throw boring tomatoes at me IF YOU MUST…it *is* a dog/cat you can pet

blonde blazer? Invisigal? Neither! Robert x Flambae <3

250k+ population, the second largest worldwide japanese population outside of Japan (behind honolulu), the hometown of Quentin Tarantino and Chuck Norris, the birthplace of AYSO soccer! Used to have the second largest mall in the country but now it’s the 7th! AND THERE IS NO TORRANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL!!

Zionist coworker posted an AI gravestone for NYC this morning. Hope she moves quickly!

I'm playing Dispatch and I'm gonna make it everyone's problem

what does Dispatch know about Gable House Bowl

the sun sets around 4:45 today. You have been warned.

Does DWTS have only one season a year? i’m getting into it now but i feel like im too late for this season.

i’ve never wanted one of the little trader joe totes…until i’ve seen these black and orange trick or treat bags. Willa had to drag me out of the trader joe’s kicking and screaming.

I know things are rough for everyone right now but the idea that a critic as skilled as Willa could still be out of work is genuinely unfathomable. hire her!

Willa is genuinely one of the most talented writers I’ve ever worked with. And I consistently wish we still worked for the same place lol. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better writer covering games

Come November I’ll have been unemployed for a year and now another freelance gig has dried up. Just a reminder that I am open to all freelance work (especially reviews) as well as mock review/consulting work. Also open to any other job opportunities outside of journalism. Contact info is in my bio

walking home wine drunk>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

MAAA: Make the Angels Anaheim Again

the weather right now as i head into/leave the office is akin only to the heat stroke I got hiking from the snow covered top of the Grand Canyon to the dry bottom

they are most certainly *NOT* good, please make 10 more

This 100%. I’ll take it even further that this moment is about the player because it’s the first time the game actually gives you the chance to choose to take help, to take the easy way. Even though we’ve learned at this point to empathize with Nate we don’t need to fall victim to the same failings.

i need a Scylla and the Sirens World Tour tee and i need it ASAP

I also attended this event btw

my wife should know better than to send me alone to the Whole Foods to pick up eggs when she KNOWS my ass is going to the bakery section

Y’all ever meet a guy who sucks so bad it’s got you questioning the human experience? (he also lost my spinny hat)

Wife’s new thing is seeing how far she can push me to not divorce her: “I’m just saying, it’s a lot of paperwork for one drink to the face”

do they still make games that are apps or did we stop doing that

I don’t know if it is titled “Call Her Daddy” as in “refer to her as daddy” or “report this to her father”

Rules for talking to me rn: Do not mention my wedding. However, if i bring up the subject first, then you may engage with me in that moment and offer no follow ups. also me rn: 🥺 does anybody want to come over to my house and watch 4 weddings and a funeral 🥺 pls 🥺

Too many people’s only frame of reference to immersive theater is Sleep No More and it’s detrimental to the medium.

My fiancee changed the type of greenery in my salad. The day is ruined.

don’t even talk to me until I’ve had my free slurpee on slurpee day

So this is a *bad* time to speak about Anaheim Supremacy, yes?

i’m nobody but this is too fun to pass up: Last five GOTYs 2020: Hades 2021: Chicory: a Colorful Tale 💖 2022: Pentiment 2023: Alan Wake 2 🌀 2024: Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

happy @thewillarowe.bsky.social day to all who celebrate!!!

Just had my own Hilaria Baldwin onion moment talking to my sister because I couldn’t think of the english (american) way of saying aubergine. I genuinely had to google it.

When we say Clair Obscur is extremely French, much of that comes from its use of Belle Epoque aesthetics. These make the game gorgeous to look at, but are also intrinsically tied to its themes of grief, nostalgia, and the trap of wanting to get lost in the past www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/clair...

I followed Étoile when they called it the Metropolitan Ballet Theater I followed Étoile when they said the Metropolitan Opera House was the ballet I followed Étoile when they used NJPAC for the stage but You CANNOT namedrop ABT in the (second to?) last episode and expect me to follow you that far

Grand Theft Hamlet's high art vs. low art mentality and the misguided belief that this is some new idea (doing theater inside of a game) leave a bad taste in my mouth. Online games and theater are both places of communal power, the film fails to celebrate that. www.digitaltrends.com/movies/grand...

Always a treat to partake in the winter spectacular! This year I had to talk about the finale of Nier Reincarnation and what it means to lose the game

Even though I still have a handful of things coming out before the end of 2024 I think it’s as good a time as any to do the annual post rounding up some of my best work. Forgive me for the long thread, it’s been a year!

WHAT is the connect that gets a muppet EVERY YEAR for the game awards??? who knows who??

Fantasian Neo Dimension is mostly the same game it was in 2021, which to me means it's a great RPG. Yet despite the power of having Hironobu Sakaguchi's name attached, it is also the exact kind of inventive RPG Square Enix has sent out to die in recent years. willarowe.bearblog.dev/fantasian-ne...

Kotaku's loss can be your gain! I'm Willa, a NY-based games and culture writer with bylines at Inverse, Kotaku, and Start Menu as well as co-host of @girlmodepod.bsky.social opps/pr: [email protected] blog: willarowe.bearblog.dev muckrack: muckrack.com/willa-rowe

An unfathomably huge game is out today, so we're running in the opposite direction to talk about minigames. Fishing, cooking, performing elaborate genetic experiments on giant chickens - we cover it all this week.

Can you believe that my girlfriend left me to go to France, came back, immediately got sick and has refused to kiss me for three days, and then when she’s better has the audacity to go out for work drinks and leave me alone again. I should kill myself just to spite her.

Why wasn’t it Meg 2: Trench Warfare

Hi ho, Kermit the frog here!