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

spent the weekend workin' on somethin' pretty special... keep your eyes peeled on January 15th, 2026...... there's a baby.........

unironically this is how i think about money

are YOU listening to GEESE? www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Uc...

anime is OUT in 2026. deadwood is IN

One week left until the recording of our 868-HACK episode, the first installment of All Systems Brough, a year-long (monthly) exploration of the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. It’s not too late to play along with us! store.steampowered.com/app/274700/8... apps.apple.com/us/app/868-h...

Realis is happening!!!

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Every now and then something compelling gets turned into a cross stitch pattern in my brain so here's to @austinwalker.bsky.social's KOTOR II Let's Play for @morecivilized.bsky.social turning the gears while washing dishes

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

They’ll insist this is a one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else. They’re wrong. New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe. If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.

man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit

Grocery store is embracing the “a few small beers” lifestyle selling loose Modelitos in the checkout line.

My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

oh wow, that’s totally different than my experience. the demons who came out when I solved the puzzle box were basically all-in on pleasure. not so much the chains and mutilation

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Speaking of said winner and other winners I would take it as a personal favor if you would try out excellent games made by former students, such as: CONSUME ME store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/... DESPELOTE store.steampowered.com/app/2367820/... BABY STEPS store.steampowered.com/app/1281040/...

a few small beers

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]