cinemas should start doing Quiet Sessions for movies where everyone who buys a ticket agrees we are all going to be polite and act like adults and shut the fuck up and not crinkle chip packets

This is such a cliched type of post to make so I wanna promise I'm not just leftist-venting, but games really get hurt in all ways by how little time they had before capitalism made it an Industry. Commercialism is so thoroughly baked into gaming culture.

Activated by Wake Up Dead Man on rewatch, great little Christmas double feature with Tangerine #LastFourWatched

Doubt I’m shifting tax brackets in 2026 but would very much like to move my iced latte budget to independent writers’ newsletters. Words can be a little treat.

Yeah, this is the best I've ever seen any movie intentionally capture that kind of sudden, natural light/color/temperature shift.

tips for new bluesky users: do not become addicted to water. it will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

Shenmue Merry Christmas 🎄 (1999) #retro #art #gaming #Christmas #Shenmue

What if your Game of the Year was ethics?

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

Rules to see someone measuring the health of the cinema experience against something other than slophouse box office numbers.

We don't have to keep doing this in a world where the perfect starting point, MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM (1979), already exists

Rosamund Pike, Oona Chaplin, Eva Victor, Keke Palmer, I see you #LastFourWatched

There's exceptions of course but the fact that so much of journalism (especially games journo) has been left in the hands of amoral enthusiasts with no personal principles of their own? bad bad bad bad bad

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

If you’ve decided to go gently into that genAI night for the sake of enjoying a game but others being vocally opposed to its use, however normalised, is making you feel uncomfortable then the least you could do is keep that shit to yourself instead insisting you’ve achieved enlightened consumerism.

If you’ve decided to go gently into that genAI night for the sake of enjoying a game but others being vocally opposed to its use, however normalised, is making you feel uncomfortable then the least you could do is keep that shit to yourself instead insisting you’ve achieved enlightened consumerism.

Having spent the past twelve months developing a sincere love for Survivor, this feels designed to kill me.

I’m giving you guys premium Ella McCay posting and I’m getting paid dust.

Huge week at the James box office

Between the Xbox BDS boycott and studio’s generative AI use, it’s been a really great year for games media capitulation.

Always fascinated by these studios trying the “we’re just using it as an internal tool, don’t worry” as if the problem with AI is visible usage and not a holistic ethical, moral, literal rot that makes anything you do moving forward impossible to trust.

The gap between the way ryukishi07 talks about Silent Hill f and the actual work of Silent Hill f bums me out. Dude is saying all the right things, I just do not think that thing engages as a text and its extended endings nonsense actively undoes its best ideas.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Australia is a deeply racist country with pretty abysmal media literacy to boot. The fallout from the Bondi tragedy is going to be so ugly for us.

Milla Jovovich’s pronunciation of viddyagaerm has single-handedly revitalised my love for the medium

I too am a serious man #LastFourWatched

“I’m begging you to consider how small our imaginations have gotten, that we will turn away from the capaciousness of our hearts and minds when it comes to video games in the name of a good time” Not sure any other piece this year so perfectly captures what’s gone wrong here.

Don’t really wanna knock Keighley for processing his loss but who gets humanised by this event and who doesn’t is getting more and more pointed.

Bro they're starting with Todd Haynes' queer horror debut feature film

Ella McCay has killed before and she will kill again

You’re not wholesome, you’re a trailer showcase

Nightreign is, formally, maybe the best game of 2025 but I still find it kind of ideologically gauche.

Remaking KOTOR II is probably the only way you could smuggle interesting writing into a modern Star Wars game

I think it would be fun if writers who love language started intentionally writing more strangely as AI flattens written "content" into a mono-voice. it would cool I think if writers responded by focusing their individual efforts on cultivating a really unique voice that's hard to copy

The past week has sort of underscored that games discourse is, at this point, really discourse about games as product rather than games as creative works. "Is this Amiibo fair to consumers" and "Should this game be banned from store shelves" are not questions that directly engage w/ their subjects.

Keighley’s desert stunt has the philosophical merit of a billboard. It’s not gesturing to a bygone era of marketing, it’s just marketing gesturing you away from the gutting of the Future Class and sustained silence on Microsoft’s IDF ties. It’s a shiny red ball while the stick swings at your face.

Christmas movie season, babyyy #LastFourWatched

I simply hold From to higher standard of sexualized creepy white woman.

Leading industry figure gets the very vocal ick from art for adults but not Microsoft’s genocide complicity is great representation of the video game problem.

Letterboxd is an incredible social media platform if you want to slowly, over time, become less and less respectful of your friends' subjective tastes.

“well this is kinda dogshit but I do remember when I liked these games so idk 8?”

Tried Krita for more style experimenting. Green Goblin painted with no reference. Calling it a WIP, but I'll probably abandon it.