During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I posted on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social about how the cancellation of a specific Assassin's Creed project from Ubisoft is sad proof that the backlash to Assassin's Creed Shadows worked. There were other factors at play too. www.dcgameblog.com/2025/10/cogn...

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

I'm not going to lie here: I cackled a bit at this.

ICYMI The Quarantine Control series on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social reached the 288th entry. This week, CWTyger wrote about the Adult Wednesday Addams web series, while I wrote about M3GAN 2.0. www.dcgameblog.com/2025/10/quar...

Meanwhile in #Portland

I can’t get over how bonkers the $99 price for Perfect Dark’s 4K release is, even if it won’t go entirely for that price once retailer discounts go into effect. Those are import prices. gkids.com/films/perfec...

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

It's absolutely brutal that Oshi no Ko's third season will be on Cruchyroll when it was one of HIDive's most popular shows. This was probably expected after Sony's Kadokawa investment, but it's quite a blow for the competition to Big Anime. www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-10...

The 288th Quarantine Control entry has been posted on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social. This week, CWTyger wrote about the Adult Wednesday Adams web series, while I wrote about M3GAN 2.0. www.dcgameblog.com/2025/10/quar...

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Peacemaker season 2's finale wasn't as conclusive as I'd expected, but it was still an enjoyable ride, and not where I expected it to go after how the first season turned out. There are several questions raised here that will take time to be answered, though.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

In case anyone figured there was a chance of that Star Wars trilogy from Rian Johnson still coming, this *might* finish that off. variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

Can’t believe that one Silent Hill Wiki Editor got a position as the Foreskin Czar in the Trump regime.

If anyone made a list of Street Fighter 6 crossovers they'd like to see, I'm sure Banshee's Last Cry/Kamaitachi no Yoru wouldn't be near it. But I like out-there collaborations, so it's fine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5S... The character models remind me of the Cycloids from Street Fighter EX.

Never thought this would happen after releasing in Japan and Asia a good while ago, but I'm not complaining.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

The Stranger Things final season run times aren't quite as long as those definitely-fake rumors suggested, but maybe they weren't far off. Each episode having a $50 to $60 million (!!!) budget is also jaw-dropping. www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...

Ask me how my Tuesday went and I'll point you to this blog post.

Well, I’m glad my main gaming chair decided to peace out before the so-called Ikea Tariffs went into effect, or before the store increased their prices. I’m placing an order tonight.

The concept for this post-Civil War Assassin's Creed sounded great, but I'm not surprised that Ubisoft didn't have the stones to go through with it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ubisoft...

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

ICYMI I wrote about how the change in which Kamen Rider Zeztz episodes are uploaded by Shout! Factory and Toei after airing is further proof that (constructive!) bullying works for a @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social post. www.dcgameblog.com/2025/10/bull...

Part 6 of my Laika: Aged Through Blood livestream is now available on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social's YouTube channel. In this part, I finally finish up the section "Where Water Glistened." Then it's off to craft a machine gun in preparation for the boss fight.

It's no surprise that mystery video Nintendo provided yesterday was for Pikmin, with the small appearance of the main theme. The bigger question is what they're advertising. I assume there's a reason why this wasn't part of the last Nintendo Direct less than a month ago.

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was such an enjoyable game that I'm kind of sad that I finished the main campaign. That says a lot about just how good it is when it's among the longer Metroidvania titles I've played, not to mention being by far the longest Prince of Persia game.

Feels like it might be too early for an updated version of Metaphor: ReFantazio featuring new content and Joker, if Atlus plans on doing one at all. Maybe the best we'll get here is a Switch 2 port, or maybe some more merchandise. www.gematsu.com/2025/10/meta...

Hey, the best you can do is laugh.

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility. Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying. All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

I posted on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social about more proof that (constructive) bullying works, after Toei and Shout! Factory made a change to how new Kamen Rider Zeztz episodes are uploaded to YouTube after being streamed. www.dcgameblog.com/2025/10/bull...

I thought this teaser from Nintendo might have been for some Labo-style edition for Switch 2, but the brief Pikmin theme appearance could mean it's for a new game in that series. Or maybe they're getting further into TV shows and movies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuf...

ICYMI I wrote about how the future of Xbox hardware couldn't be clearer after the events of the last two weeks for a @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social post. www.dcgameblog.com/2025/10/xbox...

I'm not holding my breath for this, but a part of me is hoping this will happen because there's no way these will be any good. www.ign.com/articles/elo...

It's a real shame that Mina the Hollower has been indefinitely delayed, because it would have been perfect for the Halloween season. But I'm sure the polish will benefit it. www.yachtclubgames.com/blog/delay-e...

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

I never want to meet the person who thinks sending a lady AI slop videos of her late father is a clever idea. It’s a new(-ish) way of being a creep. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

I posted on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social about how the future of Xbox in the traditional console space has become much clearer over the last couple of weeks. www.dcgameblog.com/2025/10/xbox...

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

ICYMI I updated last night's Laika: Aged Through Blood livestream announcement on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social with embedded video from Twitch. I finally got that machine gun and made it to the crab boss. Had to shelve the boss fight for next week though.

I saw this thing and thought it was a large, modified PSP, and I'm glad that the Verge writer here largely agreed. www.theverge.com/games/791460...

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...