Taking a long bike ride to clear my head and think of social media posts

Marathon has inspired a lot of great words but these are really great words.

I think the reason BDS has become such an albatross for games media is that, once you draw one ethical line re: how big games are made then the natural question becomes “well what about all these other unethical practices” and well yeah, that’s the rub isn’t it

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Bro is playing 40 chess

(whispering) they turned metroid into a sudoku

Katie Miller is beefing with my fiancée on twitter and it has backfired badly for Miller because — and this might not be popular to say on here, but — my fiancée is way hotter

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

fantastic piece about a game I admire (from a distance)

ok now who is amazingly hiring

A quiet kid from Cameroon became one of America's top Chun-Li players, building a community along the way. When ICE detained Ludovic Mbock in February, that community came back for him and refused to let him go. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

The name’s James Bond. James Bond.

IO Interactive joins the crunch review club with 007 First Light, code for which went out late on Friday ahead of a holiday weekend with an embargo first thing in the AM.

What’ll it take to get Jonathan Banks in a Knives Out movie?

Everything I’ve seen come out from jank.cool has been neato

White people CAN do Simon Says at Karaoke

Don’t know what happened but now Perimeter is the Lose Everything Factory and Dire Marsh is the normal map.

Repeating “ReaderGrev Amex Vantablack Big Spenders Card” like a mantra

A lot of reviews are not interesting or worth discussing but become subjects of discourse because it is trivially easy to harass people online. In this essay I will

Really seems like the autopsy was shelved because (as rumored) it was just kind of sloppy and incoherent www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/p...

In the muck of business documents and legal review and website updates which is all very exciting and scary too!

Strunk & White is fine but the real elite meta-defining tech is in Lasch's Plain Style

the real story here I think is that Mossad has lost its marbles www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

I hope I'm not supposed to be reading the subnautica 2 logs. I think I am a bit sick of this "thrown in the deep end of lore goings-on" stuff.

Shake it, baby! 🐢

New from me: Five years ago, I criticized a San Francisco TV reporter for getting her facts wrong. Ever since, she and her allies have alleged that I was part of a conspiracy to end her career. That narrative just got a boost with her new book, which is being promoted by some powerful tech people.

Like I'm always saying: Geen poppenspelers

Hit the plate watching juckport $3 million

The United States sank $970 million into a U.N.-backed police mission to Haiti. During its 22-month deployment, warlords rampaged freely, gang territory expanded and the country suffered two of its deadliest massacres. Now the U.S. is trying again Widlore Mérancourt and Amanda Coletta report

Just caught myself reading a several thousand word LinkedIn article about the marketing of the new James Bond game. Sorry, no, thanks.

The story of the demure lady is rough and instructive, though I don’t know how we change things to prevent this level of sudden, callous fame hitting people in the face. The internet has made this kind of experience much too fast and much too large. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Really enjoyed this — a new perspective on game discovery newsletter.hitpoints.co/374-blue-note/

Just saw a squirrel sitting like a dog… never seen that before

Big shoutout to “having a garden.” Have started harvesting strawberries, and I get to watch birds drink and bathe and gather straw. I’ll have garlic and turnips and raspberries soon. It’s a tiny urban plot but it is a delight.

William Paul, the son of Sen. Rand Paul, drunkenly hurled antisemitic insults at Republican Rep. Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar “Do you think I’m Jewish?” Lawler asked. “I’m not.” “Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said.

No clue what the original prompt is but if you want a discourse nuke, consider: Luca Guadagnino’s COME AND SEE

I caught up with Beethoven & Dinosaur a few times over the last year of Mixtape's development. Here are some fun stories about making the game. A rejected pitch, meeting Kojima, their approach to teenage narrative, America as pastiche fantasy, emotion through play, music budgets, and more! Wow!!

Mixtape? Yeah you are making a big mixtape (like mistake) if you think I’m gonna get involved in this bullcrap

I used to be a WaPo Opinions video editor, and if a video didn't have 100 views within the first five minutes of publishing on Youtube, I would've considered it an embarrassing failure. Fortunately didn't happen much!

7 months to go

Fuckin’ Problems

Liked this from Matt Pearce’s Substack

I feel like you used to be able to buy Moby Dick basically anywhere. Not so true anymore.

ReaderGrev meetup at a random Athens Georgia bar be there or be Square

At the bar scribbling “FUCK HANTAVIRUS” on the stall door

Feel like Jeeves the manservant is due an online obsession cycle. Sort of thing I can see a small niche of people online getting really annoying about.

Before you criticize me for welcoming Marjorie Taylor Greene as a political ally, I need you to ask yourself a tough question: have you considered the possibility that I am incredibly stupid?

The first endorsements for Power Play landed this week. If you’re up for reading a book about video games, geopolitics and the future of democracy, get pre-ordering below 👇 linktr.ee/Power_play_book

New York is the Roku City of America

lol someone on Reddit made the Nirvanna the Band Update Day video but only with games currently on the Nintendo Switch Online service. www.reddit.com/r/nirvannath...