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If you loved jingling keys, you’ll love this

An agent is pointing a rifle at the back of his fellow agent’s head. They’re wearing full tree camo in the snowy suburbs. There are several of THE SAME indoor, fully decorated Christmas trees just randomly shoved places at various incongruous heights. There are presents outside in the snow.

An AI-generated pro-ICE photo featuring the agents wearing Santa hats and tac camo with a riot shield covered in lights and Christmas trees and presents around them

DHS doing AI-generated fascist propaganda is horrifying and abhorrent but the latest slop is objectively hilarious

This is the funniest fucking thing I have ever seen.

The latest episode of Heated Rivalry started as Bucky and Steve fan fic? I’m gonna rub my shit smoove off

This guy looks like he SUCKS

A TikTok User has posted a photo of subway workers removing Yoshi from the train tracks. https://kotaku.com/yoshi-classon-avenue-g-train-station-tracks-tiktok-2000650930

Avengers: Endgame Will Play In Theaters Until Morale Improves Ahead of Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel is dipping into the nostalgia bucket

A level of pre-COVID nostalgia that scares me.
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Nintendo’s secret to becoming a design powerhouse? Developers who have stayed at the company for decades | Fortune “The people who first made Nintendo’s hits are still working at the company,” says Keza MacDonald, author of a forthcoming book about Nintendo.

I spoke to @fortune.com about my upcoming book Super Nintendo and the secret(s) to Nintendo's enduring success - a large part of which is cultivating and caring for developers instead of hiring and firing everyone in yearly cycles.

(Book deets: linktr.ee/super_nintendo)

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'At The End of Time, Hades 2 betrays itself' by Rhi Easby

I'm looking for work.

I have experience working in news, features, interviews and essays, and am able to do any of the above.

Horror game Horses has been banned from sale – but is it as controversial as you’d think? Pulled by Steam and Epic Games Store, indie horror Horses shook up the industry before it was even released. Now it’s out, all the drama surrounding it seems superfluous

Wrote about the very not gratuitous game being treated like a wildly gratuitous game for @theguardian.com
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Them thighs thick though

My twink dermatologist died laughing when I told him I was too skinny to get my dupixent shot in my stomach (I was right)

Lady Godga please take my eczema and give it to sloptubers

THEY ALREADY HAVE

Two shirtless men wearing hockey pads

There is not enough Heated Rivalry talk on here

He looks like that? Lmfao

We can always count on Alyssa for taste

LITTLE MONSTER LOGGING ON

Is Lady Gaga in your Spotify Wrapped or do you have bad taste?

Heated Rivalry drives me crazy because in a just world we’d have Ilya and Shane but in the real world we have the Tkachuk brothers spewing bile at a 7th grade reading level and Tony Deangelo still playing hockey and Carter Hart allowed to show his face

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

The indie of the week logo.

Over at Kotaku, we are trying to cover at least one cool indie game every week. It's called Indie of the Week!

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If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to Tips@Kotaku.com!

Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself

hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.

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No Games For Genocide wants the entire industry to boycott Xbox https://kotaku.com/no-games-for-genocide-xbox-microsoft-boycott-palestine-2000650175

Thanks to @nogamesforgenocide.com for the chat!

No Games For Genocide Wants You To Boycott Xbox A collective of video game workers, journalists, and union organizers recently announced a pledge to boycott Xbox for Palestine

"The games industry in particular is at the intersection of entertainment and tech...there are a lot of connections between the games industry and the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people."

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HAHAHAHA

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Come help us write articles for the internet made by humans https://kotaku.com/kotaku-is-looking-for-freelance-contributors-2000650081

Alyssa's top 5 artists are Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Doechii, and Fall Out Boy

Alyssa's top five songs are all from Mayhem

That's on *taste*