I’ve read V Vale’s book on the early years of SF’s proto/punk scene, and it’s great to see folks try to stave off the condo developers by putting on shows in the old venue.

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog. Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

Sometimes the "one weird trick" is "painstakingly become a better person under adverse circumstances"

My colleagues at Bloomberg report that the $20 billion debt in the EA deal is expected to be rated single-B — meaning it is considered a "junk" loan, or one that is high-risk and speculative, typically offering high interest rates. Which the new EA will have to pay www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Phoenix Springs is one of the few point and click games that truly feel like a result of 21st century art and I urge everyone interested in ludonarrative to play it. Alexandra Crow's performance as Iris Dormer is terrific.

My childhood was spent borrowing EA games like Bill Budge’s Pinball Construction Set, Danni Bunten’s MULE, and One on One: Dr J vs Larry Bird from the public library, and pirating others like Seven Cities of Gold and Heart of Africa and learning them without manuals.

Had a great time celebrating the launch of @coyotemedia.org at a very packed MAD OAK Bar ‘N’ Yard

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I remember an interview with a leftist political organizer during the previous New York mayoral election who was fretting that if Adams was elected, he’d be unbeatable until he term-limited out.

Fun fact: Mike Pondsmith, creator of the Cyberpunk ttrpg, was a MechWarrior called Steel in MechCommander 2.

A friend dropped by my place to say hi.

This is how you end up with Medal of Honor: Wounded Knee

We often say “deserve” when we should say “is worthy of” and I think the gap between those two sentiments is where bitterness takes root.

Baby Steps is fun, but it’s been a long time since I’ve played a fully released game that reliably Blue Screens my gamedev computer in under an hour.

Cold brew and honestly the best bear claw I’ve ever had at The Caffè in downtown Oakland

"The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services" but still!

For your health!

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

actually i changed my mind store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/... #gaming #indiegames #gamedev #indiegamedev #videogames

😍 18 hours of light rain forecasted for next week 😑 Adding up to 0.1 inch

Jesus

Super Typhoon Ragasa, a T10 (highest possible typhoon warning) is wrecking Hong Kong at the moment. This is video from the Ocean Park Fullerton Hotel.

Oh yeah, Castle Rat dropped their new album today. castlerat.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...

Times change, but the naive myopia of gifted dumbasses teetering on the edge of self-combustion and the predatory charisma of wealthy monsters is eternal. In spite of everything, let it turn out different this time.

Immigration agents detained a man attending a court hearing at Wiley Manuel Courthouse, according to the public defender.

I think I can see why my proposed talk about the history of games about political violence was rejected.

If you don’t live every week like it’s Fat Bear Week, it’s still Fat Bear Week this week. explore.org/fat-bear-week

The snatch could come any day now. youtu.be/teQMGOrbmWk?...

“I’m giving this my highest rating: 7/10” but not because larger numbers are never used.

The Oakland Review of Books visits the 9/11 Truth Film Festival. Aging men curling inward around a single point in the swiftly retreating past try to wring a few drops of community from the narcissism of minor differences. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-assume-wel...

Earthquake!

When William Gibson said, “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed,” that means all possible futures, simultaneously.

I just wanted to recommend To A T to folks that might have missed it when it came out at the beginning of the year. It’s ambitious in ways it would spoil to explain. If you pick it up, I strongly recommend that you stop playing for at least a day every time Giraffe (voiced by Rebecca Sugar) sings.

BREAKING: The Congressional Progressive Caucus, representing about 100 lawmakers, has endorsed the Block the Bombs Act to halt U.S. weapons for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. It would stop transfers of JDAMs, 2,000-lb bombs, tank rounds, and 155mm shells until Israel ends human rights violations.

If they did the Cottingley fairies today you would never convince people it was fake

I got these grapes from the farmer’s market this morning and I have never tasted a more floral fruit. Northern California produce, man.

I'm starting to get texts about this now so I guess I need to say something: There is a fundraiser going around about a "preservation disaster" raising money right now that I highly advise you to stay very far away from. A particular British tabloid is running with it unquestioningly. Thread:

"The drop in Republicans who see the country headed in the right direction is bigger than the decline between October 2020 and December 2020, after President Donald Trump, a Republican, lost his reelection bid." apnews.com/article/poll...

God bless her. The days when small cities like Grand Forks had papers that could afford dedicated food columnists, sports columnists, and movie critics were better days.

it’s not like there are any other games releasing at the same time 🤡 store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/... #indiegames #hades2 #gaming #silksong #cloverpit #babysteps

I think the General Strike model is not a good fit for the geopolitical reality of the US. In America, it can work at the level of a city (as it has in Oakland, where I live) or state, but the nation is simply too spread out, with dense areas too loosely linked, to be effective at the federal level.

I can feel my jaw tightening every time I see somebody on social media calling for a General Strike in 2 days like it’s a punk show to save the community center.

This loathsome interregnum is a period of vast uncertainty, sure, but it's also one of truly delirious opportunity. If it was going to happen, and it was always going to happen, then we live now on the cusp of a magnificent work. To live is to suffer, to survive is to have power over the world.

Folks who weren’t around for the creative weirdness that was possible after Microsoft realized the Kinect wasn’t going to make any money, few things are more fun than when a tech giant gives up on high tech loss-leader consumer hardware.

Somehow I had always thought that a Girl Friday came from the idea of, like, a part-time secretary or assistant, but it turns out it’s a reference to the “helpful native” character from Robinson Crusoe. It’s a girl who knows how to do everything, but can’t be in charge due to girl-ness.

Wild how many of us are posting when we could be reading poetry.

I can’t fucking believe I lived to see pro- and anti-regime Man Show hosts

Friends and colleagues, I was impacted by the Xbox layoffs back in July. I'm am starting my job search in earnest now. Feel free to contact me with any opportunities in game design leadership and creative direction. (Or any other game design opportunities. Can't be too picky these days.)