Joseph Knoop

Mateusz Urbanowicz. Former background artist on "Your Name." Currently an illustrator of incredible books, sometimes blogs and posts videos. Great "tools I use" section. mateuszurbanowicz.com

Save 10% on Battle Suit Aces on Steam From the creators of Battle Chef Brigade comes Battle Suit Aces, a charming card-battling RPG. You'll recruit, befriend, and upgrade mech pilots on a heartfelt hunt for alien superweapons: the Relic S...

Battle Suit Aces dropped today (more of a card-based RPG but it's got major VN elements) and it's from the folks who did Battle Chef Brigade.

Also...Stories From Sol: The Gun-Dog because it wouldn't be a post from me without two mecha mentions. store.steampowered.com/app/2118420/...

The year is 2008. Bring Me the Horizon is still technically deathcore. I straighten my hair down to my cheek. 720p is king.

Hell Is Us has the best* level set in an embassy being invaded since Modern Warfare 2019.

*Most likely to elicit a huge "yikes, sucks for that guy"

(and getting ahead of a tweet, I know Weiss' wife is yet another anti-woke writer and not actually involved in anything meaningfully contributive to society like Business)

the Taika Waititi meme where he's showing Cate Blanchett something on an ipad

"And here's the blog where I tell everyone that transgender ideology is more dangerous than giving cops Javelin launchers."

Bari Weiss choosing to spend her life writing cute little "I'm a liberal BUT" columns makes a lot more sense when you realize she's married to the descendant of major cattle and logistics barons. More succinctly, it's like being a video game YouTuber while your wife runs a hospital network.

New footage has emerged from increasingly tense confrontations between ICE and wizard frog.

Unrelated, that orange-ish shirt is slick.

Just chatted with the students who now run my old college news site. Was pretty eye-opening. So much of what I take for granted is "new" to even the most passionate among them. Or when I affirm a belief we share, it's noticeably comforting to them because they've spent 4ish years ingesting uni speak

Couple notes:
1) the callback to visual/audio cues of TV journalism is indicative of a Certain Kind of "Journo" I loathe.
2) Can't be overstated that centrist + conservative writers love to mask their bad takes in comically redundant lists. Why make 1 good point when you can make 8 obfuscatory ones?

TFP ran a single piece on the assassination of two Dem politicians in Minnesota by a right-winger. A few months later, they'd update their site's frontpage to include an entire vertical dedicated to Charlie Kirk.

Saw the 4K version in theaters and that final tail shot was jaw dropping.

Nothing motivates you to learn a new software quite like a zonked out kitten in your lap.

Death Stranding: "Oh hey, some nice person left a ladder here. That sure makes things a little more convenient."

Baby Steps: "No no no no no no. A motherfucking ladder? You kidding me? I hope your cat pees on your couch, you dope."

One thing I’d be nice if Schatz and others acknowledged is that even judging their hard right turn on immigration in Spring 2024 on its own terms it failed miserably. In July when Harris took over Trump led on “immigration” by 9pts, by election day he led 13pts. At best it, electorally, did nothing

Yeah trying my darndest to utilize it but the timing feels tricky and crowded fights make it extra tough

Really, truly enjoying Hell Is Us on multiple levels. But the choice to limit stamina to how high/low your health is has to bone of the worst design decisions of the year. Makes every fight with 3+ enemies a lost cause unless you're full health, and health packs are quite rare!

Glad to report in the impending Copy Wars I will gladly die for the glory of B-Roll. 🫡

October 3rd

Incidentally this is also how I describe my cat

help me pick a fight with my employer - me, a wise and not-dumb person

ok, bluesky, where do you stand...

- B-roll
...or...
- Broll

No joke, I think the impending waves of big Chinese games are going to result in a lot of strange embargo times for Americans. 😅

Me, a Californian: "OK, is this New Yorker I'm emailing the kind of New Yorker that goes to sleep at 3pm or the kind that answers emails after a 9pm dinner?"

Please tell me one of you is working on an article about Baby Steps incredibly odd music consisting of seemingly diagetic nature sounds on a near-infinite loop. It's like Kipling's "Boots" poem in video game form.

@beehiiv.com Hey how do I as a reader of a blog hosted on Beehiiv get in contact with support? Having huge trouble getting email login code after weeks of trying.

Oh no what website is Taylor going to kill 30 years from now

Was there a sudden outbreak of antifascist headlice?