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Oh, it's PS2 North America's launch anniversary
October 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Oh, it's PS2 North America's launch anniversary
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it's not FOR us
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
it's not FOR us
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what if parkour got cool again
October 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
what if parkour got cool again
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reviewed Silksong, whose friction is fundamental to its humanism. (may we, twisted by this historical moment into alienated vermin, be like the bugs)
www.slantmagazine.com/games/hollow...
www.slantmagazine.com/games/hollow...
September 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
reviewed Silksong, whose friction is fundamental to its humanism. (may we, twisted by this historical moment into alienated vermin, be like the bugs)
www.slantmagazine.com/games/hollow...
www.slantmagazine.com/games/hollow...
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Punk is not a synonym for cool, if you think that you’re not smart enough to use the word
August 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Punk is not a synonym for cool, if you think that you’re not smart enough to use the word
you can teach a man to eat a fish but you cant make him a eat the fish for a day
August 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
you can teach a man to eat a fish but you cant make him a eat the fish for a day
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don’t let them in. fuck ice. fuck fascists
June 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
don’t let them in. fuck ice. fuck fascists
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i'm not gonna lie, the price you pay for ironic detachment is a slow but guaranteed emotional death
June 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
i'm not gonna lie, the price you pay for ironic detachment is a slow but guaranteed emotional death
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“From LA to Africa to Palestine to Vietnam, we all have the same enemy.”
Yesterday we spoke with protesters in Paramount, CA who are defending the immigrant community in the face of ICE raids.
Yesterday we spoke with protesters in Paramount, CA who are defending the immigrant community in the face of ICE raids.
June 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“From LA to Africa to Palestine to Vietnam, we all have the same enemy.”
Yesterday we spoke with protesters in Paramount, CA who are defending the immigrant community in the face of ICE raids.
Yesterday we spoke with protesters in Paramount, CA who are defending the immigrant community in the face of ICE raids.
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I can’t promise that doing so will lead to a job; no one can. but the goal is to have something a job cannot take from you or rule over.
as forces pressure us to outsource our critical thinking, research, and creativity, holding onto our own intellectual development is CRUCIAL.
as forces pressure us to outsource our critical thinking, research, and creativity, holding onto our own intellectual development is CRUCIAL.
May 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I can’t promise that doing so will lead to a job; no one can. but the goal is to have something a job cannot take from you or rule over.
as forces pressure us to outsource our critical thinking, research, and creativity, holding onto our own intellectual development is CRUCIAL.
as forces pressure us to outsource our critical thinking, research, and creativity, holding onto our own intellectual development is CRUCIAL.
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For years, I hoped NPR, NYTimes, or the ghost of Gimlet would make a video game podcast. A weekly, hour-long audio magazine with essays, interviews, tight editing, and a cheeky sense of humor.
Nobody made the show I wanted to hear.
So, I made it myself.
Here's the first episode of Post Games.
Nobody made the show I wanted to hear.
So, I made it myself.
Here's the first episode of Post Games.
The award that changes the lives of its winners
Plus: a limited, hand-numbered launch poster by Sonny Ross
postgame.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
For years, I hoped NPR, NYTimes, or the ghost of Gimlet would make a video game podcast. A weekly, hour-long audio magazine with essays, interviews, tight editing, and a cheeky sense of humor.
Nobody made the show I wanted to hear.
So, I made it myself.
Here's the first episode of Post Games.
Nobody made the show I wanted to hear.
So, I made it myself.
Here's the first episode of Post Games.
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Wrote up my feelings about Polygon. Solidarity forever.
On Polygon
Solidarity to everyone who worked there
www.backlogmag.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Wrote up my feelings about Polygon. Solidarity forever.
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i wanted to collect links people are posting to good polygon-adjacent sites + ways to follow/support folks who've been laid off from there - almost certainly extremely incomplete but maybe it'll be helpful? haunts.neocities.org/polygon
rip polygon
haunts.neocities.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
i wanted to collect links people are posting to good polygon-adjacent sites + ways to follow/support folks who've been laid off from there - almost certainly extremely incomplete but maybe it'll be helpful? haunts.neocities.org/polygon
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i strongly agree. i also think if you want to be any good at talking about art, you need to consume as much art as humanly possible and talk about it all the time. each piece of art is in conversation with a thousand different other things.
my personal idea for games media is that future publications should not merely aspire to be games publications, but arts and culture ones. Games-focused shops should still exist, but I think one path forward is to start with the argument we’ve been making: that games are part of culture
May 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
i strongly agree. i also think if you want to be any good at talking about art, you need to consume as much art as humanly possible and talk about it all the time. each piece of art is in conversation with a thousand different other things.
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I'm not gonna hammer anyone over the head about this, but I will occasionally reshare this due to our both long- and short-term institutional memory loss. Take care in your work today!
April 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I'm not gonna hammer anyone over the head about this, but I will occasionally reshare this due to our both long- and short-term institutional memory loss. Take care in your work today!
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it's a shame that he wouldn't use it under any circumstances, but: i think they should give hayao miyazaki a big gun
March 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
it's a shame that he wouldn't use it under any circumstances, but: i think they should give hayao miyazaki a big gun
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this is the clearest and simplest path out of this.
invest in 50 games. 47 might not sell! two might do ok. one might be your "next balatro", or whatever.
then, most importantly, keep investing in the 47. theyll have learned something.
invest in 50 games. 47 might not sell! two might do ok. one might be your "next balatro", or whatever.
then, most importantly, keep investing in the 47. theyll have learned something.
This makes me so angry - because this translates to "I too would like to make a lot of money"
But let's be real. You would not have published Balatro.
You want a lightning strike- fund 20 games. Fund 30 games. Fund so many damn games that maybe you find the right field to be struck by lightning.
But let's be real. You would not have published Balatro.
You want a lightning strike- fund 20 games. Fund 30 games. Fund so many damn games that maybe you find the right field to be struck by lightning.
Publisher bizdev people at events like GDC and Dice trying to sign "the next balatro" should realize that, statistically, the developer of "the next Balatro" you need to be talking to isn't at GDC or Dice talking to bizdev guys seeking 2m+ in funding
March 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
this is the clearest and simplest path out of this.
invest in 50 games. 47 might not sell! two might do ok. one might be your "next balatro", or whatever.
then, most importantly, keep investing in the 47. theyll have learned something.
invest in 50 games. 47 might not sell! two might do ok. one might be your "next balatro", or whatever.
then, most importantly, keep investing in the 47. theyll have learned something.
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that the decision to single out, detain &persecute someone for their political speech was made by those at the highest levels is the purest distillation of fascism. so many dems are silent bc, by framing anti-genocide speech as antisemitic for over a year, they helped create the conditions for this
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
that the decision to single out, detain &persecute someone for their political speech was made by those at the highest levels is the purest distillation of fascism. so many dems are silent bc, by framing anti-genocide speech as antisemitic for over a year, they helped create the conditions for this
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Soul Calibur 2 (2003 | Namco/Project Soul | PS2): wuwuwuwuwu
September 12, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Soul Calibur 2 (2003 | Namco/Project Soul | PS2): wuwuwuwuwu
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The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...
Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?
March 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...
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If I were overseeing the Monument to People Who Throw Bricks When They're Angry I would probably try a little harder not to piss off the people it's built for
‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+".
The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history.
This pride, we riot.
The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history.
This pride, we riot.
February 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If I were overseeing the Monument to People Who Throw Bricks When They're Angry I would probably try a little harder not to piss off the people it's built for
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found The Gaming Angle on the impending collapse of the country. but also, I do think elon cheating at video games is relevant to our current moment. this is his one playbook, no matter what he's trying to achieve
February 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
found The Gaming Angle on the impending collapse of the country. but also, I do think elon cheating at video games is relevant to our current moment. this is his one playbook, no matter what he's trying to achieve
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