New article time!!! Ever wonder why a bunch of weirdoes keep telling us that Grand Theft Auto 6 is the most important event in history and video game prices have to go up? Well, here's why these weirdoes are completely out of touch with reality! docseuss.medium.com/a-hundred-do...

Resident Evil Requiem completed I'd give it an A grade. Minor quibbles with movement/gamefeel, FOV, pacing aside, it has so many "HOLY SHIT ARE WE DOING THIS?? OH MY GOD" moments. Really excellent game. Glad I played it.

Was lucky enough to be the writer for the Children's & Family Emmys this year / tonight. Got to see Regina Spektor rehearse "Would You Be My Neighbor?" and it broke me. Such a fun, fun time and loved working with the hilarious John Tartaglia, who's far better than me in all ways.

"All of these things are about changing a business’ purpose [...] into something with that new function: make shareholders as much money as possible by changing the material conditions that influence our spreadsheets. [...] [A]ll that matters is the numbers in their financial books looking good."

Doc writes great articles. Give it a read and donate if you can, he writes them for free and has lots of medical debt

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live más by the sword, die más by the sword

really big fan of taco bell's "live mas, die mas-er" campaign

Amazing article. I thought I had a rough idea of how the industry was working, turns out there is so much more to it (who would have thought)

"the idea that “games should cost $100” [comes from] people whose purpose is not for us to have excellent, good video games... They’re actually just fucking their books and would rather we all just leave them alone except to shower them with effusive praise for being titans of industry."

Sick video by Daniels meaning this Foster the People music video retroactively contains the pedigree of like ten Academy Awards or whatever it was

You never knew what I could find What could come when we realize I don't want to compromise www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GMQ...

I've been thinking about this politically for a while, but with the explosion of growth of fandom culture, this sort of "the product can't fail you, you can only fail the product" is equally a problem.

Okay no this is the quote of the article and Doc helpfully bolded it and put it in a larger font: "it’s not our obligation as consumers to make a company succeed"

Oh hey what’s this, an article by Doc? Better read it immediately!

Informal Bluesky poll* for #thelongdark players. >>> What is your favourite Challenge in the game? (A Challenge being like Whiteout, As the Dead Sleep, Darkwalker, etc.) (*just kidding, there's no poll function here.)

This is why government shouldn't be viewed as an ordinary market participant. It doesn't have to negotiate. It can simply legislate or regulate to get what it wants. Or it can do this, which I think is just highway robbery.

This is a fantastic article.

I think it's weird that there are a handful of Big Twitter Accounts™ that seem to lurk on Bluesky in search of Content™ they can share in the form of screenshots, tbh. Kind of pathetic, honestly.

tbf I'm not sure I've ever played a (an?) AAA game (does Rayman on the PS 1 count??) but I do love me a Doc article

How exhausted did physical therapy make me today? Other than sleeping for several hours and wanting to go back to sleep, I don't know if I can play resident evil requiem today.

doc a cool person who does words good about video games please read it and chuck a few monies at him if you want

BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing new legislation to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half. A chunk of the money raised would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.

Listening to Maria BC's latest album, Marathon, recuperating from physical therapy, eating day old pizza and drinking a Dr pepper zero sugar blackberry. Thinking about drawing a bath

Hey you guys should totally throw money at Doc, he's a great writer, game dev and thinker, but also just a great guy all around.

Pages like these are awful, stealing other people's work and uploading it themselves. A common theme among them is getting defensive and blocking anyone who calls them out. Just got blocked by this one after asking them to take down my photo. Repost buttons exist for a reason. Avoid aggregates.

is it possible or realistic to perpetuate or repeat the gaming childhood of someone born in 1992? probably not, but the amount of time a kid in the US is in school hasn't changed, and in that time I got at bare minimum three entries in pretty much every single series I could think to care about.

If you like my work and want to help me pay the cost of my doctor's visit tomorrow, please consider my tip jar. I write free educational articles and rely on tips. I need $7000 to get my diabetic care PayPal.me/stompsite is easiest

After 9 yeareals, it's finally my turn to post the "a thousand cereals" clip, seeing as how I'm the idiot who made it.

Big thanks to @evnarc.bsky.social for sitting with us to talk all thing Batman/Static: Beyond and more. Episode will drop soon on all platforms and on YouTube. #comics #milestoneforever #comicbooks #dccomics #batmanbeyond #static

pick any era of gaming and lock into a 6 year window, plus or minus one on each side, and examine what the reality and gaming landscape was for kids and teens during that window. It's a hugely formative time, and really easy to forget how short it is.

TL;DR comparisons between current and past game release cadences for the purpose of analysis could benefit from using 4,6, or 8 year windows as a standard unit of measure

Those are the windows you have if what you want is for your game to be something someone spent their time playing with and telling their friends about and anticipating the next release as a cohort. Of course anyone that got invested during this window has the foundation to continue it into adulthood

In order to be cool and relevant and present enough in a gaming population's consciousness, you have a four to six year window to get at least two games out for your "series" to be something someone spent their childhood caring about "middle school" is three years "high school" and "college" four

My most anticipated immersive sim has a demo on itch! distractedmosfet.itch.io/noirmancer-a...

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

Don’t worry the economy is fine and there’s no reason for people to feel like it isn’t

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you: you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

This got me thinking about how Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is functionally a $120 game if you want every DLC character ($60 base price + $30 for each year of DLC. Piranha Plant is $5, the first season pass is $25, and the second season pass is $30)

Do you think this post below could get 26 more quote tweets? I really need help paying my medical costs and insurance

After several months of silence they just emailed me to let me know they will never be paying my invoice.

ACAB includes Leon Kennedy, but in his specific case, the B stands for Babygirl

Me whenever a Resident Evil game gives me 5 rounds of Magnum ammo

Average mother and son conversation. #deadlock #rem #haze

At the core of right-wing grievance politics is the fact that nobody wants to be their friends, and they don’t think they should have to work on fixing that.

Physical therapy was rough today.

Another excellent article by doc. Go grab a coffee, or whatever your favourite beverage is, and set aside some time to really read through this one. It will be worth your time and support.

If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.