What are we doing? What's going on?

re: Chris Franklin on Bluesky. The Mixtape discourse makes me feel like we have arrived at a place where criticism is almost untenable because it will be flanderized and stripped down to whatever parts become useful for social media cohorts driven by algorithms towards reactionary or extreme ends rather than engagement w/ media.— Chris Franklin (@errant-signal.com) May 11, 2026 at 1:15 PM The biggest reason I keep reiterating that we need to write blogs, not posts is because the act of drafting prose hopefully forces the author to reckon with the very specific text of someone else's argument (a review, comment, or even a post) and not the quippy strawman of it they wrote that is so easy to dunk on in a post. Another reason is that we are desperate for a record to cite as we build on each other towards new conversations that develop into new ideas and ways of thinking about games (and, yes, new ways of thinking about games writing, too). Imagine film criticism beholden to Tucker…