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Writer. Pop culture critic (video games, geeky stuff, etc.). Fiction someday. Product Manager at The Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ. Formerly at The Dallas Morning News.
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From Neil Steinberg: "The only avenue open to resist what is happening is to tell the truth, as clearly and frequently and forcefully as possible."

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@grubb.wtf @danryckert.com @tolkoto.com Tell me where to throw money to watch whatever the spiritual successor to Blight Club is. Don’t let Mike think he’s escaping his turn at a bad game.

polygon and giant bomb dead in the same week is just unfathomable

This is the worst. Grubb and the rest of the Giant Bomb crew are phenomenal and deserve every opportunity to keep making awesome things. That site has meant a lot to me since day one, and I was honored any time I got to contribute to it in even a tiny way.

While everything is definitely not all sunshine and rainbows over here, days like today do make me happy to work for an independent nonprofit media company. chicago.suntimes.com/impact

It’s hard not to think the phrase “extinction event.”

We are watching the heat death of games media. I could not be more devastated. This industry needs a thriving journalist corps to hold power accountable. If you think you're better off without games media, you are sorely mistaken.

Holy... this is devastating. I want to believe that games media can find a way to survive and thrive, but things are bleak out there. I feel strongly for everybody affected by this and similar events that never seem to stop.

As Xbox announces that it's raising game prices to $80, the three best-reviewed games of the year so far are $50, $30, and $50

It would sure be nice to have a live video game news show hosted by a knowledgeable industry expert to talk about this Xbox price increase stuff. If I were a company that owned a bunch of video game websites and one of those websites had such a thing, I think it would be pretty dumb to stop it.

"We do expect these tariffs will have a real and detrimental impact on the industry." - Aubrey Quinn of the ESA back on April 4th. ICYMI. www.ign.com/articles/esa...

Giant Bomb was awesome. Giant Bomb is awesome. Giant Bomb deserves to continue being awesome and any execs who can't make that happen should probably start by firing themselves.

Giant Bomb sprang into existence as the result of a corporate executive making extremely ill-advised choices that exploded into a PR nightmare. I don’t want the site to end the same way, but at least it would be poetic.

President Donald Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller took aim at Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, accusing him of inciting violence after he called for mass protests against the Trump administration. buff.ly/TIcQcor

Added to my ongoing art installation “Wife Eats Turkey Leg at Renaissance Festival” over the weekend. Happy Anniversary!

I mean, it’s not NOT the secret to writing a novel . . .

Today is a spiffy day to support indie bookstores. I love @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social in Toronto, @poisonedpen.bsky.social in Scottsdale, @murderbooks.bsky.social in Houston, & many more! If you don’t have one near you, shopping online at bookshop.org allows you to support one instead of a billionaire

Happy Independent Bookstore Day to all who celebrate, which should be all of you because indie bookstores fucking rule. (I’m at the LATFOB today and will be signing at the booth of a great store, @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social)

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Clair Obscur is passing my “Is it commonly being livestreamed on my TikTok FYP?” test of popularity. So far, in my personal experience, that has been a good sign of success.

Did you know that there’s a premium streaming service called Air Bud TV that is exclusively for Air Bud and it’s various movie and TV spin-offs, including Pup Academy, which is now on season three? Because I just learned that from a Braum’s kids meal bag.

When I said I was falling in love with Expedition 33 it’s possible I mostly meant her.

I’ve finished the prologue of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and I may already be in love. The art, the music, the writing, the gameplay… It’s all working for me.

Take it from me, kids. With a little patience and persistence and a positive mental attitude you too can one day pay Nintendo five hundred dollars

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Words to live by.