it goes back to reality having a liberal bias and the defensive crouch that forces on people who can't distinguish impartiality from neutrality

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

We hear “stick to sports” too much, but let’s be clear here: Team USA itself refused to stick to sports, eschewing representation of so much great American culture for, uh, Da Troops and nothing else.

Had a blast chasing a milk pyramid scheme, talking to a wall, trying to flirt with an angel, eating trash, and trying to be a good person in ESOTERIC EBB by @chrisbodegard.bsky.social @rawfury.bsky.social. Check out my review at @punishedbacklog.bsky.social : punishedbacklog.com/esoteric-ebb...

My fave #AWP26 sesh was Prose, Poetry & Play: Game Design as a Literary Practice w/ @natmesnard.bsky.social, @brigittewinter.bsky.social, Erin Roberts, @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, @davering.bsky.social. I wrote a recap at @punishedbacklog.bsky.social: punishedbacklog.com/prose-poetry...

obaa/sinners discourse

What if in 20 years an actor named LeBron B. James comes along and people spend weeks arguing about whether him or Michael B. Jordan made better films

Holy shit MBJ!

Javier Bardem rules

Ryan Coogler and PTA have Oscars already, I’m happy

Sean Penn deserved the Oscar but shouldn’t have won it, if that makes sense

Congrats to Uncle Buck star Amy Madigan

They’re absolutely killing it this week theonion.com/deadwood-now...

eat, and I can’t emphasize this enough, shit jewishinsider.com/2026/03/adl-...

literally your message of quiet support has been living rent free in my head for a week+ so i made this account. thanks for believing in me. this was me re: you, but not a village voice meme from 1986.

she's On Here now @amandatien.bsky.social

Luiz Guzman in the new mario movie? 2027 oscars watch out

wut

Forgot to promote cuz it came out while I was on vacation, but I wrote about Dragon Quest VII Reimagined and how I think it's a great game...but I'm unsure if it's a great remake: punishedbacklog.com/is-dragon-qu...

Another interesting thing to consider: AAAs often cut corners in other ways to make up the difference. Dummies like to highlight when Ghost of Yotei or Mafia TOC don’t have the same impressive physics/animations as some older games, but most people don’t care and don’t even notice

I said this a couple years ago, but the smartest thing Nintendo ever did was opt out of chasing the graphical unicorn. The average person *does not care.* Everybody else made everything else about horsepower, and all that has done is skyrocket development costs and make games take forever to make.

Hamentaschen? Mayor knows the vibes

being dumb as hell must whip so much ass

I know she's not On Here but big shout out to Amanda for her Mothership debut!

Amanda Tien analyzes a fan-favorite Like a Dragon mini-game in her first story for Mothership: "At Club Sunshine, I can make sure that women are taken care of." www.mothership.blog/yakuza-0-cab...

i have no personal involvement here but i have been working on a theory as i observe discourse around marathon and all other live service shooters and it can be summed up as this: everyone just wants to play team deathmatch

Back in 2017, while visiting Capcom for our Mega Man 11 cover story, we learned that the original Resident Evil, code named simply 'horror game' at the time, was originally in development for Super Nintendo before moving over to PlayStation. gameinformer.com/b/news/archi...

It would be cool to wake up on a Saturday morning and not see news that the US is doing more war crimes

One time soon after the launch of Aftermath I saw an account say they wouldn’t support us because even though we are a worker owned business we were still a business which was immoral and I remembered that a lot of people online don’t have jobs

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich

Demon Tides, out now from @fabraz.bsky.social, melds the terrific platforming of its predecessor with an admirable open world -- even if some technical issues get in the way. Our review: punishedbacklog.com/demon-tides-... #DemonTides #DemonTurf #indiegames #platformers #gamereview

Ocarina of Time A Link to the Past Tears of the Kingdom Honorable mention: Minish Cap

TROS by a wide country mile

Hi Sony Santa Monica. If you want me to write the god of war sequel Goddess of War chronicling Calliope's journey as a guardian and protector of the Underworld, with Helios (still a head) as her mouthy guide, I'm available.

Do I have to see “In The Heights” to be able to understand “Wuthering Heights”?

So, I started the new year with a new blog idea: to write about running and gaming, because I like both. (And, honestly, because the url onemorerun.blog was entirely too good to pass up lol.) The more I write, though, the more I realize that I think games share more with athletics than we think.

There’s a sentiment among some locals that eyes on Minnesota are waning. The situation has NOT changed here. Local resistance is tired, but of course never giving up. Please stay plugged into the news of the Minneapolis ICE occupation and donate where able. We need endurance in this moment.

Hey bb I just finished bronze but was reminded how I didn’t even put you on the podium, I know you were pissed off when I went off-piste but I’m a biathlete I gotta shoot my shot again for the gold with you

this is the good stuff

if i was the patriots quarterback i would throw the ball to one of my team mates. but i guess that’s why i’m not in the super bowl

Maybe it's just me, but I would be all-in on a modern Zelda game based on Yoshiaki Koizumi's early 90s designs from 'A Link to the Past'

It’s just racism. There’s no immigration problem

this is probably a losing battle but like, the articles you read are written by people, not the website. people can write good things for websites you don’t like and bad things for websites you enjoy.

1. Writing seminar on Bob Dylan’s lyrics as poetry 2. Archaeological mysteries 3. Biological anthropology 4. Women in the Workplace 5. Translating the works of Suetonius

an absolute legend, RIP

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...