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wild that i've been in the industry long enough to see the "E3 is a disgusting orgy of excess" thinkpieces morph into "the fact that we don't have E3 anymore is a damning sign of our decline" thinkpieces

sadly, i forsee that a lot of AAA devs are going to be burnt twice in this deprofessionalization era: once when they get laid off and another when they buy into the "just go indie" narrative.

it's funny there's a bunch of people who think the biggest problem in video games is something like "woke devs" or "GAAS slop" when really it's "the only people who play them are all going to start dying real soon"

definitely the funniest thing ever written about me, personally

Some of you would blow your brains out if ever realized how close your gaming hot takes are to those of the biggest chuds on x, the everything app.

finally, a gundam ui book

crypto bros experiencing a real monkey's paw moment because while it turns out Bitcoin was very ahead of it's time as a degenerate speculative financial instrument, between options trading, sports betting, 24/7 prediction markets, etc. it's now the most boring game in the casino it helped build

this is a guy in 2016 taking the same turn on angeles crest highway, almost 90 degrees coming out of the tunnel. by the time you can actually see the road again it's too late to figure out that you can't take this at more than 60mph.

"qualityslop" discourse demonstrates the totality of 4chan-style contrarianism becoming the default for the mainstream internet

if gamergater types REALLY wanted to hurt games journalism they'd figure out a way to take down steamcharts.com

every year the game award reaction thinkpieces get more and more hyperbolic. we might be at horseshoe theory levels given that there's a popular one this year that straight-up suggests that the audience for the show is sub-human.

we either have Too Much AAA or Not Enough AAA or Too Many Trailers or Not Enough Trailers or Not the Right Trailers, the one constant is that something is wrong!!

How metal is this trade desk from @elliottgray.bsky.social? Vol 2 is off to print.

not sure if this makes sense but the thing i like about daft punk's work on tron legacy is that it's "what if daft punk did a movie score" as opposed to tron ares which is "what if a movie score was a NIN album"

how could they forget the fourth pillar which is drunk indie devs causing massive amounts of drama in their "scenes"

<bioshock vending machine voice> fill your cravings at the festival of gaaaaaming!

i'm surprised there hasn't been more writing on how the boom/bust cycle of the marvel film biz basically mirrors the 90s comic book industry crash? like even down to the infinity gauntlet marking the top of the boom period, preceding endless crossovers and gimmicks that crashed the industry.

every year i get a couple twitter or linkedin dms with unsolicited "UX case studies" and every time they consist mostly of a bunch of new feature wishcasting and very little UI/UX work.

i only remember one and it was people freaking the fuck out/crying hysterically/leaving the theatre at an opening weekend showing of the blair witch project

actually i forgot “I looked at this games concurrent player count on steamcharts: find out what it is inside”

games media headlines in the big 2025 are either "THIS IS KILLING GAMES: WOKE Greedy AAA Game Devs Give Lara Croft DEI JAW" or "Donkey Kong Bonanza Reviewed: Why I Can't Enjoy It Because of Capitalism And Neither Should You"

whenever i feel myself starting get pissed off by content creators/critics/enthusiast media outlets etc. i think about the chokehold harry knowles/AICN had on the movie industry during the late 90s to early 00s... now millennials my age struggle to remember him, mandela effected out of existence.

it's appropriate that this is the coda of lazarus because i think biggest impact the series will have is making the notoriously divisive wolf's rain look WAY better in retrospect

game changer! elon just invented taxis and/or having your mom drop you off

bsky about to go into this mode again.

altnps being the 11th most followed account on here is one of the worst things anyone has said about bluesky