always a nice feeling to visit a website that loads instantly because it's not delaying content delivery to auction off ad space

i love the way analgesic productions sets up rote tasks in their games and builds them up over time so they can maximize the impact when they pull the rug later. i've had the dungeon intro minigame interrupted by bizarre events twice already

xPussy_Destroyerx just doesn't fly in 2025

i dunno if the new game modes are up to the level of quality of the originals, but that still means they're like 9/10 fun

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limes are better than green apples, but green apple candy flavor is better than lime candy flavor. this is one of life's great mysteries

it will continue to be perfect as long as it exists only in my head

it truly pains me to say this but this is true of "metroidbrainia" too. you will never hear me say "knowledge game". "metroidbrainia", as aggravating as it is to be three portmanteaus deep, tells me something about the history leading up to it and the path it's trying to carve

"friendslop" was a joke that pretended to ascribe significance to the coincidental simultaneous arrival of llm-generated garbage and 4-player task simulators. it caught on because it described the feeling of gaming in 2025 in a way that "4-player task simulator" obviously doesn't.

great tweet natalie

her shorts are stupid

run your calculations again. i'm pretty sure it's #4