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Another part of this is that because they tuned Grace’s half to be so lean you end up becoming familiar with them. There’s the cook. The maid. There’s singer. You become familiar with each one. Then you switch to Leon and blow their legs out with a shotgun and cut their head off with an axe.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Two figures stand in an alleyway at night in winter. The trees are bare. The houses, stark and angular. A gigantic condo looms behind them, its facade lit up by the moon. Two young women emerge from the dark. A younger one and and an older one. The younger one has long dark hair, she wears a toque and puffy coat. She has rectangular glasses. She lights a cigarette while the older one looks on. The older one has her long dark hair tied in a ponytail. She has a fringe of hair resembling an up arrow. She wears a scarf and black peacoat. She has round glasses. She observes the younger one take a puff. The younger one says "Dad would kill me if he knew I was smoking." The older one implores "pleae let your big sister be a laign influence on you." She turns to look her sister in they and points out "you only turn nineteen once! Celebrate by indulging in newly legal vices!"

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You know what you could do today instead of doomscrolling all day is go pick up a copy of Persepolis. It is stunningly good.

Play These 24 Indie Video Games From Developers of Color Now Indie games bring innovation and artistry to the video game industry, and people of color bring diversity and perspective to indie games. These PoC-developed indie titles should be on your radar.

Freshly updated for Black History Month is our list of new indie games to play made by developers of color. RELOOTED! DROPSHOT! SANTACORPS! www.pcmag.com/picks/indie-...

Assassin's Creed III: Liberation: The Kotaku Review - Kotaku There had to be some sort of heroes back then. Unnoticed in the ways that mattered and exploited in the ways that left permanent fractures, the African

@evnarc.bsky.social’s review of AC Liberation was full of poignance and specificity kotaku.com/assassins-cr...

Twintelle's Hair Is an Act of Resistance Twintelle's Hair Is an Act of Resistance

Shonté Daniels www.avclub.com/twintelles-h...

This interview @bboyizilla.bsky.social did with Amanda Strawn, the little known VA behind Deus Ex HR’s Letitia the Trash Lady, always touched me as something authentic and real gameranx.com/features/id/...

“Bow Nigger” - telling that such a vital historical document for modern games crit is now buried under a dead domain. web.archive.org/web/20140112...

Let me also share articles by other black critics who have shaped and informed my work over the years.

its reallllly good

Dishonored's Billie Lurk Was the Spirit of Justice in 2017 In a year filled with debate about how to confront inequity, the heroine of 'Death of the Outsider' did so without apology.

www.vice.com/en/article/d...

White Supremacy, Black Liberation, and the Power Dynamics of Gun Violence 'Mafia 3' understands why the black radicals of the 1960s would turn to guns for protection.

www.vice.com/en/article/w...

bulletpointsmonthly.com/2020/07/08/t...

used it for a while but fell off

Hood Cyberpunk - Unwinnable Cyberpunk stories don’t generally want, or need, to change society. It seems, rather, that they’re perfectly content partying in the rubble.

unwinnable.com/2018/08/07/h...

Same man, miss you and hope you and your adorable fam are doing well.

Unlocking the Truth, Video Games, Metal and Being an Awkward Black Kid in NYC I recently watched Breaking a Monster, a documentary by Luke Meyer about the band Unlocking the Truth, made up of three 13-year-old black…

medium.com/@youmeyou/un...

It's black history month. I love my blackness. And yours. In that spirit, I'm gonna post some of my past writing on the theme.

If you've ever celebrated being featured in a Critical Distance roundup, please help them keep the lights on. They put in a lot of work for not very much pay (most members are purely volunteer!) and help keep what remains of the game criticism community together

Really amazing to be asked to write about a game I loved so much for bullet points. I called this piece Baby Steps: or the Modern Pinocchio while I drafted it lol. There is no merit to continuing our own suffering, Nate (and all of us) deserve compassion, most of all from himself.

2025 Critical Distance Status Once again, it’s time to check in on the finances for Critical Distance.   Last year, I said the finances were on the brink of stability. We never actually achieved that stability: we are unli…

CD is 100 dollars or so short of sustainability. Incredibly valuable resource for anyone who cares about games, whether for research or just casual reading. Also like... look lmao, web's as fractured as it's ever been. Having the roundup gather a bunch of cool stuff you'd never see otherwise is good

Resident Evil Requiem Shines Within Its Confines

First review of the year, Resident Evil Requiem! One *half* of a good game: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/a...

For Your Consideration: On BAFTA and the Indifference of Antiblackness Let us consider the scene again: Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan present an award at the BAFTA ceremony. As they read from the teleprompter, they hear John Davidson involuntarily scream out the n-...

“The body registers the effect of the word and not the intention. McNally’s statement focuses on the lack of intention of Davidson but has no understanding that the way black people’s bodies registers racial aggressions is also not intentional.”

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Our current issue continues with @strida.bsky.social on Baby Steps (and Clavicular). Read it here: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/02/23/i...

I’d yell at people to stop giving oxygen to white supremacists on here but it’s truly my own fault for logging on

It's Chinese New Year and Eid, so both sides of my extended family are FEASTING tonight. رمضان مبارك and 恭喜發財 to those who celebrate.

life is short. But desire, desire is long.

In honor of year of the fire horse, a poem my partner clued me onto, Heat, by Jane Hirshfield.