Absolutely thrilled to be working with Brian on this!

Brian Crecente@crecente.bsky.social · 4h ago

That last bit is what I'm proudest of. The business of games journalism spent the past half-decade laying off many of the people who built its value and quality. Building a place where that talent gets paid what it's worth is the part of this I care about most. padandpixel.com/mock-reviews/

Proud to say I'm joining the pool of Mock Reviewers at Pad and Pixel. I've been a mock reviewer for the past six years, with experience writing scored reviews as a freelancer for Polygon. Looking forward to the oportunity to be involved in more Mock Review work going forward.

Brian Crecente@crecente.bsky.social · 4h ago

That last bit is what I'm proudest of. The business of games journalism spent the past half-decade laying off many of the people who built its value and quality. Building a place where that talent gets paid what it's worth is the part of this I care about most. padandpixel.com/mock-reviews/

Pad & Pixel is expanding! I can't believe that it's been seven years since I left Variety (they kicked me out the door.) And seven years since I've worked full time for another company. Five years ago to the day I filed the paperwork to incorporate my own consultancy: Pad and Pixel, LLC.

No, thank God

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9h ago

RFK Jr has a new cooking show. Are any Trump officials doing their actual jobs? | Arwa Mahdawi

The resemblance is uncanny

I wanna rock?

Q: Do lawyers for Trump wind up being disbarred? A: Not all of them. But many of them.

every single time this happens the next reporter should ask the same question. and then the next. and the next. he’s not going to cut off access. he craves attention too much for that. call his fucking bluff.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"

People have got to stop using "A Modest Proposal" in their headlines or posts. It's very clear they haven't read Swift and it's embarassing.

It better not be Sunday night

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Katie Phang on Todd Blanche's meeting with Epstein survivors: "If you can imagine being the victim of this type of horrific child sex abuse, and then in your mind the brass ring is 'Let me sit down with the top cop of our country to be heard,' and to have him be such a dismissive asshole."

Space X lol

Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 3d ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

Home at least

Still in the store this week, so I rescued it.

My response to Elon Musk.

The lowering of standards in the face of AI output reminds me a lot of the iPhone. It’s not a great camera, phone, browser, game console, keyboard, music or video player. But it’s convenient, so people lower their standards. Then one day they get fed up and buy a record player or DSLR.

Runner on smashing Alps ultramarathon record by 6 days

Runner on smashing Alps ultramarathon record by 6 days

Sophie Woods ran the Via Alpina through storms, heat of up to 37C and dodged floods and wildfires across eight countries.

bbc.co.uk

just sharing something a friend sent me for no reason

Taken minutes after the burger asked Hot Pocket to hold its beer

Viledrak!@viledrak.bsky.social · 2y ago

Camembert burger erupts when you take a bite

Yes! I sometimes buy an in box or sealed handheld systems and immediately pop them open to play with. There’s no other point.

miss fern 🏳️‍⚧️😘@miss-fern.bsky.social · 4d ago

unseal your cards, unseal your comics, take things out of the fucking box. it's all just cardboard and plastic. fuck the resale market

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

doc@docseuss.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I'm begging you not to use apple products. This shit is devastating to creators like me

Evangelist Brian Crecente is going to start using most of his flights as an opportunity to explain why Super Mario 64 is the worse Mario game and it isn’t even a debate. Maybe sometimes he’ll also spend the flight explaining to everyone why handheld gaming systems are so cool.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d ago

Evangelist Whitney Lynn uses most of her flights as an opportunity to share her faith. This week, her sermon got her kicked off a flight and clips of her removal racked up millions of views on social media. She called the situation “spiritual warfare.”

Trump toilet because it either has nothing in there or shit for brains.

The Jealous Cactus@jealouscactus.bsky.social · 4d ago

Somewhere there is a guy complaining his wife won't let him have a skull toilet

Here's a recommended book-list-interview, for a UK publication. For everyone who has had enough of discourse (as I certainly have): it has a tiny mention of Nolan as the hook, but then we move on to some reading. www.countryandtownhouse.com/culture/emil...

‘Homer Is For Everyone’: How Emily Wilson Elucidates & Obfuscates In Equal Measure

Classicist Emily Wilson has made headlines in recent weeks for slating Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey – for which the director,

countryandtownhouse.com

AI Slop

Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him)@duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 4d ago

Christ it's ugly.

I hope all the media follows the ethical path of equal coverage in follow through. Also the White House needs to do this on its social media just as robustly.

Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 4d ago

I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.

My semi regular thoughts on AI: I’ve built my own offline AI PC (SAM) which does a pretty good job of transcription and summarizing. Not much else at this point.