Ryan Stanton
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stantium.bsky.social
Ryan Stanton
@stantium.bsky.social
Aspiring Academic || Eternal Idiot
PhD @ University of Sydney
Bad puns and worse jokes
He/Him
I suspect that it’s because they are devoid of any real characters because the goal is to make you and your friend group the characters. And when all the plot/story/anything is coming from that emergent gameplay there’s not many signifiers they can project the culture war onto. No big boob REPO guy
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We await with bated breath (though not too bated if it’s three years away)
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I may be the sole person that would play that campaign out of morbid fascination to find out what rancid new political take they have if the boycott weren’t going. But it’s not like I’m losing any sleep over it.
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The shifting of goalposts here to imply that they were only talking about a “flood of crime” and not implying an entire group of people were equivalent to The Flood is really something else
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Man has the written equivalent of a tech keynote every year updating on what he’s doing. Truly on a different level in this regard
October 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Absolutely great stuff. Games crit needs more like this
October 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Yeah this is exactly my thoughts and the conversations I have with my friends who code.
October 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Three of my favourite people in da biz! Big SXSW FOMO on this one
October 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It is! Different focus to 4 with less set pieces but there’s a case to be made it’s the best
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Where does Lost Legacy rank if you’ve played it?
October 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Super Motherload, the full release based on the classic flash game
October 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Oooh I’ve been meaning to get around to it. Sale and recommend from Cass is the perfect sign
August 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Parasocial relationships are a hell of a drug
August 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
This honestly should be on every one of those top ten lists for games of the century floating around
June 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I just saw a line and joined it lmao
June 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Visited my new nephew for the first time this weekend and unironically couldn’t stop thinking about this. That kid is so pure, and has so much love in his life.
May 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is exactly me - and also I am fucking schewpid
April 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM