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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · Nov 8

Money's a lil tight right now so making my services more widely available.

Audio editing/mixing/mastering for YouTube, podcasts, albums/EPs, etc.

If you want me to write for your website or consult on a piece you're writing yourself, I can do that too.

Lemme know if you're interested!

Writing on Games

In-depth analysis and opinion pieces on games, their designs and their narratives. Business enquiries: [email protected]

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 7h

Haven't watched many films the past couple of weeks but god, what bangers. Lady Snowblood still rips. Can't stop thinking about OBAA. Wild how you legitimately couldn't make First Blood today without morons saying it's too woke

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11h

Lisa wheeling in a lifeless Bart saying MOM, DAD, BART’S DEAD!

BART popping to life and saying DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT GOING TO ITCHY AND SCRATCHYLAND

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 13h

This has to be bait right. It just has to be. "If there's one thing activists hate it's Big Honkin' Bazongas. They impede activism"

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 13h

I don't know if it's just that I'm so sleep deprived but this is one of the funniest images I have ever seen. Holy shit

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 14h

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 19h

Seeing a trailer - in the year 2025, for a film about a guy sitting in a chair - close with "experience it in 3D" is downright whiplash-inducing

Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 19h

i, too, enjoy franz kafka's The Trial

Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 1d

oh, my god! Amazon is doing ANOTHER webcam movie after War of the Worlds?! youtu.be/dSS4yqd0x6o

Mercy | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

Love getting e-mails like this man

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

I really am Getting on Bluesky... talking a little shit.. Getting off... Back to life...

Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

These days there is something genuinely quite nice seeing a ton of people posting really intensely at each other and genuinely having no clue what anyone is on about. A reminder that I actually have quite a nice Online/life balance

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Philip Bak @philipbak.bsky.social · 2d

One Battle After Another (1986)
Director: Yu Suzuki
Publisher: Sega

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 1d

The Bluesky experience is seeing a vague tweet about a video game controversy and then spending 5 minutes sifting through actual human atrocities and forgetting why you signed on to begin with

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

You'd be surprised! I didn't have the patience to appreciate Getting Over It as anything other than a neat art experiment. Baby Steps definitely has its more punishing moments, but for the most part it's shockingly forgiving. It really wants you to get Nate up that mountain. It's a really fun Game!

Luke Shaw @lukeshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Super interested in it but I just don't think I have the mental strength to persist through this type of game!

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

This game is so fucking GOOD

All ice cream cutscene

YouTube video by Cuttyflame

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

Also as hilarious as its soundtrack is part of me really wishes the end credits were soundtracked by Peter and the Wolf

Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

I know I keep talking about it but I just finished Baby Steps. That ending got me choked up. Honestly my favourite game I've played in god knows how long. This feels like a real all-timer for me. Absolutely everything about it just feels so... perfect. I'm properly giddy about it all. ART, MAN

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

Have you ever considered that Minor Threat was actually a really fuckin good band

I Don't Wanna Hear It

YouTube video by Minor Threat - Topic

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

Working with editors early on made me realise that, truly, maybe the biggest problem with YouTube criticism is no one has to work with an editor

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

ASSASSIN'S CREED IS ARTLESS BILGE BUILT FOR BROKEN BRAIN BABIES BY CONFIRMED CORPO COWARDS. GET IT TO FUCK

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

I mean sure they are both I guess but again, the distinction between "review" and "critique/analysis" doesn't actually mean much! No one has put it in a way that has convinced me, and frankly my point is that I think on YT it's focused on by pedants trying to sidestep/poke holes in actual criticism

LilGief @lilgief.bsky.social · 2d

A review is what you make when talking about software and a critique/analysis is what you make when talking about a piece art.

Gamer types have a really hard time understanding that video games are both at the same time.

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

Yuuuuuup. Multiple thumbnails didn't meaningfully alter anything in my experience, but titles have been having a real impact on performance. As you say, irritating but also like, it helps me freak out less about wording stuff the right way so I'm Going With That One

Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

(to be clear I get what OP is saying and I'm not aiming this at them, more just the commenters on videos who go to great lengths to tell me I'm supposedly doing something completely different to what I thought. Big Reddit "um actually" energy)

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

Eh, I find the distinction (especially in the YouTube games space) to be almost entirely meaningless. For me, how it functions as art IS its value. The debate when I post a review and someone's like "THIS ISN'T A REVIEW IT'S CRITIQUE/ANALYSIS" just makes me do the biggest air wank gesture possible

James @lazerzz.bsky.social · 2d

I think people also forget you are usually providing a critique, not a traditional review. “Is the game worth your time and money?” isn’t the same as “how does the game function competently as art?” Sometimes they overlap, but I think commenters often get the two twisted far too often.

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

It's something you just kind of have to block out when you do this long enough, but there's still a part of me that looks at this stuff - all the wild shit people have in their heads about who you supposedly are, for the sake of validating *video game opinions* - and finds it pretty disheartening!

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

One thing it's hard to really communicate to those who don't do this is the extent to which people will just assume/make shit up about complete strangers, and others will just buy it if it lines up with their preconstructed view of a piece of art.

Don't be a weirdo! Be a thinking adult! Be human!

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