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1. No one is ever, ever going to play StarCraft with the touchpads on the new Steam controller
2. No one ever uses the touchpads on the Steam Deck
3. The dominant formfactor in gamepads isn't Dual Shock but the Xbox Controller, because that's the best form factor, but you can't praise Microsoft
2. No one ever uses the touchpads on the Steam Deck
3. The dominant formfactor in gamepads isn't Dual Shock but the Xbox Controller, because that's the best form factor, but you can't praise Microsoft
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
1. No one is ever, ever going to play StarCraft with the touchpads on the new Steam controller
2. No one ever uses the touchpads on the Steam Deck
3. The dominant formfactor in gamepads isn't Dual Shock but the Xbox Controller, because that's the best form factor, but you can't praise Microsoft
2. No one ever uses the touchpads on the Steam Deck
3. The dominant formfactor in gamepads isn't Dual Shock but the Xbox Controller, because that's the best form factor, but you can't praise Microsoft
Patreon is full of far right stuff
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Patreon is full of far right stuff
Ryan you are still on Twitter. You are an active participant in Elon Musk's racist jamboree. And yet you play this game of constantly panhandling by calling out Substack. Yet you never have a response, probably because that hypocrisy is not defensible.
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Ryan you are still on Twitter. You are an active participant in Elon Musk's racist jamboree. And yet you play this game of constantly panhandling by calling out Substack. Yet you never have a response, probably because that hypocrisy is not defensible.
What are you even critiquing?
October 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
What are you even critiquing?
The thing is, if someone actually put the moral challenge to you "Should an 8-year-old event that happened during an active psychotic disorder for which the person responsible has apologized again and again damn him for life," you would say no.
October 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The thing is, if someone actually put the moral challenge to you "Should an 8-year-old event that happened during an active psychotic disorder for which the person responsible has apologized again and again damn him for life," you would say no.
Just absolutely stunning ignorance about what is actually at stake here and direct and unambiguous misrepresentations of the study cited.
September 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Just absolutely stunning ignorance about what is actually at stake here and direct and unambiguous misrepresentations of the study cited.
The social justice-y left is in this really untenable position where they've adopted the habits of thought and communication of academic lefty enclave politics but without its built-in fatalism about public opinion. A niche politics that can't admit it's niche because that would be being "owned"
September 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The social justice-y left is in this really untenable position where they've adopted the habits of thought and communication of academic lefty enclave politics but without its built-in fatalism about public opinion. A niche politics that can't admit it's niche because that would be being "owned"
I have no idea why that account would do whatever it did and it's not my job to figure out the Mystery of the Reddit Account. Why would I say in November that I have no public Reddit account, please don't trust any of them, and then start one a month later? freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/mailbag-gr...
August 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I have no idea why that account would do whatever it did and it's not my job to figure out the Mystery of the Reddit Account. Why would I say in November that I have no public Reddit account, please don't trust any of them, and then start one a month later? freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/mailbag-gr...
No, I just know how unpopular I am and sometimes I want to talk about stuff without the baggage.
August 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
No, I just know how unpopular I am and sometimes I want to talk about stuff without the baggage.
I've had a target on my back for more than 15 years
August 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I've had a target on my back for more than 15 years
Here I warn people not to believe that a Reddit account claiming to be me is actually me. “I do make occasional Reddit burners to ask questions about home maintenance or video games or such, but that’s it.” I’ve been through this before. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/mailbag-gr...
Mailbag Grab Grab
What follows are specific questions that I have received in my inbox in the last three or four months, or composites of questions I regularly receive.
freddiedeboer.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Here I warn people not to believe that a Reddit account claiming to be me is actually me. “I do make occasional Reddit burners to ask questions about home maintenance or video games or such, but that’s it.” I’ve been through this before. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/mailbag-gr...
I make burners on Reddit and churn through two or three in a year. I post about the NFL, video games, and sometimes on the Red Scare sub because I was looking for a refugee space when they shut down the Cum Town reddit.
August 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I make burners on Reddit and churn through two or three in a year. I post about the NFL, video games, and sometimes on the Red Scare sub because I was looking for a refugee space when they shut down the Cum Town reddit.
Really? You're carrying around a 15-year-old argument I had in a Blogger blog that I wouldn't have remembered if you didn't bring it up. Shouldn't you move on?
August 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Really? You're carrying around a 15-year-old argument I had in a Blogger blog that I wouldn't have remembered if you didn't bring it up. Shouldn't you move on?
I understand that you are rewarded for this behavior socially and professionally. But when someone asks a question about a book that you are purportedly reading, and you answer it as though you know, and your answer is wrong, you should have the integrity to just own up to it.
August 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I understand that you are rewarded for this behavior socially and professionally. But when someone asks a question about a book that you are purportedly reading, and you answer it as though you know, and your answer is wrong, you should have the integrity to just own up to it.
That's interesting; I don't know who you are at all.
August 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
That's interesting; I don't know who you are at all.
Again, you can admit that you were being dishonest when you said that Katz was right that the main character in my book is someone who thinks that she's special. You can just say "sorry, I was caught up in the moment and Freddie is very easy to make fun of here, but it wasn't true." That's OK.
August 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Again, you can admit that you were being dishonest when you said that Katz was right that the main character in my book is someone who thinks that she's special. You can just say "sorry, I was caught up in the moment and Freddie is very easy to make fun of here, but it wasn't true." That's OK.
I think that your ongoing effort to appear endlessly aloof and jokey and superior is unconvincing, in part because you still feel the need to constantly dangle me out here for approval from your followers like this. I think you feel badly stung by my criticism and I think you're insecure in general.
August 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I think that your ongoing effort to appear endlessly aloof and jokey and superior is unconvincing, in part because you still feel the need to constantly dangle me out here for approval from your followers like this. I think you feel badly stung by my criticism and I think you're insecure in general.
But that's not the question, right? There is arguably no person in this business who has a more secure position than you. You are nearly 40. You responded to someone's dishonest characterization, you were informed it was wrong, but you haven't retracted anything. It's up to you if you should.
August 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
But that's not the question, right? There is arguably no person in this business who has a more secure position than you. You are nearly 40. You responded to someone's dishonest characterization, you were informed it was wrong, but you haven't retracted anything. It's up to you if you should.
I think people shouldn't judge books they haven't read, shouldn't mischaracterize where a blurb comes from, should admit they were wrong when corrected, and shouldn't constantly seek the approval of strangers on social media by invoking other the unpopularity of third parties. It's not complicated.
August 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I think people shouldn't judge books they haven't read, shouldn't mischaracterize where a blurb comes from, should admit they were wrong when corrected, and shouldn't constantly seek the approval of strangers on social media by invoking other the unpopularity of third parties. It's not complicated.
Rusty at some point you have to get over high school
August 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Rusty at some point you have to get over high school
Jamelle I think that you're responding this way because you that you acted in a shitty way and you feel embarrassed about it. I still have your old emails when you used to complain about this sort of thing, way back at the beginning. I think you get why this is childish.
August 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Jamelle I think that you're responding this way because you that you acted in a shitty way and you feel embarrassed about it. I still have your old emails when you used to complain about this sort of thing, way back at the beginning. I think you get why this is childish.
But of course, none of them have read the book; more importantly, it's just really embarrassing to go trawling for likes by invoking an unpopular figure who's not present. Katz has my email. It's easy to register criticism that way.
August 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
But of course, none of them have read the book; more importantly, it's just really embarrassing to go trawling for likes by invoking an unpopular figure who's not present. Katz has my email. It's easy to register criticism that way.