Josh Scherr

If you wanted to check out the demo for Ambrosia Sky but missed it -- good news! It's back up on Steam now!

Play and wishlist <3

popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

YouTube video by Nintendo of America Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition - Launch Trailer - Nintendo Switch

kentucky route zero is on sale at a pretty nice discount on switch right now. if you've never played it, well, it's a masterpiece. A better world is possible. Keep on dreaming, and I'll keep on driving.

youtu.be/JxcUZU0vtLE?...

Karrie I could write a dissertation on everything I find appalling about this

An image of a Ouija board: a board printed with letters, numbers, and other signs, to which a planchette or movable indicator points, supposedly in answer to questions from people at a seance.

Tonight on CNN: we interview the late economist Milton Friedman and get his thoughts on tariffs and the trade war

The ethics of this construct aside - as a parent I cannot fathom the grief of losing a child to an act of senseless violence - but as a citizen I also cannot fathom why an ostensible journalist would interview a digital facsimile & present it as truth. Top of the slippery slope-ass shit.

Our very own @kaittremblay.bsky.social chatted with Chris about death! In games! (also Ambrosia Sky & the importance of giving space and meaning to death)

Give it a listen!

idk how to explain it but this is what game dev feels like from start to finish

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

Edited screenshot from Disco Elysium that reads: RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] -- Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about video games. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about video games, the alpha and omega of video games questions, and that question is: 1. - (Whisper.) "Are games art?" 2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.

Every time.

Discourse Elysium

maybe skip Chernobyl though

god, same, I thought I was losing my mind

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Waiting for Godoordash

my family is rejoicing

GASP

Statement from Katherine Maher, NPR President & CEO, on Closure of Corporation for Public Broadcasting Today, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced that it will begin a "wind-down of its operations" and ultimate full operational closure following the passage of a federal rescissions p...

Here’s our CEO’s statement. Factually, I just want people to understand that you can still help a lot if this is something you care about. And because at this very hard moment I am not in a position to answer for the network, I’m going to keep this closed. (3/3) www.npr.org/2025/08/01/g...

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

Congratulations Rhi & family!! <3

I would like to extend a laurel... and hardy handshake

Opinion | AI can help solve the shortage of air traffic controllers Automation and modernization would help resolve chronic staffing shortages.

Dear @postopinions.bsky.social: are you all out of your collective fucking minds

The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Culver City www.mjt.org

The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.

Opinion | AI can help solve the shortage of air traffic controllers Automation and modernization would help resolve chronic staffing shortages.

Dear @postopinions.bsky.social: are you all out of your collective fucking minds

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[logs into Bluesky]
[sees three terrible news stories in rapid succession]
[keeps scrolling anyway]

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The Legacy of 'Scavengers Reign' Lives on Through Video Games From 'Destiny 2' to 'Ambrosia Sky,' HBO Max's gone-too-soon sci-fi series has left its mark: not just on animation, but on a slew of video games.

Big fans of Scavengers Reign over here at the weird space game factory - so feeling pretty pleased to be interviewed about it in a piece like this. 🍄🪐

gizmodo.com/scavengers-r...

A handwritten note on notebook paper that says "everyone in this movie needs to be slapped"

Notes from screening