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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈

@midimyers.com

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i've been writing about video games since 2007. currently: freelance writer; podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · Jul 24

the meme image in which daisy says to peach "are you tired of being nice? don't you just want to go ape shitt"

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3h

Good but maddening one by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/purity-tests/

Purity Tests

Among the cornucopia of horrors pouring out in our daily news, you may have missed this one. It’s an amicus brief, though it’s not at all friendly, arguing that trans girls shouldn’t play sports on gi...

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 4h

i got served up a louis ck bit after that as well so something is definitely wrong. i don't use tiktok enough to have firmly told it "who i am," which has always been an issue, but it was never this bad

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 5h

i will try that

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 5h

i'm just sitting here shell-shocked after getting served a blatantly sexist yet pseudo-leftist video about how it's actually women's fault fascism is on the rise because women care about "community" and "safety" which means we are primed to obey, and men are getting "feminized" by us doing that. wtf

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 5h

the modern internet sucks and i am not the first one to say it but the personalization of EVERY app means that if you accidentally end up telling an app that you aren't the kind of person that you actually are, then that app is just broken now

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 5h

i've been trying to fix it by watching and clicking "like" on different stuff but it's making me feel like i should nuke my account and start over. it's overwhelming to try to fix something like this

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 5h

the change started happening after the ch*rlie k*rk shooting, which i didn't think was related but i think it must have changed the types of content people were creating, or something, in such a way that my account ended up on the wrong track

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 5h

my tiktok For You has gotten so fucked up and i don't know why or how but it's so fucked up now. like i'm actively just getting manosphere content now. i only follow leftist creators and my own friends, who are lefitsts, so i don't know how i got here, but it's upsetting. is this just me??

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 5h

an old article i wrote that i still think about all the time. every time i reread this i'm like damn i did three separate interviews for this hyper-specific story topic lmao kotaku.com/want-to-do-b...

Want To Do Better At StarCraft II? Leave The Music On - Kotaku

The StarCraft soundtrack helps me win. And I’m not the only one who thinks so. In 2010, shortly after StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty came out, the Idle

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 6h

this is ridiculous but the fact that bari weiss is also a queer woman makes me feel so annoyed and upset. like stop embarrassing us. and yourself but stop embarrassing us

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 9h

i recommend it. looking at bsky immediately upon waking was a habit i could not break without forcing myself to break it by doing that

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 10h

engaging in self-care (closing an article about bari weiss without reading it)

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 1d

wow your friend really bought right into the USA propaganda lmao

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 1d

maybe we will simply enter a time period where art is only created in countries that have social services. so, you know. not this one

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 1d

i don't think we should have an economy that's precarious. i think it should be stable. that's just me though

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 1d

only kinda joking on this one. seems bad

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 1d

i have played a lot of really good video games this year. too bad we'll never be able to play another video game (what with the collapse of society, AI bubble, etc)

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 1d

good stuff from @papapishu.bsky.social aftermath.site/baby-steps-m...

Baby Steps' Manbreaker Did Not Break Me - Aftermath

Baby Steps' Manbreaker is an optional, brutal challenge that is as much a test of your humility as it is your skill.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 1d

the vibe of this kind of post is almost feeling sorry for yourself in a way that is sad to me. at the very least, post about how you pitched the idea a lot and no one will take it. that's the type of poor-little-old-me content that we can all get behind and relate to, people!

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 1d

i am not an editor anymore and am back to freelancing which means i am pitching a lot. is it annoying and terrible? yes absolutely. and so i have sympathy for this. and probably have written posts like this myself as a joke. but if you're serious, in any way, shoot your shot and send the email pitch

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 1d

we all have our pet peeves and unfortunately one of mine is writers who post stuff like "if anybody wants me to write about XYZ topic, i'm right here." back when i was an editor, i did sometimes find writers via social media, but it can be very hard to search. much easier when ppl simply emailed me

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 1d

What are some advocacy/representation groups that cropped up in gaming and media in the 2010s and after? Think Black Girl Gamers, She Plays Games, what have you.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 1d

aww ty ty

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 1d

Another @midimyers.com banger

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 2d

Despite some obvious similarities, Ghost of Yōtei and Assassin's Creed Shadows are very different games with very different heroines, writes @midimyers.com. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Ghost of Yōtei and Assassin's Creed Shadows Have Refreshingly Different Heroines

Despite some obvious similarities, Ghost of Yōtei and Assassin's Creed Shadows are very different games with very different heroines.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 3d

hands up if you're motivated by spite

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