Witch Hat Atelier is so fucking gorgeous.

Yes, you're seeing this correctly: it's March's monthly roundup posted at the *beginning* of April and not the end! This month: 20 incredible articles PLUS a bonus roundup of Pathologic 3, Resident Evil Requiem AND Marathon criticism, all from the month of March! www.patreon.com/posts/month-...

Man. I think I'm bad at Absolum.

Having a reel break contain on instagram is scary dude.

Man they brought Lisa Gilroy back for Company Retreat and my god the energy she brings to every single thing she does makes me feel like I’m crawling out of my skin. In a mostly good way.

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At PAX East, @patrickklepek.bsky.social went shopping for hope and came way inspired after chatting with a series of interesting developers, including @writnelson.bsky.social, Brian Clarke (Mortuary Assistant), and many more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Fuck, Absolum is good.

Very annoyed by how many Suno AI song parodies I’m seeing on my feed lately. I think the music gen ai stuff is what’s really going to push me over the edge.

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Got into some stuff with my therapist yesterday that made them lean forward and go, "wait what?" Always a good time.

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Every spring I’m reminded by how much I underrate the beauty of robins. Black to grey gradients, flashes of white, a soft and rusty red, and that bright yellow beak. Gorgeous things.

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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If you look at my Steam page you may be surprised to find that my most played game of all time is The Talos Principle. This is because I once accidentally left it running while I left for a week.

There are times I see some faculty member proudly offloading their job to AI and I really resent that these are the people who got jobs when so many of us didn’t.

In terms of my own memory, Bob Belcher has completely supplanted Archer as the character with H. John Benjamin’s voice. Which means sometimes my brain spends half a day trying to remember why Bob Belcher told someone that “she’s like the Pele of anal.”

Hey. Hey, Trader Joe’s. Why you calling them that?

Four subsidiaries of publisher and peripherals maker Nacon have filed for insolvency in France. They include Kylotonn (Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown), Spiders (Greedfall), and Cyanide (Styx series), as well as motion capture company Nacon Tech.

two of my favourite pieces so far, and specifically my most Important piece, were published by skybox, alongside so many other fantastic pieces by so many fantastic writers! supporting them keeps these coming and is a wonderful use of a couple dollars

Currently moving my kid to one nap a day from two, and holy crap, getting 2 to 3 hours back in the middle of my day instead of 1.25 hours in the morning and *maybe* 45 minutes in the afternoon is a game changer. Relatedly, I caught up with the first half of The Substance today while folding clothes

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Someone is telling Democrats from the Great Lakes to say shit like, “We’re a border state” like it proves they understand how important border security is and it just makes them sound utterly full of shit. Acting like the Windsor Crossing is fucking Sicario. Grow up.

On the side I've been playing Battle Suit Aces and it's very cute so far. In a galaxy-threatening Gundam apocalypse kind of way.

Crimson Desert, at the end of the day, is one of the things I'm most interested in seeing from a big expensive game. A weird, big swing that defamiliarizes genre standards with ambition, friction, and genuine innovation. 12 hours in, it's probably a 6.5 - 7.5 for me. But it's got my attention.

For @unwinnable.com, here is my review of an art video game: asses.masses. It was quite the marathon.

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I see they updated where the Knowledge entries go in Crimson Desert to the Journal tab rather than the "Others"(???) tab. Would love to know what UI conventions informed the initial decision.

That said, I’m currently riding horseback two km across a mountain range to bring a honey thief who seems to believe he is a bear to justice so that I can afford to by a monk’s cloak and infiltrate a healing house (asylum?) on the rumor that an old buddy is imprisoned there. Which is great.

Another weird thing Crimson Desert does is just dump huge new features on you - like a whole new playable character - and then fail completely to introduce a scenario or context in which you might want to use that new feature.

Finally just went ahead and ordered a bunch of Pocari Sweat. Gonna be hydrated out of my mind soon.

Crimson Desert continues to be a strange, confounding, and exhilarating experience in equal parts. 9 hours in and I feel like I’m still waiting for some really launching to click into place. On the other hand, I feel like I’m holding a ton of threads that I desperately want to follow. Weird game.

Our (@mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and I) book GAME STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD is officially OUT everywhere in the world except the US for some reason. So here is an actual thread about why we wrote it and what we were trying to achieve with it.

"You've gotta dive into what the piece of media is saying to you, what you're saying back to it, and what you want to take from that experience and tell to your audience." - new Dear Mother advice from @zoehhannah.com! buff.ly/LGON2iG

This sucks. And per usual the apologies miss the main criticism people have about the utilization of GenAI.

I don’t think I’ve alt-tabbed to google how to do basic shit in a game as much as I am in Crimson Desert since trying to play Zork again for my quals.

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Album I think about all the time that I feel like nobody else cares about.

Tears in my eyes.

Was walking around in Crimson Desert today. Heard a bunch of blue jays screeching. Turned around, and it was actually a bunch of blue jays. That ruled.

was sent this today and its one of the funniest things ive ever seen

Day early this week. Marathon, Pokopia, critical practice, and lots more in store: critical-distance.com/2026/03/21/m...

My most millennial music take is probably that Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American is essentially a perfect record.

Wild choice for Crimson Desert to represent an early chapter questline with an obviously antisemitic caricature as your map marker.

Why don’t more pop stars attach their promo singles to incredible charismatic, internationally heroic athletic performances? Seems like a slam dunk.

Couple hours into Crimson Desert and this game is definitely weird. Very dreamlike. Strong sensation of recognizing all the pieces but realizing you don't know how they fit together.