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Steve Watts

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Editor at GameSpot. No, not the store in the mall, the other one. (he/him)

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · Jan 2

This is a cool idea and despite my near-certainty that I'll eventually miss a day and feel bad, I'm going to give it a shot.

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · Jan 2

Get to know my game taste in 365 games!

For 2025, I'm going to post every day about a game that has been meaningful to me. Might not be the "best" games, or even my "favorites," but they're all ones that have stuck with me in one way or another, in rough ascending order of impact.

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 4h

Is President Grandpa trying to make like a Marvel reference or

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 8h

280. FF4: The After Years

Now it's common for Square Enix to spin off its Final Fantasies into a thousand properties, but when this WiiWare game hit it was still very rare. I hopped in looking forward to more adventures with beloved characters and got, well, a kind of slapdash game.

#365games

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 9h

What is with these guys and dogs...?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Eric Trump: "You saw what Jake Tapper did to Lara Trump. She said what everybody knew and everybody was saying and he came out and crucified her like a dog. They have tried to kill us at every road."

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine shooting clergy in the face and laughing about it and thinking yes, history will look kindly upon us as the heroes of this story

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 22h

In a perverse way bluffing big about this also means they can’t really follow through. If they actually went through with it everyone would hold them responsible for whatever long-term pain it causes. They’re announcing as loudly as possible that they’re going to break shit on purpose.

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 22h

Really feels like the whole “we’re openly and giddily announcing how excited we are to permanently fire federal employees” thing is backfiring. They’ve created a narrative where everyone understands that they like the shutdown and are excited about it, which makes “the mean Dems did this” fizzle.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 23h

“It’s true, all of it… it’s all true.”

Daily Beast: lol Republicans’ polls suck

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

This is a good point. The White House is making a new threat right after it already made another threat, and both of them seem to be empty.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

We're now hearing threats about withholding post-shutdown pay. They first threatened widespread new firings? So why hasn't that happened. As I noted last week despite all the threats none of the firing machinery had actually been started up. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

Don’t Believe the Hype: Trump Bum-Rushing DC Reporters Edition

News comes today that Russ Vought is now threatening not to pay...

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

Well that's an awfully strange thing to refuse to answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

This "I wish you loved X as much as you hate Trump" thing she keeps repeating reminds me of Rubio's "President Obama knows EXACTLY what he's doing" thing. These dopes really settle on a turn of phrase they think is super clever and then use it over and over, making it obviously rehearsed

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

Well, he didn't say what he's transforming it into

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

279. Cave Story

Before you couldn't throw a rock at Steam without hitting a thousand indie metroidvanias, it was actually novel to find one on WiiWare. This was an early taste of devs paying homage to classics, and I really enjoyed the commitment of it.

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

The administration is so obsessed with sticking it to Trump's political enemies that they don't realize that sending ripped camo dudes to arrest a 64-year-old bureaucrat is going to look silly, not tough.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“.. leadership asked for ‘large, beefy’ agents to conduct an arrest of Comey ‘in full kit,’ including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.”

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

No it won't.

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

Sort of damning with faint praise that a week later the highest praise anyone from MSM has managed is “actually pretty good”

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

The snaps guy? THE SNAPS GUY?!

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

Okay we all talk about how he lives in a right-wing misinformation bubble but I can't even tell what the fuck he's *trying* to say here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland is on fire. Portland's been on fire for years. And not so much saving it -- we have to save something else. Because I think that's all insurrection, criminal insurrection."

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

You could make a case that most of the reason he insists the 2020 election was rigged is just "crowd big! how can lose? crowd big!"

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I’ll get to 11 but agreed, it was the right way to approach a retro throwback. I really enjoyed it and I wish they’d make another, or maybe a new MMX with that same philosophy

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

278. Mega Man 9

I had moved on from managing a Mega Man site by this point but I still try to play all the releases to this day. Mega Man 9 was the first attempt at a retro throwback when those were all the rage. (See New SMB, Sonic 4). It played like a ROM hack and was way too hard.

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

277. Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure

The originator of the "toys to life" gimmick was actually, honestly, a pretty good Diablo Lite. I really enjoyed it and got into collecting the figures, and then later sort of became the go-to person to write about these types of games. Drobot 4ever.

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

276. WarioWare: Mega Party Games

I'm going to sound down on Nintendo twice in a row, but as someone who loved WarioWare I didn't love the transition to a party game, and it still doesn't really work for me when it tries to go in that direction. I get how they got there, though.

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

275. Zelda: Twilight Princess

I think Zelda started to lose me here. I still enjoyed Twilight Princess and I like a lot of things about it, but more than others it felt like it was built by a committee trying to appease a market. I prefer my Nintendo to chase its own weirdness.

#365games

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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