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Why do I even review games lmao

(Obvs a critic can be more or less respectful of other people’s subjective enjoyment—I agree that conviction isn’t as important as introspection)

I do think “a work can be objectively good and subjectively bad” is another phase that can be grown out of. I used to try and imagine the ideal audience for whatever I was reviewing, and was encouraged that I’m really the only audience I can speak to. None of it is objective

Like sure, I didn’t super care for The Witness anyway, but ppl are awaiting whatever his next project is so eagerly and that wigs me out. Like how do we curb this behavior if we never sanction it?

I mean it’s complicated like you said, and it’s hard to avoid art from bad people. I think the reason Blow is interesting to me is that his failings are so high profile, and yet he’s still talked about *personally* as a genius, not just as someone who made good games

Its so shameful how much misogyny gets smuggled in with these big indies. Like people are still out here praising Jonathan Blow!! (Which is, by the way, another form of necessary criticism that some people really don’t like to hear)

Oh YIKES that’s extremely disappointing

Yikes, sorry that happened. The work is never done it seems

And I feel like a lot of that expectation originates from readers rather than devs. I’ve definitely gotten into critiquing a game and still been thanked by the dev for thinking about it deeply, but the pressure comes from fans who can’t handle that same critique

On my bs about side quests in open world games being like “i need to take a break from saving the world to find someone’s lucky underpants” and emma very quietly said, “every problem is a big problem to somebody.” Which… true! I stand corrected!

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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A 'Not Recommended' Steam review with 4 hours played Review text reads: It's a decent idea for a game where you flip a coin and depending on your percentage chances you get heads or tails. However the odds are a lie. You will flip tails 100 percent more than you will heads no matter what your percentage is. Even when you get it up to 60% you will still flip tails way more often then you will heads. The Dev can try to defend it, but when I flip the coin 2500 times and only hit heads a third of the time even when at 60% then the odds are broken or a lie. I've also watched gameplay and seen fellow players have the same flips so I know it isn't just me having bad luck. Still not bad for $2, but I'm saying no because the game is coded against you instead of it being fully on chance and luck.

The game in which the premise is "the odds are real but gamers struggle to conceptualize or even believe them" has negative reviews from gamers who don't believe the odds are real (game: Unfair Flips)

big thank you to union chair spring mcparlin-jones for chatting to me about za/um becoming the FIRST RECOGNISED WORKPLACE UNION IN UK GAMES ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Reviewed Consume Me! Not a huge fan of how it ends, but the concept and sheer personality here make it worth playing regardless. I had to review Baby Steps AND Hades 2 last week, so I'm really glad I found the time to play this game too.

I just bought a physical game for the first time in years… can someone catch me up on why I still need an 80 gig download

Someone explain to me why sites put links at the bottom of the page and then add endless scroll. This is a threat

My girlfriend bought me like four boxes of coffee filters bc i always forget to re-up. Cost less than a restaurant meal and has eliminated a minor frustration from my life for probably the next year. This is insane romantic tech, highly recommend

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I wanted to leave the company i got laid off from in 2024! But i regret the fact that i didn’t get to make that decision. A company i don’t like got to decide things about my life right to the end. That sucks.

Tapping the sign that says “if you have six rounds of layoffs in one year you should not be allowed to run a business”

“Life is made up of meetings and partings” i say, laying down my steam deck after Forum attempt number 999

The air becomes thunderous with the sound of managers cracking their knuckles, preparing the “take some time if you need it today” email of the century (bullets whizzing past, no additional PTO provided)

And Consume Me isn’t even like a highly experimental German expressionist ego project or whatever. It’s fun! It’s a diary by way of Wario Ware!

I love wikipedia, i donate to wikipedia, but why do their donation emails sound like they were written by an emotionally manipulative youth pastor

An excellent piece on nature in South of Midnight by @phoenixsimms.bsky.social appears in the most recent Unwinnable!

Oh and @rachelwatts.bsky.social is an aces editor, without question the reason I’ve been able to exist in games writing at all (like spiritually but also very literally!)

Exclamation points! There are so many good artists!!

All the Unwinnable columnists kill it, but special shoutout @emilyprice.bsky.social for the current issue’s piece on what cooking in games does! A great piece of games crit and also a mindbendingly good piece of cookbook crit!

Game Studies Study Buddies w/ @ckunzelman.bsky.social and @ztul.bsky.social straight up made me remember that I enjoy academics! Also described minmaxing as envisioning a “self as gun to then harm the world with” which I think about every day