I’ve made the very difficult decision to bring only one pair of shoes on the plane. Everyone please clap.

REMINDER: I will be at SGF this year as a freelancer! Down to hang and play games! Might be my last SGF before I need to take PTO in the future 😃

For anyone who thinks they need to settle for Valnet: DON’T. Literally do anything else. Food service pays more. If they won’t pay you livable wages anyway, just write your own blog at that point or try pitching to smaller sites and work your way up

I’ve never felt more intimidating than the time I bought my graduation gown and the woman behind the counter yelled “WE GOT A 5-FOOT MASTER OF SCIENCE”

For anyone who thinks they need to settle for Valnet: DON’T. Literally do anything else. Food service pays more. If they won’t pay you livable wages anyway, just write your own blog at that point or try pitching to smaller sites and work your way up

On Thursday evening Valnet issued new contracts to writers at TheGamer instituting a minimum article viewership threshold for payment. Most writers already have pay tied to article performance, but this new system would mean that if a piece didn't get X number of clicks you wouldn't be paid for it.

bring your kid to work day is so funny and refreshing. kid walks by and says “you have the same computer as dad!!” like yes honey they give us all the same ones 😭😭

So I was just laid off from Vicariously. If you‘ve got an opening in PR/marketing and want to hire someone who does good work and has a family to support, I’m your guy. Any reposts super appreciated.

what the fuck is happening

If you host a website, never ever work with WPTango. We were charged around $3000 with no explanation and when asked for refunds we were given the run around, and now they're canceling our services lol Yay indie media - totally great and fun thing to do

If you are able to help support our site migration that would be amazing! I am very bad at asking for help but right now, @butwhytho.net needs it. We have to get set up on a new host, work with a dev, and our old host still has not refunded us the $3k they took. Anything helps!

I receive a surprising number of messages from strangers about what travel backpacks I actually liked more than the Calpak Terra 26L Laptop Duffel, but thankfully I have an article for that www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us...

Adam, Josh (@hdkirin.bsky.social) and I will be representing RPG Site at SGF this year! Feel free to say hi if you see us, and if you’re showing off RPGs - or RPG adjacent releases - reach out!

Summer Game Fest appointment time already huh? RPG Site will have a few people attending once again, so feel free to reach out if you want us to check out a demo~~

one of my favorite things is casually seeing my friend’s articles referenced in youtube videos

Grave Seasons is my most anticipated murder mystery farming sim of the summer: https://www.rpgsite.net/preview/20044-grave-seasons-my-most-anticipated-murder-mystery-farming-sim-summer

as someone in tech…why are we both shamed when we use AI AND encouraged to use AI at the same time

Great to get @luckychanjr.bsky.social back on RPG Site to preview a game I've heard a fair bit of buzz about ~~

If you thought the same thing as me when seeing this, we have the same brain cell

PAX East Day 1 Highlights

My latest on capitalism in Animal Crossing vs. Pokopia www.gamespot.com/articles/cap...

My latest on capitalism in Animal Crossing vs. Pokopia www.gamespot.com/articles/cap...

does pokopia remind anyone of adventure time or am i crazy

Is anyone really hanging with their friends more than 2-3 times a week or am I just antisocial

Reminder to other indie dev teams especially new teams. Most of us are happy to share advice and give feedback on publisher/funding/platform deals and terms. There are some shady predatory biz weasels that will take advantage of you as soon as your game starts to pop off. Please reach out.

Pretty interesting that he went on that defense of Twitter the same day this came out. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So...how badly did Ron Coleman fall on his face at a motion hearing on February 9th while (trying) to represent Jeff Tarzia (aka SmashJT) in his defense against Alyssa Mercante? ...turns out...not great...(1)

Hello Fresh is like the new Shen Yun. I found a coupon in a VS catalog ffs I can’t escape 😭

I'm pleased to unveil my new weekly newsletter: Remastered! Inspired by my Save State column for Digital Trends, Remastered is all about how video game history and retro games impact what we play today. It'll feature editorials, interviews, and reviews on that subject authored by me. It's also free!

It pains me to not have time for pitches these days 😭 You are missing out if you are a FT gamer and haven’t thought about Valentine’s, Lunar New Year, and Pokemon Day pitches!! Live my dream!

Hi just wanted to give everyone a heads up I will in fact be attending PAX East

I haven’t written about it yet but I’ll say that Arknights Endfield has the highest learning curve out of any game I’ve played in the past few years That said I’m having a lot of fun

i’m 30 years old and my mom still hasn’t stopped asking me why i’m not a doctor 🙄

i met hello kitty

Reminder that Arknights: Endfield is coming on Jan 22 🥹 ICYMI here was my preview and interview with the team www.gamespot.com/articles/ark...

my bf compared me to spheal the pokemon what do i do

Very strange that the guy who plays Dan Hibiki thinks he deserves mic time www.cracked.com/article_4947...

Took some time to unpack a few thoughts on Expedition 33. Watching what I thought was a "pretty good" game get transformed into A Cultural Object has been disheartening. So I have some thoughts on glitz, glamour, and respectability... transgamerthoughts.com/post/8027631...

Reposting my @gamespot.com Clair Obscur article because it’s feeling relevant again TLDR It feels like many of the JRPGs I’ve loved before but everyone likes it because it isn’t anime www.gamespot.com/articles/cla...

Reposting my @gamespot.com Clair Obscur article because it’s feeling relevant again TLDR It feels like many of the JRPGs I’ve loved before but everyone likes it because it isn’t anime www.gamespot.com/articles/cla...

This echoes a lot of the same sentiments I had from my GameSpot article about E33 and I think it’s worth a read How E33 has a more “acceptable” aesthetic with the heart of a JRPG

People really don't know just how tough it is to equip so many different musical instruments in the span of a single Game of the Year medley for The Game Awards.

It's time for the first annual Rogueies — our own version of Game of the Year coverage. We've got a lot of fun stuff planned for the last few weeks of the year! www.rogue.site/editorials/w...

I see a lot of people bemoaning western games for being increasingly homogeneous, ugly and unstable, but I think that does a disservice for the many horrible gacha games on display that are basically indistinguishable from each other too.

you should all play more indie games made by 1 to 4 gay people in their bedrooms

r/halflife is taking hl3 no-showing the game awards well

clair obscur e33 🧹

my bf is spending time with his family for halloween and he says the neighbors kids are screaming 67 over and over again the house across the street has a microphone and they’re screaming it back the suburbs are wild yo

october update: - working at tech internship - working on pokemon review - crying about midterms - working on jfashion insta - STILL TAKING WORK - also bought pokemon merch