i think a lot about how globalization/technology removes 'contingency' from many aspects of life, introducing anxiety around chaotic, random, non-general elements, and how this can lead to a compulsive need to optimize and 'perfect' (escape) your situation, increasing your alienation/isolation

I'm also SUPER geeked out that AC-bu (AC CLUB) did a segment too. I've been loving their work from the sidelines for years and then they go and give me a great avatar forever

The absolutely wild thing about getting into Ultraman is roughly once every 20 minutes seeing something insane that makes you realize “oh, this is where [some other formative scene or costume in other media] came from”

Both countries have had general strikes And They Work

i feel like the re4 remake is so bizarrely underappreciated. i was entirely dismissive of it before playing it. the village section’s speed and constant motion kept fucking me up and having me saying “this isn’t re4” until i realized duh, that is the Point of re4 and its village section. top notch

“are games art?” the subject of longstanding debate and countless forum threads may finally have a conclusive answer

should have listened five fucking years ago

get in loser we're going fishing.

i changed my phones Brough icons to unsettling david lynch characters so i wouldn’t play them so much, it didn’t work and now these are canon to me

I think it's weird to be like "why is gita jackson being picked on :(" when they're one of the co-founders of a gaming publication, not too long ago got upset over the concept of a Microsoft games boycott, and have a history of picking on people they dislike while encouraging others to do so.

The #HugoAward for Best Game or Interactive Work goes to Caves of Qud.

The proper Ged designs: bsky.app/profile/loui...

Wizard of Earthsea: Where it starts vs where it ends #art

when the gamers get to feeling insecure about games “”””””””as art”””””””” and remember to start making proclamations about ludology

why does this look like Shinkiro drew it

the only use i’ve seen is ironing out people’s brains nice and smooth

take whatever circumstances and resources you have and create the vision of the world you want to see. this is true of any time and any place, but now is especially the time to do it. the people at the top are out of ideas and uniquely vulnerable.

If it were not for Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard, Rand and I would have never begun making games and we would have never made Myst and Riven. He was a gentle soul and a brilliant human. We owe so much to him.

Played a single run of "Elden Ring: Nightreign", and I think my key takeaway is that there should be like a 0.005% chance that one of the nightly bosses is the Autonomous Planetary Closure Craft AAP07: BALTEUS

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I think a lot about how Aaron Swartz committed suicide while facing a probably long jail sentence for download some of JSTOR, but no one at Meta is going to face any repercussions for using all of Libgen to train its AI.

It's Just Corporate Consolidation Don't Be A Fucking Mark like are you kidding me the internet whips ass what doesn't whips ass is being trapped in a walled garden by an ad-service panopticon dipshit billionaire

This 1990s anime’s ability to capture the mood of America 2025 is uncanny

The issue of children using LLM in school needs to be fixed in two ways: firstly, the technology should be banned and the creators lined up against a wall and shot. Secondly, we should maybe redesign our education system so it doesn’t make cheating the more desirable outcome than learning

midnight thought - it's become more obvious to me how the rise in time consumey addictive gameloops is a direct response to the games having a crisis about rise of online video/podcast and trying to retain people's attention with stuff that works well as second screen content but is engaging enough

Holy shit direct feed Vertexer footage

Nathalie rules. I think more people should spend time looking at and playing their games. Excited to see where these latest excursions lead...

whatever else you want to say about it, we are seeing the result of an economic system that ultimately rewards a fundamentally inhumane and grotesque destruction and looting of everything over any desire towards future survival of the planet and thriving of a vast majority of human life.

they are having to construct a specialized guillotine for his fucked up scutoid shaped head

the zenith of the 1099 games-writing career: getting a sanctimonious tut-tut about other people’s politics published in The Genocide Newspaper

so are aftermath going to address the whole "pretty much all their staff betrayed an abuse victim back in the day" elephant in the room or

hey - i hosted this! it was an incredibly high quality collection of games this year being shown! i also made a little speech about the state of the game industry (and the world) at the beginning. please watch and enjoy!

instead of ghibli ai filters, celebrate Japanese artists creating their projects lovingly by hand!

ok sorry . my lawyer has advised me to say that drinking israeli diarrhea is good actually no matter how many kindergartners they murked

gotta keep bringing up this post here mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet...

adding to this, my number one indie advice is: don't be afraid to be oppositional. do the opposite of whatever someone who annoys you tells you what to do. and embrace it! especially if some friends join up with you.

“silicon valley has built a world of distributed pedophiles, empowered by a networked cloud of untraceable money laundering websites. but if the old world does not die, our new world may not reach its full potential”

you know what i call her, is i call her brianna “who?”

Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harper’s piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.

Clown's Love

On TNG era Star Treks, they did stars outside windows using folded-up bits of foil/mylar glued onto black duvetyne, reflecting a bright light. I always thought it'd be fun to simulate it in CG for that very specific vibe and.. it kinda works.

Yes, important post... I'd go as far as to say the term "quality of life" straight up makes it hard for the audience to treat games "as art" (and imo enjoy them fully). In turn, that means less "art" goes into games and more "service".

balatro is a wonderful way for remedial students to learn about the commutative and distributive properties of multiplication, and is almost a videogame in its own right