IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

sometimes you play a game that leads you to upload a video titled "Gong Woe.mp4" to the CMS

"After watching it shrink into a setting of corridors and closed-off chambers, it's comforting to see Destiny rediscover its appreciation for the spaces its players shared years before—even if it's just so they can offer their farewells."

If I needed further proof that people had been hungry for Destiny to do this for years, this is currently the most-read thing on the site today (admittedly, it hasn't been the fastest news week, but still)

"After watching it shrink into a setting of corridors and closed-off chambers, it's comforting to see Destiny rediscover its appreciation for the spaces its players shared years before—even if it's just so they can offer their farewells."

big fan of standing stones of all varieties. love the universal human urge to tip something upways so you can go "damn. there it is"

sometimes you play a game that leads you to upload a video titled "Gong Woe.mp4" to the CMS

"Whatever faith I had in my own simulated golf skillset has been systematically dismantled by the demo for Normal Golf Game, a deceptively golf-like torture apparatus developed by Fruit Ninja creator Luke Muscat—presumably for the purpose of inflicting widespread psychic harm."

When Sgt. Johnson says, and I quote, "I know what the ladies like" this is evidently false - Sgt. Johnson is a totally fabricated fictional character and as such lacks all knowledge. Are Bungie ever going to address this plot hole?

my partner and I hosted a presentation night for our friends earlier this week and I think the subject I chose was both practical and informative:

lotta people around here freak out about the shambling entities in the woods. but where else are you going to get a good shamble in nowadays

"For a warlock, a shotgun becomes an implement of cosmic ritual; to a spacefaring knight-errant, a god roll assault rifle from the foundries of humanity's Last City can stand in for Excalibur."

☆ copy this to your profile and let your mutuals tell you their first impression of you except i've met next to none of you in person so idk just pretend ive said my posts to you in passing while walking along a country road i guess ☆

Few games have ever made me feel as cool as Destiny when I punch a guy with the power of the sun before unzipping his torso with a fusion rifle.

losing my shit because the dev of Butterfly Soup is making a new game that's like if Pentiment was set in Chinese folklore and had a Disco Elysium skill tree, and the music is being composed by the same person who's doing Delphinium kotaku.com/butterfly-so...

"For a warlock, a shotgun becomes an implement of cosmic ritual; to a spacefaring knight-errant, a god roll assault rifle from the foundries of humanity's Last City can stand in for Excalibur."

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

"It's a reminder that Destiny 2 was more than a venue for world first raid clears and flawless Trials runs: It was a space for sharing the full spectrum of canonical Destiny experiences, which kept us coming back for so many years of falling into holes."

Sony has given me an excuse to resume Destinyposting after a years-long hiatus and now the whole world has to suffer for it

"It's a reminder that Destiny 2 was more than a venue for world first raid clears and flawless Trials runs: It was a space for sharing the full spectrum of canonical Destiny experiences, which kept us coming back for so many years of falling into holes."

new high watermark for posts just dropped

Early Access has two main points: 1) Get funds because the developer needs the money from those early sales to finish the game. 2) Get feedback from people they KNOW want the game (since they bought it) on gameplay and bugs. You didn't "invest", you intentionally bought an unfinished product.

Every day, a new low.

if somebody doesn’t release another game soon where I can spend a decade toiling beneath the shadow of a hovering, inscrutable shape, I’m going to freak out

I miss Variks

so a super saiyan probably shits like a railgun right

During his inaugural Twitch stream this week, Mamdani demonstrated that he has essentially no idea what Minecraft is. Arguably, this is for the best.

"A game is more than the keys it asks you to push. It's the way its nouns ping around your skull; the ominous poetry of its lore tabs and weapon names; its ability draw you to a halt halfway down a New Pacific Arcology hallway so you can consider a rusted Golden Age logo."

hopped back in to grab some guardian pics. please admire my little undying idiot revenants (i'd clearly been neglecting my titan's fit whenever I last played but it's fine)

ultimately I just hope I get to read more wild-ass Hive lore someday

feeling a surprising amount of loneliness in the wake of the Destiny news. even after I’d fallen off it, it‘s been comforting to know Destiny was still thrumming along as an engine for the kinds of images, language, and ideas I love. knowing that engine is turning off feels like such a loss

It's out nowwwwwww. YOU can go PLAY the GAME I've spent the last two weeks fixated on now! Seriously, ZERO PARADES is great. And it will tide you over until the new season of Slow Horses arrives... My review: remapradio.com/articles/zer...

other destiny thoughts that I didn't fit in here: I've said it before, but the fact that Destiny could extend a sense of humanity to all kinds of beings—to the point that sometimes the most level head in the room was the guy who ate a bunch of people on an ice planet once—is proof of its quality

i often think about this review

it's staggering the degree to which Marathon and even late-stage Destiny are proof that Bungie *still* has best-in-class talent working across all fields of development, and they're just constantly getting thrown to the wolves.

come on man

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other destiny thoughts that I didn't fit in here: I've said it before, but the fact that Destiny could extend a sense of humanity to all kinds of beings—to the point that sometimes the most level head in the room was the guy who ate a bunch of people on an ice planet once—is proof of its quality

"A game is more than the keys it asks you to push. It's the way its nouns ping around your skull; the ominous poetry of its lore tabs and weapon names; its ability draw you to a halt halfway down a New Pacific Arcology hallway so you can consider a rusted Golden Age logo."

unsurprising at this point, but weirdly affecting. some pieces of Destiny 2 had been my most-loved bits of videogame, once upon a time

maybe it would have been less cruel for Grogu if he'd been left as a prey animal for some sort of space python

today in things they let me do at work www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

We're a few weeks past Mother's Day at this point, but I'm sure his mom is touched by the gesture regardless.

Valve's house style has Muppet DNA in the mix, thanks to a Jim Henson Company puppeteer that helped the studio bring its characters to life:

Steam made the objectively correct choice store.steampowered.com/news/app/593...

Valve's house style has Muppet DNA in the mix, thanks to a Jim Henson Company puppeteer that helped the studio bring its characters to life: