Always annoyingly dull when reactionaries are like "we just want stories not woke stuff" as if a story somehow isn't a story when it's about race, gender, sexuality, etc. Reading this article feels like Vavra is actively refusing to have the epiphany that's screaming in his face

Now that the dust has settled on Stranger Things is it a hot take to say Season 3 is still the worst one? The mall is a cool change of pace but introducing the Soviet plot is the start of really jumping the shark and every character but the four older teens is at their most unlikable

There are so many good alternate choices for each category because there were, are, and will be so many good video games

New video! I liked Esoteric Ebb a lot and also had some thoughts about how closely it adheres to Disco Elysium's example youtu.be/9tderdH0aMg

I usually try to avoid getting hyped for things since I want to avoid falling into the trap of getting too attached to specific expectations. That said, I am unbelievably excited for this and the team-up of sunset visitor and Black Tabby blindsided me in the best way possible

My favorite Animorphs Lore Fact is that the big god figure is a gamer and his god name is his gamer username, and his species was wiped out by a different group of aliens that saw their Twitch streams of their Civ games and thought the Civ games were real and had to be stopped

Michael Grant and I have concerns that the project is under-resourced. But one of the producers, Sev Ohanian, is a friend, as well as a genuine Animorphs fan. If anyone can make it work, he can. Fingers crossed. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Weird creature tries to scam you out of 5 bucks... #indiegame #indie

I know there's still 3 & 3/4 years left in the decade but whatever here's a rough "top 10 favorite games of the 2020s so far in no strict order" list 1000xResist Silksong In Stars and Time Baldur's Gate 3 Neon White Wrath of the Righteous Paradise Killer Slay the Princess Cyberpunk 2077 Wildermyth

"Are you worried about misinformation, climate change, affordability and wage stagnation, art being flattened by business interests, and education disruption? Here at GenAI Company, we've developed a product that will make all of that worse for zero benefit. Give us the entire economy. Fuck you."

I didn't say it in the video itself but there's a reason I decided to follow up an anti-AI vid with one about a scrappy old parody webseries. This is what true democratized concept-remixing art can be, not some overglossed "Smash Bros as Crime Drama" Midjourney images

New video about the gritty Smash Bros fan series Matt Mercer made back in 2009.

I've been enjoying Echo's videos for a while now but I felt this recent one on Deux Ex is worth highlighting, because DE a game that has been discussed to death and I wasn't really sure there was anything new to say, but this video far exceeded my expectations when it comes to a fresh perspective.

I read somewhere that Silksong's platforming was really hard but (once I got the crest that does a straight down pogo instead of diagonal pogo, granted) I didn't find it too bad after playing Wishbind, so thanks for the platformer boot camp @imaginativems.bsky.social

Hornet in Silksong when it turns out there's another bug kingdom enthralled by some sort of higher power

It's February again www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjco...

After I finally beat the Path of Pain when I played Hollow Knight I got really sick. Starting Silksong now and I wonder which part of the game will be so hard it strikes me with an actual physical illness this time around.

A short reflection on why AI still bad youtu.be/elibZysknLA

Nostalgia Critic's initial conceit "reviewing bad old media our nostalgia goggles filter out" seems like a weirdly deradicalizing concept given how reactionaries like to romanticize past media as innately better as a recruiting tactic. His style of "angry man shoots movie with gun" is less so.

It may have ended last May but Andor wasn't really complete until now

Incredible that @dukeofwhales.bsky.social swooped in on December 30th after a year of radio silence to drop one of the best video essays of 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNj8...

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Picture me chilling in the middle of the night after new years, deciding to start watching a 3 hours long video of a youtuber I enjoy about DeusEx, to ride until the morning, and suddenly my own game jumpscares me... Check @echobizarre.bsky.social out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOrV...

My November video is finally out at the end of December If you have three and a half hours to spare you could watch Avatar: Fire and Ash, or you could watch me talk about one of my favorite games youtu.be/uOrVZ12Dll4

Tomorrow (unless I rewatch it late at night and notice something I somehow didn't notice during my last two final rewatches and panic and take it down to edit even more)

Dr. Doom is my favorite comic book villain and my own personal fancast would be Ramon Tikaram (Dorian Pavus in Dragon Age, Aatrox in LoL, Ramattra in Overwatch) instead of the dumb RDJ nostalgia stunt Either that or go full nostalgia and have Simon Templeman do his voice from the 90s cartoon again

That terrible looking Animal Farm movie being distributed by Angel Studios (right wing Sound of Freedom producers) is very funny, I assume they picked it up b/c "anti-communism" but the trailer makes it look like actual Stalin apologia - "he would have been fine if capitalists hadn't corrupted him"

Broke: "I only play old games because I hate women and minorities in games" Woke: "I only play old games because at least I know for sure they weren't made with genAI" Bespoke: "Even old games can be ruined with an update at any minute, destroy genAI completely and exile every CEO to Pluto"

I don't mean this to criticize any one specific creator, but I feel like I've seen more than enough YouTube thumbnails riffing on the End of Evangelion to last me a year at least

lol. lmao.

I believe in rehabilitation rather than punishment, I believe everyone who makes a sincere, good faith effort can change for the better But people who toss in random, unrelated songs into album tracklist playlists on YouTube should be exiled to the sun

@echobizarre.bsky.social made a video on that topic, and I highly recommend it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSIG...

So obviously every Game Awards overlooks great games even while recognizing others (Expedition 33 and Hades II are awesome, haven't played other GOTY noms) Here are some 2025 indies not in the Game Awards worth looking into: Citizen Sleeper 2 Promise Mascot Agency Eternal Strands Malys Wishbind

Shout out to the time Dr. Doom stopped the Fantastic Four from kicking his ass by negotiating an America-Latveria non-aggression pact with special guest star Henry Kissinger (Super-Villain Team-Up #6 and 7)

People who say that modern video games are bad are just telling on themselves. There is an abundance of incredible games being made by tons of people right now. You are just buying a COD clone for the fiftieth time, Gerald.

Obligatory Blade Runner patch I made on the Alesis Andromeda synthesizer. This synth can replicate the architecture of the Yamaha CS-80 very well since it can add sine waves post-filter, used here, just like the CS-80. It also features the famous ribbon cable.

As we enter Halloween week, here's my favorite seasonal playlist I don't know why the original uploader deleted it and their channel but I'm glad it's been preserved www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcEv...

I've never played Guilty Gear but I assume Sol Badguy is the arch nemesis of John Goodman

I've written a book about poltergeists. It's flying off the shelves!

i think people should talk less about games they dont like and more about games they do like

Kind of funny that one of the most frequent comments on my Pillars of Eternity/Baldur's Gate III video is "talk about Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous that game is the GOAT" and then one of the most frequent comments on my tierlist video is "why do people even like WOTR it sucks actually"

Me, a week ago: "I'll just throw together some bullet points to make an otherwise unscripted Tierlist video to celebrate 10K subs, I can do it in like a day" Me, half a week ago: "there's a lot of dead air, I'll just edit a little bit..." Anyway I put this out yesterday youtu.be/pjdwdqLLHSs?...

When your artstyle is 24/7 Halloween spirited, you don’t need a special pfp for October. That’s how much halloween I am.

Just hit 10,000 YouTube subscribers, that's a nice way to wake up. Full celebration post here: youtube.com/post/UgkxDd1...

Halloween Month has begun www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxI...

Phases of seeing the Peacemaker Season 2 Opening Credits: Phase 1: Okay, they're going for a different tone, makes sense, still not as good as season 1 though Phase 2: This is kind of growing on me Phase 3: *screaming along at the top of your lungs* 'CAUSE THEEERE IS ALWAYS A WRONG TO YOUR RIIIIGHT

Okay so I specifically teased this in my latest video with a very dark image of the cover art but I was already planning on making a Deus Ex analysis and then I see this announced today www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/de... I hope it ends up making my video more relevant instead of oversaturated

New video, using the general perception of Kingdom Hearts being particularly confusing as a jumping off point to talk about the filtered ways people tend to use second-hand content as a replacement for direct experience with art youtu.be/RSIGtoWd734?...

Seems like first Silksong impressions are really good, if we lived in a just world then Team Cherry's story of "we made our game completely on our own time and just had fun with it and it was an instant hit and may win GOTY" will inspire calls for industry-wide pro-dev reforms Make it happen gamers

I'm so glad I only just now played Steins;Gate instead of when it came out because I was at the exact right age to take the "insane mad scientist" persona as aspirational. Then again "chuunibyou" is "middle-school syndrome" and I was in fact in middle school so maybe it would've just been fitting