yeah man. like... fuckin easily actually
artemis, big boss of stop caring
@stopcar.ing
I write about videogames. Words @ Deleted Saves, startmenu, Superjump, TIER Big Boss @ Stop Caring (She/her or they/them) https://linktr.ee/artemisawormrot
new piece up for @48hills.bsky.social! talked about the @videogameworkers.bsky.social hardship fund, the @necrosoftgames.com fundraising bundle, trust, and how workers' efforts to respond to present conditions might help build the future. check it out!
As wider layoffs hit, videogame workers union launches hardship fund - 48 hills
UVH-CWA aid initiative and innovative Necrosoft bundle aim to support affected workers from indie orgs and big corps.
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Today's featured post: 📖 BLIPPO+ Asks If You Want to Get Bent by Gamers with Glasses https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/blippo-asks-if-you-want-to-get-bent
BLIPPO+ Asks If You Want to Get Bent
It’s time to tune in, turn on, and.. blipp out? Patrick Fiorilli explores the channels of BLIPPO+ and its blend of the televisual and interactive. It’s hypermediated, unabashedly queer, and remediates channel surfing and endless feeds all at once. Go see what’s around the bend.
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BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.
way too many people blogging about friendslop and not enough people willing to give a friend some sloppy
Just blog it!! Don’t post! 💀 You’ll also be more invective where it counts and generous where you must.
here's a better subject of discourse: tits or ass?
if you've collaborated w me for Stop Caring in any way: hml we are assigning cool nicknames to people based on the Metal Gear Solid series.
since im still getting likes I will now specify each specific moment that made me cry
1 like = 1 videogame that made me cry
there's an elote man posted right outside my workplace god bless you elote man genuinely brightened up my day
Was Tyranny a victim of bad timing or was it a bit too honest about the subtext of its audiences’ fantasies? @duncanfyfe.net on a game that has remained topical, trenchant… and rather neglected. remapradio.com/articles/ten...
Ten Years of Tyranny
Sympathy for the Devil's little helper
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I learned the wrong lessons from Disco Elysium I should stop sabotaging my life and activate the volumetric shit compressor.
I’ll one up everyone and tell you the 8 games that have (so far) really stuck with me, in no particular order: *Marathon (my current front runner for GOTY) *Pathologic 3 *Vampire Crawlers *Don’t Stop, Girlypop! *Titanium Court *Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator *Zero Parades
I expect mine to drastically change too. Here’s mine: Marathon Meccha Chameleon Perfect Tides: Station to Station Titanium Court Pokopia
@mayorhere.bsky.social on Saros: "Robert W. Chambers's Yellow Shore becomes more knowable in Saros than the original myth ever was, and something is lost in that. But the core idea survives: the horror was never the Shore. It was always the wanting." www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/sar...
Saros, Robert W. Chambers, and the Horror of Desire — Gamers with Glasses
Robert W. Chambers’ stories from The King in Yellow are often described as Lovecraftian by association - but, as Housemarque demonstrates in Saros, the horror of Chambers’ Carcosa goes deeper than Lov...
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I reviewed Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World?! I did not like Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World?! I still think Strange Scaffold is cool, however. Read my review below. www.startmenu.co.uk/home/review-...
Review | Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! - I’d Rather Get Isekai-d — startmenu
Strange Scaffold's latest game has a lot of drive, but its poor controls and uninteresting gameplay had Artemis Octavio hitting the brakes instead.
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Strange Scaffold's latest game has a lot of drive, but its poor controls and uninteresting gameplay had @stopcar.ing hitting the brakes instead.
It's been such a privilege to write for Rascal, to write for you, and it would be really nice if I could do it next year as well. If you can sign up, please do. I would do so much better, the work world be so much better, if the site wasn't precious.
State of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
Having lived in Australia briefly now I'm delighted to say that I actually recognize some of the bird chirps in Big Walk! report.wand.com/reviews/big-...
Big Walk Review - The Wand Report
Spend quality time with your friends in one of the best hiking simulators in years.
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@aguaspoints.bsky.social reads friendslop through the lens of Wark's Gamer Theory and finds new nadirs of alienation in the form aguaspoints.com/2026/08/03/f...
Friendslop = Friendless<<Slop>> Or: Will We Ever Lock Eyes When We Play Again?
Friendslop is the Ghost of Play’s Past. It is the Ghost of Play’s Present. It is the Ghost of Play Never to Come. Only without any humanist intent.
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bravest trans woman alive defies gender norms by being honored as Grillmaster for tonight’s festivities
This week: Fifty picks past and present--twenty-five new reads, twenty-five from the archives: critical-distance.com/2026/08/02/a...
August 2nd
Welcome back readers. Before we hop in, I just want to offer a quick reminder that the Friendslop Jam we’re hosting is underway, and you’ve got two weeks and change to get your writing …
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