Ben Johnson
Best of the Web. Game Designer on [unannounced] at Double Fine. Previously: Psychonauts 2, Dead Space (2008), Babycastles. He/him.
- Kind of embarrassing that nobody at the DNC had the power or good sense to veto “We should put this joke from the group chat on an airplane,” but at least no one could see it.
- When I was in elementary school, we were all trying to find an adult in an economically depressed Midwestern town who wanted a daily subscription to the Wall Street Journal so we could get points toward a touch-tone telephone made of clear plastic.
- Before I demanded the New York Times' editor's lunch money, there was broad consensus that it belonged to him.
- @nytimes.com I don’t know what you thought you were doing here but there is a broad consensus TODAY. You are actively contributing to the possibility that unserious, broadly rejected arguments will be taken seriously.
- Just down the road from Rusty The Dragon. mndragon.com
- I had a chance to play some of these at a playtest a few weeks ago. If you’re in New York, go see the future tomorrow.
- NYU GAME CENTER SPRING SHOWCASE 2025 NEXT WEDNESDAY, MAY 14TH, 6PM - 10PM Play at least 50 demos of student work made over this past year from a wide range of Game Center courses. Meet and chat with the devs at this huge end of year celebration! RSVP Here: gamecenterspringshowcase25.eventbrite.com
- Student film season! youtu.be/6oYWBqKGyQQ?...
- If you see someone knocking F-18s into the sea, no you didn’t.
- I can understand the desire for vibes-based healing when you live in a healthcare system that prioritizes profit, but unfortunately, if there is a loving god who wants you to be well, science is the means that god has provided us.
- The latest pick for Surgeon General seems to echo the New Thought movement. 🗃️ “Perhaps the body is simply the material ‘radio receiver’ through which we can ‘tune in’ to the divine." “Humans are out of alignment with the Earth and depleting its life force." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- From my last trip to New York, DJ Cat Gosshie’s World Tour. Gosshie is a work-a-day DJ and cat who lives in a tour van in the small city of Hakodate, Japan, and visits other countries to play music and look for rare vinyl.
- The world is full of injustice, but sometimes in the long struggle toward a new dawn someone makes a song with a jazz flute riff. youtu.be/grIgoVnYZ8A?...
