I see LinkedIn posts practically every day about my former Washington Post colleagues getting snapped up by some other outlets. It’s vandalism what was done to that place.

Fallout 5!!!

Probably not my first but my dad sat me down to watch Come and See as a kid because he said it was important.

new writing from me for @artreview.bsky.social: on video games not just as wartime propaganda and recruitment tool but as burgeoning battlefield tech and new perceptual logic. artreview.com/how-videogam...

A statement from WIRED leadership.

I got sober about five months after Craig Ferguson did this monologue. Must’ve watched this clip a thousand times in those early days. Hard to remember now, but not many admirable people talked publicly about sobriety circa 2007 — or had compassion for a young woman in crisis. This was invaluable. 🙏

Trying to read as much as possible about GTA 3, a game I have a bit of a blind spot around. If you have a favorite article/video/essay about it, I’d love to see it!

Having an extreme 😬 experience: The deluxe edition of an album where side 2 is all the songs from side 1 reimagined by other artists… side 2 is way better

Game workers rally against Microsoft layoffs: 'Corporate greed is destroying our games and our livelihoods’ aftermath.site/zenimax-save-o...

gonna start talking like this to my boss

Flubber-style broad family comedy about a mad scientist who invents a robot jock called ChadGPT

I attended the Save Our Devs rally in Rockville for ZeniMax devs yesterday. My big takeaway: the talent being lost is staggering. Grateful to Aftermath for sending me out 🚗💨

So glad @leadergrev.bsky.social could head out to the Rockville "Save Our Devs" protest for Aftermath, to talk to former and current workers about just how deep the Microsoft cuts run

I guess I still have that Adbusters particle in me that just recoils at stuff like this.

It’s really a great question because it immediately reveals whether someone is unfit for public service. bsky.app/profile/atru...

One hell of a chart... Via @superjoost.bsky.social superjoost.substack.com/p/ubisoft-an...

Found a guy on Spotify who might be real or might be AI might be serious might be silly but looks and acts like a throwaway Tim Heidecker character

Did a funny thing for no reason

I’m at the Rockville ZeniMax worker protest. If you’re here, give me a shout! (I’m tall, wearing bright green shorts)

I’ve got an essay in here! Really excited to read everyone else’s work.

Why the hell is it that you walk on a parkway but park way on drive walk?

"Clicks and advertising" are the classic thing-that-explains-why-journalism-is-bad but I don't really think they have that much explanatory power

Not the point but giving Halo to Machine Games is a terrible idea

they gave Lori Lightfoot a dragon

There should be a shrek in house of the dragon

Curb Your Enthusiasm is man Sex and the City. Jeff Garlin is Samantha. Richard Lewis is Miranda. Larry David is Big.

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guys, there is no universe in which a senator does not express distress and say some anodyne nice things about a colleague who dies unexpectedly, even if that senator is AOC and the colleague is Strom Thurmond. This is a very basic human ritual.

just checking

had so much going on i didn't notice my best albums shortlist went up this week www.vulture.com/article/best...

who's got that tweet about the killing puppies newsletter job

jay has always been a writer who, in the midst of inferno, is not inferno. a mediascape that doesn't make space for this kind of authenticity is failed.

It would be a harassment nightmare but I wish there was a feature where you could talk to players as you’re observing them after exfilling in Marathon.

If AI rises up I’m going to stomp on it like it’s a bug and it’ll be easy for me

I somehow never read To Kill a Mockingbird in school so I grabbed a copy when I saw one being given away on the street. Really wonderful book.

I didn't realize there was a tertiary nativist discourse happening about Xbox

Thought this was young Larry David at first

That movie actually wasn’t scripted. The actors just did that and the director liked it so much he used that take

we all love jah radio

we laid off the people who develop the games, we laid off the journalists who cover the games, everyone is freelance and there’s no freelance budget. It’s probably fine though

I wonder what today’s Google doogle is

Just watched Dune Part 3. it was ok

Lmao sick, I just got laid off from GameSpot while on paid medical leave recovering from a gunshot wound.

On The Pitt, every episode is one day at the hospital

And with that we can lay the “funny Italian accent” jokes to rest. They’re in the dirt now. Smile because it happened.

I keep thinking about this Alex Ross painting of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that is, for some reason, also the cast of 30 Rock

Really feels like “US slashed foreign aid just as its client state wrecked the global economy with a bad war” will be one of those pithy history textbook takeaways from this decade.

What if there was a teeny tiny batch of these for no reason

Typology of Watering Cans gordonrobichaux.com/artists/mile...