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Baby Steps' Manbreaker Did Not Break Me - Aftermath Baby Steps' Manbreaker is an optional yet brutal challenge that is as much a test of your humility as it is your skill.

For @aftermath.site, I wrote about the crucible of beating the Manbreaker in Baby Steps, a brutal challenge that the game actively tells you not to do. I am happy that I did it. aftermath.site/baby-steps-m...

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ENTER THE HYPERCUBE: FIRST REFORMED + THE EXORCIST - TESSERACT CINEMA Joshua Rivera ties together the religious terror of The Exorcist and First Reformed.

excited to share this one. For the good people at @tesseractcinema.bsky.social , I wrote about The Exorcist, First Reformed, and forms of prayer

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everyone is broke, including if not especially your favourite writers

Nintendo Demands $4.5 Million From Switch Piracy Reddit Mod After being ignored by Archbox, Nintendo is pushing for a default ruling

I've also written about why Nintendo's approach of bankrupting individuals for the rest of their lives in its profitless campaign against piracy is cruel and pointless.

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This is my blood I marvel at the design of our weapons. So sophisticated that they can transform any man woman or child into a terrorist. Writing in their flight between launch and concussion an entire alternate history of a life. Just as the cop’s bullet convicts you of a crime. Its presence in your body evidence enough that it always belonged there. A violent transubstantiation.

This is my blood

Burger Becky, a trans elder in game development, was recently diagnosed with cancer. When she sets up the inevitable fundraiser to help pay for treatment i hope people will consider giving.

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it's that time again: i need work.

i'm available for blogging, copywriting, editing, interviews, criticism, just about anything in media. self-taught with over 15 years of experience and a handful of referrals from industry figureheads. let's hit the ground running.

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i'm going to be completely normal about this

Judero is OUT NOW on Playstation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and Xbox One!

One of the most creative things you'll play. Handmade stop-motion action adventure based in Scottish mythology.

Sharing this around is appreciated!

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we love to see it

The revolutionary politics of Final Fantasy Tactics, and why Ramza Beoulve is a hero for our times Final Fantasy Tactics' original writer-director Yasumi Matsuno signalled the timeliness of this remake for a reason: its hero offers a model of resistance.

Oh, hey! I'm *writing* again!

Let's talk about a man named named Ramza Beoulve. Let's talk about the "ease at which men are branded heretics..."

Let's talk about revolution.

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i'm a sucker for these smooth cutscene-to-gameplay transitions silent hill f keeps using

right! and then when i got back to the top, my muscle memory was completely gone and it was like i had to relearn the last few obstacles all over again every time. what a nightmare.

anyway, congrats!

this was a godsend when i was still trying because, at least for me, the hardest parts before the finale were in the first half

reading this story like

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It's bad out there. For everyone. In ways I didn't even know it could be bad.

Everyone looking for work is vulnerable in some way, and deserves to be treated better than this automated, callous, scam-filled, AI-riddled hellscape.

the comic, in 8 panels, depicts a mouse jump on their computer, load a skate(board)ing game, repeatedly try to perform (ramp) tricks but stack each one until game over, give up and go outside with their real skateboard and successfully ramp skate and get airborne.

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uncle magic

the video game media ecosystem that spent the last decade glazing phil spencer: why is phil spencer doing this

is there a gas leak in the bluesky office or something

INLAND EMPIRE - Imagine it. An explosion. Of *stars*. Goodbye world of men, money and machines.

i’m broken

i’m done

a disheveled man in a sweaty onesie stands barefoot on a dark, snow-covered mountain. a handful of precarious footholds stand between him and the summit.

here we go again

okay hear me out

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The best time to boycott Xbox and Microsoft was when BDS called for it, the next best time is now. Focused, targeted boycotts work, this one is working, and all you got to do to support it is go play other games. Literally the least you could do in this moment in history

please help ana out. i will never play pokemon tcg but i will read everything ever written about it.