Andrew
@bungleroo.bsky.social
host of Upstairs Downstairs Game Talk
https://youtube.com/@upstairsdownstairsgametalk?si=6kqTlGMxwu8iM3pV
https://youtube.com/@upstairsdownstairsgametalk?si=6kqTlGMxwu8iM3pV
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I've only been subbed to Critical Error's Patreon for a few weeks now. I've loved their main show but it's nice to hear from these dudes in a more casual setting and about a broader array of topics. They've quickly become by go to show to listen to, very few voices in games media like them.
three new patrons already today! there's a lot of value for $5 here!
January 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I've only been subbed to Critical Error's Patreon for a few weeks now. I've loved their main show but it's nice to hear from these dudes in a more casual setting and about a broader array of topics. They've quickly become by go to show to listen to, very few voices in games media like them.
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Books Are Better Than Video Games*
YouTube video by Critical Error
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 3:27 PM
i am, of course, anti-crunch. but god damn do these posts that only amount to “crunch is bad, like this post if you agree!” drive me up the wall.
volunteer a solution! have an actionable response to work conditions you find unacceptable! do more than live on the internet!
volunteer a solution! have an actionable response to work conditions you find unacceptable! do more than live on the internet!
January 14, 2026 at 1:11 PM
i am, of course, anti-crunch. but god damn do these posts that only amount to “crunch is bad, like this post if you agree!” drive me up the wall.
volunteer a solution! have an actionable response to work conditions you find unacceptable! do more than live on the internet!
volunteer a solution! have an actionable response to work conditions you find unacceptable! do more than live on the internet!
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PREDICTING 2026 Video Game DISCOURSE 🔮
What is everyone going to talk about this year?
🚨 CRITICAL ERROR available now: youtu.be/IqWpOQfTa1k?...
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
PREDICTING 2026 Video Game DISCOURSE 🔮
What is everyone going to talk about this year?
🚨 CRITICAL ERROR available now: youtu.be/IqWpOQfTa1k?...
What is everyone going to talk about this year?
🚨 CRITICAL ERROR available now: youtu.be/IqWpOQfTa1k?...
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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
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
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
Makes me hopeful during a bleak time. #MAGFest
Great job @aguaspoints.bsky.social, @theautumnwright.bsky.social, Stuart, and @jakesteinberg.substack.com
this got a laugh and a cry out of me.
January 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
this got a laugh and a cry out of me.
folks will celebrate the decision of Larian Studios to not use Gen AI (to an extent, maybe?), putting the power of protest on a pedestal.
and yet those same people are hyped for the Xbox whatever presentation while this is going on?
hate posting this shit btw.
bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...
and yet those same people are hyped for the Xbox whatever presentation while this is going on?
hate posting this shit btw.
bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...
Boycott Microsoft's Xbox
Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza – which is why Microsoft is a now pr...
bdsmovement.net
January 9, 2026 at 3:42 PM
folks will celebrate the decision of Larian Studios to not use Gen AI (to an extent, maybe?), putting the power of protest on a pedestal.
and yet those same people are hyped for the Xbox whatever presentation while this is going on?
hate posting this shit btw.
bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...
and yet those same people are hyped for the Xbox whatever presentation while this is going on?
hate posting this shit btw.
bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...
January 8, 2026 at 2:19 PM
a feed littered with alternating posts of “new mario looks good!” and “nazis killed a mom yesterday!” is causing severe psychic damage.
January 8, 2026 at 1:54 PM
a feed littered with alternating posts of “new mario looks good!” and “nazis killed a mom yesterday!” is causing severe psychic damage.
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If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.
January 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.
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...
“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
man, this broke me. love crying in my car.
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signing this!! i dont believe ive streamed any microsoft or xbox game stuff recently but i'll double check and drop them from my rotation if i am! going forward i will not be streaming or supporting any of them!!! free palestine!!!
If you haven't already, January is a good time to cancel your Xbox Game Pass in solidarity with Palestine. Read more about the boycott on our website and sign our pledge at nogamesforgenocide.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:25 PM
signing this!! i dont believe ive streamed any microsoft or xbox game stuff recently but i'll double check and drop them from my rotation if i am! going forward i will not be streaming or supporting any of them!!! free palestine!!!
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I want to get back in the habit of regularly blogging and sharing my thoughts on Nintendo in unconventional ways. Keeping in this habit also helps with my professional work!! Gotta stay sharp. So here's a little story about my favorite, pointless activity in DK Bananza:
medium.com/@abrambuehne...
medium.com/@abrambuehne...
Mischief
My favorite endgame activity in Donkey Kong Bananza is utterly pointless. I doesn’t earn a Banandium Gem or a new pair of pants.
medium.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I want to get back in the habit of regularly blogging and sharing my thoughts on Nintendo in unconventional ways. Keeping in this habit also helps with my professional work!! Gotta stay sharp. So here's a little story about my favorite, pointless activity in DK Bananza:
medium.com/@abrambuehne...
medium.com/@abrambuehne...
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nvm that ending was trash hahahahaha
maze runner kinda rules
January 5, 2026 at 2:19 AM
nvm that ending was trash hahahahaha
maze runner kinda rules
January 5, 2026 at 2:08 AM
maze runner kinda rules
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We have SO much stuff on the patreon already and (as we talked about in this week's bonus pod) we have SO much planned for 2026!!
Subscribe!!!
Subscribe!!!
CRITICAL ERROR Bonus Podcasts are available for $5 and up subscribers right now!
Give us a try while you wait for all your favorite creators and outlets to get back into the swing of things in 2026!
www.patreon.com/criticalerror
Give us a try while you wait for all your favorite creators and outlets to get back into the swing of things in 2026!
www.patreon.com/criticalerror
January 4, 2026 at 5:22 PM
We have SO much stuff on the patreon already and (as we talked about in this week's bonus pod) we have SO much planned for 2026!!
Subscribe!!!
Subscribe!!!
i’ve long been out of practice when it comes to reading - hoping to redevelop that skill in 2026 through the act of reading a book a month.
this begs the question: how do you find books to read? is there a resource that helps identify a book that would click with me?
this begs the question: how do you find books to read? is there a resource that helps identify a book that would click with me?
January 4, 2026 at 5:08 PM
i’ve long been out of practice when it comes to reading - hoping to redevelop that skill in 2026 through the act of reading a book a month.
this begs the question: how do you find books to read? is there a resource that helps identify a book that would click with me?
this begs the question: how do you find books to read? is there a resource that helps identify a book that would click with me?
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CRITICAL ERROR Bonus Podcasts are available for $5 and up subscribers right now!
Give us a try while you wait for all your favorite creators and outlets to get back into the swing of things in 2026!
www.patreon.com/criticalerror
Give us a try while you wait for all your favorite creators and outlets to get back into the swing of things in 2026!
www.patreon.com/criticalerror
January 4, 2026 at 4:34 PM
CRITICAL ERROR Bonus Podcasts are available for $5 and up subscribers right now!
Give us a try while you wait for all your favorite creators and outlets to get back into the swing of things in 2026!
www.patreon.com/criticalerror
Give us a try while you wait for all your favorite creators and outlets to get back into the swing of things in 2026!
www.patreon.com/criticalerror
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putting the Vecussy in Season 5 of Stranger Things was a choice.
January 2, 2026 at 1:03 AM
putting the Vecussy in Season 5 of Stranger Things was a choice.
i cannot imagine a world where folks who don't participate in the BDS boycott draw the line at AI slop.
How can they make HALO worse? How can the wreck it harder?
Guess.
Guess.
Halo Studios Goes All In on Gen AI, Making It a Core Pillar for Future Halo Game Development
Halo Studios is doubling down on Gen AI usage and making it a core pillar for future Halo titles by hiring experts related to the field.
tech4gamers.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
i cannot imagine a world where folks who don't participate in the BDS boycott draw the line at AI slop.
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☃️CRITICAL ERROR CHRISTMAS MORNING☃️
We are unwrapping presents in the form of GUEST APPEARANCES 🤩
This all-star cast features @barrettcourtney.bsky.social, @theautumnwright.bsky.social & @jmrivera.bsky.social sharing with us their GAMES and CRITICAL ERRORS of the year!
youtu.be/uYD6GFTIXes?...
We are unwrapping presents in the form of GUEST APPEARANCES 🤩
This all-star cast features @barrettcourtney.bsky.social, @theautumnwright.bsky.social & @jmrivera.bsky.social sharing with us their GAMES and CRITICAL ERRORS of the year!
youtu.be/uYD6GFTIXes?...
Critical Error's 2025 GOTY (feat. All of Our Favorites)
YouTube video by Critical Error
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
☃️CRITICAL ERROR CHRISTMAS MORNING☃️
We are unwrapping presents in the form of GUEST APPEARANCES 🤩
This all-star cast features @barrettcourtney.bsky.social, @theautumnwright.bsky.social & @jmrivera.bsky.social sharing with us their GAMES and CRITICAL ERRORS of the year!
youtu.be/uYD6GFTIXes?...
We are unwrapping presents in the form of GUEST APPEARANCES 🤩
This all-star cast features @barrettcourtney.bsky.social, @theautumnwright.bsky.social & @jmrivera.bsky.social sharing with us their GAMES and CRITICAL ERRORS of the year!
youtu.be/uYD6GFTIXes?...
bUt My AuDiEnCe Is ThErE
Imagine still using Twitter.
Users are noticing Twitter/X has added a Grok-powered AI image editor that lets anyone edit any image on the platform, including other people’s artwork using text prompts.
Artists warn there’s no opt-out or consent, raising concerns over unauthorized edits and misuse.
Artists warn there’s no opt-out or consent, raising concerns over unauthorized edits and misuse.
December 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
bUt My AuDiEnCe Is ThErE
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3 years ago I started work on a SIGNALIS video essay. It ended up feature length, and subsequently sat on my hard drive as a rough cut.
Until today.
After numerous passes, I've finally hit publish on The Emotional Horror of SIGNALIS.
Hell can be a place of healing.
Until today.
After numerous passes, I've finally hit publish on The Emotional Horror of SIGNALIS.
Hell can be a place of healing.
December 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
3 years ago I started work on a SIGNALIS video essay. It ended up feature length, and subsequently sat on my hard drive as a rough cut.
Until today.
After numerous passes, I've finally hit publish on The Emotional Horror of SIGNALIS.
Hell can be a place of healing.
Until today.
After numerous passes, I've finally hit publish on The Emotional Horror of SIGNALIS.
Hell can be a place of healing.