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Todd Parker

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I write about Asexuality in games (now published! https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijgsi/article/view/9471) 💜🤍🩶🖤 Indie Dev Any/All 日本語もOK！

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Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · May 26

NEW ARTICLE:

'The Nintendo Today! App is a Bizarre Manifestation of our Dystopian Lives'

A shorter article than usual talking about my mild discomfort and confusion at Nintendo's new app that gives you daily advertisements

The Nintendo Today! App is a Bizarre Manifestation of our Dystopian Lives

The Nintendo Today! app is an uncomfortable reminder of video game's consumerist heart

www.toddparkergamethoughts.com

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Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 1d

That one pokemon leak is actually crazy, I really hope it doesn't die in development

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 3d

AI slop completely overtaking the "playlist of random music that is good for working" genre of video on youtube has at least had the upside of making me listen to game OSTs way more than I usually would

Shoutout VA-11 Hall-A in particular, such a good vibe-y soundtrack

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Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 4d

Country music is so fascinating as a European (especially a brit at that) because we import so much pop culture from America but country musicians can be unfathomably successful and I will just have 0 idea they exist

(this is brought to you by a daily game expecting me to know Zach Bryan)

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 8d

For any Americans: he's running a playbook very similar to that of soon-to-be NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani. He's anti-genocide, pro wealth tax and openly socialist, he's awesome.

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 8d

Zack Polanski's appointment as leader of the Green's has me the most politcally energised I've felt since the 2017 election, he really seems to just get it

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 8d

Wanted to share the @greenparty.org.uk party broadcast from today over here as I hadn't seen it on bsky (in 2 parts the video limit sucks)

My entire adult life has been a growing political doomerism as I've watched economic crises, rising hatred and a drastic rightward shift in the overton window.

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Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 10d

The theme of name especially right now is a pretty hot button issue in Japan right now, there's a lot to talk about

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 10d

Ok the ending for Silent Hill f is crazy, really really loved this game excited to try and write something about it

Also very excited to go for a new game plus run or two and collect my thoughts there 👀

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Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 14d

the new sonic racing game feels like someone just learned what game feel and juiciness was and decided it need to do all of it all the time

crazy overstimulating experience

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 15d

95% of my queer gender expression is just that i call everything i find funny silly (complimentary)

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 17d

As someone who was terrified for literal years of the weeping angels after seeing their first episode live when i was like 7, fuck the scarecrow sequence in Silent Hill f

Should not have played that in the dark 😭

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 20d

finally seen the OD trailer and it looks unfathomably good

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 21d

Kinda wanna get more of a grounded cultural base to analyse them through

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 21d

Weird ask maybe, anyone that follows me happen to have a reccommendation for non-fiction about showa era Japanese feminism, between currently playing silent hill f and reading Hiromi Kawakami's The Third Love I'm absorbing a lot of work tackling this era/locale of feminist movements right now

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 21d

Got the feeling already I'm gonna have a lot to say about SIlent Hill f so gonna keep the impressions to the minimum on the timeline for now but just wanted to point out how wonderfully disturbing the alternate costume descriptions are

I physically recoiled reading this

The Costume select screen in Silent Hill f, highlighted is the "White Sailor School Uniform" which has the description of "Pure White. Innocent White."

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 22d

Apparently steam and only steam doesn't have Silent Hill f go live until 5am UK time as opposed to midnight so i guess I am waiting until tomorrow 🤷‍♀️

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 22d

reviews are good 👀

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 25d

Close enough to the release of Silent Hill f now that I need to reckon with me really fucking with the game's trailers and me having 0 faith in Konami

God I hope this game is as interesting as it looks

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 23d

Stunned the guy behind the game that gave us the don't worry Dante isn't gay or Japanese anymore gdc talk has terrible political opinions

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 24d

The Your Party implosion would be very funny if the state of UK politics wasn't so depressing right now

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 25d

If the reviews are bad at least i have Hades 2 1.0 instead to play on the same day

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 25d

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 29d

Got everything up and running at least finally, can finally start grinding 2xko tomorrow in time for the first tourney of it at my local on thursday but i am bracing to be mauled now because I'm a week behind

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · 29d

Had a week of of only ipv6 websites working (p much just google, youtube, gmail) that i thought was a complicated issue on my ISP's end

Turns out there was just a slightly loose wire i missed when checking everything a week ago, i am very smart

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · Sep 14

After the past few weekls (both in the US & UK) I can not tell you how truly cleansing for the soul it was to spend the weekend visiting a friend in gay as fuck Manchester

Todd Parker @toddparkergames.com · Sep 12

As I've got gayer I've kinda refrained from trying to maintain that relationship (not interested in poking a potential homophobia bee hive) but I really do wonder what current her thinks about the shooting of Charlie Kirk