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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 12h

:) i love rain world so much... insane that i've gotten to work on two book length projects.

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

even after the 2,000 hour long tutorial in Star Wars Empire at War I still can't figure out how to play

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Love this from Autumn. This piece so provocatively wonders not only what the different art mediums we engage with ask of us, but what we are (and aren't!) willing to give to each of them. This is giving me a lot to grapple with, as someone who who gives a lot more to film than I do to games

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These were my tenth and eleventh books finished this year. Really proud of that considering my goal for all of 2026 was 12! Next up is Marlon James's The Disappearers, which I'm extremely excited about

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Read (and loved) the first two Witcher books over the last month! Excited to be the last person on earth to play through Witcher 3 tomorrow :)) (Ignore the fact that my photo is blurry I took it last night and don't want to take it again ok)

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My endless "will they won't they" saga with emulation handhelds (specifically buying one) is being tipped in favor of "they will" every so slowly. But I'm fighting hard against myself every day

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My only contribution to the TV discourse is that I think Sheldon Cooper is the most iconic fictional character of the 21st century

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Where's all the good crit about Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl on GBA

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Tucker Hazell @tuckerhazell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HEY! If you see this, and you've enjoyed one of my interviews on Dev Dive, I would love if you'd take a sec to tell just ONE indie-loving friend about my channel. I have a goal to hit 1000 subscribers by the end of the year, and I'd really love to spread the word! www.youtube.com/channel/UCrX...

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Dev Dive

Welcome to Dev Dive, a game developer interview series focused on sharing the real human stories behind the games that we love. Each week host Tucker Hazell is joined by a new game dev guest to explor...

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It'd be so nice if all the Lego games were just on Switch. I'd love to be able to hop right over to the older Lego Batmans, as I think the 4 of them represent the broader arc of Lego games. Alas I have to go charge up my dusty Steam Deck

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Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes, you write about games. Sometimes, you write about not playing games. Sometimes there's a game called Exhausted Man, and you do both. New from @edmondchang.bsky.social, looking back on a summer without games through the lens of ludofatigue: www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/the...

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The Summer without Games, or, Living with Ludofatigue — Gamers with Glasses

Don’t you sometimes just feel…tired? Edmond Y. Chang discusses “ludofatigue,” how it feels to live with the persistent sense that play just isn’t fun anymore, and the perennial relevance of Candleman ...

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really think the not-so-secret sauce of Marathon is how it looks, not that it's an extraction game. Dunk some PVP and PVE in it and you're gonna have some wicked tasty shootouts. Especially amped for a PVP mode with these Marathon guns...... need that Dec 8 update now

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sadly I will have to audit the desks and shelves of anyone looking to dunk on the GTA merch box prior to any posting

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've circled back to Lego Batman: I think the word I'd use to describe it is AGREEABLE. All of its ideas are familiar & click together in a satisfying, low-stakes way. Like actually building a Lego set. I already know how to engage with this thing, but there's joy in working through the instructions

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Beautiful stuff from @jmrivera.bsky.social. I read it twice today. I have an incredibly fraught relationship with time that's poisoned so many aspects of my life including my hobbies. I really want to refactor my game time in the image of this piece & shake the anxieties it rightfully pokes holes in

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gaming discourse is about an executive in a graphic t-shirt & sport coat (who believes we're on a first-name basis) pointing at us and going "HEY, look at [insert clerical or administrative business decision]!" And us then having to decide if we want to give a thumbs up or thumbs down in response

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is COLD in my apartment today. What a great change of pace after a crazy hot summer. I could cry tears of joy. I hope they freeze to my face

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One day I will wake up and there will be a Switch 2 version of this game announced and I will be so happy

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think about The Blood of Dawnwalker pretty much every day, although since I'm going to be playing The Witcher 3 for (effectively) the first time next week I'm holding off

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A little different from me: a review of the Resident Evil movie! I found it so rich that I didn't invoke the videogames once. I had so much to say about its everyman lead, gross-out delights, and unfortunately hollow emotional core. Would love if people read & shared! medium.com/@abrambuehne...

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Icky Delights

I arrived at my Resident Evil showtime with my nails pre-bitten — it’s a bad, gross habit of mine. But that habit is idiomatically…

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Icky Delights

I arrived at my Resident Evil showtime with my nails pre-bitten — it’s a bad, gross habit of mine. But that habit is idiomatically…

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Tucker Hazell @tuckerhazell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of the coolest games I saw at PAX West was Ladder Lad, a super clean puzzle platformer that's absolutely stuffed with ladder-themed humor. Check out my interview I did with Michael Highland, the creative director from @play-buck-games.bsky.social! #ladderlad #pax youtu.be/4u8kzbEOIXc?...

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every update to Mario Kart World is a reminder of its capacity to surprise without needing to manufacture new delights. I decided to weigh in on the whole CONTENT VOLUME discussion with something rather sentimental. Please enjoy & share if you want to: medium.com/@abrambuehne...

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Tucked-Away Spaces

I went to a small school in Massachusetts called Wheaton College. You probably know it: Wheaton was dressed up as a more prestigious…

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Struggling with Fortune's Weave! It's as though the game's early hours believe everything they contain is important, without doing any work to convince me of that. The uninspiring delivery through languid dialog scenes isn't helping much. Hoping it opens up when I get further along Leda's path!

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

To me writing is a sport. More than any of the writers I admire, my work, what I put to the page and how I think about writing, is inspired by artists with huge egos and distinctive styles like Young Thug and Uzi Vert and now all the ug artists I love. It's performance, it's believing I'm hot

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

GTA 6 Singles review: Lean & Future & Metro: catnip to a guy like me Travis Scott: Sounds like a yeezus reference track (complimentary) PinkPantheress & co: love anything pink is involved in Morgan Wallen: he's made this song 50 times Rauw Alejandro: the best one

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ordered Fire Emblem from Amazon like a month ago. All day today, it said it's arriving tomorrow. Just checked again and it says it's arriving Friday. What did I do to deserve this

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am immensely proud of Tucker!!!! Dev Dive is the product of such immense curiosity and reverence for game making. The number of texts I get after he's done recording, about how thrilled he was to learn the personal story animating any given game is HIGH. He's really about this!!

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Tucked-Away Spaces

I went to a small school in Massachusetts called Wheaton College. You probably know it: Wheaton was dressed up as a more prestigious…

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Alicia Haddick/アリシア🔜Tokyo Game Show @aliciahaddick.com · 15/09/2026

When we first discussed the project and talked about Lost in Cult's plans for this new (Post)[Culture] label, I was so honored to be given the responsibility of writing the first book that would be a part of it, discussing such a visionary creator It's been a long time coming!

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Alicia Haddick/アリシア🔜Tokyo Game Show @aliciahaddick.com · 15/09/2026

I can now, finally, share this: I've wrote a book! And you can order it! Driven by never-before-seen access to his archive of storyboards, props and images and one-on-one interviews, Archive: Shinya Tsukamoto is a deep dive into the creative process of the cult indie director

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bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've spent the last 2 years working on this: (Post)[Culture] @lostincult.co.uk's new pop culture imprint. And I couldn't be more excited to announce our first project: ARCHIVE: Shinya Tsukamoto, a collaboration with, well, Shinya Tsukamoto. I've never been more proud of anything I've ever done.

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This project is absolutely sensational and perhaps the coolest thing we've made yet!!! HUGE congratulations to @metallicaisrad.bsky.social and @aliciahaddick.com, the work that has gone in here is immense. Lost In Cult film books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tomorrow you will be hit with the kind of Mario Kart World take that will make you go "what's this guy even talking about"

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Swearing off videogames for the next 60 hours or so. I hate any videogame that isn't fire emblem fortune's weave

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wistfully listening to Destroy Lonely rn

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Logan Plant @loganjplant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Seth isn't on Bluesky, so he asked me to share the news that he's just been laid off from IGN. Seth is bright, funny, and inspiring. He gave me so many opportunities and made every day better. I will miss him dearly, and whoever hires him next will be very, very lucky.

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Something that's been nagging me about the Wolverine reviews discourse are the comments along the lines of "oh phew, one less game to worry about in September!" Fair I guess, but games should live with us for years & years well beyond window of release. So our thinking should be longer range imo

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

God Onimusha is elite. Type of duel that gets my atoms vibrating

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Finished draft 1 with 1329 words in the document. This is gonna be a fire 600 word blog when I'm through with it

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Man, Onimusha is so awesome and the feeling of accomplishment I get from killing each boss is pretty hard to match. But I can't imagine playing this kind of demanding action game regularly!! I play for like 2 hours and get exhausted

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Torneko is an easy rec, such a treacherous and quaint dungeon crawler whose incredible emphasis on RNG (unless you adjust the spawn rates for enemies & items, a feature in the re-release) results in runs that feel genuinely uneasy and adventurous. Having such a good time!

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Film studios take huge losses on auteur projects because thinking about commercial artmaking strictly in terms of ROI lacks imagination. I wonder if the Physint debacle would've happened if gaming had an actually prestigious awards circuit. Killers of the Flower Moon wasn't a moneymaking endeavor!

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just wrote a good blog about Mario Kart World IN my head IN the shower. Will I be able to translate it to the page? This is the hard part

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Remember when this happened yesterday

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

MR. WOLVERINE YOU ARE NO MIYAMOTO MUSASHI

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lost a run in Torneko's Mystery Dungeon Classic HD because I accidentally ate my hallucination herb instead of throwing it. Came back and beat the Minor Mystery Dungeon. What a precarious and charming little game. Beautiful on Switch 2, fun surprise release. Enjoy my stupid meme

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just gave Nintendo $210 of my hard-earned dollars for the Metroid Ravenous SE and the amiibo. Don't tell them that I'll give them another $60 for a digital copy of Ravenous if it doesn't arrive on launch day

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OKAY we shouldn't be sleeping on Dandori Academy. This was a sleeper announcement for me, can't wait!!!!!!!!!

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