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F*ck GAMEPLAY or F*CK Gameplay? Let’s have both!
Sex and gameplay have a lot in common. They are both interactive, expressive, and, hopefully, fun. But a lot of people take one, or both activities, way too seriously. Being bad at either can cause people to feel intense shame, and to risk rejection from the ones they love. For some, having a dropped connection while French kissing or playing…
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How Hi Score Girl helped me survive having my dreams crushed
I wouldn't complain about it to a paramedic, but working under Gamurs was awful. During that hopeless time, I was afraid of losing my passion for video games. Hi Score Girl helped me keep it alive.
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The Switch 2 needs a mascot – I offer Linkle as Tribute
Most Nintendo consoles have had official or unofficial mascots. Captain Falcon, a more muscular, futuristic man than Mario could ever be, initially was created to represent the Super Famicom/SNES, with his colors intended to match the console’s Japanese controller’s buttons. The Wii came into this world bearing the visage of a whole new lifeform – the Mii – things that…
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Microsoft’s Copilot Gaming Experience is haunted and pointless
Tech companies are really pushing generative AI for some reason. The technology has a lot of practical uses, but companies would rather wave their dicks around to show it off. Their dicks, in this case, being braindead chatbots and dangling carrots in the form of generated art. The latest in these flashes of useless genitalia is Microsoft’s “Copilot Gaming Experience.”…
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The video game industry is miserable, but some people are trying to make it fun again
Videogames are making more money than ever, but in 2025, everyone I know who’s livelihood depends on the industry in any capacity feels some degree of doomed. But maybe it's not all bad. Maybe we just need a new perspective on the hobby. Here are some things that might help.
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Rescued Kusoge – Join me on my quest to see nipples in BMX XXX
I had a long running column during my time at Destructoid, but the new owners delisted one of them. Probably because of the title, but that's dumb anyway. So my lost Weekly Kusoge article on BMX XXX is here now. As always, their loss is your gain.
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The Switch 2 is coming! And these games might be there for launch
Many are gearing up for 2025 to be the worst year of their lives, but for a number of wide-eyed nerds out there, the pending announcement of a new Nintendo console has latched onto their future orientation like a benign parasite, taking up any space where pessimism would otherwise reside.
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The Game Complaint Department is now Maximum Utmost!
You may have noticed some changes around here. I should have probably had this post done for when the switch was thrown, but here it is: welcome to Maximum Utmost. Don't be frightened. We mostly just put a rug down over the old website. Nothing much has really changed.
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3 Child Endangering NES Intros
Rescued from the now sunk Destructoid community blogs, this article harkens back to a time when I was desperate for attention. I mean, I still am, but I was then, too. It's about how 8-bit children threw themselves headlong into danger, sometimes for the promise of candy, other times through coercion.
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Game Complaint Department’s Game of the Year 2020
2020 sucked for a lot of people, and I’m of no exception. I don’t want to make a competition out of it or throw some pity party, but it was an incredibly trying period for me. The tribulations have followed into this year, but I continue to make an effort to just keep moving on. As such, the Game Complaint…
