Had a lovely afternoon reading this great little review, learning about a game I had never heard of, then playing said game. Games writing! It's good! (And so is "It Takes a War")

My (previously sold-out) talk in Boston next Tuesday just added a bunch of seats! I'd love to see you there! ticketing.bostonjfilm.org/websales/pag...

Virtue signal, I'm a good person and not just terrible at PvP

"Hey man, watcha watchin?" "Oh just the new video podcast from Getty Images on navigating usage rights of people, places, and things. It's one of my favorite shows."

one of my all-time most thought about posts is a deleted tweet where a guy said "young people don't even know what these are anymore" with this picture

here's a clip of the couldn't-have-gone-better, no-notes revenge that @haleyfax.bsky.social and i got on these guys as they looted @jacobgeller.com's body in Arc Raiders (as discussed in the episode)

Video I'm working on now is either gonna be a big hit or something that no one else really cares about but the important thing is *I* really love it

It's not like this solves all the problems or whatever, but it's really nice to see. Just run on policies that aren't hateful and actually help working people! Don't suck off the fucking billionaires! Be cool! That's it! That's all the "lessons that need to be learned"!

I feel like this and it's 3pm

how to immediately improve my day and also make me wanna cry at the same time

Thinking about Blornet

Love this little animation of Shu pinching himself in Silent Hill F. The pulled corner of his mouth, the way his skin bounces back. Just a fun little well-observed moment.

marie and i also were excited to finally merge health insurances after we got married and after 5 extended phone calls and multiple rounds of documentation our best option was to triple what we were paying before, so now we don't have health insurance at all. swag

End of the saga (hopefully): we pulled the trigger and put me on Annie's health insurance last week, which is good because I just got my new rate and it jumped up literally $150 a month (from $450 to $600). Also at that rate it still cost $50 every time I went to therapy lmao

Jennifer Gray's previous photo was literally taken at the 2010 "Epic Mickey" for Wii launch party at the Times Square Disney Store

🌸NEW VID🌸 Silent Hill f almost drove me insane with how much there is to talk about. EVERY detail led to a rabbit hole of research, but what I kept coming back to is how it's a game about the curses in our blood... curses both supernatural AND societal. youtu.be/F1oc4_hP3IQ

This seems outrageously cruel. And just a handful of months before these folks would have been set to enjoy the release of one of the biggest games of their careers too. The imbalance of power in the games industry remains utterly fucked.

if you're making anime gooner games your target audience is the most deranged people on earth, so "my waifu is mocking my dick size"-gate was just a matter of time

Everyone learning therapy speak is ruining reality tv

Would be a kinda fun task to come up with a list of the Ten Songs You Could Use To Score Every Video Essay

New Noah Day for all who celebrate

Saw Twilight in theaters

You've only got EIGHTEEN DAYS left to get the Deluxe Edition of my new book, with vinyl and slipcase and art print and one million cool points. Get your chanukah/christmas shopping out of the way early! Treat yourself! www.lostincult.co.uk/overthinking

The "don't talk about social issues" strategy only works if you *admit that was your strategy after the fact*. We're in this doom loop where Democrats try something, gaslight themselves into believing they didn't try it, then decide to try it again.

AWARD WINNING PODCAST PEW PEW BANG

"And suddenly you just have to sit there and be sad as the sad thing happens." @jacobgeller.com on the ways Shadow of the Colossus' music plays with our emotions. Listen to the full episode here: postgame.substack.com/p/20-years-l...

This is appalling and if Xbox doesn’t do something about it then they’re on the line for this marketing too

New layer: My monthly payment might go up next year, because that's happening to everyone. Maybe it'd make sense to be added to my wife's plan after all. EXCEPT: -Her enrollment period (when she could add me) ends Oct. 31 -I can't even see how much my 2026 yearly payment will cost until Nov. 1

Ninja Gaiden 4 was one of my most anticipated games of the year and I'm not playing it in accordance with the BDS Microsoft boycott, and it turns out that actually nothing bad happens to you if you don't play a video game.

i do love remakes!!!! to connect with the child self by effectively time traveling and re-experiencing what sparked my creativity and shaped me into who i am today is frankly ass compared to playing it with realistic graphics.

For years, Tony Yacenda's "American Vandal" has been my favorite Netflix show, but I never watched "Players," his eSports follow-up. Found out it was all on an official YouTube playlist. Blasted through it in 3 days. Phenomenal. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Had a blast talking with Chris about the most important game of my life!

I know what would make your day better. An hour-long conversation with @jacobgeller.com about Shadow of the Colossus and the future of the video essay. www.patreon.com/posts/20-yea...

Still thinking about this. I know its not a big award in the industry generally but given what I set put to do with the Citizen Sleeper series it feels special to have it recognised in this way 🙏

If I may dril for a moment, you absolutely do not have to give Trump “credit” for anything, ever. The saying does not go “even a broken clock hires its own gestapo”

Played the first episode of Dispatch and it's so cool to finally have one of these type games that's actually figured out conversational pacing

Incredible infographic at the state fair

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

🚨 It's that time of year again! Please sign up for the upcoming ISSUE 6 campaign! 🙌🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...

More than 1,200 video game journalists have left major publications in the past two years, and not returned to the media, according to data supplied to VGC. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/more-th...

How tf am I supposed to get any work done

okay what the fuck

happy halloween pt. 1 🎃 i wrote a PERSONAL ESSAY W(`0`)W about hinako’s haunted family home in silent hill f and how i grew up next to a graveyard from jane eyre to the haunting of hill house, living with ghosts (or becoming one…) is a good woman’s work 🪾 plant-or-beast.net/posts/2025-1...

The messiness of Consume Me is one of the things I admire most about it. You kinda expect its themes to neatly coalesce, to get closure on all the threads it starts, but it chooses to be true-to-life rather than neatly wrap up.

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

Very excited to read @ckunzelman.bsky.social's new book on Assassin's Creed, despite (or because of) not touching an entry in the series in roughly seven years