Nicole Clark

move slow and repair things

i wrote about hidden object games for the verge!!! it's about the art of hidden object games and how hidden folks inspired a new wave of them, including lost and found co. (super cute game!!), which is out today. more here:

i will absolutely spend ages hunting for recipes and items to craft a [checks notes] small candle on side table with relaxing bed. we have come a long way from the presumptive idea that games require combat as a core mechanic. i'm glad there's pokopia and also games like pokemon snap

like i said, a very old idea. but as an adult i just never got over the tension between cherishing these creatures and battling with them. i'm really enjoying the ACNH-style habitat stuff. it's very funny that some pokemon live in tall grass while others live in... bench and punching bag? lol

not a new or deep take but i was surprised by what a big difference it made for me to be able to communicate in words with them. it makes an even bigger difference that you are rewilding the landscape and building nice homes, rather than collecting them for fighting purposes

i did not grow up playing pokemon, but i've played a lot of the switch games as an adult, and worked alongside a lot of people who really love the series. pokopia is the first one i've played where i finally understand why people love the pokemon themselves

A throw blanket in a log cabin

Illustration of a forest clearing

Intense floral design

My cat will live forever print

Hello, my bathroom ceiling collapsed. Unrelated, would you like to buy some art? They’re calling it “the best time” to do it ✨

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#illustration #nature #fantasy

830792528 Polygon The Rise Of The Video Game Union : Nicole Carpenter : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive “The Rise of the Video Game Union” is an all-in-one explainer on why game workers are unionizing. Polygon created a zine of the original story that is...

With GDC only a few days away, I added @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant gaming union zine/explainer to archive.org. The previous host for the PDF added a monthly subscription.

Please feel free to print and share as you wish!

A headshot of Alysa Liu on the cover of Teen Vogue. She is wearing tons of hairclips above her bangs, prominent blush, and is showing off her smiley piercing.

An image of Olympic Gold winner Alysa Liu sitting on her knees, from the side. She has alternating stripes of blonde and brown hair, is wearing a polka dotted dress, and her head is facing the camera.

Alysa Liu is smiling and laying on her back, surrounded by 2000s technology like CDs, a Gamecube controller, and an iPod. The image is shot from above.

the styling in teen vogue's alysa liu cover shoot, i love it so much
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

donated! let's keep up the momentum (and if you live in CO there are opportunities to volunteer)
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I've reported 2-3 stories in my career that have sucked the spirit out of my body and this was one of them. But! Seeing the response of the fgc to help their brother genuinely put it right back. Im humbled to have been trusted with this. Help your neighbors friends those in need are all around you.

grateful for these kind words and for the opportunities to edit, especially as it gets harder and harder to find this type of work

thank you!!

thank you :) it was wonderful working with you!

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

i had not read this! glad i have now

Why Climb A (Video Game) Mountain? YouTube video by Jay Castello

i've been having a very normal time thinking about mountains lately youtu.be/U9Z2M7IGP5k

it was wonderful talking with @patrickklepek.bsky.social about silksong and how hornet consistently stands with her fellow bugs against a hostile empire. inevitably we talked about how people have organized against ICE raids, and what it means to choose compassion and do the hard work it requires

i received one of my best friend's save the date 3 months late because he sent it to an email address that i created in THIRD GRADE and revealed to him once as an "embarrassing fact about me."his gmail stored it and instead of asking "what's your email?" he assumed this one was fine lol

i will never forget high school senior english which was focused on "annotating." we were given grades based off how many annotations we did. i have an old copy of anna karenina where i just pointed out "train" in like 20 spots. then i wrote my final on how trains showed up a lot in the book

look i get this person. in college i wrote a paper on moby dick so rough my prof let me rewrite it. my first paper? B-. my thesis: "this ahab guy is crazy." my rewrite? C. my thesis "no, i mean he's really crazy." i really thought i just hadn't used enough examples to prove my reading comprehension

Stop worrying about what happens if we let kids transition. Worry about what happens if we don’t. What’s so scary about a transgender child?

Going to reshare this again for no real reason whatsoever.

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i had the best time catching up with you! can't wait to see who you feature next and read lots of great stuff. thanks for having me on :)

grateful to @mothership.blog for the chance to write about how much i love hornet!

it was wonderful talking with @patrickklepek.bsky.social about silksong and how hornet consistently stands with her fellow bugs against a hostile empire. inevitably we talked about how people have organized against ICE raids, and what it means to choose compassion and do the hard work it requires

I've wanted to bring back Worth Reading in some form for years. I'm really excited to have settled on this format. 30 minutes. An interesting conversation about a piece of interesting games writing. That's it. That's the pitch. That's the podcast. I hope you enjoy it!

I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.

I interviewed Roblox's head of parental advocacy for Vulture about safety on the platform 👀