Eamon’s Ghost Writer

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

Not worthy of Blight Club.

I’m Just Having Fun, Please Relax

Late capitalism reframes our joy as consumption and rest as optimization. We’re sold our own relief and told it's healing. Most of it feels hollow.

But not all of it is.
#blog #nostalgia #media

Thanks for being one of the best follows on this app. I lived in Belo Horizonte as a young teenager in 2002 and so many of my strongest memories of that time are the hours I spent in LAN houses and game rental stores like this. It’s how I stayed connected to my favorite hobby.

@lizardcube.bsky.social y'all

Old woman reading a book along on a bench.

The attention to detail in Sky 1st Chapter is really something else. Even the silent NPCs have their own little narratives.

Here's an example. In Rolent there are two NPCs that you can't talk to: an old woman that is always reading by herself and a boy that you first see waving at some birds. 🧵

#AEW X WarioWare

A playtester for his latest project, Baby Steps, was struggling to navigate the game’s lead—Nate, a 35-year-old “failson” in a stained onesie—up a slippery hill. Each time, the terrain proved to be too much, and Nate skidded uselessly down it. Foddy has a reputation for making onerous games that take a little bit of masochism to master. This was not one of those times. Neatly placed next to the slippery hill was a staircase, which Foddy says the player took note of after the third or fourth fall. However, this modern-day Sisyphus refused to quit; he continued to flop Nate’s thick limbs up that hill again and again, and he continued to fall again and again. The playtester’s “intense need to climb that mudslide—it's funny to me, it's gratifying as a designer,” says Foddy. “I loved that he was doing it. Like, that's not productive.”

talked to Bennett Foddy about Baby Steps and watching men struggle unnecessarily www.wired.com/story/baby-s...

Love.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

space in the mainline games for them to take wilder swings, to try real battle systems or mechanics that are detached from the skeleton laid out by Red, Blue, and Green all those years ago. The old games live on in Champions, the upcoming entries have the runway to get weird and experimental.

insistence that their IV-trained, decades old, Pokemon move forward with each new game. However, if Champions is in fact becoming their new defacto “battling platform” for competitive, you get to have that live on as the home for all this history and those mechanics and you (potentially) free..(3)

needing to be compatible in any game moving forward. Looked at how fans lost their minds when not every single perpetually boxed Pokemon didn’t make the transition over into Sword and Shield at first. There’s almost an inability to experiment with new methods of battle because of everyone’s..(2)

Pokemon Champions’ existence (and the recently announced emphasis on it for competitive) makes me think the mainline games are gonna be making wilder swings in terms of gameplay mechanics. Part of the Pokemon series’ foot being stuck in the past has been due to the generations’ worth of mons… (1)

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Hideo Kojima presents Madden 27

Does the Switch version support mice (either via USB or Switch 2’s)?

This is the fuckin’ best shadow drop ever. I can’t even begin to explain to you how Mario Paint was such an instrumental part in fostering my creativity as a kid. I’d play for HOURS.

read the news, did the Ricochet laugh

Just this cover alone makes my mind race with ideas. Love, love, love it.

There’s permanent real estate in my brain dedicated to the concept art of Zelda and early Pokemon as well and the sense of adventure it evokes. It’s a vibe I’m constantly looking for more of, stuff like two pictures I’m sharing here, and it’s also what immediately draws me to this game too.

This TTRPG sounds so incredibly up my alley. Some of my students would be so on board.

Man, fuuuuuck this. The audacity to write out an email where you’re basically like “hey, I know all numbers are up and business has never been better, but we gotta fire y’all for the prospect of more profit” is some ghoulish shit.

Crafting My Womanhood in Virtual Worlds

To customize is to converse with one’s own becoming.
In those moments of sculpting an avatar, I authored my own emergence, towards the person I was always meant to become. Happy Pride. 🏳️‍⚧️
#blog #trans #gaming #pride