Rebekah Valentine
@duckvalentine.bsky.social
Multi-award-winning senior reporter at IGN, proudly @ignunion.bsky.social. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. [email protected], Signal: duckvalentine.47
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please read the words i wrote in my post before replying to it. thank you.
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In the craziest celebrity interview this year, Underworld star Kate Beckinsale says her daughter's boyfriend has laid two eggs. https://bit.ly/3K5LLdb
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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my experience thus far with Indika is that I painstakingly gathered five buckets of water, a nun dumped all my water on the floor, and the game crashed without saving. 10/10 for ludonarrative
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
my experience thus far with Indika is that I painstakingly gathered five buckets of water, a nun dumped all my water on the floor, and the game crashed without saving. 10/10 for ludonarrative
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A text message is trying to scare people away from petition gatherers on Black Friday. | Opinion
Missouri Alert: Don’t let text scare you away from anti-gerrymander petition | Opinion
A text message is trying to scare people away from petition gatherers on Black Friday. | Opinion
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November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A text message is trying to scare people away from petition gatherers on Black Friday. | Opinion
Sci-fi movies always made it seem like it would be difficult to tell if AI was alive or not but in real life thus far I have actually found it very easy
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Sci-fi movies always made it seem like it would be difficult to tell if AI was alive or not but in real life thus far I have actually found it very easy
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
what the fuck is this crap
hmm I wonder what petition is going around that the Republicans in Missouri don't want signed
hmm I wonder what petition is going around that the Republicans in Missouri don't want signed
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
what the fuck is this crap
hmm I wonder what petition is going around that the Republicans in Missouri don't want signed
hmm I wonder what petition is going around that the Republicans in Missouri don't want signed
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This sucks. I was browsing Steam recently and saw so many AI slop porn games with some really graphic stuff depicted in trailer and preview images, but the people who put actual work into a weird and disturbing game can’t even get a reason for their ban?
Also your horse themed subheadings are fun
Also your horse themed subheadings are fun
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This sucks. I was browsing Steam recently and saw so many AI slop porn games with some really graphic stuff depicted in trailer and preview images, but the people who put actual work into a weird and disturbing game can’t even get a reason for their ban?
Also your horse themed subheadings are fun
Also your horse themed subheadings are fun
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When my daughter was seven years old, she stole my wife's phone and sent me this series of texts.
October 21, 2024 at 5:01 PM
When my daughter was seven years old, she stole my wife's phone and sent me this series of texts.
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What the hell? I have worked on, without hyperbole, literally dozens of games and NEVER had to submit a build for a coming soon page.
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What the hell? I have worked on, without hyperbole, literally dozens of games and NEVER had to submit a build for a coming soon page.
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN
Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
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This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
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Smitten Kitchen forever and ever amen: smittenkitchen.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Smitten Kitchen forever and ever amen: smittenkitchen.com
man there is just nothing quite like a collective church recipe book
I'm lucky enough to have a decent cookbook collection, including family recipes and the really random stuff from my grandparents' church group collected recipes or this gem from the officers' wives at Gitmo:
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
man there is just nothing quite like a collective church recipe book
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For baking, King Arthur Baking Company's website is very reliable: www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes
Recipes
Discover King Arthur Flour's wide-ranging collection of thousands of recipes, covering everything you love to bake from apple pie to yeast bread.
www.kingarthurbaking.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
For baking, King Arthur Baking Company's website is very reliable: www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes
Sohla El-Waylly posts a ton of recipes on her website and has a newsletter you can subscribe to for free where she sends out even more.
www.hellosohla.com/recipes
www.hellosohla.com/recipes
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Sohla El-Waylly posts a ton of recipes on her website and has a newsletter you can subscribe to for free where she sends out even more.
www.hellosohla.com/recipes
www.hellosohla.com/recipes
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Commercial landlords and douchebags with laptops who lock up a table for 6 hours a day have absolutely ruined coffee shops for the rest of us. The whole vibe now is, "Here's your coffee get out." And I can get pretty good coffee at home so...
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Commercial landlords and douchebags with laptops who lock up a table for 6 hours a day have absolutely ruined coffee shops for the rest of us. The whole vibe now is, "Here's your coffee get out." And I can get pretty good coffee at home so...
why do so many modern cafes have the most uncomfortable seating imaginable
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
why do so many modern cafes have the most uncomfortable seating imaginable
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I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”
I gave up Googling for recipes over a year ago. I subscribed to a handful of blogs I know consistently have good stuff and few/no ad spam for subscribers, and just use their things only. Or, wild idea, a physical cookbook. It's just impossible to sift through the crap anymore
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I gave up Googling for recipes over a year ago. I subscribed to a handful of blogs I know consistently have good stuff and few/no ad spam for subscribers, and just use their things only. Or, wild idea, a physical cookbook. It's just impossible to sift through the crap anymore
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It's funny how this isn't identifiable as a Conservative Opinion but is absolutely the sort of thing that runs on conservative opinion pages. An even split between "the traffic is so bad now" and "Mr. Trump, please exterminate the brutes." A perfectly American intellectual movement in that sense.
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It's funny how this isn't identifiable as a Conservative Opinion but is absolutely the sort of thing that runs on conservative opinion pages. An even split between "the traffic is so bad now" and "Mr. Trump, please exterminate the brutes." A perfectly American intellectual movement in that sense.
my cat Lucca (who looks exactly like this) stuck her head into a cup of black coffee once and this was the exact reaction
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
my cat Lucca (who looks exactly like this) stuck her head into a cup of black coffee once and this was the exact reaction
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Well, doesn’t leave a lot for me to say about Zootopia 2 if you’re gonna ban proper nouns, themes, and I guess general vibes next?
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Well, doesn’t leave a lot for me to say about Zootopia 2 if you’re gonna ban proper nouns, themes, and I guess general vibes next?
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None of us eat canned cranberry sauce but we figured it needed to be on the table for symbolic reasons (like the bone on a seder plate). So every year since 1995 we are presented with the SAME unopened ceremonial can at the table. It still hasn’t exploded.
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
None of us eat canned cranberry sauce but we figured it needed to be on the table for symbolic reasons (like the bone on a seder plate). So every year since 1995 we are presented with the SAME unopened ceremonial can at the table. It still hasn’t exploded.
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I mean, the guy’s afraid of Scouts. Don’t know what to tell you
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I mean, the guy’s afraid of Scouts. Don’t know what to tell you