"Steve Mason either learns to be the Reaper or defaults to the reaped." @jhensliterature.bsky.social draws parallels between Harvester's suburban hellscape and the American suburb's foundation of violence:

i think im j too autistic to live in this world

drop what you're doing and go watch hot fuzz holy shit

i think im coming down with a cold, so basically, i need to be euthanized

Gaming Alexandria is a huge deal in game culture preservation. Incredible organization. Probably the single most important group this side of the VGHF I reference their work constantly for @hyruleinterviews.bsky.social!

just as the prophecy foretold

making someone else play the evil within 💖

The Funko Pop is something that we wish we could uninvent, like nuclear weapons and synthetic nerve agents.

This is the least emergency of all time. I cannot stress this enough. Please help people with mutual aid first before even looking at this. It’s my birthday on 11/27! I’ve thrown a Ko-fi goal together to see if I can raise money to upgrade to a Switch 2 from my Switch lite:

ARE YOU READY NON-KIDS? Prob not bc I dont think Ive talked about it here, but I've been making video versions of my Impressions articles on Exalclaw! The latest one is for Titans of the Tide and is a great one to check out since voice acting is a big reason I liked the demo: youtu.be/1bPa7w77k1o

my latest is out for skybox!!! 💜 the casting of teruyuki kagawa in yakuza kiwami 3 is not only disgusting in itself, but also ridiculous in its hypocrisy considering rgg's past recasts and the series. i feel, and write, very strongly about it please read, i think this is some of my best work 💜

drinking a crisp baja blast while super fucked up from pneumonia and cough syrup is what i imagine sarah palmer seeing the pale horse manifest felt like

it's friday, pass the yuri!!!

For our first November article, @lucafisher.bsky.social wrote a personal essay about @sunsetvisitor.studio's 1000xResist, his mother, cycles of abuse and domestic violence, and letting go of emotional baggage.

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

basically all of these films were major points of obsession for me in college, and now you can watch them all just on youtube. amazing. in particular Mirror basically changed my entire relationship with film after i took a Russian cinema class on a whim and it made me change to a film major.

It's a beautiful day to support independent criticism Consider throwing Stop Caring a couple of bucks so I can keep paying guest writers

sad to report that ginger snaps 3 is maybe the most boring movie ever made

Letterboxd has been down for over an hour? I have reviews to write here...

Can letterboxd stop being down. I need to log my morning movie! The people need to know I watched Age of Innocence first thing after waking up

as a trans woman, it is my curse to have unstable housing

watch a gay movie. any gay movie will do

letterboxd down whatever will i do today,,,,

It's the morning, ykw that means! It's time for a new Exalclaw post about Egg and the act of hatching in a game that feels like its namesake (yes, eggs were broken in the production of this piece): exalclaw.com/2025/11/06/t...

new blog post 💜 what a week, huh? not sure how to condense this one into themes or ideas; there's just a lot. i guess that is the theme, actually thank you for reading ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev/a-few-big-st...

how beautiful is it that zucchini season returns to us each year

We are not complaining because we are afraid of it, we are complaining because it looks like dogshit and it's everywhere! This is as polite as I can be about AI 😭

recently been committing to watching at least one movie per day (work does not pay me enough to not be slacking) and gotta say it has genuinely improved my life

was previously using a private discord server to send articles and essays between devices but work banned discord on the wifi so will be doing it here now 🙏 actually committing to the what i've been reading thread

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

I'm working hard on the ultimate answer to physical games - all content on cart/disc, tested by preservation groups, no FOMO with widely-available retail versions, careful curation, and very artistic collectible prestige EDITIONS every month. Please support our mission! ❤️ www.lostincult.co.uk

Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself. Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.

my essay on The Evil Within, sex, and violence makes an appearance in this week's roundup, alongside incredible pieces by talented writers that you should also read

It’s really simple: reactionary geeks are losers. They have more cultural capital than 30 years ago thanks to Hollywood and video games, and some of them have obtained immense financial capital, leading the rest to believe their superiority complex is justified. But they’re still losers!

By @stopcar.ing "I play The Evil Within and I embody detective Sebastian Castellanos: scared, and a little excited, because a man with a bigger dick is about to fuck me up the ass." (There is a quote from me in here but that is not why I am sharing it) www.stopcar.ing/sex-with-a-s...

New Stop Caring article from yours truly. @quimbles.bsky.social forced me to play the impressively mediocre videogame The Evil Within, so to """spite""" them I wrote about how the forced stealth section at the beginning reminded me of having sex with men. Always appreciate a read or a share!

EVERYBODY GO READ THE BEST PIECE OF WRITING ON THIS GAME!! artemis is one of the best writers out there right now and i'm always happy to force a peer to play one of my favorite weird mediocre games

I am thrilled to announce that I have been working on a Nebula Plus show called Masterful Mimicry, which explores the intersection of inspiration and interactivity in video games. First episode is up now about how Okami is a canvas players use to paint meaning. nebula.tv/videos/kingk...

obligatory subscribe to unwinnable unwinnable.com/subscribe/

trying to be more active on letterboxd boxd.it/31c8L

I reached out to The White House and asked about its use of AI-generated Halo imagery. White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai just responded to me, and it's insane. I've removed the paywall. Please share and subscribe if you can. www.patreon.com/posts/exclus...

To be able to do this, we need your support! For Just $3 on Patreon, you will get early access to all new content up to 24 hours early, as well as an invite to the No Escape Discord! If we can double our current subscriber count, that effectively doubles our effectiveness! patreon.com/noescapevg

We're cutting AAA games from our media diet entirely, and moving to only focus on or cover smaller and independent titles. We're also looking to collaborate more with other outlets, especially our friends @deephelldotcom.bsky.social and @kritiqal.com next year.

Kant weeps

Also, because of this wave of censorship, you need to be archiving stuff you like. Not just porn! They're coming for weird, queer, and dark media too. Buy a hard drive or a flash drive or something, dont depend on "the cloud"(a server service somewhere), keep you favorite media safe!

We all have to learn to become archivists - Lost Media will not just be "ooh lost commercials and children's specials" it will be art that defies the status quo and criticizes the increasingly draconian systems in power.

Nothing is a thing in itself anymore, just an ad for something else.

sibling was deadset on not getting popcorn at the chainsaw man movie until she considered "they might have the scene where denji goes to the movies and then we can also have popcorn" so she bought popcorn and then denji didn't even have any for the scene