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Jake Steinberg
@jakesteinberg.substack.com
Writer | Jewish/Latino | MFA Creative Writing | Critical Error Podcast | JakeNoseIt on Twitch | 📩 [email protected] | Debut Acquired ✅
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🚨 I reviewed KIRBY AIR RIDERS for Kotaku 🚨

Noise is not chaos! Quantity is not depth! Don't believe the siren song of the cult fanbase of the original!

Once you get past all that, Air Riders is an extremely fun game that's kinda hard to play for more than an hour at a time!
"Kirby Air Riders is not deep; it's candy. Good thing I like candy." Read our full review of the Switch 2's new sugar rush of a racer:
Kirby Air Riders Review: A Shallow, Sweet Sugar Rush For Switch 2
The pink puffball's frenzied racer wears its shallowness on its sleeve
kotaku.com
so good at party games I fear I completely ruin the party
January 11, 2026 at 12:21 AM
I know this is a boring and lame thing to even talk about but genuinely wtf is anybody still doing on Twitter?

I understand going back for certain people you follow (especially globally) and even posting from time to time, but just generally hanging? Doing boring gamer posts? Idk. Seems weird to me
January 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
2026 VIDEO GAME PREDICTIONS
January 10, 2026 at 9:14 PM
feels like I am watching people actively soften their own brains by consuming Chatgpt generated content and mistakening it for substance
Every video I come across on YouTube these days is so obviously scripted. More and more creators are just fully reading ChatGPT generated scripts to the camera 24/7 and it's total garbage I hate it!
January 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Travis Kelce's mom is on The Traitors and it's never been more clear ~how much~ she just loves celebrities lmao
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Reposted by Jake Steinberg
PREDICTING 2026 Video Game DISCOURSE 🔮

What is everyone going to talk about this year?

🚨 CRITICAL ERROR available now: youtu.be/IqWpOQfTa1k?...
We Already Know How This Goes
YouTube video by Critical Error
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Jake Steinberg
Such a wonderful experience for watching 4 games writers genuinely having fun and presenting critical ideas about writing at the same time.

Makes me hopeful during a bleak time. #MAGFest

Great job @aguaspoints.bsky.social, @theautumnwright.bsky.social, Stuart, and @jakesteinberg.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
new stuff coming to my blog soon! make sure you are subscribed here:

jakesteinberg.substack.com
Jake Should Be Writing | Jake Steinberg | Substack
the intersection of video games and storytelling. Click to read Jake Should Be Writing, by Jake Steinberg, a Substack publication.
jakesteinberg.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
it just kept getting worse from here and now I feel like it's a 6/10 at best.

Gonna finish it just because I want to see the end, but dear god I am bored out of my mind. The over-intellectualization of this franchise should be studied.
been talking shit about the entire Metroid franchise all year

and now I cannot believe how much I am liking this game
January 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
revisiting this thread of 3DS games with an AYN Thor in hand and god damn what a console!!
GameSpot recently published a list of the best 3DS games of all time.

I love the 3DS.

Time to weigh in on each and every game listed.

www.gamespot.com/gallery/best...
Best 3DS Games Of All Time
The Nintendo 3DS had a massive library of great games, but which ones stood out the most?
www.gamespot.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:35 PM
another game I'd love to play that won't be getting my money

bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...
January 8, 2026 at 11:38 PM
PREDICTING 2026 Video Game DISCOURSE 🔮

What is everyone going to talk about this year?

🚨 CRITICAL ERROR available now: youtu.be/IqWpOQfTa1k?...
We Already Know How This Goes
YouTube video by Critical Error
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 3:25 PM
"doctor, I think there's something wrong with my
January 8, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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man, this broke me. love crying in my car.
Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot & killed by an ICE agent, had a young son whose father died in 2023, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune

“There’s nobody else in his life,” the boy’s grandfather told the paper. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come get my grandchild.” www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
January 7, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Reposted by Jake Steinberg
The common belief is that when Trump is voted out in 2028 the democrats will obviously dismantle the state that Trump created, and I think a lot of people aren’t preparing enough for a future where that doesn’t happen.

The pressure needs to be on everyone that backs Trump, not just the figurehead.
These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE.

jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...
January 7, 2026 at 9:15 PM
We know what we needs to be done and be suspicious of anyone on here posturing about what we CAN or CANNOT do
January 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Rapping dog PaRappa the Rapper, ‘90s PlayStation game character, in Tokyo
January 7, 2026 at 1:13 PM
there's a resetera thread about death of the author and everyone is just agreeing with each other that creators always know their work best and it's impossible to disagree with anything they say.

what happened to everybody
January 7, 2026 at 1:09 PM
i made this custom jingle for my animal crossing town like 5 years ago.

it's so familiar, but i cannot identify what it's from lmao
January 6, 2026 at 10:41 PM
new Zelda DLC looks wild
January 6, 2026 at 4:39 PM
need everyone to see the CRITICAL ERROR art that was posted by a listener (Johnsco) on Discord
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
okay you know what the "videogame" people have me convinced
January 6, 2026 at 3:29 AM
reading Winesburg, Ohio and thinking “okay but when do all these people team up??"
January 6, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Reposted by Jake Steinberg
Over my holiday break, I listened to pretty much every episode of @jakesteinberg.substack.com and @peterspittech.bsky.social’s Critical Error, quite possibly my new fav podcast.

These two dudes talk about games better than most, and take a (much needed) aim at our industry’s practices.
January 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM
it is weird (but probably for the best) how much marty supreme analysis/discourse/reviews etc. just ignores the extremely important and overt jewishness of the film
January 5, 2026 at 6:42 PM