Trying to teach the 4 year old Donkey Kong Country, but all he wants to do is go back in the cave in the first level and beat his chest. Relatable tbh

Friends, the Final Fantasy x Politics theme issue (including spicy Final Romantasy fanfic) is out now. It was a year in the making, I didn't want to do it, we did it anyway and now we all have to live with the burden. Buy it now! unwinnable.bigcartel.com/product/unwi...

A project nearly a year in the making: This month's theme issue of Unwinnable Monthly covers Final Fantasy and politics. Features from @aguaspoints.bsky.social, @gracemachine.bsky.social, @solfleet.bsky.social and @nukelassic.bsky.social. Buy: buff.ly/AEMj6rD Subscribe: buff.ly/0hFvFne

GUYS, IT’S REAL smallscreen.ordoliberal.com huge shout out to @standard.bsky.social for creating this and the Venture Bros and KotH ones, absolutely phenomenal!!!!

Wondering what is going on in those Backrooms trailers? Some thought on the creepypasta, the web series, the film, and the emerging aesthetic of Institutional Gothic via @mitpress.bsky.social thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/backrooms-an...

You’ll only be able to find my opinions about bone temples and their various audiovisual ephemera in Exploits. Subscribe today!

Next up at #scms26 is L10, a fantastic looking roundtable on Institutions of Game Histories with @lainenooney.bsky.social, @noahspringer.com, Jeremy Saucier, and special guest @aarontram.bsky.social, moderated by @liebenwalde.bsky.social. Should be a great conversation!

On a more self-promotional note, stop by session L10 at 2:15 on Saturday and you can hear me and host of other brilliant folks talk about the various important institutions of Game Histories. It’s going to be a blast!

And the signing starts!

And, as always, I don’t want to take any of these books home. If you come by on Saturday, you can put your name in a book and walk away with it for free on Sunday!

Surprise surprise, @mitpress.bsky.social is back for #SCMS26, and we’re bringing the books and the signings!

Panel E1 at #scms2026: Sorry I didn't live-post this! Really amazing conversation about game history. I'm going to post some notes to self about some big take-aways.

Two hours to go! Come get your books signed. 6:15, session E1 in the Regal room

Hey #SCMS26 - think magazine research is boring? Then you clearly haven’t met my panel. 2:15 today … it will get messy.

I’m not at #PaxEast but a ton of books I’ve published are. Stop by the @mitpress.bsky.social booth and pick some up!

But wait, there’s more! While there, you can also get a signed copy of Carlin Wing’s new history of how things Bounce! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255321...

Nancy Fraser: “On the colonisation of the lifeworld, I felt that, in essentialising the system/lifeworld distinction, Habermas masked historically specific forms of male domination and missed the transformative potential of feminist movements.”

If you are at #SCMS26 you should come get a free signed copy of my new book, THE UNSEEN INTERNET. Counterculture icon @rusirius.bsky.social endorses that reading it is like tripping on robitussin! (This is probably not true.)

Surprise surprise, @mitpress.bsky.social is back for #SCMS26, and we’re bringing the books and the signings!

In “Hot Connections,” Jenny Sundén, Susanna Paasonen, and Katrin Tiidenberg rethink “the social” in social media. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205206...

Wait, you’re telling me Cliff wrote the notes?

In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.

Been a sec since we've run one of these threads: Hey there, we're Unwinnable! We've been publishing 100% independent pop culture criticism since 2010. Since we mainly count on reader funding, our writers write what's on their minds -- not what's best for the algorithm or investors.

Oliver Stone is one of the worst directors of all time to have acquired any sort of status. His best movies are a 6/10 at best, and all of his work has unforgivable flaws

Friends! On Friday March 13th, at 14:00, the Center for Digital Play is hosting a talk by Victor Navarro-Remesal, on The Making of Zen and Slow Games. You can read more about the talk here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/victor...

The counterculture spent the 90s trying to destroy consensus reality. It worked. We just didn't have a plan for what came next. Stream and subscribe my conversation with @shirachess.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWOp...

Great convo between @shirachess.bsky.social & @rushkoff.com :))) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWOp...

My "US not veering into a new, endless war" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

A thread that demonstrates the neoliberal consolidation of ownership of media industries over the last 100 years in like, 5 posts, all from different accounts

Next up: Grand Theft Hamnet

Book check! What book is within a step and a reach of you right now?! What are you reading!?

The new issue of Unwinnable Monthly is out! Have you considered subscribing? It'd be cool if you did. $5 gets you two digital magazines a month and (until Feb 28) 95 Exploits back issues, which'll kill some time during a blizzard, eh? unwinnable.com/subscribe/ Anyway, let's see what's inside!

Yes please!

Me, every Thanksgiving: “we’re gonna need a bigger boat”

Me, every Thanksgiving: “we’re gonna need a bigger boat”

Goodreads is doing a giveaway of Flaxman Low! Five winners will receive a free copy of my edited volume of weird paranormal mysteries.

Well would you look at that! 🥰📚 Hot Connections is real! It was a blast to research & write with @jenmadelene.bsky.social & @susannapaasonen.bsky.social ❤️❤️ blurbs by @alexmonea.bsky.social Tarleton Gillespie & @katha.bsky.social Big thanks to @noahspringer.com & everyone at @mitpress.bsky.social

I'm am excited to finally announce that I have been promoted to Senior Editor for Game Studies and New Media here at @mitpress.bsky.social! I can't wait to keep building these lists and seeing these fields develop for the foreseeable future. Send me your games and new media proposals!

I'm am excited to finally announce that I have been promoted to Senior Editor for Game Studies and New Media here at @mitpress.bsky.social! I can't wait to keep building these lists and seeing these fields develop for the foreseeable future. Send me your games and new media proposals!

(We're still trying to bring on one new subscriber a day, and today it could be you. I hear being an @unwinnable.com subscriber makes you 37% cooler and 12% more likely to understand what people younger than you are talking about.)

Today my newest @mitpress.bsky.social, THE UNSEEN INTERNET, is officially out in the world. Here’s the argument: At the dawn of cyberculture a lot of people on online were intentionally doing magic. And now it feels like we’re all kind of doing magic.

@chiltonm.bsky.social and I are the new Books Editors for Exploits! I had the pleasure of editing this month’s review of Chain Gang All Stars.

happy groundhog day (1993) to all who celebrate

For every retweet I will make Zuckerberg’s creep glasses 5% thicker

One week left to pitch! Feel free to reply/DM with any questions.

What books have we not covered on Game Studies Study Buddies that you really want us to get to?

Just saw someone reposting starter packs, and remembered mine! Check out some @mitpress.bsky.social authors here

🚨Calling all new media scholars🚨 If (and I emphasize if) a 2nd edition of the New Media Reader happened to be in the works, what additions would you like to see? What do you think could be excised? @docmofo.bsky.social @n-w-f.bsky.social @psssssssss.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026223227...

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