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.

Ninja Gaiden 4 was one of my most anticipated games of the year and I'm not playing it in accordance with the BDS Microsoft boycott, and it turns out that actually nothing bad happens to you if you don't play a video game.

God of War (2018). It triggered a year long crisis about video games for me. If that shit was the cream of the crop then why waste time with the medium at all? It baffles me to this day when I see otherwise sensible people sing its praises!

It's funny how in 2000 or so we settled on the bluetooth standard for wireless devices and ever since nobody has had a thought to consider that perhaps wireless devices should work reliably

it is not polite to say so but no discussion of the state of the games industry/press can really avoid the reality that the audience is just. really really bad.

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got - scam machine - psychosis inducing machine - weapons of mass destruction - button you push that makes the planet hotter - markets that intentionally starve people - clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time - medicine you can’t afford

All-timer match up opening today’s Scrandle!

frame generation is a capital pathology, totally avoidant to address the realitybreaking promise from publishers and PR of higher and higher fidelity graphics. studios cant/wont pay to develop these games, existing hardware doesn't have the power to run them, gamers don't have the money to play them

Disney learned nothing from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

Why is everyone a game mechanics expert the second they play something that isn’t frictionless slop???

clive being considered a good final fantasy protagonist is maybe the most alienated i've ever felt from a fandom outside of whenever the gundam seed guys yell at me lol

silksong only has 500 reviews on steam. that's less than half of lost soul aside. really disappointing how little reach indie games have even the biggest ones

oh, is there a gamesball today? 😏

Fuck this bitch idiot and his stupid fucking books. Go suck yourself off in a sensory deprivation tank and write about it for Salon dot com you Sideshow Bob-looking pig anus.

why did he say this

I can’t believe they delayed Silksong by two weeks

One time I was told I wasn’t a real latchkey kid because my parents weren’t divorced, which is when it struck me that the obsession with “drink from hose don’t come home til dinner” is just unprocessed trauma…