Ooooh bad discovery (read too much about jaws after watching it for the first time last year and now can’t watch it without being annoying about jaws trivia)

"Beaver, transformed in two directions" by Leslie Mesei, 1967. From the book Computer Graphics, Computer Art

image from @benwildflower.com

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This is for like 87% of everything happening now

Berenice Abbott, Woman wiring an early IBM computer, from the 'Documenting Science' series, 1938-58

Doodling at the restaurant paper tablecloth.

This is *insane*. An absolute insult to writers and their labour.

Ok, this is happening! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVq0...

i'm thinking about that shrew

beestung is now accepting new work for The Pleasure Issue, interrogating the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic through all genres (and art!). We can't wait to read what you've got for us! 👄🐝✨ More information: beestungmag.com/special-call...

so Horses was a problem, but Valve I guess is fine with this racist crap that flagrantly violates at least two of its content guidelines and has 300+ reviews that all almost certainly violate those guidelines too kotaku.com/racist-plant...

I wrote about replaying the original Borderlands! And I only mentioned Mad Max ONCE!

Game out today. ICYMI:

[Morrowind at Night #3 | Still on my way to Balmora, more mushrooms | 15.05.2026] I really like how those giant mushrooms look from below. #sketchbook #tes

So fuckin personally offensive to actually be in the mood to sit down and write for once and have to go waste daylight at my day job

i got really annoyed about marketing again. i spent two hours writing a big blog post about best practices for setting up your itchio pages. you have to do what i say from now on, okay? i made it so easy and clear. patreon (but it's free): www.patreon.com/posts/taylor...

one of the things I'm learning w/r/t the Granta AI scandal is that we need more people to be loudly critical of shitty writing?

Last year I put together a guide to help people get off US tech — and that includes Google. There are a lot of alternatives there they will help you make a plan to pull away from Google services, and all the rest of them too.

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

hate to spoil a kicker less than I love to celebrate a great kicker www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ze...

Accessible Restroom #critterposting

Don’t talk to me about olga tokarczuk, I’m mourning.

Reading other ZP reviews now that mine is out and I truly do think there is so much to talk about with this game and I hope we don't let conversation die too quick. I have spent all week in Charlie Day red string board mode. I'm flipping switches I didn't know I had. I got shit to say let's go go go

Florentino Perez:

It’s true: I wrote about Zero Parades for PC Gamer and caused a lot of destruction on accident. No word on if this means anything.

coffee addict

Tuesday 😭

I feel like one of the things I say most of late is “you can do hard things!” — which we all need reminding of from time to time.

16/5/26 - nocturn

YOU - “The wind told me to talk to children. Let's roll.”

video games

I didn't write about the game because I don't want to play it, but I did write about discourse, social media, blogging, and nostalgia pcvulpes.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/e...

a challenge of criticism rn is all these cultural spheres colliding in ways you’d never know. a vapid take on tv goes viral because the OP is clearly anime pilled and no one knows this. Gamers bringing their idiosyncrasies to movies. Genre lit obsessives doing the same to everything else

good read

video games require players to buy into an ecosystem before they try “a game”, unlike a film or book — outside mobile —& that means that the perception of what the ecosystem is drives the capacity of games to grow their audiences, & most people only ever hear about AAA which is so narrow in appeal

The main thing is if you use the word spicy unironically to describe your personal reading habits I know exactly what your bookshelf looks like and you should check if those sprayed edges are flaking.

Heeey Brother! -2026 Another armour study

GOD. Spicy is a baby-talk ass designation deployed specifically to express discomfort about sex

Tapping the sign so hard my finger breaks into a million pieces

as someone who worked on bg3, I fully agree - it's so utterly hypocritical how these platforms treat sex and eroticism - they want to make bank off big releases (and payment processors conveniently look the other way when this happens!) but strangle entire swathes of content from indies

1,000% yes, this is my thesis for how we progress: "Another reason is that we are desperate for a record to cite as we build on each other towards new conversations that develop into new ideas and ways of thinking about games (and, yes, new ways of thinking about games writing, too)."

Replaying Borderlands 1 is a lot of yelling “OH FUCK THERE’S FALL DAMAGE” as you’re actively falling

I don't have any takes on mixtape i just think people can grow up in places that aren't the PNW.

Yeah, this stuff makes me incredibly exhausted too. Whenever some revelation comes out regarding a studio or artist, there's always a bunch of people who are publicly, loudly EXCITED to finally get in their kicks that they've been saving for when they can morally justify it. Absolute coward shit.

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

Watching antti paalanen - aerobikki crawl up my on repeat like watching a sinking ship fill up with water