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Having been announced at the 2024 Game Awards, today marks about two and a half years since I was made aware of Milestone's latest entry into the racing game genre. Screamer, a reboot of an old racing game franchise from the MS-DOS days when Milestone was then known as Graffiti, initially hooked me HARD. Cyberpunk has always caught my eye as an aesthetic, and CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 left…
[the following is a scatterbrained ventpost. we find that there is utility in blasting our incomplete thoughts about our upbringing, as it sometimes helps jog our memories and pulls forward a better understanding of our deeply-hidden feelings and thoughts. this is, essentially, the incomplete initial reaction to information we'd been ignorant to our entire lives.] I think we've spoken before, many…
Plurality. In its direct sense, it merely describes a multitude of something. Four apples, twenty people, forty horses. Those multiple things then become a singular again; a batch, a council, a herd. In the context of the human consciousness, it is the opposite of an individualistic, 'one body, one mind' perception of the self. Plurality is to be made up of multiple parts that make up the whole.…
I'm probably a big dumb idiot moron, so be kind to me please. I came out of the TADC Finale in theaters feeling like I'd missed some shit, because the movie didn't quite "click" in the way I was hoping it would. So, I'm throwing questions here (rather than posting them directly to Bluesky and either getting passed over because of how long the thread would be, or just spamming spoilers into…
Before I jump into the main focus of this post, I want to make it very clear that I try my best to be reasonable on my blog. This is where I can place my thoughts in a more precise manner than I can on microblogging sites, and the culture of Cohost while it ran truly encouraged me to think hard about what I wanted to say. Of course, sometimes I write some things here that are written in a dazed,…
There is a developing sentiment around Róisín Garrity, a character from the 2026 racing game Screamer, that she is a bitchy hot-head who needs to shut the fuck up. Lots of this is coming from dipshit misogynistic 'men' who honestly just hate when any woman is anything but docile and obedient, but there are a few friends of mine who do genuinely hate her guts. They're not necessarily wrong for…
the ebb and flow of life pushes and pulls at people. struggles come and go, battles won and lost. but if you put enough elbow grease and authenticity into your life, you'll find a lot of your battles end up going your way. aeroteq is a twitch streamer, but that'd be bastardizing the role they've had in my life. in my teenage years, i was a rotten little shit. my only role model for being One Of…
HOLY SHIT. WHAT A FUCKING GAME. I only have four and a half hours of playtime on the 2026 release of twin-stick racing game Screamer, so my opinion might change... but I only see my opinion of this game improving over time. Those who've kept up with this blog will think they recognize a pattern of a honeymoon phase giving way to frustration and burnout. At least, that's what happened with…
A while back, I wrote about my very early impressions on Screamer. I think I might have jumped the gun on that. HokiHoshi's latest dives into the twin-stick racing game, along with Aenore's critiques of the game being valid yet rather small ones - at least when compared to the kinds of criticisms levied against most arcade racers of the current era - have opened my mind quite a lot. My initial…
I previously enjoyed my time with Marathon. This was back when many Destiny players were excited about a new Bungie game set in an old, complicated narrative built by 90's boomer shooters of the same name by the same people. The game felt different - mostly because of its design language and art style, its narrative and its gameplay. That's been ruined by the typical sweatlord assholes who fixate…