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video game newsletter at readergrev.com former editor at Launcher (RIP) current editor at The Washington Post mikhailklimentov.01 on Signal
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Got the watch I’d been eyeing for a while!

This was, predictably, a great read. www.pushtotalk.gg/p/gamings-gr...

My new album "Cherry-Colored Funk!" is out today, extended from the soundtrack of my short film that's playing at Tribeca. Big focus on genre blending and live instrumentation. Also very danceable. I'm super proud of it. Thanks for the support, means a lot! Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/3VTKqe...

What does it mean for a standard science class course description to be 2/10 on the woke scale? Like, what pushes it over a 1 or 0?

This was the first video recommended to me when I opened YouTube without an account.

gift of prophecy, etc. etc.

We astoundingly elected the one single person in the entire world who is not interested in reading the intelligence in the President’s Daily Brief.

For Cartoon Brew, I interviewed Oscar-winning animator-director Alberto Mielgo about his beautiful cinematic short for Bungie's Marathon (@marathonthegame.bungie.net) 🐛🤖🐛🤖🐛🤖🐛

Just sent out a dozen DMs for some ongoing reporting. Always feels nice to close the tab and just wait for responses.

Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

Jump scare in this profile: smack in the middle of this Zohran rally is Laszlo Horvath, the front-man of my favorite niche-er-than-niche Brooklyn band, Laszlo and the Hidden Strength. nymag.com/intelligence...

Jacob Thomas and his wife Jennifer, who are farmers in Kansas, took a 10 percent hit when the Trump administration abruptly cut a $1 billion program that supplied local produce and meat to schools and food banks.

EXTREMELY GOOD POST

This article is basically just guessing what happened??? It literally ends saying: “Maybe Jimmy canceled to for the birth of his grandchild but these shows are too expensive to do that!”

Tellingly the person in this scenario writes the work memo but not anything else. We are RETVRNING to the '90s movie cliche of the overworked dad with no time for his family.

Always a delight to look up some really strange under-the-radar game I think nobody knows about only to find a hyperspecific PCGamer headline about it.

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never said I wouldn't skeet these

So many pretty (non)lawns! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Got to play National Geographic reporter in my own backyard for this one. Coyotes are unique among apex predators for thriving in cities, but my favorite fact is how they got here. Hint: 🌁 Huge kudos to photographer Loren Elliott for his stunning work. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

- did you finish that trailer - sure did boss, real fucking dramatic just like you asked - what

"The process of mainstream videogame creation embodies a number of harsh realities, but the end result is something that is designed to be divorced from reality." @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social‬ explores the paradoxes of play and labor and reality and non-reality in games:

I think this is a delightful piece of writing but also: being cornered into a long and anxious conversation by wacky creatives feels like it should be one of the job’s rare delights. [ducks] www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.

Holy shit this is actually awesome. If you're a gaming creator this is the kind of feature that you take advantage of Between this and no deranking posts with links in them, it's making me want to get back into making stuff again

Worth examining why there's so little actual reporting in right-wing pubs. The NYT, Atlantic, NYer, WaPo, etc., have rigorous professional standards: seeking comment; taking counterarguments seriously; changing facts, minds after responses; layers of editing; fact-checking.

Yes, asmongold covered my video (didn’t watch it), said I “got harassed and deserve it,” and now I’m getting these messages

Something I love, love, love about Gilroy's ANDOR interviews is how candid and unsentimental he is in discussing why he and his team made the choices they did in storytelling, and why they were generally *storytelling* choices, not sacrifices at the altar of Star Wars