It really would hurt nobody if Silksong had Celeste-style assist options. Game's too damn cute and interesting to be this off-putting. I'm teetering on the edge of putting it down.

Okay, Silksong, there's friction and then there's whatever that one gauntlet fight is (you know the one). You're too cute to be this venomously off-putting.

Unpopular (?) opinion: Claptrap in the Borderlands series is and always has been fun and funny in as equal measure as he is stupid. The series only veers grating when tons of other characters become as insufferable as he is. He is not the problem.

I dunno y'all I'm pretty sure this country was (famously!) founded on political violence. What other american do we have?

Watched the Gearbox borderlands-centric live show. Randy Pitchford don't be skin-crawlingly weird challenge level: impossible.

One day (soon, I hope!) we will never, ever again have to hear him say new sentences. Sure, there'll be sound clips, and AI, and imitators, and they will all be bad, and other huge dangers and uncertainties will persist, but. One day you'll wake up and he won't have said anything.

Maybe the best news about Silksong releasing soon is not that we get to play it, but that we're about to have a wave of thicc bug fanart like never before.

Lords of the Fallen 2 will debut at gamescom tomorrow so it's a good time to remind that the CEO marek tyminski is a dumbass who all but killed his own game mid development and is now courting anti-woke right wing grifters. He's a feckless edgelord idolizing asmongold and excusing nazis. Fuck him.

You know, if I could remake one game, could it be Destiny? Like, restart and do the whole 10 year thing again, but leaner, with lessons learned, and with the caveat it can't become an exploitative money machine. Consistency, endgame in mind for the foundation, cohesive plot threads. Would be cool.

Darksiders 4! And you can play as Fury! You know what THQ just for that I'm gonna replay Darksiders 3. You earned it. (I would have done it anyway)

With how remake happy studios are, does anybody else think they'll ever remake Destiny and its whole, like, ten year cycle? I fell off long ago but not gonna lie, if they could promise a cohesive, non-exploitative experience from start to finish I'd give it another go. Never gonna happen, lol.

Just got my court date set for my name change. Feeling pretty jazzed. (and pretty broke, jesus the hoops they run you through are arbitrary, expensive, and arbitrarily expensive) But, jazzed.

@gilarpgs.bsky.social Okay, been GMing some Daggerheart recently and having fun with its Fear mechanic, so I want to ask: what's your opinion on a GM currency (not unlike the ILLUMINATED system's Resource)? GM earns it on mixed/failure rolls, spends to seize the spotlight or do cool adversary moves?

GODDDDD why is Lest from Arcane Season 2 so HOT!? I just want more from her. I want to BE her. Everything please.

Why were the end credits of Predator filmed like a sitcom? Like the actors get non-diegetic headshots looking into the camera and smiling, what did they mean by this?

Watching an official stream of a tournament showing Nightreign, teams of streamers competing. Talking like eSports shoutcasters about dudes named, like, xX420bro's live tactical decisions and missteps. Game is so fast. I have never been so not the target demo of a game, while still wanting to play.

@gilarpgs.bsky.social Hmm, now where have I seen that logo in that style and arrangement and almost the same letters before...?

Me as Bilbo looking at the one ring: Yes, why not? Why shouldn't I rename my fantasy adherents to the mystical first flame of creation "wordens" and lean into the wordplay of calling it "the first word?" Worden. It's a cool word, right? A precious word...

Only like 5 people (inc. me) care, but Lords of the Fallen devs just released another deep dive video about how they've been changing their game to address feedback and it opens with multiple minutes spent glazing, by name, asmongold and how they tailored their changes to his reactions. Ugh.

Just finished the first version of the character sheet for my TTRPG "Die & Die," and honestly it might be the final version? I'm real pleased with how it came out.

Charlize Theron with a wolf cut in the Old Guard 2, I repeat, in the Old Guard 2 Charlize Theron has a wolf cut, this is NOT A DRILL, LESBIANS, YOUR TIME ISN--

Just watched a full Nightreign run and I dunno, I'm getting Metal Gear Survive vibes. Off-team asset reuse that does a real surprising and out of place game and strains at the seams to contain its ideas, some good, some... odd. The frantic pace feels foreign to what makes these games sing IMO.

GTA6 being delayed to next year makes it more justifiable (to them) to charge that $100 for it, because prices will have been higher for longer by then, if not already there (see Nintendo and Microsoft already jacking up prices).

Just finished the main story of Star Wars Outlaws (focused only on that, very little side stuff yet) and it was great. Good story, classic, light, punchy, simple, cheesy. Everything Star Wars is built on. Happy to keep eating the side content for a while now.

God, now the CEO of the publisher behind Lords of the Fallen is retweeting grummz talking about "anti-woke is players first." Why did the shitheads have to murder that game, I really liked that one. Genuinely depressed about it, need to move on, can't help but glance back at the horrors. Ugh.

Remember how somebody shot (at) trump but now he never talks about it and doesn't seem to care? I mean I know the shooter was killed but like, do you actually believe trump is the type of guy to not be bringing that up all the time, using it as justification? It's real weird.

Shadow of War's stealth is better than other stealth games (mostly in the Ubi/open world style, ala Assassin's Creed) where you goose the AI because they are dumb as hell because the orcs are canonically that dumb (with minorly unpredictable variance). More games should lean into this.

Just had a guy dent my car with his cart at the store because he didn't bother putting it at the corral two spaces away, and then when I got there and was visibly annoyed he snarled "tranny faggot" at me before speeding away in his lifted truck with a thin blue line punisher trump sticker. Cool.

People say DnD 4e tried too much to be a videogame but if they made a videogame that used its exact mechanics and was full of assets to let you make and remix characters, builds, enemies, and arenas, I'd play my queer lil heart out. It runs so damn smooth.

@schumer.senate.gov Hey since you decided that when trump defies the courts (and he fucking will, dumbass) we're "in uncharted water" and you expect the rest of us to rise up and deal with him instead of you doing any work at any point, can you send me some donation money for my "rise up" campaign?

Hey, Miyazaki, when you made the Haligtree region, can I ask: what did you mean by that? Are you stupid?

I really liked Helldivers 2, an utterly stellar 3rd person shooter, but it had like one too many stressors blanketing it for me to derive enough joy to actually keep playing. I need the timer to count up instead of down, or AI teammates so I don't have to deal with real humans.

Most people say Bloodborne's limited healing vials are the first thing they'd change and I agree but not like you think. Healing charges that replenish on rest/revive IS a brilliant, inspired mechanic and a big part of a soulslike IMO, but the vials NEED to hit different. You can't just do flasks. /

One of the kids at the teen D&D library program I volunteer for asked if she could share her session notes with me, to which I returned a delighted yes, but they're not traditional notes--turns out, they're just out-of-context quotes. And y'all... These are pretty accurate. Teenagers.

In Snow Crash, a book about a dystopia w/ oligarchic capitalist overlords, a worker who knows the amount of time she spends reading a pointless email is being tracked, with an anticipated reading time. Too short, she appears reckless. Too long, she appears inefficient. On the nose, a smartass. Huh.

youtu.be/Vk8JHTjxoHw?... Holy *shit* this looks cool.

America has always been shitty, racism, sexism, capitalism built into its structure, core to what it even is. It was never, holistically, "great." But it has, and has done, some great things, and if you want to point to maybe the greatest, most American thing you can? It's the National Parks.

@epistemophagy.bsky.social Just wanted to say that your posts got me to go back and give Elden Ring another try. While Bloodborne is my favorite game ever, I didn't gel as much with the other FROM games for various reasons. Never even finished ER. Just scoured Limgrave + australia.

Genuinely baffled that a thing that looks like THAT and is called the Godskin Peeler doesn't just do innate bleed damage by default. C'mon, lazy Michael.

After Elon was booed at the chappelle gig (lolol) he locked himself in a room, staffers wondered if they needed to do a welfare check. Since we know he's thin skinned (see: every clapback he tweets ever), and running on no sleep+ketamine, I feel like we really gotta hammer his ego. It's the way.

@voiceofobrien.bsky.social K, hear me out. A Soulslike tabletop campaign. Characters die but can come back to life (at cost), makes them have to overcome tactical challenges, run only as a strategy for return. Explore many areas at player discretion, lasting consequence, buried lore nuggets. Plzthx

@thespherehunter.bsky.social Okay but would you or would you not play the hell out of a game about a team of ragtag 80's punk-aesthetic mercenaries fighting bioterrorism during the tail end of the cold war called "bio-PUNKS" because I would.

I made a website. It's neat. www.thestorytellergm.com

@gilarpgs.bsky.social If you were to design a punchy, engaging PvP mechanic that doesn't stray too far from the base resolution structure (in Light/Lumen), how would you do it? Roll off at same time, or stick with turns back and forth?

We've been sleeping for too long. youtu.be/BRzDeHe2GYc?...

Alright all - I'm stepping away for this evening. I'll be back in later tonight to see if there's any more updates. Stay safe, if you're trans, stay with us, we are not giving up. And most of all... these EOs are not law, they are not passed by congress, do NOT comply.

Here is something you can do right now

Trump's pause on action for health orgs will stall and cover up the *reporting* of the biggest tuberculosis outbreak in US history, sure, but it will make it functionally much worse. Primary area, Kansas City. Quick, whose fans will be traveling to sit in a packed stadium in two weeks?

The @sivav.bsky.social piece on phones and youth well being is so, so good, and this is the crux of it. I’m no fan of phones *inside classrooms*, but shoving the blame for youth anguish onto phones lets adults skate on the moral injury we inflict on our kids.

Just saying, if you've never had yourself a long-term campaign, it really is an experience for the ages. Hit me up if you need help running one!