you know what ok, let's do a snapshot of my tastes no particular order beyond first being first Magical Athlete Innovation Samurai Netrunner Can't Stop Xia: Legends of a Drift System Wiz-War Krass Kariert/Dealt Tiefe Taschen Northern Pacific

Decided to do stream of consciousness for Baby Steps. Felt appropriate. Gonna just post it late and whoever reads it reads it. If you fancy yourself somebody who cares about the medium I think this might be required playing. Capital-I-Important game. backloggd.com/u/Vysetron/r...

looking at all the games from this year that I haven't played and I'm increasingly not really worried about 'em this was a great year! I played great stuff! I'm happy to go into award season as-is, and if I get the chance to try more of 'em later, cool

my history with tiny open source-ish game boxes that make big promises hasn't been great but I'm feeling pretty good about this new one

a lil card game that everyone in that setting is super into and will drop whatever they're doing to play with you

Baby Steps manbreaker status: broken this game is very good but god the control scheme puts my poor wrists directly into the blender. still an admirable adaptation of Foddy and co's ideas into 3D space and has a lot to say. writeup soonish

first try City Trial, it's like we never left

it may be late in the year but Q-Up is making a case for GOTY conversations

fully fed up with roguelites as of late so I reinstalled Dicey Dungeons and maybe it's the contrast, but wow this game is even better than I remembered sure you could do a run to gain 0.05% of a stat, or you could play a 20 minute one that ends with giving a girl scout 60 stacks of poison

I don't live in or around NYC anymore and I'm out of touch, but it is extremely funny to me that anyone expected Mamdani to be challenged by the man who fumbled Sandra Lee

nothing interesting to post, entertain yourselves for the next hour

Skinfreak (@leggomygiallo.bsky.social) is an authentic slasher experience in every way. If you haven't picked a seasonal game to play this Halloween this'll do the job - just make sure to bring some friends to get freaky with. pixeldie.com/2025/10/31/s...

good news: no longer caffeine dependent, which means I can feel it again bad news: I can no longer partake in Night Coffee

oh are we doing mount rushmores of the PS2? ok but I'm going to add a controversial yet brave opinion I think there are a lot of good RPGs worth playing on the PS2 but almost none of them are top shelf and despite my love of the genre I don't know that my top 10 would include any

learned an egg bite/mini crustless quiche recipe from @charlatanwonder.bsky.social and I have elevated our Egg Game to untold levels (these are spinach and cheddar w/sriracha)

The mad lads at @smgstudio.bsky.social have managed to create a Party Experience that's head, shoulders, and customizable pants above its competition. Lego Party rules, unironically. pixeldie.com/2025/10/26/l...

hey @megadrivers.coolpics.biz you might want to know about this, they made Divekick for grapplers store.steampowered.com/app/3806150/...

very tired of game pricing discourse, it's always the same bad arguments made by distant observers for attention if someone proposed the solution to unprofitable film was to charge double for a ticket they wouldn't be allowed to have opinions anymore

a friend of mine is playing VtMB2 and this skill "tree" is so fucking funny

Sakurai fully understanding what the people want, Sonic could never

lost a friend last weekend. check in on your loved ones, if only so you can know that you did.

in an attempt to inject nuance into a media discussion I came up with an idea that will make people on the internet deeply upset

the most shocking part of this announcement is the Q1 window. two sets inside a year is impressive pace! formally requesting that NSG please print good yellow cards, thank you for your consideration

the vet disliker himself

"we stayed winning" is the most Itagaki sentiment to go out on. RIP

I've played so much crap on various beats but fine, self imposed pain only tabletop: Nacho Pile, not just bc it's awful, but bc it's nigh plagiarised and a horrid version of a better game digital: rather than go for a bad IP game might I recommend* Of Bird and Cage? it may not work, but it rocks**

I'm not normally one to say "hey check out this stuff I bought" but I don't know if I've ever thrifted board games so well before

sega blue skies never leave your brain

If you told me a few years ago that I'd have an opportunity to review a new edition of Magical Athlete, I'd have called you a liar. If you followed up by telling me it was from @cmyk.games and was perfect in every discernible way, I'd have asked who put you up to this. pixeldie.com/2025/10/08/m...

not necessarily saying I want this to happen but it would be extremely funny if Bluesky also died from the exact same preventable choices that killed Twitter, only this time it's a woman doing it it's like poetry, it rhymes

Dave Matthews: Ants Marching because I want people to experience the dread I feel when the radio spits out "hhhHHEEEE wakesupinthemorniiiiiingngh"

it's weird to find games in all their forms to be art, exist in those circles, and also be an open admirer of Roger Ebert a lot of game-enjoyers like to shadow box with a dead guy, as if they could convince him to see the light if he only played Danganronpa or something he didn't even hate games!

fake ass konami fans don't even know about the classics

using this as a springboard MS made an attempt at a unified, walled-garden ecosystem while wildly underestimating the time and runway it takes to capture a critical mass of users (most of whom are very comfortable where they are)

started playing The Hundred Line last night and was blown away by the decision to personify Danganronpa fans in the form of a single party member nobody likes, then immediately [REDACTED] I don't know if I've played many games so eager to distance themselves from their base. it's bold, I love it

I love steam sales because I get to make myself laugh

time for the private equity special

most of the way through of the Devil, this game has me in its grip and will not release Ace Attorney type beat, but with some incredibly written characters that you will love to see develop and compelling setting work Morgan is truly evil, a ruthless and vile beast of a woman, 10/10 protagonist

clocked in over 100 hrs at the day job the last 2 weeks so Netrunner tournament commentary tomorrow might get a bit spicy

Studied some of Sally Mann's work in college, and I have a lot of thoughts about general nature of the artist/audience, but this is a very important read in my opinion. www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...

I think we need to take the phrase "this game is hostile to the player!" away from aspiring game opinion-havers until they learn what friction is

not to diminish Geoff's contributions to Magical Athlete coming westward, but this thread buries the lede a bit as far as I'm concerned - I didn't know about DC Breakout! "better" is an incredibly bold claim - one I'm here for! combining two powers (of 40!) is an exciting twist on MA's concept

laughed so hard tonight I nearly threw up 2025 has been a great year for games but everything else is fighting for second place

my love of roll & move is not ironic hipsterism there are no bad mechanisms, only bad utilization. R&M can offer comedy, tension, and excitement in ways that nothing else can. I'm glad folks are giving it a chance! all of these are bangers for entirely different reasons! I could list so many more!

extremely funny to see everyone who has things to say about new Magical Athlete using the word "perfect/perfected" somewhere in there even funnier that we're all correct

I was fortunate to playtest this new edition of my favorite game, and I'm happy to report that it is, somehow, even better now Magical Athlete is pure joy, the game that has given us the most laughs of any box out there. Nearly terminal levels of whimsy. Perfect.

lemme show you one of my favorite bits of characterization from a board game this year so we're trying Work of Heart. it's a dating sim board game almost every datable character has a masc/fem version, they're interchangeable and mechanically identical (players are just themselves)

I get it DK, I'd feel like an exhausted single parent too if I suddenly became responsible for Baby Waluigi's well being

part of what slowed my games writing output, and why I mostly stopped accepting review copies, is that I do my best writing from a place of passion to be less pretentious, if I don't give a shit I'm very bad at faking it. when it isn't my job I don't see why I should be beholden to anyone but me

I don't post my culinary stuff on here much but tonight was milanesas and I nailed it