we played the Peak update at gamer night

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

this man is proof that every candidate should actually just be hiring comedy writers for their team

can't believe how much hope i have today that anything could actually get better. wow!

i read too many conflicting opinions about dispatch before starting it and now i don't know how i actually feel about it. i hate when this happens. i blame all of you rather than myself

corporate journalism won't save us

teen vogue's EIC leaving (concurrent with its politics desk/writers being laid off) feels like a pretty relevant piece of info, too, given that her stated core interests (and background) in this interview from earlier this year were: politics! huge loss whitmanwire.com/news/2025/05...

It's too long for Bluesky & I refuse to compromise. So here's a screenshot with the words in the alt-text.

every time i put on a white shirt in the morning it's like, ok challenge mode, do not get anything on this shirt while you're making breakfast for yourself. i have never yet succeeded

come join me in being angry at that one IKEA lamp ad

new yorkers i need you to vote mamdani so that this admittedly very funny 2021 onion headline can become irrelevant theonion.com/de-blasio-we...

another day of trying not to succumb fully to doomerism

once again, yep. if you're going to be any good as a professional critic, you need to consume a variety of games in high volume, which means you need access to codes, which means you need to work somewhere that can get the codes and distribute them in a logical way, and so on and so forth

yep. if you don't have enough working games critics (regardless of medium -- podcasting, writing, whatever) then there aren't enough people to play a high enough volume of games for anything approaching true curation. obviously you can never have perfect curation, it's impossible. but it's worse now

it's weird to me that the Snake Eater remake just came and went with almost zero discourse. that's been happening a lot

anyone who thinks this is recent and that there was a point in time at which maher "used to be funny" or "used to punch down" or whatever should listen to @oldmanweldon.bsky.social's podcast I Hate Bill Maher

maybe after the AI bubble pops and the economy crashes from that, people will remember that they like to read. of course they won't have the money to pay for writing but by then the water wars will be underway so we'll be using a barter system of some kind, therefore money will be irrelevant

"where is all the good writing about games" now replaced with "where is the money for good writing about games"

this happened to all of us weekly columnists unfortunately! so you'll see less of me there but i'll try to make that monthly column real special <3

i need @chasingamyadams.bsky.social to have a patreon so i can give them my measly five bucks or whatever but mostly because the obvious bonus content is all of amy’s TV appearances, as the podcast main feed is only movies. do it! the fans (me) need this!!!

gears of war 1 getting remade and now halo 1 getting remade feels weird like game devs want me to relive the specific time period of my life when i was a proudly unbearable recipient of the Only Girl trophy

have you ever created a video game mod to make characters "look better" (whatever that means to you)? i want to talk to you for an article i'm writing! get at me via maddymyerswrites at gmail dot com. or repost this if it's not you and you just wanna help me spread the word. thanks <3

anyway when is the order of the triad coming to the mcu

if i thought i could sell a story on it anywhere in 2025 when no one is thinking about venture bros, i would be writing a full interpretation of how the show's representation of queerness changes over time from edgelord to "the characters are actually now truly exploring their queer identities"

convincing various people in my life that we need to use snail mail just so i have an excuse to use my Dungeons & Dragons stamps that my mom spontaneously bought me when she saw them at the post office

shocking no one, i really loved writing this one

what are all y'alls favorite gaming websites and do you still go to websites?

lotta weird aspects to getting older but watching "old" music, tv, games, etc become completely divorced from the cultural contexts in which they came out, to instead simply be described as "old" and thrown together into the same bucket, is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO weird

true, and i'm sure many of them have no idea that Friends was also heavily criticized contemporaneously for being the white person rip-off of Living Single. which, if you're reading this thread and wondering what shows i do recommend, watch Living Single

it's wild to me to see zoomers & younger millennials talking about the tv show Girls with just-now-watching-it reverence (esp the ones who are not white women) bc that show was SO heavily criticized at the time for being regressive in terms of gender, class, not depicting nyc as racially diverse etc

blogged about the hades 2 romances, how for a quick hades 2 break aftermath.site/hades-2-neme...

The Blueprint

DID YOU KNOW that the voice of zelda and the voice of link on the old cartoon both played characters on the jack ryan tv show from 2018 (with john krasinski)? i bet you didn't know that, because there's no reason for anybody to know that

sailor moon is always the same story over and over but the thing is that it's my favorite story

have you ever created a video game mod to make characters "look better" (whatever that means to you)? i want to talk to you for an article i'm writing! get at me via maddymyerswrites at gmail dot com. or repost this if it's not you and you just wanna help me spread the word. thanks <3

the story of Colton Fears' hapless bandmates who were "just trying to jam" while he slowly turned into a White Christian Nationalist is both tragic and incredibly funny: freepresshouston.com/jailed-nazi-...

this is true and it was terrible and i used to complain about it all the time back then. but the backlash to this, resulting in the current near-total lack of personal memoir writing, is not great either. it was concurrent with the backlash to "identity politics" imo

btw bobby drake invented the internet on spider-man and his amazing friends. also, no one has ever been angrier than j. jonah jameson about getting trapped inside of a video game

it would be very difficult to determine the actual worst social media site because there are so many factors that would go into that decision, but it's linkedin

i forgot i made this

i only threw this party 4 u, i was hoping u could come thru aftermath.site/aftermath-pa...

still obsessed with this (via @antlervel.vet ages ago) www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoRf...

becoming a person who watches youtube essays. tell me your favorite creators (in games especially). even if you think i have heard of them and am already watching them. you never know

Ghost of Yotei makes the most of the PS5's DualSense controller, both in its flashy sword fights and in its smaller, intimate moments. @midimyers.com on how haptic feedback and the controller's touchpad elevate the experience:

thinking about "gaming is waiting" again

there are good video game soundtracks and then there is the super metroid soundtrack in a category all by itself

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Good but maddening one by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/purity-tests/

an old article i wrote that i still think about all the time. every time i reread this i'm like damn i did three separate interviews for this hyper-specific story topic lmao kotaku.com/want-to-do-b...

engaging in self-care (closing an article about bari weiss without reading it)