Andrew Bluett

Saddened to announce I was affected by the recent Polygon layoffs. Though my time there was short, it was an incredible experience with a truly lovely bunch of people.

If you’re looking for a games/entertainment nerd for writing, presenting, PR, or any other opps, hit me up!

Could be interesting for some of you.

Shmuplations has over 500 translated developer Interviews.

shmuplations.com/archive/

idk if it helps, but I don't think anyone would blame you for the work you do or how it's being used right now.

I certainly don't.

Turns out Phil Spencer left Xbox because he got Norted

Windows 13 rumored to be "collecting hearts released from heartless" in an attempt to open Kingdom Hearts, sources say

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FFIX: “Maybe the Melodies of OUR Lives are truly the friends we made along the way”

All of us:

Please watch @peterspittech.bsky.social's essay about how intertwined Call of Duty gamer culture is with real-world oppression

youtu.be/IQYwCClbDUw

Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.

Support Marin Support Marin

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Work just laid off all their seasonals 2 weeks early. I'm out of a job on Friday.

I don't know how to keep coping with this.

Please, if anyone has work, I've done technical support, project management, event coordination, project coordination. I don't want to lose my house.

In the last month, Marin has had their gender affirming surgery pulled out of reach, and now they’ve been laid off.

I’m doing what I can to support them here but if anyone has any help they can offer

I can’t bear to see them lose hope like this

I hate this fucking 4chan-ass admin

computer? cancel my plans.

YES!!

The number of times I've dealt with this exact issue in my research is maddening!

BTW it is EXTREMELY common for academic papers to declare Lara Croft the first playable female game character (a very easy fact to debunk). As a grad student I wrote a paper that traced every appearance of this "fact" to a single paper, which is why you don't only engage with academic texts!!

Okay so I'm just going to have to push the KH2FM stream back to tomorrow. My throat is going through it while I wrap up VO and I want to have ample time to do everything without rushing the stream so I'm not too tired to play games with friends afterward.

Sorry :/

Article full of baseless speculation from "Tech4Gamers" Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS By Shaheer Zahid

I wanted to come back to the biggest reason this thing is fake that people might not understand: the NPU.

Here's a rough list of those that are actually available, and if you look close you'll notice something: the vast majority are for mobile devices.

www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_bench...

Erm...make that 5:30.

do it coward

Brain Lords episode 29 - What is the gamer aesthetic ft Jiikae

This week on Brain Lords we attempt to solve the origins of the khaki shorts/green Zelda shirt combo. Special guest @jiikae.com helps us understand what game characters are so hot but gamers are all to often so not!

youtu.be/5eA22IY2guo?...

Stream's gonna be a bit late. Recording the last of the KH2 VO now.

Probably going to be starting around 4:30pm EST.

Shigeru Miyamoto x Shigesato Itoi – 1989 Interview - shmuplations.com This lengthy interview captures a high-level meeting of the minds between Shigesato Itoi, Shigeru Miyamoto, and author Seiko Itou.

Today we have an amazing interview from 1989 with Shigeru Miyamoto and Shigesato Itoi. Conducted shortly after the release of Mother, it's full of deep musings about realism, creative exhaustion, the moral panic over kids & gaming, and prescient visions of the future. shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/

There's a lot of ground to cover but I only have so much time to tread all of it.

Finished the KH2 script and will be recording the last of it before stream this afternoon.

This is the word count for the Final Mix section.

Oh god what I have done.

And it's going to keep getting worse year over year if trends continue. The churn and burn of developers and mismanagement of studios and publishers is reaching truly unsustainable levels.

Who knows where the industry will be by 2030?

HELL YEAH LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO

Shout out to Boston

YouTube video by Majuular Ultima VIII: Pagan Retrospective | A Titanic Mistake

GUESS WHO'S IN THE NEW MAJUULAR VIDEO??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4h1...

I'd respect that more than if Luxord was his favorite

He looks like a Demyx fan