Justin Keever

Probably gotta sell what remains of my magic collection to pay for yet another car repair. Fortunately, it seems like magic is just gonna get worse

I do agree that the market for "professional" game's writing is basically non-existent, but there are plenty of blog posts getting posted every week on sites like @critdistance.bsky.social to basically no attention. social media as a way to discourse and share work has become a dead end, imo.

my hot take is that the fantasy that’s being catered to with videos like the one going around is of participation in a seamless, infinite, directed loop where the player and computer are constantly updating each other. which is where I think a lot of the satisfaction in systemic video games is. 🧵

Dark Souls II

YouTube video by IcePickLodge Pathologic 3: Release Date Announcement

Pathologic 3 launches on January 9, 2026.

A new free demo — an introduction to the full game — is out now on Steam!

We’re also unveiling the first of three trailers, each offering a different perspective on Pathologic 3.

youtu.be/XcgH-s7vgAY

100% co-sign. Marx did in fact have AI dialed in, somehow

The only good things that have happened to me have been the result of random chance and unfortunately the precondition to random chance occurring is not throwing in the towel and pushing forward

Yeah I'm in deep for 1,200 dollars just for the tow. Please help

Yeah I'm in deep for 1,200 dollars just for the tow. Please help

Donate to Help me fix my car and afford food, organized by Justin Keever I just moved across the country to a major city for a job that pays 40,000 a year. Th… Justin Keever needs your support for Help me fix my car and afford food

This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856

Donate to Help me fix my car and afford food, organized by Justin Keever I just moved across the country to a major city for a job that pays 40,000 a year. Th… Justin Keever needs your support for Help me fix my car and afford food

This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856

Lesson learned, and I will commit to asceticism from here on in

Lessons from this cross-country move: I am too poor to have ever thought I should be allowed to own things. Can't afford to move 'em! Can't afford help! No one will buy them!

So, what are the odds of someone like me, with no online following to really speak of, raising like $1,500 to move across the country?

I'd believe it!

McKenzie Wark, "Gamer Theory" (2007)

Has a diagram of a concept in a book of critical theory/philosophy ever been helpful? Even once??

The way the game falls back on the least interesting possible explanation for its metaphysics (i.e. the way that beaches work) was the final nail in the coffin

I've been playing the original Death Stranding and, having now reached chapter 8, I think I've stopped believing this game is going to become good. It's just a slightly slower open world action game! With bad characters!

"who cares?" The people seem to say

Tapped out on Clair Obscur right at the end of act 2 because I got bored of the combat. Should I finish it?

Is there any scholarship out there on those bodycam shooters that are slowly rising in popularity?

Bumping this one more time - it's in dire need of a boost!

Which is itself made possible by the speculative asset-ification of the cards, to be clear

In addition to the speculative asset-ification of trading cards that's taken hold, for the boosters specifically there's also the parasitic economy of pack-opening content, where viewers get to by proxy experience the expenditure of opening an expensive pack w/nothing in it

If you're looking for a distraction, I've got a new video essay out about character-driven storytelling, Choice and Forgiveness in, well, a shooter whose whole bit is being irreverent. I think this is a fun one! (link below)

YouTube video by Justin Keever Choice and Forgiveness in... Bulletstorm?

youtu.be/Q0UNeMi8YVY

If you're looking for a distraction, I've got a new video essay out about character-driven storytelling, Choice and Forgiveness in, well, a shooter whose whole bit is being irreverent. I think this is a fun one! (link below)

Finished video up in the next couple days. Need to add music and some subtitles that assure audiences I don't actually hate Baldur's Gate 3

Proof of Life: The Bulletstorm Video rough cut | Justin Keever Get more from Justin Keever on Patreon

By the by, I just uploaded a rough cut of my next video on Patreon, which you could watch now if you throw me a couple bucks: www.patreon.com/posts/130958...