PRESENT DAY PRESENT...TIME!

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

Having a ton of fun with the new levels so far, going for perfects is getting *my* heart rate up lol Anyway, Rhythm Doctor rules, go play it!!!

I really loved J. Michael Tatum's performance as Okabe Rintaro in Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0. His take on Okabe's over-the-top mad scientist shtick is fun, but mostly I remember it for how affecting I found the pain and despair in his voice during the character's darkest moments.

was looking over some of my @failbettergames.com Fallen London gear and this image appeared fully formed in my mind

BB outfit warmups #anthologyofthekiller #aotk #doodle

Finished this great cave story review / historical context of it amongst shareware, doujin, and modern indie: syslbnth.neocities.org/htxt/cave-st... Which led to a 2013 post by @ellaguro.bsky.social on the game corrypt & the discourse around its "bad" graphics ellaguro.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-...

Finished one of the big Fallen London grinds I’ve been working on and got myself knighted. Only the 215th player so far to ever do it!

soundless - A MODERN SALEM IN REMOTE AREA -, our #yuri denpa visual novel, is now available on Steam! A young girl made pariah in a cult finds solace in an unexpected person: one of the revered Holy Maidens. ✝️ Download here and pick up the artbook, too! store.steampowered.com/app/3978150/...

LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO The previous act was incredible so I’m beyond excited to see what 7th Beat’s been cooking for this final one

Knights of Guinevere PILOT youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE

No Escape’s got a patreon and we use that patreon support to a) live, b) keep the site running and c) pay contributors*. Consider throwing a penny in the hat for continued good games criticism *not ordered by importance patreon.com/noescapevg

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

i reviewed NBA 2K26 for @endlessmode.bsky.social because someone had to while you're all playing silksong: www.endlessmode.com/article/comm...

Screenwriter of 'Top Boy' and 'Mobland', Ronan Bennett, on the recent Palestine Action ban: "Mr Starmer, Ms Cooper, go fuck yourselves and fuck your legislation too" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Japanese release of The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures, and to celebrate the chronicles of Ryunosuke Naruhodo, we're presenting a new commemorative illustration from the game's Art Director, Kazuya Nuri! Please enjoy!

Two days spent talking to people applying for jobs at ICE www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

incredible how much suffering can be justified on the basis of “someone, somewhere is getting something they don’t deserve” (compounded by these ghouls’ belief that basic necessities like shelter and healthcare aren’t something everyone “deserves” by default)

LRT: Executive who has only heard of PDFs, seeing his second computer thing: Getting a lot of 'PDF' vibes from this...

this will never stop being funny to me. "going to be the new PDF" is a phrase that i rotate in my mind over and over

On Blue Prince, conclusions, grief, and continuing on. www.gamespot.com/articles/blu...

duh, I forgot links. set the games on sale for itch too! Slimes: store.steampowered.com/app/1313490/... I Hate You, Please Suffer: store.steampowered.com/app/2583620/... Itch: itch.io/s/155845/suf...

The Splatoon kids still keeping it real

Help fellow critic @deephelldotcom.bsky.social who just got shitcanned early from their job ahead of a cross-country move! www.gofundme.com/f/help-deep-...

this is one of the things that really stuck with me from Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery — the Scythian losing max HP with every piece of the Trigon collected, her heroic quest / woeful errand taking from her piece by piece until she has nothing left to give

@failbettergames.com Important question: When I equip one of my agents with A Disquieting Suspicion That You Might Be Spiders, are they empowered by the suspicion that their boss is spiders, or do they suspect that they too might be spiders?

News from me! Last week was my last week at Double Fine. It was an exciting time and I am very grateful to have learned so much at a beloved studio. This means I am looking for work! If you need someone with social media/community expertise, please reach out. Eager to start a fresh adventure!

Fourteen Thousand. The long campaign to dehumanize Palestinians is, fundamentally, about this. To provide cover for the annihilation of a people and their culture, from the youngest to the oldest, to shrugs from the most powerful nations in the world.

17776 and 20020 are some of my favorite works of fiction in any medium, so hearing that Jon is following them up with a novel is wildly exciting, absolutely made my day

After a few weeks (and 95 in-game days) of @blueprincegame.bsky.social completely taking over my life, I finally fully and truly completed the game (unless the community discovers something new). Truly fantastic puzzle game to lose yourself in if you can learn to roll with the randomness.

Trailer 2.

Love to see Failbetter opposing genAI in the most Failbetter way possible

I’m giving the people what they want

the BDS requests on microsoft are extremely clear and also targeted. they aren't "uninstall windows now and change your entire life," they aren't even a huge ask for games media outside of like exclusive world of warcraft streamers. there is no reason for the near total silence other than shame

Time to get off gumroad

It's been no secret that I've been in a really bad place financially for a while. I thought I was free but a cascade of shit circumstances - including my mom's death - kicked me back into the hole. so I'm asking for help again. This time I'm doing so by writing a book noescapevg.com/digital-cult...

“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” another said. The flight attendants who spoke with ProPublica believed those lives were not worthless. That, many of them told me, is why they no longer fly for ICE Air. It’s also why they decided to share their stories: tinyurl.com/bdz5dc5f 10/

Abolish ICE

Attempting to fill out this survey by jan Misali is making me realize how fuzzy my sense of what qualifies as a video game is, it’s really doing a number on me. Love that the survey itself is one of the things it asks you to categorize. forms.gle/H7PV37bBggqe...

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

I haven’t read the source material, but I really love that they changed the outcome of the final audition in Sound! Euphonium. Kumiko doesn’t get to have her cake and eat it too; she and Reina stand by their principles, and it costs them dearly. The scene of them crying together wrecked me.

The Sins of New Wells (the first of Rise of the Golden Idol's 4 planned DLC episodes) was really fun, went in some interesting directions I was not expecting. Honestly think I might prefer it to the main game thanks to the tighter focus and more rapid narrative buildup and payoff.

Been getting really rhythm-pilled lately, I rolled credits on Rift of the Necrodancer (@braceyourselfgames.com) a couple weeks ago (and am still working on improving my ranks) and recently have been having fun with the demo for PROJEKT GODHAND (@noiszgame.com) and listening to Heart Attack on loop.

If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend! I’m reading @ryannorth.ca’s How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler. I’m generally not much of a nonfiction reader but I can’t say no to a speedrun guide to humanity’s tech tree by Ryan North.

I promise I'll be nicer, If you want to come around again [ 🧵1/4 #1000xResist ]

Subcutanean is both a really great queer horror novel and an incredibly cool procgen experiment (no AI, it’s human-authored text reassembled in myriad combinations), and now both it and the source code used to generate each copy are freely available under a Creative Commons license. Go check it out!

RIP to my “acquire library books via download to PC and keep my Kindle in perpetual airplane mode so they never expire” strategy