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A shootout with 4 goals, 5 misses and one own goal. This one might have been even more insane than the Paraguay one. This World Cup is haunted.

Canada advancing further than Germany and the Netherlands, just as everyone predicted.

"Marathon is too complicated" "extraction shooters aren't fun" "what about the player count" I give you: Marathon Steve www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/c...

What a match, fantastic competition from South Africa. That was anyone's game. Well played.

Eustáquio!!!!!!

Davies on the pitch, let's gooooo

Good first half of football, free flowing, back and forth, love to see it, but OOF I am STRESSED

COME! ON! Let's go Canada, let's keep it going

Electric last few minutes, but what a slog of a match. I guess we'll take second in the group!

PROMISE!!!!

Oof, stressful half, but Crépeau strong

Yiiiiiiikes

It's a good night in Vancouver.

THAT'S A THIRD

SALIBAAAAAAA

Oh man, Koné :(

Fantastic first half, the boys look great. Let's get another three

We're so in it, allez Les Rouges

Jonathan David really knows how to kick a ball, what a strike

CYLE LARIN AGAIN LET'S GOOOO

Really cool mini today!! puzzmo.com/play/crosswo...

CYLE LARIN MY MAN

I think this is a pretty good post for naming the bigger friction points with Marathon right now (it being an extremely dense game with zero chill that demands a *lot* from your time), but I'm kinda blown away that they're going to see if PVE actually works. www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Ar...

"Instead of actually playing an MMO, it's more like hanging out in an MMO themed room" youtu.be/Z1IWpQ3Aug4

just in time for that summer sun: VIDEOGAMES v. VIDEO GAMES (even has a romchip logo on the back! get your exclusive journal merch here: romchip-a-journal-of-game-histories-shop.fourthwall.com)

yo what's up, I've got a new lil project out. it's a zine I made in a day, featuring two reviews: one of Marathon (2026) and one of Armored Core VI (2023). it's 2 bucks for 28 pages of extremely crunchy jpegs thresholded to within an inch of their life, and also my writing. enjoy

I'm gonna make a little joke where I roll out the bullet points for what producers do and they just keep going

"As a user, I don't want to" uxdesign.cc/as-a-user-i-...

Nothing "just works." People make things work.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

"a vast industrial machine that exists to produce nothing"

"Your death will move something, even if all it moves is the stock price of a publicly traded corp half a lightyear away"

Also hit level 25 tonight (at last!) and got the Cryo Archive cutscene. Violent little things. This game continued to wow.

Loaded into Perimeter with two friends and free kits, wiped a squad with purple gear off spawn. Next round, took our new purple gear back into Perimeter, and immediately got wiped by a squad with free kits. Marathon is incredible.

I am so impressed with the @marathonteam.bungie.net's attentativeness to feedback, nuanced solutions for hard design problems, and general willingness to experiment with the playspace they've created. Really exemplary stuff!

The Realis actual play on the FatT patreon has been incredible listening. The way this game thinks about character and story is so invigorating and inspiring. Feels both fresh and deeply informed by a legacy of other great storytelling games. Go back this!

"A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal"

"Players don't read text." This is not literally true in all cases, but it IS a factual statement in many contexts. An interesting question is "Why?" The same player who reads a text-heavy game like Disco Elysium may not read text popping up in a UI during the action or during a tutorial.

A little encounter on Tau Ceti IV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNv...

jessica defino talks about how contemporary beauty culture is skewed towards the algorithmic gaze and rejection of "human" qualities: it's poreless, filtered, digitally and surgically altered, faces made uncanny through use of botox and filler. this kind of tech mirrors that rejection of humanness

even from a pure technical perspective, it's clearly throwing out a bunch of the actual lighting information in the scene to replace it with essentially a pre-baked yassified valley face. it's the Samsung moon thing but for video game characters' faces

Seven-Part Pact, my fantastical and ornate TTRPG about the seven most powerful wizards in a fantasy world, is coming this summer to kickstarter!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

MARATHON MARATHON MARATHON MARATHON MARATHON aftermath.site/marathon-bun...

From the publisher that brings you Sprigs & Kindling (that's me!), in collaboration with @jesseross.com and @pemetawe.bsky.social comes a new anthology of one shot incursions for Trophy! Sign up to be notified of launch 😄 www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

Played more of the Marathon Server Slam tonight, but this time with two friends, and I'm sold. Solo is extremely punishing, but the game really isn't balanced for solo (at least right now). As a squad, though, the game shines.

Marathon is so stylish. Aesthetics are really working for me. Environments, lighting, sound... SOUND. Oh man. Just want to listen to this game, wander around and poke at things. Story surprisingly interesting, too. Vibes off the charts.

Wow. I have no idea if it will retain a playerbase, but Marathon is one of the most exciting visual and storytelling statements of intent I've ever played. I'm considering buying an extraction shooter for the narrative; the actions of a madman

GUYS have you seen this. antarctica on google maps. go look at it. this is tech struggling to process the Sublime