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Rebekah Valentine

@duckvalentine.bsky.social

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Multi-award-winning senior reporter at IGN, proudly @ignunion.bsky.social. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. [email protected], Signal: duckvalentine.25

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · Jan 6

please read the words i wrote in my post before replying to it. thank you.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1h

Tales of Symphonia (2003)

Jelly🪼 @huskapet.bsky.social · 10d

smart guy in an rpg: hmm..
party member: what's wrong?
smart guy: it's nothing.
(20 hours later)
smart guy: so it's true... i knew it.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 18h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Jelly🪼 @huskapet.bsky.social · 10d

smart guy in an rpg: hmm..
party member: what's wrong?
smart guy: it's nothing.
(20 hours later)
smart guy: so it's true... i knew it.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 4h

Yi from Nine Sols takes a big rip from a magic bong to heal. That's as far as we've gotten

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 14h

Sakurai explaining that Mario Kart just came out

Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 14h

Should be illegal to take Kirby out here.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 14h

NO JANET

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 17h

frogs are a good thing to have bubble up in the collective consciousness, things seem to go pretty well for those who embrace the frog

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 18h

You finished her quest! I didn't get her, I got Garamond and Zaza from doing their encounters

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 18h

I'm bad at arenas and good at bosses, I crashed into this for about 20 tries before giving up, doing ten more hours of whatever, coming back and finding a nice surprise waiting

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 18h

this fight is complete ass and also an amazing reminder that "if it's shit, hit the bricks". Finishing one of two different side quests and coming back completely trivializes it.

But also this fight is ASS oh my god.

Janet Garcia @gameonysus.bsky.social · 21h

I gotta be honest I’ve been killing all the arenas in Silksong. I’m used to winning on my first try. Max secobd. Only one that gave me trouble was Hunter’s March and the birds one. But this one is making me crash out esp because after this is some big guy. This like my 4th attempt at least.

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 23h

Rob Fahey says that although handheld gaming devices are now a hot sector, nobody who isn’t Nintendo is actually selling many. "Building a dedicated handheld Xbox with a commitment to sell at least ten million units would have been pure hubristic madness."

www.gamesindustry.biz/handhelds-ar...

Handhelds are in vogue – but they’re still a commercial minefield | Opinion

Once thought destroyed by smartphones, handheld gaming devices are now a hot sector; but nobody whose name isn’t Nintendo is actually selling many

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 1d

Live now raising money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social

Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 3d

This week I’m going to raise money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social to help Palestinians in need.

On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh.

Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

we have three news writers covering the entire video game, tech, and entertainment industries, and those three writers often travel to events, take vacations, get sick, go to meetings, do lengthy interviews, etc. i don't know what to tell people

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Friday Night @fridayyakuza.bsky.social · 1d

Friday at last…

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d

alright how about there’s no foul territory but everyone in attendance is an eligible fielder

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 1d

One cool feature of Steam is they provide a Harassment Zone for each game you announce. It's a place for people who hate progress to come and crap all over games they haven't even played. No, they won't help you moderate it, but hey, at least you can't delete it!

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

Classic Steam forums

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 2d

billionaires will never throw money at this sort of thing in a real, meaningful way because they've never had to take out the trash or wash a dish in their lives and have no concept of it being a barrier to anything someone would want to do

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 2d

call me when the robot can do my dishes and laundry for me and put them all away in the correct drawers/cabinets/closets without my input. that would give me more time to write, the thing AI keeps trying to do (poorly) for me instead.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 2d

Copilot notification on work laptop this morning: "Let's make progress on a project! Ask me how to tackle the first step." bud if i didn't know how to do the first step of a project all by myself like a big girl i'm not sure anyone would've hired me to begin with.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 2d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 2d

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 2d

Of course @aetataureate.bsky.social did the star sign study and of course I enjoyed every word

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Luis Aguasvivas 🔜 TGS @aguaspoints.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I agree Mario should be punished! André Breton was so right about him, it's not even funny.

Also, my Super Mario Zodiac is Birdo (with a Luigi rising). This explains everything about me.

Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 4d

Mario fought his way to forty, so we fixed a fancy fête. Enjoy the Super Mario Zodiac, new directions in Mario Studies, crying over fake Yoshi, and, of course, André Breton.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/sup...

Super Midlife Brothers: Thoughts on Mario at Forty — Gamers with Glasses

It’s-a Mario’s birthday! Sort of. So here’s a Mario bonanza from your friends at Gamers with Glasses, which in typical fashion includes a scientific* study on Mario and the zodiac, elegiac expressions...

www.gamerswithglasses.com

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