America continues to speedrun the Enlightenment in reverse

They drove on into the darkness and the moonblanched waste lay before them cold and pale and the moon sat in a ring overhead and in that ring lay a 1995 Lotus Esprit S4 with its own cold gray and nacre seas.

"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."

I don't like it when they show the muppets' legs.

RIP to one of the surrealist architects of my young mind: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

Had me dying. Clip via @alexgoldennba.bsky.social

Real question: are any Democrats talking about—or is the mainstream media asking them about—civilian deaths? Or, is it all just like this pulled quote where everything is about “affordability” and no one gives a shit that real, actual people are dying?

The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

Got a new book, by a friend in games academia. Immediately floored by the inside quote.

i have the same experience telling people about the old cassette plug-in for the atari 2600. a friend had it, but i guess it was rare. starpath!

Everytime I bring up this Game Boy memory card, people look at me weird, but it existed!!! You had to stick it in your game boy and then stick the game cartridge on the other side and flip a little black switch at the top! There are pictures of it and everything!

It's so sad that the Alamo Drafthouse has been ruined.

There is an element of truth in the cartoon that makes the situation truly pathetic. Our sons and daughters are the cannon fodder for the sons and daughters of the oligarchs!

Now that we've shipped the first big update to The Killing Stone in Early Access, I may have some time to put together my notes and make a proper talk or article about the card battle AI. In the meantime, here's a taste! Figuring this stuff out has been one of the highlights of my career.

Truth. And crime is at a historic low. (Except for the crimes perpetrated by their own Regime.)

The Washinton Post Editorial Board, 1/12/2025

I've waited so long.

"What kind of TSA PreCheck Member are you"

i admit, the look of this game is very appealing right now

“The indispensability of a liberal education is the freedom from being tied to the zeitgeist of one’s age or situation to love what is true, good, and beautiful, and to be initiated into the world while cultivating a love for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-li...

now and then you stumble onto something shocking, funny, illuminating, and brutally truthful www.doctornerdlove.com/this-is-why-...?

great background lighting coloration

Somehow still trying to decide whether to fly out for #GDC26. Been in video games since '93, yet perpetually excited about the ones that excite me and the people who make them. Normally I sleep very well, but I am coasting on 4.5 hours today. Missing my friends. #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

If some people are beautiful because they are so fascinatingly ugly, there must be people who are ugly because they are so fastidiously beautiful [that they] have achieved technical excellence at the expense of erotic charisma. —Becca Rothfeld on the phenomenon of Looksmaxxing, in The New Yorker

folks, it's bandcamp friday today. and i just happen to have a big brand new album out - my most ambitious musical project ever - that you should buy! ellaguro.bandcamp.com/album/saint-...

Be careful what you wish for... The extraordinary @questiongames.bsky.social have released the trailer for The Killing Stone, a project I am immensely proud to be a part of. Play EA on @steampowered.com so you too can dance with @voiceofobrien.bsky.social - er - the Devil, I mean 😈

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Wow, if you like immersive sims or the games made by Looking Glass, Arkane, or Ion Storm Austin, you should wishlist Distant Shore: store.steampowered.com/app/3892370/...?

not sure if this is a real account (@citrini.bsky.social), but... i enjoyed this scenario modelling, just for the thoughtfulness, regardless of how accurate it will turn out to be. www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

Cairn is one of the most remarkable games of the past 10 years, let alone 2026. It was a delight to chat with The Game Bakers about their sublime climbing game, and how, in an increasingly crowded market, they stick by a simple philosophy: "We make games like we cook" remapradio.com/articles/cai/

They should make taps for mashed potatoes. Just turn the handle, mashed potatoes come out.

I speak with Harvey Smith and Ricardo Bare about the creation of Deus Ex: Invisible War. ("I get a lot of interview requests for Deus Ex 1. I don't get them for Invisible War.") Also, an article I've been wanting to write for a long time: how speedruns and speedrunners actually work, in detail.

i sincerely thought this was the Onion

I just realized I never posted this trailer. It's really good. Anyway the game is out now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yUK...

VERY excited about this occult deck builder.

I finally re-watched the "Trek" Black Mirror episode, Callister, which was better than I remember. And then I watched the sequel. So good!

RIP Catherine O'Hara! People are rightly remembering her big roles, but I will always love her for her work with Christopher Guest and his company of amazing actors.

while he's vile, don't let the regime hang this on one man-weasel. it's all of them, explicitly or implicitly. it's their way of thinking about wealth, worth, and person-hood. none of this, "don't worry, we got the one bad apple." this strain of rightwing hate rises up over and over. it's insidious.

I'm pissed off and alarmed at our (doomed, moronic) regime, and I am frozen-in at home, so I am trying to distract myself. 28 Years Later is great, but if it's taught me anything, it's that Rafe Fiennes would play an amazing Jean-Luc Picard in any kind of Next Generation reboot or flashback.

the sphinx doesn't mean to speak in riddles. she's very isolated, out there in the desert, and sadly her communication skills were never great even before they deteriorated. also low blood sugar makes it worse.

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

aligned with oligarchy, our government is destroying science, healthcare, and education. doctors and medical organizations are breaking with this totalitarian nonsense. "no, actually, the polio vaccine is good..." now this, levels of vile propaganda we used to know from bleak dystopian fiction.

their commander or whatever accidentally increases my appreciation for sean penn's character work in One Battle After Another

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RIP. Thanks for making one of my favorite films.

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business