If you're writing "kids these days" posts, your relationship with nostalgia isn't a healthy one.

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The gag of Danny Butterman not knowing quite how to pronounce “London” is maybe one of my top five favorite jokes of all time.

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The most chill 150 seconds of my day. Video ends fittingly.

I’ve thought about this post at least once a day for the last month

I love the guys at @raingames.bsky.social, and I am so excited about their latest game KNUCKLE JET. It's a "ricochet action platformer" with a gorgeously quirky art style meant to evoke old action figures and what are you waiting for go wishlist it- store.steampowered.com/app/3199470/...

Wow, I completely missed that @bearnotesapp.bsky.social released the beta of their web app! Bear is my absolute favorite notetaking app going all the way back to their beta in 2016, so finally having a way to use it on a Windows machine is gamechanging for me. bear.app/faq/what-abo...

Redoing the resume/gameography portion of my website and realizing that, for the last 13 years, I've been lucky enough to have at least one game come out per year that I contributed to in some fashion. Very grateful for that. And tired.

This past friday, the drummer from King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard dropped a really good bossa nova album, and Fatboi Sharif teamed up with underground producer Child Actor to make a spooky A24 horror movie of a hip-hop album. www.ericstirpe.com/posts/new-mu...

COOP! BUNCH OF LITTLE VARMINTS, COOP. HEDGEHOG. ECHIDNA. BAT. THEY’VE GOT SHOES ON. IT’S UNCLEAR HOW ANY OF THEM CONTRIBUTE.

Oh man, congrats to Housemarque on what is shaping up to be a straight banger when it comes out next week. Torille!!!

oh no we stayed up too late playing titanium court

oh no titanium court is everything you’ve heard

holy cow the new yoshi game sounds unbelievably charming - it's a peaceful platformer with a focus on exploration and discovery. swoooon www.polygon.com/yoshi-and-th...

Visioneers' "Dirty Old Hip Hop" recently got rereleased for its 20th anniversary, and it has been my most-played album this year by a mile. Funky, smooth, playful, and cinematic as hell. visioneers.bandcamp.com/album/dirty-...

tfw you can't actually tell if this is alex jones having a last parting tantrum or tim heidecker's first article

Oh man I absolutely love this art of Kamen Rider by Tan Zhi Hui www.artstation.com/artwork/rla8ye

the profundity of this comment on a random thread about the obsequiousness of AI chatbots stopped me dead in my tracks

I remember playing point and click adventure games for weeks and just mulling over them all day at school when I got stuck. I remember having a eureka moment with Monkey Island 2 of some inventory combo I hadn't tried and writing it on my hand so I could rush home and try it.

These are all quotes from Frasier.

I've got a new dead-simple website and blog at www.ericstirpe.com as part of my transition back to what you might call the "slow internet."

I don’t think we quite appreciate how consequential Kotaku’s revitalization under new ownership, after being dragged to the absolute brink by Great Hill, is for the industry. It proves what many of us knew in our hearts; bad management is the beating heart of digital media’s woes.

well gosh David Byrne's Coachella performance of "Everybody Laughs" is a goddamn joyful delight www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAqB...

To piggyback off this, what's your fave alternate name for Space Mutiny's Dave Ryder? Mine is probably Big McLargeHuge

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

I’m halfway through watching Twin Peaks S2 for the first time so I can finally watch Fire Walk With Me and The Return. Boy when the Laura Palmer mystery ends the wheels really start to come off huh

And this is how TR-49 broke even in three hours ♥️ www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ink...

quietly disassociating and thinking about the similarities between 2010s Game Dev Twitter and Pro Wrestling/Kayfabe Culture

Just when you thought moss-covered rocks couldn’t get any better

My son’s little guys are on point this morning

Picked this one up from the library off @kevinriach.bsky.social‘s recc and I’m really enjoying it so far.

My son can’t keep potatoes and tomatoes straight, calling them all “potatoes.” His mom just corrected him and he, exasperated, replied “Ahhh, potato tomato” with the exact cadence of “tomay-to tomah-to” and it slayed me.

Holy shit, Mamdani did a collab with John Wilson???

I miss David Lynch’s weather reports. youtu.be/krIj6eLF4mU

man morale at the AP is real bad huh

oh my god this looks absolutely insane in the best way

WATCHES IN SPACE 🧵 Ever notice how all of the astronauts are wearing a billion watches in every picture? Christina Koch is wearing three in this picture 1/x 👇

We're happy to announce all the available languages for the launch of CONTROL Resonant! Which language will you be playing the game in? CONTROL Resonant launches later in 2026. Wishlist now! #CONTROLResonant

English/French/Japanese-language Jazz singer/guitarist Mei Semones has a new EP out today and gosh it's a delight. Three tracks, each with a different collaborator, including the last one where she plays a duet with her chemical engineer father on the Euphonium?? meisemones.bandcamp.com/album/kurage

I loved Exit 8 and I am *really* excited to see Genki Kawamura's upcoming film adaptation. Seems like a great fit and from what I'm hearing it expands on it in some really interesting ways. www.youtube.com/watch?v=emZZ...

This book is a wonderful portrait of Hayao Miyazaki from a journalist who has interviewed him many times over the years. She analyzes the recurring themes in his work, how they’ve evolved over time, and how she believes they relate to his own history. Fascinating stuff.

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