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NICE! I played it before heading to PAX and it was indeed a treat. Was great singing the dev’s praises in person when i saw them

Game publishing is so dire right now that if you took $1m and gave 20 weirdos $50k each, you would instantly be the most successful publisher in the world because you inadvertently funded two whole Balatros

You guys had a great chat! Good job transcribing and editing everything too. I learnt during my PAX QnA interviews how time consuming that could be 😅

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

Nice! While I have mixed feelings about Mouthwashing as a hollistic work, I can’t deny its narrative design and the way it uses gameplay and symbolism to affect the player are fantastically visceral and something I want to see more of in games

I have always been unsure how to explain why there are ways in which h I like ME1 better than 2 despite the latter being a better game but Cat nails it here.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

earthbound is one of those overplayed, overhyped and oversaturated classics that you play and realise it's actually underrated

Playing Earthbound for the first time ever in 2025 is fascinating, actually. You're just a kid and the world's gone mad. All the adults are useless at best or trying to kill you at worst. Everyone talks like a crazy person. Everything's too expensive. Your next door neighbor wants to be a dictator.

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

Godzilla's original suit actor Haruo Nakajima doesn't get enough credit for how well he was able to adapt with the series. And not just Godzilla's evolution as a monster character, but the technical evolution as well. Nakajima had to roll with a lot of punches.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

A photo of a panel at High Score 2025. The title of the presentation is: "How to Speak Dev and Influence Designers"

A photo of Sarah Wolfe's awesome presentation called "Making Video Games Music POP"

A photo of Copycat's presentation at High Score 2025 about Recording Voice Over.

A photo from a panel at High Score 2025 titled "From Freelancer to Founder: Building Your Game Audio Practice"

First up was #HighScore2025! Coming from sound in film, it was enriching to meet so many talented sound designers and composers working with adaptive audio. A personal highlight was Sarah Wolfe's talk about crafting a hyperpop soundtrack for the excellent, upcoming @girlypop.net!

you're right and you should say it

Me, minding my own business, having fun collecting cute little guys.

Random child in Lumiose:

Playing Road to Empress with a friend visiting who loves C-dramas and this is so damn iconic.

Congrats!!!

It was negative, but still got awful fever chills last night 🤧feeling better now at least

So if you’d like to support someone whose previous videogame website (which they spent a great deal of effort building into an award winning website with award winning journos and a mentorship program) also got turned into a casino site…

@thisweekinvideogames.com

😅

Like who even wants this??

I’m sorry you’ve been feeling this way 🥺 you were absolutely amazing to meet and extremely kind. I hope you feel better

This post prompted me to pull out a RAT test and check if my sore throat is something i should worry about 💀

Oh, that’s not… 😬

lil guys have to recognise each other to stimulate the lil guy economy

And to everyone else I spoke to (esp @faultrunner.bsky.social for making sure I didn’t get lost at General Assembly!!) thank you so much for the awesome chats! I can’t wait to see what you all write and create, and will hopefully see you all at the next PAX!

@thoughtsoup.neocities.org for being my co-conspirator throughout this whole weekend. Feels great having eachother’s backs.

@beabravo.bsky.social just for being an all-around cool person. Us latines need to stick together!! 😤

And ofc @qualbert.com for taking a chance on me.

@hopecorr.bsky.social for sharing some really fascinating stories and giving me a much-needed pep talk before my interview.

@windycornertv.bsky.social for filming the interview and letting me practice my questions on you. Your confidence was extremely reassuring

Thanks especially to:

@writer-mach.bsky.social for giving me direction as I had no idea what I was doing at PAX until you tasked me for helping you cover the boardgames at PAX rising.

@austingallagher.bsky.social for giving me some real af advice as a new games journo. Extremely generous of you.

Me posing in front of a big yellow PAX AUS stand.

Me with a bunch of qualbert members at an outside table at dinner.

Me posing with Mike Bilder and Allard Laban from Jackbox games

Me posing with at the AUS/NZ breakfast meetup at Boatbuilders

I am back home from my first ever #PAXAus! While I got mild FOMO for not doing other MIGW stuff, WOW I did so much!

From meeting up with the Qualbert crew, playing new indie boardgames, pulling off my first filmed interview, and meeting a TON of local journos and devs, I could not be happier.

My article got included in the Post Games shownotes??? bsky.app/profile/rior...