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Taylor Rioux

@taylorjrioux.bsky.social

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Father, husband, and gamer. Freelance writer. Owner and EIC of Jetsonplaysgames.com

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Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 28d

Despite tackling subjects like disordered eating, fat-phobia, and self-esteem issues, Consume Me never feels like a cautionary tale. But for me, I couldn't help but make it one.

Read the full review here:

www.jetsonplaysgames.com/post/consume...

Consume Me Review

Consume Me is a semi-autobiographical life-sim RPG that explores one girl’s struggles with disordered eating, love, societal pressures, and shame.

www.jetsonplaysgames.com

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James GHOULizio @theswweet.blackskycomra.de · 5h

In the context of yet another game release sure looking like it's been impacted by payment processors, you should call PayPal/Mastercard/VISA again. @acvalens.net writing on the situation remains the singular most important games journalism this year and the snark she received from some is gross.

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Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 6h

I grew up in a small town with a lot of really shitty people. I was also in the military.

Don't know a single person that had a nazi phase, or wore a nazi tattoo for 20 years.

Not a single one.

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Jade King @konayma6.bsky.social · 12h

Valnet unfortunately let go of the entire TheGamer features team today alongside several other staff members.

Many incredibly talented and hard working writers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past several years.

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The Ghost of Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 11h

If anyone who was laid off from TheGamer today has a piece they were working on and need a home for, Skybox wants to hear from you, and we pay pretty well.

We can't make up for you being laid off, but we'll do what we can.

Jade King @konayma6.bsky.social · 12h

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Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 11h

Brutal

Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 11h

Is Valnet still paying 15 or 30 dollars or whatever for articles and reviews?

I mean, even I can pay more than that.

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🐰The Ingenious Doll of La Hamcha🐰 @hamirapingpong.bsky.social · 1d

hey man, great story about how we need to let go of things sometimes and how endless repetition causes rot no matter what. can you make a sequel.

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Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 13h

It is believable to me that a military guy could unknowingly get a Nazi tattoo while in Croatia.

It is not believable to me that he could find out it was a Nazi tat and keep it for 20 years without aligning with it in some way.

Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 22h

Having that tattoo for 20 years is crazy. What in the world

Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 1d

Playing Vampyr. Combat sucks ass lmao.

Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 1d

I want a room where this is the wallpaper pattern.

Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 1d

top 14 exit velocities by dodgers hitters this year
top 14 pitch velocities by dodgers starters this year

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

Just hopped on NPR for a quick hit - will be back next Monday to talk about IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU - a film I loved that I reviewed here: filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...

Telluride '25: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

****/****starring Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slaterwritten and directed by Mary Bronstein by Walter Chaw Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is brutal. It’s uncom...

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Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 1d

My only real issue with this game is that it's so goddamn long if you do the millennium tower stuff. I just don't like grinding anymore lol.

Still got all the trophies, though.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

For the morning crowd

Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 1d

FFC interviews BORN IN FLAMES director Lizzie Borden, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/10/all-...

"All the Voices That Are Frightening.": FFC Interviews Lizzie Borden - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

by Walter Chaw Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls (1986) was foundational for me. Looking for titilation as a young teen in the VHS age, I found instead a sensitive, uncompromising, unfiltered look at sex ...

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Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 1d

This year's horror themed articles are doing noticeably worse than last year. Not really sure what to attribute that to, especially since the site is getting much more general traffic.

Maybe the seasonal themes just aren't doing it for people?

Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 1d

Let Obsidian go, you freaks.

Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 1d

But only to track his own increasingly grotesque skull growth

Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 1d

Really wish there was a way to just filter all AI games out from my view. Having it at the bottom of the description is such a pain.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 1d

You've been involved in some of the best games ever made. Probably don't need to worry about those guys lol

You'd be right, though.

Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 1d

All that just to avoid Trump, but wouldn't directly canceling the Trump Organization have had the same effect?

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JetsonPlaysGames @jetsonplaysgames.com · 2d

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs is a short but dense experience that is just waiting for people to explore.

www.jetsonplaysgames.com/post/carimar...

#carimara #criticalreflex #indiegame #horrorgame

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs Review

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs is a short, but dense experience that is just waiting for people to explore.

www.jetsonplaysgames.com

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Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 2d

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs is a short but dense experience that is just waiting for people to explore.

www.jetsonplaysgames.com/post/carimar...

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs Review

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs is a short, but dense experience that is just waiting for people to explore.

www.jetsonplaysgames.com

Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know what art is, but I know AI isn't.

I'm fully capable of writing dogshit on my own, thank you.

Taylor Rioux @taylorjrioux.bsky.social · 2d

Say what you mean, access be damned.

Easier for me to say since I own my own website.