if we’ve met this is probably the least surprising list of all time

Lorem ipsum dolor dollar bills y'all

As I sit on a train heading for Toronto, I'm once again sharing my starter pack for Canadian game studies folks! 🎮 Follow to learn more about cool games research. ❗Ping me if you think you should be on this (very inclusive) list.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

done been birth

And they say the Atmosphere’s gone out of the Prem

Does anyone know if we're gonna have Fragile Delineation between Man and Beast tomorrow

I feel like I often have the opposite of this where I’ll run through all of my extremely minute criticisms of a game and then have an exchange like: “Damn so I guess you don’t like it?” “It is my favourite game of all time.”

We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

Coming soon: deluxe AAA Nachtmusik

1950s sci fi detective named Cathode Ray

“I don’t care if I go blind, I don’t need to see the price tag anyway” - Enrico Dandolo

Artists peak at 15. Anything past tediously horny fanfic where eyes are called "orbs" is bourgeois decadence

there's a new trend among young people called "microliving" they close their eyes for a few seconds and experience a rich and fulfilling life from start to finish in their minds. birth. friendship. love. heartbreak. joy. loss. grief. death. but how does this affect their productivity at work

If I say “bad writing that sounds like Good Writing” do you know what I mean?

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted 2.5% poison resistance

0/2. 😎

have to endorse this important message. the mango flavor distribution runs from "mild upgrade on cantalope" to "proof of the existence and boundless love of God"

Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you can show Burnout 3 footage to people two decades later and their reaction will still be "hell yeah, this rules. I wanna play this right now."

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

I think these people fundamentally don’t understand that all science fiction is set in the present. “Oh but it takes place in 2015!” Yes but it was written in 1965, which is, for our purposes as readers, the time period we should consider it to actually be depicting.

As a Dolphins fan and, more importantly, a Patriots hater, gotta say - generational hate watch.

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

Folks it has happened again

As a public Civ 7 Defender I was sort of anxious that the new changes would back away from what made the core game interesting, but I’m actually pretty impressed with how they seem to be folding “playing only one Civ” into the layered strategic decisions of switching civs.

update - it is coming together *very* quickly such that I might have a prototype next week, which is exciting!

god help me I've started another project

Abolishing ICE and prosecuting its members and leaders for their crimes, without possibility of pardon, seems to me to be a basic condition for any future attempt at a return towards democracy.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

"I am big, it's the pictures that got small!" - John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Apropos of Carney invoking it, the phrase "the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must" (from the History of the Peloponnesian War) was not, in its original context, a pithy summation of realpolitik. It's a moment of stark hubris; the Athenians who said that *lost the war.*

just like with Hitler there's cowardice--everyone knew that Munich was despicable betrayal--but with Trump there is a related but distinct behavior, to so many elites it is actually incomprehensible that It's Happening Here, Now

What am I, made of money?

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

Few things more existentially derailing than a job opening you think you’d be great at and really, really want.

Playing it again and GOD this game is so good

Listening to BLOOD WORK is now mandatory, I don’t make the rules

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

No babe I didn’t forget to do the dishes it’s environmental storytelling

Was gifted KCD2 for Christmas and my short pitch for it is that last night I started it up solely to practice my archery. Not to do quests or even because it gives XP, just hang out for a while and practice for my own sake. And it actually helped.

In which I ramble about Frostpunk 2 and reinvent several narrative wheels alongside people with much more interesting things to say. Thanks again to @yaoibunga.bsky.social for giving me a spot to contribute!

I don't need ChatGPT, I can just type any prompts to these two and I can rely on them to kick me out regardless

The best version of this is that early conversation in Disco which loops to: “Did you take the body down from the tree” “Mhmm” “So the body is no longer in the tree” “Look, man, you know, yeah” “Does that mean you removed the body from the tree” “… No.”

"how can this game be goty, it peaked at 30 concurrent steam players" find God.

Laid up in bed with plague. Send me some good games discourse. How about NPC playersexuality, haven’t done that in a while.

Finally got a chance to play Brass: Birmingham last night and got to really embrace just how much I am a Numbers Sicko