Have you ever revisited 40+ games over the course of two days? It's really disorienting. Anyway, here's my yearly retrospective of all the games I played through in 2025. www.everythingallofthetime.net/2025/12/the-...

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

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truly incredible how my job boils down to getting out of bed to interact with people on twitter who call me slurs

I'm realizing that I probably talk to myself much more than average. I'm exactly the kind of person that would mutter aloud to himself "hmm, so I need to make sure I find a key for this door..." I'd make the perfect video game protagonist.

If GenAI was truly “inevitable” and “the future,” you wouldn’t have rich executives putting out statements like this again and again. They know how unpopular it is (even as they’re ignorant of it crumbling around them), and keep trying to browbeat us into accepting it. They won’t succeed.

Hello, not only do we not use AI we would rather cut off our own arms than do so. Demonschool is 100% human made.

I've been so absorbed in this the past few nights that I felt surprisingly hollow when I reached the credits. I couldn't (and can't) stop thinking about how things would have progressed differently based on my choices. I would definitely like to play it again.

I'm happy that trying out these old DS games has been bearing fruit in some cases. All have been interesting, at the very least, but Izuna 2's legitimately a fun roguelike. I don't love that the sexualized teen girl protagonist is ostensibly part of the selling point, but the gameplay's great.

I have officially completed C. Viper's combo trials. They're insanely difficult, but breaking everything up into component pieces made them much more manageable. I wonder if I could ever play this character for real, though...

Why play Perfect Tides? - If you liked the webcomic Octopus Pie you'll find a very similar narrative vibe. - If you like point n' click adventures, it's been lauded as one of the best of the decade! - If you are or once were a horny/scared teen, it's here for you.

Whoops I played 2XKO until 3 AM

I finished Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day last night and found during research after finishing the book that a film adaptation starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Watson was released in 1993. I very much enjoyed the book and after having watched the movie today, I found myself quite moved by it.

Unlike the first game, it took me quite a while to finally roll credits. Managed to finish a 32 Fear run in the underworld and 24 on the surface, which is neat because I barely did higher Heat runs at all.

Yet another 24 Fear Surface run in Hades 2 run ruined by not being able to remember the long Prometheus patterns. I really really hate that mechanic.

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On those rare days where I don't wake up with a crippling headache, it's startling just how much clearer I can think.

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

First try Hecate, heck yeah.

After watching someone play through 40ish hours of Silksong, I feel like it's important to note: you can pogo off spikes. As long as they're the big shiny ones. Knowing this early could save you a lot of pain. Sorry if this is a spoiler to someone.

It can truly be difficult to understand why the thing is the way it is

I keep thinking about Silksong. The game has a lot of cruel surprises and subversions of expectations. In the moment, my immediate reaction was anger, but in retrospect, I feel like I kind of respect it. Is that like video game Stockholm Syndrome or something?

I've been staying up way too late the past few nights but I have now 100%ed the game. I discovered some of the game's best boss fights and one of the worst. Overall, I very much enjoyed the game.

Watching streamers play Silksong now after having finished 90% of it and it's reinforcing how some people just don't play video games the same way I do. As I was playing, every time I got something new, I would try it out, use it on enemies for a while, and form an opinion of it based on that.

It's indisputable that the game would have impacted me much differently if I'd played it in 2001. From a modern perspective, the controls are sluggish, the voice acting stilted, the camera awful, and the plot predictable. Even so, it takes some interesting swings and has excellent sound design.

I just had a very late game Silksong boss glitch out and disappear. Had to rest to get him to respawn. Weird.

I'm stuck on the toughest boss of all in Silksong: finding all the lost fleas of Pharloom.

I just want to confirm that Silksong is very good. I get very grumpy about it due to the absurdly long boss runbacks, but I have to admit that it's made me a pro at the movement.

damn girl, are you a grappler with good normals? because you make me want to avoid interacting with you at all costs

Is it difficult or just annoying when checkpoints are miles away from bosses?

For the love of God why is the compass still something you have to equip and take up an accessory slot

Was dealing with an especially brutal runback on a tough boss in Silksong last night only to discover there was a bench maybe two screens away

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Every day is asking too much from me

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

For some weird reason, I remember being scared of the little jingle that plays in Chrono Trigger when you find a sealed chest as a kid. Something about the mystery spooked me, I guess.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

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when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

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I distinctly remember seeing the cover of this game at Walmart when I worked there in the Electronics department around that time. I was always curious, but simply couldn't afford to buy every RPG on the system (even though I certainly got close). I'm going to try to write more about it tomorrow.

how does anybody ever manage to do anything. it's terrible

For the first time in almost a year, I wrote a piece for my personal site (now "relaunched" on beehiv). It is about Clair Obscur and Generative AI and what we are losing. I didn't shop this one around because it is messy and a bit emotional. www.criticalconstruct.com/p/grieving-f...

Sometimes I miss being part of weird little communities on the internet, because now I have no one to talk to about takes like "man, I had really written off post-70s Yes material but dang, Machine Messiah is a fantastic track." Oh well.

I love when I can see the work in a piece of art. Practical effects in film, brush strokes on canvas, strange sounds in music, "impossible" visuals in games. It puts me in conversation with the artist. That's why - ethics aside - art created with AI is just so disappointing. There's no work to see.

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

Since the term AI has been poisoned by generative world-burning stuff, we're going to have to go back to calling video game AI routines "the computer." I couldn't beat the final boss because the computer was being cheap, etc.