yeah I played the wolverine game. wait what do you mean 'on playstation'

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

Today on IFComp reviews: two different kinds of sad rainy island, and also the X-Men azhdarchid.com/reviewing-so...

my feeling on the "sex in movies and tv" discourse is mostly a sadness for people being exploited and under-served by a media landscape but i do think everybody's life would be improved if they watched pervert cinema

This week's Midweek Magic format is Brawl! Today's pile: Kavaero (Superior Spider-Man) Reanimator moxfield.com/decks/nj2W6G...

the difference between bluesky and twitter is that twitter is the boot nazi website and this is the suit nazi website

on this website you can't say 'lol' about charlie kirk's death but you can imply that autistic people are a 'problem' to be 'solved'

after two drafts I am 8-1 so this may be the greatest limited format of all time

okay maybe legally distinct spiderman magic set... is good

More reviews of this years' Interactive Fiction Competition. Today: a parody of terrible job-application personality tests, Ballardian dystopia thriller, and other oddities. azhdarchid.com/reviewing-so...

me: i think with most things, if you look at it on a case-by-case basis, you'll find that especially these days it ends up being this whole issue where you have to sort of look at it through a lens of, hey, you know when it comes to this thing by its very nature isaac chotiner: i completely agree

seeing 'secret service' is trending and having a brief, weak flutter of hope

concept: one-page solo RPG called 'Ten Year Vampire'

I think everyone should be issued a state-subsidized orb. For sorceries, and such

idk what people are complaining about this runback's easy

that's the infuriating thing! these assholes are so weak and yet all of these respectable institutions and corporations are seemingly run by the most delicate frail babies alive

me, realizing there's no good term for "food I brought to the office to share with everyone" and panicking mid-post to the work slack: the birthday cake in the fridge is free use!

concept: 'database mystery' game in the vein of The Roottrees are Dead (in which you're doing research and reading documents to figure out the story) but the mechanic for proving your solutions is that you have to take the correct steps to exorcise specific ghosts (chant the right names, etc)

fundamentally though GDC's biggest problem is that it's held in SF, an expensive city that's expensive to fly to in an expensive country that's also a repressive regime that kidnaps tourists and bans people from entry on racial grounds.

every institution is now run by idiot marketing bros whose metric for success is twitter likes, I guess

Today's interactive fiction reviews: dog adventures in bronze-age Anatolia, k*nks and f*etishes, and other forms of disemvowelment azhdarchid.com/reviewing-so...

Like, I'm sorry, Bluesky team, that you made a social media platform. I wouldn't have. It has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. But you don't get to hide behind all this 'protocol' bullshit; you are making the choices that you're making, and they are bad.

'it's okay for us to set bad moderation policy and apply it inconsistently because you can always take your ball and go home (we'll just prevent the vast majority of users from seeing your posts)' at this point reads as willfully dishonest

'charlie kirk statues to be mandatory at university campus' okay. i too support adding more toilet facilities to public spaces.

After talking to some people about it and giving it more thought I've decided that I am indeed going to review games in the yearly Interactive Fiction Competition this year. So, here's the first batch: azhdarchid.com/reviewing-so...

My overall thinking on Silksong's difficulty is, I think, that the game isn't hard for the sake of being hard; it's hard because it contains some of the absolute best boss fights in any game, ever, and it wants you to be able to appreciate them.

balatro speedrun category: 7%. by which i mean: fastest to make the entire deck sevens (the gag being that seven is the worst rank - it interacts with no joker other than Odd Todd)

AI really has gotten to that point that NFTs did where it's not just the tech itself being noxious it's the people who are most invested in it being noxious and having these communities where they reinforce one another's terrible behavior online

Fuck a bluesky blackout, we need a whiteout. Cum everywhere, a week of moderators being unable to escape The Cum.

Your attention span for two-hour movies was ruined by your stupid phone. My attention span for two-hour movies was ruined by Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy letterboxd.com/notbrunoagai...

hi what are some analog games (ttrpgs or board games) that released in 2025 that i might not have read & really should read

COMING SOON: THE EVIL GAMES MANIFESTO

Don't you think it's kind of terrible that for most of the floppy disk era, the media normally referred to as 'floppy disks' was in fact rigid

In these really trying times when the games industry is in such a dire state and finding work is very hard even for experienced and versatile professionals, it's good that I never tied my self-worth to success in the industry or how my work is perceived. Unfortunately I did tie paying rent to it,

in my opinion I think the chance of a coin flip should be 50/50. but I'm given to understand others feel differently

So after playing through almost everything Silksong has to offer there's still one crucial question that I never found an answer to: wtf is scuttlebrace supposed to be used for

me: brain i'm tired of being mad at the world today. gimme something to reset with brain: scavenged a working microwave in the boylands me: scavenged a working microwave in the boylands brain: scavenged a working microwave in the boylands me: scavenged a working microwave in the boylands

Yeah this is genuinely really good. Someone give this a theatrical release so I can add it to my letterboxd account please

Surely this is more disrespectful than not doing the special at all

Balatro speedrun category: 0 cards%. How fast can you hang every card in your deck (and thus render the game unwinnable)

Balatro speedrun category: all jokers% (how fast can you get one copy of every single joker)

I have always expected the people who run this site would ultimately render it unusable which is why I go to the trouble & expense of maintaining both a website & a regular monthly newsletter (both in my pinned📌) but one does have to marvel at the speed at which they're fucking this dog

I mean, I guess we're fully mask off on "the point of our institution is to rubberstamp the ass of nepo babies so they can launder their parent's money into fake expertise"

I think there's just a fundamental divide between people who can see LLMs for what they are – a fundamentally toxic technology that can only ever generate negative outcomes; a machine for lying at scale – and people whose brains shut off because the computer is talking back to them.

*sees weird gays draw sexually charged violence on their ipads* You Bitch Mother Fucker *sees that the President of the United States is a well-known child molester* Wlel, that's his beliefs and I respect that

Honestly it feels like the apparent methodology is just, "hey we updated the TOS we should ratchet up the uncertainty and risk around people posting adult art one more notch"

This has always been a coward's website, and everything people liked about it was only ever because it hasn't become big enough to matter yet.

deeply unserious website. this is a completely unforced error. banning types of 18+ when under no pressure or obligation to do so is embarrassing as hell

Anyway. This place is only going to get worse because it's run by people who have contempt for their userbase. I suggest self-hosting your social media. Links to my personal blog and fediverse profile are in bio.

Honestly the more I look at the actions and words of bluesky's leadership the more I think this website is... *run* by the people we all banned from forums for sealioning, JAQing off, and generally being smarter-than-thou little dweebs