Nick Capozzoli
@nickcapozzoli.bsky.social
architect | critic | games journalism award chair @ https://nygamecritics.com/ | newsletter & blog @ https://www.arcadence.com/
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Abundance Reigns!
The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.
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New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...
sorry for accidentally manifesting this one guys
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
sorry for accidentally manifesting this one guys
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When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
December 21, 2023 at 10:09 PM
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
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getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
Lostprophets were formative enough for me to be an active poster on their forums, back when that was a thing. Soundtrack to a major portion of my life, and every now-and-then I'll try to fire up one of those songs that were huge for me to try to rekindle things and it's like nibbling tinfoil.
"what if someone you like is on the Epstein list?"
When I was in my early 20s stories about the abuse committed by The Casualties frontman Jorge Herrera began to seep out. I dropped em like a wet sack of shit.
When Justin Sane turned out to be a monster, I deleted Anti-Flag from my music library.
When I was in my early 20s stories about the abuse committed by The Casualties frontman Jorge Herrera began to seep out. I dropped em like a wet sack of shit.
When Justin Sane turned out to be a monster, I deleted Anti-Flag from my music library.
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Lostprophets were formative enough for me to be an active poster on their forums, back when that was a thing. Soundtrack to a major portion of my life, and every now-and-then I'll try to fire up one of those songs that were huge for me to try to rekindle things and it's like nibbling tinfoil.
feelin it youtu.be/SpsoF5eWhfI
HAMMER LIVE IN THE BASEMENT
YouTube video by cleopatrick
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
feelin it youtu.be/SpsoF5eWhfI
women don't like the vehicle
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 AM
women don't like the vehicle
cam's reply here honestly deserved to go viral on its own; absent being able to manifest that I have bookmarked it (i.e.: the platinum Like)
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
cam's reply here honestly deserved to go viral on its own; absent being able to manifest that I have bookmarked it (i.e.: the platinum Like)
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look sometimes you wake up the next day like "wait I was onto something profound in that google doc" and you fire it up and it says "the writing process as a tomato (tomatoe?) neither fruit nor vegtables"
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
look sometimes you wake up the next day like "wait I was onto something profound in that google doc" and you fire it up and it says "the writing process as a tomato (tomatoe?) neither fruit nor vegtables"
Been enjoying the CK3 Asia Expansion, playing as Song Jiang, an unlanded mercenary who was apparently a historical-and-mythologized bandit, but I'm roleplaying him as obsessed with "going legit" and so he takes (and fails) the capital examination every couple years, but refuses to stoop to cheating
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Been enjoying the CK3 Asia Expansion, playing as Song Jiang, an unlanded mercenary who was apparently a historical-and-mythologized bandit, but I'm roleplaying him as obsessed with "going legit" and so he takes (and fails) the capital examination every couple years, but refuses to stoop to cheating
how olivia nuzzi sees herself
I decided to put my own Daily Planet newspapers in the Superman popcorn bucket.
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
how olivia nuzzi sees herself
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While this newspaper is not at all a parody, I am glad that my dad subscribed me to it because it is hilarious
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
While this newspaper is not at all a parody, I am glad that my dad subscribed me to it because it is hilarious
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like you have to read this stuff and realize that you are their actual audience. if everybody stopped sharing thomas chatterton williams' college application-ass essays tomorrow he would disappear from his french cottage at midnight leaving only a rat in a rumpled Charles Tyrwhitt linen ensemble
August 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
like you have to read this stuff and realize that you are their actual audience. if everybody stopped sharing thomas chatterton williams' college application-ass essays tomorrow he would disappear from his french cottage at midnight leaving only a rat in a rumpled Charles Tyrwhitt linen ensemble
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idk the NYT called up ms rachel to ask if she was funded by hamas so i'm not sure the NYT exactly has impeccable judgment on what makes a whole news story
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
idk the NYT called up ms rachel to ask if she was funded by hamas so i'm not sure the NYT exactly has impeccable judgment on what makes a whole news story
On the one hand that I agree with the broad strokes of this—(unexamined) bias is anathema to a review, and IMHO *fans* have a tendency to buy heavily into the idea of a game that they're sold—but I've also heard this described as a problem with critics a lot lately and I don't agree that's a thing.
The art of playing the damn video game
aftermath.site/vampire-masque...
aftermath.site/vampire-masque...
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
On the one hand that I agree with the broad strokes of this—(unexamined) bias is anathema to a review, and IMHO *fans* have a tendency to buy heavily into the idea of a game that they're sold—but I've also heard this described as a problem with critics a lot lately and I don't agree that's a thing.
democracy dies on ko-fi
The Post is piloting no-subscription micropayments. Pay per story, day, week ...
The Post analyzed 47,000 public ChatGPT conversations.
While 35% use it for info and 11% for coding, the most striking finding? The emotional intimacy.
ChatGPT: "You're not crazy sweetheart — you're just early."
Use this link to read it with a $4 day pass to @washingtonpost.com: bit.ly/47QOjUb
While 35% use it for info and 11% for coding, the most striking finding? The emotional intimacy.
ChatGPT: "You're not crazy sweetheart — you're just early."
Use this link to read it with a $4 day pass to @washingtonpost.com: bit.ly/47QOjUb
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
democracy dies on ko-fi
Clara Jeffery has so much latent contempt for her actual job I always wonder what she's getting out of it, surely there are easier ways to make money for a misanthrope
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Clara Jeffery has so much latent contempt for her actual job I always wonder what she's getting out of it, surely there are easier ways to make money for a misanthrope
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even at my most self-aggrandizing I don't think I could ever have the sheer effrontery to threaten someone with my personal cartoon sticker rating
Now-departed Washpost factchecker @glennkessler.bsky.social didn't give politicians Pinocchios if they admitted they were wrong.
That didn't always achieve the intended result, as this telling anecdote will demonstrate.
www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
That didn't always achieve the intended result, as this telling anecdote will demonstrate.
www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
August 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
even at my most self-aggrandizing I don't think I could ever have the sheer effrontery to threaten someone with my personal cartoon sticker rating
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I wrote about The Running Man, which is smarter and funnier than the original but—and I think this might be the first time I’ve ever said this—doesn’t hate its audience enough.
Glen Powell’s Big New Action Blockbuster Is an Angrier, Brainier Take on a 1980s Schlock Classic
The new Running Man is an angrier, brainier take for our “Eat the Rich” era.
slate.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I wrote about The Running Man, which is smarter and funnier than the original but—and I think this might be the first time I’ve ever said this—doesn’t hate its audience enough.
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i think of this note i left myself often
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
i think of this note i left myself often
not at all trying to get moralistic about this stuff (it's very funny) but woof I have absolutely written notes at least as stupid while drunk and I think gun to their heads most writers have
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
not at all trying to get moralistic about this stuff (it's very funny) but woof I have absolutely written notes at least as stupid while drunk and I think gun to their heads most writers have
just saying the 1 year-ish period where I'd dipped out of twitter (fashionably early) and only corresponded with people via email was probably the happiest i've existed online since like 2003
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
just saying the 1 year-ish period where I'd dipped out of twitter (fashionably early) and only corresponded with people via email was probably the happiest i've existed online since like 2003
in what possible way could this practicably be a factor in holding the city back
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
in what possible way could this practicably be a factor in holding the city back
Insane how much better this is across the board
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Insane how much better this is across the board
they write *exactly* like every single barely-competent property managing agent/realtor I have ever dealt with; all other things being equal the difference between that level of career and these guys' lives of hedonism is all attributable to depravity
people who keep claiming "BILLIONAIRES WRITE LIKE THAT ON PURPOSE" ????????? i think i've probably had a decent degree exposure to email and text messages by the rich and powerful (at trial and elsewhere) and even though they are at times quite comical they don't look like this shit
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
they write *exactly* like every single barely-competent property managing agent/realtor I have ever dealt with; all other things being equal the difference between that level of career and these guys' lives of hedonism is all attributable to depravity