The End of Evangelion (1997)
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The End of Evangelion (1997)
This sequence still goes so hard. You get your lil guys looking back over the prelude to their adventure and that SONG picks up? Fuhgeddaboutit.
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This sequence still goes so hard. You get your lil guys looking back over the prelude to their adventure and that SONG picks up? Fuhgeddaboutit.
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Nite Computer™, using the computer at night; A Sexy new trend among 30-somehtings.
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Nite Computer™, using the computer at night; A Sexy new trend among 30-somehtings.
Top 10 American Poets of the 20th Century:
1. RZA
2. GZA
3. Method Man
4. Ol' Dirty Bastard
5. Inspector Deck
6. Raekwon the Chef
7. U-God
8. Ghostface Killah
9. Masta Killa
10. Paul Simon
1. RZA
2. GZA
3. Method Man
4. Ol' Dirty Bastard
5. Inspector Deck
6. Raekwon the Chef
7. U-God
8. Ghostface Killah
9. Masta Killa
10. Paul Simon
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Top 10 American Poets of the 20th Century:
1. RZA
2. GZA
3. Method Man
4. Ol' Dirty Bastard
5. Inspector Deck
6. Raekwon the Chef
7. U-God
8. Ghostface Killah
9. Masta Killa
10. Paul Simon
1. RZA
2. GZA
3. Method Man
4. Ol' Dirty Bastard
5. Inspector Deck
6. Raekwon the Chef
7. U-God
8. Ghostface Killah
9. Masta Killa
10. Paul Simon
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Whenever I think about IF in the 2010s, I always notice that game designers were interested in retrofuturist takes on computer desktops. The first one I encountered, Digital: A Love Story, was even designed by someone who didn't grow up with the interfaces central to the game, namely the BBS.
@phoenixsimms.bsky.social reflects on why there was an increasing emphasis in the 2010s on IF storytelling via interfaces like desktops and apps.
IF's Retrofuturist Roots
Amping up retro technological friction encourages the player to decipher an IF game's interface as if it is an alien device with its own "emotional language".
www.tier-review.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Whenever I think about IF in the 2010s, I always notice that game designers were interested in retrofuturist takes on computer desktops. The first one I encountered, Digital: A Love Story, was even designed by someone who didn't grow up with the interfaces central to the game, namely the BBS.
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If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
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It's a beautiful day to support independent criticism
Consider throwing Stop Caring a couple of bucks so I can keep paying guest writers
Consider throwing Stop Caring a couple of bucks so I can keep paying guest writers
Stop Caring
A publication about video games focused on the ways they evoke unique cultural conversations as well as the personal lessons we can learn from them as artistic media.
www.stopcar.ing
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It's a beautiful day to support independent criticism
Consider throwing Stop Caring a couple of bucks so I can keep paying guest writers
Consider throwing Stop Caring a couple of bucks so I can keep paying guest writers
Something about the phrase "instantly unlock Marge!"
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Something about the phrase "instantly unlock Marge!"
The Gnawty, much like the horseshoe crab, is the perfect organism.
After time enough for them to be on the fossil record, evolution has dictated there is no need for change.
After time enough for them to be on the fossil record, evolution has dictated there is no need for change.
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The Gnawty, much like the horseshoe crab, is the perfect organism.
After time enough for them to be on the fossil record, evolution has dictated there is no need for change.
After time enough for them to be on the fossil record, evolution has dictated there is no need for change.
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What a great day to be a bisexual.
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz will reportedly return for a new 'The Mummy' movie
(via THR)
(via THR)
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
What a great day to be a bisexual.
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After months of work (between struggles because who isn't amidst them rn?), my video essay on Star Trek Voyager is finally done and OUT. You can WATCH IT. It is REAL!
Please watch it? 🖖🖖
#startrek
Please watch it? 🖖🖖
#startrek
When Voyager Reinvented a Star Trek Trope
YouTube video by Coled One
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
After months of work (between struggles because who isn't amidst them rn?), my video essay on Star Trek Voyager is finally done and OUT. You can WATCH IT. It is REAL!
Please watch it? 🖖🖖
#startrek
Please watch it? 🖖🖖
#startrek
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I love how @coledone.com shows the parallels between poetic text and the ways that IF can often have both deliberate and accidental poetic language. Poetry and games is a subject that continues to fascinate me because both forms are playful.
For our next contribution to our IF issue, @coledone.com joins to talk about interlinked form and the fundamental poetry of text games.
Game Poems, Doors to IF of the Moment
A digital poem that features both text and interactivity is a type of “Interactive Fiction” in the traditional sense.
www.tier-review.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I love how @coledone.com shows the parallels between poetic text and the ways that IF can often have both deliberate and accidental poetic language. Poetry and games is a subject that continues to fascinate me because both forms are playful.
Oh hey! I wrote about looking at video games as poems through a poem in video game form (by @ectafoole.bsky.social no less!).
For our next contribution to our IF issue, @coledone.com joins to talk about interlinked form and the fundamental poetry of text games.
Game Poems, Doors to IF of the Moment
A digital poem that features both text and interactivity is a type of “Interactive Fiction” in the traditional sense.
www.tier-review.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Oh hey! I wrote about looking at video games as poems through a poem in video game form (by @ectafoole.bsky.social no less!).
Sorry I just need to alert @sleepisfort.bsky.social real quick that there's a RP alternate start for Starfield.
Roleplayers' Alternate Start
An alternate start mod designed for roleplayers, fully dynamic, with main quest replacement and dialog edits.
www.nexusmods.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Sorry I just need to alert @sleepisfort.bsky.social real quick that there's a RP alternate start for Starfield.
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caves of qud
October 12, 2025 at 5:27 AM
caves of qud
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I'm once again thinking about
October 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I'm once again thinking about
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This @jjlofflin.bsky.social story from @smokelong.bsky.social is a wild ride. “the way he wrestled with the tiger, how he thrashed first one arm and then the other, made his disguise fall away. It wasn’t much of a disguise if I’m honest.” www.smokelong.com/stories/on-o...
On Our Way to the Circus - SmokeLong Quarterly
We saw a man getting mauled by a tiger. The man was our father. My brother Johnny and I didn’t recognize him at first, not because of the profusion of blood, but because the man, our father, had grown...
www.smokelong.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This @jjlofflin.bsky.social story from @smokelong.bsky.social is a wild ride. “the way he wrestled with the tiger, how he thrashed first one arm and then the other, made his disguise fall away. It wasn’t much of a disguise if I’m honest.” www.smokelong.com/stories/on-o...
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New guest essay for Stop Caring is live! Please read and share!
Boen Wang writes about Gran Turismo 7, how the game serves as a museum of car culture, and the ways the game omits the automobile's ties to militarism, fascism and global warning
Boen Wang writes about Gran Turismo 7, how the game serves as a museum of car culture, and the ways the game omits the automobile's ties to militarism, fascism and global warning
Atrocity Exhibition
Gran Turismo as Museum of Death
www.stopcar.ing
September 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
New guest essay for Stop Caring is live! Please read and share!
Boen Wang writes about Gran Turismo 7, how the game serves as a museum of car culture, and the ways the game omits the automobile's ties to militarism, fascism and global warning
Boen Wang writes about Gran Turismo 7, how the game serves as a museum of car culture, and the ways the game omits the automobile's ties to militarism, fascism and global warning
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"Hey, thanks so much for coming tonight. I’ve just checked with everyone else at the party, and we’re all in agreement that you behaved really normally and didn’t say anything weird or worrying at all."
Texts You Should Send Me After We Hang Out
Hey, thanks so much for coming tonight. I’ve just checked with everyone else at the party, and we’re all in agreement that you behaved really norma...
buff.ly
September 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Hey, thanks so much for coming tonight. I’ve just checked with everyone else at the party, and we’re all in agreement that you behaved really normally and didn’t say anything weird or worrying at all."
Oh boy, more people will play Deus E-- aw man, aw man, aw crap.
September 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Oh boy, more people will play Deus E-- aw man, aw man, aw crap.
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[Eric Adams]: "Yeah I'm going for 'what if the Byzantine Emperor was Jewish'. Do you have anything in that vein? Maybe something I could wear again as a bathrobe?"
[The best tailor in NYC]: "I have just the thing."
[The best tailor in NYC]: "I have just the thing."
You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation
September 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
[Eric Adams]: "Yeah I'm going for 'what if the Byzantine Emperor was Jewish'. Do you have anything in that vein? Maybe something I could wear again as a bathrobe?"
[The best tailor in NYC]: "I have just the thing."
[The best tailor in NYC]: "I have just the thing."
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Hey there Delilah
I am writing the Quixote
Adding hermeneutic weight to
what Miguel wrought crude and floaty
Vis-à-vis
The work— attributed to me?
Or only he?
I am writing the Quixote
Adding hermeneutic weight to
what Miguel wrought crude and floaty
Vis-à-vis
The work— attributed to me?
Or only he?
September 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Hey there Delilah
I am writing the Quixote
Adding hermeneutic weight to
what Miguel wrought crude and floaty
Vis-à-vis
The work— attributed to me?
Or only he?
I am writing the Quixote
Adding hermeneutic weight to
what Miguel wrought crude and floaty
Vis-à-vis
The work— attributed to me?
Or only he?
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People: There's a horrible lack of mentorship in this industry.
Also people: Reach out? Nah, I'm just here for the pile-on.
Also people: Reach out? Nah, I'm just here for the pile-on.
September 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
People: There's a horrible lack of mentorship in this industry.
Also people: Reach out? Nah, I'm just here for the pile-on.
Also people: Reach out? Nah, I'm just here for the pile-on.