Shoutout to @cheflubu.bsky.social for this set of bangers years ago. I got a History/Religion degree because I played games like this. Xenogears fucked with my brain in a way nothing else did Devs - never underestimate your audience. Make players reach for things they never thought of looking at.

Games Study Study Buddies should be required listening for anyone with an academic interest in Gaming as a medium. It got me into listening to Ranged Touch shows, which means (for better or worse) Homestuck Made this World got me to read Homestuck. A Herculean feat.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll: 46% support abolishing ICE 43% oppose abolishing ICE This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support

For a company that is worth over $9B and offering a $35B payout if they grow more - they sure don’t give a flying fuck about their workers. Maybe @sbworkersunited.org could give the employees a few tips about making some changes around there.

Lotta people get mad at me when I criticize Democratic messaging but THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TALKING. Like normal people using normal language to communicate normal human emotions about the fucked up situation. THIS.

Hypocrisy is the point. It’s how they justify their feeble existence and manufactured power.

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets. Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Me to everyone in my friend group - begging them to join me in Zemuria

It's way too early for me to be laughing this hard. 🤣

they don't do it like space ghost any more

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

MY FAVORITE CASTLEVANIA CHARACTER

Christmas Double Feature

Titanfall 2's campaign is nothing short of a masterpiece, and what a gift it was for all of us. Such heart, incredible design, impeccable mechanics. Nearly ten years later it more than holds up, it remains arguably the pinnacle of the genre. If you've never played it, please do so.

Would buy today. Please let me climb in my alcohol pod. I promise I don’t have a problem.

I’m LTTP on this one; but this hits like a goddamn ton of bricks.

This mfer would have driven a truck-bomb into the OpenAi offices and tossed Sam Altman into the flames.

Kingdom Hearts earned it. Metal Gear earned it. Your game should too.

If the Gamer Gate studio head is defending you - I’d be wondering not if I was in the wrong, but how deeply wrong I may be.

if you need AI to do your powerpoints or write your emails you shouldnt be in your job. those things ARE your job.

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.

The end of Section 230 would mean the end of all but the largest websites that allow user-generated content at all - and even the largest would be radically changed and locked down It would probably mean the end of your fav streamers' careers Call your senators and your representatives about this

This is like paying the guys that robbed your house to also burn it down.

My inner monologue breaking out into the real world

Harper wrote an incredible piece that critically examines the Horses situation AND saves me from having to explain who Ian Bogost is to all my friends.

This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

That much money financing games by actual game developers would have financed 150+ of the highest budget AAA games, and the several orders of magnitude more jobs to produce them. Instead it was burned failing to produce advertiser-safe Second Life.

It's not about if Horses is good or if you like it, it's about the world we're in where a few companies have control over who gets to make money and which artists get to continue working. Stores can stock whatever they want, but if you don't understand the broader picture you shouldn't speak.

One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant. Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.

I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).

So at this point, I am of the belief that there is a conservative group in the background emailing companies and trying to get them to ban the game.

If you have to ask if he’s pointing at you; the answer is yes. Yes he is.

Men only want one thing and it’s disgusting:

This absolutely rules and should be the template going forward for everyone.

NEW EMAIL

fun math for everyone: now that the Xbox 360 is 20 years old, it's the same age that the NES was back in 2005

I know I’m at the center of the diagram of people who enjoy Shakespeare, Sailor Moon, and RPGs - but way more of you should have played This Way Madness Lies. It’s a fantastic little gem with enough accessibility options that *anyone* can play and enjoy it.

Shot + chaser

November 21, 1995 We are now closer to the setting of WipEout (2052) than we are to the release of WipEout (1995).