It's time to board the Mothership. www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

And for those wondering, yes, I will be back at Consignment Lounge now and then. Very cool bar.

1/ Hello I am moving back to Chicago at the end of the month. I still love Milwaukee with my whole heart, but honestly living alone has sucked and I have felt incredibly isolated. Feeling that way in my hometown has been kinda soul-crushing. I also am car-free, which has proven difficult here.

we'll launch mothership.blog in its final form on jan. 26, featuring stories by amazing writers like @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, @nicoleclark.bsky.social, @susanapolo.bsky.social, @supercrip1994.bsky.social, & @applecider.bsky.social. you can subscribe early for a LIFETIME 15% OFF discount!!

Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah are co-founding a new gaming outlet called Mothership. Full launch on January 26th. www.mothership.blog/board-the-mo...

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

noooo you can't just demonstrate to the american people that you can just do stuff. the government can just decide something needs to be done and then do it in an expedient manner. they're gonna start expecting all of us to do that,

OH HEY I INTERVIEWED LENNY KRAVITZ?

been dreaming in other languages again. I need to roam

just invented the upper six seven

hearing people suggest Don's TV Repair at my bartending gig

not sure if I need a vacation or a lobotomy

you never know what you have til it's gone

bartending + closing alone all Christmas week 😃

This is metal

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

Now the boss owns 177 homes, and workers still can't pay rent.

why does every other white man in Los Angeles look like Eddy Burback

remember the reason for the season; the immaculate dysfunction

somaek got me moving like The Green Goblin

Part of me wants to move to LA but also I think that would turn me into George Costanza

never seen an episode of Dragon Ball in my life. But what if I started posting about Vegeta

Uber Driver's seatbelts don't work

forgive me father for I have blogged simulacrum.pika.page/posts/but-th...

Every year the industry puffs itself up for The Game Awards, but many of the best games release in December to far less fanfare. aftermath.site/a-lot-of-great...

so when did mfs start going to bed so early

biggest pop for TGAs was at Sebulba

Clair Obscur team blacking out tonight.

what's a guy gotta do to get a major games industry event in New Orleans

damn the LA Metro is so nice

love to get lectured on the virtues of spartanism from the guy with the gold toilets

SOMEONE ON MY FLIGHT IS WATCHING NICK FUENTES ON FULL VOLUME JOE BIDEN PLS STRIKE US OUT OF THE SKY

yo @timgettys.bsky.social was right about bomber jackets. Ts rules

the last 24 hours may have made me wanna jump headfirst into moving traffic but at least I have Metroid Prime 4

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

HEY, share your favourite bits of games crit, coverage, reporting, guides writing of 2025 with me! I got an award show I gotta put together.

“It’s disgraceful but not surprising that he is working behind the scenes to force servicemembers to suffer through infertility," Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wa.) said on Thursday. www.jezebel.com/mike-johnson...

this bandcamp friday, i want to give a special thank you to everyone that has supported my album EARTHBLADE ~ Across the Bounds of Fate 50% of all sales have gone towards Trans Lifeline, and to-date we have donated over $8,300 usd towards the charity with your support. Thank you so, so much 🤍

turns out my initial booking didn't go through for some dumbass reason and I am now SCRAMBLING to find a flight. Google is showing me stuff like this lmao

man how sick would it be if I could afford to just focus on writing full time

Giannis is ready to cause me some extreme anguish I can feel it in my bones

Fujimoto either wants a woman to beat the shit out of him or be a woman himself and either thing inspiring him is extremely good. So many people watch porn and make extremely boring art or no art at all

Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all. www.ign.com/articles/uns...

dude why does English have so many syllables.... I gotta learn a new script

this Walmart campaign has dealt a great blow to my adoration/respect to/for Pete Townshend

Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success

narrowly avoided an explosion, hit my first 3, ate a gyro