kimi winning the drivers championship

Make fun of the Bluesky trending algorithm as much as you want, but this is the nightmare shit going on over in Zuck’s platform.

Just an awful afternoon for McLaren in Montreal. Great to see Lewis and Max fighting it out at the end though. More of that please.

Every time I see someone complain about Bluesky being a bubble they are mostly confessing to having a bunch of friends who can’t stand being somewhere with less open racism and direct harassment. Like, just because your social sphere needs rhetorical violence doesn’t mean I’m in a bubble.

This is very very cool. I’m no dev, but as a critic, I find these kinds of tools so useful for comparative analyses or just for casual browsing, especially for convos about generational trends and accessibility.

My team and I are facing a UI design issue and gameuidatabase.com is incredibly helpful in showing a full spectrum of ways to approach & address it. Why reinvent the wheel when you can look at 1000 other designs at a glance?! What an amazing (and free!) resource.

Currently playing a game that I think a lot of people would really enjoy but because of the IP and the title, I’m afraid only people who were already interested in playing it are going to.

For even more context making $3 for every 1000 clicks means you need to get 96,000 clicks a week to make FEDERAL minimum wage for full time work. (7.25 x 40hrs). Also $290/week def isn’t enough but just wanted to add some more perspective.

if games journalism is still your Dream, then i'll say one thing: have a deadline? get paid reasonably for it. if you're not, then do it on your terms. a better-written portfolio done at a humanly possible pace is better than the slop this model will incentivize talented writers to write to get by.

Fuck Valnet.

I made a playlist documenting the weird explosion of Christian metal, metalcore, and screamo in the 2000s and I’m about as proud of the title as I am anything else I wrote this month.

I know there are hardly any opportunities to begin with, but if you hold any position in games media, regardless of authority level, it's your responsibility to advocate for marginalized voices. It is both morally good and good for your business to have a diverse voices at your outlets.

Witch Hat Atelier continues to be a stunner. Incredible sound design to go along with the visuals.

Boot drive suddenly died on me yesterday. Data is fine, but as the only windows computer with a usb-a port in the house and I am really having an annoying time trying to get this thing back up and running.

The fact that Ashley isn’t on staff somewhere is a scandal. What the fuck are we doing here folks.

When I was fresh out of college, two popular figures were more or less the patron saints for how my politics and public ethics would develop. One was Anthony Bourdain. The other was Stephen Colbert. It’s a cruel irony to see his show shut down by such tiny men.

if you tag mothership to tell us what article made you subscribe i love you forever. it is invaluable information and i will never be mad at you for not subscribing sooner, we all got bills to pay, we're just happy to have you anytime for any amount of time

Hey writer friends: I’m working on a piece about the way Thrice’s 2005 record Vheissu and their 2016 record To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere work as a document of what the “deconstruction” movement meant within American evangelicalism as it fully entered the MAGA era. Where can I pitch this?

Jimmy Kimmel Urges Viewers to Never Watch CBS Again After Colbert Finale Airs www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jim...

Looking for something a bit different? Burden Street Station is a surreal narrative adventure disguised as a lost 90s edutainment game and it launched today 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/3126340/...

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Unforgettable game. Probably the single game that meant the most to me when I played it. In many ways, still a singular experience.

Editorial: Plantation Simulator Is the Kind of Game the Industry Should Reject

A very special game is out today, after over a decade in the making. Congratulations to @amanita-design.net on the long-awaited release of Phonopolis! Read my spoiler-free review: playingthisweek.substack.com/p/phonopolis...

Driving fast cars in silly ways through beautiful places is like an OG video game pleasure to me. It's just never the wrong call.

So, I don’t know if this is the right take, but I feel like the Obama administration offered up the respectability politics (“when they go high we go low”) that many Black Americans have to adopt in order to access power as a the cornerstone feature of liberal politics.

It is an extreme bummer that Bills tickets are just fully out of reach for most fans this season. The cheapest tickets for a late afternoon September game against the Chargers are 200 bucks not including fees. Decent tix *start* at 400 dollars. Hoping these drop next year once the stadium hype drops

wrote this in a fugue state last weekend then forgot about it. enjoy (?)

Weather is warm which means

the beautiful writing of @madisyn-writes.bsky.social is once again on @mothership.blog. on Slay the Princess and "becoming incomprehensible" www.mothership.blog/slay-the-pri...

The one way my ph.d advisor was right every time was the way he would say “the future is coming at us at TOP SPEED” any time something dystopian came up.

Woke up to a loud motorcycle at 2a and my body decided to stay awake anxiety spiraling about AI, war, and my new job, so that’s cool.

Nothing makes me let er rip in the Discord like off the cuff takes about games journalism.

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

The hottest maybe anyone has ever been.

Back to back Mixtape and No Parades discourse is gonna joker-fy me, I stg.

Absolute ripper of a line.

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

Just heard a radio DJ use the phrase “I’m just doing my job” while introing the new drake

So many discussions about video games would be made better if people had read Linda Williams work on body genres.

Who the fucks got time for three drake albums?

Resharing this old piece I wrote about racing ghosts in Forza Horizon 5 after the death of a friend. www.thecrossoverappeal.com/november-13/

Montreal strippers call for strike during Canadian Grand Prix weekend The Sex Work Autonomous Committee (SWAC) is planning the strike for May 23. The grand prix weekend was described by the SWAC as the “busiest” and “most lucrative period of the year” for clubs. Gift link:

Y’all really shouldnt skip this essay (or anything at Stop Caring). It really gets at multiple reasons why BF6 and other milsims can’t, or are unwilling to, simulate modern war, and that one of those reasons is that to do so would reveal tha war isnt fun!

Whole thing is great per usual, but stay for @gameonysus.bsky.social’s comments toward the end about criticism. Criticism isn’t necessarily antagonistic, but it does require you to trust your taste and the strength of your convictions.

perhaps the most costly example yet of why you should never listen to chatgpt’s advice

::holding your hands gently:: you can and should always find a way to leave a toxic group chat or discord. friends who make you feel bad about yourself are not real friends. friends/peers who backstab other people all the time are eventually always going to backstab you (if they don't already)

I've been on a cozy kick lately, taking a break from challenging games. It's been so nice 🍃 Read my latest: playingthisweek.substack.com/p/games-ive-...

that's how you fucking open a review of an xbox game love you lexi

I’ve been taking a peek back in on Threads here and there this week and my god it seems rough over there.