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freelance journalist 🏳️‍⚧️ author of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk words: Lost In Cult, VGC, Unwinnable, Polygon, GamesRadar+, PCGamesN, PLAY, EDGE, Into The Spine, Skybox, startmenu https://muckrack.com/ash-like-a-dragon banner by aurahack.ca

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · Apr 10

i'm writing a book!!!!

in collaboration with @lostincult.co.uk, @sukeban.moe and @ysbryd.net, i'm writing Design Works: VA-11 HALL-A.

time to mix drinks and change lives.

Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · Apr 10

Time to mix drinks and change lives.

Announcing VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works 🍸

In collaboration with @sukeban.moe x @ysbryd.net, explore Glitch City like never before through developer interviews, concept art and more.

Ends 5 June. Pre-order now bit.ly/VA11HallA

VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works

Pre-order now bit.ly/VA11HallATime to mix drinks and change lives.Announcing VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works 🍸In collaboration with Sukeban Games x Ysbryd Games,...

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1h

the skate story demo has me smiling like an idiot man

video games are so cool

A screenshot from the Skate Story demo. A blue skateboard stands upright on a pedestal, Excalibur-like, against a backdrop of glass-like red spikes, a turquoise night sky and a full moon.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 2h

i will NOT be chill

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 4h

one day i will actually go to a games event and meet some of the people in this industry i love and admire

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Cyobirdy @cyobirdy.bsky.social · 20h

Recent thumbnail I did :3

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 5h

IF NOT LOVE THEN WHAT

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 6h

it got worse chat

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 2d

i'm so fucking tired chat

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 7h

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYYY 💜💜

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 14h

thinking about "there's no feeling worth being incinerated over" over and over and over

thanks knower

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

dude if you feel lame then we're all fucking cooked

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

you continue to be the coolest 💜

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 1d

Hello friends. Today, I'm releasing my first Duckspeak album in 5 years. Bones & Skin: 2012 - 2022 is a double compilation pulling together a decade's worth of my rarities, unreleased demos, and covers. It's a vulnerable, messy project that means a lot to me.

duckspeak.bandcamp.com/album/bones-...

An album cover for Duckspeak's Bones and Skin: 2012 - 2022. It shows an abstracted circular texture that looks like skin under a microscope on a faded purple background.

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

this is a fantastic question and one i'm horrified by the prospective answers of

as far as i can see, his career has been completely unaffected

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

there are two recasts. one is a sex pest. how can that just go unmentioned in an article half about recasts

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

i would love for it to be this simple, but i can't agree

it's not exactly a minor detail, it's listed right at the top of kagawa's goddamn wikipedia page, and with the relatively obscure recasting of pierre taki from 2019 mentioned, kagawa's absence as a contemporary issue sticks out even more

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

i don't think i'm ever going to get tired of hearing new yorkers say coffee

incredibly important part of human language

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

best sentence i will read all week, thank you

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

this is a good read on rgg's insistence on pointless and often worse remakes, but to have a highlight of the article be the recasting of rikiya and not once mention the recasting of hamazaki to proven fucking sex pest teruyuki kagawa is bewildering

www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Yakuza Kiwami 3 and the Case Against Game Remakes

Yakuza Kiwami 3's changes to Rikiya is another sign that the games industry is too quick to rewrite its past through remakes.

www.endlessmode.com

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

booked first session of laser!!!

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Nicole (Scary) @cyn-cedilla.bsky.social · 1d

supposed to be tracking my mood as i adjust to estradiol valerate but i just wrote "yearning" for three consecutive days

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

sad to say that from experience of both, this is true for enanthate too

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

It would take a million years of evolution – or a total reversal in the condition of the world – for your pain to end.

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

years ago...i was goth

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

YOU'RE RIGHT

if something cannot be appreciated/enjoyed with prior knowledge of its twists, then the twists probably aren't great

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 1d

100 Meters is very easily comparable to Look Back. But I think it touches on something more universal—not just for athletes, but for anyone with the courage to pick themselves up from success and failure and try again.

My review:

Like Look Back, 100 Meters scratches the itch of watching two people from wildly different walks of life wrestle with maintaining their passion. But where Tatsuki Fujimoto’s work spirals into grief and artistic obsession, 100 Meters stays grounded in the purity of the 100-meter dash, a brutally simple sport where runners have just ten seconds to prove they’re the fastest and etch their name into history. If someone’s a hair quicker, or your body fails you, you’re forgotten in the blink of an eye.

Although 100 Meters flirts with the ephemeral glory of being the best in a sport predicated on “who’s on top right now” over who once was, it never wallows in the futility of the Sisyphean pursuit of greatness. Even in its most agonizing defeats and major setbacks, it refuses to become grim. Instead, it finds beauty in the act of picking yourself back up and starting again—to compete not for legacy, but for love. For the joy of movement, and to run shoulder to shoulder with the like-minded people beside you.

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