let paragraphs be long

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pick an Xbox story, any Xbox story; pick a site, any site; and:

Link in a kangaroo’s pouch, from the Oracle games

Ricky’s a backpack

acolytes of the dead internet

I'd pivot to editing, but barely anyone can write, and the people who can write don't write

great time to be a writer — barely anyone can read, and the people who can read don't read

DOOM is not worth it DIABLO is not worth it BETHESDA STUFF is not worth it OBSIDIAN STUFF is not worth it NOTHING IS WORTH IT

the state of things (or of me) is that I can't spend five minutes on here without the curmudgeon meter spiking and forcing me to close out for my own sanity

Fightin Cowboy Lays Into Toxic Chatters & Tiresome Antiwoke Discourse (AC Shadows) YouTube video by Renegade Operative

I am not at all tuned into streamers, but have nonetheless been extremely loyal to FightinCowboy since this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRdH...

dad games < games about having a dad < dad games about having a dad (Sekiro)

I did the same with Hades 1 and am feeling the pull

do we dive back into Hades 2 or do we start over on the PS5

dealing 3 damage to something with 2 HP >>> dealing 150,000 damage to something with 100,000 HP

today in sentences designed to obliterate me:

a blue bipedal mech and an orange bipedal mech holding a green bipedal mech on their shoulders, like a cheerleader pyramid

I'm an Into the Breach guy now. cutest mechs you've ever seen

XIII is a top-tier Final Fantasy. it is better, not worse, for the fact that it took me years to appreciate it

I played an inordinate amount of BoF II on the GBA as a kid. I continue to think about it with both extreme fondness and deep confusion about why I've never picked up another BoF game

I think I'd throw up???

for about a week, I have kept a tab up on my work computer with images of Fou-Lou as a reminder to figure out how to play Breath of Fire IV. it is not working as a reminder but very much working as an excitement stoker for Breath of Fire IV

My Year as the Killjoy Notes on Walking Away

For the record:

(but, oh no, it apparently doesn't save runs partway through in case of crashing)

if they put this on Switch (no plans to do so that I know of), I think it stays in the rotation for years

Screenshot of Sol Cesto: 4x4 grid populated by hand-drawn dogs, slimes, weird rabbits, treasure chests, and strawberries. a gloomy peasant holding a pitchfork in the top-right corner. other hand-drawn UI elements include a golden frog, teeth, and a locked door

Sol Cesto launched in 1.0 today, and there's no better pitch for this one than...practically any screenshot of it

"noone" would actually work — gives shape to the nothing being a something

eager to refer to new Castlevania as a Metroidlike

me, editing: try to be more concise, it's a bit long and purple
me, writing: I am Cormac McCarthy

i think it's the nudge I need to finally get into Dead Cells in earnest (game should be a no-brainer for me, but I've had a weirdly tough time diving in)

Thrilled to kick off a stacked @bpmonthly.bsky.social issue on Marathon. I wrote about the resonance of Runners, live-service players, and SteamDB numbers.

We're all just grist for the mill, troops summoned to deliver the aims of the corporation.

bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/09/s...

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becoming increasingly curmudgeonly because it’s every day now that I see a verb choice in a piece of writing that pisses me off