"In terms of building a consistent and, one might be tempted to say, living world, Trails is eating everyone’s lunch." @emilyprice.bsky.social digs into the social connections around food in the Trails in the Sky series:

In which I argue trails in the sky meets Anthony Bourdain's premise that “through food we may also love life and, ultimately, the world.”

It's Steam sale time again! Misericorde Volume Two has its deepest discount yet, and Volume One can be picked up for 50% off (!!!). Read it for the first time or give the gift of miserable failnun to a friend 🗡️

In which I argue trails in the sky meets Anthony Bourdain's premise that “through food we may also love life and, ultimately, the world.”

Please help support Lubna and Rami if you can, and share their request.

For my Edge debut, I reviewed Consume Me!

I’m in the minority here but I appreciate harder games like Silksong and Hades 2 that are stretching themselves out via difficulty so I have more time to spend with them. I don’t really want to be able to finish Hades 2 in three days, I’m glad it’ll last me til my next flight at least.

Jane Goodall, from a March 2020 Paste Magazine interview: www.pastemagazine.com/article/jane...

oh no, the exchange rate 😭 still so excited!

a spider can fly on a current of air

I hate the pirate ship area in hades 2 but I'm going there so melinoë can hang out with her boyfriend. this is just like being the person with a car in high school

I think there should be a washi tape pick and mix store where you can buy a few inches of each kind of tape and pay by weight. The designs are so cute but I know from experience I will never use up a roll

The Haters won. But the Table of Success is forever. tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com

I loved living in Portland. this news is making me sad

It’s been five years since John Prine died of COVID-19. If you’re so inclined (and able — it’s long), here’s an essay I wrote about how his songs helped me accept a life with the debilitating, deeply marginalized chronic illness ME/CFS. 1/3

Displacement is taking its toll on Samaa and her family, including baby Talia, who is not one month old yet: please help in any way you can 💕💸🍉

hades 2

And to toot this horn again, if you really care about growing this space, about moving the work forward, then please think about your position relative to the object you are reviewing and if you should not seek out someone else to do it.

Odai is out of medicine again. Please send what you can to help him get meds. 💔

I made chocolate chip pumpkin bread and I’m going to start hades 2. (:

Once again I wanna thank everyone who signed up for Unwinnable during our mellow subscription drive. That's how Unwinnable survives! More subscribers means more writers (and more pay for writers) and more writers writing about what THEY want to write about. Keep it going! unwinnable.com/subscribe/

it’s me!

there is something coming out that I’m super excited about every 2 weeks from now until the end of november. Hades 2, FFT, Ball x Pit, Demonschool, Mina, Unbeatable… and I’m definitely forgetting some

Consume Me's biggest success is how it balances a goofy tone with real, tough shit. And it does that by giving its lead character (a fictional version of @qdork.bsky.social) a relatable problem: The desire for control. youtu.be/VewGiAY3_kQ

today I got ads for weight loss medication but also, a PSA about heavy metals (not scientific) and a literal stalker app for looking up peoples’ addresses. seems great!

We reached the 100 new subscribers we needed to unlock a Final Fantasy and politics issue for you folks! We'll start production soon with the goal of publishing it in early 2026. Thank you SO much for all of your help with this drive! We couldn't have done it without you.

I thought this game was really interesting, i might revisit it for an end of year roundup thing. (which— if you have interesting indie games I should check out, tell me!)

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

Hi friends, imagine Naser is your child... He urgently needs daily Thyroxine treatment ,it's essential for his life. Sadly, donations have slowed down, and I desperately need to raise $500 to provide Nasser's medication and food for my family. Any support means the world ❤️🙏 gofund.me/edd687b8

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just got the twisted child ending on my lunch break… nothing else in silksong will be hard now

I’m getting back into baking so I can have an afternoon pastry and coffee. Here’s blueberry scones I made this weekend

This month I wrote about Trails in the Sky (og), cookbooks, and what makes a world feel alive.

This month I wrote about Trails in the Sky (og), cookbooks, and what makes a world feel alive.

Ola should be enjoying her life as a single young woman but she’s supporting her whole family including her little sister Janat. Please chip in for their survival if you can.

consume me is a nice contrast to the out of control GLP-1 ads I see on the subway every day. I may or may not have a piece on it coming out in october...

I just did the courier quest (iykyk) and doing a run back that was formerly a huge pain totally effortlessly felt so cool 😎

I think it'd be very difficult to understate how difficult it is to deal with displacement... please help Samaa and her family in any way you can 💕💸🍉

Hades is 5! Anyway play Pyre

Hades is 5! Anyway play Pyre

My latest for @endlessmode.bsky.social is my entry into the remakes debate. They should have purpose and justification to exist for reasons other than dollar signs, and the literary tradition of revisions and new translations of classics like The Iliad have already shown the industry how to do that.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

I worried I had lost my touch with digital art in the past year but it turns out drawing with fountain pen does make you better at drawing on a tablet where you can actually erase stuff

I’m going to 3 masks-required art events this week and I appreciate them, however it’s really made me notice how few events have even a mask recommendation anymore especially in other fields/hobbies (and academia…) + there’s the worry these events that *do* recomend masks will stop due to pressure.