Reposted by Eric SwainRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 14hJust remembered the Christopher Columbus bit from the Curtis Sliwa-Adam Friedland podcast, the #1 clip of all time for Not Having Any Idea What Words Are Coming Next 481958280
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 19hSister Cities by Marie Vibbert - one of those short stories you wish you'd thought of while reading it. An inversion of the two tiered city, class divided city in a completely believable way. Also a balm of a story in these trying days. escapepod.org/2026/10/01/e...escapepod.orgEscape Pod 1065: Sister CitiesThe Pour House Tavern is built on a stairway, with low ceilings that step down along with the bar, so it’s hard to see who’s at the other end, and the smoke gathers on the high side… 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I've been reading an ebook of A Scanner Darkly this past week. I JUST noticed on my bookshelf I already had a copy. Grahhh! 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"You see, there’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be." - nearly every page of East of Eden has a line this good. 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Was just reminded that Whalefall is a movie coming out this month. While everyone is flabbergasted and in awe of a movie about a guy being eaten by a whale, all I can think was how much I hated the book. 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Woke up earlier than usual on a Monday, so I got to spend an extra hour cooking dinner before D&D. I gotta say, the difference is very apparent in looks and smell. 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I just remembered something that pisses me off. I remember Princeton University chose to close down the NJ Go Open because it was considered gambling to give out prizes to the players with the best records. At a board game with no hidden information and no element of luck or chance. 100
Reposted by Eric SwainJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853502189
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I listened to the interview he did on NPR's book podcast to promote his book and every word out of his mouth felt like it came out of an alternative universe where he was not wearing a hot dog costume. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well, it's been a week and I still don't have a fully functional right ear. 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Misread "carapace" as "codpiece" but it works just the same. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension." - goddamn Steinbeck. I remember from high school you were good, but I don't remember you being this good. 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why don't we see THESE photos of the Civil Rights Movement? by AntiSocialStudies on YouTube www.youtube.com/shorts/t8Yrj...youtube.comWhy don’t we see THESE photos of the Civil Rights Movement?YouTube video by Anti-Social Studies 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You think with all the money changing hands HBO could make their streaming service more stable. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 28/09/2026DMV done. It's surprising how stressful it feels when everything has been changed in the last two decades to make it as non-stressful as possible. 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An Inordinate Amount Of Interest by Ayida Shonibar - It's a horror story with an ending we all need to believe in right now against the double dealing fey and devil of our own reality right now. pseudopod.org/2026/09/25/p...pseudopod.orgPseudoPod 1049: An Inordinate Amount of InterestGreen flows from your imagination onto the page, bleeding viridescent liquid through the intermediary of your brush. The handle bends to your grip like the natural extension it’s been for as long as… 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My XTEINK X4 just broke. Tried rebooting, but it's the screen itself. Internet isn't helpful on potential fixes. Does this mean I have to get a new one or...? 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It is now about the time I should be waking up. I have yet to fall asleep. This is going to cause me problems over the next two days. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Just started reading East of Eden. Had to put it down halfway through chapter two to yell out loud, "Goddammit Steinbeck. Put the rest of us to shame why don't you." 001
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 24/09/2026At this point, I am beginning to wonder if I've done actual, physical damage to my ear. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My tinnitus is severely acting up today. Woke up with basically a non-functunal ear. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Name drop @critdistance.bsky.social and the Brainygamer blogosphere in the latest Post Games mailbag episode. 110
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Called again by a pollster. Once again was asked questions about a congressional district I don't live in. 101
Reposted by Eric Swainelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150273940
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I don't think community guidelines would allow me to say what 20 year old me would do to himself if he saw me. 000
Reposted by Eric SwainThe “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026That reminds me, Coyote vs Acme has already made back what Ketchup Entertainment paid for it, so once again I have no choice but to give David Zaslav the double middle fingers 221127
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm often baffled by how Discord chooses which threads to send alerts about. Usually from one I never interact with and letting me think those I do read lie fallow. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Apprently my printer updated into no longer accepting my installed ink cartridges because 3rd party. I am now downgrading the firmware to use the ink I already have. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Shonen Jump has a new fantasy series. It started this week. Graykeith: Translator Daemoica by Natsuki Hokami previously of Hell Warden Higuma. It's about a guy, in a world of magic, who special power is the ability to translate text. 110
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Spending the afternoon getting through my reading backlog. Just read the line: "Nope is Peele's best film." Am I the only one who thinks Us is his best film? I feel like the debate is between Get Out and Nope. Am I alone on this? 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I just read @duncanfyfe.net essay on Tyranny over at @remapradio.bsky.social. It's really good, but I can't help myself, but disagree on one major fact. (God, why am I like this?) 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Oh god, I just riled myself up reading some moron's answer to the question "What is the biggest plothole in a popular movie that everyone seems to accept?" who proceeded to fail to list a single plot hole. Instead they wrote out the plot or premise of the several movies and called them wrong. 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 04/09/2026You mean I speak like where I lived my entire life and where I went to collage. I say this sarcastically knowing the last test I took said I was from Chicago. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Aww. I can't celebrate because I need to go to bed. 000
Reposted by Eric SwainAbbott and Costello Meet Other Mommy @untimelygamer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The only two possible outcomes of this are (1) Mr. Beast recreates the plot of Heart of Darkness and builds a jungle empire (2) He dies within three days because of bad AI. 031
Reposted by Eric SwainAbbott and Costello Meet Other Mommy @untimelygamer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We don't want bipartisanship, we want Nuremberg 2.0. 141
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I know I've changed by diet a lot over the past few years, but dear God a bag of chips and a half bag of Twizzlers are sending me into a sugar induced fugue state. Things are wrong and I can't identify them. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Coyote vs. ACME was fun and easy watch. And yeah, when pulled off correctly, the road runner gags still hit. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"After his second eighteen-year marriage...ended in 1983, he lived in a London house with his first wife and her third husband." - From the author bio of the new book I'm starting. Now there's a sentence that begs so many questions I'm not sure I want the answers to. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 30/08/2026During a call with my dad he told me he needed a new computer and had been looking around. They all came with Windows 11 and Dell had purposefully gotten rid of their Linux machines. So he bought a Mac. 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 29/08/2026And that's my 40th new book for the year finish. The Jasmine Throne actively annoyed me while reading because it is extremely my shit. There is nothing in it conceptually that is not my shit. And yet it didn't click. 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Just finished a devastating book filled with things I already knew, both in my mind and my bones, but to hear it all laid out in well explained words is a trip of melancholic horror. The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything is worth reading. 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Well. Now there's a dipshit I've not heard in a long time... 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I woke up to my alarm is such a start I broke one toenail and am now bleeding from the other heel. 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Wait, Laika has a new movie coming out this October? This is the first I'm hearing about Wildwood and it looks gorgeous. Sometimes YouTube ads are good? 000
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Having read Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This feels like the babying version for easy western palatability. It's an excoriation of every argument regarding Gaza both pro and against for thr underlying colonialist flaw. 100
Eric Swain @thegamecritique.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I read Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, James Herriot, Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie as a kid. I was big into classics. Thank you Wishbone. 100
