Supermarket deli shelf with cold cuts labeled “KRETSCHMAR TURKEY OF THE BONE”

Dark Souls boss-ass cold cut name

somehow, some way, this will be OneDrive's fault

too many of you are talking about Pragmata, when you should be talking about Stigmata, the physical reminder of the suffering Christ our Savior endured to absolve us of our sins

Yeah! Criticism is also context, and a film like Michael is an open attempt at removing context. It is not just a movie in a studio slate! It is a concerted effort from interested parties!

A complaint I keep seeing (mostly in the Bad Place) is that critics should be reviewing MICHAEL for what it is, rather than what they think it ought to be. But sometimes critics have a moral obligation to reject the terms a movie sets for itself, or at the very least to interrogate those terms.

see if you can find someone on bluesky posting the same shot from their plane and become sky buddies

Happens a lot on airport approaches (probably unsurprisingly, since that's where flights converge).

I'm glad it's just concussion protocol and not like, a broken jaw at least

first time in 7 years they call a double dribble and it's wrong

ah fuck, wemby

picked off a runner and nicked some of his gold implants while his teammates yelled things like "where is he??" "the *roof*??" then scurried off unseen, i am become BatRook

(disclaimer: most would probably say Three Kingdoms, which packs pretty much all of Attila's mechanics and is the most refined of all the games. I just find it less thematically compelling and cohesive)

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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

These fishermen are lucky to be alive. We will probably never know how many of the ~180 people killed in similar US attacks were also just fishermen.

two discrete discourses in conversation, today

Erasing Leaving Neverland and _also_ scrubbing the related allegations from the biopic— those two moves by the estate are inseparable from one another, and part of what makes this film a despicable project

really great essay, worth reading in conjunction with any Michael coverage

Blazers' lack of fan T-shirts invites questions

my lack of fan T-shirts has people asking a lot of questions that aren't already being answered by my fan T-shirts

Rebekah is the first of multiple new hires coming in as the site deepens its commitment to original reporting, analysis, and features covering the industry, player communities, and gaming culture.

Also there's finally someone on staff to tackle all the metroidbrania games I'm too dumb for!

found one more shot: the terminus, or at least, the part where they leave the building (I half-expected to find Jenova from FF7 at the end)

One of my favorite things about my job is spending so much time on rooftops and hanging off buildings, and seeing so much of NYC from that rare vantage. Another favorite thing is spending so much time underground, in tunnels and chases and basements, and seeing all the hidden infrastructure therein.

(haven't shared them on Bluesky, that is)

Those cable bundles run the length of a full city north-south block.

seeing an article on the MTA substation infrastructure on here reminded me that I don't think I've shared my photos of one of Verizon's basement substations we did some work in once (I took the photos with a low-light sensor—it was nearly pitch black in there)

he's doing it for the first time *this* time? but has he *heard* about the *handkerchiefs* they have planned for him?

By golly, it's David Robinson and Tim Duncan!

The Gentrification of Video Game History We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

In case you want to read the article, here's the link:
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A slide from the GDC presentation, where Laine Nooney is showing my article on the Gentrification of Video Game History

Honored to see my article mentioned by @lainenooney.bsky.social on GDC's "What's New in Game History: 2026" panel!❤️

You can (and should!) watch the whole thing here, it's a great overview of what's happening in game history: gdcvault.com/play/1036008...

Fun to see @riquesampaio.com.br there too :D

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

Minnesota Timberwolves player, grinning with the basketball and looking over his shoulder as two Denver Nuggets collide behind him to the left and fall over each other.

me (right) getting to read interesting things by thoughtful writers

you (left) quoteposting over the headline of the article you didn't read