all the pixels in new york are freezing

Mamdani will unfreeze all the pixels in New York by 2027

Excited to discover what that means

I must call Mister Mamdani about this issue immediately

"The twin towers are here too. Though, in this version of Manhattan, The Chrysler building, an optional super-dungeon [...]" Lmao

If you're cold, they're cold - Let New York inside.

Really honoured to feature as part of such a moving essay. The Time Machine doesn't always go where you want it to but I'm glad it ended up here! 🖖

Something so cartoonishly ominous about seeing the twin towers in pre 9/11 media

That liminal version of central park really hit close to home for me. When I was a little kid and my father was in the hospital, when we'd visit, they'd take me across the street to central park to distract me from all the medical trauma that was happening. They probably thought it'd soothe me with all the nature and playgrounds and such. Instead, central park became a place associated with loneliness, helplessness, and being lied to. I still can't go there without feeling uncomfortable. Seeing the footage of parasite eve where it's completely dark and covered in snow, the protagonist alone and small, with the promise of crowds forever just out of reach... I'll admit I felt something. Fascinating how an old low-poly game can do that.

Well I better get them a jacket then!

don’t worry jacob, the knicks winning the finals will unfreeze the pixels.

Mamdani smacking my monitor to reset the pixels

Your discussion of Max Payne's sky brings to mind the opening line of Neuromancer. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." I read an anniversary edition of the book, where in the foreword the author William Gibson comments that today, many readers will no longer have an immediate frame of reference as to what that means. Very fitting.

Parasite Eve aka the time Square said “let’s traumatize kids with our body horror mutation cutscenes”

I have often thought about how lucky NYC is to get all this representation in media thanks to its popularity. Games, music, movies, cartoons, etc. all give a snapshot of a location in such varied, stylized, and real ways. We have so many examples throughout history of not just the way it was but the way the world thinks it was, distributed on a wide scale. There aren't many locations as lucky as that. You don't even have to go far really, what does the average person know about Long Island? What about Rhode Island? What have I ever seen about life in Rancho Cucamonga?

I also recently gabbed with Razbuten, IronPineapple, and Eurothug4000 about bad mechanics in great games — join Nebula to watch that video! /videos/razbuten-the-worst-mechanics-in-good-games-feat-jacob-geller-eurothug4000-and-iron-pineapple?ref=jacobgeller

Idk if it's been mentioned yet, but a fascinating aspect of the twin towers' inclusion in Driver: Parallel Lines is that only the first half of the game takes place in the seventies. Halfway through the main campaign, there's a timeskip to 2006, where the rest of the game plays out. So not only does it include the twin towers, but it includes a New York without them, all within the same game!

The Time Machine is the time machine from spongebob and I just love that such a thought provoking experience was based on that, because that episode is, I think, the first time I experienced existential terror as a kid

New Yorker discovers night sky exists through video game

I'm trying to take it seriously, but that is very clearly the time machine from spongebob

Isn't it romantic how we're all watching this at the same time together?