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Brian Crecente

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Founder Pad & Pixel LLC video game consulting https://linktr.ee/crecente Kotaku founder Polygon co-founder Former video game editor Rolling Stone, Variety

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · Oct 19

(Re) intro time.

I run a consultancy for video games, tech, and toys. Clients include Epic Games and LEGO!

You may also know me as the founder of Kotaku, cofounder of Polygon, video games editor at Rolling Stone and Variety.

I still write, but mostly for clients and my column.

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Video games shape the world. Click to read Game, by Brian Crecente, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Kavanaugh stop

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 11h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 12h

The arcade version of this game predates Simon.

Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 12h

Touch Me

Atari - 1978

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#Handcandy

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 18h

Totally. I meant more what the director said.

Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe they’ll have racks on the nose of future planes.

Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like some of this goes back to a point I made a year or two ago. AI means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Not all of it is the shit that’s trying to steal from artists.

Vipère @troglodette.bsky.social · 20h

We really need to stop with the self fulfilling "it's here to stay" prophecy, or the silly "if we don't use it others will" narrative...
if my neighbor wants to chug bleach so be it, no FOMO on my side 🤷‍♀️

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 19h

Debating whether to read herscht 07769 or if its single-sentence format will give me a panic attack.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man, yeah! and Motorcycles. :D

At one point, we had five dogs, five cats, four guinea pigs and a chinchilla in our house.

IT WAS A LOT.

The biggest was my gorgeous Great Dane, and the tiniest was our adorable chihuahua -- who was the alpha.

Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, there are some fucking crazy trainers out there. Super well-known ones too. We went to one who's somewhat famous and ended up stopping because we disagreed with his philosophy.

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I get you.

We constantly rescue, and my daughter-in-law is a vet tech. We actually have a dog that almost decapitated another.

Training dogs that are aggressive can be challenging, to put it mildly.

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

Ah! That's better. Still not great, but that starts down a whole rabbit hole of animal behavior and different forms of training.

I know it's a contentious thing. Especially training methods.

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

Personally, I think you shouldn't ever use shock collars, but that's just me.

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine how much the GOP would freak out if someone created a deck of cards featuring a bunch of government shitbags?

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking muppet

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

Miyamoto first talked about it more than a dozen years ago

Is Nintendo releasing those promised Pikmin animated shorts?

Miyamoto first talked about it more than a dozen years ago

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think I’d call Austin the South

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard general said that if they were deployed, his troops would be instructed to protect the protesters, not ICE.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Mike Johnson says he'll swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social as soon as she wants. Okay, so how about today?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

Whew, I was worried it was just mine.

Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

Are hashtags not working? I can’t seem to find results with #handcandy any more.

Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 1d

Slimline Speedway

Tomytronic - 1980

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#Handcandy

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 2d

The "antifa army" that Noem stared down 😂😂😂

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