I reviewed Dead Pets, a virtual novel about a punk band bassist having an early mid-life crisis, with Diner Dash-style and rhythm mini-games. indiegamereviewer.com/dead-pets-re...

Welcome back to the Free World, Hungary! Now let us work to ensure that we can say the same about America in three years. Because we cannot claim the same today.

Suggested changes to mottos: Google: "There's more money in being evil." Meta: "Build gates to control all human connection and possibility." Microsoft: "Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to pay us more." AOL: "Life needs love. No one needs AOL."

I marched in the No Kings protest in Park Slope, Brooklyn today.

LA's Metro is extending their D line to new stations in May, and through their merch site, recently offering tees saying "Ride the D!". Which sold out almost at once, for... reasons... if you think twice. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I'm going to GDC (wanna meet up? let me know) Today, I went through the agenda In the last 2 years, 25% of game devs have lost their jobs. The GDC schedule is all about happy fun times. Tech things and how to. The industry has never faced a contraction this dire since the Atari crash. Maybe say so?

The @indiegamereviewer.bsky.social writers and editorial team are immensely proud of our Top 10 Indie Games of 2025 article, featuring #indiegames from @dogubomb.bsky.social, @dotemu.bsky.social, @blakemanorgame.bsky.social, @riverendgames.bsky.social and more: indiegamereviewer.com/top-10-indie...

My review of Perfect Tides: Station to Station, solo developer Meredith Gran's sequel to her earlier Perfect Tides. It's a point-and-click adventure game. It's very angsty In the firstgame, the angst was about "high school sucks;" here it's about "love sucks." indiegamereviewer.com/perfect-tide...

Me: Atlantic Avenue subway station, pulling a heavy cart of groceries up the stairs, trying to get to the N-R. A women in a full chador grabbed the back of the cart and helped me pull it up the last few steps. I thanked her, of course. But anti-Islamacists can go... do creative things to themselves.

So the Grucci family, who supply fireworks for Macy's on the 4th of July, often do practice sessions from the Jersey City waterfront, across the Hudson from my apartment. They did so today (I could hear the explosions); I didn't go about, but my daughter did, and caught a little of the fireworks.

1. At the end of WWII, the US had -50- military installations across Greenland. 2. Denmark has been our ally since WWII. 3. Denmark has NEVER revisited the establishment of US bases in Greenland, and has welcomed them to bolster its defense.

SPAGHETTI MAN ATE MY DREAMS In the oughts, I used to take my kids to my Dad's house in the Hamptons. I sent them to camp there, and would send the day working on a novel (or slacking and playing Heroes of Might & Magic 3). We took back roads to get to camp, because traffic on the Sunrise Highway..

I'm surprised to see this, but maybe they had already started development on the next game, and figure it's worth taking it to release. Since it takes place at Caledon University, they can probably save money by reusing environments they already built for Double Exposure.

Life is Strange: Double Exposure was a flop (failing to recoup its $300m+ dev costs -- not that Square Enix should ever have spent that much on what started as an indie game originally).

Oh, so up for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwVW...

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Every American citizen deserves Congressional and Senatorial representation, and none should be treated as a second-class citizen without such. Puerto Rico should become a state, and include the American Virgin Islands. VI is too small to be their own state, but this gives them representation.

I contributed to Indie Game Reviewer's "Top Ten Indie Games of 2025": indiegamereviewer.com/top-10-indie...

I have an occasional intellectual discontinuity when I read something that talks about the "modern era." As someone interested in history, the "modern era" begins in 1453, with the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.

I wrote about TOON and the forthcoming new edition for Tabletop Quester: tabletopquester.com/toon-the-car...

A shift in the dairy cooler at the Park Slope Food Coop today. Restocking cream and eggnog constantly, you'd think there was a holiday coming up or something. And the usual things: milk, oat milk, and kombucha. Now my back hurts, but okay, lie in bed and read the most recent Travis Baldree novel.

There's currently a Backerkit (Kickstarter-like) running for a second edition of TOON, the roleplaying game of cartoon mayhem, which I designed (with Warren Spector) back in the 80s. Steve Jackson Games (which published the original) will also publish it. More here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

I reviewed ON YOUR TAIL, a charming mystery-solving narrative game set in an Italian seaside village for Indie Game Reviewer: indiegamereviewer.com/on-your-tail...

I spent some years working for Nokia, and spent some time in Finland. I only learned three words in Finnish. "Hehe:" "(hello", also goodbye.) "Olut": (beer). And "Kiitos:" "thank you." But, this are the three essential words in any language: "Hello! Beer! Thank you!"

The Linewaiter's Gazette, the newspaper of the Park Slope Food Coop, ran a letter-to-the-editor I wrote, suggesting that the PSFC work with the Mamdani administration to spread the food coop model across NYC. linewaitersgazette.com/2025/12/09/d...

Park Slope Food Coop: www.foodcoop.com Rochdale principles of cooperation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdal...

Capitalist supermarkets: 1, coops 10, in terms of sales per square foot; and coops offer typically <60% of the price of the items they sell to their shopping members. If only we could devise a business play to bring this to the world.

Fundamentally, the PSFC shows that anarchosyndicalism (the radical self-organization of people to cooperate with each other) is superior to the capitalist system, and it should be replicated across the nation and the world (we have sister Coops in France and Brazil).

The PSFC's business model is SUPERIOR to capitalism; its dollar sales per SQFT of space is 10 times that of a conventional supermarket, and its prices are lower. But the coop model has a flaw; because member-owned, there is no equity to sell, and it's hard to raise capital for a new mart.

The PSFC is organized under the Rochdale principles of cooperation; membership is open to all. Everything at the PSFC is priced at ~25% over wholesale prices, meaning produce and gourmet items are ridiculously cheap compared to capitalist supermarkets.

Did a shift at the Park Slope Food Coop today. It is a shopper-owned supermarket that is managed to keep prices low for its members, not for profit. It has a work requirement; every shopping member must work for 2:45 hours every 3 weeks. This keeps prices low for working members.

I reviewed DISPATCH, a narrative Telltale-like game. You, an ex-super, dispatch lackluster ex-villains to deal with issues in Torrance, CA. The writing and voice acting is stellar, although I found the hacking minigame occasionally obnoxious. indiegamereviewer.com/dispatch-rev...

I reviewed Sips and Sonnets, an indie visual novel with an appealing, elderly protagonist for Adventure Game Hotspot. adventuregamehotspot.com/review/5170/...

The US fertility rate is 1.6 children per couple. Fertility has been below the replacement rate (of 2.1) since the 70s. Yet our population has increased from ~200m to >300m since then. Why? Immigration -- and continued immigration is the only possible way for us to keep pace with global rivals.

My daughter asked for this cake for her birthday. Lavender and vanilla bean paste? Took some effort to find that. I made it (wks after her actual birthday), just before she left on the train to Pittsburgh - taking some cake - to see her half-sibling. inbloombakery.com/london-fog-c...

It’s giving Hamilton vibes.

I reviewed VAL(IANT) OR VAL'S GUIDE TO HAVING A BROKEN VAG, for Indie Game Reviewer. It's free short, and one of the best student games I've ever played. It's a personal journey about a young woman who experiences vaginal pain. indiegamereviewer.com/valiant-or-v...

It's almost #Halloween, which means it's time for @indiegamereviewer.bsky.social's Top 13 Halloween Games for 2025! This year's list features #indiegames from @moonhood.bsky.social, @jrhudepohl.bsky.social, @warkus.bsky.social, @katanalevy.bsky.social... indiegamereviewer.com/top-13-hallo...

I reviewed SNUFKIN: Melody of Moominvalley at Indie Game Reviewer. It's a gentle game consisting mostly of navigational and stealth challenges, set in the world of Tove Jansson's Moomin books for children. indiegamereviewer.com/snufkin-melo...

I have a somewhat satirical post on Netflix's announcement that it has obtained film & TV rights to the boardgame Settlers of Catan on Tabletop Quester here: tabletopquester.com/netflix-to-d...

I posted a profile of Digital Eel, a pioneering indie game developer, on Indie Game Reviewer: indiegamereviewer.com/developer-pr... They were "indie before there was indie," which is literally true; they released their first game before Steam existed, basically on faith and a prayer.

Also attended Game-A-Palooza, an indie game event with 50-ish developers attending, taking copious notes, and will write it up for Indie Game Reviewers. gameapalooza.love

Busy day today: attended the No Kings protest in Park Slope, Brooklyn, reprising my sign based on this 19-century image: live.staticflickr.com/189/51003032...

Indiegamereviewers has a post about Halloween-relevant games. I mention PRIM, a graphic adventure in which you play Death's daughter; and GHOST TOWN PUMPKIN FESTIVAL, a sort-of MMO in which you carve pumpkins and leave them for other players to encounter. indiegamereviewer.com/top-13-hallo...

I reviewed Desert Angels for Indie Game Reviewer. Its a kind of narrative walking sim, but with FPS elements. indiegamereviewer.com/desert-angel...

Well. I guess I'll never buy an EA game again.

Wow.... A YouTube review of a D&D fanzine I published 50 years ago was not what I expected to encounter today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UmO...

I reviewed Petit Island for Adventure Game Hotspot. I didn't hate it, but felt lots of other games do cozy narrative puzzle games with platforming elements better. adventuregamehotspot.com/review/4939/...

Today, my wife ended her subscription to Disney+, and I ended mine to Hulu. When asked why, I said, "I don't give money to companies that kowtow to fascism, and as a former Disney employee, I am bitterly ashamed."