Google spent billions of dollars on this technology
It should be widely understood as a problem with games as an art form that most players don't finish most narrative games
there are 1,100 words in this article and zero of them are "bus"
🎮 Retro games shaped generations. But many are vanishing.
Some, like educational games by Yaakov Kirschen, who died on April 14, were almost lost forever.
Journalist @kirkman.bsky.social explains why preserving niche software matters: blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/v...
🕳️ #VanishingCulture
For so many years I've been asking that games add an option to skip boss fights - a request so controversial that I've received literal death threats - and now it's finally happened! (The skip button, not being murdered.)
Could we be about to enter a new utopia?!
kotaku.com/skip-boss-fi...
Whenever Nintendo Switch Online announces new games and people are like "I've never heard of these games" as a derogatory response I'm a little bummed. Buddy you've never heard of any game until you first see something about it, it's new to you, embrace that and go exploring like with a new release.
I already knew they had my stuff. The last time I complained about it I got called an "ideas landlord" for believing I should get paid for the work they stole.
As with AI art, these bros fail to understand that creative writing isn’t a slop bucket that needs refilling by any means possible. The reason creative writing is beloved is because it gives us insight into the thoughts and imaginations of fellow humans, not homogenized and plagiarized slurry
I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
I couldn't stop looking at the cursed fences in it!
The YouTube "inspirations" tab suggests incredibly generic "best/secrets/top" videos. It also produces some horrifying AI thumbnails to accompany the dreadful ideas.
One of my favorite pieces of games crit this decade, and the only writing on Fortnite I’ve seen that resonates with my own experience of it. tevisthompson.com/its-not-comi...
The options I’m looking for at the end of 2024
We honestly don’t know what Pokémon looked like, we’re just guessing that we put their bones together correctly
Dev diary day! I’m excited to finally share this look into Civ VII’s new emergent narrative system.
I've written an article for the Criterion Current about the "Starring Ida Lupino" series I helped program for Criterion Channel @criterion.bsky.social. Both series and article focus on Ida's acting career, from ingenue to one of Hollywood's best dramatic actresses. www.criterion.com/current/post...
So, I’m sitting here with minus fifty quid, no food and a bunch of broken stuff in the house, a run of bad luck that’s completely ground me to dust this year. I’ve started a gofund me for help. I can’t keep going like this.
www.gofundme.com/f/rob-and-fa...
remember the reason for the season
Cat food is over-ripe when the can peels open. Experienced cat food harvest workers know to harvest when the can is full size but still tightly closed.
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
Those calling for the defunding of the CBC forget that in much of rural Canada, the CBC is one of the only radio signals.
It’s also the only source of broadcast news if you don’t have “Cable TV”.
My town lost its news radio transmitter due to Stingray cuts. Then Stingray cut talk programs. /1
all video games are simply a more complex form of this
I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong
Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!
Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman's book on the Intellivision is out (in the MIT Press Platform Studies series I co-edit). It's an absolute monster, the result of thousands of interviews, and the definitive work on this weird machine.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254950...
Went for a walk. Met a cat. I'm on a quest now.
“We need to be investing as much money in saving films as we invest in making films.’”
www.thewrap.com/academy-film...
Goodnight gamer room
Goodnight 1UP shroom
Goodnight appliances
modded to run DOOM
Goodnight blue yeti
and the game on Quick Resume
Goodnight secret lairs
Goodnight gamer chairs
Goodnight keyboards
and goodnight memelords
