It's Friday afternoon and you're not working anyway, so why not play the latest Y2K browser game sensation? iskotaa.itch.io/crystal-mall...

Fleurs de Villes is on at the VanDusen Gardens and flower people, this is a treat!

"Escape from Crystal Mall is young adult ennui dipped in Y2K chrome." I had a ball writing a little browser game about being trapped in a mall...among other things. I talk a little about the process of making it here! elzyg.com/blog/2026-05...

"Escape from Crystal Mall is young adult ennui dipped in Y2K chrome." I had a ball writing a little browser game about being trapped in a mall...among other things. I talk a little about the process of making it here! elzyg.com/blog/2026-05...

Looking for a fun, short, hilarious distraction? Embrace teen y2k ennui today(!!) in *Escape from Crystal Mall*. Works wherever browsers tabs are sold. No Purchase necessary. Batteries are optional. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine iskotaa.itch.io/crystal-mall...

Please note that shirts are still required to participate in The Palace jacuzzi room AMA sessions. Keep it clean.

✨ New at iskotaa.com: "Exploring y2k in Crystal Mall" --- Announcing the release of "Escape from Crystal Mall", a witty and immersive throwback to flash based games of yore and a sendup of Y2K nostalgia. https://iskotaa.com/blog/2026-05-24-exploring-y2k-in-crystal-mall/

"It is not enough to… celebrate the benefits of innovation, if they are built on a chain of exploitation that remains deliberately hidden. If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity."

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Today's #Mayllennial theme is flash games and @lars.bsky.social and I have at treat for you! *Escape from Crystal Mall* is a text adventure game set in 1999. It's our homage to flash games and a cheeky sendup of Y2K nostalgia. Let's go to the mall! iskotaa.itch.io/crystal-mall...

#Mayllennial Day 23: Emo We've all been there. Or possibly never left.

Vladimir Litvintsev leaving practice for the last time. Probably.

For those of you already missing Stephen Colbert, he's resurfaced on community public access in Monroe, Michigan, and no, I am not joking: youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4

All the Marin Honda fans waking from the cryogenic stasis they entered circa 2017 Junior Worlds:

I just realized I can be a Marin Honda fan in real time again. Ahhhhh....

I've been having a shit day, so finding out Shoma's trying ice dance at the exact moment I got my hands on a Diet Coke is the psychic lift I needed.

THIS is an offseason plot twist I can get behind.

Listen, I lived through finger moustaches, fedoras, and the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack the first time we did this aesthetic. I have hit my lifetime exposure limit for Zooey Deschanel. I am not enduring refried twee now.

Keep it up everyone, this is the spirit.

I've spent the last six weeks or so writing a video game set in what almost feels like a prelapsarian information age: a mall in 1999. The next game I want to write is set on an island in the Baltic Sea. Apparently I yearn for life in a fishing shack with only a guitar and T9 texting for amusement.

I think it's time to light the entire internet on fire and start over. www.theverge.com/tech/932973/...

#mayllennial No. 18: Book Fair I call this scent Eau du Scholastic, and the first person to bottle it will overtake Calgon for Official Millennial Scent.

There Will Be Blood and Grogu

howling at the old guy who phoned our newsroom to complain about me calling ferries "boats" with his wife cheering him on in the background they're the greatest and strongest boats in the universe and i will never surrender

70% of my notes to @lars.bsky.social about character design for this game were "Make it more dELiA*s-core!" and I think we've succeeded here, fam.

Lajoie & Lagha commemorative hours are now on. Montreal Worlds was a real high point for me. 🥲

Day 11: Mixtape Today's streaming addict forgets that back in the day the quality of your mixtape depended entirely on your access to good source material. Art: @lars.bsky.social #mayllennial

There aren’t enough sobbing emojis to convey the depths of my despair at this announcement. 2026 off season has been apocalyptic for team breakups. I’m half expecting a comet to crash into the rest of the ice dance and pairs fields, leaving only Chock/Bates standing.

If we're keeping it indie, there must be honourable mentions for Modest Mouse's "Float On" & "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand. But if you owned a Going Out top? Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack." Search your beer-soaked satin camisole-clad heart and you will know it to be true!

When I finally get a bar chord right:

Tough to beat the centre island in the VanDusen Gardens lagoon for premium goose nest real estate. Those goslings are going to grow up in botanical luxury!

Today's writing mood: youtu.be/MEFSU7WeZt0?...

This game is going to be *sweet*.

i post this every year because men soaking in toxic masculinity are all “why can’t we get women” and Tom Holland dances in drag and lands one of the hottest women on the planet, maybe there’s a lesson here guys

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

"The Switch is so old," you all said. "I need better graphics," you demanded. "Wah wah," you cried. And now, you sit here before Slippy Toad, the slippiest he's ever been, slippier than a fucking banana peel under a kart wheel, all thanks to the raw power of the Nintendo Switch 2—and you reject him?

I don't know why this is, but printing a manuscript is like shining a black light on a draft: suddenly you can see all the mess and know exactly what crimes you committed. That shit DOES work.

Working with @lars.bsky.social on a new special project for this year's #Mayllennial. An itty bitty sneak peek. 👀 Let's go to ~THE MALL~!

Aritizia has gone full Y2K. This rack of clothing is just one spritz of Body Shop White Musk away from becoming a time machine to 2003.

Someone finally got the memo on Canadian sports funding. "...federal funding has not kept pace with inflation, rising operational demands, or expanded governance and safe-sport responsibilities. [...] no longer reflects the true cost of delivering sport in Canada.” www.cbc.ca/sports/gover...

Oscar Isaac was in the Criterion Closet and he’s the first guy who I think properly understood that he gets all the movies for free and just overloaded the bag

'We've been a little bit too romantic about the idea that we should have employees and give people long-term job security' is an extraordinary thing for a video games CEO to say on record: aftermath.site/video-game-job...

Personally not enjoying what the writers are doing with these off-season plot twists.

The thing about Vancouver wanting a world class art gallery is we already have one. The Museum of Anthropology combines two of the greatest visual contributions this land has shared with the world — West Coast Modernism and Northwest Coast Art — into a singular expression of this region.

There's always a wave of notable post-Olympic retirements, but I will particularly miss Miura & Kihara. They're brilliant skaters and ambassadors for Pairs, and their win in Milan was the perfect crown for their career. A li'l throwback Olympic post here: elzyg.com/blog/2026-ol...

"evan bates outlives" stocks are UP 📈📈📈

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

I'm a proud YouthWrite alumna and this camp changed my life. If you have a bookish, creative kid in your life, this is for them!

I see the children are dabbling in Y2K runecraft again.

Nothing snaps a Shaughnessy security system* to attention faster than me strolling through the neighbourhood with a pineapple under my arm. *paranoid millionaire homeowner peeping through curtains