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Sam Winkler

@samwinkler.bsky.social

Narrative Director, Borderlands 4 at Gearbox Software | Prev: Lead Writer, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands | BL3 | BL3: Guns, Love, and Tentacles | Non-canonical lore item | He/him.

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you wake up. it is 2007. you are wearing urine starched cargo shorts and a tshirt depicting the tazmanian devil cartoon character in a b-boy stance. you are the number one xbox 360 achievment hunter in the world. gamepro magazine is on the horn, want to fly you down to vegas to meet carmen elektra

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Absolutely fucking obsessed with wikigacha

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Headed to GDC next week! Psyched to see a bunch of you.

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sunsofcarcosa
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Feb 3

my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called "honorable knight" youll be zonked out of your gourd

me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit

5 minutes later: only in death does duty end

my buddy pacing: i am the sword and the hand that wields it

sunsofcarcosa Badge image. Feb 3 my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called "honorable knight" youll be zonked out of your gourd me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit 5 minutes later: only in death does duty end my buddy pacing: i am the sword and the hand that wields it

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Battle of the titans

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So I just have to wake up and go to work in the Dire Marsh and pretend I don’t know what’s inside the sun

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Post Cereal has the audacity to advertise Oreo Puffs to me as though they didn’t hang my dear friend Oreo O’s in the square for all to see

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kernel-level age verification

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Granting read/write access to my superego so I can log into Battle.Net

02.03.2026 06:24 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh shit, the Uplink pervert who's been locked away in my brain is finally feeding

02.03.2026 02:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

See now I have TWO games to play

02.03.2026 02:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looks dope, will check it out!

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Oh hell yeah

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Thank you!

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You’re right, thank you!

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Awesome, thank you!

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Hell yeah!

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I want to wring the remaining juice out of NextFest, please give me recommendations for demos to play. Especially if you made it!

01.03.2026 23:15 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 6    📌 0

Right now there’s a group of military personnel who know for a fact they launched a cruise missile into an elementary school. Not really a political statement, but: those people should spend every night of their lives tasting the barrel of their service pistol until they get the courage to squeeze.

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The reality is that, until very recently, I had very stubbornly refused to learn what cholesterol was, let alone which foods contained it

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SPRAWL ZERO - REVEAL TRAILER
YouTube video by SPRAWL SPRAWL ZERO - REVEAL TRAILER

Hey so we just announced SPRAWL zero, a new FPS that we've been working really hard on.

Inspired by classics like Bungie's Halo and Marathon, as well as Half Life 2 and anime from the era, this is our love letter to the golden years of FPS. Wishlists would rule <3

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju0r...

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TO THE WRITERS OF THE UNIT
GREETINGS.
AS WE LEARN HOW TO WRITE THIS SHOW, A RECURRING PROBLEM BECOMES CLEAR.
THE PROBLEM IS THIS: TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN DRAMA AND NON-DRAMA. LET ME BREAK-IT-DOWN-NOW.
VERYONE IN CREATION IS SCREAMING AT US TO MAKE THE SHOW
TASKED
CLEAR. WE ARE TASKED WITH, IT SEEMS, CRAMMING A SHITLOAD OF INFORMATION INTO A LITTLE BIT OF TIME.
OUR FRIENDS. THE PENGUINS, THINK THAT WE, THEREFORE, ARE EMPLOYED TO COMMUNICATE INFORMATION -- AND, SO, AT TIMES, IT SEEMS TO US.
BUT NOTE: THE AUDIENCE WILL NOT TUNE IN TO WATCH INFORMATION.
YOU WOULDN'T, I WOULDN'T. NO ONE WOULD OR WILL. THE AUDIENCE WILL ONLY TUNE IN AND STAY TUNED TO WATCH DRAMA.

TO THE WRITERS OF THE UNIT GREETINGS. AS WE LEARN HOW TO WRITE THIS SHOW, A RECURRING PROBLEM BECOMES CLEAR. THE PROBLEM IS THIS: TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN DRAMA AND NON-DRAMA. LET ME BREAK-IT-DOWN-NOW. VERYONE IN CREATION IS SCREAMING AT US TO MAKE THE SHOW TASKED CLEAR. WE ARE TASKED WITH, IT SEEMS, CRAMMING A SHITLOAD OF INFORMATION INTO A LITTLE BIT OF TIME. OUR FRIENDS. THE PENGUINS, THINK THAT WE, THEREFORE, ARE EMPLOYED TO COMMUNICATE INFORMATION -- AND, SO, AT TIMES, IT SEEMS TO US. BUT NOTE: THE AUDIENCE WILL NOT TUNE IN TO WATCH INFORMATION. YOU WOULDN'T, I WOULDN'T. NO ONE WOULD OR WILL. THE AUDIENCE WILL ONLY TUNE IN AND STAY TUNED TO WATCH DRAMA.

My friend and dear heart @maxfolkman.bsky.social today reminded me of the most important (game or otherwise) writing document, Mamet’s memo to his writers on The Unit. It is my Bible. It is what all of us aspire to screencraft.org/wp-content/u...

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Bungie’s still got the juice, folks

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I’m going feral on these peas. I’m spreading it on toast. I’m crunching up Buffalo wing potato chips on top. I’m like a reverse Linda Blair on these mushy bad boys

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Whoever had me on polymarket to get really into split pea soup get ready to rake in baby

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Selaco goes crazy

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