If you host a website, never ever work with WPTango.
We were charged around $3000 with no explanation and when asked for refunds we were given the run around, and now they're canceling our services lol
Yay indie media - totally great and fun thing to do
I know you’re probably scrambling to find a new developer and figuring out how to redirect everything, but do you need any help with the money situation???
I could chip in a little, and I’m sure other media folks/readers would want to as well. Keep us posted (and hopefully someone signal boosts).
I didn’t even know the servers for this game were still up lol
You are the only real human being other than myself I’ve ever even heard talk about this game… I’ve put more time into playing this one than I’d like to admit 💀
This resonates with me because some of the only things that comfort a truly rampant bout of anxiety for me are turning off my brain and locking in on Tetris and/or my favorite FPS game at any given moment. Blowing things up can be a cozy escape from real life, too!
Oh my God, they homeschool their kids with ChatGPT open on the laptops at all times. Their brains are going to be so fried.
It’s Dwebble from Pokemon Go but I stuck the sunglasses emoji on him in a really shitty edit. The photo is also really zoomed in so you can kind of see some grain around his model — honestly, it kind of adds even more character to the lil fella.
if you happen to come across me shouting into the void while doing your *own* bit of doomscrolling, please partake of this Pokemon Dwebble with his sunglasses. As a lil treat.
I can’t believe it’s only Wednesday. Doomscroll time dilation.
The grifters probably make more money spinning up stories about game critics taking bribes than critics are paid for writing their reviews.
Like, shocker, people who have strongly held morals and beliefs will inevitably produce works that represent their view of the world.
It seems genuinely silly to me that there are published authors out there who don’t think a little bit of themselves bleeds into all of their writing.
Genuinely heartbroken to discover this author has chud-like tendencies.
Who even goes on The Critical Drinker’s podcast like that??? It’s 2026, man.
“I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that,” Weir said. “I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.”
Incredible how a specific brand of smart people can be this dumb sometimes. You don't hate social commentary - you hate social commentary that doesn't conform to your own, and you're normative enough that you don't have to worry about reminding people you are human.
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I *literally* learned how to read growing up on the Harry Potter books.
Now anything Harry Potter-related makes me feel a twinge of disgust and just like… nigh apathy?
I kind of can’t understand how someone who knows about Rowling’s public screeds and evil deeds can still love these books, meh.
I genuinely think it’s even worse that Forsaken is just completely gone. The death of fan-favorite Cayde 6 happened and you can’t play the epic revenge tale anymore?
Yeah ok, cool, I guess that makes sense! Whatever, dude!
Picture of Gantry, representative of Marathon’s MIDA faction. Text reads: “RUNNAH, MIDA NEEDS YEW TO WROITE “AMD BETTER” ON NVIDIA DATA CENTAS IN PERMANENT MAHKA” it’s a representation of the fella’s funny lil accent and spunky anarchistic attitude (he also basically just asks you to break some glass windows or poo in a UESC loo most of the time).
Every iteration of the Gantry meme is funny to me, I fear.
The Pokemon Company is manufacturing consent for the most generic red dragon of all time and I won’t fall for the psy op. There are literally 1,000+ Pokemon and hundreds of them are cooler and/or more interesting than Charizard.
My friends give me a hard time because I maintain Charizard is an industry plant Pokémon but let’s look at the facts:
-on the cover of the first western mainline game
-two separate Megas
-a gigantamax form
-regularly printed cards that go for hundreds of $
-can’t stay out of marketing material
I can’t say I understand *exactly* what is going on with the 911-posting but I CAN say that the frantic energy and vibes of these posts are a balm to the soul.
Social media feed lately is always like:
-doom and gloom
-doom and gloom
-video games yay
-literally the scariest thing you’ve seen yet
-daily Zohran Mamdani-inspired flicker of hope
-doom and gloom
Playing twins in the same scene so well that you could tell them apart by their stances and demeanor is a way cooler magic trick than method acting.
Lots and lots and lots of drunks. Not me though! 🫡
One was a firefighter and a drunk. The other was a Vietnam vet who worked a series of odd jobs afterward (also a drunk).
I think since the games industry/gamers are so, so often needlessly cruel, some people like, “overcorrect” and reject all criticisms in the indie space.
Like, criticism is good! Of the work at hand + business practices! It’s just important to find folks who will be honest AND constructive.
I have quite literally never played a single hand of Balatro but I blast that theme on repeat every day.
It’s still absolutely surreal that Fiverr contract work got a TGA orchestral remix but it is proof we don’t live in the ABSOLUTE worst timeline.
If it’s safe to assume this is about the RE Review Discourse of the Day… sometimes a Nice and Normal person has a bad take, and the fact that can so easily snowball into 100s of people who don’t know a thing about a person viciously digging into them is one of the nastiest ills of a site like this.
“Lemme steal clickthrough revenue from struggling bloggers but also pwease click on any Amazon link I might post so I can get a lil kickback, as a treat 👉👈”
lol c’mon man, what a bad joke
My girlfriend scraped her knee and dropped and busted up her phone this morning, and then had her croissant stolen out of her hands by seagulls.
You are not struggling alone today, sadly. 🥀
HELLSCREEN 1.0 is OUT of early access!
It's a Retro FPS with Metroid-vania lite elements & a rear view mirror.
Yes, you can shoot behind you!
My favorite player description of it is
"The most fucked up driving game I have ever seen"
Buy it below!
You’re an incredible developer, Jamie, and while I haven’t followed every step of development, I know you’ve had a tough and uncertain journey with Hellscreen. Your perseverance and commitment are so admirable.
I can’t wait to give 1.0 a go — love what you’ve done and can’t wait to see what’s next!
I hated the Pokemon ad btw. I refuse to believe a professional soccer player’s favorite pocket monster is Zygarde.
That is an industry plant-ass legendary and I feel like it was in that ad because Z-A is the latest game.
Phenomenal choice from the actress who picked Luxray, though.
