We're playing Crashout Crew over at @nextlander.com today:

The white line on the right side of US roads. Someone fought the good fight to get these accepted and implemented… who doesn’t love an origin story like this.

Just every day average normal dog stuff

Do you love the #90s? When everything smelled like cigarettes and your dad was always on business trips? Well I did too! So I tried to recreate #Windows95 in #react and see how far I could get. It's part time capsule and part personal fun project. Anyway, click here firebel.ly

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. with that said, onwards!

new metaphor just dropped

As of March 2026 Microsoft had $78.2 billion cash on hand btw. Not revenue or stock value or whatever. Just walkin' around money.

Some Sunday Black Boy Joy

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

"can you believe this person said this thing" yeah absolutely i can that's why no one is following them

I guess there was an earthquake. I thought it was someone slamming their truck tailgate outside.

If I ate one of these a day, it would last me the rest of my life.

Legit might be the best dollar you ever spend

This is also why, say, they don't immediately start working on a new Pikmin. Because the dude who does the 3D modeling of the items is currently working on like Mario Kart. And keeping all those people employed feels more important than putting out a new Pikmin.

This owns. Nice job Andrew!

Remembering my friend Om, as he’s gone. There are many things to say, and so much good work to observe. But the first thing I thought of, on hearing that he’d passed, was that he had chosen to speak up, more than once, to protect the most vulnerable in our communities. … om.co/2026/06/24/1...

This blog post is honestly just so good and so Om om.co/2026/05/26/t...

Om was an all-timer. He was always generous with his time; giving me thoughtful, honest, and occasionally difficult to hear advice and guidance. He raised up the voices of everyone around him at gigaom. The world is worse without him in it 💔💔💔 om.co/2026/06/24/1...

Valve sent me a Steam Machine for review on the @techpod.content.town. It won't be on this week's episode because of scheduling conflicts, but I'll talk about it next week. If you all have questions, hit me here in the meantime and I'll answer what I can.

Now that I've successfully become the world's top Meccha Chameleon streamer, I'm having trouble finding an audience that wants to watch me play another game. I feel like I've really painted myself into a corner, here.

If I was in charge of a political party who lost two of the last three elections to a historically unpopular dipshit, I’d stop paying attention to the people who lost repeatedly.

Got the alert but didn’t feel the earthquake.

I had the great honor to interview Raph Koster about Star Wars Galaxies, its incredibly ambitious vision for a Star Wars sandbox MMO, and the infamous game design challenge of the "Jedi problem" Thanks @raphkoster.bsky.social for making the time and sorry it took so long for this to see daylight!

It's Next Fest, so that means I'm playing a bunch of weird multiplayer demos over at Nextlander:

It turns out that it’s a really good thing that Quake wasn’t released two days earlier. On the 20th, my wife and I went on our first date, which absolutely wouldn’t have happened if Quake was out.

Who would do such a thing?

Strawberries need a renaissance like apples have been enjoying, where growers stop focusing on the aesthetics and try to make them actually tasty. They're in their Red Delicious era, it's time for some Fuji and Cosmic Crisp action.

Toy Story 5 is legit great. It just tells a lovely story about characters I’ve loved for a long time. No emotional trauma or existential horrors even!

And it's why the biggest internet safety advice I give parents of teenagers is to make crystal clear that they will never blame their kid for being the victim, because that is the ONLY way they will ever know there's a problem. bsky.app/profile/raha...

As much as people love him, they're going to have to build a new airport just so they can name it after him.

you don't want tight water

AAA is broken because the “leaders” didn’t understand line never goes up infinitely forever. But guess what: we can break the wheel by making our own wheels. Support smaller studios and be unafraid to strike out on your own. Yes it’s hard, but it is how our craft will persevere now.

What up Guardians? I'm playing Destiny 2 with @nextlander.com today.

THANK you, KTLA

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is $1.99 on Steam buff.ly/M1mgxr8 Deck verified

Refs are really playing for game 6, huh?

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social Spotted at today's Electronics Flea Market

We’ve had Ripley for the last week, and Toby is 100% convinced that she’s his very best friend in the entire world. She would kill him in his sleep given the opportunity.

Every trillionaire is 1000 tax policy failures.

Only bollards can deliver this much happiness. #WorldBollardAssociation

I’ve never known a corgi who is this bendy.

What’s the current recommendation for dog training advice? Is there a book or YouTuber people like these days?

There’s a reason they’re targeting libraries. They don’t want you educated. They don’t want you to have a nuanced view of history. Or to read novels that will give you empathy. Or to know about inspiring women, Black or LGBTQ people. They want you intellectually small and easy to manipulate.

This is too much suffering even for Knicks fans.

It's MMMMonday over at @nextlander.com and today we're going to play more Subnautica 2!

As a long time enjoyer of Knicks fans’ suffering, I’m feeling great about tonight’s game.

Tried out TerraTech Legion after hearing @willsmith.fun and @bradshoemaker.bsky.social talk about it on @techpod.content.town and I'm suddenly 10 hours in. it's scratching the Bullet Heaven itch like nothing since Vampire Survivors.

Shoutouts to the dad I saw going into the ice rink yesterday wearing a utili-kilt and toe shoes. You were about to freeze your balls off but you were really rocking the look.