"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

Nested lenses

I wrote about how "Actually Romantic" adopts both the rhetorical and the musical trappings of alt-right reactionary resilience www.its-her-factory.com/2025/10/swif...

Here's the October edition of Thinky Third Thursday, the monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught our eye: thinkythirdthursday.com/october-2025 This is an extra special one, marking the two year anniversary of this newsletter! This month we're focusing on games from Steam Next Fest.

Gameplay (1/2) – for intuitive 1 hand controls, we added a hidden virtual joystick to move the character, activated by touching anywhere. the touch drags its joystick base with it, something that's super intuitive on touch. (explainer video: white is the joystick base, blue the touch position)

not sure why it took me so long to realize but I was tucking in for the night and it suddenly hit me that complexity exploration should've never been the second article in the state space series, it should've been the third. aesthetic obfuscation always was a prerequisite

what do you do if your entire professional life is based on sounding confident while talking obvious bullshit, and then a machine comes along that does all that for you with the exact same accuracy rate (0%)

2xko made me think about modern fighting games, and what has changed as companies move forward. medium.com/@CWheezy/2xk... Ideally I'd like to write more in the future

if you want to know how much games culture has actually changed just remember tim rogers review of ninja gaiden ii in 2008 which said that itagaki's sexual harassment accusation was both extremely cool and probably fake and also if he wants to make a good game he should kill himself like mishima

Machinarium turns 16 today 🤖

Read my new piece in The Wire on why I have never found the concept of hauntology especially helpful

A while ago, I found an interesting number pattern and designed a puzzle about it. Would you take a small break and have a go at it? 🍵🫖 Please tell me if you think you got the solution, or if you need a hint.

Another reason I've drifted away from wiki editing: If resources were only used by the community I'd be fine, but there's a growing trend of companies and youtubers monetizing this info without any credit to the sources. Never forget getting paid to read the GG Wikia and never acknowledge it.

Jesus goddamn fucking christ is there anything ai hasn't fucked up completely

Pathologic 3 launches on January 9, 2026. A new free demo — an introduction to the full game — is out now on Steam! We’re also unveiling the first of three trailers, each offering a different perspective on Pathologic 3. youtu.be/XcgH-s7vgAY

It's definitely pretty roughly put together, but there's an honest to god Wages of Fear-like in the Next Fest right now and it honestly kinda works?? store.steampowered.com/app/3759140/...

holy shit, this is peak performance www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzPu...

Me reading the silksong patch notes and seeing "- Slight decrease to Thread Storm damage at higher needle levels."

Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌

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inspiring 💗💖

if you've never seen the opening animation of Spiders before you are legally required to view it

That green base wasn't the only color that ended up looking washed out in the final design

So the background to the story is this. And you can read my whole article here (direct download of a pdf) static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

Just as we helped our friends flee Israel’s bombardment of Gaza City, we now must support their return — to reclaim their hometown and rebuild their lives. Invest in Samaa’s family 🙏 gofund.me/db56c7ce3

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

The takes on Absolum are radicalizing me. I really think more arcade devs need to adapt procgen without synergies because if they don't provide an alternative to synergy games, that shit will infect everything and erode the games. Shoutouts to Rolling Bird for not including ANY of that

Was shown a hyper-niche Procedural generated Arcade game called "Rolling Bird" that only costs 1$ Feels like another Post-Void type find Still struggling on the first level

i understand that the quoted article isn’t about this, but it pushes a button, so i’ll be reactionary and say this thread (generalizing game journalism)… there’s a dark side to when they talk like that. with its present mentalities, game journalism will readily destroy someone’s life for a story…

I flagged this review as abusive to Valve, and their team... disagreed so I guess Steam users can just spout this horrible shit, and Valve agrees with this cool cool cool, cheers Valve

Lesson from tabletop gaming: your choice is never "get rid of a player" vs "keep a player"; your choice is always "get rid of a player" vs "get rid of every other player that player will drive away"

same guys who are "concerned!!!! about women's sports" when it means excluding and isolating trans girls from sport lol. misogyny all the way down. for so many men, women's sports is something inherently lesser and another stage for objectification and comedy with female athletes as the punchline

awesome lol bruegel.analog.is

at some point I really think there needs to be some sort of large scale pushback on Valve for their complete abdication of responsibility in moderating steam forums to every individual developer regardless of whether or not they asked for it, allowing this tumour to completely fester.

I wrote about Alex Warren's "Ordinary," the phenomenon I call "ordinary slop," and reactionary centrism: www.its-her-factory.com/2025/10/ordi...

I hadn't believed anyone could turn bela tarr's masterpiece into prose, until I saw what a real master of the Very Long Sentence was capable of. A salute to you, Mr K!

@boghogstg.bsky.social great news for beat em up fans 🤓

Fox has been added into the game, and with this we're about ready to upload the new build for betatesting! #babaisyou

Anne Hathaway stuns in new picture

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me. azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

did riot games go overboard with monetizing a minimum viable product thats soooooooooooooooo weird

Oh, look, it's genAI, doing the nonconsensual rape culture thing we all said it was going to do.

Sick with worry over the ongoing detention of Alex Colston, journalist at @dropsitenews.com. I have known Alex for nearly a decade as a student, teacher, colleague, editor, publisher, and dear, dear friend. He and his comrades must be let free, now. Please read this, share, it and demand action.

House of Necrosis is OUT NOW on Steam! House of Necrosis features turnbased dungeon-crawling as well as a tank-controlled hubworld, complete with pre-rendered backgrounds! This is SURVIVAL HORROR MYSTERY DUNGEON 💀Buy the game now, 10% launch discount!💀 store.steampowered.com/app/2005870/...

new post on the newsletter about cool games from Falling Block Jam buttondown.com/allstationsb...

my faceboook memories are a living document of an era.......

when agent smith calls neo mister anderson in the matrix he is invoking a deadname to signify his power as the state but when smith calls neo mister anderson in the sequels its literally just a pet name for his soulmate that no one else uses. the wachowskis are so huge brained