I am on the final final boss of Silksong and I honestly don’t think I can beat this game.

Out of Greg Daniels’ big three shows (The Office, Parks & Recreation, The Paper) #ThePaper has the best first season. Really glad it’s been renewed so they can work out the kinks! Plenty to love there.

Wow a secret area! A whole new level with a whole new aesthetic! I wonder what I’ll find!? gauntlets. A tower of fucking gauntlets. #Silksong

The Cunt Rally in Glasgow was tiny, despite English cunts travelling up to bolster the numbers. The counter protest swallowed it whole. People Make Glasgow.

My favourite part of #Silksong is when it decides it doesn’t want to be a Metroidvania anymore and turns into fucking Cuphead

The problem isn’t runbacks. Runbacks are fine. It’s the fact over half of Silksong’s bosses are Attrition Bosses with stupid health pools and the game hides items that strengthen you behind more attrition. It creates a frustrating game loop. #Silksong

gauntlets

Had a dream last night that Spyro the Dragon got a new Toys For Bob game AND an animated movie. Was a good dream.

Goal the Great more like ha ha ha Groal Fuck Yourself

The further into Silksong I get, the more the Dark Souls 2 comparisons stop feeling like a meme.

Silksong Critique - Phar(loom) from a Masterpiece

youtu.be/GUhofJrj02E Get ready for so many deaths, told through the lens of... two new characters!? Monty guides Chase and Neil through the end of #MortalKombat phase 1 with Mortal Kombat 7: Armageddon. Who will make it to the top of the Pyramid of Argus?

I’m forgiving a lot of Silksong’s bullshit, but every time it locks me in a room and makes me fight waves of enemies that don’t drop rosaries it loses a point. It’s past a joke now. Uninspired design. Frustrating. Never feels rewarding. Overdone.

What’s American for “Reichstag?”

The Snowpiercer TV show is amazing and scratches any itch you might have for the Bioshock TV show I promise

“Well at least it serves the world building” I mutter as a bench charges me 15 rosaries to use every. Single. Time in the impoverished underworks. #Silksong

Hey are you enjoying that Silksong boss? Well what if it started spawning bullshit little guys to ruin it!

The UK Government has been stupid and cruel for a while so unfortunately this is just another tally.

I’m trying to reason with Silksong’s 2-mask damage enemies and bosses in its first act and - even as someone who loves a bit of bullshit in tough games - I’m struggling. Feels like an unnecessary hurdle that makes bosses too quick so you struggle to learn them, and exploration agonising. 1/2

“Oh Hornet” I sigh as I walk face first into some thorns.

If this thing was real, my life’s mission would be to make it go extinct #Silksong

Personally, I think Silksong should have more dumbfuck spongey bird enemies that have bizarre attack patterns that always seem to line up with where I’m exactly jumping to before I get a double jump power up

Anyway I post my long form critiques on Spotify as well if you want to catch them there! 👇 open.spotify.com/show/4U8lB61...

According to Restricted Mode, I haven’t published a video since Feb 2024. A video on Astro Bot is missing. Three videos on Spider-Man are missing. “Mature content” my ass! Might explain why my views are down by a 3rd across the board. Whatever YouTube’s done is slowly killing my channel 😂

hey fun news! as a favour to me, could yall check and see if your youtube account has been set to "restricted mode"? it's an algorithmic setting meant to hide mature content that apparently auto-toggled on for a random whack of users & it is demonstrably actually just hiding reams of random videos

Cronos is intensely political. You’re working through the ruins of Soviet Poland in the wake of socialism turning into a police state. There are explicit references to stuff like socialist realist art. It’s also a good horror game that can’t help itself because my god there is some bullshit here.

Dexter: Resurrection sticks the landing. Officially the fourth best season of Dexter. 1, 4, 2, Resurrection

Silksong rocks but I’ve had to force myself to put it down so I can finish Cronos first. Was really digging it and don’t want it fall into The Pile

If Silksong’s still not out, you can always play Cronos. I’m 4 hours in and it rocks.

Need to kill 37 minutes? If you start watching Noobus Humanus - Hollow Knight right now, it'll finish just as #Silksong goes live! 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=S48h...

Whatever’s going on with YouTube isn’t because of increased bot detection. As a user I’m not being recommended channels I follow or that the algorithm should be recommending me. Instead I’m getting slop and right-wing conspiracy theories. Something’s gone wrong on the platform

Everything started to go wrong when an American thought he could remake The Wicker Man.

Happy Bapanada everyone!

Marina’s incredible new #ResidentEvil song is out now! Inkeeping with how RE6 tries so hard to be a political thriller, we decided to give her a Bond theme 👀 Public release of the retrospective will be in a couple weeks all going well!

Performance issues aside (plenty time to iron that out) #FirstLight looks like exactly what I wanted. Hitman smashing into old licenced Bond games like Blood Stone. This has sold me!

Thank god it’s not just me.

I’m excited for Hell is Us, and would devour it if it was out right now, but I’m worried that committing to the September 4th release date and bashing into Silksong will kill it.

Patrons - fancy a new Resident Evil tonight?

Had a dream that Control 2 was a first person game.

Mortal Kombat 6! Are you ready to be deceived? Monty introduces Neil and Chase to Shujinko - the biggest, dumbest dummy in the Mortal Kombat universe - and Onaga - the coolest and most underwhelming villain. youtu.be/hU1yjbgF9ZE

Was kindly asked by @lackingsaint.bsky.social to lend my voice to some quotes in this bad boy! 👇 youtu.be/HKO3lFq4pC8?...

Sabrina Carpenter’s new album feels like a mask-off moment for her in all the best ways. And some of the lyrics are fucking hilarious. Really great.

Pim’s Silent Hill videos have been something I actively look forward to 👇

Sometimes I wonder if we’ve killed the word ‘bias.’

Looking for great horror video essay recommendations. Preferably focusing on games but happy for other media! Drop them below 👇

There are 69.23 million people in the UK. Last year, 36,000 people arrived on small boats. That’s a 0.052% increase to the population. Not 10%. Not even 1%. Not even 0.1%. 0.052%. If I baked a cake, that wouldn’t even be a crumb. Why the fuck is it THE story-of-the-day in the UK, every day?

It’s about time Ada Wong got a Bond theme 👀

With the #Silksong hype, I figured now would be a good time to punt our Noobus Humanus on #HollowKnight from a couple years ago. One of my favourites 👇 youtu.be/S48hKzu1Ck0?...

There’s a whole chapter dedicated to sex in this Resident Evil 6 video that I refuse to cut and think YouTube will hate. I love the algorithm.

When I’m counting the days to a highly-anticipated release (Silksong) I usually find myself replaying comfort games that I love. In this case - Age of Empires. Anyone else do this? What are the comfort games?