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How bizarre, this theatrical and pasteboard unconscious. Game & level designer, BioShock 2, Near Death, Psychonauts 2, Return to Moria, and others. He/him. Portland, OR.
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[Nathan Fielder voice] There was only one way I could find out what it felt like to be a sandworm, or Shai-Hulud,

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Damn this is a huge get. I know every big venue was trying to get this interview with Turning Point USA's Alex Clark. If you want to find out whether she also believes every stupid fucking thing that all of these people believe, this is the story to read.

submitted 19 days ago • 69 comments

There is no product, or if there is, it's a segway. I don't doubt that Ive and Altman are very excited about their segway, but at the end of the day, product designers don't ultimately determine what thing you put on your desk third to a laptop and a phone. That's just PR.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

submitted 27 days ago • 81 comments

Someone put Shogo in Doom, and it's just reminding me that Shogo was a really fun game.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

It’s high time the FDA did something to stem our national loss of essence, born of a Soviet plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

this is basically stealing from a meme either @starshine.bsky.social or @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social or @sharonk.bsky.social made but I had to do it

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

If you played Skin Deep this weekend, leave us a review! They help a lot!!

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Beating my head against the wall, but cutting $900 million of spending is not about saving money. In this case, it’s like if you spent $50k in a year and said you wanted so save money by not spending $7.50. Even if you saved $7.50 a hundred times, you’re still only at 1.5% of your spending.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Skin Deep was released today! 🎉 I wrote about some of the wonderful collaborators on this project. What a privilege to work with them: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

As much as I want to fight against this take, I can’t. I suspect this kind of person tries to frame it in some positive way, as a “pragmatic” outlook, but it’s just kinda dumb. However, the NYT constantly indulging them doesn’t really help.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

“I really thought that was going to happen” is a product of pure fantasy, and it’s a really uncomfortable reflection that people just do this kind of thing all the time. We invest emotionally in people without any evidence, and often with evidence to the contrary.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

the issue I have with these is that a journalist's mission is to inform, and while the audience is certainly informed by these insights it does not appear the people from whom these insights derive are in turn informed. it would be far more insightful if we got their reactions to being corrected

submitted 43 days ago • 12 comments

Bezos’ track record is so good, though. For example, the Segway. (Today I learned that the guy who bought the Segway company from Dean Kamen ended up driving a Segway off a cliff to his death.)

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

submitted 48 days ago • 168 comments

More serious journalists need to play video games so they can connect the dots between Elon Musk’s obsession with Deus Ex (he keeps a fake gun from the game by his bed), and his obsession with a malevolent AI killing everyone if he doesn’t make it first to placate it.

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago

submitted 50 days ago • 74 comments