Penny Arcade

Whenever we start scrolling for news right now, ever in search of grist, it's always some kind of NFT thing. I don't even remember what set Gabe off this time - there are many axes upon which to find this stuff distasteful, but generally for him the aesthetics of what is on offer is sufficient to inspire loathing. You can't really escape it, in part because the SEO on these conversations - regardless of your polarity on the subject - must be Herculean in nature. It has the same…

If you spend a lot of time on social media or moving throughout the world eventually you will discover that there is a class of men - I've never once seen a distaff manifestation of it - who has an almost instinctive ability to identify and manipulate other men with distant, cruel, or useless fathers. Obviously, parenting is quite a lossy form of data transfer - but the only way to protect your children from these men is to ensure that they never need what these warlocks purport to offer.…

I'm not, like… mad, it's a great comfort to me if something looks so dumb that it's going to save me the time of watching it. I've put Morbius in that category after the trailer. I was iffy before Jared Leto says he has "some form of bat radar," and that utterance sheared the entire face of it off. And look, I love to be wrong. If you aren't working on a nuclear warhead, it's probably fine to be wrong. I love to move things from the category of Oblivion back…

I was reading an article at Kotaku about how this "Mario Kart 'NFT' Idea" was "The Worst Thing" they "Had Ever Read." I'm leaving the obvious rejoinders on the ground; that's a good place for them generally. Suffice it to say, it's not the worst thing I've ever read. But that doesn't mean I actually like it. Entitled "Into the Metaverse: Where Crypto, Gaming and Capitalism Collide," and the sense of growing unease you feel - which sometimes manifests as an…