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Elizabeth Zelle

@kohizeri.bsky.social

Head of User Research @ Amazon Games | Making games since 2008 | Bethesda and Volition alum | Midwest is Best | Opinions expressed are my own | She/Her

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Latest posts by kohizeri.bsky.social on Bluesky

Federal judges starting decisions by quoting Orwell is a totally normal and not-at-all concerning thing, right?

16.02.2026 19:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Me in the steakhouse

16.02.2026 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

16.02.2026 01:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1406    ๐Ÿ” 498    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 64
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๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ a community member just handed this off to a patroller in our neighborhood

15.02.2026 17:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1552    ๐Ÿ” 326    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46

(white chocolate silk with raspberry compote and raspberry cream in a shortbread crust)

15.02.2026 04:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A small heart-shaped pie with a shortbread crust, and raspberry center

A small heart-shaped pie with a shortbread crust, and raspberry center

Just sharing our adorable Valentines pie ๐Ÿฉท

15.02.2026 04:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Hey, Valentine! Youโ€™re my MVP* 
*Minimum Viable Product

Hey, Valentine! Youโ€™re my MVP* *Minimum Viable Product

Time for the annual repost of my favorite Dumb Thing Iโ€™ve made ๐Ÿ’•

Youโ€™re all MVPs in my eyes ๐Ÿฅฐ

14.02.2026 15:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy Chinese Valentines Black History Lent Ramadan New Year to all who celebrate.

14.02.2026 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 136    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
14.02.2026 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8341    ๐Ÿ” 1006    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 396    ๐Ÿ“Œ 178

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

14.02.2026 00:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21942    ๐Ÿ” 5814    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 166    ๐Ÿ“Œ 118

A excellent piece on why 'Design by Reddit' is a terrible replacement for actual user research.

Keeping a finger on the pulse of social media sentiment can be an important *complement* to understanding your users (and even add context to your research responses), but can't replace #GamesUR

13.02.2026 17:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

13.02.2026 08:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6957    ๐Ÿ” 2365    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

My favorite recent thing is the new trend of people commenting โ€œAI could NEVERโ€ under videos of beautiful, heartfelt human-made art on TikTok.

People recognize and understand the difference when they see art made with soul.

13.02.2026 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

DinoCon with a more prompt response to academics complicit in sexual abuse than uh, the entirety of academia.

10.02.2026 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 484    ๐Ÿ” 161    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

11.02.2026 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13552    ๐Ÿ” 4822    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 242    ๐Ÿ“Œ 276

thank you for contacting the abyss. your scream is very important to us.

10.02.2026 22:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 311    ๐Ÿ” 116    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

me: shares post with partner for the laughs

partner: immediately proves post true with half a dozen texts about how w40k lore is serious business

11.02.2026 04:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Post a banger that isnโ€™t in English

youtu.be/WzfteHcskYo?...

09.02.2026 23:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

08.02.2026 22:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17710    ๐Ÿ” 5376    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 243    ๐Ÿ“Œ 251
09.02.2026 01:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1618    ๐Ÿ” 269    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Patriots didnโ€™t really show up for anything other than the Bad Bunny concert, did they

09.02.2026 03:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
09.02.2026 02:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11367    ๐Ÿ” 3004    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68    ๐Ÿ“Œ 42
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#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

09.02.2026 01:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17996    ๐Ÿ” 3590    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 151    ๐Ÿ“Œ 302

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

09.02.2026 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25119    ๐Ÿ” 5898    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 104    ๐Ÿ“Œ 50
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the bushes were people ๐Ÿ˜‚

09.02.2026 02:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15878    ๐Ÿ” 2810    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 663    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1419

Iโ€™m only watching because thereโ€™s still a chance the Bears could come back and win this thing

09.02.2026 01:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 673    ๐Ÿ” 45    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
This is incredibly cool โ€” A source familiar with Bad Bunnyโ€™s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real.

They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

This is incredibly cool โ€” A source familiar with Bad Bunnyโ€™s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real. They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

โ€ผ๏ธ

09.02.2026 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8695    ๐Ÿ” 1619    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 88    ๐Ÿ“Œ 312

they should just put the Chicago Bears out on the field and pretend nothing's different, like a late-season sitcom recasting

09.02.2026 01:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 157    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Genuinely gives me a lot of hope that the NFL is a cynical, cash-motivated organization and they're betting on this being the future

09.02.2026 01:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1939    ๐Ÿ” 196    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

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