Legit question for rural Runners – How do I kill the 30-50 feral rooks that crawl around Pinwheel base within 3-5 mins while my teammates loot

Update: very upset at everyone who encouraged this. Marathon is, as it turns out, pretty fucking fun so far.

who the fuck is screaming "PLAY MARATHON" at my house. show yourself, coward. i just might.

Yeah, this rules.

solid haul from the second-hand bookstore. thrilled about the White Jazz hardcover--my favorite Ellroy joint.

Had really hoped to be at GDC this year to (finally.) see some of you. For now: it's genuinely heartening to hear/read about folks meeting up

couple hours into Slay the Spire 2, and I'm really impressed. so many new cards that iterate on StS staples, or open entirely new play styles. the epoch system is also quite intriguing. lovely stuff.

I grew up on TIE Fighter. I've had close to zero interest in VR until this very moment. Good god.

feel like we collectively deserve another big boat moment. fuck it, make it *two* carriers

these fuckers *really* want their personalized Clippy that regularly reassures them its super good and fine to do a war crime

New: I played Zero Parades For Dead Spies. noescapevg.com/first-impres...

Replaying Armored Core VI from scratch. Still in awe of how elegantly the narrative is delivered. Walter's dialogue alone, from the first line, is a goddamn masterclass.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

finished Sekiro. feeling like chain-smoking 4-5 cigs after that last fight.

it's 2026 we idle grinding Etrian Odyssey IV thanks to comrade rubber band

5/1/26 - nocturn

[smash brothers announcer voice] MICHAEL CLAYTON [tinny voice from wiimote] ᴵ’ᵐ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵃ ᵐᶦʳᵃᶜˡᵉ ʷᵒʳᵏᵉʳ ᴵ’ᵐ ᵃ ʲᵃⁿᶦᵗᵒʳ

When you have to name 9 swords before content lock

PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you. Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings: For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages. For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody

[Commodus, after butchering a giraffe in the Colosseum] thank you for supporting our decision matrix

bandwidth status: just enough to watch a couple Columbo episodes a night

"Get his ass” Is so unreasonably funny to me. A huge win for the English language. Today's version of "seize him" imo

unconditional support to the workers at R*, organizers, and IWGB folks

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

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.