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roguelikes, dungeon crawlers, and IF 🦇 basketball 🦇 fake grindcore 🦇 Battletech 🦇 miniature painting 🦇 skateboarding 🦇 former: Managing Editor: First Person Scholar 🦇 they/them 🦇🍷⚰️
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hey play skate story
Skate Story is a devastatingly rich text that I feel borderline gleeful about unpacking, slowly, at my own pace, over time.

Our review: https://bit.ly/44fpd0p
December 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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home...
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
so true
Yes, when a fellow’s soaked through, it’s hard to be sensible, that’s a fact.
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
anyways lets go raptors
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I am once again showing you the cressy.
my spy keeps showing me the cressy 😩
December 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
having a normal day
December 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Skate Story already has me changing out wheels to see if there's a difference in the game between 100A and 105A and testing to see if I can get some wheel bite with looser trucks. I don't care if it's all aesthetics - the fact that it made me believe it might is incredible.

Helluva game.
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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The Banished Vault rules. Go play it.

Here's my review:
www.avclub.com/im-hooked-on...
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Hats off to @mkschmidt30.bsky.social for Cyclopean. It did everything I want a big 100 hour rpg to do in under 10 hours. Some of my favorite gaming sessions of this year, made even better by getting to share them with @ofquartz.bsky.social and @robotparking.kvlt.rip on Discord.
December 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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every fucking time I go back to thinking about a civil war battle I inevitably think of this post. cursed forever
ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go
December 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment.

transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
I Hope You Get To Live Your Entire Life As A Human
I thought this was going to be a review of my time with Santa Ragione's Horses, the controversial art game recently banned from Steam and the Epic Store. To some extent, this will be that but after...
transgamerthoughts.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I've played one (1) chapter so far - which was about as much as was in the demo - and all I can say about it is that it fucking rules. Alexis's review goes into much greater detail about why it fucking rules.
Can't sleep? Moon too bright? Want to eat it?

It's a simple goal for a demon in the underworld, as you'll find in this gorgeous, extraordinary narrative adventure that just so happens to require skateboarding.

Or Skate Story review: www.eurogamer.net/skate-story-...
December 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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my spy keeps showing me the cressy 😩
July 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The snake is done!
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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AAA GAME STUDIOS: We've partnered with Saudi Arabia's new hunter-killer AI to make our game 80% less "Woke". Get ready for slurs, fellow gamers [bloodthirsty cheers from stockholders]
GAMING INFLUENCERS: No More Pussy Bones In Codblops?? 🤔🤔🤔
GAMERS: yoshi is NOT pregnant. The proper term is 'gravid'
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Absolutely delighted to read this review of Skate Story by @steppinlazer.bsky.social.
Can't sleep? Moon too bright? Want to eat it?

It's a simple goal for a demon in the underworld, as you'll find in this gorgeous, extraordinary narrative adventure that just so happens to require skateboarding.

Or Skate Story review: www.eurogamer.net/skate-story-...
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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the reason grindcore songs are really short is so you don't have to listen to them for as long
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Reminder that I'm still looking fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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My Leige! The orcs are hitting the griddy on the battlements!
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Been a rough year and I haven't been able to hop on as many RLR eps as I'd have otherwise liked, but it was a true joy to get back at it with this one.

www.roguelikeradio.com/2025/12/rogu...
Roguelike Radio episode 168: Jank
Darren Grey, Andrew Doull and Rob Parker discuss the role of "jank" in games.
www.roguelikeradio.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Sext:
Grab hold and pull it down!
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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2. ian, you old dog, you old troll, you still got it.
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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1b. I, truly, am a systems guy. I'll take Caves of Qud or over God of War every single day of the week. But games have been both crude and sophisticated about both systems and story for decades. Arguing that they only do one well disrespects narrative designers, who work so hard to blend these.
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here

www.vice.com/en/article/s...
Stories in Games Aren't Problems, They're Solutions
Lots of video games have terrible stories, but that's no reason to give up telling them.
www.vice.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM