Crunch may cause a lot of divorces, missed birthday parties, and early deaths, but it also helps publishers meet their quarterly goals for investors, so, it's impossible to say if it's bad or not

What a weird and strange webpage for what appears to be a weird and strange game. 👀 Oh wow, F O U R IGF Nominations??? Maybe I/you/we should wishlist it? 😳 store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/...

The Alamo value prop has been declining for years. Expensive tickets, bad food, shabby theaters, and meanwhile the larger chains upgraded their theaters and started showing more old/foreign/art films. Getting rid of the "no phones" rule is the last thing they had going. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

It's just impossible to square what's happening with the fact that we have to wake up and like, go to work every day.

Last year I upgraded from a 3080 to a 5080 and every few weeks I'll see the box and think "Ah damn, I need to sell that." Well my laziness is about to pay off because I'm pretty sure if I wait a few more months I can sell the 3080 for as much as I bought it five years ago.

I think Doom: The Dark Ages is more fun if you treat it like a big-budget Warhammer 40K game.

Maybe 2027 will be better.

This is such a loss, man. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...

In San Francisco, a scheduled power outage was interrupted by an unscheduled power outage. Last week, 1/3 of the city was in the dark. SF, for years, has been moving to buy out PG&E. Could it use eminent domain if PG&E says no? It just might. @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/12/pge-...

I'm thinking about the Roman Empire every day. Specifically the part where there was an emperor named "Poopy Anus."

Man, what a capper on this year. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/v...

Sorry We're Closed is currently free on EGS and it absolutely rules. It's like Silent Hill met Paradise Killer, if that makes sense to anyone? Stylish as hell (literally).

I hope this is the final straw and SF moves to municipalize its utilities.

I mostly go to Sharks games for the free Taco Bell.

An explosion & fire hit a Mission District gas station, rocking neighbors' homes & sending a plume of smoke across San Francisco. The fire chief said there were no reported injuries. The blast was so large, nearby residents thought it was an earthquake. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-g...

What a weekend.

New Frictional, new Larian, new KOTOR, this is a show for me.

I saw the HK-47 and started to pop. Very cool Knights of the Old Republic reveal.

Wow, it's like they brought back Gex.

Shocked to discover "We need to build more housing" once again actually meant "We need to build more housing in neighborhoods I don't live in."

Showing up to every Mountain Goats show in San Francisco like "Maybe tonight he'll play From TG&Y." 🤡🤡🤡

"And what of the Republic of Gaming? Does it yet stand?" "Nay, grave treachery and fecklessness have felled our noble friends and given way to a tide of darkness. They proclaim themselves the Kingdom of Gaming." "Then all is lost."

Replacing Calibri with Times New Roman is like replacing White with Ivory.

Damn, that stove is hot.

A side effect of being "a person who actually finishes video games" is hitting the point about 80% of the way through a long RPG where you can tell there was significantly less playtesting before release.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”

I started crying, legitimately crushed. At least thousands of people went to the museum to celebrate him last month for his 30th birthday. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

Turns out Spencer's Gifts still exists and sells this shirt.

If "Black Friday" deals are going to start November 1, I feel like we can cast the phrase "Cyber Monday" into the dustbin alongside "Surfing the Net," "Interwebs," "Pwned."

"Please dismantle the prison industrial complex." *monkey paw curls*

Watched the Avs absolutely body Montreal today. Insult to injury, CO did it while wearing their throwback Quebec jerseys.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

If only the tech companies invented a tool that would pop up and say "Hey bud, the review you're writing of this pizza place (and how they didn't refill your water often enough) is starting to sound a little Sephiroth-y. Would you like to start over?"

My nerdy Clair Obscur question is: Do people not age or does the Paintress wipe out two years at a time? If she paints 34 on a rock this year, all 34 year olds disappear. Easy. But: If she paints 33 next year, people who were 33 are now 34, meaning it's the formerly-32-year-olds who disappear.

This was one of the most interesting and exciting games I played for IGF judging and I hope people check it out regardless of where it ends up.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

this is huge, microsoft and jason scott just open sourced the zork trilogy arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

I read the title and thought this was a Death Stranding thing at first. youtu.be/0hc8yz5-d5Y?...

Reinventing zeppelins, wow, it really is the 1920s all over again.

Up there with Halt and Catch Fire in the Peak TV Made Some Pretty Great Shit Nobody Watched But I'll Never Stop Talking About It Hall of Fame.

Looking forward to Season 3 of The Rehearsal.

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

It's so disappointing.

Blue Prince developer announces 'a plea for help': one of the game's lead playtesters 'has only a few months to find a living kidney donor' www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle...

Hot take, I know, but I just don't think "Development Cycle Longer Than An Entire Console Generation" is healthy or sustainable.

Lmao I cannot believe I figured out what I was thinking of

This is my concern, as the celebration winds down. We saw it happen in SF with Chesa Boudin. He quickly became the go-to reason for everything broken in SF, even when it made no sense—but it worked, and they got him recalled.