Kratos somberly reckoning with his violent and aspiring to be a better father while his dead wife is doing double jumps and air combos in another realm is so fucking funny. imagine if Laura Palmer was doing DOOM shit in the Black Lodge

Wow, it's like everything published in 2020

hi hello bimbo has a linktree-like template. literally couldn’t be easier to switch. think about it imo iznaut.itch.io/bimbo

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I love reading CRPG Addict for things like this- an offhand question like, "why do screenshots for this game keep getting different .exe names appended?" leads to commenters assessing whether this obscure 1994 game was hand-coded in assembly or not: crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2026/05/yend...

This is pretty funny- the top 7 sites that Kagi users block from showing up in results are... all Pinterest. kagi.com/stats?stat=i...

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

Perspective, it's Theory and Practice, plate 80, by Hendrik Hondius, 1614

I guess google rolled out some new extra-ugly workspace branding today? The new icons seem oddly shaped and less legible. Save yourselves, unloaded tabs, your unsullied beauty isn't long for this world 😢

Just overheard in the village- Mom putting on a (sub Mary Poppins grade) accent: And let's hear your Brit-ish accent 6 year old son: *snarls and growls like a dinosaur*

I've been reading Kafka's The Castle, and I can't believe what an RPG protagonist K is. He rolls into town and proceeds to get wrapped up with every minor thing he stumbles across. A couple days in, he's abandoned the main quest and is living in the school gym with a new fiancée and two henchmen.

I still just can't get over that this is literally the red/blue button game theory thing from the other week, but as actual fascist policy: If the majority votes Reform, everyone who didn't vote Reform loses. (But, implicitly stated, if the majority votes Green, everyone wins).

Had a nice little surprise today, my application for a multi-year appointment at The New School was accepted! I'm now a Part-Time *Associate* Professor, which comes with a 6 year term, meaning I can expect to keep teaching my same classes till 2032. Grateful for to have a bit of stability like that.

Can't think of anything I'd want to see more in a dataset description (from NYC Open Data )

Happy May Day!!

Best start believin in machine zones, yer boss is in one

I used to think I'd never understand these MtG branded collabs, like who wants this stuff? But, ughhhh, DF ASCII art with announcement messages as flavor texts, alright alright, fine you got me.

Still think about this one

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This is tomorrow! 6:30pm in downtown Brooklyn. We've put together an amazing panel to talk about unionization and labor organizing in games. Should be a great conversation!

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The squishy footprint sounds for walking on water... 😩

This is a wonderful piece, really resonated with me as someone who also developed a love of words from playing games (for me RPGs generally, and MtG) I remember some SAT word list or whatever that had like, truncheon, bludgeon, cudgel, etc and being like, "uhh yeah, these are all just blunt weapons"

Haha really glad to see coverage of this, I've definitely seen a lot of these little acts of vandalism on AI ads at my stop. My favorites are the little insults written in ballpoint, since they suggest even random passers-by are fed up and doing their bit.

This is really fun! An undeniable part of the magic is knowing that a real living breathing actual human, someone who hopes and dreams just as you do, is somewhere out there writing a funny answer just for you. Huh, wonder if there's a lesson there.

I think this article below is a must read, I've been thinking about it a lot. I've seen so many takes like this one regarding the media consolidation. It sucks, but: No. Your individual purchasing choices are not enough, you cannot buy your way out of this. It has to be collective action to work.

Yeah, it really is like that

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

I love when a calm recitation of facts results in the sickest burns possible

they put new york city in magic the gathering and it's a land that taps to make rats

lol they have so little confidence in this demand being sustained, at all, that they're not wasting a penny of capex

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

We had some chocolate coins over the holidays, my toddler loves em. But it was a truly critical tutorialization error having that as an intro to coins. Now whenever he sees a coin, eg quarters in the change tin, pretend coins in the cash register etc etc, he excitedly asks "And we eat them??"

Just happened to read this bit from "The I Without a Self" from W H Auden's The Dyer's Hand (1962), about a Kafka protagonist versus the 'traditional Quest', and made me think of the "Fool's Errand" below, but like, instead of playing it for laughs it's just an existential bummer

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I dunno, I don't think people are stupid. Maybe it's that Lay's shares a product category with a ton of 'chips' that ARE just ultra-processed extruded powders, and we have incredibly weak labelling regulations letting manufacturers say whatever they want. It isn't stupid to think it's all crap.

And a great example of one of the many instances where something weird and memorable in the original (where trolls are three-eyed and grotesquely ape-*like*) has been replaced with something generically higher definition but totally boring (a monkey with a sort of orc head)

"If you see artwork in Fallen London with too many eyes or fingers, rest assured that those are there on purpose." 😘👌✨

This slogan sure is raising a lot of questions about whether AI actually works that are answered by the slogan

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Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

This is true. I had a cubicle at my first job, and I literally didn't know how good I had it. Quiet, private, high walls, like a small office. Everything after that was open floorplan hell, mainly chosen only because they *look* more hip and dynamic.

Finished the new season of culinary class wars last night, and while I thought the season was only okay overall, I absolutely loved Venerable Sunjae, a Buddhist monk who cooks temple cuisine. More game shows needs to have monk contestants! Someone with no attachments is utterly terrifying.

This is allegedly to "improve efficiency" but I assume it's for the exact same reason every company wants you to use their app for purchases now, because then it magically makes price discrimination legal.

Love this game! Played it a ton back in the day. It's a sort of Mad Max themed trading sim. You're going around buying low and selling high, but if you screw up your water volume-to-weight ratio calc you die of thirst in the desert.

This is incredible work, haunting and humanizing. And here's a different link to the video that doesn't seem throw a login wall- www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

This fall marks 10 years of me working 'in games' (more or less), and I wanted to jot some thoughts down about it while it's still 2025. I often feel like I haven't accomplished anything, but all in all, somehow I can't bring myself to feel disappointed. blog.literallyaking.com/2025/12/30/1...