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Will Jagielski-Harrison
@essenceofazeroth.com
Looking For Writing Work; columnist - bylines in the Toledo Blade, Polygon, more. Appalachian. Priest spouse. Host of the WoW podcast Essence of Azeroth. OU alum. 🏳️‍🌈

Podcast:
https://open.spotify.com/show/6tY7L5txdRg9vUgY9AKp6Q
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I'm live on Twitch and going to... Build Gunpla?

Hopefully this works. Shrug.

Join me as I struggle through my crafts.

www.twitch.tv/hammer_barn
Tag yourself, I'm 'oily stools'
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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ROUTINE is $22.49 on Steam (10% off launch discount or $20.24 if you have Amnesia The Bunker, SOMA, or Still Wakes the Deep) buff.ly/3D5Qih6

Deck playable

also on Game Pass Ultimate
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The claw
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Peak performance
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Did everyone just memory hole this little fun fact or am I just a sicko?
my friend @essenceofazeroth.com reminded me that paz's trophy in smash has this little nugget of joy
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
When Denji beats Yoru at Rock Paper Scissors he uses a peace sign for Scissors.

Peace beats war. Amazing.
December 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I believe the top left photo is my Disney Original Movie from 1997 headshot
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
lol bringing out Dark Order for the first time in a year just to have them get beat on.

It's hard being in a cult.
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Horses (2025)
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I don't know why 902 people follow my dumb ass but that's cool.

You guys know they don't let me write about vidya garmes anymore, right?
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Good art should make you feel bad. It should expose you, raw. It should shock you. Linger with you. Make you sick. And inspire you to be better.

We all need to experience more art that makes us feel bad or upset or broken.
Horses is a Very Bad Time and I highly recommend it. Here’s me on Valve and Epic deciding that a critique of how the powerful use conservative moralism to oppress others is too morally objectionable for their platforms
www.inverse.com/gaming/horse...
Steam And Epic Could Destroy One Of The Best Indie Studios With An Unexplained Game Ban
'Horses' is a subversive, unsettling indie game like nothing you've ever played — but censorship from Steam and Epic Games could destroy its developer.
www.inverse.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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AEW sources tell FightfulSelect.com
that Lena Kross is believed to have signed with the company.

More details, including other suitors for subscribers
December 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Because books are printed every day that feature things worse than that and they're sold at Barnes and Noble. Ya turd.
Horses shows "abuse, gory imagery (mutilation, blood), depictions of slavery, physical and psychological torture, domestic abuse, sexual assault, suicide"

It also implies someone is r*ped until they die. It's implied someone comitts necrophillia on the corpse.

Why are we mad about this ban?
December 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The only horses that should be removed from Steam (so that I can stop playing it)
a girl in a pink and gold outfit with the number 1 on her chest ..
ALT: a girl in a pink and gold outfit with the number 1 on her chest ..
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Meanwhile the podcast I ignore like a step child is doing fine.
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The City Pop freak has entered the chat
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Back in Athens.
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My Pokemon statues appropriately covered
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Advances in development tools have helped lower barriers to entry, spurring a surge in creators and driving rapid market growth.
Unique low-budget indie games draw attention in Japan
ebx.sh
December 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Cats are weird.
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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EA isn't being sold to a "consortium" of investors, it's being sold to Saudi Arabia, new filings reveal: https://kotaku.com/ea-saudi-arabia-ownership-trump-jared-kushner-2000649726
December 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
There's something very on the nose about Orisa's mythic gun being a gacha machine
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
THE GREATEST POLITICAL WRITER OF HER GENERATION, FOLKS
A scene from American Canto. Olivia Nuzzi tries to visit the WWE Hall of Fame, only to discover that it is not a physical building.
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Continually barraged with AO games when I go to the Steam front page. There's always at least one.

In fairness, I do have 200 hours in HuniePop, but at the same time it's not like I collect those games. And yet.
I played through HORSES last night (via Epic, lol). Is it messed up? Absolutely. It’s a very adult game, both in its themes and experiences.

Every time I’ve hit “Search the store” on Steam today, it autofills with trending games, the top one being Slut Squad.

Where does Steam draw the line?
Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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"Look Back" live-action film is coming in 2026.
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda.
shonenjumpplus.com/episode/1710...
December 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM