kyle gratton
@kwg.bsky.social
gaming critic, writer, editor, aspiring author, mediocre photographer words at ScreenRant, CBR
fascinated by sentiments I'm seeing that Rockstar somehow deserves the GTA 6 leaks for withholding gameplay footage for so long. it's a marketing campaign, you're not entitled to a gameplay trailer, just like Rockstar isn't entitled to you purchasing the game
i don't know who thought it was a good idea for the high-profile pedophiles in charge of our government to develop a makework program for lesser known pedophiles within our federal policing apparatus. but i disagree with them
Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 5d agoICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
Google has ruined its search engine in amazingly boneheaded ways
Ocarina of Time is mostly about the differences between childhood and manhood, which mainly that boils down to having three pairs of shoes that you have to cycle through regularly instead of one.
I have not played Kingdom Hearts and I don’t plan to, but I really enjoy trying to divine what those games are about based on the incoherent rambling I see from fans online
“Optional free ride mode” buddy all the modes are optional
Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · last wk.Saber finally added the AI disclosure to Steam for Rideshare “Stimulator” and it’s even worse than I said it was. I can see why the CEO crashed out when I pointed it out.
I'm pleased to finally introduce the new michaeljriser.com, built with @ghost.org. There are words to backfill, & more coming (including a new piece shortly), but this took tons of work, from images (my own photography), backend setup, to custom code. I hope it's somewhere you'll want to hang out.
The Ungospels of Michael J. Riser
fiction, cosmic horror, and explorations of the nightmares that outlive us all
michaeljriser.com
Hell Let Loose Vietnam is a great game if you like crawling thru the jungle to your death
1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
We were playing Big Walk just dropkicking things at each other and in the background of my buddy’s mic I hear his wife go “men used to go to war”
We were playing Big Walk just dropkicking things at each other and in the background of my buddy’s mic I hear his wife go “men used to go to war”
happy birthday samus! i wrote about metroid's 40th anniversary for the guardian
Metroid at 40: happy birthday to Samus Aran, gaming’s greatest badass and my personal heroine
Being a woman who loves video games has often felt lonely, like being on a hostile planet – but Metroid’s female space hunter has been with me all the way
theguardian.com
Something so weirdly offensive about crashing your trash into the moon. Like, that's our moon. If it belongs to anyone, it belongs to all of us.
Kansas City needs a WPBL team. Kansas City, baseball capital of America. That’s what everyone is always calling it.
let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 3w agoand Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!
It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
A boss turned me into a sheep mid-fight, this game rules
kyle gratton@kwg.bsky.social · 3w agoMortal Shell 2 beta is very good, feels much better to play than the first game, which I dropped pretty quickly
Mortal Shell 2 beta is very good, feels much better to play than the first game, which I dropped pretty quickly
Had this exact discussion around the time Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2 came out and was resoundingly shot down in my arguments for Spiders-Man
Molly White@molly.wiki · 4w agoenjoying imagining the discussion among editors in which they determined if this ought to be pluralized as Spider-Mans, Spider-Men, or Spiders-Man
