Angeline Era ($19.99) - one of 2025's very best. bumpslash combat attached to a story driven by a blend of Irish myth, Christian philosophy, and Japanese-American history that twists like a vine to grab at your heart and pull in deep, prodding your soul. store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

TMNT: Tactical Takedown ($12.99) - one of the fastest moving tactics games you've ever played, it feels like the genre is fused with the TMNT beat 'em ups by making it so you ALWAYS have to be moving forward, keeping the pace brisk. no wasted time here. store.steampowered.com/app/3229100/...

Am I cute?

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

SHUT THE FUCK UP, HOLY SHIT IT'S REAL the essay deadass starts with "it is unknowable through what lens and mentality daisuke operated when he declared that bridget was a girl" i am going to Throw Up

First slide presented by the prosecution at The Hague:

the appeal of matthewmatosis in 2026 is his fundamental incuriosity, that he offers his audience the lie that they can arrive at novel conclusions despite never broadening their horizons, never reading or doing anything beyond playing the same few games over and over

liberals when they see a meteor barreling straight towards earth:

u.m.a.

as promised! I sat down and recorded a *full hour-long commentary* for my Super Monkey Ball expert+extra+master 1CC! without getting into the grubby speedrunner weeds, this will explain all of the fundamental concepts and stage strats you need to get a casual 1CC. enjoy! youtu.be/r5WhWyXm6f4

I'm going to post some more old sailor moon art here because why not!!!

LRP, the goal for media should unapproachable as possible while being as accessible as you can afford.

really fucking hate how "accessibility" has been hijacked to mean "let's treat everyone as if they're children at all times"

lmao, got unfollowed by no less than 5 butthurt indie devs who just want to drive by and use my community to promote their generic as fuck game and never speak to us again. i can easily facilitate that.

generally fighting games with long combos are intending you to do the long combos, so they're made to be pretty straightforward. Games with short combos hate you personally and want to see you fail

South of Midnight was the first time I saw my peers talk about the South as something beautiful and worth seeing. That game did something I didn't think was possible; it was a love letter to a region I believe we should fight for, and for once, my peers got to see the beauty and magic that I see.

The game did the work of honoring Southern culture, and the way that it is built on African folklore. It saw the language we use in the South, the superstitions we build our lives around and said that it is not only worthy, but it is thanks to Black people and culture that we have this beauty.

I just updated this to include citations from The Privilege of Play. I originally intended to cite it after reading exerpts online, but I couldn't find the book when it came time to write the article. I bought a copy of it in the GDC store when I was there! critpoints.net/2025/12/14/a...

My ungrateful discord server complained that the pride icon we use year-round wasn't rainbow enough. SO..... FEELIN' PROUD YET!? (join us for chill video game design critique & discussion: discord.gg/EfPY4r9)

Heartbreaking: The most transgender bitch you know could use a little kissy on the beach

CELIA used SUBSTITUTE! She created a SUBSTITUTE!

The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof

It’s telling how many of the large news organizations who are flush with money aren’t sending journalists to cover ICE (and now state trooper) violence overnight outside Delaney Hall and the independent outlets with far less financial and insurance coverage are braving it.

The party has a "Red and White" theme, and I think I may have gone too hard.....

plato's cave: the video game

6' vs 5'11"

americans burst like they have free healthcare

If you want a version of this in TTRPG form made by an Indigenous person with a background in museum work and understands what decolonization and repatriation requires you should support my game Protect The Sacred. I've been working on it before he made this joke.

Combo Breaker has filled me with a deep love for humankind, but especially a deep love for my fellow trans women. We deserve the world. I can't wait for the next tournament.

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

girls only want one thing and it's disgusting (street fighter 4 updated with rollback netcode)

In this devious take on the superhero genre, we wanted to ask: what if a sort of Omni-Man or Homelander type character used their powers for good and to protect the innocent?

I was making gifs for a course, and I accidentally made a match-cut!

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

It’s never gonna stop being funny/sad how absolutely *terrified* conservative men are of just like… cities.

this burst made me so sad

I need a good pen so I could draw actual porn in this game

So you enjoyed the game so much you BEAT IT then SAT THROUGH THE CREDITS and only *then* did you find out she was involved and got mad? Sounds like you don't actually care about games just about if your politics are being catered to.

TRUE FINAL RELEASE DATE!! 🐭🙌 Mina the Hollower launches May 29 for only $19.99! Prepare yourself for one of the greatest top-down adventures ever to be delivered directly to your soul for less than 20 bucks. Mark your calendars. Tell your friends. Wishlist now - links below! 🧵

#xrd #ggxrd uagh, neat combo feat. @celialicious.bsky.social

jmargaris.substack.com/p/how-not-to... Used examples / case studies to look at various traps teams can fall into when they collect and respond to feedback from (not on-site) playtests. Including Marathon's alpha testing, Overland's paid "First Access" and Valve's Artifact. (And Star Wars Galaxies)