New York Times sucks. The affluent contribute to climate change, working class pay for it severely. Climate issue is an everything issue.

The Ultima games are a story about an imperialist colonizer (Lord BRITISH) bringing another white savior to co-opt the local religions practices (the Avatar) in order to establish his permanent subjugation of the native population. In this essay, I will...

I haven't loved a new game since like 2018

If you hated that FFXIII was too linear then opened up to the open world, you should hate FFXV for the exact same reason in reverse.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a terrible video game and it being commonly accepted as one of the best games ever made is a damning indictment of the medium at large.

gran turismo is not a very good racing sim (except online, maybe). its appeal is in the car-based experiences you can craft with it, and the "races" are just there as substrate

Random encounters, grinding, and number-go-up are more integral to a JRPG being good than are good graphics or good writing, and it's not close.

Designing complex games for consoles first, then porting to PC, makes for some godawful UIs. Don't hamper PCs with console limitations!

While I wouldn’t pay to play them, Zelda Wand of Gamelon and Link Faces of Evil are actually pretty fun.

The video game industry could recover by doing away with X-Box Game Pass and stuff like that and moving to single game digital rentals. Also the Chozo are extremely suspect for turning an alien orphan into their weapon instead of just trying to get her home. I do not trust those birds.

The controls in resident evil being terrible are part of what makes it such a brilliant horror game

Every game needs a mechanic that is gobsmackingly opaque, such that minor cargo cults form around them. Everything else can be spreadsheet city, but that one thing needs to be so far from explicit that psychoanalysts would go "doesn't look like anything to me"

The Konami code ruined Contra because it no longer required you to actually get good at one of the most difficult games of its era, while also showing us a potential future where character lives, a holdover from quarter-munching arcade days, were no longer (as) important in the home console world.

Every video game that has cards in it is just poker but less complex.

the definition of roguelike should include its graphical style

"Cozy" games are actually pretty stressful, with common materials overflowing containers and rarer ones needing you to scramble all over and jump through hoops. ESPECIALLY games that don't have auto-sort, MINECRAFT. Also I prefer to have clear goals to work toward, which is why I like Pokopia.

Skyrim's combat system, in a vacuum, is really terrible. But in the context of the game and what it's trying to do (make you feel like a badsss), it elevates it to "kind of okay"

Conway's Game of Life is Turing-complete and somebody built a system in Conway's Game of Life that runs Conway's Game of Life in itself Supposedly you can do that in Minecraft too? idk

If Souls games were actually good, no one would feel the need to defend them.

Kingdom Hearts 3 would have been improved if you punched Elsa in the face, one world was swapped out for The Princess and rhe frog , and at least half of rhe Org members were Disney or FF characters. Or ar least from those worlds instead of TIME TRAVEL.

Open world is the objectively correct format for all adventure/action/rpg games Ppl complain about empty worlds that arent actually empty at all, but when they actually atethats just because the developers are bad at making games and would have fucked up somethint else in another format

Characters being player-sexual disasters is fine actually

This is an important graph for understanding changes in the global climate system. The data/running means are computed through March showing internal variability (bumps) and forced long-term warming (trend ➡️ human-caused climate change). + Graph created by columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temp...

Sims 2 is the only entry in the series that let you pretend to be European

Palmer drought index. Worst ever. Worse than the dust bowl. Fire season is coming.

Lord, I see what you’ve done for others, and I want that for us too.

Fun awards dinner this evening at Potters Craft Cider, closing out the 2026 NAGT meeting that I hosted: ⚒️

As a "working class" voter, I call bullshit. Climate change is making my electric & propane bills skyrocket. Crops are dying from droughts. Winters are ridiculous. I can't go outside in Summer bc it's either a once in a lifetime storm every couple months, there's wildfire smoke, or it's 100F out.

i really like planescape: torment. i kind of think it'd better serve itself as a visual novel.

Them: “hey, I know you from Bluesky!” Me: “oh, cool!” Them: “that wasn’t a compliment”

(Seriously I would not have bet any money in 1996 that Romero would be the least objectionable id software alumnus but yet here we are.)

Wish the IU administration were reading the replies here

if you think about it, Socrates is basically Columbo

PowerWash Simulator is a deep exploration of trauma

Oh one of my main focuses is going to be completely unsearchable for the next few weeks....

Gonna die on this hill but efficiency is the opposite of education. Learning is not efficient.

elden ring is actually a cozy game

Disco Elysium was a promising first novel but a terrible game.

Clair Obscur was published in the service of evil.

Also a third wolf that makes a stupid meme instead of writing anything

Also lest someone think I'm trying to lock my work in some ivory tower, >95% of my writing is open access. That means it's free to read and I've given everyone the right to reuse it for almost any purpose, **as long as it's attributed it to me**. But by design, GenAI makes attribution impossible.

Disco Elysium is a game about how NEETs get into politics instead of going to therapy.

Eve: Online is a massive multiplayer idle game.

The difficult part of any technological infrastructure that has been incorporated into an institution is that generally the institution has hollowed out whatever services and roles that technological was brought in to modify or replace, so uncoupling is an expensive and messy prospect.

These are not just Galilean-style telescopes, they are the originals: hand-built by Galileo himself in 1609 and 1610, the only surviving examples. The older of the two is possibly the telescope he used to discover the moons of Jupiter - which revolutionised astronomy. 🔭🧪⚛️ #astrohistory #planetsci

People have got to wake up to how bad the situation in US science is right now

The implicit theory-of-change in this article is that we can accomplish all the work of averting the climate crisis without ever mentioning climate on the campaign trail. If you don’t buy the premise, then the argument is functionally identical to “the climate crisis will go away if we ignore it.”

Sure would be cool if we could fix the climate without ever having to do politics about climate. Maybe technology will save us! Or the enlightened self-interest of the energy industry! Or elected Dems, having never been pressured to make any commitments! Ah, well, nevertheless.

Just when you thought things couldn't get stupider....

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