Genuinely powerful words to live by.

No one told me parenthood would involve going on fursuit websites to learn how to sew gloves for my child’s Stitch Halloween costume

Also understand that when a critic doesnt seem to enjoy something that is not a judgement on you enjoying it

Streaming has let us control what we watch and when we watch it but the fact that young people nowadays will never channel surf and find Godzilla vs Monster Zero at 1 AM is a tangible loss to the human experience.

everyone shut up and look at the oddish my son drew for me

Post Games has been my favorite new podcast this year - funny, thought-provoking, and I’ve learned a ton from it. @plante.bsky.social has been killing it.

Dive deep into the Dark Place, take back the Oldest House from the Hiss, or slow time and let bullets fly with the Remedy Entertainment 30th Anniversary Bundle from @humble! https://www.humblebundle.com/games/remedy-games-30th-anniversary-bundle Supports @SavetheChildren #RMD30

okay but wait I wasn’t emotionally prepared to learn that I’m older than Jeremy Allen White

It’s New Music Day! Found some nice mellow tunes for a drizzly Helsinki day. open.substack.com/pub/ericstir...

I heard someone refer to the podcast genre of “folks sitting around chatting about x” as “friendship porn” and I haven’t been able to get that out of my head it’s so accurate

My son has been doing a deep dive on Pokémon lately, which means I’ve been learning about a lot of the newer ones. I love that Sinistea and Polteageist - from the UK-coded Galar region - now have Japanese-coded counterparts Poltchageist and Sinistcha.

Okay fine you guys were all right I really like “The Bear.”

WARNING: Article contains video clips with radioactive levels of cringe.

are we prepared as a society for the possibility that the 2025 meta reboot of Anaconda might be great

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

Kiryu Kazuma said TRANS RIGHTS

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

The best time to do it was two years ago. The second best time was every single day after that. But still, the third best time? Right now! Sweet Baby Inc are a small team of highly qualified writers and narrative designers. Nothing more, nothing less. Maybe you could start saying that, too 🤷

Every Friday I enjoy trawling through the new music releases of the week. Thought it could be fun to share my favorite finds, music blog-style. ericstirpe.substack.com/p/todays-fav...

Did some sort of law expire or change about video games not being allowed to have alcohol-related tie-ins? Because it's weird to see both of these in the last 24 hours when I can't think of any other examples, like, ever.

Last night I saw a list of crowd-generated answers to the question “What is something that feels bad to touch” and someone said “a knife” and lemme tell you I’ve thought about that all day.

Keep an eye out! As AI winds down while VC money runs out, they're going to continue following the same failed playbook Web3 used. They'll redirect the focus from big money (companies, entrepreneurs) to marginalized communities. Prepare to see AI re-spun as a tool to empower women/POC/LGBT.

Control: Ultimate Edition is $3.99 on US PSN buff.ly/p14WLZo EGS buff.ly/g5dcAco also on PS+ Extra/Game Pass Standard

I wonder why all these great indie games are coming out of Australia where they have a massive public funding effort for videogame creators

Back at Telltale I once made @thatdave.bsky.social feel very old by telling him that “Secret of Monkey Island” helped me learn how to read. But now time and karma have come for me because I get regular emails from whole-ass teenagers telling me the same thing about Minecraft: Story Mode.

Okay but I’m not the only one who thinks the MagSafe rings on everyone’s smartphone cases make it look they’re all carrying PSPs right

I started reading through Keiichi Arawi’s manga CITY yesterday. The humor doesn’t always localize super well and I sometimes have a hard time keeping track of who is who, but the art is really charming and it’s a great quirky world. Would make an amazing setting for an RPG, honestly.

I’m at the “Debuff: 50% reduction in vision” phase of growing my hair back out.

Just rolled credits on “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle” and I really enjoyed myself! Some great franchise-worthy setpieces and it definitely captured that “pulp globetrotting adventure” tone.

New episodes of Pokémon Concierge have dropped on Netflix and that’s very good.

We get it, Irish countryside. Sheesh.

“AI will replace movies. I can make my own version of Star Wars where I’m the hero and Obi-Wan doesn’t die.” The problem is we’ve allowed a society where adult men can say things like this without being shunned from the village to starve as a pitiful outcast.

A stupidly beautiful Irish afternoon

Sorry if you already know this, but the coke freestyle machines are miraculous on their own AND were the funding for getting water purifiers out to the poorest areas in the world! Invented by the same guy who invented the Segway as well as a bunch of medical stuff www.popsci.com/article/scie...

Now that I’ve finished the main campaign of DS2, I’m back to playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It’s going to sound like a backhanded compliment, but I have been so pleasantly amused by the amount of jank that was allowed to remain in this game.

Your kid learning different skills as they get older is like an RPG skill tree; one where you’ll occasionally unlock abilities that you don’t realize are complete gamechangers until you have them. This post brought to you by my son’s ability to scarf a convenience store hot dog for lunch on-the-go.

I started learning how to play “BB’s Theme” from Death Stranding on the harmonica and learned that it’s in the key of B-Flat. ie. “Bb” That’s very good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNr7...

one day, game studios will make swag for their employees that isn’t black sweatshirts with white text

Okay at the risk of being made fun of I had no idea how deep this game went. I thought it was just a perspective-shifting platform puzzler. But uh There’s some stuff here huh

It’s HUNTR/X’s world, we’re just living in it. Wonderful news.

STEAM SALE! 🏷️ Get our games for up to 95% off next week on Steam! The sale kicks off August 24th at 2pm PT. Alan Wake franchise 🔦 95% off Control Ultimate Edition 🔻 90% off FBC: Firebreak 🔧 15% off #RMD30

sometimes you see a joke on Internet that just speaks to your humor core

Pretty rare (and awesome) opportunity here. Come work with me!

I love heem

I’m trying out this little game called FEZ Yall heard of FEZ