podcast
How Content Creation Breaks People’s Brains
"This is a job with no rules and very few guardrails and potentially tons of money and potentially adoration. That is a very hard thing to walk away from or remember feeling bad about"
Platforms Like TikTok Incentivized Creators To Risk Their Lives In A Hurricane, And They’re Not Gonna Change
"This is exactly what they want"
You Don’t Need To Simulate The Whole Dang Universe, Or Even Just One City
"One of my favorite things to do in Yakuza is to walk between missions"
Why YouTube Video Essays Are So Long
"I don’t think it is simply to do with YouTube rewarding longer videos"
Take The ‘I Will Never Take Nintendo’s Side’ Vow
"It’s a very, very simple vow: You will never take Nintendo’s side in any legal argument"
The Ups And Downs Of Growing An Independent News Site (With 404 Media)
"How do we balance how much energy we can put into this without killing ourselves and each other? I don’t have a good answer"
The Twitch-YouTube Livestreaming Wars Are Over, And Nobody Really Won
"All these millions of dollars were slung around ... and the end result is a status quo that’s not that different from what came before"
Why Big Games Like Concord Aren’t Surefire Successes Anymore
"A tiny game can become huge, and a huge game can be tiny, depending on the circumstance"
Valve’s Mystique Is Served By Silence
"It’s like libertarian special kid shit where people say 'I don’t think 98 percent of people could work at Valve'"
Kick Streamer Adin Ross Was The Perfect Useful Idiot For Donald Trump
"If somebody like Trump goes on his stream, he models being a suck up to a powerful figure"
