This is dreadful, I know a lot of people weren't gonna touch it because of management booting so much of the original Disco Elysium team, but once again it's workers facing the consequence from disastrous management decisions. It's a sickening state of affairs no matter how you look at it.

No matter my feelings about the studio's upper management, this is still a tragedy. The amount of talent bleeding out across the industry is catastrophic. Many of them will find footing at other studios, or start fresh as independent outfits. Many more will struggle to find work and feed families.

love to open YouTube and see @echobizarre.bsky.social streaming Jade Empire, one of my favorite games of all time! People complained about the BioWare layoffs screwing the chances for future Dragon Age and Mass Effect games but personally I will die mad about never getting Jade Empire 2

Fool that I am, I'd assumed that The Asylum had eased off on doing their Mockbuster "trick people into watching" movies after Sharknado took off, but they've still been going strong, even more shameless than I remember. "Pandora: Fire and Ice" and "Road Wars: Max Fury" are especially funny to me

"Humor is just another defense against the universe." - Mel Brooks Happy 100th Birthday to the legendary actor, comedian, director, filmmaker, songwriter & playwright, born on this day in 1926. One of few entertainers to achieve EGOT status (winning Emmy, Grammy, Academy aka Oscar & Tony Awards).

Live on YouTube now, playing Dread Delusion! www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7I7...

My Zero Parades video is live! youtu.be/fpot4BcoWWc

Big weekend coming up! Tomorrow, 6/27, I'm releasing my next video essay, a review/short analysis of Zero Parades: For Dead Spies And Sunday, 6/28 at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST, I will be doing my first ever livestream, playing Dread Delusion! Come hang out if you can

1989 execs: "A movie about singular icon Batman is a hit? Surely 1930s pulp heroes are the draw, greenlight The Phantom and Dick Tracy" 2026 execs: "A movie about singular sensation/communal fiction The Backrooms is a hit? Surely just being from the Internet is the draw, greenlight r/AITA The Movie"

My Veilguard video has hit 100K views! Still one of the videos I'm proudest of

If this is about sharing underappreciated games then let's go truly underappreciated, here's nine very cool games I've played with fewer than 1500 Steam Reviews (most only a few hundred). Let's pump those numbers up

You can’t say that Rise of Skywalker was a forgettable mess, it RUINED ALL OF STAR WARS. The latter seasons of Game of Thrones kind of stunk so THE GOOD SEASONS DON’T COUNT.

watching some Dragon Age videos lately so my YouTube recs are full of “VEILGUARD WAS A CRIME” stuff and you know, I really hate that online media critique has gotten Like This

anyway I agree with @echobizarre.bsky.social’s take on Veilguard: it’s another Dragon Age game. It’s the worst Dragon Age game. It’s a miracle it’s so good. It’s deeper than it’s said to be, but shallower than it should have been. It’s okay.

i’m so tired of hearing how much money works of art/entertainment did or did not make i am not a CEO this information has no value please stop acting like it’s the most interesting or important talking point i’m so tired

New video! A short rumination on a narrative trend I've noticed that I made while Real Life is making other videos I'm working on take longer youtu.be/vbASK15JIg0

I saw a Cybertruck plastered with ads for a fertility clinic today. I think I found Elon's Platonic ideal of a customer

I really like this video by @echobizarre.bsky.social as an outsider as it helped mapping things out [Spoilers: this video isn't inherently about how much of KH actually "works" as it is about how people experience storytelling through diff. sources] www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSIG...

My contribution to Odyssey discourse is that when I read it in 9th grade I wrote an essay saying Odysseus slaughtering the suitors showed he was trapped in a warrior's mentality and my teacher said she never thought of that before and now I make YouTube video game analysis to try to relive that rush

What gets me is how utterly boring the sorts of people I've seen rage at Mixtape (not dislike, not be apathetic about, *rage*) are and want all games to be. Maybe it's bad, I don't have interest in playing it myself but it has an identity and a vision and it's good that games like it can be made

There's a bit in Perfect Tides: Station to Station where the game basically breaks the fourth wall to be like "hey I wanted to set a scene to Bohemian Rhapsody but music licensing is expensive so you just pull it up on YouTube and let's jam" and I respect that immensely

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...

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.

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