You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

You know what really annoys me? When a song is about a dance that doesn't exist until the song invents it. The band just drops it for the first time and what are people supposed to do? Nobody knows what's going on, nobody has got the moves, everybody is confused. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYKu...

AAAs unsustainable scale leads to 'bombastic narratives' and 'chosen ones' not only limits the story but also limits the gameplay that can be explored, and creates incredulity in any player who seriously considers it. Its 'just a videogame' because they won't let it be more than a videogame.

I thought Seattle community was all about not talking to people.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

When you really think about it, a salad is kind of just someone really messing up a sandwich.

Once again reminding people who play Deus Ex for the first time to play the training missions so they don't hard bounce on the first level of the game. Liberty Island is not the tutorial mission, the Training is the tutorial mission.

David Lynch's checking stick is something I think more of us should have and use. We all feel and think and have intuition but we need to focus and check where its coming from and where it's going. youtu.be/v8pVP4xeRyk?...

This is the kind of thinking that makes people say King's Field is a jrpg; and renders genre as meaningless. The idea that anime is made in Japan also falls apart when you realize animation production is usually global. Scenes in Batman TAS were animated in Japan, does that make it anime?

Huh, I'm a Washington State Ferry. I did not know that about myself.

@radiatoryang.bsky.social This is a Levelord thing, right?

Story of my life, tbh.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Personally, I want to sell a game that doubles in price each time someone buys it and reduces in price by 10% every hour with no sales.

I want some fook

As long as the game developer knows what they are doing and understands how it can make players feel, they should be able to do what they want (assuming it is ethical). But in my experience, prescribing what people should do comes from spending too long on an issue and wanting to resolve it.

I too remember cgtextures.com

As someone who doesn't typically like humor in games I still found the quirkiness of Skin Deep to thoroughly enjoyable. Definitely in my top games of 2025 (and blendo games, and of the Immersive Sim revival).

If you want to tell a story of the Revolutionary War it should be about how ordinary people can come together and redefine their society to match their ideals in a way that is inconceivable to established hegemony. A one for one retelling muddles it all up.

...weird way of asking to play Riven, but OK.

GTA will be (or become) a streaming game; the industry will pivot to streaming because the players can't afford hardware. When the AI data centers fail they will be used for streaming content (and the streaming companies will be the new, even more centralized, publishers).

I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project: Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece. Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon. See thread for details. 1/9 github.com/markmoxon/th... #retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit

"The Outer Worlds 2: We Found a Thesaurus" While I propound it's predilection for superfluous phraseology, I also have a congruent penchant for sesquipedalia. (Not really spoilers)

I did enjoy Through The Fragmentation

XGIII has a pretty soundtrack. (The one you are thinking of is 'Atradaitoshi')

"That idea is specific to [a type of anarchist], and nobody takes those people seriously." - Anarchists, probably.

I started playing "The Outer Worlds 2" an Obsidian Unreal Engine RPG. While I like the game, I think the the narrative is limited by the settings relentless commitment to trying to be funny.

Thank you for over 300 followers!

CWD is getting really weird.

Does anyone know how this works from a businesses perspective? One of the things that scares me about paying residuals is needing to keep track of people for potentially decades and eventually being retired but still responsible for sending checks.

I can never think of star forts without being reminded of Vauban.

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

I played Metal Garden today. Met some new friends. Very enjoyable. Would recommend.

It goes without saying that the award should be a golden crate.

And people are obeying? Why? Because the AI can change some codes and turn out the lights?

I constantly hear the sirens song to be one of an entire team of dudes with fish. (I live in Ballard so this makes sense)

I'm going to say it. Bloodlines 1 is much more of an RPG fps than anything else. The immersive sim elements are incidental to it being an RPG and the idiosyncrasies of Troika more than anything intentional. It's the same with Avowed.

OK so it seems like people forgot how to watch movies. That's OK, but let me explain how I did it in the before-times.

I got lucky and bought a few indie games right before the steam sale.

UGUISUDANISTA?

For the first time in a long time I'm going to have some time to play videogames over the next few weeks What are some Walking Sims, FPS/RPGs, First-Person Immersive Sims, or experimental FPS games I should play?

I don't know who the video editor is but they are not getting paid enough. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Lw...

This is… um… in the middle of the Seattle area. Not some in the country on the east side thing… flooding fields… komonews.com/news/local/f...

Good morning!

Oh, OK.

Is VTMB2 better than Avowed? (The real headline is that this is an actual category)

Every once in a while I find myself thinking about pigeons in William Shatner's TekWar. The books and the games have pigeons but the TV movie doesn't (but one of them does have birds). I'm never really sure where I'm going with that.

The mecha fans on this website are so cooked.

As much as cozy mech game would be cool, it would necessitate moving most of the power lines below ground. Or having certain places where mecha can't go since they could damage infrastructure. I'm fun at parties.