AI and its users are such a ridiculous insult to creativity and the intelligence of the people that they think they're fooling with it. pay an artist to draw your damn disney duck. are we already at the point where huge companies churn out junk like the melting backgrounds in the larger

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Please read both of these blogs. The last part here has some of the most incisive writing about game journalism I've read since this piece: unwinnable.com/2026/02/11/a... (they go together imo!)

Good piece that also feels like it’s in dialogue with this article from a few years ago that I think about often: bloodknife.com/everyone-bea...

I joked in my year end post about being a "gamer aesthete" because I thought the sprite work and design of early Kirby games pleased me on a primal aesthetic level, but good UX and design is a pleasure to interact with and is its own reward! It's a valid way to love a game!

Something I’ve learned from getting monthly magazines from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is that there really isn’t anything new under the sun, including home VR being “more accessible to home players” and pricing discourse.

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If you’re into incredibly simple blogging from a great small team of devs (I think it’s just two people now??) I cannot recommend pika.page enough. They have a guestbook where you can leave doodles on other blogs! I write occasionally at stevetown.blog

Cuomo gave a fairly graceless concession speech, and Mamdani rips his skin off: "My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."

Anxiously waiting for my issue this week, but this is the coolest one I’ve seen so far.

OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995

applying for jobs again