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I'm Max Neal! (formerly MaxTheCatfish)
When I'm not diving into dumpsters or mourning corrupted Gamecube save files, I'm working on Voxel - Conversations on the Art, Culture, and Future of Video Games.
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Wow, the exact thing that I made a video about…people getting outraged by imagined corruption…happened in the exact way I said it would happen.
Anyway, CA rotates candidate order precinct by precinct so all candidates spend an equal amount of time at the top.
Just voted in California. Got dirty looks by the organizers when i asked if i needed to show my ID. If you wanted to vote 🔴 you had to click an extra button to even select the candidates on the Republican ticket, you had to click “more” to do so…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The order is determined by randomized alphabet, and rotated by assembly district.
Randomized order this year is:
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If there are 3 candidates: H, T, and O, they will appear as
THO in district 1, 4, 7
HOT in district 2, 5, 8
OTH in district 3, 6, 9
sos.ca.gov/elections/rand…
sos.ca.gov/administration…
Have you ever been contacted for an interview with a major gaming publication like IGN or PCGamer? What did they include in their contact to you that convinced you to speak to them or not speak to them?
A new video is out on Voxel!
This week we're tackling the future of video game consoles and the challenges facing them today.
Concord is Sony's 'Anthem'. What the hell is going on in the industry these days?
blog.playstation.com/2024/09…
The PS4 era was phenomenal.
Is Sony *really* struggling so much that they needed to divert to Live Service games? Destiny aside, Playstation has long been the platform for brilliant single-player narratives. Why change that now?
I'm always on the lookout for games doing something I've *never* seen before. REKA looks to be a dark, witchy, and...oddly-cozy survival crafter that I'm SUPER keen to get my hands on when it releases this September.
store.steampowered.com/app/1…
So I've been sucked into Final Fantasy 14 for real this time - and I'm wondering if it's possible to work in content creation while playing an MMO.
The past weeks of work on Voxel have been replaced with faux work in the world of Eorzea and I don't know how to feel about that...
Today the Cartoon Network website officially shut down. I'm thinking back to my countless hours playing flash games and exploring my favorite cartoons. *Nothing* did cartoons as well as Cartoon Network.
And that's leaving a lot of gamers feeling...lost. A lot of convos around games have disappeared because it's more successful to take an extreme stance and tell people *what they should think*, instead of presenting facts and letting gamers come to their own conclusions.
In a sort of fascinating analogy, this follows a similar trend to recent RPG games that now not only give you a quest to go on, but then show you exactly where to go and tell you exactly what to do.
On the other end are journalists and podcasters soft-balling games that *clearly* aren't quality. I don't mean Indie vs. AAA games (because lately Indie games have been muuurrrrdering the AAA scene lately). But hyping SUPER mid games like The First Descendant ahead of release.
Something I've noticed lately in gaming journalism (podcasts especially) is that hosts are firing SO many shots at gamers these days - you know...their own potential audience members.
And you know what? They're right to do it!
But what this is creating is - like the political space in the US - a social-gaming environment that is increasingly more extreme on both ends:
Turns out, the people closest to the gaming industry - those who've spent their careers developing or covering games for years - are 👏 sick 👏 of 👏 it.