I don't really watch northernlion (or anyone, really, I'm not a streaming person overall) but his apparent hatred for gathering/crafting systems in games makes me feel extremely seen

Lotta microaggressive-ish stuff about fatness in the online world today and it's been like a hangnail in an already-irritating day all day today

Iron Chef when Asako Kishi isn’t one of the guest critics vs when she is

It took two literal weeks but I ordered the computer parts, finally. I will be over the sticker shock (eventually) but not because I bought anything unreasonably priced, I just didn't want to spend any money, like at all.

Ramza: "So what can you do?" Squire: "I've learned a variety of battlefield skills, from tackles to first aid." Ramza: "Cool. And you?" Chemist: [produces a bottle, before uncorking it and throwing it across the room at someone else] "BE HEALED"

why are we, collectively, in such a hurry to dismiss what other people find meaningful? like, serious question, not rhetorical. and i guess to clarify "we" = "social media userbases" though this phenomenon predates social media by a geologic margin.

"what are actual good games that are art not like escapist slop" why would I engage a question phrased this way. like you've kind of already said you won't respect any answer i give, here?

Oh I thought I was gonna do the Omega fight in MHWilds today but I have to play a different hunt first I guess, and that hunt is reminding me that I might actually hate this game.

Every day there's another one of these and it really makes it hard to sit down at my college professor job and do college professor work, not gonna lie. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"hey fox it's been over a week you ordered all those computer parts yet?" listen. LISTEN.

I was gonna say "I'm sorry for posting 4-post-long threads of me working shit out" and then was going to post that I was going to post that but that I wasn't actually sorry, but realized I actually am a LITTLE sorry but not enough to post about it, and that's how I end up muted by so many people, ha

Avoiding work tasks until I wake up a little more and I'm in a weird bind and trying to figure out how to navigate it. Playing Elden Ring w/the seamless co-op mod, and the other person (who can see this) is playing a super unga-bunga build for the first time. Which is fine! BUT.

Sorry I will fight “friendslop” all the way down. I hate that term. SELF-applying it just reminds me of all the hurtful jokes/things I said (and still say sometimes) about myself to “get along.” Whuf. WHUF.

Having done the "true" ending (and not having the energy for more clears after), I'll say this Hades 1 felt a lot like a workplace ensemble comedy to me; I knew all of these characters as they interacted with each other and there was a web of relationships where Zagreus was the viewpoint char [1/2]

Sorry, Guardian writer lady. You wrote a very mid essay that just so happened to set off an emotional claymore mine with my face painted on it.

I dunno dude I think I'm just gonna say a thing that might piss some people off but I think if you get off on being mean to people all the time you might just be fucking poisonous and I'm over it, broadly. Jostling people out of comfort doesn't have to be cruel or hurtful. Seems like a skill issue.

I really wanted to find something to agree with in this piece and I did find one thing eventually but tbh the entire thing read like “I want to be mean to people about what they like again but I want it to be praxis no.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

She’s back, and she’s brought a friend. Mermaid with Inexplicable Human Ass and Chastity Nun: they fight crime.

this being the first thing I see on blearily waking up this morning was not acceptable this is just mermaid with inexplicable human ass all over again

I got a crepe today on the way home from errands (it was delicious!) from a place in Cross Street Market where the folks who run it are deaf (they have multiple stores, I think the original is in Austin, TX). Called Crepe Crazy? Anyhow, good crepe. Cinnamon and brown sugar:

Adler makes a point: Any game excludes people. Every decision excludes people. The impulse is "exclude no one" but this is wrong, impossible. The question you *should* ask is: Is this game excluding *the same people who every game tends to exclude*? *That* would be wrong. This point generalizes

SORRY: WHAT www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u-y...

Extremely good advice, Avery decries writing a whole book before tooling around with other materials such as character sheets -- unless you are TRYING to make a game that mirrors your design process and involves a lot of flipping around in a book. Design is tactile, yo

I just saw someone refer to Melinoe as "THICCCCCC" and I'm going to blow up the Earth.

Fuck it. Penny, pound. I keep looking at this Frankie-in-KoG situation trying to find some sort of element that I missed which will explain things more fully. This isn’t sarcasm or backhanded; I legitimately feel like a piece of information is missing.

Taking a breath and posting about something in Discord instead but that feels ultra cowardly of me and frankly I SHOULD post about it here.

I gotta stop reading bsky right after waking up. This is, like… catastrophically bad, and ripple effects won’t be limited to one uni system in Texas.

2am admission but I hate the “did you know [inocuous-sounding fake fact about awful person/org]? google [search terms for something unrelated that emphasizes how awful they are] to learn more” joke format. I’m really sorry. I roll my eyes every time.

Oh dear. Did Supergiant recast Athena after all? I thought they'd worked something out. Disappointing.

I WAS RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT my girl's second theme going hard as well www.youtube.com/watch?v=rteB...

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Finished @keezyyoung.bsky.social's "Hello Sunshine" last night (at like 4:30am, haha) and it was so good! I think the thing that struck me the most is that despite this being horror, the book was very... warm? I'm not 100% sure how to describe it.

I have a pretty strict “no mocking someone physically out loud” policy but l just saw a video of a pretty terrible person I’d never heard of before and it is taking all of my willpower not to.

I have just hit the ~70% mark of @keezyyoung.bsky.social's latest and I was like "gosh I'm such a Noah, this is the character I'm going to relate to the most" and then [redacted] gets introduced and NOPE IT'S DEFINITELY SOMEONE ELSE

Been thinking about Line Break Ribbit all day. Sounds like I’m mocking the book and I am not. Made me smile so wide. Perfect.

IT’S HAPPENING

I think it's genuinely hilarious that Supergiant's using this pic of Melinoe's eyes (culled from a very neat animated short) for promo-ing Hades 2 because it suggests she's some sort of bloodthirsty warrior when she is, in fact, the politest, woobiest student council president

Remembering that other people can’t see the vast gap between what you envisioned and what you made is so important

Waking out of a sound sleep to google “shibboleth.”

But it also says a LOT that when the VERY limited time came for questions (since it was through a translator), a guy two people ahead of me in line to ask got up and was like "thanks for your talk when are we going to see a new Mega Man game" and if looks could kill I would have vaporized him.

Can't quote post the original but since Luke brought this up re: anime, I distinctly remember that at the same GDC where Phil Fish had his infamous "Japanese games suck" kerfuffle, Keiji Inafune gave a talk (that I attended) saying JP devs were stuck in a rehash rut aftermath.site/anime-classi...

Watch Wolverine trailer, see it's extremely bloody/gory, understand immediately they're going for the exact wrong type of fan, lose interest instantly

Nobuo Uematsu low key calling out John Williams by proxy here is the funniest thing I've read all day frvr.com/blog/iconic-...

MY GIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7zi...

Okay but like... listen. DW2 was fine but DW3 is when the series started to get the shit that defined the strongest DW games for years to come, and ranked ESPECIALLY high on "big cast of playables with distinct movesets and weirdo weapons like flutes and shit"

I was about to post about something stupid someone said about a souls game and then I heard myself mutter, "bitch donut etc."

i have to get the dumbest possible thing off my chest but hoyo using all-caps to refer to Aeons in the HSR localization (so "the aeon lent someone THEIR power" instead of just capitalizing the first letter (in the way Christians do w/r/t God, i.e. "in His name") makes text read so weird! I hate it.

I didn't watch the whole monologue, but based on what I DID see (around half of it)... this tracks to me entirely.

Great story, but a little hard to read (in a... good way? If there's a "good" way for that)