My video game kink is watching colossal, over-engineered and ornate doors shudder to life and open awesomely. The more visible gears, the better.

Sorry, but it's pretty clear to me when an essay on recent TV cites the dialogue, but not at all how it was presented on the screen.

Every day I follow the whims of a curious creature

Leon Saturn Kennedy

Christopher Nolan deciding on a Batman villain:

Who he's married to is none of my business, I'm just the side piece

oh

Lemon, it's Monday

You sure you're all right?

Outer Wilds and Tunic, two of the best games of all time.

Snubbing Delroy Lindo again? Jail.

Not even Tilly Norwood would agree to be in a new Firefly

Gonna tell my grandkids that CD players were people who liked Crimson Desert

Installing the dish soap mod

Reposting feels like “I ain’t got shit to say so ima let this other person post for me” sometimes

Just a reminder that the Dragon Slayer logo really goes for it by slaying the dragon

You BETTER not.

Some cool games at Day of the Devs today! I think if you liked Gorogoa (which is correct), you might wanna wishlist Micromega: store.steampowered.com/app/3453900/...

Never had this problem with Malt-o-Meal

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

In general, I think having multiple playable characters is one of the coolest things a game can do

smh what are they teaching kids these days? 😕 #re9

GDC folks: Here's your reminder that there is a Muni train stop basically in Moscone. You can transfer to Muni at Powell if you're taking BART from the airport. You can tap your phone to pay nowadays.

Ugh, Pepper Grinder is painfully good

(begging the wizard to turn me into glass) Listen, let me be clear

Reading (and reading and reading and reading) Tom's Crossing has me convinced that not only did Mark Z. Danielewski play Elden Ring, but he tried to get Torrent onto weird outcroppings

Great game. $2 for the soundtrack alone is too good.

POV: You are solving a puzzle box in a horrible place overrun with zombies. You've already seen that pushing a button makes a needle visually point to its corresponding symbol, making it easy to deduce what each button means. But no! You are going to drag some poor girl here and make her do it.

Disgusting

Day of the Devs 2026: San Francisco Edition is right around the corner and we're amped for the whole slate of games we have lined up! Games including Kiln, Dosa Divas, Soundgrass, and Escape Academy 2 will all be playable at the Midway on Sunday 3/8. RSVP today! bit.ly/dotd-sf-2026

If you're in SF for GDC, let's hang out. There is a whole city just blocks away from the Moscone!

Search Party is on Netflix now. I highly recommend watching it and not bothering trying to guess where it ends up, because you'll be wrong.

Misinformation is bad, unless it's about a thing I hate

Funniest thing about inventory management in Requiem (which I love for its resoluteness) is when it prevents you from picking up a pencil that just needs to be carried to and used elsewhere in the same room. It does not need to be formally stored, Grace! Don't you write reports at your job??

Trash graphics

For every year that passes without a Bloodborne remaster, the technical issues of the PS4 game become twice as bad in retrospect. If you play it in 2027, the frame pacing will instantly kill you

I thought someone was talking to me, but they weren't. I have to leave the bar now

The Curb full series Blu-ray set has a pretty good deal today, but I'm learning the old seasons are 16:9 cropped. That practice should be the subject of a "put a stop to the crop" episode.

You shouldn't be back here.

Kinda miss the days when people would just say my review was stupid. It wasn't a flashpoint between two cartoonishly binary states that pose arguments no thinking person is actually making.

A good and pointed read ... serrated even

Say what you will about Starfleet Academy, but it did innovate in making the grey sweatpants equivalent of a uniform

Me (nervous): Wow, it's so cool to finally meet you. I also have a middle initial. Leon S. Kennedy: Nice

An important thing to remember about social media is that if you aren't posting, you don't exist. So people will post about how they have no opinion or experience or context or desire regarding a topic. Because even though they have nothing to SAY, that's the only way to be visible.

Andrew Prahlow's score to Outer Wilds is as good or better than any film score nominated for an Oscar in the last 10 years. As transportive a listen as the game itself. Forever on repeat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zlS...

This will put KPop Demon Hunters between two Wes Anderson films on my shelf, which I think is exactly how it should be.

If I'm playing a PC game while my standing desk is raised, that counts as exercise

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

1br 1ba? What is this, a house for a cold sheep??