I love our digital future! You can't borrow more than one copy of a digital book from a library but this is somehow OK.

Our culture needs to stop producing bizarre sentences: "Benny Safide is Bowser Jr." That's not true; that can't be real.

tales of terror told in words of mirth

so much of project management is this

He thought he had learned pain, but he would learn it again and again, all his life, and forget none of it.

Animation is an incredible medium.

Have you seen this? @impemboganecue.bsky.social

There are tons of novelty Halloween songs from the 50s and 60s. Plus you have Duran Duran's Night Boat which has a creepy music video with zombies.

The gallant Perseus, a son of Jupiter, was the first whaleman

Twin Peaks: Audrey Horne.

Title: Twilight Town Author(s): oldspider Date: 2024-03-05 Town-themed map inspired by Thief, with non-linear gameplay designed with replayability in mind. https://www.quaddicted.com/db/v1/maps/5befea02cf4ff90f85be93a43b590814e8abe46007637c51b91f6da5578e634e #map #quake

JPL's website from 1995

⚡In case you missed it, the newly rebranded Experimental Games Showcase (formerly the Experimental Gameplay Workshop) is now accepting submissions for next year!⚡ The deadline is October 24 and can be either in person or via video. Get more info and submit here: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

Let's Play Life (Liz Ryerson, 2024).

ROSENCRANTZ: Let's play questions. CHOTINER: How do you play? ROS: How do you think? CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking. ROS: Statement, 0-1 me. CHOTINER: What? ROS: What don't you understand? CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you - ROS: Statement, 0-2 me. CHOTINER: OK wait-

Twin Peaks: Agent Cooper.

Windows 98 Plus: More Windows

Keith Haring, 1983

Really excited to announce that Chris Young, David Nieborg and I just published a new OA paper in Platforms & Society developing the concept of the "workflow monopoly". To do this we conducted a platform historiography of the Unity game engine / workflow suite journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thinking about this for some reason.

Solidarity to all the Indigenous authors and artists being betrayed by WorldCon. This is absolutely tone deaf.

Getting sick of logging in here and seeing the latest in colonial violence and anti-Indigenous racism. Bsky moderation is suspending authors and activists but refuses to do anything about this!

This is just a sight to behold. Web 1.0 design was just so good.

The X-Files website in 1996 #WebDesignHistory

'We fought hard:' Raven QA union secures contract after three years of bargaining

We are still paying for the early days of game studies as a field where games/play were heavily mystified as a special objective world of "rules" and "systems" rather than a much more subjective space of expression.

Just watched Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). Incredibly funny, great soundtrack. Amazingly funny performances from John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Akroyd. Cusack fights Benny "The Jet" Urquidez!

One of the worst reflexes of online discourse is that you're seemingly never allowed to be angry or frustrated with any level of institutional power. You can be mad at useless things, but once you start in on some institutional body with power over others people all of sudden want to "nuance" it

For this month's @xtramagazine.com column, I wrote about the conservative attacks on free speech through Steam and Itchio xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

Just want to take the time to amplify this campaign to reverse the recent censorship imposed by payment processors on Steam, itchio. Took some time this morning to file some complaints. I think with enough advocacy we can (hopefully) get them to change this policy.

Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

Played this back in 2016 and really enjoyed it. Have a copy of it on Steam, deals with a wide range of politcal and social isssues affecting Italy in the '70s, has some cool car trip vibes. I really enjoyed it.

I'm really surprised about all the nuance-mongering and weird defenses of @itchio.bsky.social totally reactionary games policy happening right now. I'm sorry but you're not going to be able to rules lawyer this one - it's a bad decision full stop.

Absolutely the worst way this could have been handled. A truly awful decision that puts thousands of artists at risk and destroys free expression. @itch.io should be ashamed.

Solidarity with Claire and every creator currently being steamrolled by @itch.io. They could have rallied their community - instead they have capitulated and put thousands of creators at risk.

When I think of Ozzy I think of his interview in Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years youtu.be/AgKATgblWZc?...

Planet Half-Life website in 1999

you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois" repost to receive his blessing

Happy 24th Anniversary to ANACHRONOX, a fun, funny, heart-breaking, hard sci-fi, ridiculous, epic, satirical RPG that we made with love! See ya at Rowdy's. #anachronox #anox24 #pcgaming

Some sad news - Bradley Clements one of my colleagues at U of T and all around one of the kindest and loveliest people I have ever met has been diagnosed with cancer. A mutual friend, Megan Hull has set up this GoFundMe. gofund.me/0dfe1fe2

One of Jane Greer's most genuinely evil performances next to Out of the Past.

Summer Games Fest 2025 was profoundly depressing - watching the ruins of a creatively bankrupt industry that has pushed out every potentially interesting voice, hyping up rote experiences that have nothing to say about the world today.

Watched Days of Being Wild (1990) for the first time last night. No idea why it took me so long to watch it - incredible film.

This is such sweet video from Oslo Pride.

These were the devs that left Monolith a few years before it eventually closed. How is this sustainable?