Adri Metternich
@adrimett.bsky.social
Game essayist, reviewer, and narrative preservationist.
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Hungry Ghosts is one of the coolest and most inventive games I've ever encountered. It's an all time top 10 contender for me at this point. I desperately wish that it had been more broadly influential, but at least it remains fascinatingly unique. I obviously recommend Kimimi's article below!
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Hungry Ghosts is one of the coolest and most inventive games I've ever encountered. It's an all time top 10 contender for me at this point. I desperately wish that it had been more broadly influential, but at least it remains fascinatingly unique. I obviously recommend Kimimi's article below!
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"... I definitely didn’t sign up for Shrödinger’s Sexual Encounter"
Dragon's Dogma 2 dropped the ball in many areas, but to me its strange idea of "romance" felt like a particularly large and conspicuously unforced stumble:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/04/25/i...
Dragon's Dogma 2 dropped the ball in many areas, but to me its strange idea of "romance" felt like a particularly large and conspicuously unforced stumble:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/04/25/i...
I’m not in love with Dragon’s Dogma 2’s idea of romance
[Warning: This article will contain various spoilers for Dragon’s Dogma 2] Is it romantic to kill a bunch of violent soldiers? To walk a guy to the end of a pier because he asked me to? To co…
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
"... I definitely didn’t sign up for Shrödinger’s Sexual Encounter"
Dragon's Dogma 2 dropped the ball in many areas, but to me its strange idea of "romance" felt like a particularly large and conspicuously unforced stumble:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/04/25/i...
Dragon's Dogma 2 dropped the ball in many areas, but to me its strange idea of "romance" felt like a particularly large and conspicuously unforced stumble:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/04/25/i...
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Finished watching King's Game. That sure was an ending...
Opening song is still a banger, though.
Opening song is still a banger, though.
November 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Finished watching King's Game. That sure was an ending...
Opening song is still a banger, though.
Opening song is still a banger, though.
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"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
June 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
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"... a mess of corrupted nothings and indecipherable scrolling objects, chunks of absent graphics still pulsating to an unknown rhythm against an expanse of broken information."
Some things are best left alone:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/10/17/f...
Some things are best left alone:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/10/17/f...
Sonic The Hedgehog 2: Forbidden knowledge
This has scared me like nothing else I’ve written about all spooky season; it’s the one game I honestly don’t want to look at screenshots of if I can help it, the one heart-stoppi…
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
"... a mess of corrupted nothings and indecipherable scrolling objects, chunks of absent graphics still pulsating to an unknown rhythm against an expanse of broken information."
Some things are best left alone:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/10/17/f...
Some things are best left alone:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/10/17/f...
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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Hey, there's a fresh article on my site!
Sword and Fairy Inn is hypnotically stressful, utterly charming, enjoyably complex, and a lot of fun:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/14/s...
Sword and Fairy Inn is hypnotically stressful, utterly charming, enjoyably complex, and a lot of fun:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/14/s...
Sword and Fairy Inn: Intense customer service meets classic RPG fantasy
Sword and Fairy Inn is the unlikely culinary spinoff of Softstar’s epic PC RPG of a similar name. Less a “What if?” and more of a “Why not?”, this is a non-canonical a…
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Hey, there's a fresh article on my site!
Sword and Fairy Inn is hypnotically stressful, utterly charming, enjoyably complex, and a lot of fun:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/14/s...
Sword and Fairy Inn is hypnotically stressful, utterly charming, enjoyably complex, and a lot of fun:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/14/s...
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I want our sustainable future back, where indies can experiment, can grow their community, where we get stories about games stumbling but surging to succes over time.
These stories became rarer and rarer, and now they are an oddity, and that is bad... very bad.
and doesn't need to be..
These stories became rarer and rarer, and now they are an oddity, and that is bad... very bad.
and doesn't need to be..
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I want our sustainable future back, where indies can experiment, can grow their community, where we get stories about games stumbling but surging to succes over time.
These stories became rarer and rarer, and now they are an oddity, and that is bad... very bad.
and doesn't need to be..
These stories became rarer and rarer, and now they are an oddity, and that is bad... very bad.
and doesn't need to be..
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This is such a shitty position for the workers to be in either way. They're either out of work, or reinstated while being the target of every ounce of corporate malfeasance Take Two/Rockstar c-suite shitheads are prepared to throw at them as employees.
"This is a blatant, unapologetic act of vicious union busting" - Hundreds of Rockstar employees sign letter to management, demanding fired colleagues get reinstated www.eurogamer.net/this-is-a-bl...
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is such a shitty position for the workers to be in either way. They're either out of work, or reinstated while being the target of every ounce of corporate malfeasance Take Two/Rockstar c-suite shitheads are prepared to throw at them as employees.
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While I understand people are skeptical of the Steam Machine as being too wonky to make a dent in PlayStation or Nintendo, I absolutely see a scenario in which it replaces Xbox, which does not seem to be difficult at this point.
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
While I understand people are skeptical of the Steam Machine as being too wonky to make a dent in PlayStation or Nintendo, I absolutely see a scenario in which it replaces Xbox, which does not seem to be difficult at this point.
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“Drawing all that sexy art of video game men might affect your professional art career” well well well
"Not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine that one day I would paint a picture of hot Bowser for official material, announced by Miyamoto himself. 😭 I laughed so hard in disbelief while painting, you have no idea lol"
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“Drawing all that sexy art of video game men might affect your professional art career” well well well
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This thread provides actual knowledge for things that I had a vague gut feeling about -- and many things that never would have occurred to me -- about the more affordable Japanese PS5. But Japanese Gen Z playing 3DS more than PS5 illustrates how much of an uphill battle *Sony* faces at home.
It brought a younger audience who hadn’t looked at a PlayStation in over a decade back, but there lies the problem
It’s been true for a few years but was reaffirmed in the industry report this year, but young people do not care for PlayStation. At all
Gen Z (now almost 30), plays 3DS more than PS5
It’s been true for a few years but was reaffirmed in the industry report this year, but young people do not care for PlayStation. At all
Gen Z (now almost 30), plays 3DS more than PS5
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This thread provides actual knowledge for things that I had a vague gut feeling about -- and many things that never would have occurred to me -- about the more affordable Japanese PS5. But Japanese Gen Z playing 3DS more than PS5 illustrates how much of an uphill battle *Sony* faces at home.
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I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
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Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company”
automaton-media.com/en/news/kraf...
automaton-media.com/en/news/kraf...
Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company” - AUTOMATON WEST
Following its decision to became an "AI first" game company, Krafton is soliciting voluntary resignations from its employees.
automaton-media.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company”
automaton-media.com/en/news/kraf...
automaton-media.com/en/news/kraf...
I was planning to get some game writing done today, but my flat needs some expected repairs, which is very distracting.
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was planning to get some game writing done today, but my flat needs some expected repairs, which is very distracting.
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If you're a games freelancer and you're going to physically be in LA around TGAs in December, and you still have capacity to pick up further work, I would love to hear from you: [email protected]
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If you're a games freelancer and you're going to physically be in LA around TGAs in December, and you still have capacity to pick up further work, I would love to hear from you: [email protected]
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I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.
You Can't Report on Hunger While Taking Bread Off the Table
On the proliferation of machine translation in video game outlets covering the effects of AI on labor.
dateemups.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.
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hardest decision ive ever had to fucking make in this game dude. fuck. shit.
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
hardest decision ive ever had to fucking make in this game dude. fuck. shit.
Subtitles on by default.
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Subtitles on by default.
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credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point
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okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form:
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form:
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
Very cool article by @faroukk.bsky.social.
A number of games made use of StreetPass features too, like speeding up rebuilding Norende in Bravely Default, or coins for steps that could be spent to revive yourself in Shin Megami Tensei IV. I miss things like that, too.
A number of games made use of StreetPass features too, like speeding up rebuilding Norende in Bravely Default, or coins for steps that could be spent to revive yourself in Shin Megami Tensei IV. I miss things like that, too.
With the loneliness epidemic on the rise, we could use the Nintendo 3DS's StreetPass feature and the sense of togetherness it fostered more than ever. @faroukk.bsky.social on the decline of physical community in gaming:
I Miss Nintendo 3DS StreetPass, and Games as Physical Community
With the loneliness epidemic on the rise, the Nintendo 3DS StreetPass and its sense of in-person community is sorely missed.
www.endlessmode.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Very cool article by @faroukk.bsky.social.
A number of games made use of StreetPass features too, like speeding up rebuilding Norende in Bravely Default, or coins for steps that could be spent to revive yourself in Shin Megami Tensei IV. I miss things like that, too.
A number of games made use of StreetPass features too, like speeding up rebuilding Norende in Bravely Default, or coins for steps that could be spent to revive yourself in Shin Megami Tensei IV. I miss things like that, too.
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This week: community and continuity form a thematic throughline for seventeen new picks:
critical-distance.com/2025/11/09/n...
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November 9th
Welcome back readers. Okay, I lied a small lie last week. I’m not going to plug our money stuff this week. Instead keep your focus on The Jamaican government’s official portal for Hurri…
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November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This week: community and continuity form a thematic throughline for seventeen new picks:
critical-distance.com/2025/11/09/n...
critical-distance.com/2025/11/09/n...