in an ED group today i spoke a little about how i tie my self worth to my ability to write/output and how freelancing makes that magnitudes more stressful and another person in the group said 'i think you're very brave for freelancing' and i appreciate that! but also! wish i didn't have to!

hey so uh fuck GOG actually? Christ what are those people even doing over there

Would anyone like a freelance nostalgia piece on Kings Field IV? Desperately wanting to infodump about how mad cool it is and get more people to give it a shot

for cis people, “im just trying to live my life as a teen girl but the government, backed by a vast shadowy web of fanatical religious groups, is hellbent on using its full might to destroy me bc i was born special” is an outlandish YA novel plot for teenage trans girls in america its tuesday

I have to live I'm transgender

Also if anyone needs a freelancer to write a review or something please DM I could def use the work <3

Pro-Tip from yours truly: Now is the time to raid thrift stores. College kids leave so much shit behind and it all ends up at your local thrift stores. You find cool-ass books and movies this time of year, plus all the TVs you can dream of, and cheap furniture/mini-fridges Thank me later :3

Absolute bars in that one, this is what I would expect from a worker owned outlet but oh well

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

games media is and can be and will be and must be good

empty streets, grainy clouds, snowfall against the twin towers. Early 3D games have preserved New York City in a surreal way — polygons coalesce into a fuzzy nostalgia for a place that no longer exists. It’s cold out there. youtu.be/VZgxZb7rAmg

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

hire ashley! she has a very good eye for crit, keen analysis and a winning personality too

i just think it should be illegal for an account named 'sissylover' to like my posts or see my account or draw breath

MEASUREHEAD - “THE PAST IS MADE OF STATIC IMAGES, DISTORTED MEMORIES, DEMENTED NOSTALGIA. THIS, THE PRESENT -- WITH ALL ITS POSSIBILITIES, INNUMERABLE HITS AND MISSES -- IS FAR SUPERIOR. IT IS A *LIVING* ORGANISM.”

The reality here is that the goals of the old internet - democratization of knowledge, social networking across borders (both cultural and national), true-blue humanism - succeeded far beyond what those in power had ever hoped, and now desperately they try to burn the Library of Alexandra yet again

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger. ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

Some friends of mine are talking about moving to Chicago... Might be a neat change of pace

so pathetic how Spotify just keeps begging me and begging me to come back, like you think that's going to convince me to ignore all of the nonsense? Companies are so weird now. You're a billion dollar suffering factory not a little pee-pee-pants guy doin his best.

there are some editors who believe that no response is equal to a pass on a pitch and while I understand why (it’s efficient! Responses are time consuming! You are overworked!) maybe put that in your email signature or something?

Always happy to be here <3

Currently concussed and can't write like normal going crazy in here

this is a fantastic essay. you must watch it big week for video essays on indie games and psychology

as someone who's only recently experienced this thanks to @dykedeitz.bsky.social fuck yeah it's incredible

The best thing I wrote for Paste was probably this essay on Dishonored 2's elevators. There were few sites then and fewer now that allowed a critic to so freely explore and extrapolate on niche subject matter; which imo, is a necessary baseline for healthy crit. www.avclub.com/dishonored-2...

i dont know why but "twenty dollar" is the funniest amount of money to me. Not "twenty dollars." It has to be "twenty dollar"

Got to flashbang one of the tellers at my bank with how much I've changed since I got my License reissued. good feelin

Honest to god I do think my favorite album out there is PUP's Morbid Stuff. Something about it just hits the exact right notes for so many of my days

Shit I need to get back to work on my horror novel

Typos are the bane of my existence

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

Friends were doing this list, figured I'd publish mine too

I shouldn't have to say this but if you ever send something written by AI to @skyboxcritics.com and we publish it and I find out about it, you and I are going to have a problem. Stupid Autocorrect can't make art, and if you can't be bothered to write it, I don't want to read it.

I'm in my yearly rewatch of Kenny vs Spenny and I'm now wondering if I can somehow leverage an interview with one or both of those wackos lmao Kenny Hotz my DMs are open

This is not a DJT Post. This is a JD Vance Post, masquerading - poorly - as a Trump one. I don't know if the fucker's even conscious rn

Fantastic interview!

Gender win: Out on a walk yesterday a prick on a bike turned himself around to pedal next to me, while trying to make conversation and rolling a nat one every time he opened his mouth. Even better? I was HOLDING MY GIRLFRIEND'S HAND THE ENTIRE GODDAMN TIME

back in unwinnable with one of the real highlights of my stateside trip: having the chance to interview the wonderful @bysameng.com on skate story, learning to skate and develop games, culture, new york and coffee shops thank you again to sam for his time and to unwinnable for giving it a home! 💜

This video has made some waves. I received a non-boilerplate email from YouTube saying they reinstated one of the videos that they'd taken down. That's an absolute first for me.

Damn good week for reading about games.

a lot of cis people simply cannot handle the fact that trans people are real human beings with their own agency, autonomy, interiority and ideas. the way it fucks with their brains is wild to watch.

The March issue of Unwinnable Monthly has been out for about a week now, so let's see what's inside, yea? But before that, marvel upon the cover by @nickeldoodle.bsky.social! Don't buy the issue, subscribe! It's cheaper: unwinnable.com/subscribe/

Two pieces in CD in a row... holy shit.

This week: Are there fish in Marathon? Asking for a friend. Anyway, here's 16 new-and-cool picks: critical-distance.com/2026/03/29/m...

thank you so much to everyone who has supported me so far. i have cried looking at ko-fi quite a lot the past two days 💜

"The purpose of Arkham City was never just detention." @jhensliterature.bsky.social examines state violence in the Batman Arkham series:

God I hate MoveOn spamming me with emails. The most namby-pamby liberal bullshit money-begging I've seen in a while.

two of my favourite pieces so far, and specifically my most Important piece, were published by skybox, alongside so many other fantastic pieces by so many fantastic writers! supporting them keeps these coming and is a wonderful use of a couple dollars