Been a sec since we've run one of these threads: Hey there, we're Unwinnable! We've been publishing 100% independent pop culture criticism since 2010.
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If anybody wants it? Noise complaint policies in the new apt are very scary lol
I'm moving away from Longfellow after living here five years and literally a month later a new brewery is opening like three blocks from Charlie's house (perfect for drunken walks home) and fucking EXTREME NOISE is coming here. I'm giving my record player away when I leave. I'm being punished by God
Israeli soldiers were killed by brown people terrorism while Lebanese buildings simply disintegrate and Iranian school girls spontaneously stop being alive - similar to how Palestinian babies just instantly combust in well-documented examples written up by the NYT.
War of the Monsters let's gooooo
X Com 2 and Bloodborne were VERY nearly on mine as well, and if I were more honest and less nostalgia-inclined, Slay the Spire ABSOLUTELY would be too
Yakuza makin the list that's my dawg right there
Wild and kind of sweet that this was still very hard for me to figure out lol
Dude I'm losing it
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
I am the tallest person at this Mitski concert
They're calling it "a new postmodern classic"
We're gonna run the city @snzarate.bsky.social (no one's ever thought this before)
Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose
Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?
If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.
Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.
Oh BABY
I was really sad to have missed this one, but I'm really excited to listen - and you should be too!
Thanks! Lemme know if you know anybody hiring out here lol we can't all work at the damn Times
Apt hunting! Charlie got a job at the NY Times so we're moving pretty soon. We are actually gonna hit up Blake tonight but he was on your pod lol - hope it went well
Extremely weird and bad time to be distracted from world events BUT Charlie and I were just talking through Astoria and she pointed to a second story brownstone and said "They're playing Kingdom Hearts up there, he's in Traverse Town," so whatever else happens
We are not covering BLADE RUNNER for @trylovepodca.st (blame @aarbypls.bsky.social idk what to tell you), so I wrote a Perisphere piece on it instead. Big thanks to Perisphere editors @finnematic.bsky.social and Olga for putting up with my tardiness!
www.perisphere.org/2026/03/01/h...
This is the real reason we cannot have universal healthcare.
It has never been about the cost, the taxes, the "socialism" it has always been because as a people we'd be too mobile, too able to fight.
A still from the film THE DOOM GENERATION with the film's title and the caption "Writing by Natalie Marlin"
Some news: I'm hosting a screening of Gregg Araki's THE DOOM GENERATION at the Heights Theater in Columbia Heights, MN!
This Saturday night (3/7) at 9:30 pm! Come by, say hi, support an indie theater showing cool queer films!
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Amanda Tien analyzes a fan-favorite Like a Dragon mini-game in her first story for Mothership: "At Club Sunshine, I can make sure that women are taken care of."
www.mothership.blog/yakuza-0-cab...
That means a lot, because the fact that BR has been written about to death was weighing heavily on me as I went into this, and I wanted to find an angle I hadn't seen too much. Thanks for reading!
Anyway here is a poem I wrote about my Palestinian dad
If you've ever celebrated being featured in a Critical Distance roundup, please help them keep the lights on. They put in a lot of work for not very much pay (most members are purely volunteer!) and help keep what remains of the game criticism community together
Harry is my friend so I have to stress this isn’t favoritism — PLEASE read this essay!
We are not covering BLADE RUNNER for @trylovepodca.st (blame @aarbypls.bsky.social idk what to tell you), so I wrote a Perisphere piece on it instead. Big thanks to Perisphere editors @finnematic.bsky.social and Olga for putting up with my tardiness!
www.perisphere.org/2026/03/01/h...
