Products For Men (2023)

life is all about playing ps1 games with friends and swapping between spectating them while saying "i could do better than that" and then actually playing it and not, in fact, doing better than that

this article by Sam Kriss for Harper's is not only delightfully written, but also manages the impossible feat of making Scott Alexander sound like the most normal of person in the whole thing harpers.org/archive/2026...

hi everyone. im starting a bit late but im gonna do a thread where i talk about art i watch/play/listen to this year. except instead of calling it a media thread im going to call it an ART DIARY. thats right: its 2026, year of the ART DIARY THREAD

they should make a shin megami tensei game called SMT Diode just to confuse people trying to google either meaning of that term

here's a fun fact the all-powerful baboon lobby would prefer you not find out about. if you have electrical generation up to even a modest level, any contiguous formation of the little stones they throw at you can be used to arc electric death at these hateful apes

The Adult Analysis Anthology, the web's premiere destination for longform writing on adult games, is BACK with more planned essays than ever before, but we need your help to make it happen! Support the creation of high-quality sex-positive writing from diverse voices HERE: itch.io/s/180048/aaa...

got a girl from Qud and you know i becoming in her nook

"Fix your hearts or die" -- Guitar Wolf

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

i have a problem: - i imported my watch data to letterboxd - i don't want to give ratings - there's a movie i hated watching - i could rate it 0.5 stars but i don't actively hate it enough for that to be my only rating on the site so basically letterboxd should add a dislike button (spade symbol)

the average middle-aged whtie british couple gets racism and transphobia brainrot beamed into their heads 24/7 from both the direct british media and from whatever social media they're connected to. of course the kids will learn this, now with no dissenting voices from the groups in question

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I got an email saying that they cannot review email submissions, and only receive customer support questions through this form: dis.gd/contact I would try submitting a complaint through there.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read

there should obv be a game like pokemon mystery dungeon that's more explicitly therian, but it should also be more explicitly for ascii roguelike perverts. if i can't die on turn 1 by falling off my steed or get blasted by a wand of death with no warning then what's the point!!

started playing caves of qud

We put an Ö in the name of our Ouya game and it crashed their entire backend server three times before we figured out what was going on and had to rename the game

i had a good day today

himejoshi are some of the most talented people on the planet i tell you

one more thing about freeplay, and an issue that's been on my mind for a while (alt text available):

Livid and extremely sad to see that the most important institution in Victoria's game culture couldn't get the support it needs to run, already making do with shoestring budgets and incredible amounts of thankless, unpaid work. I love Freeplay, I owe it everything, and I refuse to let its spirit die

I regret to inform7 you ma'am but your son is dead. Your son is found in the Grey Hallway. The description of your son is "a poor soul who died in these hallowed halls." The son is wearing a backpack. The backpack is openable and closed.

this will make transfemicide easier, which is exactly what the british media, british government, and brianna's family want

the "we need to ban the internet for X Y Z" is an incredibly boomer policy created out of a situation where these people have abdicated their responsibility to actually craft meaningful policy that addresses bigotry, abuse, poverty, and dense and affordable urban community. thatcher lives

wanted to play some zeroranger tonight for the first time in a while and realised oh. i have no idea how to run most windows itch.io games on linux now. and it's too late in the night for me to properly look into the best way to do that... my curse.......

do we really need to keep coming up with new names for the cheat menu. do we have to keep massaging the term (in the interest of getting ahead of tedious people: i think this is a good addition video games should have cheats again, just call a spade a spade you know)

many of you are too zygotic to remember when, for a solid several years, the only high quality upload of the Azumanga Daioh OP on youtube had anti-vax swine flu warnings edited into it

anyway has anyone played a weird videogame or watched a weird movie lately

last year i kept being in situations where i was in a room to rest or talk to ppl, and other people would (without asking me if it was ok or even really being aware of me being there at all) do audible kink stuff with each other. so far there's been none of that this year, hopefully therell be none!

it's insane that i see so many people talk about how much algorithmic slop and for you pages suck, and then when someone moves over to bluesky people also recommend you add a feed that gives you that experience. not having an addictive for you feed here is an (unintentional) positive feature!

stuff sucks, its extra expensive lately, I wanna buy my spiro and some groceries, boost this, donate if you can. Stay safe out there! ko-fi.com/digital_emot...

Yay, Angeline Era is Overwhelmingly Positive (& 88 meta!)! It'd be a great subject for a design video essay. 3 possible topics (details in alt) 1. How beating levels changes the overworld 2. Combat Room shape & the secrets of Eye Gates 3. Positioning-focused bosses store.steampowered.com/app/2393920

girl who can't read scientific papers because she has a LaTeX allergy

i beat angeline era a few days ago and really really liked it. one of the most memorable gaming moments ive had in the last few years was me and my friend playing the game on call trying to figure out how to progress through forfeit growth, because id beaten the game without really seeing any of it!

the number one rule of twitter and its descendants is that individuals make posts with no context, to no one, as one off thoughts. but the audience reads posts in the context of every other post that has come before and with responsibility for every post that comes after

It takes joy and turns it into vindictive glee; it takes self-reliance and turns it into solipsistic psychosis; it turns love into smothering assault, pride into humiliation, families into traps, safety into paranoia, peace into discontent. It turns people into people who do not see people as people

how it's felt trying to do things with people again

my new years resolution is 480p. if someone releases a game this year and its text isn't legible at 480p we are teleporting them to the foggy woods and only letting them out once they complete 10000 sokoban puzzles (they have to push the blocks by hand and they're really heavy)

the High Impact Awards 2025, the most important awards ceremony that i just came up a few hours ago, is here. it's a list of media i like a lot but haven't had the time to write about them as full posts. i hope people discover new things out of it: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...

despite my emotional growth, my year was filled with work stress and isolation, and when i tried to fix these in Feb i got an injury i still have now. coupled with my hobbies not being fun anymore/new hobbies not sticking/the internet being less hospitable, i think this was the worst year of my life

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its that time of year again

The Devil's come to collect His Due. of the Devil - Episode 2 is now available.

There's the "I want shorter games worse graphics not kidding etc etc" phrase, how about "I want artists to be able to make mistakes and make weird unappealing shit sometimes and not starve"

ive been playing void stranger. i went into it knowing the kind of game it was so im enjoying the way it unfolds. and i like the fact that, somehow, i keep skipping stuff without realising the extent of what i skipped until later lmao