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"Eat well, crap well, and sleep well. You can solve most of life's problems with those simple steps."

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Matt @kiwimatt.bsky.social · Sep 3

Should I do a #promosky?

I'm Matt. Dad, husband, writer at yeahnahgaming.co.nz, and collector of random hobbies and hyperfixations.

Some things I like:
Rhythm games, shmups, fighting games, RPGs
Japanese history
Trying to make things
LEGO
🏈 Ravens and ⚾ Orioles
Music of all sorts but mostly metal

Yeah Nah Gaming

Where Kiwi gamers come for their fix of Aotearoa-focused news and reviews

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Matt @kiwimatt.bsky.social · 4h

otoh, if it's a choice between self-driving teslas and tesla drivers driving teslas, self-driving is probably the less bad option

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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 7h

There is no better dressed MP in Parliament than Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan and he NEVER wears a tie.✌️👍🥰
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol

Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan standing on the red carpet in a Parliament corridor wearing a black full length buttoned silk gown with a black waist belt and embroidered green and yellow trees and plants and vines and a jade or pounamu pendant.

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 4h

support @videogameschronicle.com @gematsu.com @rpgsite.net @trueachievements.com @vooks.net et al (there are many, many more, I know) for the love of christ

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 4h

Videogamer's new logo a screaming exclamation mark on the 'support independent games media' argument. Legitimately thought this was someone taking the piss when it was first posted in a discord, but no, it's on the site. You have to laugh (or else you'll cry)

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Matt @kiwimatt.bsky.social · 4h

In the interests of accuracy, I'm going to need them to rebrand as videoandcasinogamer dot com

videoandcasinogamer.com

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Matt @kiwimatt.bsky.social · 4h

OK but what if I don't want to share a road with "self-driving vehicles"?

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Matt @kiwimatt.bsky.social · 2d

Got in car with Mr 4. The not-kid-friendly music I'd been listening to earlier came on. I hurriedly turned it off.

"I want that song."
"You sure? Bit screamy."
"Yes."

5 min later:
"I want that song again."

This is how my 4yo child got his first taste of blackgaze.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh4R...

Asunojokei - Diva Under the Blue Sky

YouTube video by dogknightsofficial

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Matt @kiwimatt.bsky.social · 5d

People get super weird about the idea of a PlayStation with no disc drive, but like.

Switch doesn't have a disc drive and it's one of the best-selling consoles of all time???

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 5d

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 6d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 6d

As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 6d

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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Matt @kiwimatt.bsky.social · 6d

Damn, they should have just gone ahead with it.

Anyone who gets mad about KKK being correctly portrayed as villains deserves to be miserable.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 6d

It cannot be stressed enough that the majority of right wingers that engage in culture war nonsense are people who have PsyOp'd themselves into seeing "pattern recognition" everywhere in the same way that biblical numerologists have a heart attack every time they see the number 666 somewhere.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 7d

LOL

so #nintendo is stealthily shoving the trans political agenda and nobody has noticed it?

video without context with trans flag colors everywhere from nintendo america

you people better sart noticing patterns
just like netflix

carbon monoxide leak

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 6d

If Winston truly believes Chlöe is responsible for his broken window then logically it follows that he must be accepting personal responsibility for every single death threat made to Benjamin Doyle and their whanau.

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Kyrie Fishingway @fishingway.bsky.social · 6d

Friendly reminder that every time you see a cosmetic you want in FFXIV mobile, you have to pay to get jobs beyond your first one, pay for the battle pass if you want to get it at a half decent level because xp gain is horrendously slow otherwise oh and pay to dye things.

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Matt @kiwimatt.bsky.social · 6d

Hear me out:

Nintendo Switch Online - Dreamcast Classics

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 20d

Please don't call it that

What You Will Need
• Experience: 5+ years as a video editor or producer-editor ("preditor").

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tain @kntain.bsky.social · Sep 3

peak STG performance.....

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t know how to make this simple enough for our government.

Best way make economy go Brrrrrmmmm is give $$ to poors cause they spend it.

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 7d

Nats clutch their pearls and sanction Chloe in the house then call everyone a snowflake when they spout shit #nzpol

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 7d

I'm taiko no tatsujin God✨
taiko no tatsujin is best🤍

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 7d

🚀🚀LITTLE ROCKET LAB IS OUT NOW!!! 🚀🚀

4 years of development, finally available on Steam and Game Pass

store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...

RTs unbelievably appreciated!! <3

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 8d

I actually agree that MPs should feel safe in their homes*. Benjamin should feel safe in their home. They should feel like their child is safe. Hana should feel safe in her home. Winston *directly caused* AND downplayed the harm those two people faced. It's the hypocrisy for me.

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Matt @kiwimatt.bsky.social · 7d

So Flacco gets to play against Baltimore three times in one season?