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Len @len.bsky.social · 13h

It's still bad! But it's average "leadership doesn't want to listen to the userbase" bad and not "one guy basically turned one of the internet's main forums for everything from local extreme weather warnings to celebrity culture, which will never exist again, into a nazi bar"

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Len @len.bsky.social · 13h

For as much as it sucks when the admins turn out to suck, this is not a repeat of twitter. And I only say that because it's almost impossible to overstate the disaster that was Musk's twitter. It has almost no precedent. This is like when everyone got mad at spez for fucking up the API. Ordinary.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 15h

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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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 16h

ubisoft 🤝 andrew johnson

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 18h

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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Len @len.bsky.social · 17h

There's no T in the word "mountain."

We're going to the mou'ns

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Len @len.bsky.social · 23h

I think both things were true: Square's sales expectations were destructively outlandish, and the title did this game no favors.

Len @len.bsky.social · 23h

I've always said "IV-uh-liss"

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Len @len.bsky.social · 23h

Apparently the voice acting in the remaster pronounces it "EE - va - lease"

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Len @len.bsky.social · 23h

I am a High Fantasy Proper Noun descriptivist, not a High Fantasy Proper Noun prescriptivist.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 23h

Inspired by a lot of people discovering they've been saying "Ivalice" wrong from the FFT remaster and I was like, friends, if I've been saying something a certain way for 20 years, it's too late. You missed your chance to correct me. My way is correct now, in my universe.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 23h

Sometimes the *technically* correct thing can be so spiritually wrong that it doesn't matter. For example, pronouncing Tidus as "TEE-dus." He is a water guy. Like the tides. So he is Tide-us. There is no way you will ever convince me to say it differently. I would choose death instead.

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Josh Broadwell @fionnthebrave.bsky.social · 1d

I spent the last week combing through reports and speaking with analysts about where EA's studios and most well-known franchises will likely fit under its new owners - and how that massive debt will potentially influence the way EA handles them

www.polygon.com/ea-deal-pred...

What the EA deal could mean for BioWare, The Sims, and more

The $55 billion deal would take the publishing powerhouse private

www.polygon.com

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

It was originally going to be a follow-up to True Crime: Streets of LA before Activision canceled it, and when Square Enix got the rights they didn't have access to that name.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

Saw that Sleeping Dogs (which is great and you should play it) is $3 on Steam and it's one of the rare cases where I think I would have sided with the marketing people. I'm convinced it undersold because they picked a clever/cute title instead of one that said anything about what kind of game it is.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

plutopsyche.medium.com

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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

Portfolio

emmkid.info

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

Only that which was impossible to avoid growing up here.

Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

I rarely feel envious of other games journos but seeing Aftermath got to interview Mori Calliope made me stop and go, "wait that's possible?"

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

The eternal optimist in me is hoping we might be returning to a pre-2022 status quo when we only had to hear about him some of the time instead of basically all the time.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

There were amazingly like four months there that I didn't really have to hear about Elon and I'm choosing to smile because it happened, not cry because it's over.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

It would be absolutely hilarious if they let me review Football Manager considering how little I actually know about the sport. The Ted Lasso of games journalism.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

Two of my biggest reviews of the year showing up in my inbox on the same day. I was prepared for this but it is going to be a marathon. Hopefully a fun one at least.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

a drawing of a girl with blue hair and a bow in her hair with the words oh on it

Alt: a drawing of a girl with blue hair and a bow in her hair with the words oh on it

media.tenor.com

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