up to sit on the tallest reporters shoulders, shouting as they drag me away QUINTA, QUINTA HAVE YOU READ MR BOOP variety.com/2026/film/ne...

I think we use “what it’s trying to be” incorrectly when we use it to run defense. “What it’s trying to be” is found in the text. It’s about thematic and dramatic intention. Not realities discovered outside the work and then retroactively applied to excuse it.

took me like a week to finish it but great article

on such a kick playing older games i am considering purchasing both a PS3 and Wii U somebody stop me

my beloved

Chris Rabb wins! We got it done!!

Insanely strong piece from @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social that I would like to submit into conversation with the thickening: buttondown.com/curmudgeondo...

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voting for Chris Rabb today 🫡

stray thought - when a game like LEGO Batman claims to be a "love letter" or ultimate collection of moments from the character's history, it kinda feels like the referential content is 97% just the movies everyone knows and never actually the comics??? Idk

started this on stream today and it's immediately and obviously a must-play. I really don't think it's only because I went to school for creative writing in NYC, either! Really drawn in by the power dynamics if being a young adult, how much of that is imagined, how much of it isn't. Really neat

the stream is ready twitch.tv/jakenoseit

i texted a friend this morning and sincerely asked them if they would download the suicide squad game and play with me

replying to someone's piece of crit with a post has resulted in less substance and more shadowboxing as of late huh

the primary negative response here is almost always framed around the idea that i failed because what i describe doesn’t align with the reader’s personal experience. as though criticism’s responsibility is to confirm a preexisting emotional consensus instead of account for my own encounter.

I AM VIBRATING youtu.be/XmcIjxwLJcY?...

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 achieves its ideal form completely outside itself. The story becomes easiest to love once nobody is actually playing it anymore. WE ARE ALL BECOMING MORE THICK: jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

CYCLOPS COMING TO MARVEL COSMIC INVASION youtu.be/A-JSojXoPCc

please everyone i just want to play Yoshi & The Mysterious Book

it's a love letter to love letters

excellent collection of pieces this week yeehaw kyogre

I think "Nintendo is trying to get Star Fox right" is an incorrect appraisal and what's actually happening is "Nintendo is going to OPEN YOUR GOD DAMN EYES this time"

maybe someone at SGF just wants to slide me a copy Xenoblade Chronicles 3 👁️👄👁️

When you walk away, you don't hear me say "Please, oh baby, don't go"

this headline might be 2 years late but the most surprising thing about the 3/DS resurgence to me is a middle school teacher told me more than a few kids in his class are playing them too

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Gen 1-3 Pokemon rules all proper nouns are CAPITALIZED