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A thank you note/love letter/commentary on art for anyone interested

banger after banger after banger on Bullet Points lately

Have you checked out our utterly stacked month on the computer videogame Marathon yet? Still two more articles to go, but plenty to chew on already. WE EATIN: bulletpointsmonthly.com

it’s time for all you fuckers to start playing Michael Brough’s games!!

Classic

On this May 4th I am remembering how in the short brilliant life of Cohost @dimosar.bsky.social made not one but two of the best Star Wars posts in history

"Marathon makes me think of the Michael Mann film Thief, where the eponymous hero, Frank, is coerced into working for the mob boss, Leo." @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social on Marathon, up on the site now. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/29/c...

Games criticism owes so much to Garrett Martin. Quietly one of the most influential people in the space, a guy who was happy to publish anyone that had something interesting to say. A shame AV Club is shuttering its games coverage. End of an era, long live Paste Games

Paste ends the games coverage that gave so many writers their start aftermath.site/paste-games-en...

it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone

"Marathon isn’t just a game; it feels like bootcamp for a future that’s already here."

This is the line of division / Terminus Est Severian and Thecla from The Book of the New Sun

we won’t fix everything if we remove trump from the presidency, but there isn’t much we *can* fix if we don’t. in a world where president vance just watched his much more popular boss get removed from office, you’ll see a very different vance

Gaming has to be accessible to children or the whole party is over.

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

i don’t have the soul of a poster because i like shutting the fuck up too much. it’s cool when you post, though

Wokémon Wokopia. that’s where we would all like to live

immortality is but ubiquity in time

wrote a lil thing about a lil game noescapevg.com/marathon-the...

“The game is polarizing because the developers are okay if people bounce off of it. The true sickos who love what it’s doing cannot stop playing it, not even in their dreams.” 🎯🎯🎯

great read!

a single paragraph guide to taking pleasure in both the games you play and the material you put into the world. via @meredithgran.com meredithgran.com/perfect-tide...

happy twin peaks day 🌲🥧☕️

I'm an unemployed video game designer with 14 years of experience and multiple shipped titles. Every day I get up to apply for jobs and every day the news says this

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

in summary

video games were a short lived entertainment medium popular from ~1970 - ~2025

"I’ve been working as a writer for the past decade and watching my industry shrivel up and die as a result, so you’ll excuse me if I, and the rest of the everyday people who stand to get screwed by AI, aren’t particularly excited by what AI can offer society." ~ @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

The Pitt is a crazy TV show because now, in every season, i'll be watching the first 5-7 episodes thinking "i wonder when Doctor Jack Abbot will show up........" and then they can just bring back Doctor Jack Abbot for the last half of the season. that's OP

"I find myself thinking 'this isn’t sustainable' of the continual decimation of the media, which has been happening aggressively for at least ten years, but what do I mean by that? For whom isn’t it sustainable? In what way?" charlotteshane.com/blog/2026/2/...

it's genuinely stunning to me you'd keep a game in the hopper for a decade and then do huge layoffs after a single month. a month is nothing in live service terms. less than nothing.

If you're gonna read any quote from an article on the game, let it be this one, because I think it sums up a lot of the feelings of fans pretty succintly

GOTY 2025 list is up! not nearly as much horsin' around this time as compared to last year's, but i still had fun writing about my favorite games of 2025: eric-deters.com/writing/goty...

Now you too can play a slowed down version of a game from 20 years ago with no actual level design or enemies and all it costs is a complete collapse of the world economy, biosphere, education system, and multiple entire creative industries.

MinnMax and Giant Bomb are doing great stuff tonight. tune in and throw in a few bucks if you can! Fuck ICE! Fuck CBP! Fuck Fascists!

i think we should hear him out

“No one really dies, they just drop their physical body, and we’ll all meet again, like the song says. It’s sad, but it’s not devastating if you think like that. It’s a continuum, and we’re all going to be fine at the end of the story.” ~ David Lynch - January 20, 1946 - January 16, 2025 #filmsky

i was starting to wonder why no one on my timeline was posting remembrances of David Lynch yesterday… and it turns out i got the date wrong! dunno how that happened but i made this to honor his legacy! pretend i released it today

trying out new "time of day" lighting & environments.

well this checks out

hopefully obvious given its name but BITSYRASERHEAD was made with the tool bitsy by @adamledoux.net. It's fully playable in browser and on mobile!

One year ago to the day, we lost David Lynch, a filmmaker and artist very dear to my heart, and to the hearts of so many around the world. To celebrate his life and work, I present: DAVID LYNCH'S BITSYRASERHEAD, a tribute to a dream of dark and troubling things stoydell.itch.io/bitsyraserhead

FEELIN' PRETTY NOW OR NEVER TO ME