It's that time of the year again, where I write too many words about the video games I played this year. The results are unlikely to surprise you. gee-blog.vercel.app/GOTY-2025/

Playing Final Fantasy X as a child: “The guy with a big sword is cool.” Playing Final Fantasy X as an adult: “Yes, religion *does* perpetuate cycles of violence and prejudice *and also* the guy with a big sword is still cool.”

You know what I'm really happy about in this year of darkness? That, after years of struggling I not only released Virtue's Heaven. I made something I'm genuinely happy about. Please buy it: store.steampowered.com/app/1929860/...

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

despite blogging more than ever i feel like my writing has somehow gotten worse over time

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

That time of year again!

Starting in half an hour! www.youtube.com/live/q7qpdse...

Skald is pretty good if you want a 20-25 hour western-style RPG obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

Wake up! Our latest episode covering the new Benoit Blanc murder mystery film by @rianjohnson.bsky.social is live now. We enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man quite a bit, another excellent modern whodunnit! Listen now in all the usual places: Apple Spotify YouTube #AceAttorney #WakeUpDeadMan

witch who helps but is a bit mean about it (she practises unsympathetic magic)

I saw that people were talking about that odd period where Square Enix released a whole bunch of smaller scale games around 2022-2023. Out of all the cult classics that came out of that time, my favorite was definitely Paranormasight. I even made a thread about the history behind the game's creator.

New 7th Stand User Update where we speedrun Singapore and Calcutta's FP events, including some exclusive ones we couldn't see last time. obsidianmoonshine.com/public/3-pro...

today is the only day you can repost this

Wrapping up the reviews for the year with a collection of indie mystery games, featuring Nazis, the yakuza, and...a train? artix.bearblog.dev/mini-mystery...

sorry in advance for the spam but im going through stuff in storage while home for the holidays; im just gonna make a thread of it cuz theres goodies in here starting with o7

It might be slightly more moral to pirate the game at this point, considering that the money-men fired all the lead creatives on the Disco Elysium team, but if you've ever wanted to own one of the best RPGs/narrative experiments in gaming and didn't already... It's free today.

ADHD: 1) love nothing more than telling people why they should love/do our favorite things as much as we do 2) hate nothing more than being told what to like/do 3) surround ourselves with other ADHDers

holidays emphasize the fact that my personal life didn't quite proceed on the path I had planned but one thing i got going for me is, I don't have hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions, joking-not-joking that maybe this will be the day I die

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

oh HELL yeah new Iro blogpost

My year-end anime post for @glorioblog.bsky.social is about finally watching Planetes and Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex and lamenting how their visions of corporate-controlled futures have so much more ambition than our actual stupid capitalist world. obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

where i create from

Dragon Quest enemy ass pose

LRT: I've written my annual review of the anime I watched in 2025. You can also read it at my blog. If you've followed me this year you can probably guess what a lot of it is about. gee-blog.vercel.app/Anime-2025/

neat

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim is $14.99 on US PSN buff.ly/3Ci2R3j US eShop buff.ly/4fb53b2 PS4/Switch physical ~$15/$22 US Dollars VGP buff.ly/3ChfPyp

still relevant even today obsidianmoonshine.com/public/3-pro...

The nice thing is they do still make games like this. There are so many games like this that I can look at some of them and you "no that one sucks don't play that, play any of these other dozen new ones"

once le grand meaulnes is mass-produced,

*ruffles through my jacket haphazardly* Wait, is this the "Almost Christmas" image you were looking for? No? Gee, I'm sorry!

Aha! This is it! Agh... no. It's isn't. I've had a bit of a Damascus moment. I need a different image!

I found it! This is the "Almost Christmas" image I've been looking for! Wait, no, sorry, I think this belongs to @traindetective.bsky.social

Surely this is the correct image, right? Has someone stolen it out from under my nose?!

What about this "Almost Christmas" image? Wait, huh. Sorry @nthcircle.bsky.social I'm not sure how this got in here...

Hang on, hang on, give me a minute, I'm sure I have the right image here!

Oh shoot, no, that's not right. It's this one, isn't it?

This is it, right? Almost Christmas?

Did a little goof on the podcast account today for Almost Christmas! Thanks everyone for listening and supporting the show for another year!

A Very GLORIO 2025: Gee’s Year of the Horse Despite our constant complaining, anime still finds a way to surprise me. I'll tell you what, I never predicted I'd be this obsessed with anime horse girls.

It's the Christmas issue of Famitsu, so that means many Japanese gaming industry folks gave their personal Game of the Year lists. I'll update this thread periodically since there's a lot of them once again.

A Very GLORIO 2025: Iro’s Watching Science Fiction 21 Years Later As always, the people of the past have much more ambitious views of the future, even if that ambition is in how bad it'll get and why.

My year-end anime post for @glorioblog.bsky.social is about finally watching Planetes and Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex and lamenting how their visions of corporate-controlled futures have so much more ambition than our actual stupid capitalist world. obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

LRT also available on my personal blog obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

I wrote my yearly recap, for 2025. blueberrylemonade.pika.page/posts/what-i...