TR-49: OUT NOW Narrative deduction / audio drama "Outstanding" - PC Gamer "Politically fierce" - Polygon "One of the best" - Thinky Games "I wanted to know everything" - RPS "Impressive - very impressive indeed" - Eurogamer $6.99 / ~6 hours Steam: tinyurl.com/2jvt9ewk iOS: tinyurl.com/4ucwx4s7

Hi folks, our little dog has become pretty sick pretty rapidly and we're staring down the barrel of some gnarly bills at the vet. Given that we've got a 3 week old baby, the timing is, uhh, not great. If you've got a couple quid to spare my KoFi is linked here ko-fi.com/the_backlog

Receiving word that something funny might be happening

I wrote about Piranesi and dissociative architecture.

Hi folks, our little dog has become pretty sick pretty rapidly and we're staring down the barrel of some gnarly bills at the vet. Given that we've got a 3 week old baby, the timing is, uhh, not great. If you've got a couple quid to spare my KoFi is linked here ko-fi.com/the_backlog

Asked my partner about her interest in seeing this and she said "honestly Timothee Chalamet sort of annoys me now, he looks like he's not drinking enough water. I haven't looked at him the same since Wonka." Completely fair, honestly

I think breaking a controller in frustration is a deeply weird and sort of scary expression of an anger management issue

Hamnet: Tactics

Dante's Inferno remaster inbound

I love this website

Good! People are so fucking weird and entitled about these books. If GRRM for whatever reason can't finish, or just doesn't want to finish the books, then that's just tough shit for us! He's just a guy, he doesn't owe us books

Something nobody talks about re: babies is the farting. Holy shit, this guy can fucking fart. He's fully asleep, eyes glued shut, grunting and straining and letting rip the nastiest farts you've ever heard. "Oh I sleep like a baby," you better hope the fuck you do not

Dudes actually do not rock. This is a common misconception spread by Big Dude

Wrote about how Nightreign’s towering achievement in formal design is also maybe an existential nightmare for video games. First words of the year and first feature for @thisweekinvideogames.com

NEW VIDEO: After multiple instances of dogmatically attacking the Search Action 'boss fight' in my writing, I felt like I had to explain myself, returning once more to one of my biggest white whales in order to review what my issue was with one element of a genre I otherwise adore:

Replaying 1000xResist as a parent is a very different and extremely visceral experience. The lines spoken by The Occupants (there is a nearness and it's gravity is echoing/there is a you that remains and remains) just feel even more laden with meaning to me now

I do not think that Dave Filoni is going to save Star Wars, the man is a professional fan who is the living incarnation of the phrase "Star Wars is just about Star Wars"

Aside from the obvious, a big reason I'm so repulsed by this dreck is that I don't want to do "anything I want," when I play a game. I don't want AI to make me any movie I like on demand. I want someone to tell me a story they felt was worth telling

I've opted out from as much tracked advertising as it's possible for a regular person to do, so I pretty much just get served the default stuff... which is entirely gambling and self help scams, which seems bad

Yes, the Gamers are with me, the children yearn for Catholic God of War, the masses cry out for Beatrice

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There's a really interesting concept in (I think) behavioural psychology called "just noticeable difference," and this is my new favourite example of it

I feel like, for how little sleep the newborn is allowing me, I look pretty fire honestly

Get this taken the fuck down. Do it just as a personal fuck you to billionaire hedge fund manager and fan Bill Ackman, who personally donated a sickening 10k

Yeessss dawg, contentment is something you feel about what you've already got, it comes from within dawg

Got myself a pair of the double-stuff chunky platform docs, and they're soooo gender, they're steeped in gender

My baby is too cute, like I need to inform someone. Someone needs to know. Interpol maybe, or God

Every so often the UK stops being Bloodborne country and starts being the country where Margaret Thatcher died again, just for a little while

I thought for a scary second that someone let Robert Zemeckis make one of his horrible 3d homunculus Beowulf movies out of LA Noire

One of the funniest Bits you can do is scoffing and saying "Okay Professor, in English next time," when someone uses a big word

There's a really exhausting and frustrating refusal of some Americans to contend with what is very clearly happening there re: fascism. Secret police shooting a woman in the face for no reason is not "bait." The invasion of Venezuela is not "a distraction from the Epstein files."

Look, whatever else is going on in the world, the Madra Salach next door session where they cover the living fuck out of Sinead O'Connor's Black Boys on Mopeds is still there (16.18) youtu.be/WzdsYgj8P04?...

Watching the first Pirates of the Caribbean currently, and I don't recall a stronger opening half hour from any blockbuster this decade. An immaculately constructed action intro. Great action that's constantly showing, not telling, and continuous set up that all gets paid off down the line

I think Larian are making a big mistake in marketing Divinity 3 as a sequel to Divinity 2, and not as "the new game from the Baldur's Gate people"

But if you abolish the SS, who will round up all the Jews and Queers?

I think we need to bring back defenestration in 2026, is what I'm saying

So if you make a video game that's too sexy you can be left destitute, but the richest man in the world gets to monetise his child porn generator. That's cool

I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.

please support your local jobless indie dev and spread the word of CFR over on TikTok - comments appreciated. Over 1000 plays so far and a good amount of five star ratings :)) www.tiktok.com/@unaminh/vid... #gamedev #indiegames

I haven't much on my radar this month, but this looks incredibly cool. Definitely gonna be an early highlight of 2026

I need Americans to start doing illegal things

Thinking about this tonight, for no reason youtu.be/Y6DGABIcB3w?...

The chad "conjuring energy seemingly by magic from thin air" vs the virgin "killing the planet while driving to the shops"

Trying to figure out what way it would be funniest to incorporate Rupert Grint's reading of the line "Euurgh! Troll bogeys!" Into my sex life

Introduce yourself with 4 video games

Something I'm learning about parenting is that nine times out of ten, the weird noise your baby is making is just them trying to take a shit with all their little might

It's complex until they pull this shit in Greenland

Got to do some painting for the first time since baby was born - I think I'm getting good at this