Dayten Rose

i think editors are more important than writers

Video Games are Toys - VGBees For a significant portion of my life, I was not able to discuss games critically or casually without someone bringing up “ludonarrative disonance.” “Ludonarrative disonance”...

The piece btw

Someone reading that review will walk away with a very different idea of the game than someone who just played it.

I revisited a piece by Moira Hicks arguing how games can’t be interpreted separate from their mechanics, which I fear is not the main way games are interpreted!

OH. I didnt know British English was free from the which/that distinction T-T

Wait im unfamiliar, whats an example of this!

And there was a time not too long ago when AAA releases were super fun! They’re still fun! It’s awesome when a new game comes out of nowhere and dazzles everyone, and it’s awesome when everyone is buzzing about the same thing!

The first time a source wanted to do an interview over discord i said “sure!” and then did emergency medicine on my high school account like i was dr. michael robinavich

Denshattack is the only good video game. And ive loved a lot of video games!! But im a big enough person to admit that i was wrong

“Japan. The future.” Im so in why dont all games start like this

The browser itself is also pretty much unusable :(

DENSHATTACK DEMO DENSHATTACK DEMO DENSHATTACK DEMO

Man what did they put in Westardly Winds. Don’t say bass clarinet

The fuck?

Imagining A Future Instead Of Taking Steps To Create That Future Heavyweight Champion of the World

Youre sent back to 2017. One bullet. Your target: the Slay the Spire map. do you do it

Had about 15 seconds of feeling sad that this is going roguelike instead of competitive, then realized this is one of those games where i’ll probs just be happy pressing buttons

Acrobat has crashed maybe once a day that I’ve used it this year

One of those bathroom dispenser things with 2 25 cent coin slots, one of which depicts a tampon that (helpfully) says TAMPON, and one that depicts a box with the Venus symbol

My office has a tampon dispenser, because obviously, but they also have a dispenser for Gender which I think is just super thoughtful of them

The thing about trying to be active in media but not being a born poster is that I often just forget I have a bluesky

No i mean this is cool i just wish i could explore a world with all-new game mechanics

Editorial: Game Names Are Almost Universally Terrible NEW SINGLE PURPOSE CONSULTING FIRM TARGETS GAME INDUSTRY Don't Name Your Game That, Ltd. Has One Piece Of Advice And Yo…

Public service post courtesy of @grahamsmith.bsky.social

Nooo why did you give the coolest game a name that I’ll forget by the time i post this

If your uncle works for Yakoh Shinobi Ops could u please get me a copy soon

I’m not gonna say who cares im not gonna say who cares

Claiming that Highguard, a game basically designed to be dead on arrival, was assassinated is just so surprised pikachu face

Maybe im putting my foot in my mouth, but “more people should have played Highguard because its *fine*” (not Luke’s point, to be clear) is just so ass backwards.

If people wanted to play it they would play it! The solution is not to rotate volunteer hours to keep 7/10 live service games afloat!

“The natural development of any artform begins by trying to recreate reality - and how many polygons is reality?”

I just got one this week! It’s SLICK

What Would a Real Friendship With A.I. Look Like? Maybe Like Hers.

One thing we’re going to see a *lot* of: Pieces that appear to explore an intellectually provocative question inspired by AI, but that assume a premise (in this case “friendship with a chatbot is possible”) that’s a) nonsensical and b) perfectly aligned with the aims of AI marketing

If the New York Times decided to run nonstop coverage in favor of boll weevil blights, a certain subset of intelligent, graceful literary writers, not known till now for being pro-agricultural plague, would find themselves fruitfully grappling with thoughts about the role weevils play in their lives