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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14h

my hot take is that the fantasy that’s being catered to with videos like the one going around is of participation in a seamless, infinite, directed loop where the player and computer are constantly updating each other. which is where I think a lot of the satisfaction in systemic video games is. 🧵

merritt @merrittk.com · 14h

this is stupid but at some point i think we have to confront the fact that there appears to be a not insignificant demand for videogames to be the holodeck, an infinite virtual playground you can basically live in. except even holodeck programs were actually written by someone, right?

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 20h

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 8d

Dark Souls II

merritt @merrittk.com · 9d

[pushes you down the lake berryessa glory hole spillway]

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Ice-Pick Lodge @icepicklodge.bsky.social · 11d

Pathologic 3 launches on January 9, 2026.

A new free demo — an introduction to the full game — is out now on Steam!

We’re also unveiling the first of three trailers, each offering a different perspective on Pathologic 3.

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Pathologic 3: Release Date Announcement

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 24d

100% co-sign. Marx did in fact have AI dialed in, somehow

Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 25d

I know it's a real cliché but I still think Karl Marx is one of the most important theorists to read if you want to understand capital's obsession with generative AI. This is from pg 692-93 of the Grundrisse.

The quote is too long for alt-text sorry but if you go to this link it is the paragraph starting with "As long as the means of labour..." https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch13.htm

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 25d

The only good things that have happened to me have been the result of random chance and unfortunately the precondition to random chance occurring is not throwing in the towel and pushing forward

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yeah I'm in deep for 1,200 dollars just for the tow. Please help

Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yeah I'm in deep for 1,200 dollars just for the tow. Please help

Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856

Donate to Help me fix my car and afford food, organized by Justin Keever

I just moved across the country to a major city for a job that pays 40,000 a year. Th… Justin Keever needs your support for Help me fix my car and afford food

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856

Donate to Help me fix my car and afford food, organized by Justin Keever

I just moved across the country to a major city for a job that pays 40,000 a year. Th… Justin Keever needs your support for Help me fix my car and afford food

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856

Donate to Help me fix my car and afford food, organized by Justin Keever

I just moved across the country to a major city for a job that pays 40,000 a year. Th… Justin Keever needs your support for Help me fix my car and afford food

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Aug 15

Lesson learned, and I will commit to asceticism from here on in

Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Aug 15

Lessons from this cross-country move: I am too poor to have ever thought I should be allowed to own things. Can't afford to move 'em! Can't afford help! No one will buy them!

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jul 9

So, what are the odds of someone like me, with no online following to really speak of, raising like $1,500 to move across the country?

Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jul 1

I'd believe it!

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jul 1

McKenzie Wark, "Gamer Theory" (2007)

rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · Jul 1

I have long said that the dream of a huge number of video games is "what if capitalism but it worked"

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Apr 17

84% of indie video games are basically like, 'What if you were employed'

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jul 1

Has a diagram of a concept in a book of critical theory/philosophy ever been helpful? Even once??

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jul 1

The way the game falls back on the least interesting possible explanation for its metaphysics (i.e. the way that beaches work) was the final nail in the coffin

Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jul 1

I've been playing the original Death Stranding and, having now reached chapter 8, I think I've stopped believing this game is going to become good. It's just a slightly slower open world action game! With bad characters!

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jun 19

"who cares?" The people seem to say

Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jun 19

Tapped out on Clair Obscur right at the end of act 2 because I got bored of the combat. Should I finish it?

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jun 17

Is there any scholarship out there on those bodycam shooters that are slowly rising in popularity?

Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jun 12

Bumping this one more time - it's in dire need of a boost!

Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you're looking for a distraction, I've got a new video essay out about character-driven storytelling, Choice and Forgiveness in, well, a shooter whose whole bit is being irreverent. I think this is a fun one! (link below)

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jun 12

Which is itself made possible by the speculative asset-ification of the cards, to be clear

Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jun 12

In addition to the speculative asset-ification of trading cards that's taken hold, for the boosters specifically there's also the parasitic economy of pack-opening content, where viewers get to by proxy experience the expenditure of opening an expensive pack w/nothing in it

cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · Jun 12

I went to a regional "market for collectors" the other day and saw people engaged in Wall Street-esque table trading of Pokemon cards for marginal speculative value. People constantly checking apps, walking from table to table, buying boosters at really high rates. 2/

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you're looking for a distraction, I've got a new video essay out about character-driven storytelling, Choice and Forgiveness in, well, a shooter whose whole bit is being irreverent. I think this is a fun one! (link below)

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · Jun 11

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Choice and Forgiveness in... Bulletstorm?

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