All things must end, and rarely is that end a glorious one.

It's kinda fucked up that my wife was instantly able to clock who I was gonna marry in Unicorn Overlord

Been hearin' some of my thoughts in Halsin's voice lately. What's that about??

I decided to create a blog jam! Here's a thread of everyone who participated and their blogs! Huge shoutout to every single one of them

Nate Shearer@faultrunner.bsky.social · 4d ago

To cheese or not to cheese? wotdoon.pika.page/posts/ive-ne...

Taylor also disagrees with the prompt, illustrating that there's no "correct" way of playing a game

Taylor Rioux@taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 4d ago

Got asked by @faultrunner.bsky.social "Is the act of 'cheesing' a failure of the game or the player?" Read my response here: www.jetsonplaysgames.com/post/getting...

@faultrunner.bsky.social invited me to write for his first Encritification event, so write I did. I like group things! Ironically, this piece ended up being me grappling with my mixed feelings of the prompt itself lmao, which I do end up answering eventually: exalclaw.com/act-of-chees...

Cheesing Is Rarely A Failure*

"Is the act of “'cheesing' a failure of the game or the player?" I have an answer, but also a grievance.

exalclaw.com

Got asked by @faultrunner.bsky.social "Is the act of 'cheesing' a failure of the game or the player?" Read my response here: www.jetsonplaysgames.com/post/getting...

jetsonplaysgames.com

I will say that basically every facet of my everyday life is something that I am incredibly grateful for. I am so fulfilled and happy in almost every aspect — except monetarily. Embarrassing how much stress not having a job for half a year causes, despite everything else going well.

Every day I hear some shit about how Trans people are just a small percentage of the population, or how the fascists will find someone else to target after they've accomplished their goals re: trans erasure... It all feels like excuses. Our defense must not be contingent on population size.

All that "AI isn't as bad as people say" stuff from a few months ago is making a lot more sense now.

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5d ago

‘I’ll sell out my ethics, morals, the environment and fellow creatives because I have no standards or time management skills 🤩’

I really try not to be a "hater" on things people like so long as they aren't harmful or outside the scope of my work, so I'll just say that if you invited me to a Christopher Nolan film I'd probably just tell you I'm really busy that day.

With a different colored hand, this could be the End of Evangelion popcorn bucket

Trying to ride the line between "I'm cooking" and "I'm cooked"

finding that game previews are just the least interesting and least valuable type of games writing UNLESS it specifically covers a game that I have never heard of or seen before.

The second I get a job I'm getting off LinkedIn, bro. This is the worst site I've ever been on.

Speaking of horror, Slay the Princess is on quite a discount, and it is positively exquisite. Gorgeous art, impeccable writing, and my god the voice acting is something you need to hear, this game is an experience.

Save 45% on Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut on Steam

You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.

store.steampowered.com

Artists not appropriately labeling their work as adult or nude or whatever is just going to end up meaning I have to unfollow everyone in the space tbh. Just turns my phone into a hazard any time I'm in public or with a kid.

critics and writers and creative people generally should not be business people in this way. We are not trading favors.

one of the threads about the Wilson-course that has especially rankled me in the suggestion that she should be grateful for how Nolan raised her profile.

Trying to write about a game, but there is a single element that has bothered me so much I am very tempted to make it the entire crux of the review. Like, yeah, I'm sure some people would want to read about the combat or whatever, but let me tell you about this dumb fuckin character for a bit

Not personally at Gen Con this year (;_;), but we will have someone there for meetings and coverage at least!

Any gaming site editors willing to give a few pointers on what they're looking for in a pitch? I wonder if what I'm putting out there is sending the wrong messages or something. Like, what are the specific things to avoid so my emails aren't just immediately binned

Everyone who went along and invented an entire epistemology around being scared of needles is a filthy disgusting piglet and they should know that

I catch some shit for being "too negative" on games sometimes, but I think it's important to remember that I consider a "5" a decent game!

Got hit with bots from singapore that commented spam on every article on the site. So I'm just gonna have to set up some auto-mod stuff to prevent things like this from happening.

One thing that bums me out about Online these days is that I love reading stuff and discussing it, because I really like having conversations with people and understanding how they think. But the meta right now feels so geared towards judgmental armchair psychoanalysis.

Gotta remind myself on days like this that I don't gotta put my 2 cents in or respond to every dumb statement I see.

The nature of embargos and stuff means I can never actually update my backloggd when I play/finish games, which means I just forget about it. Will probably just have to do a round up or something at the end of the year.