#JustFinished Hollow Knight: Silksong Managing to take a very good first game and upgrade it in nearly every way is an achievement for anyone, let alone a small studio It has balance and pacing issues, but the story, world, and gameplay are all so good I just couldn't put it down Must Play*

how I feel trying to explain to normies why nsfw ban and censorship is bad and why they should care

what the heck

boy howdy am i tired of the daily "man who sells Thing says Thing very important" tech story

I… kinda agree with this? I’ve talked about difficulty and praised hard games a ton, but a lot of design decisions in Silksong seem made purely to fuck with the player I just couldn’t stop imagining how much fun I’d be having if the game didn’t have a grudge against me

ngl the difference in response on these two apps is very telling

the budget is actually just for all the cocaine the producers will be doing. 70s cinema is back, baby!

Comms (like most transactions) are oppositional Commissioners want to pay as little as they can get away with. Artists want to get paid as much as they can get away with. The final price is just where those two overlap Arguing about how much artists deserve is just rationalizing your price range

I’m not playing Silksong, but I just want everyone to know I could beat it really easily if I wanted to. I can tell everyone complaining about the difficulty is a worse Gamer than me

game developers when something good happens in the industry: here’s why this thing is bad and will ruin my life, actually

"the real game starts after the credits" well too bad, my adhd put a little tick mark next to it with "task completed" written in crayon so I'm never gonna touch it again

TL;DR: Restricted Mode has existed since 2010. YouTube said only 1.5% of views are using it. However, their teen content filters seem to be identical, and it’s only after they started forcing age verification that views went down for everyone

Did a bit of bored phone research into Restricted Mode, YouTube’s recent AI age-verification censorship, and any reason why they might be causing views to go down across the platform For anyone who’s interested, here’s a thread 🧵

inflation is really hitting hard, huh?

#JustFinished Max Payne 3 The quintessential action movie reboot, complete with a protagonist who’s clearly too old to still be doing this, and a bold attempt to change direction into something flashy and modern Thank god it’s the last one Should Play

Reminder that Collective Shout is backed by Christian fundamentalist groups who want to ban all pornography, and have used vague trafficking laws to pressure Visa and Mastercard to drop online platforms under threat of lawsuit

#JustFinished Max Payne 2 If the first game was a fresh new action movie, this is the late sequel that’s more technically impressive, but loses the charm and struggles to do something new They sure do put Max in some wacky situations as an excuse for fun action scenes though Must Play

very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games

#JustFinished Max Payne It’s just so fun. Goofy melodramatic story. Unbeatable high adrenaline gunplay. A metric ton of B-grade charm That being said, while I love Remedy’s future endeavors into surrealism, the dream sequence levels were kind of the worst part Must Play

Good morning~☀️🫠今日のらくがきで〜す

Getting a kind of brain damage from doing the NYT crossword where I now parse every sentence as having a different, dumber meaning

every day I fight the urge to start developing a video game

It is kinda funny that there’s an entire grifter discourse online that’s driven by people being too stupid to understand that Japanese is different from English

sometimes I spend too much time online and start overestimating people’s knowledge of anime, but then I’m forced to remember how many people think it just means “animation that’s weird and maybe Asian”

Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY. Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.

wokeness is over, everybody. wrap it up. we lost

I’m convinced everyone who plays JRPGs must have more time in the day than me. they beat all these games using the Gamer Hour

shoutout to gaming youtubers who actually talk about the development and history and people behind the game

Something about this really makes me feel violated. It makes me feel forced to engage with technology I have serious ethical concerns with. I don’t know how to describe it. It just makes me want to throw up

Nobody on Twitter seems to be able to separate “fiction as education” from “fiction as cognitive influence” If you have no idea what a bandicoot looks like, yeah you’ll probably imagine Crash. If you know literally anything about sharks, Jaws won’t magically make you think they’re evil

Fight for the Future has a petition set up that to urge Visa and Mastercard to stop censoring games, as well as urge lawmakers to step in against their overreach Petitions cannot materially do much, but theyre great for communicating raw numbers. Its worth the 60 seconds itll take to sign it.

Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Stripe. Don’t forget to complete your dailies!! stop-paypros.neocities.org

For anyone who wanted to hear my opinion on the UK porn ban (and some other recent events I didn’t cover in my latest video) check out the new Weeb Crew episode! youtu.be/U1VlGI-f5MQ

AI companies advertised themselves as “the tech that would change the world” and yet they’ve immediately flocked to ID verifying people for the government because it could be profitable. How spineless.

It’s sad how quick every company/government started using the current news to push their own data-stealing pro-censorship agenda. They don’t even care anymore Cmon, just let Google have your biometrics. Let them choose what you watch. You don’t want kids to be unsafe, do you?

Steam and itch.io have removed thousands of video games in recent weeks deemed to be "adult content" in order to comply with strict rules from payment processors like Mastercard. These policies censor artists engaged in lawful speech. Mastercard shouldn't be the gatekeepers of our digital freedom.

Found a petition - get on it www.stopkosa.com

The Guardian just covered the Steam / itchio situation www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

For any UK friends curious about VPNs: Use Mullvad I’ve been sponsored by several others, but I consistently use Mullvad, who has a policy to never sponsor anyone They accept crypto or literally just cash in an unmarked envelope, and they were raided by the police yet never gave up any data

Interesting that itchio had to add “sex trafficking implications” to its list of payment processor enforced restrictions. As I cover in my video, SESTA-FOSTA vaguely criminalizes “supporting” sex trafficking. Makes it seem like VISA/MC are actually scared of being sued over fictional content

credit cards shouldn't tell you what to buy. you're supposed to tell the credit card what to buy. thats the point i think

A lot of NSFW content has been removed from places like Steam and itchio recently, but you might not know this is actually the result of a campaign that has been going on for decades. Here's how anti-porn groups got the power to censor the internet. youtu.be/SmHHnPLllUk

My video covering the entire situation surrounding this will be out tomorrow

had to record a video during a heat wave to try and get it out soon. it is by far the sweatiest I have ever been. my hair looks like Michael Scott’s in season 1 of The Office

how it feels to drop a large project to work on something else

heard a lot about this “breadtube” drama. no idea why anybody would have a problem with this??

>go home to visit family >”come watch TV with us” >they watch nothing but AI generated videos on YouTube >I ask to put on a movie >Amazon Prime plays 12 minutes of ads >only other service they have is some shit called “Gloobee” >their smart TV freezes every time you open the menu and plays an ad

Update: I reached out to the Internet Archive people and it looks like they’ve preemptively saved most of the blog that went down, and are working to help save the domain of the one set to expire soon. I’ve also been able to archive the most important individual pages

sorry I haven’t been posting on social media lately. I discovered RSS feeds