Game reviews can impact sales and reputation. They're part of the industry, whether we like it or not. What they can't change is our joy working with our team mates and in games that were passion projects. I recommend you to give an opportunity to games with bad reviews, they may surprise you.

I personally believe (brace yourself for this scorching hot take) that One Battle After Another is an incredible film and it deserves every award it won. Especially editing/directing. Near 3hrs feeling like 1.5. As much as I enjoyed Sinners, I think the Academy got it right this year.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

The solution is simple. Ignore previous season record and just give one lottery ball for every consecutive year a team has missed the playoffs. Help long-suffering teams, not a team that just had a bad year. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

As a lifelong fan of the pokemon franchise, it continues to baffle me how they made an incredible game-- not just "good for a pokemon game", but an actual bonafide great video game-- in Legends Arceus (visual fidelity notwithstanding) and I have almost no confidence that will ever happen again.

Gamers: I hate micro transactions, they shouldn't exist. Also gamers: every single game should get regular updates and new content for years after release, without me having to pay for it. Personally I don't like the predatory microtransactions, but I think extra money for extra content is fine.

Still the best the genre has to offer imo. I'll allow arguments for expedition 33 and chrono trigger.

I love that the minute Microsoft begins pulling out the console market because it's "antiquated" Valve is like hey guys btw here's a whole new console ecosystem for you okay thanks bye (won't hear from them again for 2-3 years)

Mark Daigneault putting on an elite, elite hall-of-fame level shenanigans coaching performance in double ot

No Mans Sky in VR is genuinely one of the greatest gaming experiences you can have

Alien: Earth seems like a solid Blade Runner series so far. TBD on if it's a good Alien series.

The Thunder were the best team all season. One of the best defensive teams to ever step foot on a basketball court led by one of the most efficient MVP's ever. I cannot believe Indiana made it to a game 7. Genuinely one of the most impressive non-title-winning accomplishments of my lifetime.

SGA is gonna get this family through this Disneyworld parking lot and into the park if it kills him

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

Government by and for people who drink bleach.

In 10 years there will be two major dedicated video game hardware companies that'll make up 60% of the gaming market and the other 40% will be 3rd party hardware with software owned and operated by Valve. Microsoft will be a glorified publisher (at best).

OKC exemplifies everything that people who don't actually watch the NBA, get wrong about the NBA. Nobody plays defense. Really? Go watch the Thunder. It's all about threes. Really? Go watch the Thunder. Everyone plays exactly the same way. Really? Go watch the Thunder.

FDA can only regulate the labeled indications, but cannot regulate doctors and/or pharmacists medical decisions (hence “off-label” uses); OTOH insurers are usually reluctant to cover off-label uses Bad-faith moves from FDA like this set up a collision between the law & sound medical judgment

That one judge that literally just got done dealing with them for the same thing in the US:

Doc Rivers is a hospice-type coach, I don’t know what this means but it feels right

The Thunder are definitely a 2K dynasty being played by some kid on rookie mode —got the computer to accept a million lopsided trades —7'2, 200-pound create-a-player —game accidentally generated two guys named Jalen Williams

Translated: "trump officials come to realization that they might have to publicly confront the legal team of Harvard University, proceed to violently shit themselves in retreat."

this is exactly what like 10 teams have said before trying the doc rivers experience.

we need a better word than corruption.

"nobody will pay $90 for switch 2 games." Lmao. First off-- it's Nintendo. Yeah, they will. And, more importantly: do you want exploitative "free" garbage or do you want quality games? Do you want studios to keep closing down, or for people to keep their jobs creating the art you love? $90.

nothing better than video games

If Corey Booker just got up there and did an outline of Kingdom Hearts lore he could keep this going another week.

REGGIE MILLER: That's the big question — when it's crunch time on the road in the playoffs, who will be the Rockets' go-to guy? DILLON BROOKS:

Beginning to understand why my wife has a group of girls in a book club that meets every month. Reading something amazing with nobody to talk to about it is a kind of blueballs they don't prep you for.

This would objectively be among the funniest ways to commit biological warfare.

I think Patrick Schwarzenegger is giving a shockingly good performance in white lotus s3. His character is also the only hotel-bound one to have a compelling internal arc, imo. The Rick/Chelsea storyline should just be its own show/movie. makes everything else way less interesting by comparison.

a better video game has only been made 3 times since by my count. Industry really struggling.

things wouldn't be so bad rn if we still had the Jeremy Renner app

Kentucky just putting an avalanche on Troy rn. Handling the first round like you'd expect they would. What a concept. Haven't heard of such a thing in years.

you never see people say "I left that other website. I had 17 followers over there. I really loved those mother fuckers. Those were my family. I think 4 of them were AI but even those were closer to me than my mom." Makes you think.

And that's just what they're paying sudeikis to do another season of Ted Lasso

[shaking like a chihuahua] c-can we all go back to being nice to each other? 🥹

White Lotus, Severance...and then Adolescence comes out of nowhere and blows the roof off. 2025 is setting itself up to be one of the best years for TV that I can remember.

I would like for Hideo Kojima to direct a film. Not because I think film is more "important" or better in any way than vg direction, just because I'd like more mainstream non-gaming audiences to be exposed to one of the greatest living directors.

Me giving my brother my launch steam deck on the one condition that he plays through Black Mesa and Half Life 2 using it.

reverse gatekeeping where i force everyone around me to get into the things i like

I do not want to use AI in every single app on my phone. Why is there a gigantic banner ad for copilot forced on me whenever I open GroupMe, of all things? I'm sick of all of it tbh. Have never felt more "old man yells at cloud" than I do currently but everything just sucks to use now.

this is honestly such a good comp that I'm shocked I haven't heard it before now.

video games are good for your mental health

The problem is that the vast majority of humanity doesn't interpret reality through the same lens that they do art. Also they're fucking morons.

it's scrolling my feed seeing articles like this that is gonna be what finally breaks me and I either end it all or become the joker.

"Sauce is the true litmus test of civilization." - Bong Joon Ho (Mickey 17, 2025) The man is a prophet.