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Lewis Davies

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I write about video games 😊 https://www.buttonprompt.com/ Personal: [email protected] Business: [email protected] Astrophysicist & Weather scientist 🌤️ he/him 🏳️‍🌈😊 25

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Lewis Davies @buttonprompt.com · Nov 11

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Hey, I'm Lewis! I'm a weather/climate scientist and I write video game reviews and essays in my spare time 😊

I like games with interesting stories, movement systems and collectathons (especially creature collecting).

You can find my writing over at:
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11h

Aftermath’s Top Prime Day Deals: leave your house and go to the store and buy yourself something nice, sweetie.

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SailorTabbyCat ♡s TV★( ˘ ³˘)📺 @sailortabbycat.bsky.social · 11h

Last day! Hit me up if you're going and want a hands-on with the C U B E

SailorTabbyCat ♡s TV★( ˘ ³˘)📺 @sailortabbycat.bsky.social · 2d

Whooooooooo is going to nycc I got a few more slots to fill for a WOWCube demo

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20h

People seemed to like that earlier shot I posted of the red-rumped parrot about to have a drink at Lake Hattah. So, here's another - with his beak in the water 🙂

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Emma Kidwell | Looking for work ✨ @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 1d

Boosting again, please share! Still looking for writing work-- full time or contract, i'm incredibly adaptable and eager to learn and grow ✍️

Emma Kidwell | Looking for work ✨ @emmakidwell.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight.

I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:

emmkid.info

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emmkid.info

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 1d

Did you know I’ve got a starter pack of awesome people who make awesome video game books and magazines?

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Lewis Davies @buttonprompt.com · 1d

Ummm, probably Hades 2? Maybe Everdeep Aurora? I don't really know?

I know there are lots of great games I haven't gotten around to, though 😅

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

OKAY I NEED TO KNOW RIGHT NOW

WHAT IS YOUR GOTY OF 2025

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 1d

Hey ya’ll. Pleased to say Inverse now has a Bluesky account, and I will (largely) be running it. So if you’d give @inverse.com a follow on here, I’d tremendously appreciate it.

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Lewis Davies @buttonprompt.com · 1d

That's interesting - I do find that some of the characters are less complex/there's less going on?

Thinking back to Orpheus in hades 1 compared to some of the recurring characters in 2 and perhaps you're right?

Lewis Davies @buttonprompt.com · 1d

Though I don't know any of that for sure... just that with fewer people, there are fewer to cover all the cool games coming out, and social media is also quite different now?

Probably just a lot of those changes all piling up, ya know? But somebody with more insight could say for sure!

Lewis Davies @buttonprompt.com · 1d

I can't remember what hades 1 launch was like - but I imagine the sheer number of games out at the same time as hades 2 is probably compounding a lot of the smaller reasons.

I think the gutting of games media could also be affecting buzz across the board - very dif. Landscape compared to 2020.

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Lewis Davies @buttonprompt.com · 1d

It's bizarre, isn't it? Though a lot of social media is awful at image quality these days - posting my photography on instagram is such a hassle!

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 1d

third and final of the blog backlog

been thinking a lot about art, death, and what we leave behind

thank you for reading 💜

ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev/art-is-all-w...

art is all we have

i’ve been thinking a lot about what i will leave behind. this thought has admittedly been slamming against the insides of my skull for arguably as long as...

ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev

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Lewis Davies @buttonprompt.com · 1d

It's time to start burning CDs again and digitising my vinyl, I guess

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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Jam Walker @jamwa.bsky.social · 1d

Makin' my debut on NG+ :)

🎮 New Game Plus TV 🎮 @newgameplus.tv · 1d

This week marks the Esports Australia Summit, and @jamwa.bsky.social spoke to the organizers about recent developments in the world of competitive gaming.

www.newgameplus.tv/blogs/newgam... #migw25

Equity, Intimacy, and Investment – A Preview of the Esports Australia Summit 2025

The Esports Australia Summit 2025 is soon to happen as part of the stacked Melbourne International Games Week 2025 lineup. I caught up with co-organisers Dr. Emma Witkowski and James Manning of RMIT U...

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Ysbryd Games | Demonschool Nov 19th! @ysbryd.net · 5d

"This extremely short glimpse at Love Eternal utterly gripped me."

This is your sign to wishlist LOVE ETERNAL and be ready for the public demo during Steam Next Fest from October 13th.

👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3010610/...

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Lewis Davies @buttonprompt.com · 3d

Ohhh, amazing! I hope it helped! 😊

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Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 3d

We've had some great coverage on VGC recently, but with Google continuing to erode small publishers’ reach, it’s going to be a tough Q4 for independent sites.

Please consider supporting us on Patreon - it makes a huge difference.

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Video Games Chronicle | Patreon

Creating game news, reviews, and podcasts.

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lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 3d

Anyway, if you read any great reviews or crit from non-cis white men this last month send them on to me. I'd love to take a look.

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 4d

Catching up on games industry stuff after traveling for three weeks and NGL, it's pretty noticeable how few women are on the bylines for the sleep of big releases this month.

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Lewis Davies @buttonprompt.com · 4d

Sorry to hear that! Hope you feel better 😊

What soup are you having?

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Lewis Davies @buttonprompt.com · 4d

"Best Pause Menu" goes hard, honestly. Way into that.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 4d

very shocked to the overwhelmingly positive response to putting this page up. i figured it'd be kind of a nothingburger and i was just doing it in the spirit of "at least i'll already have something up later when it matters more" but apparently later when it matters more is right now actually o.o

Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 5d

block game now has a page on the world wide web! enikofox.com/blockgame/

it has screenshots, an FAQ, and you can read the latest block game development posts there if you're so inclined

#EniBlockGame

Block Game

Block Game is an Ultima/Elder Scrolls meets Minecraft voxel sandbox game with building and crafting.

enikofox.com

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 6d

Get really into dinosaurs. That's my recommendation for a happier life. Each day, I get news like "Look at this big freak that used roam the Earth!" or "Ya know the big freak you already loved? Fossils show it was even more freakish!" and it's a blessing every time.

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · Jul 22

if you see me interacting with/following a sexual predator on here (unbeknownst to me), you can tell me so i can shut that down

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 5d

okay. I've tried this before but maybe it'll stick.

WG is a forum where you can discuss at length tv, movies, books, new releases, metatextual topics, post and discuss art, post tutorials etc, read up in threads, which will not just vanish but stick around for a bit. try it!

wg.jcink.net/index.php

screenshot of Walled Garden, a new forum for general discussion.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
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“Eldest Daughter" is a symptom of my overall issue with Taylor Swift: the scale of her music just feels fucking off. In 2025, she's no longer a lovelorn kid singing about Romeo and Juliet; she's a 35-year-old billionaire who's played sold out stadiums all over the world. She's Taylor Swift. That's her name. Damn near every living person knows who she is, and she's singing about the internet? About the fucking comments section? When she sings "I'm not a bad bitch," is she even aware that she's lying, that she's worshipped by more girls and women than almost anybody else? Even her love songs feel incorrect to me on these grounds. When I think about the real circumstances of her life, I just start wondering where the songs are about the housekeepers, the assistants, the cooks, the drivers, and every other person who's changed her life way more than the man in the Musso and Frank's booth in "Elizabeth Taylor." I struggle to trust her as the lyrical steward of ordinary human experiences. I am certain it's been many years since she's had one the way I have them, with all the waiting for a table that implies, and the navigating of customer service phone trees, the dithering over $35 travel insurance that I can never decide if I actually need, the frantic emails about unpaid freelance invoices, the trip back to the grocery store for the thing I forgot when I went earlier in the day, and all the other boring crap I have to do because I can't buy up other people's lifetimes so they have to do it for me.

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