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Took some time to unpack a few thoughts on Expedition 33.
Watching what I thought was a "pretty good" game get transformed into A Cultural Object has been disheartening.
So I have some thoughts on glitz, glamour, and respectability...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8027631...
Watching what I thought was a "pretty good" game get transformed into A Cultural Object has been disheartening.
So I have some thoughts on glitz, glamour, and respectability...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8027631...
The Attempt To Escape From Pain Creates More Pain
Lord forgive me, I'm blogging. I can't help it! Many years ago, I got some advice from a writer who I deeply respect, James Howell, and he told me that criticism needs to proceed confidently. Don't...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Took some time to unpack a few thoughts on Expedition 33.
Watching what I thought was a "pretty good" game get transformed into A Cultural Object has been disheartening.
So I have some thoughts on glitz, glamour, and respectability...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8027631...
Watching what I thought was a "pretty good" game get transformed into A Cultural Object has been disheartening.
So I have some thoughts on glitz, glamour, and respectability...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8027631...
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it is very possible to think that a game is very good and has a lot of interesting things going on that put it above a lot of other games but also that it is not doing SO many things well at a level that it outstrips any OTHER game getting an award in MOST categories
but the game awards are a joke
but the game awards are a joke
I hate the online reaction cycle that praises a piece of art a lot and uses it as an example of what’s good about the medium but then the moment it gets awards or enough acclaim or fandom, suddenly we have to talk about how it’s actually not really that good and it’s overrated and always sucked
December 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
it is very possible to think that a game is very good and has a lot of interesting things going on that put it above a lot of other games but also that it is not doing SO many things well at a level that it outstrips any OTHER game getting an award in MOST categories
but the game awards are a joke
but the game awards are a joke
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no diss to the game but every time e33 wins an award, i'm just thinking of this tweet
December 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
no diss to the game but every time e33 wins an award, i'm just thinking of this tweet
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it's like they are actively trying to push me towards the "the entire industry is saying 'finally a JRPG that doesn't have spiky hair and big eyes and Japanese Teenagers'" cynical read of this and I don't think the developers deserve that but that's precisely how it feels
December 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
it's like they are actively trying to push me towards the "the entire industry is saying 'finally a JRPG that doesn't have spiky hair and big eyes and Japanese Teenagers'" cynical read of this and I don't think the developers deserve that but that's precisely how it feels
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I wrote a thing about how frustrating this line of thought is, cuz it gets trotted out every few years, and a whole bunch of interesting people disagree thoughtfully and articulately, and none of those disagreements are acknowledged when it's trotted out again
www.tumblr.com/innuendostud...
www.tumblr.com/innuendostud...
December 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I wrote a thing about how frustrating this line of thought is, cuz it gets trotted out every few years, and a whole bunch of interesting people disagree thoughtfully and articulately, and none of those disagreements are acknowledged when it's trotted out again
www.tumblr.com/innuendostud...
www.tumblr.com/innuendostud...
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I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here
www.vice.com/en/article/s...
www.vice.com/en/article/s...
Stories in Games Aren't Problems, They're Solutions
Lots of video games have terrible stories, but that's no reason to give up telling them.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here
www.vice.com/en/article/s...
www.vice.com/en/article/s...
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I'll be honest: dunno that I'm willing to buy a "we HAVE to force tutorialization down players' throats" argument in a period where games like counterstrike, dota, minecraft, roblox et al are some of the most popular games in the world
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'll be honest: dunno that I'm willing to buy a "we HAVE to force tutorialization down players' throats" argument in a period where games like counterstrike, dota, minecraft, roblox et al are some of the most popular games in the world
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Jennifer's Body (2009) still one of our greatest works as a people
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Jennifer's Body (2009) still one of our greatest works as a people
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charlie kirk voice: AAAAAAAAAAA (thats him screaming bc he's in hell)
October 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
charlie kirk voice: AAAAAAAAAAA (thats him screaming bc he's in hell)
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I actually think many young people would be willing to work 13 hour days if it ended with them going to space.
But nobody wants to do that for an app that will go bankrupt in 6 months or a retail job that doesn't give them healthcare.
But nobody wants to do that for an app that will go bankrupt in 6 months or a retail job that doesn't give them healthcare.
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October 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I actually think many young people would be willing to work 13 hour days if it ended with them going to space.
But nobody wants to do that for an app that will go bankrupt in 6 months or a retail job that doesn't give them healthcare.
But nobody wants to do that for an app that will go bankrupt in 6 months or a retail job that doesn't give them healthcare.
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Oop I got mad
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October 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Oop I got mad
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Friends at the Table: Autumn in Hieron, Episode 2
September 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Friends at the Table: Autumn in Hieron, Episode 2
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*sees weird gays draw sexually charged violence on their ipads* You Bitch Mother Fucker *sees that the President of the United States is a well-known child molester* Wlel, that's his beliefs and I respect that
September 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
*sees weird gays draw sexually charged violence on their ipads* You Bitch Mother Fucker *sees that the President of the United States is a well-known child molester* Wlel, that's his beliefs and I respect that
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in my work studying the Far Right I've focused more on broad trends than individual personalities, but I can tell you NOBODY thought Kirk was "just another pundit" til this week
you can feel however you feel about what happened to him without pretending he wasn't what he was
you can feel however you feel about what happened to him without pretending he wasn't what he was
There’s a lot of garden variety white supremacists out there, not every one of them funnels money to hate groups and pays Kyle rittenhouse a speaker’s fee or gets caught coordinating with the GOP to give them college students’ personal info or starts “professor watchlists” or
September 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
in my work studying the Far Right I've focused more on broad trends than individual personalities, but I can tell you NOBODY thought Kirk was "just another pundit" til this week
you can feel however you feel about what happened to him without pretending he wasn't what he was
you can feel however you feel about what happened to him without pretending he wasn't what he was
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nintendo claiming billions in lost sales to piracy is baby bitch shit and authors doing the same for things like libgen or the internet archive are just as pathetic to me. get mad at your publisher not paying you enough for the sales you DO make.
September 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
nintendo claiming billions in lost sales to piracy is baby bitch shit and authors doing the same for things like libgen or the internet archive are just as pathetic to me. get mad at your publisher not paying you enough for the sales you DO make.
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ohhh ohhh why does the medium that nearly exclusively portrays idealistically fit, beautiful, and gendered human bodies have so many fascist audience members
September 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
ohhh ohhh why does the medium that nearly exclusively portrays idealistically fit, beautiful, and gendered human bodies have so many fascist audience members
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If you are angry, as you should be, that restricting access to the vaccine will make covid worse and more dangerous, please start wearing a mask, which actually does a significantly better job of preventing transmission in the first place.
August 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you are angry, as you should be, that restricting access to the vaccine will make covid worse and more dangerous, please start wearing a mask, which actually does a significantly better job of preventing transmission in the first place.
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ONLINE LEFTIST: what if we tried to find a candidate that's good
ONLINE LIBERAL: congratulations your attitude just killed us all. we're dead. hope you're happy. we could've just had trans people be dead but nooooo you and your purity tests put a gun to our heads and squeezed. enjoy the camps homo 🖕
ONLINE LIBERAL: congratulations your attitude just killed us all. we're dead. hope you're happy. we could've just had trans people be dead but nooooo you and your purity tests put a gun to our heads and squeezed. enjoy the camps homo 🖕
August 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
ONLINE LEFTIST: what if we tried to find a candidate that's good
ONLINE LIBERAL: congratulations your attitude just killed us all. we're dead. hope you're happy. we could've just had trans people be dead but nooooo you and your purity tests put a gun to our heads and squeezed. enjoy the camps homo 🖕
ONLINE LIBERAL: congratulations your attitude just killed us all. we're dead. hope you're happy. we could've just had trans people be dead but nooooo you and your purity tests put a gun to our heads and squeezed. enjoy the camps homo 🖕
Multiple sclerosis now
As the cable news channel MSNBC splits up with NBC News, it is also dropping the "NBC" from its name: Later this year, it will become MS NOW, which stands for My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. Here's my full story: www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/m...
August 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Multiple sclerosis now
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There's 3 big game stores in the western world.
Two are run by billionaires, take huge cuts & heavily limit which games can be published.
One is run by a tiny team, is free to use, open to all and is currently hosting a huge queer games bundle.
Guess which is being attacked for being "anti-LGBT".
Two are run by billionaires, take huge cuts & heavily limit which games can be published.
One is run by a tiny team, is free to use, open to all and is currently hosting a huge queer games bundle.
Guess which is being attacked for being "anti-LGBT".
Your colleague is publicly harassing one of our staff members on the assumption that misinformation that you published is true, despite us providing you with details descriptions of how our internal systems work in various bluesky threads over the past day.
We did not blanket deindex yuri content.
We did not blanket deindex yuri content.
August 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
There's 3 big game stores in the western world.
Two are run by billionaires, take huge cuts & heavily limit which games can be published.
One is run by a tiny team, is free to use, open to all and is currently hosting a huge queer games bundle.
Guess which is being attacked for being "anti-LGBT".
Two are run by billionaires, take huge cuts & heavily limit which games can be published.
One is run by a tiny team, is free to use, open to all and is currently hosting a huge queer games bundle.
Guess which is being attacked for being "anti-LGBT".
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the tyranny of good taste must be restored... appreciation for mid has gone too far and lowered standards. resurrect the snob in your head
July 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
the tyranny of good taste must be restored... appreciation for mid has gone too far and lowered standards. resurrect the snob in your head
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they should make a game where you level up
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
they should make a game where you level up