Helped someone at work today who can't get their tax refund because of direct deposit shenanigans. We had to go through two different sites, multiple different verifications, & a 30 minute phone wait resulting in a dropped call and he still couldn't get into his fucking account to just add the info

i love living in the first village of an rpg man. friendly neighbors, music is chill af, we even got that one kid we adopted into the village of whom the ancient prophecy was written about. anyway there’s a big ceremony tomorrow can't wait to still be alive after it

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

good morning this is a real texture in Marathon

Penguins? Lovecraft? The new game from the designer of Umurangi Generation looks absolutely incredible store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...

Spark that leaf, Runner, it’s 4/20

IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Rabeea Alkuwari apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26040...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Want to get back into FFXIV someday and follow the story and fully invest in crafting. But it's been so long I'd have to restart, and the idea of crawling back through ARR kills any enthusiasm. Dungeon Support System may still make me more likely to reinstall though

"They, the children of Earth. They, the children of my Earth. Created and pondered and explored and played just because they could. And I, the dark matter, watched them in wonder." www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/impl...

Edge of Fate has one of the most tragically beautiful stories I’ve played in any of these campaigns. It’s also the place I decided to hit the fake griddy in my mandalorian armor after 5+ hours of playing. Masterpiece.

Finally watch Ghost in the Shell. Amazing movie, but I was kind of bummed that just as it hit the most interesting stuff it ended kind of abruptly. I was ready for another 15-20 mins

learning marathon 2 did not have music bummed me out at first but when i booted it up and heard the only track in the game at the title screen i realized they had just solved music entirely there and there was no need for any further tunes www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRM...

Don’t totally know how to express this in a nuanced enough way, but I’ve been feeling bummed out over how games get dissected in the past three years. A lot of mainstream discussion feels less interested in the games themselves and more about what they Represent About Gaming. It wears me out a bit!

Finished a few rough draft versions of chapters in my lore book ombinus project. Here's some direct links to the topics I covered: Strand: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Here's something I don't think I've tweeted on bluesky before: after we shipped Weird West, Wolfeye brought me back to make a first person mod for it, which is now accessible through the PC version of the game's mod menu. I did a video about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNsk...

There’s a real story of rebuilding hope among darkness and a lot of interesting smaller stories about displacement or feeling like an outcast. We’re all doing our part in this world but are we doing enough? Are we doing the right thing?

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

This is structurally identical to a Da Share Z0ne post

Yea, sir. The rascal’s drunk

new books: get

C.A.R.R.I. Protocol initiated. Collaborate with other runners to mutually increase chances of survival. (Reminder: You must also survive the other runners.)

Isopod

3D map of the Chongqing Metro that shows the elevation and decline of each line, with some essentially looking like roller coasters (Chongqing is the Chinese city that went viral for showing how you could be on the ground floor but then walk a bit and be on the 22nd floor, due to the hilly terrain)

hospitality

@samueltolbert.bsky.social is a great guy and a wonderful pod guest. Please check out his work here:

It’s podcast day! This week, @samueltolbert.bsky.social and I had a great discussion on how to maintain a healthy work-life balance when it comes to covering games. We also talked about sci-fi books and games, sharing some great picks. Read the intro post and find the links in the replies:

trying to post through it rn

We should have never doubted this man

"Like Taco Bell does with food, platforms like TikTok and Twitter are incentivized to strip context from language, because then it can be flattened into a saleable product that can be co-opted by corporations."

Bungie's stories are deeply tied to literature, science, and history, so I made a Goodreads shelf with books that either influenced them, were explicitly referenced, or are just in the same wheelhouse as the best of those games' writing goodreads.com/review/list/46690869-matt?shelf=bungie-bookshelf

The prophecy cannot be stopped

while the site is stabilizing I think everyone should go listen to this episode of side story if you're interested in having a discussion about the type of game Marathon is/should be. directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

northernlion—aka the only big streamer who’s relatively normal—is making big moves. earlier this week he announced a cruise that his fanbase at first thought was a bit, and now he’s funding and publishing demon bluff, a single-player social deduction game he helped put on the map

BIG interview with the ONTOS team in here 👀

Please.... ...and bring back Into Free youtu.be/8XBlBPtQW6g?...

King’s Field [1994] From Software - PlayStation

Oh, you like HoMM? Have you heard about store.steampowered.com/app/867210/S... ? It does a cool thing where after each mission you glimpse a bard in a tavern summing up the events so by the end of each campaign the faction has a full song. JOIN THE MARSH SKYEN!

Destiny is all about pushing through darkness, overcoming insurmountable odds and finding hope through community. It's basically the story of being a Miami Heat fan.

Last night I was playing Destiny 2 while watching the Heat game. I remembered where I was at in April 2024 when @questlog.bsky.social was acting as my guide through Witch Queen. I distinctly remember logging on one night telling them I was pissed the Heat lost. Time is a flat circle.

sometimes I look at dishonored screenshots and go fuuuuck it's so good. fuck. I'll never forgive the gamers for not buying billions of copies of all the dishonored games

Someone outside, watching

get soulmogged bro. you gotta start spiritmaxxing, your essence is chopped

Okay but she's lowkey spittin here