The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German)
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Undertale, Narrative Desire, and Freud's Masterplot
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#Undertale, Narrative Desire, and Freud's Masterplot
The one #VideoEssay I have made (so far), back when I had the time for that.
It's still pretty good, put a lot of work into it, and I think you should watch it, if you like Undertale and academic rambling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp_D...
The one #VideoEssay I have made (so far), back when I had the time for that.
It's still pretty good, put a lot of work into it, and I think you should watch it, if you like Undertale and academic rambling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp_D...
So, a good friend gifted me the new 3d platformer with a frog, which means I am now morally obligated to learn how to speedrun it.
Let's get frogging!
Let's get frogging!
January 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
So, a good friend gifted me the new 3d platformer with a frog, which means I am now morally obligated to learn how to speedrun it.
Let's get frogging!
Let's get frogging!
I feel that. I had and am still having a grand old time with Worldjust hanging out and crusing, and the way I've seen some people be almost giddy about shitting on this game feels kinda childish.
Like... not that big company game would need defending just saying: Dislike the game more chill maybe?
Like... not that big company game would need defending just saying: Dislike the game more chill maybe?
Six months later…I really feel like Mario Kart World is underrated, or maybe under appreciated is the correct term.
January 11, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I feel that. I had and am still having a grand old time with Worldjust hanging out and crusing, and the way I've seen some people be almost giddy about shitting on this game feels kinda childish.
Like... not that big company game would need defending just saying: Dislike the game more chill maybe?
Like... not that big company game would need defending just saying: Dislike the game more chill maybe?
UNBEATABLE is the Night in the Woods of the 2020s.
By that I mean: If you are in your 20s and even mildly neurodivergent and/or queer, this game will SPEAK to you.
By that I mean: If you are in your 20s and even mildly neurodivergent and/or queer, this game will SPEAK to you.
January 11, 2026 at 2:17 PM
UNBEATABLE is the Night in the Woods of the 2020s.
By that I mean: If you are in your 20s and even mildly neurodivergent and/or queer, this game will SPEAK to you.
By that I mean: If you are in your 20s and even mildly neurodivergent and/or queer, this game will SPEAK to you.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:10 AM
January 9, 2026 at 8:10 AM
That's not "light-green" and "light-purple".
It's black with some highlights at most.
It's black with some highlights at most.
January 8, 2026 at 10:44 PM
That's not "light-green" and "light-purple".
It's black with some highlights at most.
It's black with some highlights at most.
Omg, that was so much better than that joke of a "finale", I'm in tears. Well played.
#StrangerThings #EvenStrangererThings
#StrangerThings #EvenStrangererThings
January 8, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Omg, that was so much better than that joke of a "finale", I'm in tears. Well played.
#StrangerThings #EvenStrangererThings
#StrangerThings #EvenStrangererThings
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Critics want subtlety. Traumatized kids need clarity. Stranger Things doesn't win because it's subtle. It wins because it's not afraid to say the truth out loud to the people who need to hear it most. www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-s...
We Are the Stranger Things - Kameron Hurley
CONTENT CAUTION: Contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5 and discusses childhood emotional and physical abuse. When I was a child, I lived with a monster. He slept in the big room at t...
www.kameronhurley.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Critics want subtlety. Traumatized kids need clarity. Stranger Things doesn't win because it's subtle. It wins because it's not afraid to say the truth out loud to the people who need to hear it most. www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-s...
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Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
January 5, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.
The first game I finished this year was Sowjet-Unterzögersdorf (Sektor 1) and.... I kinda recommend it?
www.monochrom.at/suz-game/sek...
www.monochrom.at/suz-game/sek...
SOVIET UNTERZOEGERSDORF / the adventure game
www.monochrom.at
January 2, 2026 at 6:45 PM
The first game I finished this year was Sowjet-Unterzögersdorf (Sektor 1) and.... I kinda recommend it?
www.monochrom.at/suz-game/sek...
www.monochrom.at/suz-game/sek...
One of the best games of all time.
New Year, New Game - ANODYNE 2: RETURN TO DUST
A 3D-2D adventure where you travel a 3D world and explore 2D dungeons inside of its characters' bodies and minds! In an unforgettable, surreal story, travel the world, meet whimsical denizens, and save the world from the dangerous Nano Dust.
A 3D-2D adventure where you travel a 3D world and explore 2D dungeons inside of its characters' bodies and minds! In an unforgettable, surreal story, travel the world, meet whimsical denizens, and save the world from the dangerous Nano Dust.
January 2, 2026 at 11:31 AM
One of the best games of all time.
People say they love coffee and then they're really snobby about it.
I however LOVE coffee. I drink and cherish it in all it's forms, shapes, colors, and viscosities. Learn from me, coffeeheads. All coffees are good.
(feel free to use this post as an allegory or don't)
I however LOVE coffee. I drink and cherish it in all it's forms, shapes, colors, and viscosities. Learn from me, coffeeheads. All coffees are good.
(feel free to use this post as an allegory or don't)
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 PM
People say they love coffee and then they're really snobby about it.
I however LOVE coffee. I drink and cherish it in all it's forms, shapes, colors, and viscosities. Learn from me, coffeeheads. All coffees are good.
(feel free to use this post as an allegory or don't)
I however LOVE coffee. I drink and cherish it in all it's forms, shapes, colors, and viscosities. Learn from me, coffeeheads. All coffees are good.
(feel free to use this post as an allegory or don't)
I really loved the specific experience of thinking I'd stumbled upon something optional, grinding it like a madman, and then reallizing at the end that it was mandatory the whole time.
December 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I really loved the specific experience of thinking I'd stumbled upon something optional, grinding it like a madman, and then reallizing at the end that it was mandatory the whole time.
Given his past records of predictions, I'm now wondering if dead people will actually start resurrecting.
Elon Musk warns ‘people will die’ after Mamdani taps Lillian Bonsignore as FDNY commissioner
Elon Musk warns ‘people will die’ after Mamdani taps Lillian Bonsignore as FDNY commissioner
Elon Musk threw cold water on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick of Lillian Bonsignore as the city’s FDNY commissioner, warning it would have dire consequences because she lacks firefigh…
buff.ly
December 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Given his past records of predictions, I'm now wondering if dead people will actually start resurrecting.
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Oh wow. This is mad interesting and def worth giving a watch
I really enjoyed that K-Pop Demon Hunters movie this year. I've watched it three times
The music was great, and k-pop music is an undeniable phenomenon.
But also this....
The music was great, and k-pop music is an undeniable phenomenon.
But also this....
December 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Oh wow. This is mad interesting and def worth giving a watch
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I really enjoyed that K-Pop Demon Hunters movie this year. I've watched it three times
The music was great, and k-pop music is an undeniable phenomenon.
But also this....
The music was great, and k-pop music is an undeniable phenomenon.
But also this....
December 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I really enjoyed that K-Pop Demon Hunters movie this year. I've watched it three times
The music was great, and k-pop music is an undeniable phenomenon.
But also this....
The music was great, and k-pop music is an undeniable phenomenon.
But also this....
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The tech bros will do everything in their power to prevent any regulation of AI, because regulation is a pin and AI is a bubble. And they are going to make America eat that loss somehow. Even as they sit on billions.
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The tech bros will do everything in their power to prevent any regulation of AI, because regulation is a pin and AI is a bubble. And they are going to make America eat that loss somehow. Even as they sit on billions.
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I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
The comedic cohesion machine in my brain now wants a subtweet by Rick Astley, saying he wouldn't habe recognized that place for the life of him.
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The comedic cohesion machine in my brain now wants a subtweet by Rick Astley, saying he wouldn't habe recognized that place for the life of him.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Let me be clear.. EVERYBODY who has admin or mod privileges in ANY discord server that is even remotely adjacent to gamedev needs to @ everyone about what's going on, and they need to do it YESTERDAY. More ppl got caught up in this, coulda been avoided. Dont click links from ANYONE w/o interrogation
@rittzler.bsky.social (creator of Pseudoregalia), has had their Discord and email hacked and is linking to a virus in disguise. If you see anything linking to a game called "Furfall", DO NOT engage with it. It's not made by Rittz and isn't a real game (it's a Remote Access Trojan) DO NOT CLICK IT.
December 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Let me be clear.. EVERYBODY who has admin or mod privileges in ANY discord server that is even remotely adjacent to gamedev needs to @ everyone about what's going on, and they need to do it YESTERDAY. More ppl got caught up in this, coulda been avoided. Dont click links from ANYONE w/o interrogation
This isn't new knowledge but through my interactions with cool people I have learned that you only actually become genuinely cool once you stop caring about the appearance of being cool.
This, however, makes said coolness imperceivable by people who care too much about coolness.
This, however, makes said coolness imperceivable by people who care too much about coolness.
December 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This isn't new knowledge but through my interactions with cool people I have learned that you only actually become genuinely cool once you stop caring about the appearance of being cool.
This, however, makes said coolness imperceivable by people who care too much about coolness.
This, however, makes said coolness imperceivable by people who care too much about coolness.
Tbf, I have seen more people dunk on (real?) people complain about the insignificance of avatar than I have seen people actually complaining about the insignificance of avatar.
"isn't it weird how nobody talks about the avatar movies" - everyone
December 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Tbf, I have seen more people dunk on (real?) people complain about the insignificance of avatar than I have seen people actually complaining about the insignificance of avatar.