Keep pressuring Microsoft to end all complicity! As a consumer, boycott Microsoft products whenever possible and join the Xbox boycott.

They're my picks so I'll be happy no matter what we end up playing, but if you REALLY loved me you'd vote for Acid 2 or PSO...

You've activated my trap card! Our next Pantheon vote is four-of-kind; card-based deck-building RPGs! - Metal Gear Acid 2 - Phantasy Star Online: Episode 3 - Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories - Mega Man Battle Network 2 Put on your poker face and vote now at: www.patreon.com/posts/panthe...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Really good article about how the mainstreaming of fan culture has lead to increasing corporate control of it.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

huge news but the fight isn't over as they're still maintaining a relationship with the IDF outside of this service being pulled, but this is legitimate living proof that the BDS boycotts get results

The reason we're releasing this in theatres is because it's incredibly fun to watch in a room full of people. People lose their minds at it. We want people to watch it together. So! Do you run or know somebody who runs an indie theatre? If so, contact us, and we'll let you screen it for free.

Less than 3 DAYS LEFT until Vancouver Game Garden 2025!! 🎮🌿 Join us on September 27 & 28 at the Roundhouse Community Center for this free, all-ages event full of indie game demos from the likes of 1000xRESIST, Beastieball, and Peglin, a video-game-artist alley, educational talks, and cool prizes! ✨

if they made amiibo that unlock costumes from ever crisis I would financially ruin myself to obtain them

"oh but it's clunky oh it's ugly oh I have to rebind the controls oh I have to download a zip file" do you actually want to play this game, or do you just want to be able to say that you've played this game

My most millennial take is that software as a service and anything explicitly browser based that requires an internet connection and does not run off the drive inside my machine is a fucking scam

Embargo is up! Let's talk about tactics! No, not *those* Tactics... I recently played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. A blind spot for me as a fan, I found the best writing in the series and one of the few systems that really makes you *roleplay* Read more: transgamerthoughts.com/post/7955940...

this is incredibly funny

For anyone confused by this announcement, Banshee's Last Cry (Kamaitachi no Yoru) is a legendary "sound novel" that popularized novel-style video games in Japan. I actually just published a video all about the franchise's history if you would like to learn more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9BT...

i can never afford a brand new AAA video game ever again but a free shipping promo and my love of things no one else wants means i can still get a bang for my 30 bucks

A guy in Winnipeg made a 45-minute fully produced feature-film version of "Steamed Hams" modelled after Louis Malle's My Dinner With Andre, so don't you go saying Canada is broken www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-O...

Carl Sagan wrote this in 1995 and I think about it a lot.

This shit makes me so mad because people don't understand how much power we have over these companies and the only thing we need to do is not give them money. The only thing we need to do is to not do anything. It's the easiest shit! *wearily* collective action does work, it really does

We're celebrating the graduation of our fearless leader, Kat, by discussing her Perfect RPG list right now! www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod

this failure of political imagination is a comms strategy for expanding police power and police budgets

for real tho its almost comical how much the people who run this website are so mad it doesn't have brands or, like, CNN guys posting on it constantly. staff that sees Threads as something to aspire to. ceo who wakes up every morning sad they can't fav a Pepsi tweet

fucking insane that Dworkinites have won this particular war on human sexuality and expression, in concert with their beloved evangelical christofascists

I would like to manifest the career of being flown out to Japan to cover stage adaptations of beloved JRPGs please. Surely I must be one of the most qualified people in the world for this task.

“Wanna feel old” posts and console anniversaries wish they could deal a fraction of the psychic damage that just walking through UBC does to me. I might as well be mummy dust.

Proud to announce that I’ll be taking on the mantle of the show’s Lightning Returns enjoyer

Big announcement from me! On October 8 I will be moving to the UK for a new opportunity that will take me out of the media (but I'll still be in the games industry). You can read what that means for @bloodgodpod.bsky.social right here: www.patreon.com/posts/future...

But we don't care, because we won't buy them anyway, because we don't support companies that nakedly profit off of genocide and are specially marked by BDS for targeted boycotting, RIGHT?

just a small portion of what people spend on giant corporations like Disney would change the average indie author/artist/musician/etc.'s life this is why I ask you all to spend money supporting those of us who create outside the system and work to give voice to the things corporate America won't

capcom, pathetically: please only remember our mainline games, not our spin-offs. There is no such thing as battle chip challenge, we’ve never touched a feature phone sting, lovingly: would you like 75% of this dungeon crawling RPG collection to be mobile frogger-likes, STGs, and sound novels?

a movie news website I read sometimes posted an article about the kimmel situation that genuinely reads like Gregg Turkington of ̶O̶n̶ ̶C̶i̶n̶e̶m̶a̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶C̶i̶n̶e̶m̶a̶ the Victorville Film Archive wrote it

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

Baroque's such a special game - let me tell you why: (And then click the "Further Reading" links at the bottom for information on everything from prequels and promotional discs to shmup spinoffs!) kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/10/21/s...

normalizing mask wearing makes criminalization, from this kind of surveillance to mask bans, way harder. you wearing a respirator to the grocery store, on transit, in healthcare is a practice of solidarity with the most marginalized in your community on more than one level.

4/ Civil liberties groups across Canada are sounding the alarm: ❌ Charter rights at risk ❌ Warrantless surveillance ❌ Foreign data-sharing ❌ Refugees shut out This isn’t border security. It’s the road to a surveillance state. #cdnpoli 🔗 openparliament.ca/debates/2025...

Vancouver city Coun. @seanorr.bsky.social is behind a new motion calling for the city's empty homes tax to increase from three to five per cent. On Monday he discussed the motion with CBC's Early Edition: www.cbc.ca/player/play/... #vanpoli #EmptyHomesTax #FightForHousing

do I know any J->E interpreters available during TGS week? please sound off/share!

...and for the obscenely wealthy subscribers; we talk about the golden age of freelance video game journalism, how good Elite Beat Agents and Ouendan are, and why having lyrics up on the screen at a concert is or isn't deranged behaviour. www.patreon.com/posts/blood-...

A good last week's Direct makes for a great this week's podcast! We're talkin': -Fire Emblem -Pokopia -Dragon Quest VII -Final Fantasy VII -Mega Man Star Force -Others AD-FREE: www.patreon.com/posts/fire-e... 🎥: youtu.be/2XuD_fPyC8A 🔊: open.spotify.com/episode/0vrY...

We're facing pressue for austerity at all levels of government. There is an alternative. Tax the rich to fund the public services and social infrastructure we need. #vanpoli #cdnpoli

So, we adopted a little foster fluff from a friend, only to find that she's a bit broken... literally. We're taking steps to see what's going on with her internally tomorrow, but it's going to be expensive, so... www.gofundme.com/f/help-chibi...

1/ My op-ed published today as Parliament reconvenes: Canadians voted to stand up to Trump. Instead, PM @mark-carney.bsky.social is caving in—with Trump-style border measures, privacy violations & deep cuts to services. The honeymoon is over. 📖 www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

3/ My op-ed published today as Parliament reconvenes: The price will be paid by Indigenous communities, seniors, people with disabilities, newcomers, women, artists & more. We’ve seen this before in the 1990s—and Canadians are still paying the price. 📖 www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

kojima: and we need a character to question the moral righteousness of big boss, to point out his obvious hypocrisies and abandonment of his values as diamond dogs becomes a private arm of the cia me: of course. but who kojima: the guy that is always peeing and crying and shitting his pants

ANNOUNCEMENT: Detective Instinct will be launching on Steam and Nintendo Switch... November 26th, 2025! 🤩 Uncover the story in this DS-inspired adventure game about a mysterious woman who goes missing on a train 🚃 Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/...

"I'm never going to pla-" That's fine. Let me play them and tell you about them instead. Just at least try to understand that there are huge gaps in our collective gaming knowledge, and that it's a shame games like these are untranslated.

Again, if you're wondering why I should spend time covering Haruka and why you should bother reading about it: Because English-language awareness is no reliable measure of a game's importance or success. Because sexism is still so rife in gaming we shove entire genres to the side as being "not real"

boys with the time machine: wow. so this is kowloon walled city