One of the bad things about getting older is having less pals working in food places they don't give a shit about. Getting nostalgic for the real good run I had back in the day where I didn't have to pay for a burrito for months. Genuinely sustained me for a while lol

Just realised we're almost at the most wonderful time of the year (Todd & Aaron's game awards 2025)

Vince Zampella, video game developer behind ‘Call of Duty' franchise, killed in crash www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/v...

Pluribus is such a joy, man. Nothing revolutionary I guess, but just carried out with such panache by a team at the absolute top of their game. Watching it is almost akin to Twin Peaks The Return—even its most deliberately paced moments have me thrilled that I get to spend more time in this world.

My opinion on games writing Discourse is whatever makes you, specifically, feel happy :)

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

More awful news. RIP James Ransone

James Ransone, who played Ziggy Sobotka on “The Wire,” has died. He was 46. “He committed not only to the work but to the camaraderie that turns every good film production into something familial and caring,” said David Simon, the show’s creator. www.thebanner.com/culture/film...

Every so often the thought will pop into my head "remember when Slayer ended their cover of Guilty of Being White by Minor Threat with "guilty of being right""

Been playing a bunch of recent games on my Steam Deck and the whole Deck Verified thing is becoming more and more curious to me. Plenty of games whose status suggests they flat out won't work on the system performing perfectly, relative to a bunch of Great On Deck options that, well... ain't great!

I... think I enjoy Blippo+? I guess I like what it's grasping for more than what it actually is. The concept is super cool—just don't know that the scripts for the various shows have the comedic juice to sustain what the game actually wants out of players/observers.

*Mariah Carey voice* All I want for Christmassssssss… is to never again hear someone tell me that I’m playing (insert trendy game) wrong and that I just don’t “get it“

Pal sent me a bunch of pics and vids he shot from the most recent Ashenspire show we played a few months back. Some crackers in here. So excited for next year's shenanigans, you have no idea.

Pal sent me a bunch of pics and vids he shot from the most recent Ashenspire show we played a few months back. Some crackers in here. So excited for next year's shenanigans, you have no idea.

Have we ever considered that Toy Story 2 might be the greatest film ever made

Had the pleasure of editing the script for this video from the inimitable @gamearray.bsky.social a while back and I'm very excited it's finally out there in video form. Many points when reading it where I thought "YES! YES!" Truly excellent writer, super fun structure. Well worth your time.

really important video from pmg to the point where even complimenting it feels in its own way like a damning failure because this is a couple independent games journalists covering one of the most sophisticated systems of extermination in the history of humanity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

Wolf of Wall Street is one of the lesser Scorsese films as far as I'm concerned. Jonah Hill sucks! Alien is just... Alien, man. Perfect. Refreshing to see Sarah Squirm do something truly wild with the standup format. Some Kind of Monster is the ultimate how-to guide for how not to be in a band

gamers love the ritual and theatre of advertising like one million times more than playing video games

Don't really have enough albums for a huge end of year list or anything, but the new Deaf Club was great. New Full of Hell EP ruled, seeing that Irk was back with a new album was very cool, but honestly the new All Men Unto Me absolutely blew me away. Highly recommended. V thankful to know Rylan.

Hard to think of a game with a release as fuckin wild as Ace Combat 3. If you play the regular ol' English version, you get a few decent missions completely absent of context. Play the Japanese version, you get two full fuckin discs of dense, branching path stories for Neon Genesis Planevangelion

You could justify paying 60 bucks for I Am Your Beast alone. I didn't end up making a Game of the Year vid last year but that game would have almost certainly topped it. This is a ludicrously good deal.

Absolutely fuckin pishing myself at this. Just publicly, frantically, uncontrollably, repeatedly hearting a photo of Epstein

The next time you’re tempted to beat yourself up over a silly mistake at work, think of the poor guy who pulled a real-life “Sorry, I’m sorry, I’m trying to remove it” after publicly hearting a photo of Jeffrey Epstein.

2025 proved that, more than good video games, GAMERS NEED DISCOURSE 🚨CRITICAL ERROR PODCAST: youtu.be/UrXgRUpUEXw?...

Truly incredible work here. As depressing as its subject matter is, I came away from it feeling oddly hopeful—all we have to do is not give them what they want. That goes for all big tech companies, not just MS. Enough of that kind of action/thinking and things start to slowly but surely buckle.

Not discounting that people genuinely liked it of course, but it really felt back then like people were bending over backwards to put it on this ludicrous pedestal purely because the chuds were being so obnoxious about it. Just thought "...The Last Jedi? Really?!?"

I remember leaving the cinema thinking "that wasn't as much of a trainwreck as it could have been even if it was just A New Hope all over again." That is legitimately the only thing about this film I remember. With a gun to my head I couldn't recall a single frame of it otherwise.

finally a speedrun category I can compete in

Last bump for this. It's not doing well performance-wise but fuck it. Really enjoyed making it, I think it's got some really great stuff in it, goes some places you might not expect, etc., and people would probably get a kick out of it if given a chance. Hell yeah

Hey, thanks so much to @lambhoot.bsky.social for featuring me on his list of the best video essays of 2025 for Sight and Sound. Wild to be included among such great work. It really means a lot in this case because if I was voting my list would basically all be LambHoot videos

Console makers constantly saying "price of the brick going up" when said brick is a five year old console with no games on it doesn't make for a particularly convincing sales tactic when people can barely afford to eat, as it turns out

New video! My final upload of the year shines a spotlight on some of my favourite games I almost missed in 2025 - including Nubby’s Number Factory, Simogo Legacy Collection, Once Upon a Katamari, Sektori, and many more 👀 📼 youtu.be/EbmAcuxMM9A

bridge over the jamiroquai

I usually hate doing thumbnails but going through my collection of Cursed Walter Goggins made for a thoroughly enjoyable process this time around

NEW VIDEO! The Shield is one of the greatest shows ever made... but did you know that it has a PS2 game? That said game is considered to be one of the worst ever? Well, I played it. It's awful. It's also wildly ambitious in ways I didn't expect. Find out why in this analysis—enjoy!

The Muppet Christmas Carol is such a sweet movie, very well made, but I just wish I wasn't such a Scrooge that my main thought was "I would have much preferred this without the songs"

Still think it's really funny that Armored Core 6 has a faction called BAWS and at no point did anyone think to consult 1 (One) Scottish Person

If I could pay someone to edit stuff for me, Jesse would be The Guy. Pay him to edit stuff for you. Pay him to edit stuff for me

Then: Judgment Now: A Short Hike

Sorry to get real on main, but god I am just so done in right now. December is always the most stressful, busiest month for me for so many reasons but this one has really taken the cake. Apologies if I'm not as responsive to things. Only got so much of myself I can throw at everything!

!NEW VID FINALLY HERE! I played 4 different Silent Hill mods for games that *aren't* Silent Hill (and they were actually REALLY good). From Garry's Mod to DOOM II, join me in my quest to see how the mod creators morph them into "Silent Hill". youtu.be/1atCCoIpSms

If Starmer said something I worked on winning an award was a "great pride for Britain" that award would be getting chucked in a fuckin skip

The most powerful narrative device a game can deploy is "throw you back to the main menu but it's different"

So apparently YouTube lets creators leave voice replies to comments on their videos now. Given that I've had quite a bit to drink tonight and that I'm a massive dickhead online, this is *extremely* dangerous information. I'll keep you all posted

THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go