Still feels weird to give someone directions in Boston even though I guess I’ve lived more of my life around here now than anywhere else

I went to every XOXO (!) and this talk was one of the defining moments imo

I once had a dream where games media wasn't allowed to say Kingdom Hearts anymore so they had to use weird euphemisms, the way ads say "the big game" for the Super Bowl. "The latest crossover Disney hit" and so on

Was not expecting the sidescroller stuff in Kyoto Xanadu but I’m into it!

I don't really want to go to GDC but I wouldn't mind going to Super Duper

ah…

good auto-subtitling error: "trails in this guy"

can’t believe nintendo is making a balatro dating sim

some personal news: for the first time in my life, I spelled "ophthalmology" right on the first try

Ooh, uh, hmm

Tim sucks and I’m glad I left.

I haven't really had it in me to concentrate on video games the past few days, but next week I bet that's going to turn on a dime when a new Trails game, a new Animal Crossing update, and a new Genshin patch all drop within like a day of each other

Me, to my dad: "Oh maybe you'd like this podcast Shelved by Genre—they're gonna do Tolkien next year" Shelved by Genre: "Bofer deez nuts"

went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible 🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌

Bad news: if you didn’t get things off on the right foot today, you unfortunately need to wait until next year to try again

In 2026 I'm going to put out a video game and you're all going to hear about it

I saw a woman look at a piece of paper and say “I can’t use this” to herself, like an adventure game protagonist groping blindly in the dark for a puzzle solution

I have one album where my favorite tracks are 1, 2, and 4, so I often skip 3. Track 3 is perfectly fine, but I worry my behavior is training this music app to consider it the most reprehensible song in the world

Late contender for video game headline of the year automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...

Honestly of all the potential misuses of generative AI in games, "writing design docs with copilot" is probably the worst one? Bad writing or bad art are one thing, bad internal docs are sending your coworkers into a spiral of time waste

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

🎶 I was gonna go to work 🎶

Back in February I happened to see a 5080 on sale for an okay price and grabbed it, thinking I'd be glad for it later if I needed an emergency replacement. I did the same with a CPU a month or two later. "That's enough for now -- it'll be easy enough to just buy RAM whenever," I thought

Trails in the Sky is my game of the year, of course, but it's no fun choosing a remake. If I had to choose a brand-new game...it might be Rune Factory! Definitely not one I expected would be in the running at the beginning of the year, especially with a new Nintendo console on the horizon

This thumbnail makes me laugh every time YouTube puts it in my recommendations. You can almost hear him sucking air through his teeth

a weird specific thing i love about side story: when one of the hosts gets all excited, winding up for a punchline or big reveal, and then says "you tell them!" and throws to someone else. the generosity to let someone else say the best part! years of collaborative storytelling experience, i suppose

When there's an annoying segment in a video game, it's possible it was a special one-off thing and it won't come up again. But if it happens a second time, that's when you know you're in trouble -- no designer will make something happen only twice

The days are still getting shorter for a little while, but where I live we’ve at least passed the earliest sunset of the season. All downhill from here, right? 😬

If a company issues patch notes that only specify “bug fixes and improvements” with no further details they should be fined $500,000

yes…ha ha ha…yes!

Isn't...isn't Australia more than one time zone? (I was looking up when the Game Awards air)

shoutout to this Flecktones setlist I got signed in 2009 where Howard thought my name was Pam (probably misled by that long-stemmed D in Béla's signature there)

In 1954 film On the Waterfront, Marlon Brando laments getting a “one-way ticket to Palookaville.” This is because one-way tickets are often more expensive due to pricing models that favor round-trip bookings, leaving Brando with less cash on hand to enjoy Palookaville’s restaurants and attractions.

Just did a test of the new Mario Kart World patch and I think Nintendo really outdid themselves this time.

The game I'm working on now is cool

Every Black Friday I take the time to read what is perhaps my favorite piece in the history of online media— @jonbois.bsky.social on RadioShack’s slow, painful death. www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...

I like watching football but don't have it deep in my bones, so my rooting interest nowadays is "whatever will make Remap's sports podcast more entertaining." The Bears beating the Eagles? That smells like content baby

I turned on the parade and I think I just heard Caruso crossfade into All Star??

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday

It's a good thing the rest of the industry regards Roblox as a pariah, not as a model to aspire to, since they -- oh, what's that? Ah, I see

Oh my god that is the worst possible answer

i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all

the baseball subreddit held a vote on the minor league name of the year and it looks like it was a real barnburner www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

gonna post about something tomorrow

chaotic evil copyediting

NieR Automata genuinely might be one of the most important game releases of all time explicitly because of how it directly inspired DXVK, yes. www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ni...

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.