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i have had to distance myself from so many people in the past few years because they've responded to legitimate bad things with this growing, black conviction that everything can only ever get worse, that we've lost, that it's all falling apart, and, no, we're still here. and we're beautiful!

Developer House House's newest multiplayer title is just as experimental as its mayhem-filled Untitled Goose Game, but with an approach that's less chaotic and more profound.

Big Walk Review: Beyond the 'Friendslop' Label, a Quietly Brilliant GameBig Walk arrives at a time when cooperative games have never been more popular. Thanks in part to Lethal Company, Peak, and R.E.P.O, the slightly derogatory "friendslop" genre has risen to prominence. The moniker defines multiplayer games with simple graphics, a reliance on proximity chat, and gameplay centered around social interactions. These parameters ensure that no two play sessions are the same. At a glance, you could say this is true about Big Walk, a game that, at its core, is about walking and talking with your friends.bit.ly

In the spirit of Zeus’ law, I’m honored to welcome Emily Wilson to the land of film criticism. As she’s learned, it’s an adventure that sails smack into islands of musky internet trolls and clashes with cinematic and literary titans. I'm here to broker a truce. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Yes, Emily Wilson, Odysseus has been changed for the movie. Deal with itCritical swords are clashing, but there's a way to cut through the debate and really talk about how we review art.www.latimes.com

www.pcmag.com/news/big-wal... get some friends and go on a Big Walk.

Big Walk Review: Beyond the 'Friendslop' Label, a Quietly Brilliant GameDeveloper House House's newest multiplayer title is just as experimental as its mayhem-filled Untitled Goose Game, but with an approach that's less chaotic and more profound.www.pcmag.com

The one rule about putting out an aggressive or confrontational take out is you can’t do the “I’m just a little guy and it’s my birthday” if people disagree. You gotta be prepared to defend it, you’re an adult!

but i am sick of pretending that this isn't just racism. it is. this is a lie that has followed me for my entire career--that i'm too aggressive and a bully--and these are accusations that are levied at black women and femmes frequently.

(Not a bad opening weekend for a kid from Forest Hills!) Just a Reminder that you can Borrow All Things #SpiderMan from Your Friendly Neighborhood Library! www.queenslibrary.org/search/book?...

Yeah spider-man’s strength is in licensing, he’s always been more valuable than the entire MCU and was only eclipsed by Batman In 2016 — haven’t checked the most recent numbers but I think he’s back on top again. He’s basically a Disney princess, an IP perpetual motion machine

However, Luke also thinks "I am quietly and perhaps foolishly optimistic about the future of video games journalism": aftermath.site/video-game-jou...

Heavily suspect you are seeing in you now the things we swore we saw ourselves

Because the world has an incredible sense of humor, I was interviewed about cheese in video games www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/cheese-...

What is Cheese Doing in Video Games? | The Cheese ProfessorCheese has shown up in video games for decades. How cheese has played an iconic role in video games and even birthed its own slang term, "cheesing."www.cheeseprofessor.com

I am flawed, but you better believe I am cleaning up SO well

You can find a lot more Black game developers to spotlight here: bsky.app/starter-pack...

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

I can't imagine people getting precious about how you beat Contra back on the NES, everyone used the Konami code to play it in those days. That was just the thing to do.

You see the conflict now in digital re-releases of early-2000s games. The cheats are still in the source code, but using them turns off the Achievements/Trophies. It reinforces the psychological disincentives for many players.

Reading your essay for the first time, years after it was published, I’d posit that the rise of Achievements had an unintended consequence of creating a decline in cheat codes as an art form. The social reward of a high Gamerscore and Trophy Level outranked the freedom to mess around.

this is the reason they are outlasting everyone fyi their shit is still a toy and sony and microsoft got suckered into making computers

It’s pretty funny how whenever Nintendo has the most successful console, everyone just kinda pretends it doesn’t count as a real video game system.

Sure, the internet makes us overfamiliar with each other, but it also makes us overfamiliar with expertise, too, I think. Every time I start feeling that smug know-it-all thing creeping in me, I have to remind myself I’m not a subject matter expert in anything.