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

Way back in November I said my first video of 2025 would be about how NORCO and Slay the Princess are spiritual successors to Disco Elysium. Obviously plans changed but better late than never. I think this is my best video since the Veilguard one so you better watch it

ok is this too cluttered for a YouTube thumbnail or not? I'll probably do A/B testing with two others first and only add this in later if I feel it's necessary but if it's too much of a mess I won't bother

New video! The new King Arthur Skyrim-alike RPG, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, has a lot of stuff that works and then one big thing hidden in its secret golden ending that undermines a lot of its main story youtu.be/pAdSocqMzHA

If $80 became the industry standard price for exclusively 1000xResist and no other games I'd be like "you know what fair enough it deserves it" So 30% off $20 is incredible value

The mark of a good character actor is their ability to disappear into the role instead of being a known face and name, but now whenever I see Margo Martindale I think "Character Actress Margo Martindale!" so BoJack Horseman maybe ruined her ability to be a character actress

"You know you're in for a wild ride when a game opens with a content warning for blasphemy." -Me, in a future video I'm hoping to get out in late July/early August. Great time to pick up this game, it's truly something special

So I've got a thought or two about Clair Obscur's deliberately debate-prompting ending youtu.be/hMtp5X57Xgw

For the record, it RSL is probably not a Chaoskampf because a Chaoskampf typically involves creation of some sort, be it the creation of the world or formation of a kingdom or what have you, and RSL's campaign is all about simply fighting evil, and any changes in the world to come aren't hinted at

If they do actually make a Clair Obscur Expedition 33 movie they should make it 4D so the audience has to parry in the movie theater

Have you ever wondered about the "amazing storyline" all those Raid Shadow Legends ad reads promised? No? Well let me tell you about it anyway youtu.be/yYGzLufcgnU?...

"The Messenger" (Dissidia Final Fantasy) ran so "Une vie a t'aimer" (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) could break the sound barrier

New video, bring your eyeballs youtu.be/M5lbGjSjuxI?...

Andor Severance 🤝 Great series with season 1 in 2022 and season 2 in early 2025 that are surprisingly radical given the corporate owners of the streaming services they're on

Just doing normal things like reading Edmund Spenser's 1590s poem The Faerie Queene to help me figure out if Raid: Shadow Legends belongs in the literary category of Chaoskampf

My Avowed video is out now! It was a good game, and as a Pillars of Eternity fan it was fun to get a fresh glimpse into Eora www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwYJ...