But also, use your hearts. Part of the fasc strategy is to make us question what is obviously a murder. They know we'll see the video, they want us to delude ourselves into thinking there must be room for their actions to be justifiable.

It was cool that this old man called people weird for a few weeks but now this old man has the ability to fight fascism and won't.

Now would be an excellent time to call your elected officials and tell them you will not vote for them if they vote for any appropriation that includes funding for ICE.

I think one of the main problems of the "cozy" label is that so many of the functions we ascribe to coziness are in practice methods of control and essentially capitalist terraforming. This is great!

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Does anyone have thoughts on if I should get a fine or medium? Most of my current pens are .5 or .7? I kind of think my .5 writing is uglier than my .7?

Do this for all sorts of stuff you like! Tell that museum how important it was to you. Reach out to that teacher who recommended a book you'll never forget. Tip your wait staff and tell them thank you! Be cool to more people!

I'm being HYPER charitable to Sony here but I do wonder how much this is actually to give them ground for a potential lawsuit against people who boosting in games with a strong micro transaction economy?

I have some writing in this about Cronenberg's The Brood, a great Canadian film where the director (figuratively) shows you his whole ass!

My last column of 2025 is now live: six under-discussed indie games for your consideration

So much is broken with this country but it's amazing that my pharmacy tells me my meds will cost $350 this month then refreshes the page to blank it out, then says add to cart to see price, then says reorder and we'll tell you how much it costs when you pick it up.

I actually really like 1? But the Dawn of Souls version. A lot? I still play it when I need a game on the airplane.

Also easy to forget that until George W Bush we were projected to have to have massive surpluses before cutting taxes and then a quagmire over oil

We can still make @derekkinsman.com include Final Romantasy. You have the power to make him regret this.

I really think if you win your division with a losing record you should not be allowed into the playoffs. Not that I really think the 9-8 Vikings or the 9-8 Lions are very playoff dangerous but it feels very weird that the -69 point differential Panthers are in

Automation and industrialization has always been anti-worker

Cormoran Strike has always sounded like a chess opening that was invented by reddit and most notable for not working in any situation

Being a freelancer is expensive! Some unique opportunities opened up for me and I need your help to make them happen.

I don't really care about Marvel movies as a whole but I'd love it if they gave Drax one of these deeply emotional trailers so Dave Bautista could get Disney level Oscar promotion

Making a game is a miracle but it is weird that Terminator is going to entirely miss the boat on extraction shooters when that feels like a slam dunk?

I'm learning so much about living with a cat.

It's Saturday afternoon in America, do you know where your elected officials are?

In times like these, I believe in both being mad as hell, calling your elected officials, and also being able to talk about other things and feed our whole selves. Anyway. Here is my friend Pancake and I really am liking Ball x Pit so far.

I stopped watching a LOT of channels that make the "this game is easy enough for a games journalist" joke. It's such a stupid cheap shot and pandering of the lowest level.

Two of my @unwinnable.com pieces are in here, funnily enough both about soccer!! There’s also a mountain of other really good stuff here, check it out check it out check it out

Beef Wellington is just a hot pocket that went to prep school

It's actually not possible to eat takoyaki without burning your mouth

It's a hard job but someone has to watch an impossible number of @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social videos every year.

Tax the rich

We really should declare a moratorium on mentions of Final Frenchtasy

You can just get your pets lil outfits!

i stopped making "trans people are the canaries in the coalmine for fascism" analogies when i learned that miners would actually try to save the canaries after they passed out instead of going "wow, 1,000 more canaries and i might start to worry!"

Last Christmas: George Michael, repetitive, droning. Final Christmas: threatening (complimentary)

"Sometimes, we see what we feel, rather than what is actually there." UM Feature Excerpt: @orringrey.com explains how Frankenstein and other monsters become the product of collective memory:

I want to like Restory a lot and the gameplay is solid but a lot of that background street sure looks AI generated. Some stuff just seems kind of....smudgy in a way that feels generated and not drawn

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"So, rather than set out to make this big, sprawling strategy game as a first time designer, the game and I sort of grew up together." @aguaspoints.bsky.social talks to Pablo Clark about creating the board game The Old King's Crown:

Welcome to Derry isn't a total disaster but it's kind of weird how they're doing a whole hypnocil plot and they could just bring back the Friday the 13th TV show

It's so great that Steven Universe grew up to be Chibodee Crocket

The Escapist has not been a relevant or meaningful website in years. Please do not link to them and read them with more scrutiny than you would the New York Post.

The thing I really appreciate about boycotts is that you do get a quick litmus test to see who is willing to accept a minor inconvenience to do the "right" thing. Your friends can't stop giving money to fascists? They aren't your friends.

I really don't have a problem putting another 1000 hours into Vampire Survivors. It would be easy and fun for me.

My best of 2025 list is here! Best of what? Many things.

This month's column is in fact NOT a column. What could it possibly be?! What madness has @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social let me unleash?!? How much of it involves genres other than games?!?! Well...

Wait Final Frenchtasy used gen AI and everyone was still all about it?

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To paraphrase myself, if you're a "controversial figure" the one thing you can do that no games journo can resist is to make a decent game. There's separating the art from the artist and then there's separating oneself from their sense of morality because it's got horse ball physics.

ICYMI: "The creators didn’t just slap feminine coding on this robotic character and call it a day; it wasn’t just shallow window dressing. Layla was made a character, equal to any other character." @alyssawejebe.bsky.social analyzes the animated short Layla:

Why does discord login pop up every time I boot up my computer even through its disabled in startup?

tapping the sign or whatever