Gutted to hear about Glen Hansard's passing. The songs from ONCE never fail to get me choked up & I saw him perform a 1.5 hour set in DC that ended with the entire venue singing The Parting Glass. One of the most beautiful moments one could ask for. We deserved so much more time with him.

Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly (Official Video)

YouTube video by GlenHansardVEVO

youtube.com

I loved playtesting this, and it’s so, so exciting to see new Myst stories 📖 I hold hope in my heart that they’ll see the light of day someday!

Cyan Worlds@cyan.com · last wk.

Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc

cute pop up at SDCC from this adorable island in New England that definitely isn’t haunted, can’t wait to visit for sunset cocktails #widowsbay

All my life I've wished I could pull off Slutty Loam but only managed Sandy Gay.

I've been working with the Prideful Sloth team since 2023 (!), was delighted by the game then, and it's truly even better now—so much fun, so weird & great with friends! GO (go) buy it!! (plus you can invite me as an NPC to your town & I just ask you to sell sushi—driving a hard bargain, I know)

Go-Go Town! 🏗️ OUT NOW@gogotowngame.com · 3w ago

Go-Go Town! is now accepting new mayors! 🏗️🛠️ Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics & grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo or with friends! OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch & PC

If I could make everyone watch LOCAL HERO, I would, this among many many reasons

pauline kael bot@paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

[LOCAL HERO] Lancaster has an imperial romantic aura; he belongs there, on top of a tower under the stars, and I doubt if there are many actors who could convey so much just by standing there. (1983)

this is the wooooooooooorst

Netflix in Talks to Buy Letterboxd: Report

Letterboxd has reportedly held exploratory sales talks with Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures and other parties.

variety.com

That physical editions are quick, easy, and simple to achieve and that somehow devs haven’t realized this

Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 4w ago

game devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?

For DOOMSDAY MACHINES this week I wrote a bit about the production and availability of photographs of Hiroshima's damage from the ground in the 1940s and 1950s. Features some dark photographs and perhaps an even more disturbing cover of LIFE magazine from 1952... doomsdaymachines.net/p/hiroshima-...

Hiroshima from below

Experiences of atomic bombing victims through the medium of photography

doomsdaymachines.net

Kicking off a little re-introduction to Go-Go Town! now that we are less than a month (!) out from 1.0 🫨 (and in related news, I will forever be grateful that we have the incredible @mootrix.bsky.social making videos for us, she has made a masterpiece here)

Go-Go Town! 🏗️ OUT NOW@gogotowngame.com · last mo.

You've been "carefully selected" to rebuild a town, manage its economy, welcome tourists, automate production & prove that "organized chaos" is a valid governing philosophy. Please read the following manual carefully. Or don’t 🤷🏽 That seems to be how most Mayors operate.

Spent this weekend as a true child of my father: going to an octogenarian geologist's rock and fossil open house, impulse purchasing a Thomas Guide from 1999 on eBay, then taking Dad out to lunch and talking about film formats

Varric not being romanceable is truly unforgiveable

Julie Dillon@juliedillon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Another rare and seemingly random fan art from me: the unromanceable Varric Tethras, pouting after getting smacked around a little by Cassandra in DA2 😅

What a guy

what is a legacy / it's planting seeds in a garden you have yet to see

Momento ✨ OUT NOW@playmomento.com · 2mo ago

If there's a screen...

One of the busier weeks of my life BUT culminated with 3️⃣ announcements in Wholesome Direct this past weekend! 🧸 @playmomento.com surprise launch!! 🏗️ @gogotowngame.com coming to 1.0 & Switch July 16!! (+ new key art!) 📦 @unpackinggame.com X @paralives.com collab, which I got a lil emotional about 🥹

I’m glad CATS won several Tonys, all very deserved but man it *deserved* best revival. I’ve been thinking about it ever since we saw it - how truly transformative it is. An all-timer!

me seeing I Love Boosters at the Laemmle instead of using my AMC A-List

Freeman Tilden, Interpreting our Heritage—published in 1957 but an incredible synthesis of how to present history and information to the public David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class—blew my hair back when I first read it, still incredible

Professor Nutella@jpnudell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m curious, so, historians (broadly defined), give me two book titles: One: the one history book IN your field (however you define it) that is the absolute best, that everyone should read. Two: the one history book OUTSIDE your field that you think is absolutely the best.

It begins

If you're running a Steam event & you want participating games to promote it, with your graphics I'm begging you: - space for key art that is 1920x1080 OR a Steam header size - no gradient / color overlays - no excessive objects poking into frame

woke up early on Saturday to camp out at a vintage store that doesn’t take orders over the phone OR online, but I am now the proud owner of this print of a Gemini spacecraft from an engineer at Gulton Industries in 1962

Another doozy from @arielsabar.bsky.social - on the secret history of the Met’s smuggled golden sarcophagus and the family that’s supplies looted Egyptian antiquities to half the world: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

The Secrets of the Sarcophagus Dealer

A family’s 50-year rise through the international antiquities trade is a tale of entrepreneurial genius—and of theft, deception, and betrayal.

theatlantic.com

THE CHOMPING ANIMATION I can't 😭

Hypersect ⚔️ making Never’s End@hypersect.com · 3mo ago

This bunny will k!ll your party 🐇💀 Wishlist Never's End: store.steampowered.com/app/1999930?... #indiegame #gamedev

For future japes, let's diſcuſs proper use of the Long S (aka ſ) - uſed at the ſtart & middle of words - not at the end - not uppercaſe - not after an abbreviating apoſtrophe (ie "clos'd") - not adjacent to f - double s ("ſſ") is always long unleſs at the end - this liſt is not exhauſtive

I think we as a culture need to go back and appreciate the 2022 album The Loneliest Time by Carly Rae Jepsen some more. I think it would fix some things

teaching my phone that the eponymous grocer’s last name was Ralphs

A poster for Nixon’s Senate campaign and a record featuring a Jesuit priest answering teen questions about sex. They both hang in the bathroom

K. Thor Jensen@kthorjensen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What is the most cursed object in your home? Ours is a heavily personally annotated book of Cheryl Strayed aphorisms that someone who thought she was much closer to my wife than she actually was gave her.

the selling of nuclear civil defense as a concept to housewives in the Eisenhower administration, and how it became an unexpected source of agency for those women

Megan L. Cook@meganlcook.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In honor of me reading all of these thesis proposals, what was *your* senior thesis about?

ORINOCO FLOW playing in the coffeeshop the 90s are BACK baby