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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · Nov 8

Money's a lil tight right now so making my services more widely available.

Audio editing/mixing/mastering for YouTube, podcasts, albums/EPs, etc.

If you want me to write for your website or consult on a piece you're writing yourself, I can do that too.

Lemme know if you're interested!

Writing on Games

In-depth analysis and opinion pieces on games, their designs and their narratives. Business enquiries: [email protected]

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2h

Also as hilarious as its soundtrack is part of me really wishes the end credits were soundtracked by Peter and the Wolf

Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2h

I know I keep talking about it but I just finished Baby Steps. That ending got me choked up. Honestly my favourite game I've played in god knows how long. This feels like a real all-timer for me. Absolutely everything about it just feels so... perfect. I'm properly giddy about it all. ART, MAN

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 4h

Have you ever considered that Minor Threat was actually a really fuckin good band

I Don't Wanna Hear It

YouTube video by Minor Threat - Topic

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 6h

Working with editors early on made me realise that, truly, maybe the biggest problem with YouTube criticism is no one has to work with an editor

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

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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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 9h

ASSASSIN'S CREED IS ARTLESS BILGE BUILT FOR BROKEN BRAIN BABIES BY CONFIRMED CORPO COWARDS. GET IT TO FUCK

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10h

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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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 11h

I mean sure they are both I guess but again, the distinction between "review" and "critique/analysis" doesn't actually mean much! No one has put it in a way that has convinced me, and frankly my point is that I think on YT it's focused on by pedants trying to sidestep/poke holes in actual criticism

LilGief @lilgief.bsky.social · 14h

A review is what you make when talking about software and a critique/analysis is what you make when talking about a piece art.

Gamer types have a really hard time understanding that video games are both at the same time.

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 13h

Yuuuuuup. Multiple thumbnails didn't meaningfully alter anything in my experience, but titles have been having a real impact on performance. As you say, irritating but also like, it helps me freak out less about wording stuff the right way so I'm Going With That One

Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 14h

(to be clear I get what OP is saying and I'm not aiming this at them, more just the commenters on videos who go to great lengths to tell me I'm supposedly doing something completely different to what I thought. Big Reddit "um actually" energy)

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 15h

Eh, I find the distinction (especially in the YouTube games space) to be almost entirely meaningless. For me, how it functions as art IS its value. The debate when I post a review and someone's like "THIS ISN'T A REVIEW IT'S CRITIQUE/ANALYSIS" just makes me do the biggest air wank gesture possible

James @lazerzz.bsky.social · 15h

I think people also forget you are usually providing a critique, not a traditional review. “Is the game worth your time and money?” isn’t the same as “how does the game function competently as art?” Sometimes they overlap, but I think commenters often get the two twisted far too often.

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 15h

It's something you just kind of have to block out when you do this long enough, but there's still a part of me that looks at this stuff - all the wild shit people have in their heads about who you supposedly are, for the sake of validating *video game opinions* - and finds it pretty disheartening!

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 15h

One thing it's hard to really communicate to those who don't do this is the extent to which people will just assume/make shit up about complete strangers, and others will just buy it if it lines up with their preconstructed view of a piece of art.

Don't be a weirdo! Be a thinking adult! Be human!

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 15h

One of the funnier criticisms I got on my Yōtei review was that I *clearly* just play way too many of those games. Not everyone completes every single massive open world that comes out man! You're just out of touch and your criticisms invalid!

My guy... I barely play *any* of those games either!!!

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 2d

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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

Clicked on one of those anti-woke grifter vids on Yōtei and it's hard to imagine a more depressing online existence. Dude was like "I watched the cutscenes. here are my thoughts on Ghost of ANTIFA" like come on dude no way you actually care about this shit. Don't waste your life being a fuckin dafty

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

Long since accepted that my accountant's job is to go "here's what he actually means"

Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

Get him to go for a leg wax

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 1d

This week I’m going to raise money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social to help Palestinians in need.

On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh.

Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

True thrill to see more writing from you like this. Hell and, indeed, yes

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, hey! I'm *writing* again!

Let's talk about a man named named Ramza Beoulve. Let's talk about the "ease at which men are branded heretics..."

Let's talk about revolution.

www.eurogamer.net/the-revoluti...

The revolutionary politics of Final Fantasy Tactics, and why Ramza Beoulve is a hero for our times

Final Fantasy Tactics' original writer-director Yasumi Matsuno signalled the timeliness of this remake for a reason: its hero offers a model of resistance.

www.eurogamer.net

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 2d

More words from me. Kicking off this week working with my old coworkers over at Aftermath; talkin' about Silent Hill f!

Let's talk about one of the game's most memorable puzzles. It's about tricking yourself because "did something just move?"

It's also about leaning close and getting intimate...

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

I played for 40 hours and gave it a Wish It Was Shorter/10

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

God fuckin damn I love drug church man

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

We simply do not exist

(Errant Signal, Noah Caldwell-Gervais, Static Canvas, Pixel a Day, Super Bunnyhop, Thorhighheels, Games & Culture... tons more I could name but that gives you a pretty broad selection to choose from for now)

Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

The other day I got to a big reveal in that game that bummed me out for the rest of the day (Extremely Positive). Not kidding when I say Nate is one of the absolute best video game characters in years

Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 2d

The thing that’s fucking wild about Baby Steps is that it includes stuff like this, some of the funniest shit I have ever seen in a game, and also has scenes that will gut you in ways you just won’t see coming.

Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 2d

i get that people want video game stories to be something other than this, but i actually don't get it youtu.be/wtGXXUAcqak

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 2d

It isn't really a surprise but it's still truly baffling the ease with which those on the American right denounce "antifa" as if it's some actual organisation, and with absolutely zero self-awareness that to publicly oppose it in the way they do is to label themselves the "fa"

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