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Brendan Graeber

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Senior Guides Editor for IGN, also Batman. Good at games so you don’t have to be!

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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · Nov 4

Hello new followers! You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining social media sites. I thought so much of Bluesky that I elected to establish my presence here, in the IGN Starter Pack so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors.

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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 21h

I may have screwed up with most of this year's backlog project, but I will not fail. My yearly Yakuza series playthrough must continue! I can't let Kiryu down!!!

The intro of Yakuza Kiwami 2 finds Kiryu and his adopted daughter Haruka at a cemetery. Kiryu can't believe it's been a whole year since Yakuza Kiwami 1. Honestly, neither can I.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 2d

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 1d

Did this on a plane and probably drew the air marshal’s attention for how mad I was getting.
Replayed on PC and found a way to make it much more manageable.

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gaungade @gaungade.bsky.social · 2d

POV: you're a small ant and hornet needs one tick of silk to heal (she's at 1 hp)
#silksong #fanart #gaungart

Hornet of Hollow Knight fame standing on a wooden platform above the infamous spike pits of Hunter's March. She is looking towards the viewer with the implication that they are her next target. There are slain red ant enemies (Skarrs) from the game seen in the back. Erm... Run!!!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 3d

What the hell!!?? Me when I find that scammer

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 5d

Hahahahaha

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9d

Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 9d

i am catching up on the moderation discourse and it’s really annoying that this episode basically goes back to leadership trying to have a goof and a gag. there’s not a lot of room-reading happening which comes across as immature and unprofessional

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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 8d

Birthday treats

Some birthday gifts that arrived: the LEGO GameBoy set, and a t-shirt featuring Mr. (Ant) Tenna with his signature catchphrase: “It’s!! T V!! Time!!”

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explore.org @explore.org · 10d

Meet your FAT BEAR WEEK 2025 champion.

Chunk the Hunk. The Chunkster. 32 Chunk.

All hail the new king of Brooks River 👑

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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 10d

Somehow, a birthday has returned.
(I will celebrate by eating too much food and getting sick)

Something from Deltarune about an old man. He's old. It's me. I'm old.

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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 10d

You can trace their lineage all the way to “one guy in a narrow hallway who is as tall as the hallway”.

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Yonkou dos mares da lascívia contra as baratinhas de fogão @luckyluke94.bsky.social · 25d

Homert Silksongson

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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 11d

I'd say Geoff got bodied by the microscope puzzle but he probably gave up trying to solve the tin can sentence puzzle. Always thought the vibes were off with that guy, now I know why.

Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 11d

William Volk would also do research on competing titles. When Volk was working on Return to Zork, the team kept a document with every comment they could find on Compuserve about The 7th Guest.

Like this review from 1993... by 14-year-old Geoff Keighley.

archive.gamehistory.org/item/5e5d44a...

Message: #345881, S/12 *HOT*/Timequest
Date: Sat, May 1, 1993 7:33:20 PM
Subject: T7G REVIEW
From: Geoff Keighley 71044,412
To: All
Reply: #346403 (1 reply)

Well I would like to post my feeling on this game, and see what you guys have to say about it.

Last night when I started to play it, I was amazed at the quality of the graphics and sound. I actually enjoyed the first puzzle.

Then after the initial "WOW" of the graphics/sound wore off, I became bored with the puzzles. They all seem pretty impossible, and not very fun at all.

So all in all, I'd say the graphics/sound are the best I have seen on a PC, but it is a shame the puzzles are so "dull".

I think Trilobyte should be very proud of their first effort. I hope they plan on producing another game with these amazing graphics/sound, but try to make it a little more fun to play and include some more original puzzles.

COMMENTS on my review?

-=GEoFF=-

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 12d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 11d

Im really digging the pace of this track. It’s the kind of catchy tune I’d want to hear screwing over my friends in a multiplayer party game.

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Fotts @fotts.bsky.social · 11d

new tunes! another track for the same project as the previous one i posted, hence the similar vibes! the environment for this one might involve more sand and ocean, however #vgm

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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 12d

I choose to ignore this vital lore.

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Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 12d

I look at Bilewater and I see the amazing side of effects of being in "development heaven": finding the best ways to fuck with the player while they're already having the worst moment of their lives.

Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 12d

Hope the developer takes notes on this.

Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 13d

Hell yeah!

Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 13d

Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos!

Brendan Graeber @raggafragga.bsky.social · 13d

AI has many forms that suck, but this feels like a whole new tier. I'd happily support anyone who introduced legislation to make the practice of creating AI puppets of the deceased to do your marketing illegal.
Just because they had to commit elder abuse to get him to sign off on it doesn't justify.

Screen Rant @screenrant.bsky.social · 13d

Checking out the Stan Lee Experience
at #LACC.

The hologram sends his greetings to all the fans at ScreenRant.

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