art in the era of content is just fully: "here's some content to assuage your anxiety. it's exactly what is expressed on the tin, no more or less. it represents a lifestyle idea that's either to your liking or not." no idea that a piece of art could exist to represent any sort of larger commentary

hearing that the animal farm movie is an unwatchable disaster, which of course still makes it several rungs better than the book, one of the canonical Evil Texts of the 20th Century

What religion do you think you’re in?

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

3:30am. watching a video about glup shittos. a debate rises. is ben quadrinaros more of a glup shitto than zeb. i say out loud to no one. who the fuck is zeb

It's Beast Week

if you're in the videogames sphere and you encounter the classic "videogames are ACTUALLY a form of (animation, theater, toy, sport) etc" observation, i invite you to ask the person: why are you so uncomfortable with videogames being a bunch of different things at once?

bluesky is leftist? news to me

its crazy that theres still no skyrim 2. gta v is gonna get a sequel before skyrim. thats wild

all at once the picnic goes silent. someone has asked the dreaded question, "what's ideology?" did a shadow pass before the sun? in the distance, breaking an unearthly quiet: the rising waspish drone of my approach via four-wheeler

SILENT HILL 2 MAJOR SPOILERS dude no way lmao??????

What this type of disclaimer is saying is "I want to make a bad version of a game I can't afford to make rather than a good version of a game I can afford to make", which basically amounts to "ignore my game I'm not good at making them"

rip robert mueller you taught me it was okay to do nothing when faced with the most consequential task of my life

There's a deliberate push to make this seem like it's about taste or aesthetics or popular opinion, when it's not at all. It's about technical judgement. It's about either not being able to critically evaluate what you're seeing, or choosing not to for the sake of access journalism.

i'm a 'bad millennial' in that i have never really thought it would be cool if pokemon were real but then i saw a mega starmie and was like. yeah if it was only those

as i am to understand the pitt as an outsider: dr robby is the chirico cuvie of Hospital

Mainstream game sites and podcasts acting like emulation doesn’t exist is dumb, but at least they have a reason (loss of access to early games, etc.) Independent critics doing it for the love of the game boggle my mind!

video games used to be about exploring and then escaping a base - discovering its dark secret, fighting extraordinary foes, and maybe making a few friends along the way…..

a big thing when it comes to jrpgs is that in the 90s they offered a kind of storytelling you genuinely could not get anywhere else. the mixture of scale, music, sparse dialogue, theatrical sets of repeated animations etc. that kinda goes away overnight when voice acting is introduced

anyone choosing this moment to be all "here's what you get with republicans: bombs in the middle east" needs to grow up rapidly, considering what the last dem admin did in gaza & their current support for trump's actions right now. this is what you get with (wholly bipartisan) american imperialism

no more calling people leftists, they've gotta point to an actual ideology they subscribe to or they're just liberals with new branding

It’s unconscionable to recommend this controller over a premium Gulikit, Gamersir or 8bitdo controller! They all have all the features that matter here (tmr sticks, high polling rate, back buttons)! There is no feature this thing has that could justify spending an additional $70?!?!

Crazy shit happening at xbox rn

i love gaming. i will be gaming til the lights go off you best believe it. but if ai genuinely kills The Computer i think we gotta take it in stride. probably a good thing for culture. we can all just get into books instead

I promise you don’t have to treat a game whose title is a wry pun on “eugenics” as a serious work of art worth any time or consideration! What are we doing here!!!

well that was a fun hour of commercials for video games i will not play on a playstation

the games industry is collapsing/has already collapsed and investors are never coming back and that all sucks but i do generally have hope that a more stable, genuinely independent scene will emerge in its absence. that is until i see a single comment on any video by the gaming audience jesus christ

The people of Minnesota deserve so, so, so much more than you, and you deserve to be dragged through the streets by your ankles for how you've failed and continue to actively harm them.

All timer run tbh #LastFourWatched

Every Democrat who doesn't, at a minimum, support the explicit and immediate abolition of ICE is an existential threat to human life and should be permanently removed from governance. Period.

Is the creosote bush, the “GOAT” bush? 🤔

The funniest thing to me regarding the GotY discussions I’ve heard on podcasts about Expedition 33 is that it’s apparently a breath of fresh air to play an RPG about people who aren’t in high school. I honestly can’t think of another RPG series where that’s the case other than Persona??? Like???????

Again, chatGPT killing people is not some side-effect of a broader societal neglect of people struggling with suicidality. It's a downstream effect of beliefs and deliberate choices. It's an act of deliberate harm. OpenAI's engineers and directors killed these people.

more games writing thoughts, adjacent to but not really in the discourse: i do think a creative and artistic process that primarily centers player agency is inherently one that produces bad writing

It’s wild how many “progressive” people in the games space feel comfortable sharing their “I don’t care about Palestine and I’m proud of it” Steam wrapped stats…

You do not have to be a coward. You do not have to let this shit beat you up. There's no real downside to standing up for humanity. Nobody who wants to defend or equivocate about this shit is your friend or even useful to know. We don't have to resign ourselves to being disposable.

It's finally time to love yourself enough to stop playing fortnite.

Really says something about the cowardice of the website that people are afraid to like this post b/c of the possible repercussions from the woke mob

Tangential, but I kind of forgot console gamers existed because everything is on everything now, but I checked in with them recently and they’re not well!! They only play old games if there’s a remaster, and they care about the game awards!! (Talking about the identity, console gaming is normal)

ian bogost getting the timeline riled up by ludocentrism posting….. i will sleep soundly in my bed tonight because obama is president and idle thumbs still puts out episodes weekly and i’ve got uni in the morning for it is 2015

Not the DC Universe, Game of Thrones, and Harry Potter!

The MAGA regime just ended a special rule that made it illegal for strange men who spin straw into gold to take your firstborn if you can guess their name. Now they can have all our children whether we know their names or not. It's mask off

This has been out for hours, where tf is the doom wad?????

I think the corollary that a lot of people miss about "write what you know" is that *you have the power to know more things.* Research and talking to people are a central part of writing!

Lifted Dodge Ram with undercarriage leds. All black Utah vanity plates read “DUI MODE”.

it is pretty funny that they made a barbie movie about what it means to be a man and the struggle of masculinity and the unique pressures of being a man and how to find your place if you're a man and the responsibility and burden of being a man and so on and so forth

clair obscur is basically like if guys that only play god of war played resonance of fate and instantly declared it the greatest game ever made

In the future it will be very popular to forget some of the words and actions of powerful liberals and associated institutions during this time and accurately remembering them will be pathologized. You'll feel like you're losing your mind but thats just having a memory and some form of conscience.