Ben Silverman

Did you ever read the Lone Wolf books by Joe Dever?

Holy grail shit. Love it.

When we were kings

Sweet Thing
You’ve Got the Love
Somebody’s Watchin’ You

Found this E3 2004 gem in the storage bin today. No idea if stuff like this is valuable, but sure is cool.

Incredible! I would have instantly shit my pants, and then put the Shit in the Weathered Hat I found inside the hollow of Old Man Tree, and then I would have typed Throw Shit Hat at Leprechaun to get him to drop the Shiny Goblet (that you have to piss in to get past the troll bridge)

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Pretty rare (and awesome) opportunity here. Come work with me!

I was unprepared for your badass ice cream pun game, Canada

We’re have to find someplace else to avoid at 1:45 am next year

In 1994 I won a Vesuvan Doppleganger and a Demonic Tutor and it’s been downhill ever since

A mom a few feet from me just griped about how her kid won’t stop playing “nintendo” but then very clearly described Astrobot, what do I do here people

Dr. Demento

Dr. Demento is retiring, which is news in that I thought he was dead. But of course he has a website, and of course that site is using tech from 1997, and OF COURSE it’s got an archive of *every Dr. Demento episode*

Anyway a big fuck yeah to Dr. Demento and his demented website

www.drdemento.com

Louis Gossett, Jr. peed next to me during intermission at a high school play, and he loudly farted mid-stream

I can neither confirm nor deny

I am related to someone in this film.

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Leif was my colleague at Apple. We’ve been completely devastated by his sudden passing, and I haven’t had the wherewithal to say much about it. This is a wonderful piece about a talented, hardworking, and just totally unique person, and you should read it.

Thank you for this, Wes. It’s been a terrible, terrible week, and your piece is a real beacon.

Fuck yes! Fuck. Yes.

Anyway this is all to say that the loss of Polygon and Giant Bomb is devastating not only because I know and love people who are suddenly unemployed. It’s devastating because the continuing deterioration of this essential industry function will rob us all of beautiful art we didn’t see coming.

I’m nearing 30 years of professional work in gaming, and I owe it all to my time spent in the trenches of game sites. And so many other do too. Games like Spider-Man and Hades were masterminded by former journos. Countless community managers got their start reviewing RPGs. The Game Awards!

There are a lot of ways into the games industry; for me, it was journalism. Writing reviews, attending events, interviewing devs—it’s a crash course in the business, and one of the few ways in that feels accessible to everyone.

It’s gut-wrenching watching this pipeline vanish in real-time.

Tiny arms

This is wonderful news!

But also I am a bit skeptical that their new owners—who have yet to launch their big F2P shooter—will actually be able to sustain that effort, any other upcoming projects, and a combo website/print mag. That’s…a lot?

Hope it all works out!

New Flaming Lips record sounds cool

Just devastating. A force of nature!

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Trying to remember how to pack a suit in a carry-on bag without wrinkling it to hell

Man it’s good to see the Beastie Boys still getting work

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And the Biggest Bummer Headline of the Day award goes to…

Every editor I know prefers working with freelancers who consistently hit deadlines. I’ll take competent and prompt over talented and unreliable every time.