After years of wrestling with video game pr, I've been requesting some advance copies of books and it's laughably simple. No embargo dates, no details on what plot you can't discuss, no interrogations about your coverage plans. Just "hey can I have this book?" "Yeah!"

So much effort goes into finding elaborate subtexts for films of anonymous realism that, when a film of great style comes along, its style dominates discussion and its substance, being overlooked, is declared nonexistent.

Does the new Bi Gan movie have a plot, I get that it's orgasmic/transcendent/magniforious but does it actually have a plot????

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

UNLOCKED: The best thing I've written all year. On Horses, Salò, and Pasolini's "indigestible art."

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

Ha ha

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Visited home for Thanksgiving and my DS Lite still works, Might buy some GBA or DS games when I get back if I can get them cheap

There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.

finished Joyce's Dubliners for the first time, got halfway through The Dead before giving up after slogging my way through the book (don't worry I read the final passages), Best way I can describe my dislike is that his work is Ibsen (fine on stage but a slog to get through in a 200 page book)

Hey photography folks drop 4 fav still photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok) Felix Thiollier Fan Ho Olga Karlovac

Kingdoms of the Dump is one of the year's most charming RPGs, an Earthbound-inspired game set in a world made of trash, where you fight in landfills and heal with moldy sandwiches. Which is fitting — it was made by two janitors. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Parallax View's 4-minute montage sequence is magnetic and invasive, I haven't stopped thinking about it since watching the movie three weeks ago, I think it works more with a Jungian mindset than the Freudian one Paluka seemed to suggest in the commentary

It's incredible that the new Running Man movie spells out literally 3 better endings than the one that's shown

"Is it smart for the democrats to keep pushing the Epstein issue as we go into the midterms??? Should the party downplay the international child trafficking ring reaching to the top of government? How well is not feeding kids to rich pedos polling in Iowa this week? Can we triangulate this somehow

ITS REAL

“Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless,” “both shows the fashioning of the New Wave as a modern myth and confirms the enduring power of that myth,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/BdzrsR

A section of dialogue choices between the player (blue) and Outer Worlds 2 character Ethel Tinsley (red). The full tree of choices for the conversation is shown on the right. The dialogue is written in OEI Tools, a tool made by and for Obsidian Entertainment

the parallax view (alan j. pakula, 1974)

[less than a week after dems sweep elections] chuck schumer: have we tried my same old bullshit?

heartbreaking piece about how SNAP suspension is hurting people in Texas www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

99% of memoirs should have been or remained essays. like what do you mean you're a 29-year-old brooklyn transplant and you wrote 70k words about your life. you better have been a war correspondent before you picked up that podcast mic. you better have been raised in a fundamentalist cult

“Lakefront, more phantom cramps. Absent waves. Slip knots, boats lisp against rope as they sing that old song, the one that starts with should.” From “Boon Lake” by Hazelyn Aroian in ISSUE 27!

"So, after all this time… I forgive you, Bioshock Infinite." @unabridgedgamer.bsky.social explores Bioshock Infinite's strange interpretation of Christianity:

I know there’s been a lot of news lately but uh, has any Transportation Secretary in the history of the US ever had this many airplane disasters and airport shutdowns in nine months..?

Tom and Daisy from the great gatsby literally try to convince Nick of eugenics during dinner

Thank you Lord Almighty for the new Vinegar Syndrome shop that opened in Pittsburgh's South Side, literally a 15 minute walk from my place

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

on the subject of term limits and the constitution, we don't talk enough about how insane it is that FDR was president four times and every time he won like 400+ electoral votes

One time I tried to buy oranges, like, regular ass oranges, and I couldn't. They didn't qualify for SNAP. You know what did? Take and bake pizza

Genuinely wondering if people would be ok with the $80 price point for games if they shared their games with friends -- Me and my bf at least try each other's games so the $80 feels more like a $40 investment if anything

Just started pokemon violet, first actual pokemon game (ik Arceus doesn't count), Will reserve thoughts until I'm a healthy way in

this comes after the Alamo tried to add a bust of an enslaved man named Joe to its new museum and trustees rejected it, relegating it to a smaller part of the museum about the role of slavery in the alamo's history. www.expressnews.com/news/texas/a...

If your job is looking at screen all day, I think it's beneficial to have at least one hobby that is not looking at screen.

Oh, yeah. We forgot. nobodythoughts.com/issue-5/

No food stamps in PA for November until the government shutdown stops

We're pleased to announce the creation of two new CMUP poetry prizes, made possible by the generosity of @teppercmu.bsky.social professor Sridhar R. Tayur! Learn more: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

It's illegal how amazing Metroid Prime is, Think I found a new comfort game

In the 1870s, the German biologist Max Schultze, lying on his deathbed, observed that he was leaving a world where “all the important questions . . . had now been settled.” All of them, that is, “except the eel question.”

Hey, hey hey.. Kill yourself

There's 30 other people (digitally) ahead of me waiting to check out Vineland from the local library, but the newest Pynchon is just sitting on the shelf lmao

One battle after another has some pikmin-ass music (complimentary)

it is not polite to say so but no discussion of the state of the games industry/press can really avoid the reality that the audience is just. really really bad.

Lino Brocka's furious melodrama Manila in the Claws of Light (1975), a film of exhilarating and pugnacious energy amid the horrors of a corrupt police state and the unredressed injustices that go with it; at the Roxy at 7:30, introduced by Harris Dickinson: www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...

Oh, neat, they found new therapy speak jargon to bastardize, now that nobody takes "emotional labor" seriously from people who think that pissing in an alley os a capital crime.

Bioshock infinite as a narrative is God awful ass, as a character study of Booker and Elizabeth it's messy but manages to keep me engaged even after playing it for the first time a few months back

everyone refers to 2014 tumblr as a kind of catch-all for furry drama and neopronouns etc but when I was on there the real drama was like Sasuke otherkin and picrew teenagers pretending to have dissociative identity disorder