hey everyone it's been fun but i gtg. yeah the horse is here.

alright ive had enough when is someone gonna make a flip phone with mfa

big fan of this context stuff. it's like if thoughts had neighbors

recommend me your favorite book! mine is the bee sting by paul murray

You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here: YOU ARE ELON MUSK 200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY direkris.itch.io/elon

I know it is easy to doomscroll, especially today. Please plan for yourself at least one or many more offline activities. Buy a pastry, read a book, go to a museum, see a friend, cook a meal, play with a pet, or even a trip to Costco. Try to limit time on your phone and avoid stewing in anxiety.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

boyfriend just said "look i found a video on the internet that's literally us" and i assumed it was a vid of two animals cuddling or something...i looked over and it was, in fact, us. playing a game

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

the average western enjoyer of the 1960s seeing a trailer at their local cinema:

ANYONE BUT CLINT

The audacity of this administration of known pedophiles to call ANYTHING the "Stop the Sexualization of Children Act" other than a bill that impeaches and punishes every child rapist in office is off the charts... especially with a bill like this that will actively harm trans youth. Fuck this place.

A mysterious YouTube video gave thousands of people a place to breathe. Then it vanished. Find out what happened next in this moving essay from @bijan.bsky.social longreads.com/2026/02/26/i...

CD is 100 dollars or so short of sustainability. Incredibly valuable resource for anyone who cares about games, whether for research or just casual reading. Also like... look lmao, web's as fractured as it's ever been. Having the roundup gather a bunch of cool stuff you'd never see otherwise is good

I don't say this enough, but Critical Distance is an invaluable resource. If you have the means please consider donating to cover their hosting costs. I just subscribed and want to gift a year of CD to help raise money. RT this and I'll randomly select someone by EOD.

there's a reason independent media sites built by the laid off refugees of previously-popular outlets continue to grow and find success, while the empty husks of brands from 10 years ago descend into AI slop factories if your audience is spreadsheets and charts, instead of people, you will lose

The lesson of the Great Snowball Freakout of 2026 is that Mamdani's efforts to appease and engage the power centers inclined to hammer him on public safety are doomed, because they're going to hammer him anyway, even for something as goofy as a snowball fight. hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...

I've reported 2-3 stories in my career that have sucked the spirit out of my body and this was one of them. But! Seeing the response of the fgc to help their brother genuinely put it right back. Im humbled to have been trusted with this. Help your neighbors friends those in need are all around you.

I have been beamed into the Mothership! Really appreciate being given the space to talk about how games approach Black bodies and the disservice done by not engaging with how we uniquely navigate the world

have any of you read this I still think about it all the time It’s been long enough that so many people haven’t read what I consider foundational pieces of games criticism www.pcgamer.com/hotline-miam...

I really wish we had a better way of discussing when a piece, written in good faith by people we know have good hearts, misses the mark instead of endlessly quote dunking the piece in front of the author publicly and viciously like that.

getting older is so annoying what do you mean the kids my partner teaches are younger than dark souls

yuri on ice soundtrack save me

💯 agree with this piece by @beewertheimer.com. Full disclosure: Was grossed out by its weird misogynistic undertones while still continuing to enjoy playing it. Great idea, poor narrative execution. And, just another day in life as a female gamer. www.avclub.com/firewatch-10...

always funny seeing this one come up in the wild... i made this in the bathroom of my job in 2018. however it took me another 10 months to quit that job because it is hard to take your own advice

The problem with capitalism is people who are only good at making money primarily do it by screwing over all the people who can actually make things that matter

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

What if we all replaced our smartphones with 4-7 gadgets

i love gaming. i will be gaming til the lights go off you best believe it. but if ai genuinely kills The Computer i think we gotta take it in stride. probably a good thing for culture. we can all just get into books instead

Two wolves inside me but they're fighting over dedicating my energy to switching to linux or getting rid of my smartphone

i am a machine that turns hair ties into missing hair ties

I GOT TO DRAW THE PERCY JACKSON COVERS!!!!! Finally revealed! I can finally talk about this!!!! AHHHHHH

sometimes I feel like such a flop I wonder how I will ever make it all happen... and yet in flopping I affirm the gift of life... I flop because I am not yet done....

the core issue with Firewatch's overall narrative design was that every time it had the chance to make the characters feel like active participants in events, it pulled back and made them passive observers or documenters of historical events, which....

like honestly kind of fascinating how the social framework of alzheimer's/dementia as something that most acutely happens to your caregivers allows for this whole new category of objectifying women, but, like, wokely

a long-warranted reevaluation of a game emblematic of its indie era - one where winds of change blew at the backs of excited minds and hungry hearts, sailing perhaps a bit too quickly for a full inventory of their blind spots to be taken

just started dungeon meshi. omg it was made for me.

(pun intended) bee is on 🔥 with this one

welp, rip kotaku. we had a good run.

Acclaimed upon release 10 years ago and still held up as an exemplar of video game narrative, Firewatch dresses up the same male fantasy. www.avclub.com/firewatch-10...

This is what I call "that good shit" Excellent little piece

Good piece. Outside of one thing I might disagree with that's honestly more nitpicky on my end, this does a solid job of discussing how Firewatch, for all its praise, makes a few choices to women's detriment that shouldn't be ignored

i wrote about the male fantasy of firewatch for the a.v. club www.avclub.com/firewatch-10...

2016’s celebrated narrative game simply depicts the same male fantasy from a new angle. Read more from @beewertheimer.com

given this won't appeal to people who care for the process or understanding of how to make things, and exists solely for people who view games as a means to some other profitable end, unity wants to imply these games can be profitable. were that true unity would pump them out instead of selling this

We're working around the clock developing Chess 2

just found out they discontinued the best calypso flavor (cucumber limeade) and yet paradise punch, famously fucking minging, remains