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I know it's just a band-aid, but I appreciate how Firefox has an unload tab feature now

Congratulations!! 🌽

8 days to angeline era!! Today... meet some of our little low-poly creatures!! We utilize a mixture of vertex colors and texturing to give them a kind of retro-modern flair.

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Gilt on Steam Embark on a quest of redemption across the planet of Gilt to restore a disillusioned priest's faith, a dying God's power, and the waning hope of a people who have forgotten how to believe. A sci-fi fa...

I’m super happy to officially announce our next project, spearheaded by @threeohfour.bsky.social!

“Gilt” is a sci-fi/fantasy game about a priest haunted by a dying God.

Learn more (and wishlist!) over here:

store.steampowered.com/app/3979770

Thank you for everything Dave! Happy Thanksgiving!

2014 Game of the Year | First Hour Way back in 2012, a few writers here huddled around a 2006 point and click adventure game called The Blackwell Legacy. Available in “Wadjet Eye's The Blackwell Trilogy Remastered” bundle, at the time ...

My replay of the Blackwell series from @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social is complete, and I'm happy to confirm that Blackwell Epiphany is the best game of 2014! firsthour.net/goty/2014-ga...

Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love

I don't think you can sequelfy Expedition 33 but you can make a sequel to Clair Obscur, which makes calling this particular game E33 probably all the more useful

For one I think the Expedition 33 business is much more prominent in the game. It's the text. Clair Obscur is subtext. Secondly you can call it "E33" online or when googling and everyone knows what you're talking about. Either way I don't think it matters, it'll be interesting if they franchise CO

On the last episode @nextlander.com brought up whether you call it "Clair Obscur" or "Expedition 33". Funny enough before I played it I called it the former when talking to my son about it and then switched to the latter after playing it

All achievements unlocked in Blackwell Deception, Epiphany, Legacy, Unbound, and Convergence, plus To the Moon.

I now have six "perfect" games on Steam and five of them are the entire Blackwell series from @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social, more to come on this very soon...

Story 125

A friend of my parents supplied us with our family's first PC and many more after that. I've been a software developer for 20 years now. That man went home from the hospital today on comfort care likely to die in the next few weeks. I'm going to him tomorrow to tell him what he meant to me.

As soon as I buy Metaphor: ReFantazio Atlus will announce the FES/Golden/Royal edition I just know it

Title page from The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison with her signature and a message.

I'm now re-reading The Goblin Emperor for the sixth year in a row! Earlier this year I went to a reading from @pennyvixen.bsky.social and had my hardcover copy signed! Cozy reading to finish the year!

oh man he hasn't actually watched it? Vince! Watch After Life!

Knowing that Vince Gilligan is into Kore-eda is awesome

Scattered and Lost from @lena.fyi rips so hard, I'm in my office whistling and finger drumming at a mad pace

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth OST is still not on Spotify

#500: What's In a Name — The Last Picture Show by The Next Picture Show A decade of podcasting.

A little over 10 years ago, The Dissolve shuttered and we started a niche movie podcast that only we had the power to shut down. This week, we celebrate the 500th episode of The Next Picture Show with a special episode on the film that inspired the title: megaphone.link/FILM9131237121

"Fixed an issue where Varley would kick Ward out of the Manager's Office after getting permission to explore"

Glad to hear this wasn't intended, was really I wasn't going to be able to solve his mystery at one point

Positive review for Seance of Blake Manor.

I'm doing my part!!

Just finished Seance of Blake Manor, holy crap what a great game. This year has been insane for video games and here's another banger

My friend is the of the owners of Quick Save Games if you're ever on the west side of Madison, great little store

I just realized you can discuss individual people with suspects in The Seance of Blake Manor, do I ever need to do that??

Remembering Paul Abbamondi | First Hour Back in 2009 I found a random Wordpress blog from Paul Abbamondi about LEGO Harry Potter games and made a comment. He immediately emailed me and we started chatting about video games, writing, televis...

I wrote about my friend Paul Abbamondi, who was a friend and frequent contributor to First Hour. He passed away back in 2019 but I still think about him often, especially around writing about games. And Suikoden II. I miss you. firsthour.net/blog/remembe...

Steam Machine very intriguing for me as a dad who built two PCs for his kids and is forever stuck playing Steam games on my docked Steam Deck on my TV with a controller

Curse really is the best, love it so much

Ralph Ineson's run of Green Knight (2021), The Northman (2022), Pope's Exorcist (2023), Nosferatu (2024), Frankenstein (2025), and Eggers' Werewolf (2026) feels like a goat tier gothic character actor journey. Not to mention The Witch (2015) that had a goat