all the negative reviews of the star trek voyager game are like "i dont get it, its really slow and boring! it stinks!" and all the positive reviews are like "its exactly like star trek voyager, its really slow and boring. it rocks!!"

Finally finished Midnight Suns DLC's story, and Deadpool continued having me laugh. Deadpool can be hit or miss for me, but he's the pan-disaster he should be here.

Pączki this year was from the bakery close to me. Blueberry (pictured), raspberry, and cream. Nice to have a few different options.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Ask and you shall receive

eXistenZ is a movie that anyone working in games should watch. Prescient in a lot of ways, it's also a story about a woman game designer who is getting chased by men who don't like how she designs games. (Yes, really.)

Nearing the end of Iain M Banks's Hydrogen Sonata and one of the things I love about the Culture series is when we get group chats and then people talking on the side shit-talking others in said group chat.

Making my way through Metroid Prime 4 is mostly me grumbling at its hand holding and weird decisions. I didn't even want to hear it the first time, MacKenzie.

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

Restarting Control to finally tackle the DLC. Rather than deal with the headache that was incosistent difficulty in the game, just turned on immortality (and the Tommasi fight reminded me why this was a good idea). Also want to get to Alan Wake 2 before the Control sequel releases.

FDT blasted through my neighborhood the day it was announced he lost an election. I'll stick with that classic.

“You’re playing with people who assume safety. But safety is not universal.” - from Ebenezer Mowete's first byline for Mothership www.mothership.blog/queer-nigeri...

Discussed this with my doctor this week even (not for me right now, but glad it exists ).

Featuring best protagonist Tremaine Valiarde. Yeah, she's a depressed playwright. She'll also mess you up badly and make a good team with a young guy from a sword and sorcery-esque alternate world.

Now that the streamily art competition has passed, I wanted to show off my own piece. It may not have won but I’m proud of it anyway! Just a man enjoying his first cup of coffee of the day on his brooding balcony after some morning exercises. #datv #lucanis #blooart

As a survivor of many years of sexual abuse, watching everything unfold with the Epstein files reminds me of how cynical I became after my own experiences came to light, and frustrated that not much has changed in almost 30 years. And I'm not even read as feminine. 🙃🙃🙃

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

Werewolf (On the Hood of Yer Heartbreak) by Man Man.

I let my comic backlog balloon, so have made a concerted effort to tackle it this year. Have been catching up with Wilson's Poison Ivy and having a great time with it. I tend to fall off DC a lot, but should probably find the pockets I like. (The Absolute line has been great.)

Squirrel Girl is back - in Webtoon form! Marvel has reformatted our earliest adventures with Doreen, Nancy, Tippy-Toe and everyone else for online reading and is releasing 'em all for free on Webtoon! ENJOY www.webtoons.com/en/graphic-n...

I don't remember names anymore, so going for general vibes. 1. Russian literature from 1850-1950 2. Southeastern Asian religions 3. German fascism, fashion, and culture (this era's been...) 4. Postmodernism in art 5. The English Restoration in Theater and literature.

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Róisín Murphy is the toughest for me. Been listening to her since Moloko and never expected her view on trans folks.

i wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Out of context Midnight Suns.

scully you're not gonna believe this

I'd read Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends, so was delighted to read a similar humorous but raunchy sex diary in comic form. I keep thinking I should hunker down and make a visual novel in a similar vein.

There was a place in Wicker Park in the '00s called Earwax Cafe that served vegan, veggie, pescetarian, etc. foods so was easy to take a broad variety of folks. I still recall reading 100 Bullets there and a panel being the exact view of Milwaukee Ave. I had.

I'm enjoying Rogue Trader, but every RPG of this length causes me major fatigue once I hit the 60 hour mark.

Pretty sure this had to be Mixed-Up Mother Goose. My mother was a huge Sierra fan.

For the last two years, I've been diving as deep into women's soccer as I could, trying to become an expert on both WHAT to watch and also HOW to watch it. I've turned that expertise into a newsletter, so you all can enjoy women's soccer! this-week-in-womens-soccer.ghost.io/this-week-in...

I'm liking Marvel's new Ultimates line. I also ship Uncle Ben and JJJ in Spider-Man.

brooooOOooo.... #ffxiv #ff14

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

Finished Marvel Cosmic Invasion, and debating how much I care about the challenges or trying more of the heroes. Snickered at the final boss battle.

It's still on sale for $20, so here's why you should play Rogue Trader even if you have no interest in WH40K (a completely reasonable position to have): - Your character has actual political power in the setting, leading to power struggles and court intrigue

I have an ever hopeful pup at my feet, praying for a scrap of breakfast to fall.

Made molasses cookies to bring up to Wisconsin in the morning. Tried almond extract in these. Have another batch of dough with orange extract in the freezer to try later.

It's Parasite Eve ...

Catching up with and continue to adore @ryannorth.ca's Fantastic Four run. Johnny Storm's recentish romance was truly lovely.

AMERICA! "Nine Goblins" by @tkingfisher.com is on sale for $2.99 for Kindle today! (possibly also for Nook and Apple Books)

Casually jotting down 500 words for a D&D character's backstory. Now to do that more often and maybe just write a short story. (Last night as I was falling asleep I wrote the first sentence for one along with the scene setting. Thankfully remembered in the morning.)

At the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social for a fun evening viewing.

The main change my glam has with this latest FFXIV patch is switching out the tank leather top to the caster leather top. Also have one more jokey glam I still need to sort colors out for.

Dear FFXIV, while I enjoy having new content, if you throw one more, "Examine a sparkly bit on the ground and then go do something else anyway because this yielded nothing," I wonder what your writers are actually doing.

Have been playing Rogue Trader and enjoying it for the most part (why the combat/dialog log always closes on scene transition baffles me though). I do like that I made a pure support character and it feels good to play them as just buffing my allies while handling all dialog checks because of stats.

One more day for the reprise of the Murderbot, Witch King, and my other fantasy novels Humble Bundle! #booksky

I look forward to the tramp stamp mod of this version.

Trying the Variant Dungeons in FFXIV and I remain flummoxed that FFXIV is insistent I use outside sources to figure out how to even use the currency I get in various activities. The more I've played at the end of this game the more I just sigh heavily.