My favorite games event of the year, every year, and it's not even close.

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it? Chiitan forever

insomnia is some bullshit. isn't my sleep debt bad enough? what if i go into sleep default. is the sandman working on a repossession scheme

The workers at ZA/UM Studio have unionized. First recognised games union in the UK, too. May many others follow. www.gameworkers.co.uk/workers-at-z...

[watching FLCL for the first time] damn Deleuze & Guattari would have loved this shit

Heidi is a wonderful person who has endured the unspeakable over the last few years. Please donate and/or spread this around as you’re able, and let’s help our colleague.

You actually want to deploy *her*?

King's Field update: first boss (?) down. love to try and circle strafe with a character that moves with the grace of a drunk tank

doing super great. hanging out with my pal the secret passage murder skeleton who definitely did not destroy me on sight

out here playing King's Field for the first time and having a great* time *miserable

despite the jankiness, it's hard to hate DxM: Titanic Scion when it lets you do dumb shit like this

don't know why terms like "demonic leftist(s)" suddenly gained traction among reactionary crybabies but lemme just say being called demonic feels fucking great

rest in piss

Remember that even until the 1980s, many general interest magazines had a fiction feature, and a few hung on until the 2000s. (I published a couple of short stories in a men's magazine called Razor--for 300,000 readers and $1850 in today's money.) Now criticism is gone, but so too are magazines.

Been thinking about this all week; but really this just brings a bunch of stuff bubbling up that I've been sitting on for way longer. On the death of criticism: noescapevg.com/games-critic...

Working with Emma over the past 2 years has been a pleasure. She’s extremely good at voice and character work, and I hope she snags a role that lets these strengths of hers flourish. I wholeheartedly recommend her for anything.

one of the most shameful takes I've seen in a while

u know what time it is

lord I have seen what you've done for others

as though they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft; a thing appointed to desolation

wait did I really never post this one

watching game shows is a communal hell where you huddle up in a group chat with buds and take psychic damage together

"in a few years most art will be AI-generated, so what will you do then? not consume art at all?" first, bold claim. second, *slams 36TB disk array on the table* you vastly underestimate my reading backlog

Huge congrats to the entire Qud team. This fucking rules.

Fixed the internals on my bass and replaced the dying output jack. First time soldering. The bass survived and sounds great. Unrelated: found a new, mysterious scorch mark on a throw pillow. It's as if *someone* absently poked the pillow with a very warm object. My money's on a clumsy ghost.

I'll simply say "hey, this rules" and not make fun of renowned author Dan Brown, just this once.

EU folks: multiple countries are pushing for backdoors in chat apps--WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, etc. This site can generate templates echoing your concerns *and* find the MEPs to contact. In some cases, emails are listed. It takes a minute to reach out. Please consider helping. fightchatcontrol.eu

playing bass has been nice during these bad times. some reptilian fuck shares his nightmare idea and you can just be like dum. do-do do-do dum. do-do dum do-do-do dum, dum, dum...

satisfying to watch (fingers crossed) the AI bubble start to pop. shame we only got here after half the internet was gobbled up

rap name Floutation Haterial

incredible to watch outlets quote AI slop in a matter of hours--minutes, in some cases--and never even question the source. what a day to be online

a game is only art if it lets you gain XP and makes you develop an unhealthy attachment to at least one (1) member of your little gang of sickos

Open world version

For anyone interested, here's a fantastic piece by Oguma Eiji covering the 1968(-ish) protests across Japan. The article also includes impossibly rad photos. apjjf.org/2015/13/11/o...

it's time to COMPLAIN about the delisting of NSFW games on steam and itch! tell these payment processors that they need to STOP listening to these boring anti-porn thought-policing friendless tossers and START LISTENING to us instead. there is no art without queers, sluts, perverts and weirdoes 💦

yall ever get through a week so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep

every new doohickey guy in 2025: all right. I'll do it. AI waifu Jodie Foster with H cups: I love you, onii-san

im having a good time with Death Stranding 2, but I keep wanting it to get weirder--narratively, mechanically. it's at its most engrossing when it just fucks around with the tightly designed loops (of which there are plenty, to the team's credit)

my partner and I were grabbing some hair products yesterday and stumbled upon this most powerful of collabs

UK friends and (on-friendly-terms) peers: throw me your signal @ before you very understandably ditch this place.

Being good at it makes you care about it, and caring about it makes you bristle against the restrictions and pivots and stupid kneejerk decisions that only increase as a project goes on

Neurocracy will always be special to me, not *just* as the first game I wrote for, but also as this fantastic concept and living, growing thing. Last year's iteration was fantastic; can't wait to see what this one brings. Get in the 2049 murder hole, cowards.

Neat and all, but just give me *private* follow lists. Wild that I still can't just browse posts from close friends/peers/etc. without exposing them.

bass guitar finally out of storage. Scarlett audio interface ordered. looking forward to some gnarly calluses.

feels like laying off *anyone* when you're raking in billions should trigger some kind of immediately-warped-to-hell event for the suits involved

EU folks: consider signing the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative, which seeks to force publishers to leave discontinued games in a playable state once support ends (eg removing online requirements, etc.) citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

CEO compensation of 30.5 ***MILLION*** — up by 5 MILLION amidst mass layoffs. no money to pay workers but plenty for the bosses. if you’re not furious you should be

very excited to be stranding some deaths again later today