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Anna Bell

@annabellreads.bsky.social
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games journalist only by the most technical of definitions of both those words.

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SULFUR @perfectrandom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We, Pefect Random shall be part of Triple-i Initiative showcase, with SULFUR on October 8th. A 45 minute event: 44 minutes of random games like 'among us' and 'risk of rain', AND One minute of SULFUR's trailer that promise changing news. Join us for this glorious occasion. #iiishowcase
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
they say living well is the best revenge and that's true, but if we're all being honest seeing bad things happen to people you hate is also pretty high up on the list
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Pacific drive quote bot @pacificdrivequotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Those were definitely simpler times and, I just find myself thinking of them now more than ever. I don't know. Anyways, if you hear this, remember you're not alone. And, we're still curled up, on the couch of life, playing it one step at a time. Stay safe out there, ok? - Radio broadcast
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My daughter just sent me a text when she got home from school that there are too many spiders to come in the house so please come help her. It's officially ✨joro season✨ georgia!
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My favorite social media interaction this week is dudes telling me I'm too young to understand how Blizzard rUiNeD wOw, like that's not the internet equivalent of calling me 'miss' and carding me before they'll serve me a sangria. It kinda makes my day? thank you???
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
saving a lot of time in the current draft by making the main character/narrator a little more stupid. Instead of having to research whether a specific point of knowledge is true, like which freshwater fish you might catch in a river, the narrator's just like 'idk it's a fuckin fish???'
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
weird that strange scaffold keep making games that are nominally cozy but actually deeply deranged expressly for me but ok.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
just had the mental image of C. S. Lewis seeing this, cracking the knuckles on both his hands, then grabbing his tweed jacket with the leather elbows and going to recruit his bestie Tolkien to beat some ass.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
look, just because you don't know what you're doing with your partner doesn't mean the rest of us are equally clueless.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there's something so pure about a group of game jamming devs with no budget who can't draw using literal sock puppets as characters. already GOTY material just on the blurb.
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Save 30% on Sockpuppet Noir on Steam
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city. Three delicious cases await your sleuthing skills, each with...
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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressedSponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressedManage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
today is bi visibility day, but you fall in love with a bi person today you'll only become visible again 100 years from now for a single day.
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Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io · 21/09/2026
Send us your experimental game — we wanna help you show it off! Get a chance to share your project onstage at GDC next spring, and help us inspire more people to make strange and experimental projects that change how we think about games. <3
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I hate every single thing I see about this game (complimentary)
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ms pac man, with my aunt, at one of those flat tabletop machines at the bar of the semi-upscale seafood restaurant my grandmother always brought us to because one of her former students owned it (and she liked him and wanted to support him because he had good grammar, of course).
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Blizzard Watch @blizzardwatch.com · 18/09/2026
We're giving away two keys to the Warcraft Forever Collection, which includes World of Warcraft: Forever and Warcraft 3: Reforged with the Forsaken Kingdom expansion! To enter, reply with the race and class combo you're taking back to the past in Forever when it launches on November 4! #WoW_Partner
A screenshot of the new Riverglades zone in World of Warcraft: Forever. The sun reflects off the water as a crab skitters by.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It is with equal parts excitement and CONSTERNATION that I report that a pair (!) of pileated woodpeckers have apparently moved in to the backyard.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I was sitting watching a stream for a half an hour before I realized it was behind and the closing ceremony was over. I snapped a nail day 1, I edited 12 articles, posted over a hundred times on social media, and I have this themed local hard cider. Salut, we made it.
A very tired person wearing glasses and a gray T-shirt holds a can of hard cider. The variety of cider is called Frostbite.
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sagittarius: Like your ruling planet Jupiter, you, too, are distant, gaseous, and lacking any solid substance.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
why worry about affect/effect when I can just say impact/impacts? It's fine, words are good, everything's fine.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At the point of revisions where I don't remember having written these parts and they're all bad and stupid and illogical and why would these characters even do this? come on, man! These aren't even the right names anymore!!! So, pretty normal tbh,
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
yeah you could say I'm a bad girl type, always breaking the law.
Photo of a shed barred owl feather held by someone who got nude gel polish 2 weeks ago.
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MythicOwl Games @mythicowlgames.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📢 TRUCKFUL arrives OCTOBER 9th on Steam and Google Play! 🎉🎉🎉 Here is the brand new release date trailer as our pickup truck delivery adventure releases in less than a month! 🛻📦
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Got my first clinical diagnosis that's basically "sorry you're just old now." lol. :(
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Pat McGrath 2024 Maison Margiela glass skin look got literally EVERYONE in a chokehold.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Looks like my GOTY 2026 just released!!!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3624140/...
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Save 35% on Wanderburg on Steam
Drive your Castle on Wheels into battle in this minimalist medieval roguelike of roaming fortresses! Devour entire villages, build your modular arsenal of siege machinery and break the game as you gro...
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It is hilarious to me that this was able to nail the whole Great Lakes vowel shift thing, but it's still unable to name any part of New York north of white plains.
screenshot of that dialect map thing that's going around. Map is highlighted brightest red across NY state, with a bit of red radiating up across the great lakes into Michigan. The south and northeast is very blue.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this is super interesting to me, because Google Classroom has Gemini integrated into it, and most schools use Chromebooks with Windows. Are they carving out exceptions, or using an alternative to all three of these? (I am VERY INTERESTED in the latter!)
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I started the season with 15 tomato seedlings. Had a few die to dampening off, some croaked when I transplanted, had around 10 in the ground. Deer, pests, well-meaning helpers decimated them, until I had only one tomato plant left, in a fabric bag off to the side. It was doing alright, growing slow.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Lead actor too busy painting WH40K minis to come to set? Cavill issue.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I've had several people check in to see which games I'm getting during the Survival Crafter sale, but I already own almost everything I'm interested in so joke's on, uh, you? (And also OF COURSE I day-1 bought Mr Freezy. I heard 'lady serial killer puzzle game.' I'm not made of wood).
screenshot from Steam library. New to the collection are Planet Crafter, Sunkenland, and Aerial_Knight's Mr. Freezy.
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Causeway Studios | The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham @ PAX West @causewaystudios.com · 01/09/2026
To escape your guilt, what… and who… would you leave on the cutting room floor? Welcome to The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham, coming 2027.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
very excited to see the change from a broken engagement caused by Scrooge's greed to Scrooge's greed coming about because Belle is a gold digger who won't fuck him.
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Stuck In Attic @stuckinattic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We recently got accused of using AI for music in our game and, while it's disheartening, it encouraged me to make a thread about making music for games, what it takes, and why it can be heartbreaking to be accused or even suspected of something we detest. 🧵Long thread follows:
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
with the lax inspection from the gutted FDA, I'd just like to say that while poop lettuce obviously isn't harmless, most people recover. Prion disease is with you until you die from it.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
was looking up the kinsey scale (✨author things✨) and found a new favorite AI trash image. I've always felt like my sexuality is head and left arm orange, vag and legs pink, tits and right elbow yellow. exclintivly homo33xval.
an AI trash version of the kinsey scale. All the text is garbled, the numbers are either a 0 or a 6, and there are small people with versions of pride-ish flags where certain body parts are off-color and most of the rainbows are out of order.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My then-9 year old kept getting UPSET at this book because adults would come in contact with these kids, CLEARLY see they were homeless then shrug like "eh, probably fine, keep living in your train car." He did not like that they ate berries from outside without showing an adult (parenting win lol).
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
oh go fuck yourself
cropped screenshot from weather.com. It gives a broad overview of the weather for Friday, August 21, but in order to see the hour-by-hour forecast you have to Start Free Trial for weather.com premium.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's me, I'm the raccoons
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I totally understand why you chose that name. It makes total sense. But after playing the game I just cannot see myself ever purchasing your bras, all-caps SOMA intimates.
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Airdorf (Official) - top 1% on GaryLovesYou.com @airdorfofficial.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Did we use AI to make our upcoming horror game???
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hey, Project C has a name! PRECOGNITION. Excited to be collaborating with newly launched @kineticpub.bsky.social on this, our wildest ride yet!
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
it's funny because with all the horror and gore and eldritch supernatural happenings I've read through, the most awful things I can imagine are still mundane. Getting trapped in an underground cave is pretty high on the list.
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
right in front of karlie kloss's upcycled event dress?
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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
About to drop a ton of cash on a luxury item* today! *getting fitted for a sleep apnea retainer.
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