Okay that one's on me I should have included "game" in the search
Jacob Geller
@jacobgeller.com
Makes the most normal videos on YouTube. Also a cohort on MinnMax. https://jacobgeller.com/
looks like my poem “The World” just baaarely snuck into the emily wilson/odyssey issue lmao
Patricia Lockwood · Poem: ‘The World’
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Today is newsletter day! 🗞️ This month I explore the broad literary influences that have fed into the development of Signet City. 📖 Maybe you’ll find something fresh to read among them - open.substack.com/pub/jumpover...
SIGNET CITY: Reading the City
A summer reading list for you all.
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Was seeing spider man and the power went out in the theater, I'm blaming peter's incessant use of his ai assistant
didn't watch the fire emblem direct, why is everyone talking about the Watchmen TV show OST
Hard to overstate just how bonkers the final couple levels of Denshattack! get
This is a barely changed quote from Hillel, from the Talmud. Moreover, I am not saying this is true to every Jew. This is what Judaism is, to me. Take a breath.
Dar Laufer@creepyfanboy.bsky.social · 2d ago"Making the world a better place, tikkun olam -- that's the whole thing. That's Judaism. All the rest is commentary." Sorry, but this is just the inverse of "Only True Jews Are Zionist". It's "No True Scotsman" BS.
Just got sent this cartoon from @thankyoumoon on tumblr and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't cryin in the club a little right now
We're really enjoying Big Walk. We're recording MinnMax's biggest Let's Play ever, with a huge group of us playing together. A spoiler-free highlight cut will be up Tuesday for everybody, Backstage Pass supporters get the full journey. And we'll be talking more about it on this week's podcast!
Big Walk makes one of the most convincing arguments for video game lighting technology I've seen in years
This may sound radical but "games are shit" is actually the median opinion of every Gamer.
i have a new hobby i made up where i look at hundreds of ancient stock photo cdroms from archive .org and try to find cool shit in them. ill post more later but for now these are "tonights picks"
The Ace Combat 6 domestic bits somehow look like early Heavy Rain cutscenes
Back in the 2010s, a generation of teenagers built elaborate death games hidden deep inside a website that banned them. NEW VIDEO, a brief history of the most illegal thing you could do on fanfiction dot net in 2011. Up early on Nebula!! nebula.tv/videos/sarah...
I truly feel for kids growing up now who will have to unlearn using AI, but if you've been writing for more than 2 years it is the easiest thing in the world to just Keep Doing The Thing You Did and ignore AI tools!! It makes me feel crazy that people act like this isn't the case!!!
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈@midimyers.com · 5d agoit's actually sad as hell to use AI for research when research is the fun part. you can just email people and call them on the phone and ask them questions about the thing that they have expertise in. you can read documents & learn cool shit. ok now i'm just talking about how being a reporter is fun
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody
Featuring our review of the steam machine, which is: it's pretty dang cool!* *GIANT DEVASTATING MONEY ASTERISK
MinnMax@minnmax.com · 6d agoThe new episode of The MinnMax Show is live! It's a packed episode featuring @kelslewin.bsky.social, @haleyfax.bsky.social, @gameonysus.bsky.social, @kylehilliard.com, @jacobgeller.com, @ohheyitsjeffm.bsky.social, and @yozetty.bsky.social! youtu.be/lVU12SQvXJI
holy shit Sektori physical edition
Lost In Cult@lostincult.co.uk · last wk.✨INTRODUCING ~ EDITIONS SEASON 2✨ 3 new games every month brought to life by Lost In Cult. Welcome to the first of many... Dread Delusion (@lovelyhellplace.bsky.social), Easy Delivery Co. (@orointeractive.bsky.social) & Sektori (@gimblll.com)🔗⤵️
do a deer my kids aren't here re i'm estranged from my son me the named in this lawsuit fa i'm driving on the run so my ex-wife wants me dead la i'm running from the feds ti a drink to clear my head that will bring us back to do!
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last wk.Only Illinois residents can claim a roadkill deer, according to state law. The only stipulation is the resident claiming the deer cannot be delinquent on child support payments.
6:26am and I just completed a Pathogenic run for the first time YEEHAW
Jacob Geller@jacobgeller.com · last wk.Laszlo is entranced by Pathogenic and so am I
One of the most frequent video essay challenges I run into is "how to make long quotes on screen visually interesting" and I'm trying to think of examples of people doing it in compelling ways
Sometimes you just read a good sentence (fragment) From "Angel Down" by Daniel Kraus
Jacob Geller@jacobgeller.com · 2w agoSometimes you just read a good (two) sentence(s) From "Circe" by Madeline Miller
The source of my "second favorite piece of stock footage," Birds over NY 1976, has been identified! Thanks to Practical_Cold_71, who ID'd it as from "Watching My Name Go By," a BBC documentary about graffiti (and is full of absolutely gorgeous shots of New York)
Jacob Geller@jacobgeller.com · 2w agoFive years ago, I ran across a piece of stock footage that defied all conventions. It was beautiful and textured. It was *memorable*. But what can this single video tell us, in context of an entire industry designed to be generic? youtu.be/k3bkCTy9rLk
