Nick
@nickcummings.com
I make and write about games, ride my bike, and care a lot.
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🌲 Portland, Oregon
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🧑💻 whymog.net
🦝 thisgameishaunted.itch.io/trash-the-planet
🎮 whymog.itch.io
📝 @siliconsasquatch.com
🌲 Portland, Oregon
Ovinnorr nevarei
Re: last rt: I had a lovely time going to Lloyd Center in December for a craft goods pop-up. It is a strange beast now, post-apocalyptic in the best sense: new life poking out through old decay. But there’s zero doubt in my mind that it is the single best site for healthy redevelopment in the city.
February 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Re: last rt: I had a lovely time going to Lloyd Center in December for a craft goods pop-up. It is a strange beast now, post-apocalyptic in the best sense: new life poking out through old decay. But there’s zero doubt in my mind that it is the single best site for healthy redevelopment in the city.
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Man I have a ton of great memories and emotional attachments to Lloyd Center. Also, it’s time for it to go
February 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Man I have a ton of great memories and emotional attachments to Lloyd Center. Also, it’s time for it to go
Living in a city where a few hundred of my neighbors are down to go for a bike ride in the dead of winter is gonna save me, I swear
February 8, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Living in a city where a few hundred of my neighbors are down to go for a bike ride in the dead of winter is gonna save me, I swear
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man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
February 8, 2026 at 4:42 AM
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
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Portland, OR mayor Keith Wilson responding to public demands that ICE's land use permit be rescinded after they gassed thousands of peaceful men women and children.
Kinda curious what "the course" we should stay is here, Keith? Watching ICE gas, abduct and sometimes shoot our neighbors?
Kinda curious what "the course" we should stay is here, Keith? Watching ICE gas, abduct and sometimes shoot our neighbors?
February 8, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Portland, OR mayor Keith Wilson responding to public demands that ICE's land use permit be rescinded after they gassed thousands of peaceful men women and children.
Kinda curious what "the course" we should stay is here, Keith? Watching ICE gas, abduct and sometimes shoot our neighbors?
Kinda curious what "the course" we should stay is here, Keith? Watching ICE gas, abduct and sometimes shoot our neighbors?
I am begging you to stop posting on, or paying money to, Substack. There are good alternatives. Don’t enable this behavior. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I am begging you to stop posting on, or paying money to, Substack. There are good alternatives. Don’t enable this behavior. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
I’ve been thinking about streaming Fallout: New Vegas to raise money to help people targeted by our nightmare federal police apparatus. Does anyone have any advice on donation tracking? Twitch’s built-in charity tools require you to be a Partner, which, like, 🙄✊🏻
February 7, 2026 at 7:46 PM
I’ve been thinking about streaming Fallout: New Vegas to raise money to help people targeted by our nightmare federal police apparatus. Does anyone have any advice on donation tracking? Twitch’s built-in charity tools require you to be a Partner, which, like, 🙄✊🏻
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There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 5:12 AM
There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.
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as a journalist, the gutting of wapo makes me anxious; as an american, it makes me terrified
February 5, 2026 at 12:22 AM
as a journalist, the gutting of wapo makes me anxious; as an american, it makes me terrified
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If you’re a billionaire why are you paying professionals money to make people believe you are good at a videogame? How the fuck did that seem like a good idea? Take a hundred mil and buy the rights to Thief and Deus Ex and make sequels, you can do that, have a fucking dream dumdum create something
February 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM
If you’re a billionaire why are you paying professionals money to make people believe you are good at a videogame? How the fuck did that seem like a good idea? Take a hundred mil and buy the rights to Thief and Deus Ex and make sequels, you can do that, have a fucking dream dumdum create something
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Hello. I set out to write a short follow-up as a coda to the @siliconsasquatch.com Game of the Year feature and instead wrote several full articles. Please enjoy this...well, I'm calling it a zine.
Please enjoy this zine about AI, aging, skills lost/found: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2026/2/...
Please enjoy this zine about AI, aging, skills lost/found: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2026/2/...
GOTY 2025: Nick Presents a Zine on 2025 and the Future — Silicon Sasquatch
Presenting the 2026 Nick Prospectus and Digest
www.siliconsasquatch.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Hello. I set out to write a short follow-up as a coda to the @siliconsasquatch.com Game of the Year feature and instead wrote several full articles. Please enjoy this...well, I'm calling it a zine.
Please enjoy this zine about AI, aging, skills lost/found: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2026/2/...
Please enjoy this zine about AI, aging, skills lost/found: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2026/2/...
Oh! Oh wow. I wonder if NetEase will issue a statement amending/correcting anything Suda said in the interview. I’d be shocked, albeit impressed, if it truly is a blanket ban (e.g., no coding assists, etc.)
February 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Oh! Oh wow. I wonder if NetEase will issue a statement amending/correcting anything Suda said in the interview. I’d be shocked, albeit impressed, if it truly is a blanket ban (e.g., no coding assists, etc.)
Hello. I set out to write a short follow-up as a coda to the @siliconsasquatch.com Game of the Year feature and instead wrote several full articles. Please enjoy this...well, I'm calling it a zine.
Please enjoy this zine about AI, aging, skills lost/found: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2026/2/...
Please enjoy this zine about AI, aging, skills lost/found: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2026/2/...
GOTY 2025: Nick Presents a Zine on 2025 and the Future — Silicon Sasquatch
Presenting the 2026 Nick Prospectus and Digest
www.siliconsasquatch.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Hello. I set out to write a short follow-up as a coda to the @siliconsasquatch.com Game of the Year feature and instead wrote several full articles. Please enjoy this...well, I'm calling it a zine.
Please enjoy this zine about AI, aging, skills lost/found: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2026/2/...
Please enjoy this zine about AI, aging, skills lost/found: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2026/2/...
Bumping this up one last time! Here's 10,000 words of ad-free, just-for-the-love-of-the-thing writing about games and what they meant to us in 2025. I hope it leaves you inspired to check out a new-to-you game or, at the very least, invites you to reassess a perspective you hold.
Now presenting the 2025 Silicon Sasquatch Game of the Year Awards, featuring the voices of @tyleramartin.bsky.social, @dougbonham.blog, @aaronthayer.bsky.social, Spencer-whose-Bluesky-handle-is-a-secret, and @nickcummings.com. Somehow, we did it again. 🧡
The 2025 Silicon Sasquatch Game of the Year Awards — Silicon Sasquatch
We’re back! Here are the 20 games of 2025 that we’d like to tell you about.
www.siliconsasquatch.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Bumping this up one last time! Here's 10,000 words of ad-free, just-for-the-love-of-the-thing writing about games and what they meant to us in 2025. I hope it leaves you inspired to check out a new-to-you game or, at the very least, invites you to reassess a perspective you hold.
This is a very important read, both because it captures a crucial moment in our history very well and because it features what’s gotta be the absolute best ethical disclosure in journalism history. (I’m not gonna spoil it — it’s a gift link; you can read it yourself!)
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
This is a very important read, both because it captures a crucial moment in our history very well and because it features what’s gotta be the absolute best ethical disclosure in journalism history. (I’m not gonna spoil it — it’s a gift link; you can read it yourself!)
Rise of the Dark Realms is the equivalent of winning a Magic game by forcing your friends to sit through a 45-minute slideshow of a family vacation they weren't even invited on
February 3, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Rise of the Dark Realms is the equivalent of winning a Magic game by forcing your friends to sit through a 45-minute slideshow of a family vacation they weren't even invited on
I made a list of things I wanted to do today and, as much as it frustrates me to admit this, it actually helped.
February 3, 2026 at 3:22 AM
I made a list of things I wanted to do today and, as much as it frustrates me to admit this, it actually helped.
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If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]
February 1, 2026 at 6:06 AM
If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]
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It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
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February 1, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
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I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
Whyyy did I wait so long to play Perfect Tides
January 31, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Whyyy did I wait so long to play Perfect Tides
I want to play way more games than I have found time for in recent years. I feel like I’m missing some really important developments, context, inspiration, etc. I have to confess I feel very sheepish saying this — what a selfish thing! How indulgent! — and I guess I need to ask that voice to chill.
January 30, 2026 at 11:22 PM
I want to play way more games than I have found time for in recent years. I feel like I’m missing some really important developments, context, inspiration, etc. I have to confess I feel very sheepish saying this — what a selfish thing! How indulgent! — and I guess I need to ask that voice to chill.