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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every "9 Games That Shaped Me" list that doesn't look like this is being presented to you by a liar or a child

The 9 Games That Shaped me grid currently being widely shared, but the first 8 games are Dynasty Warriors 3 and the 9th is Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends. Because that's the correct configuration.

Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My favourite little detail from our Fable coverage yesterday - those mockumentary-style to-camera interviews from the last two trailers are actually part of how the game will tell its story:

A screenshot of a section from Xbox Wire's Fable interview, reading:

"The other cool thing about The Office is something we’ve kind of nicked. You’ve maybe seen in our trailers that we have a sort of mockumentary interview style. I think a lot of people assume we just did that for those trailers, but it’s actually a device we use throughout the game.

I’ve never seen it in games before, but it allows you a way to really neatly tell a joke or drop a little bit of character detail in a way that would feel really clunky in a dialogue, but suddenly feels entirely natural when you do it to ‘camera’."

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The first playable character ever created for the Tony Hawk's series was Bruce Willis

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Look, sometimes you're just trying to take a picture of Wayne Rooney on the TV, but you accidentally capture a frame in a dissolve, and it looks like Noah Hawley was trying to communicate that Wayne had deep thoughts about Mo Salah

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The amazing thing about video games is that they can really let you express a different side of yourself, something that perhaps you couldn't or wouldn't reveal in the real world

Me, accidentally dressed as my Skate character

My Skate character, accidentally dressed like me

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I just bought a pear and I'm very excited

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Drop Duchy is part-Carcassone, part-rock paper scissors, and a lot of Tetris, and I'm really into it

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Even if I didn't have a sentimental attachment, Eric Dier winning the Bundesliga would be worth celebrating simply for this picture

Eric Dier celebrates with some of his Bayern Munich teammates

A close-up of Eric Dier from the previous image, in which he appears to be screaming in fear, perhaps of his own exploding champagne bottle. Maybe it exploded without his command. We'll likely never know. Be calm, Eric.

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

StreetPass Mansion walked so that Blue Prince could run

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I don't know if anyone else has had the thought - "surely the Marks and Spencer BIG DADDY bar can't just be a nearly half-kilo boutique Snickers rattling around loose in a cardboard box?" Everyone, dreams can come true:

A picture of the packaging for the BIG DADDY chocolate bar

A man holding a gigantic chocolate bar next to his head. His head is quite big, to give you a sense of the scale we're working with here.

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Just a reminder that Monster Hunter is the best

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I'm officially a published author (of a two-sentence book (in @inkle.co's Expelled!))

A character in Expelled reads a book, with the caption "I spend a few minutes trying to read 'The New Exhaustive Catalogue of Beef' by J.V. Skrebels"

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Since this message, I've realised that they're eye masks. I've also found this charming little rest stop

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Absolutely loving Keep Driving, and I'm particularly loving that when you get a hitchhiker with a dog, the dog sleeps in sunglasses

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I Think You Should Leave with (Premier League referee) Tim Robinson

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I'm frightened by how close our lads are

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Just remembered my only good contribution to TikTok

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Very hard to show in a picture, but if you've played Brothers, you know.

A screenshot from the final sequence of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

As a huge proponent of "promo merch that actually helps", I'd like to thank whoever decided to make my Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon hand towel

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Our baby is big for her age, so we had her checked at the hospital just to be sure everything was normal. Just got the results.

A snippet of a doctor's note that simply says "Diagnosis: Large Baby"

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

I'm so sorry to whoever this was

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Happy Halloween from me and my clone

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Joe Skrebels @2plus2isjoe.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Frankly, I was always going to be into an early '00s-set management RPG about taking road trips, but I can't believe how good Keep Driving looks and sounds. store.steampowered.com/app/2756920/...

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