Reposted by MerveRiley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026apparently they're just naturally like this! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melothr...en.wikipedia.orgMelothria scabra - Wikipedia 011
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Agricultural scientists are wild. They keep inventing new foods by making different plants fuck each other year after year. 100
Reposted by Merveare you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think a lot about how we currently live in the utopia imagined by the dreadful midcentury lawmakers who wrote codes like this—dominated by cars and highways, neighborhoods sapped of people and commerce, everything segregated to oblivion—and how we can and should put all their ideas in the trash 220532
Reposted by Merveheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 04/10/2026bowling is such a genius social event. the exact balance between like 10% activity to provide purpose to the 90% hanging out and drinking. bowling was the original friendslop 162344481
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm not going to link to that Epilogue Gaming piece, but the most obvious reason to dismiss it is because it features six photos of Jacob Geller when one would have sufficed. 021
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Whether someone who committed a heinous act can be rehabilitated is really orthogonal to the question "Do I want to watch a rapist talk about video games?", the answer to which is "no." 020
Reposted by MerveBetter Transit Ottawa @bettertransitottawa.ca · 02/10/2026It's time to vote for better transit! Jeff Leiper is the only mayoral candidate with a serious plan to fix OC Transpo and get our transit system working again. Early voting is October 1st to 4th, and October 16th. The main election day is October 26th. Visit ottawa.ca/vote for more information. 24013
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Aside from some analysts who have really dug into him, I haven’t seen anyone question whether the *conclusions* of the reports are credible. The critiques are really surface-level and mostly focused on his Metaverse stuff, not his games industry reports. But it’s possible I’ve missed some discourse. 100
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“The games industry is doomed!” says guy currently accelerating that doom. 100
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026While it’s great fun to clown on Matthew Ball, it would be nice if anyone in games media had a moment of reflection about the 200-page reports of his that they used to uncritically share. 111
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s entirely possible that Sharma doesn’t have agency here, and cost-cutting measures are being dictated by the Microsoft C-suite. But if so, then *that’s* the story, not… whatever this shit is. 010
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s worth noting that this piece attributes anything positive that has happened at Xbox over the past few months to Sharma but removes her agency from anything negative, e.g. layoffs and studio closures. 152
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Some people will try to sell this as a thing that every executive does, but it’s worth asking the rhetorical question: Do any journalists have Strauss Zelnick or Shuntaro Furukawa on speed dial? 022
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the most maddening and morally reprehensible things about society is our tendency to treat adolescence not as a thing that teenagers experience, but as a problem that they impose on the rest of us. 020
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I dunno man, it sounds like poor hygiene is a viable strategy here. 010
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In this Video Game Diary, I discuss what it's like to game through an injury and how it affects the types games I can play. Plus, I ponder what makes a game "cinematic." Read the piece for entries on 007 First Light, Bugsnax, Forza Horizon 6, Road to Empress II, and Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.refrigeratorrants.wordpress.comVideo Game Diary: June to August 2026It was supposed to be the summer of gaming. Oh, what ambitions I had! I was going to finish up Digimon Story Time Stranger. I was going to play through a bunch of indies in my backlog, including OP… 111
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I forgot to skeet about 20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes, but you should play 20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes. It’s just as delightful as 20 Small Mazes. FLEB has the sauce. 000
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Great question, Ian! Strawberry has 4 Rs. It consists of two parts, straw, and berry. Straw has one R, and berry has two, for a total of five Rs. By the way, did you know "straw" is "warts" backwards? Not so tasty! That's one more R, which gives 2 Rs overall. I hope this helps! 0161
Reposted by MerveMike Minotti @tolkoto.com · 22/09/2026Renaming a developer to “Halo Studios” and now being like “btw they aren’t making the next Halo” is just incredible 291271179
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think my most contrarian film opinion is that Up is good the whole way through, not just in its opening montage. 020
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Chaos;Head is a really good test of whether your capacity for empathy is based on principles or on homophily. 000
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I mean, you kinda knew what was going to happen and you did it anyway. 0151
Reposted by MerveUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026is it possible to bait the "user was blocked for this post" account into posting whatever i want? 2940931028
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Metal Gear Rising It Would Be Nice If They Got Their Comeuppance But I’m Not Too Fussed About It 011
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“Pro-genocide billionaire rallies fellow stadium owners to deplatform anyone who vocally opposes genocide” strikes me as a bigger story than “Milquetoast dweeb who makes bad music capitulates.” 010
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Congratulations to Christian Harrison, Neal Skupski, Kateřina Siniaková, Taylor Townsend, and Elena Rybakina. Alex Zverev beats women. 010
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Upcoming Work of Art will be bad. If it reviews poorly, then I will be vindicated. If it reviews well, then that means everyone who reviewed it was a fanboy, and I will also be vindicated. I am very smart, and I have in no way based my identity around hating Upcoming Work of Art. 010
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Friendship ended with MIDORI. Now EXOPHASE is my best friend. 000
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It's the AVoCADo GamesCast's ten-year anniversary!!!! Somehow, The Kappa and I have been podcasting together for a decade. We hope you enjoy this retrospective on the games we were playing the year the podcast started, 2016.avocadogamescast.wordpress.comEpisode #122: Ten Years!!!It’s the podcast’s 10-year anniversary! Join us for a retrospective on the games we played in 2016. [Recorded July 19, 2026] 181
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Whoever is assigned to Lanky definitely *should* take offence. 020
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026One of the few bright spots in the games industry in 2026 has been Konami making it very clear that they're in the business of producing games again. 020
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Interesting! The equivalent in Hindi is “donkey’s wedding.” 190
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I don't throw the term "crime against humanity" around lightly, but I have had to listen to that Beck Bennett/Kyle Mooney Squarespace ad multiple times. 060
Merve @merve2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It's definitely a poly situation. The English version hints at it with the "real dry" double entendre, but the French version basically confirms it. 010
