@theautumnwright.bsky.social talked with @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social about the games landscape: "Make fun of the videogame industry at your own peril because whatever stupid thing is happening to us in that moment, it’s going to happen to you in about, say, a year and a half’s time."

using "Hi, and Happy New Year!" as an email opener to tacitly claim amnesty for my failure to reply for the last 4 months

Patrick Dane, Former Film Writer, Managing Editor, Entertainment Editor and Head Games Writer of Bleeding Cool has died at the age of 34 #RIP

calling June

Awful news.

Office Office 365 365 Copilot Office Copilot Copilot Copilot Go Copilot Max Copilot: the Place for Office Office Max

Thanks to the fine folks at Critical Distance for all the work put into compiling this. Tremendous effort.

had to put this on hold for an even less fun new reason (car died) but tomorrow hope springs anew

*might* be able to get a post up about Baby Steps before the new year

he's named Jonathan Very Last because after him we've had to ask ourselves if maybe Jonathans were a mistake; we've suspended production and are currently evaluating that

It's not lost on me that Jokic got injured because of exactly the sort of offensive push-off that Thinking Basketball piece pointed out. If you let defending guards get shoved backwards into their bigs, stuff like this is bound to happen. youtu.be/vfViuDuT62E?...

there is an unending thirst from the media for the White Prodigal Son

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look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

Annihilation (2018)

I wrote about reading Moby Dick aloud to a baby during the sad, hot summer of 2020.

It's been well over a decade since I trained there but being on Marcelo Garcia's mailing list is its own reward PS: the new kits are pretty fire, gotta get myself one

It is still The Newsletter, but Luke also turned Hell World into a pretty fantastic magazine over the last year. It is always worth paying for, but he's made it increasingly worth it.

JENNA: oh Liz. You couldn't possibly understand. You're not a ~~Heritage American~~. My family can trace our roots in this country back to 1787, when my great great great great great grandfather moved to this country to form ISIS—the Indigent Steeplejacks of Ithaca and Syracuse

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

just what I wanted!

I can’t stop fucking laughing at this. I just hear the voice in my head and it loops the giggle.

catching up on last night's Spurs/Thunder. First time hearing a soccer-style chant during an NBA game (I'm assuming from that fan section Wemby put together?). I have trouble seeing it take off considering how faster paced the game is, but it's fun to hear 'em try it. oh also belatedly:

"average cave contains 3 cabinets of maturing cheese" factoid actualy just statistical error. average cave contains 0 cabinets of maturing cheese. Cheddar Gorge, which has a cave & contains 10,000 cabinets of maturing cheese, is an outlier adn [sic] should not have been counted

I suppose I did not appreciate how much load bearing the Marvel movies were doing to contain pop movie passive aggression

(standing behind aiming a pistol, wearing same quite large hat) always has been

"Vibe gap elephant," things of that nature

did Christmas dinner with my wife's parents and learned they just let one of their cats go in the ceiling ("she likes it")

This nomination — a second consecutive one! for journalism! — is so appreciated, not least because I had a grand total of FOUR pieces published this year, which I worried is really not very many. (I spent most of this year writing things to be published in 2026, 2027 and beyond.)

gimme that old Sevendust sound youtu.be/XRc2LViqLS0?...

man washington wizards home games are *bleak* huh

when the real main villain gets revealed in the 3rd act of a JRPG

More than almost anything else in life, I wish I was there to feel the fjords and caress the castles with Rick Steves

caught a little bit of this in the car and FWIW it seemed like Platner was back on more stable footing (Remnick's kind of a softball interviewer IMO but still). www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

LRT and this—lots of good writing on the subject of Ruin, lately. I wonder why! Probably good reasons, surely. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

In Ruins. An unlikely game from me, I grapple with what all is there to say about war games during war. On Battlefield 6, destructible environments, and gardening:

I know dude is trying to be helpful here but what is being described is neither affirmative action or DEI—it's marketing, and much more commonly is what de facto bars *people of color* from specific roles

mages in a fantasy video game where magic is outlawed be looking like

Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.

To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/ www.edge.org/event/the-ed...

it should say "crop me out".

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

So few people doing so much damage, man.

Glad somebody has finally put this into a proper presentation. It's wild how much leeway they've opened up for the offensive shoulder check/push off. It's basically become the necessary skill for driving guards and screening centers/forwards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NWD...

starting to get the hang of this thing

Is the MTA making merch with the F M Swap icon cause they should be

It is a gift

mages in a fantasy video game where magic is outlawed be looking like

fell victim to one of the classic blunders [eating an entire cheeseburger in one sitting]