Will Aickman
@aickmanwill.bsky.social
Destiny will draw the lightning
Down from heaven, roll its thunder
Down from heaven, roll its thunder
If I don't follow an account but have seen their stuff reposted enough times that I've learned who they are I mute em on principle. Can't trust somebody with that kind of mass appeal
February 12, 2026 at 9:43 PM
If I don't follow an account but have seen their stuff reposted enough times that I've learned who they are I mute em on principle. Can't trust somebody with that kind of mass appeal
Finally got around to watching The Turin Horse. Captivating, like all Tarr's work, but little real connection to the supposed source material. Hardly anything ties the horse of the title to the story in question, and what's more, Glaurung never even shows up.
February 11, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Finally got around to watching The Turin Horse. Captivating, like all Tarr's work, but little real connection to the supposed source material. Hardly anything ties the horse of the title to the story in question, and what's more, Glaurung never even shows up.
Grocery store was out of platybelodon meat again
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Grocery store was out of platybelodon meat again
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"But I can't afford to hire a human artist for my business!"
Then you can't afford a business.
Then you can't afford a business.
February 5, 2026 at 11:40 PM
"But I can't afford to hire a human artist for my business!"
Then you can't afford a business.
Then you can't afford a business.
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If you're looking to support preservation (and want free games) you'd do much better to look at organizations like the VGHF.
Or hey I also do preservation and I hate AI. Any lil support is always appreciated https://ko-fi.com/thegenesistemple
Or hey I also do preservation and I hate AI. Any lil support is always appreciated https://ko-fi.com/thegenesistemple
February 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
If you're looking to support preservation (and want free games) you'd do much better to look at organizations like the VGHF.
Or hey I also do preservation and I hate AI. Any lil support is always appreciated https://ko-fi.com/thegenesistemple
Or hey I also do preservation and I hate AI. Any lil support is always appreciated https://ko-fi.com/thegenesistemple
Their handling of the Devotion fiasco soured me on GOG a long time ago, but I always kinda hoped they'd turn it around. Seems unlikely at this point!
GOG did an AMA and they all but confirmed that they will continue using Gen AI.
"AI tools are one of many technologies we test and try out, and in some contexts it genuinely helps us push the company (and the mission) forward".
I mean, no way they could pay an artist like before, right?
"AI tools are one of many technologies we test and try out, and in some contexts it genuinely helps us push the company (and the mission) forward".
I mean, no way they could pay an artist like before, right?
February 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Their handling of the Devotion fiasco soured me on GOG a long time ago, but I always kinda hoped they'd turn it around. Seems unlikely at this point!
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So #GOG is lying to you about their use AI.
They've now been caught using AI images at least twice recently, with a possible 3rd coming in their patron cancellation survey.
'WIP' that was never removed?
How about the last use of AI? Was that WIP too?
Let's dig...
They've now been caught using AI images at least twice recently, with a possible 3rd coming in their patron cancellation survey.
'WIP' that was never removed?
How about the last use of AI? Was that WIP too?
Let's dig...
February 2, 2026 at 2:25 PM
So #GOG is lying to you about their use AI.
They've now been caught using AI images at least twice recently, with a possible 3rd coming in their patron cancellation survey.
'WIP' that was never removed?
How about the last use of AI? Was that WIP too?
Let's dig...
They've now been caught using AI images at least twice recently, with a possible 3rd coming in their patron cancellation survey.
'WIP' that was never removed?
How about the last use of AI? Was that WIP too?
Let's dig...
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I've been baffled by many weird choices by GOG over the last few months, but this one takes the cake.
AI art for a sale banner??
AI art for a sale banner??
January 28, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I've been baffled by many weird choices by GOG over the last few months, but this one takes the cake.
AI art for a sale banner??
AI art for a sale banner??
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ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
January 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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Perfect Tides: Station to Station, the adventure game my team and I've been crafting for the past 4 years, is OUT NOW!!
And look, I even got you a weekend so you can play it.
store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...
And look, I even got you a weekend so you can play it.
store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...
Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam
A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex ...
store.steampowered.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Perfect Tides: Station to Station, the adventure game my team and I've been crafting for the past 4 years, is OUT NOW!!
And look, I even got you a weekend so you can play it.
store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...
And look, I even got you a weekend so you can play it.
store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...
Just struck me that Tolkien might have intended the name "Wormtongue" to carry a somewhat different connotation in a milieu where dragons are established as uncannily dangerous and cunning speakers.
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Just struck me that Tolkien might have intended the name "Wormtongue" to carry a somewhat different connotation in a milieu where dragons are established as uncannily dangerous and cunning speakers.
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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.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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.
I reviewed Perfect Tides: Station to Station, developed by @meredithgran.com, a brilliant and heartbreaking exploration of youth, time, and the process of growing into oneself, and a game of the year frontrunner in January. Don't dare miss it.
Perfect Tides: Station to Station review | Adventure Game Hotspot
Station to Station is as worthy a follow-up to the brilliant original Perfect Tides as anyone could have hoped, continuing Mara’s story with the same insight, compassion and immersive writing while de...
adventuregamehotspot.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:40 AM
I reviewed Perfect Tides: Station to Station, developed by @meredithgran.com, a brilliant and heartbreaking exploration of youth, time, and the process of growing into oneself, and a game of the year frontrunner in January. Don't dare miss it.
I wish more media critics understood their job to be guiding a hypothetical reader through a conversation with the piece under review, rather than to share diary entries detailing what it says to and about them specifically.
January 21, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I wish more media critics understood their job to be guiding a hypothetical reader through a conversation with the piece under review, rather than to share diary entries detailing what it says to and about them specifically.
This blog (and Sean's writing more broadly) was one of my greatest finds last year, and has enriched my reading and my thinking immensely in that time. He finds ways to say things that I once thought could only be felt.
Today is the first anniversary of my launching the Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which started off with this essay on Peter Beagle's THE LAST UNICORN. I'm really proud of this one, in which I highlight how we might read this wonderful novel in the contexts of late 1960s America.
Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle
The first essay in Ballantine Adult Fantasy: A Reading Series, which looks at Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn (1968): a supremely beautiful, memorable, and critically energizing masterwork of fa…
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January 20, 2026 at 6:55 PM
This blog (and Sean's writing more broadly) was one of my greatest finds last year, and has enriched my reading and my thinking immensely in that time. He finds ways to say things that I once thought could only be felt.
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Why do I like sword & sorcery?
The limitless potential of its hodgepodge worlds
Its maps are blank, full of liminal spaces
Weird mysteries and great wonders lurk around every corner
It is the physical space of a dream
You engage with it in short bursts, ere that dream crumbles
The limitless potential of its hodgepodge worlds
Its maps are blank, full of liminal spaces
Weird mysteries and great wonders lurk around every corner
It is the physical space of a dream
You engage with it in short bursts, ere that dream crumbles
January 18, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Why do I like sword & sorcery?
The limitless potential of its hodgepodge worlds
Its maps are blank, full of liminal spaces
Weird mysteries and great wonders lurk around every corner
It is the physical space of a dream
You engage with it in short bursts, ere that dream crumbles
The limitless potential of its hodgepodge worlds
Its maps are blank, full of liminal spaces
Weird mysteries and great wonders lurk around every corner
It is the physical space of a dream
You engage with it in short bursts, ere that dream crumbles
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You have just 1 week to play Perfect Tides before the sequel, Perfect Tides: Station to Station comes out!
The games can be enjoyed out of order, but what better way to spend the week?
store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...
The games can be enjoyed out of order, but what better way to spend the week?
store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...
Perfect Tides on Steam
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called is...
store.steampowered.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
You have just 1 week to play Perfect Tides before the sequel, Perfect Tides: Station to Station comes out!
The games can be enjoyed out of order, but what better way to spend the week?
store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...
The games can be enjoyed out of order, but what better way to spend the week?
store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...
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Screenshots from BRAMBLE. A game that’s a book.
Bramble: Birth of The Amalgamoids is still available from @hollowpress.bsky.social
Grab a hardcover copy while supplies last
link below
🧌🪱☠️🩻👽
Bramble: Birth of The Amalgamoids is still available from @hollowpress.bsky.social
Grab a hardcover copy while supplies last
link below
🧌🪱☠️🩻👽
January 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Screenshots from BRAMBLE. A game that’s a book.
Bramble: Birth of The Amalgamoids is still available from @hollowpress.bsky.social
Grab a hardcover copy while supplies last
link below
🧌🪱☠️🩻👽
Bramble: Birth of The Amalgamoids is still available from @hollowpress.bsky.social
Grab a hardcover copy while supplies last
link below
🧌🪱☠️🩻👽
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The death cult will lose.
January 7, 2026 at 9:41 PM
The death cult will lose.
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Please, stop seeing real suffering in the world through the lens of fandom. If after something terrible happens your reaction is to post a screenshot of your favourite blorbos that you were reminded of, please consider having some introspection and then shutting the fuck up.
January 4, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Please, stop seeing real suffering in the world through the lens of fandom. If after something terrible happens your reaction is to post a screenshot of your favourite blorbos that you were reminded of, please consider having some introspection and then shutting the fuck up.
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I am begging games writers in 2026 to stop talking about point and click like it's a dead/dormant genre currently being resurrected by whatever thing you've just noticed
December 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I am begging games writers in 2026 to stop talking about point and click like it's a dead/dormant genre currently being resurrected by whatever thing you've just noticed