Civics needs to be taught throughout schooling. It should be treated as fundamental knowledge for navigating the world, like English or math. It should not be a single class in high school that most people slept through

So cool that @polygon.com is letting trans slurs go unmoderated in the comments of its new Crimson Desert opinion piece www.polygon.com/crimson-dese...

Completely totally hooked on Marathon. I was playing another game today and kept thinking, “I really need to do a run or two in Marathon” not good when the game I was playing is huge and single player 🤣 Bungie really nailed it here in a lot of ways. Easily their best since Reach

Is there a single film I want to see less than Wuthering Heights? I’m straining to think of one

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. You might like Horizon. You might connect with Aloy. Great. Hermen Hulst at the head of SIE has resulted in two PlayStation IP being driven into the ground, most recently and prominently Horizon, which has now been stretched beyond recognition

Just a suggestion: if you’re going to post a quote or a statement, start linking sourcing. It is far too easy in this day and age to imitate the tone of public figures past and present. You owe it to yourself and the people who follow you to show your sources

Man, I’m in love with Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. The music is gorgeous, the voice acting is top notch, and hey, the story ain’t bad either.

Just got accused of being AI for the first time. It’s funny: if you actually read books, you can generally tell a real person’s voice vs an AI voice. If you don’t read books, you’re more likely to look at more than a paragraph or two only to dismiss it as AI. Just … lmao.

“Lengendary”

Haven’t posted in a while, but I did manage to get platinum in the first two Spider-Man games on PS5, so it’s not like I wasn’t being effective with my time

More RE4 goodness, including taking out a Garrador with only a knife

I restarted RE4 Remake, and hit the house with Luis last night. And my god I was stuck there for so long.

It occurred to me tonight that Peter Thiel looks a hell of a lot like Peter Stormare as Lucifer in Constantine

The average American has three friends.

Not for nothing but Days Gone Remastered seems to have much more substantial and dramatic lighting than the original. The haptics are pretty stunning and the 60fps/1440p seems so far (about 45 min-1 hr in) to be smooth

Took inspiration from the launch of Oblivion Remastered and decided to redownload Skyrim for my annual “maybe I’ll like it this time” run

@jvl.bsky.social polling low point for Bush according to Gallup was 25% positive news.gallup.com/poll/116500/...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Welp. Tripped over my own feet and landed on my headset. Bad things happened to good people. I’ll be bothering my neighbors for a while, but - at least it wasn’t my tv?

Metro Exodus is 🔥🔥🔥

I have become such a fan of Thy Catafalque. Give me weird, avant garde, proggy music that makes me think and I’m usually hooked

We’re on the same road together, traveling the same highway Try not to kill the people traveling with you on the basis of bullshit purity, because ultimately no one will be pure enough

Fareed Zakaria platforming Alexander Dugin, philosophical architect of Russian invasion of Ukraine, was not on my 2025 bingo card but here we are

The grossest thing I’ve seen in a long time

Robocop Rogue City is on Plus next month. Don’t sleep on this one, it’s a solid, mid-2000s style AA game. I had a blast with it

YUP!

Finally closing my eyes. It’s 5 am here and I suppose the events of the last day have kept my mind spinning. Alcest is on. Sleep seems like it’s coming. Maybe.

I just really enjoy a tautly written and plotted gaming experience. Metro 2033 was I think much better than Last Light. I’m now halfway through the sequel - I haven’t played much in the last couple days - and while it’s great it’s really not matching what the end of the original did

I’ve spent the last couple days playing Metro 2033 Redux. Man, I got into that game by the end. I immediately booted up the sequel of course

Look - I made a LOT of mistakes as a kid, like selling Ocarina of Time … or selling Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. Simultaneously I had great taste and terrible decision making in my teens. * sigh* 😔 Anyway, I didn’t sell Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. That’s the point of this post. Yay.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125... No shit post, just a basic request: if you'd be so kind to help promote the book today with a share/reskeet <whatever they're called here. Book one of my Silk Road/South Asian lyrical fantasy.

Taking this moment where Dem leadership seems to be faltering to repost this again. Kyle Freeman is running against Lindsay Graham. Check his site out, donate if you can, and please repost if you support unseating Graham

“The freedom to starve”

Just putting this out there because I saw someone post something so, so wrong about this: Luigi Mangione and the shooting of Brian Thompson is an example of propaganda of the deed 1/

I decided to take the plunge on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, since it’s on Plus. And - meh? It’s so rare for me to feel so mixed about a piece of media. The game reminds me of what I said about Vanilla Sky: “it’s the worst 8 out of 10 I’ve ever seen” (or played in this case)

“Russia Ukraine is not a proxy for whether you like Trump or not, Russia is our enemy, and paid the Taliban bounties to kill American soldiers”

Anyone else having profoundly annoying video playback issues for Bluesky on iOS?

Thinking about Żuławski’s Possession. The descent into body horror in the final sequence of the film has been seared into my memory. Might need to watch it again

look, we think our government is a shit show, but what if the Democrats took over and reenacted Hamilton and Cats through agency action

Reposting because it’s important. An old friend of mine is helping his buddy Kyle Freeman launch a campaign against Lindsay Graham. Here’s a link to his campaign site: kylefreemanforsenate.com And his Gofundme: secure.actblue.com/donate/kfct

Cyberpunk 2077 is still gorgeous

I’m watching Con Air. God I forgot how much I appreciate 90s action movies as a broad genre. I’d hesitate to call most of them good but I’d always say they’re enjoyable

The Damnation Game by Clive Barker is seriously excellent. I devoured half the novel in an afternoon and I’ll likely finish the rest tonight Who needs sleep?

Watching A Most Wanted Man. Kind of miss Philip Seymour Hoffman, he was a one of a kind talent

Yup. Rogue Trader. I’m hooked.

After seeing all the posts on Bluesky, I was inspired to break out my Steam Deck and play Rogue Trader Why did I wait on this game for so long??? 😭🤣

“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile. And I fear it will not survive the winter.”

I discovered Tony Ann’s piano cover of Now We Are Free from Gladiator. Just wonderful. youtu.be/BM5Gt_V5hPY?...

Another run of Cyberpunk 2077? Don’t mind if I do