Kazuma Hashimoto

Kazuma Hashimoto

@kazuma.bsky.social

critic / consultant / ??? @ ??? x2 ・ award nominated ・ ハーフ ・ queer, he/him, FTM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ・ bylines: IGN, Polygon, GamesRadar+, MMORPG, Them, Inverse, Rolling Stone ・ CONTACT: kazuma.h.de@gmail.com ・ posts don't reflect employer, etc. etc.

6,360 Followers 436 Following 7,478 Posts Joined May 2023
2 hours ago
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Unionized game workers launch petition to protect immigrants from ICE agents The 'We Don't Play With ICE' campaign is demanding employers commit to being a fourth amendment workplace.

Unionized game workers launch petition to protect immigrants from ICE agents

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3 hours ago

See- it's complicated, right? Because the things you don't like about Silksong could be someone else's too, but the two of you might value those things higher or lower. People have different deal breakers. The important thing is not playing a game out of a false sense of obligation. There is none!

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19 hours ago
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Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft "We encourage others in the industry to join us and take a stand."

all will rise is handing back Microsoft money & pledging @nogamesforgenocide.com — it’s a difficult thing to do when funding and attention are scarce commodities for indies like us, but we hope more of our fellow devs and indie studios will join us in taking a stand 🔥
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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17 hours ago

Oddly enough, Eternal Darkness

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17 hours ago

I need to watch this pronto

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17 hours ago

Houses are redone, some puzzles removed entirely. It just feels like a completely different game imo.

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18 hours ago

i'm also not a huge fan of the re-translation but i think that's because the original version is imprinted in my brain and it was just so tonally perfect to me somehow.

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18 hours ago

i understand that this is a remake. i get that things are changed and shifted around. but the general flow of the game is not the same, or the layouts of the houses, and i feel like a stranger going back to a place i used to visit every summer.

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18 hours ago
A screenshot of the lead singer of the Talking Heads, pixelated and blurry with the caption "This is not my beautiful house." in all caps.

walking into the kurosawa house in fatal frame 2 remake like

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20 hours ago

Oh!!! Thank you! :D It's always great when new people get into the series! :3 What game are you on?

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20 hours ago

the mark as read and delete button should not be so close together in gmail

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21 hours ago

Turned to a group of students shit talking other students in the line behind me at this party and offered a little life advice that I’m also going to share with the internet - the industry is small. We are listening if you are at an industry event. Don’t do that shit.

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1 week ago
a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy

the future is for trans people

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23 hours ago

OH THIS LOOKS COOL

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1 day ago
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Afternoon tea - 18x24” acrylic on canvas. Available.

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23 hours ago

realizing my fashion is currently oscillating between a more modern take on traditional Japanese fashion and 2010's high waisted slim fit jeans/pants and cropped jackets.

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1 day ago

Here's my 2 cents on this. I think as adults who have largely stuck with our childhood passions, we don't think about the significant # of people whose content intake *change* There are millions of gamers who will one day just, stop, after a certain age. They'll stop watching anime or drop comics.

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CJEU press release:
Member State legislation which does not permit the amendment of the
gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to
freedom of movement is contrary to EU law
A Bulgarian national was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex. She currently lives in Italy, where she has begun hormone therapy, and now presents herself as a woman.
She instituted proceedings before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected.
According to national legislation, as interpreted by the plenary assembly of civil chambers of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, the term ‘sex’ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons.
Hearing the dispute, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has doubts as to the compatibility of that legislation with EU law and has referred the matter to the Court of Justice.
In its judgment, the Court holds that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State.
The Court emphasises first of all that, while the issue of identity documents falls within the competence of the Member States, they must exercise that competence in compliance with EU law...

Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity

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"What ultimately broke me and my Blizzard career was I got called into the CFO's office and he sits me down and he says—he gives me a date which at the time was 2020 and was going to slip to 2021, but at the time it was 2020—and he said: 'Overwatch has to make [redacted] in 2020, and then every year after that it needs a recurring revenue of [redacted]' and then he says to me 'if it doesn't do [redacted] we're going to lay off 1,000 people, and that's going to be on you.' And that was the biggest fuck you moment I've had in my career, it felt surreal to be in that condition."

This is a deranged thing to say to someone wtf. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ov...

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1 day ago

Writing is like 80% walking around coming up with it and 20% feeling like Sisyphus in front of my computer and the 20% feels like 80%

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

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1 day ago

helps that HOMM3 is a certified banger

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2 days ago

Not a single day goes by that I'm not driven to the brink of howling madness by:

A: Videogames being at their most diverse, creative and overwhelmingly numerous as ever.

B: The gaming press being utterly gutted by vulture capitalists, leaving fewer people than ever to try and understand it all.

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2 days ago

I tried asking Epic for more information on their "the cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we’re raising prices to help pay the bills” statement—a statement that feels exceptionally out of touch in this economy—and was told the company would not be elaborating.

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2 days ago

We need SKYRIM pt. 2

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2 days ago

in tried and true tradition the @burnoutculture.bsky.social boys (me, cullen, and gc) are going back to an extremely haunted village and where the true chemistry for our podcast began.

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2 days ago

I wanna design a Marathon Runner Shell........

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2 days ago

This makes me so much more inclined to play

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2 days ago

Oh thank God. I didn't know this

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2 days ago

I pray I'm not getting sick.. I have post-op corrective surgery next week and I can't reschedule that appointment to fit within 2026........ to the doctor's office i go

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