Maxi Rogers: Game of the Year edition
@graymaybe.bsky.social
✨Just another forbidden cat (long forme)
🏳🌈🏳️⚧️ [they/them] aka Viola 'Vivi' Corvi
🐦⬛ ADHD
🫖 Snr QA Analyst @Mediatonic
⏳ Writing & game design @ spare time
🎭 Prev: Silly Stage Management Things in the Theatre
👁️ Formerly: @Graymaybe on the bird app
🏳🌈🏳️⚧️ [they/them] aka Viola 'Vivi' Corvi
🐦⬛ ADHD
🫖 Snr QA Analyst @Mediatonic
⏳ Writing & game design @ spare time
🎭 Prev: Silly Stage Management Things in the Theatre
👁️ Formerly: @Graymaybe on the bird app
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This. Fuck, this so often
![Tumblr post: [guy whose bedtime is approaching fast] I need to write one billion words right now. and draw everything that has ever existed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jhbsgfgcf354i7d5d3go2xdq/bafkreidk2xmbnpoes7nrzv5thdczabaqnnqtx5mmzjalhtv3bjqp4whsiy@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM
This. Fuck, this so often
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David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.
January 16, 2026 at 6:47 PM
David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.
I enjoyed many of her Star War. Odd trivia: This one time at my job I ran into the road to help prevent Kathleen Kennedy getting hit by a car. Life is weird.
Ps Acolyte deserved a second season though 🖤
Ps Acolyte deserved a second season though 🖤
Kathleen Kennedy officially steps down as Lucasfilm president, Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brenna replacing her as co-presidents: youtu.be/CdDviTJZNe4?...
Kathleen Kennedy Stepping Down as Lucasfilm President
YouTube video by Star Wars Explained
youtu.be
January 16, 2026 at 7:37 PM
I enjoyed many of her Star War. Odd trivia: This one time at my job I ran into the road to help prevent Kathleen Kennedy getting hit by a car. Life is weird.
Ps Acolyte deserved a second season though 🖤
Ps Acolyte deserved a second season though 🖤
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Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
Ash Parrish
www.ashparrish.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
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I love that the Least Weasel always looks like this emoji 😡
January 15, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I love that the Least Weasel always looks like this emoji 😡
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ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY
ROLL THE CLIP
ROLL THE CLIP
August 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY
ROLL THE CLIP
ROLL THE CLIP
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I feel like photorealism in video games has melted people's brains, to the point where anything that deviates from it stylistically automatically means that it isn't "as good," or considered mature enough, and I think that's kinda bullshit.
January 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
I feel like photorealism in video games has melted people's brains, to the point where anything that deviates from it stylistically automatically means that it isn't "as good," or considered mature enough, and I think that's kinda bullshit.
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-- The BSGOTY 2025 Top 10 --
See here for 31st place through to 21st place: bsky.app/profile/bata...
See here for 20th place through to 11th place:
See here for 31st place through to 21st place: bsky.app/profile/bata...
See here for 20th place through to 11th place:
-- The BS GOTY 2025 Poll of Polls results continued --
Decided to break up the thread into three, this part will cover 20th to 11th place.
31st-21st here:
Decided to break up the thread into three, this part will cover 20th to 11th place.
31st-21st here:
-- The BSGOTY 2025 Poll of Polls results --
The votes are in and the we have our final ranking, which is based on the accumulated points each game received
For every first place ranking, a game received 31 points.
For every second place ranking, a game received 30 points.
And so on
The votes are in and the we have our final ranking, which is based on the accumulated points each game received
For every first place ranking, a game received 31 points.
For every second place ranking, a game received 30 points.
And so on
January 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM
-- The BSGOTY 2025 Top 10 --
See here for 31st place through to 21st place: bsky.app/profile/bata...
See here for 20th place through to 11th place:
See here for 31st place through to 21st place: bsky.app/profile/bata...
See here for 20th place through to 11th place:
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typical ai use case
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
typical ai use case
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, because falling into the Wikipedia/Google rabbit hole while researching IS the fun part 🤓
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 15, 2026 at 4:21 AM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, because falling into the Wikipedia/Google rabbit hole while researching IS the fun part 🤓
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Bandcamp has banned AI music.
The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."
stereogum.com/2485199/band...
The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."
stereogum.com/2485199/band...
Bandcamp Bans AI Music
AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the AI-generated psych-rock band the Velvet Sundown and the AI-generated metalcore band Broken Avenue racking up streams on Spotify? R...
stereogum.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Bandcamp has banned AI music.
The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."
stereogum.com/2485199/band...
The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."
stereogum.com/2485199/band...
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You don’t understand, we gotta burn out senior experienced devs, so we can keep having the same 5 discourses on a loop. There is a very real risk that if we treat people with respect and manage them well that we might have to stop re-debating basic terminology and practices.
January 14, 2026 at 8:39 AM
You don’t understand, we gotta burn out senior experienced devs, so we can keep having the same 5 discourses on a loop. There is a very real risk that if we treat people with respect and manage them well that we might have to stop re-debating basic terminology and practices.
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Crunch is bad. Crunch ruins lives. Crunch kills. Don't ask for it. Don't do it. It's bad.
I can't believe I still have to say this after all these years.
I can't believe I still have to say this after all these years.
January 14, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Crunch is bad. Crunch ruins lives. Crunch kills. Don't ask for it. Don't do it. It's bad.
I can't believe I still have to say this after all these years.
I can't believe I still have to say this after all these years.
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Fictional characters aren’t interesting in and of themselves. What makes them interesting is what’s on the page. Or stage, or screen, or whatever.
If you want an audience to find the characters you’re portraying interesting, you have to put what’s interesting about them into your portrayal.
If you want an audience to find the characters you’re portraying interesting, you have to put what’s interesting about them into your portrayal.
January 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Fictional characters aren’t interesting in and of themselves. What makes them interesting is what’s on the page. Or stage, or screen, or whatever.
If you want an audience to find the characters you’re portraying interesting, you have to put what’s interesting about them into your portrayal.
If you want an audience to find the characters you’re portraying interesting, you have to put what’s interesting about them into your portrayal.
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JK Rowling's Wario
The Trevor Project, known for its hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, received $45 million from billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025. https://bit.ly/4sEbdYv
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $45 million to LGBTQ+ youth hotline organization, The Trevor Project | Fortune
“I literally could not believe it and it took some time. I actually gasped,” said Jaymes Black, CEO of The Trevor Project.
bit.ly
January 13, 2026 at 8:18 PM
JK Rowling's Wario
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demons forcing us to place bets on our own deepening immiseration? i miss blaseball so much
January 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
demons forcing us to place bets on our own deepening immiseration? i miss blaseball so much
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Trying to get anything normal done right now
January 12, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Trying to get anything normal done right now
Full list of those I've played enough of to comment, definitely showing my genre bias in the top ten 🫠
January 13, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Full list of those I've played enough of to comment, definitely showing my genre bias in the top ten 🫠
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meowth curled up for a nap
January 12, 2026 at 5:46 PM
meowth curled up for a nap
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Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
January 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
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There’s something really transcendent about watching someone demonstrate their passion for a craft in such expert fashion. This is a reminder of the capacity humans have for being awesome in the literal sense of the word.
stop what you're doing and let Amber Glenn take you to church #USPrevagenChamps #figureskating
January 11, 2026 at 6:19 AM
There’s something really transcendent about watching someone demonstrate their passion for a craft in such expert fashion. This is a reminder of the capacity humans have for being awesome in the literal sense of the word.
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![[image of what looks to me like one of those Russian foxes bred to be tame, very cute, ears all the way back looking earnest and very happy to be part of anything.] "Am I the good boy? Really??"
lloonlloon on tumblr replies, correctly: "I mean this in the most sincere, heart-filled-with-love way, this dog looks like a worm on a string."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreidsij55qzpzqdl2a7zynd7opdxgu375w3qigv4gmshlcgmq6hse6u@jpeg)