why doesn't the machine that steals whatever i point at also have a feature that points at things for me

so many lapsed and former journalists and writers (myself included) would give ANYTHING for the opportunity to do what we love to do in a stable, sustainable way. but if we literally can't afford to do it, we drift away. watching immoral hacks hoard and despoil these jobs makes me deeply sad/angry.

Terry Crews is now driving the podium trio around the track in a life-sized pink Cadillac made of LEGO He's singing the first verse of "A Thousand Miles" and I'm pretty sure none of these guys have seen White Chicks Everything I just typed could be proof that I'm having a mental breakdown #F1

"What Verstappens in Vegas stays in Vegas!" so help me god the #F1 commentary team will pay for their crimes

Dispatch breaks no new ground, subverts none of its tropes, and contains no huge twists for anyone familiar with its Whole Deal. It's also one of the most confident game narratives in years! We've lost the art of the crowd-pleaser, and it's dope to see devs stick the landing.

Toronto cops are in Riot Prep Position around the SkyDome, always a promising sign heading into the final inning

baseball is suffering

THIS GAME IS EMOTIONAL TORTURE

they finally made video game music for Black people

youtu.be/mi_CgRU63d8?... After 18 innings? This is how it ends?

"The Organ Player in the Dodgers Stadium just played the Attack on Titan Theme Song," and other Things I Said Out Loud To No One At 2AM

I'm exhausted watching this at home in my night clothes. I cannot imagine the creeping chaos that must be unfolding at the SkyDome, where people are just watching this on a big TV, at 2am, in 7-degree weather.

I rarely discuss how MUCH of a hopeless Assassin's Creed fan/apologist I used to be. I'm full of cursed, useless series lore. And that's what gets me: THIS SERIES WAS ALWAYS WOKE AND IT SOLD MILLIONS. The first game stars a Muslim guy and came out the same year as Modern Warfare, for fuck's sake.

DISNEY AFTER THE WALLETS HAVE VOTED: (this is my favorite Heathcliff comic btw)

The final boss of Silksong is ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS. I'm at 100% completion, but I honestly may never finish the game because of this fight. The boss is an ink-black figure who melts into the arena's ink-black floor using ink-black projectiles while ink-black waves obscure the foreground. WHY.

AMERICANS: this is the leadership we want to see from the left. if you're not throwing your body in the way of people harming citizens, are you even serving them? DEMS: we're going to unanimously vote to support the Hate Speech Mascot Remembrance Day, but we'll frown the whole time

I want to write about the Moral Crossroads of Pro Wrestling Fans in the US! The biggest company in the world partnered up with multiple regimes (WWE execs are part of the Trump inner circle; Saudi Arabia will host Wrestlemania 43) AND enshittifies its core product via the new ESPN app.

Despite writing a book about PaRappa the Rapper, I'm not in its wiki page! I am, however, a valuable soldier in the Pro-Rosalina Mario community for pointing out that she wasn't a damsel in distress. Dope! Also: I really liked my Mario Character Deep Dive series for Kotaku. Proud of those pieces.

This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read And incredibly damning Huge recommendation

ANYONE VAGUELY FAMILIAR WITH CHARLIE KIRK: here are some direct quotes from the literal hundreds of thousands of terrible and hateful things he said and did EMPLOYERS AND SOCIAL MEDIA SITES BEFORE BANNING AND FIRING THEM:

I am gifted with prophecy but shunned by the algorithm.

Nation Plans Reveal Party to Determine if Recent Event is "Tragic Accident" or "Politically Motivated"

Each friend and family member that visited us this year has been detained while crossing the border back to the States. My Ohio-born-and-raised MIL had her entire car and phone searched last week. Think about what you're posting on here, and how your future self would explain it. That is all.

Well, somebody updated his Wiki Entry.

Thank YOU @retrogamebooks.com for letting me do my favourite thing in the world (try to sound smart while talking about things I love) across all three volumes of this amazing series! And thank you @rcmacleod.bsky.social for the gift of being edited by a writer I admire! I apologize for everything.

The Hollow Knight/Silksong Aesthetic, in two examples: 1) You collect and save furry little fleas who bark like dogs when you rescue them! 2) When you unlock a new save point, a gigantic cathedral bell plays the first four notes of Dies Irae.

BREAKING: Hollow Knight: Silksong is so hard that some players can't even get past the Nintendo eShop login page.

the new Bond Girl is going to be a Mossad agent named Labia Menorah

Kurt Angle has the opportunity to do the funniest thing imaginable

"Complicated Legacy" = Sucked But Was Famous FAMILY LORE: My Grandfather was such a nightmare that my Mom has yet to remove his remains from the tupperware they were shipped in. He's somewhere in the basement, near the old lawn chairs. We're allowed to view Terry Bollea with that same energy.

I'm watching people praise last night's episode of South Park, and it feels like I'm having a stroke. Parker/Stone have made a career out of Both Sides-ing issues, eventually making petulant concessions when some takes (like Climate Change being imaginary!) aged especially poorly. /1

Dang. I realized what Blue Prince was doing and uninstalled it. Not my thing. I'm a HUGE fan of Notebook puzzle games. Obra Dinn. Lorelei. Golden Idol. I crave the brain activation these games demand! Combining that with the chaos and repetition of a roguelike just cuts the joy out of it for me.

every future season of Game Changer could advertise itself with the single phrase "HENRY WILL RETURN" in comic sans on a crumpled-up piece of paper and i would injure myself renewing my yearly subscription. i cannot express how Henry-Centric i would make the brand.

For many reasons (went self-employed right in time for Capitalism: The Final Reckoning), I've been in Survival Mode for months. Everything I create has been for others. I want to change that! Games writing, culture writing, op/eds, fiction, narrative design. I need/deserve to feel human again.

TUESDAY: Cory Booker achieves Liberal dream of day-long Aaron Sorkin speech WEDNESDAY: Trump achieves racist dream attacking every nonwhite ethnic group on Earth at once THURSDAY: The Purge

24% tariffs on Japan the SAME DAY as the Switch 2 price drops is another one of those dramatic irony moments that any competent fiction editor would yell at me for daring to include. We just...cannot have months of discourse around The Switch 2 Price without bringing up tariffs. We CANNOT, y'all.

this is both: 1) great 2) the arc of most self-published comic books from the 1980s

RHYTHM HEAVEN IS HERE TO SAVE US

"GRITTY PAC-MAN METROIDVANIA" and "PSP RETURNS" means I just won my Nintendo Direct Bingo card

she was a year older than me. how incredibly horrible. pagesix.com/2025/02/26/c...

"Why aren't men reading books anymore??" The most influential men record themselves finding something new and violently dismissing what they don't recognize. The equivalent of a picky eater getting angry at the onion in his sandwich. Books must feel like they're fighting off Jedi Mind Tricks.

The takeaway from today? Don't use the word "KING." Democrats will propose a new Anti-King bill. Trump will point out that he's not King; he's PRESIDENT. The NYT will print a retraction and apology. Burger King will rename itself "Burger Daddy" as an EO is signed outlawing MLK day forever.

I worked at a Marketing Firm that didn't believe we needed to market our services. I fought with my bosses about it. "We're great and our clients know it," they said. "That's always been enough." Mass layoffs, weeks later. You cannot just Be Good. You have to be good at selling that fact, too.

inside you there are two wolves they both have ADHD

TIMES WHEN IT'S OKAY TO COMPLAIN ABOUT SOMETHING ONLY BEING 47.8% WHITE -Dentist just used the spit hose and didn't do any cleaning -Rosé is too Rosy -A real Phoebe-heavy episode of Friends -Fresh-driven snow could be fresher -You paid for a Quartet, but received a Barbershop Duo