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Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social · 3h

“woke has to come back”

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 3h

During development, I was told, one of the biggest games in the world featured at least two female Asian characters. By the time the game shipped, one of them had been replaced by a quirky white, male NPC.

Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 4h

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 5h

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...

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 4h

Thing is (and this is part of why it’s been so disruptive to a bunch of dev cycles)—even if you wanted to treat those complaints as valid, they’re *always changing*

If someone is coming to video games and artists doing interesting things in them in bad faith, you can never do enough to satisfy them

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 4h

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 5h

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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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 4h

Yet another example of the assassin’s creed devs being real as hell and then the corporate leadership shooting them in the foot over perceived optics to please reactionaries

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 5h

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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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 6h

Me: [passionately explaining how I engage with pasta flavor profiles]

Alexis: somewhere in this city is a butch who you’d make so happy

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 17h

Atsu’s resting warrior butch face really does throw a wrench into this waitress disguise plan #GhostofYotei

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 17h

ATSU and the HOT OLDER WOMAN #GhostofYotei

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 1d

Started showing Alexis Drive-Away Dolls and she’s never had a stronger reaction to anything than Geraldine Viswanathan’s character in this

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Atsu are the themes sinking in for you yet? #GhostofYotei

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 1d

That was fucked up and triggering! Most viscerally uncomfortable I’ve ever felt in a theater. 10/10

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4d

“Our opsec is clean”

taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 5d

I’m the most mentally healthy I think I’ve ever been in my entire life but I keep thinking “what if I got bangs?”

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 6d

in sync 💚💜

my fanarts of Melinoe and Nemesis from Hades 2, side by side, doing almost the same gesture of tying her hair with a hairbband of each other's color

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 6d

Hello lesbians 🥰

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 6d

Aura farming simulator

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 7d

I was trying to find that profile of him from a few years ago where he was whining about how everyone was so mad him for the 2015 interview and now it wasn’t his fault lol but I can’t remember what magazine it was

Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 7d

Fucking disgusting variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Jimmy Fallon Plans to ‘Keep My Head Down’ and Avoid Politics on ‘The Tonight Show’: ‘We Hit Both Sides Equally’

Jimmy Fallon says he plans to "keep my head down" and avoid politics on "The Tonight Show."

variety.com

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 7d

I've read a couple of history books and I can tell you for sure that rounding up your generals, having a drunk yell at them and call them fat, and then stopping paying them that same day is absolutely how you institute durable personalist rule

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 8d

Your daily dose of me being cute 🥰

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 9d

Two months with bare nails and a move later I’m so back

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 9d

WOKE IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9d

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15d

NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 9d

This is Mass Effect, Dragon Age, The Sims and every other title that might possibly be even the slightest bit queer getting killed dead.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 9d

EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $55 Billion www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 12d

Buyers: So your games... guns and football, yes?

EA: Mmhmm, mmhmm, mostly guns and football, yep.

Buyers: No gay stuff? No politics we're not going to like?

EA: Haha, definitely not! Hey, could you give me one sec? I just need to shut down a studio real quick.

kotaku.com/report-saudi...

Saudi Arabia & Other Investors Nearing $50 Billion Deal To Buy EA

The massive deal might be announced officially as soon as next week according to sources with knowledge of the situation

kotaku.com

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 9d

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9d

The private equity reaper has come for EA, in a year they'll have scrapped it for parts until the entire company is some absentee executives and six engineers asking ChatGPT how to sell more FUT packs

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Jaclyn, god’s favorite princess @handsomejaclyn.bsky.social · 10d

Some of my other wall decor

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