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DonE

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let me fish out my sociologist card from my old wallet, I think it said it was good for life co-managing ed @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social previous at Unwinnable, Uppercut Crit, Bullet Points Monthly, Wireframe, Polygon, Symbolic Interaction & more

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DonE @optional.bsky.social · 19h

Watching it for the first time in a looooong time and it rules

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DonE @optional.bsky.social · 19h

Do you think it would have been possible to make Halloween have as much realism as it does on purpose or was it the product of its young team and shoestring budget

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𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖊𝖌𝖆𝖒𝖊 🔮 𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖍𝖆 @dicegameuchiha.bsky.social · 1d

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Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 4d

Mario fought his way to forty, so we fixed a fancy fête. Enjoy the Super Mario Zodiac, new directions in Mario Studies, crying over fake Yoshi, and, of course, André Breton.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/sup...

Super Midlife Brothers: Thoughts on Mario at Forty — Gamers with Glasses

It’s-a Mario’s birthday! Sort of. So here’s a Mario bonanza from your friends at Gamers with Glasses, which in typical fashion includes a scientific* study on Mario and the zodiac, elegiac expressions...

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DonE @optional.bsky.social · 5d

Huh, I’ve also been playing the Witcher 3 again lately. What gave you the feeling to start a new run?

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☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆ @idolismj.yase.world · 21d

Honestly raising the prices on an already-unpopular suite of consoles while under a BDS boycott takes this from "easiest boycott ever" to "actually I didn't consent to be part of your humiliation kink"

☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆ @idolismj.yase.world · 21d

You've never seen a boycott that was easier than this one, fellas

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DonE @optional.bsky.social · 9d

that new frictional game ad is made for me, give me those screens with flickering lights and grime and detail and droning sounds

DonE @optional.bsky.social · 9d

damn, Fiona rules and has been in relationships with some shitty guys

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 10d

Dr. Seuss, 1941.
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Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 10d

Check out this week's edition for a GwG triple play, feat. @srtrzinski.bsky.social, @mayorhere.bsky.social, and @patfio.bsky.social!

Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social · 12d

This week: 21 articles on culture movements, maps, difficulty, dungeon crawlers, and much more. No Freddi Fish articles this week, sorry:

critical-distance.com/2025/09/28/s...

September 28th

Welcome back readers. We’re two for two on this recent streak of on-time Sunday updates. I’m hoping to keep this up as I adapt my schedule to accommodate a couple of new work commitment…

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DonE @optional.bsky.social · 10d

astrid writes good
I'm partial to "By the Horns," myself

bloober team official @strida.bsky.social · 10d

today is my birthday 🙂‍↕️ at either link below you can buy my writing if you feel like it!

astridannerose.gumroad.com/
astridannerose.itch.io/

DonE @optional.bsky.social · 11d

can’t even have woke 2… because of woke

DonE @optional.bsky.social · 11d

Headline gag hidden in the prop newspapers of, like, the x files or something: “burrito panic sweeping the heartland”

DonE @optional.bsky.social · 11d

At the risk of explaining the gag, you can sing the first sentence of this post to the tune of the ending of the chorus of Weird Al's "UHF."

Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 13d

We've got it all, they've got it all, on BLIPPO+. See what YACHT, @telefantasytv.bsky.social, @panic.com, and more have been up to just a ways away in spacetime. New contributor @patfio.bsky.social has the review!

BLIPPO+ Asks If You Want to Get Bent — Gamers with Glasses

It’s time to tune in, turn on, and.. blipp out? Patrick Fiorilli explores the channels of BLIPPO+ and its blend of the televisual and interactive. It’s hypermediated, unabashedly queer, and remediates...

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DonE @optional.bsky.social · 11d

I love that the sound that plays when you complete a level in Puyo Puyo Tetris with full stars is the same as the sound for an extra life in M.U.S.H.A. Compile's legacy. The shoot-'em-up was game 49 for 2025.
#optionalplaying

done's review of M.U.S.H.A. | Backloggd

One of the best, if not the best, console shoot-'em-up of its time. Compile really had a great run at the turn of the 90s. Musha is busy, fast, and loud in every sense it can hit, from a furious sound...

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DonE @optional.bsky.social · 12d

any time!

DonE @optional.bsky.social · 12d

that saucepan salad is a mess, yep

DonE @optional.bsky.social · 12d

and I was jazzed that you asked for it to be on the site, not to mention to comment on it and get it up there

DonE @optional.bsky.social · 13d

Love that one

DonE @optional.bsky.social · 13d

Which version?

DonE @optional.bsky.social · 13d

Call it “car culture” for a reason. Think of all the other ways culture is bound up in its presentation in games. There’s always something there to think about.

DonE @optional.bsky.social · 13d

Good demonstration of how to read into a game like GT. Where there are cars and locations, attention to presentation, and quotes from directors, it’s seems easy to surface culture. Yet GT is also the kind of game that I feel is routinely thought of as resistant to critique.

Artemis Octavio @stopcar.ing · 14d

New guest essay for Stop Caring is live! Please read and share!

Boen Wang writes about Gran Turismo 7, how the game serves as a museum of car culture, and the ways the game omits the automobile's ties to militarism, fascism and global warning

Atrocity Exhibition

Gran Turismo as Museum of Death

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DonE @optional.bsky.social · 14d

I remember some of your handheld and controller reviews. They were really detailed! I think yours was the first analogue pocket review I read, come to think of it.

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DonE @optional.bsky.social · 14d

I haven’t played much of their stuff outside of Hyper Light, but this sounds cool.

I should go back and wrap that one up, I think I just had the South and then the final to go.

DonE @optional.bsky.social · 15d

Really into the bounce of this Lindstrøm track this morning
#optionallistening

Moo)n

YouTube video by Lindstrøm - Topic

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