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Luke Beeman
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Software engineer, ace/aro, any/all pronouns. I'm into all kinds of media (especially indie games and anime), media criticism/analysis, and politics.
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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · Jan 13
I finally finished my GOTY 2024 writeup! If you enjoyed it, please let me know or share it, it would mean the world to me.

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My Favorite Video Games of 2024
Over the past couple months, much digital ink has been spilled on whether 2024 was a good or bad year for video games, although as far as I…
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lukebee.bsky.social
was looking over some of my @failbettergames.com Fallen London gear and this image appeared fully formed in my mind
screenshot of a Fallen London item tooltip: "A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural There's always a rational explanation — if your system of logic is expansive enough. The Firm Conviction is a Hat. Watchful +1; Persuasive +8; Reduces Nightmares build up." crop of the previous image: "The Firm Conviction is a Hat." "Is this a pigeon?" meme except it's Failbetter Games gesturing to various Fallen London items — Sebastian the Nocturnal Smotherer (a cat), Song Stuck in Your Head (music), and A Disquieting Suspicion That You Might Be Spiders and A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural (abstract beliefs) — and saying "Is this a Hat?"
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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sushicatz.bsky.social
BB outfit warmups #anthologyofthekiller #aotk #doodle
October 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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hantani.bsky.social
Finished this great cave story review / historical context of it amongst shareware, doujin, and modern indie: syslbnth.neocities.org/htxt/cave-st...

Which led to a 2013 post by @ellaguro.bsky.social on the game corrypt & the discourse around its "bad" graphics
ellaguro.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-...
From the corrypt post, quote: It's hard not to see the magic in the game as some sort of allegory on human beings' never-ending thirst for more resources, and the irreparable damage it enacts on the environment. It suggests, especially taken with his other works like Vesper.5, that environments are delicate spaces that need to be accepted on their own terms in order to really be understood at a deeper level. These greater themes seem to be absent in the little critical writing that does exist about his games they're not mentioned anywhere in the Wired article, nor in this detailed critical reading, which focuses solely on the mechanical aspects of his games. The strangeness and beauty of the environments become a marginalized backdrop to a game seen as only remarkable from a design perspective-something the game even seems to mock with its flat looking aesthetics and its big, square block pushing and its few mock-JRPG miniquests in the beginning. From the cave story post, quote: "What's more, as indie games improved dramatically in quality over the course of the ensuing decade, the technical skill floor lowered by the first wave of hits would get raised back up in the end. You could get away with pixel art and chiptune now, but it had to be the pixel art and chiptune of a professional. Tools would be released to help control the ballooning scope of new indie games-Unity, Unreal, GameMaker Studio, and the, like. [15] But somehow this would just move the goalposts further. When these were released, we didn't make Iji faster and more comfortably-we made Hollow Knight."
October 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
lukebee.bsky.social
Finished one of the big Fallen London grinds I’ve been working on and got myself knighted. Only the 215th player so far to ever do it!
Pledge a fortune to the cause of Burgundy The mind that coils throughout these streets is one of unconquerable ambition. Do you believe in its vision? This will make you a Knight of the Order of the Golden Carapace. This will allow you to hold four cards in your hand while in Burgundy, and choose 'chivalrous' as a Profile Page adjective. You have a new Accomplishment... A Knight of the Order of the Golden Carapace! You are the two-hundred-and-fifteenth Knight of the Golden Carapace. Burgundy sings your name. You've lost 1,000,000 x Stuiver (new total 288).
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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milkplus.moe
soundless - A MODERN SALEM IN REMOTE AREA -, our #yuri denpa visual novel, is now available on Steam!

A young girl made pariah in a cult finds solace in an unexpected person: one of the revered Holy Maidens.

✝️ Download here and pick up the artbook, too!
store.steampowered.com/app/3978150/...
Soundless now available on steam
September 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
lukebee.bsky.social
LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The previous act was incredible so I’m beyond excited to see what 7th Beat’s been cooking for this final one
September 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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danaterrace.bsky.social
Knights of Guinevere PILOT

youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE
KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT
YouTube video by GLITCH
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September 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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noescapevg.com
No Escape’s got a patreon and we use that patreon support to a) live, b) keep the site running and c) pay contributors*. Consider throwing a penny in the hat for continued good games criticism

*not ordered by importance

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September 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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sabs.bsky.social
if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker
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Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.
September 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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headfallsoff.com
i reviewed NBA 2K26 for @endlessmode.bsky.social because someone had to while you're all playing silksong: www.endlessmode.com/article/comm...
September 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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netpol.org
Screenwriter of 'Top Boy' and 'Mobland', Ronan Bennett, on the recent Palestine Action ban: "Mr Starmer, Ms Cooper, go fuck yourselves and fuck your legislation too" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...
Five words about Palestine Action could get me arrested
Support for the protest group was legal last week—but now it is ‘terrorism’. This is an assault on our liberty
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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aceattorney.capcomusa.com
Today is the 10th anniversary of the Japanese release of The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures, and to celebrate the chronicles of Ryunosuke Naruhodo, we're presenting a new commemorative illustration from the game's Art Director, Kazuya Nuri! Please enjoy!
July 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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redderbeanpaste.bsky.social
Two days spent talking to people applying for jobs at ICE

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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:06 AM
lukebee.bsky.social
incredible how much suffering can be justified on the basis of “someone, somewhere is getting something they don’t deserve” (compounded by these ghouls’ belief that basic necessities like shelter and healthcare aren’t something everyone “deserves” by default)
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 7
Russ Vought: "The social safety net has become a hammock in the last few years. And as a result, dependency has steeped in, and we want to restore the dignity of work."
July 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
lukebee.bsky.social
LRT: Executive who has only heard of PDFs, seeing his second computer thing: Getting a lot of 'PDF' vibes from this...
July 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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platinumtulip.net
this will never stop being funny to me. "going to be the new PDF" is a phrase that i rotate in my mind over and over
When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer bought Tumblr for a cool billion dollars in 2013, the move was both flashy and symbolic: Yahoo, a relic of the early internet age, showed it could be hip with the times by embracing a social platform loved by millennials. But Yahoo execs just didn’t get Tumblr. In a colorful story published today (June 15) about Tumblr’s life after acquisition, Mashable’s Seth Fiegerman reveals that the company’s top brass hoped to turn Tumblr into a “next generation PDF.” Tumblr CEO David Karp reported to Yahoo’s Simon Khalaf, founder of the analytics platform Flurry (also acquired by Yahoo). In an anecdote from an unnamed former employee, Khalaf walked into one team meeting about Tumblr saying the popular blogging platform was “going to be the new PDF.” “It didn’t make any sense,” the employee recounted. “We’d walk away scratching our heads.”
July 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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deenahelm.bsky.social
To simply imagine Palestine without settlers, to simply imagine a sky without drones—that, in the Zionist imagination, is genocidal. If you stick with the “want” of the charge, the notion that Palestinians want to kill all Jews, you find that Zionism is at war with our future. It is at war with our ability to articulate, even if only through poems and protest chants, a future in which Zionism does not reign. For in the past 100 years, Zionism has situated us in a condition of constant dispossession and premature death; our Nakba remains and renews. We are besieged in an inescapable, eternal present tense.
July 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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philhornshaw.com
On Blue Prince, conclusions, grief, and continuing on. www.gamespot.com/articles/blu...
Blue Prince Doesn't Have A Satisfying Ending, But That's The Point
It increasingly seems like Blue Prince contains puzzles that will never be solved, an incredibly gutsy way to convey a powerful emotional impact.
www.gamespot.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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scitydreamer.bsky.social
duh, I forgot links. set the games on sale for itch too!

Slimes: store.steampowered.com/app/1313490/...
I Hate You, Please Suffer: store.steampowered.com/app/2583620/...
Itch: itch.io/s/155845/suf...
scitydreamer.bsky.social Dari/scitydreamer @scitydreamer.bsky.social · Jun 26
Slimes and I Hate You, Please Suffer are on sale on Steam! Check out the trailers below, and consider getting some RPG action today!
(Promotional art by @stuff-ivy.bsky.social)
June 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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mrsambarlow.bsky.social
The Splatoon kids still keeping it real
June 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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noescapevg.com
Help fellow critic @deephelldotcom.bsky.social who just got shitcanned early from their job ahead of a cross-country move!

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Donate to Help DEEP HELL with moving and life expenses., organized by Sam Boyce
HELLO! It's me. Writer and Internet Enthusiast Deep-Hell.Com. In May, we took … Sam Boyce needs your support for Help DEEP HELL with moving and life expenses.
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June 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
lukebee.bsky.social
this is one of the things that really stuck with me from Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery — the Scythian losing max HP with every piece of the Trigon collected, her heroic quest / woeful errand taking from her piece by piece until she has nothing left to give
julie.radiantarray.io julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · Jun 17
i feel like one thing i wish video games did more of is play that was attritional, as opposed to acquisitive. like how in call of cthulhu or whatever, your characters don't get better-- they start fine and get worse and the game is managing the worseness
June 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
lukebee.bsky.social
@failbettergames.com Important question: When I equip one of my agents with A Disquieting Suspicion That You Might Be Spiders, are they empowered by the suspicion that their boss is spiders, or do they suspect that they too might be spiders?
Fallen London agents screen The Wily Bathyphile Hat: A Disquieting Suspicion That You Might Be Spiders
June 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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dreamcastaway.bsky.social
News from me! Last week was my last week at Double Fine. It was an exciting time and I am very grateful to have learned so much at a beloved studio.

This means I am looking for work! If you need someone with social media/community expertise, please reach out.

Eager to start a fresh adventure!
June 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM