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

So apparently Tinder will just... ban you for being trans??

Fun exercise. This isn't all of mine, but I think about this constantly: lareviewofbooks.org/article/doom...

The very same! The guy who got Gay fired for plagiarism he fully fabricated just because she was black and it resembled a diversity hire doesn't grasp what the point of Blood Meridian, a book all about ripping away the aesthetics of imperialism and racism and showing you the Terminator skull benath

Deponia's free on Steam for the next few days, if you've never played it. Recommend it, fun vintage-style point and click.

oh my god its finally tolerable weather. I don't think it's gonna last but it's so nice to have fresh air. I'm too fucking sensitive to the weather lol

Rebecca Heineman will posthumously receive the Ambassador Award at the GDC Awards. A games industry legend - first ever game tournament champion in 1980, Interplay co-founder, Bard's Tale 3 designer, worked on the PSP, PS4, Xbox360, many ports... 👏 (Read more at GamesIndustry)

Sharing the Nine Games that I think are the most essential to my current vibes as a critic/nerd (my9games.com)

Always such a compliment to be included among all this cool shit. Never gets old.

This week: A staggering 30 articles, encompassing queer theory, spectrum games, communities of play, fangames, and a whole lot more. The Game Boy Color comes up more than once: critical-distance.com/2026/03/01/m...

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Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest. In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.

thinking of Aaron Bushnell today.

fuck the entire state of Kansas. There is no saving this country.

ICYMI: "Batman has an endless amount of space in his belt for toys, but he doesn’t have handcuffs?" @jhensliterature.bsky.social questions Batman's penchant for violence in the Arkham games:

if I give full credit to the Biden administration, he legitimately did Herculean efforts to repair the economy and get the train back on the tracks, and simultaneous to him doing that was price gouging by companies who wanted a Republican president and that little tiny genocide he kept arming.

can I be real Pitchfork can still be really annoying and pretentious but they are where I go to find cool new music to listen to on my own. Credit where credit is due.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

having to shell out for a new phone always hate it lol

the only reason to buy an xbox these days is to buy it secondhand so you can jailbreak it into an emulation machine. Fuck Microsoft. Don't give em any of your money.

I've been playing real Dungeons and Dragons for the past few weeks, and holy hell it's a great creative activity when you're not dealing with edgelords/minmaxxer types. I'm running an ex-noble roguish type who bumbled into become a warlock for a blood god. Great character opportunities :)

Adding my voice to the utter cavalcade, but if any publications/blogs need some quick work done, I'm available and more than ready to lock in to hit a deadline

fucked up that the only journalist I see out there talking about O9A/764 and their ilk is Chris fucking Hansen

in this episode: i somehow draw a non-tenuous line between games journalism and sports photography

AYN RAND: it is Rational and in fact Noble to care only for one's self because who knows if anyone else is even Real with an inner life like you, plus you're the Main Guy so your happiness is like the whole world is happy NARCISSISTIC SOCIOPATHS: wow what an interesting and totally New belief system

seeing my kiwami 3 review and even my skybox piece on kagawa linked and discussed fucking everywhere has me feeling like maybe what i do does matter sometimes like, i've seen a lot of people cancel pre-orders after reading my work. that's cool

Any game can teach you a valuable lesson. It might not be the one you expected, but if it makes you feel something that profound, then it's achieved a feat worth celebrating.

The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.

Went and saw Iron Lung last night and the theater acoustics really did make that movie. My little criticisms aside, it was a really fun movie, and a really promising directorial debut from Markiplier. Can't wait to see what he does as he finds more of his own voice in film.

Extremely pleased to share my big interview wirh Suda51 (another Inverse hold over). A lot to unpack here, including how he considered calling Romeo Is a Dead Man “Kill the Past,” and how he feels about people now having expectations of what “Suda game” is www.cgmagonline.com/interviews/s...

I think if I find out Jeffrey Epstein had a material hand in gamergate I might actually just go fucking insane

Forever ago Chapo (Felix I think) said that Jeffrey Epstein worked as an escort service for the most unfuckable, annoying ultra rich nerds on earth, which is why it's so hilarious that Elon Musk is TOO annoying, even for him, when his one job is to do that.

diet coke makes me insane it really is like a cigarette

yesterday night I finished The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez, and it was one of those books that I just had to sit quietly with for about an hour after wrapping it. Impossibly good, and profoundly sad in the way that only really good sci fi can be. Can't recommend it enough.

This year I've become keenly aware of how much people hate art and how important it is to me that I stay close to my love for it, especially as I take on fatherhood. I am tired of shallowness and surfaces. We deserve better. But we only get it if we know what it is when we see it.

Excellent, personal piece by @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social, written with a vulnerability that honors one of the medium’s truly transformative artworks. Thanks for writing it, Ashley

Hanif Abdurraqib's writing and Julien Baker's music have been constant companions of mine through the 2020s. Incredible to encounter both reconfigured as urgent backdrops to the options "you wish were made available" in this piece by @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social www.stopcar.ing/no-good-opti...

For years now I've been fascinated by the music and mysterious disappearance of Jim Sullivan. It's one of those cases where the ending of the story influences all of the art that precedes it... and lead me to muse on how the absence of an artist goes on to define them. youtu.be/GDBizlslWVU