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AJ Small

@badgercommander.bsky.social
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I do some writing for Xbox Tavern, and sometimes for gamecritics. I have a Youtube channel that people still visit to watch the intro for Super Meat boy, and sometimes to watch some out takes from the Obi-Wan game on Xbox

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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 42m
that, and whether it is a Software as a Service that leverages huge amounts of Data centers and the environmental that comes with it. My dislike of current implementations of AI is multi-pronged
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 1h
Cool, that distinction doesn't do much for me - where are they sourcing the AI stuff from?
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 3h
The satire just hurts my soul - I've seen devs look me in the eye and go 'maybe the game comes out in September, but also maybe March next year'
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 3h
So, like, this is funny, but having been on the receiving end of this from developers... If I found out a developer did this on purpose I would hold hatred for them in my heart until the end of time
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 7h
Working on multiple ports at the time - the Xbox was always the best one to be testing due to the complete lack of Anti-aliasing on the PS2
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 7h
I knew I was not going to have a good time with that game when I got to Zhang Fei and my tactic was 'Press the block/parry button and hope for the best'
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you want to enjoy a film then 9 is the "worst", if you want to walk away having wasted your time 2 Fast 2 Furious is the actual worst
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The face melting scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Play Witcher 3 - do the Bloody Baron quest and consider the game completed
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is utterly crushing. Capcom have been on fire for several years now - the idea of doing this is just miserable
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That is on my list this month too, as I finally found a copy on DVD
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why didn't you text his wife? Rude
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please say Pysche letterboxd.com/badgercomman...
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Badgercommander’s reviews of Ferrari (2023)
Badgercommander’s reviews of Ferrari (2023)
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty QA tester *pours water on head and then walks against every wall in the room*
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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 01/10/2026
My first post of October is now live! The Ghostface Industrial Complex. Read about my favourite Scream sequel, Trowma, Wes Craven, requels, and more: grave-offerings.ghost.io/the-ghostfac...
An illustration of Sidney and Jill from Scream 4 - laying on the ground next to other - in red and blackAn illustration of Ghostface in red and black.An illustration of Kirby and Jill from Scream 4 in red and black.An illustration of Jill from Scream 4 - pointing a knife at her own shoulder - in red and black
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This reminds me of that old strategy game Greed Corp store.steampowered.com/app/48950/Gr...
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Greed Corp on Steam
Turn-based strategy at its finest.
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Blocked anyway
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Appreciate it - but honestly, it felt like I was taking the bare minimum stance
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It has resulted in any time a guy describes a scenario where a woman 'has just gone crazy' in my siding with her... I will say that in 99.9999% of the scenarios, it is the correct side
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No one said anything, I asked him what he meant by that, and he said "Yeah, well you are a feminist" or something like that. This was in front of a couple of our bosses, and they just let the conversation go. Truly felt like I was living in another plane of existence. This was in 2015/16
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Skip to about 8 months later, I said something that I thought was fairly innocuous about women's rights at lunch. The original guy who had made the weird comment then turned to me with a smile and "Well, we all know you'd cut your dick off just to get along with women"
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I explained this bizarre debacle to another co-worker and that co-worker laughed and explained that "He was probably trying to have a bonding moment with you, and you shot him down"... At that point, I started to feel like I was going crazy
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This escalated to the point where he brought it up the next day and only seemed to understand what he had done, when some one explained how it made *me* look/feel. Which is whole different problem that left me feeling uneasy
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A guy I used to go climbing with once cracked a joke in front of me about a woman climbing in front of us - I looked at him and went 'what are you saying?'. He was furious, and I kept trying to explain that he was objectifying her and it was weird for him to do that.
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Okay, so now I hope that when I bumped into you and said I was a fan of your work from back in the Giantbomb days, I did not cause flashbacks, if I did I am so sorry
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not 'pro-crunch' just 'pro hard work' - well I am sure that will go down super well
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hhahahah - appreciate that, but actually I do like that she has decided to not even give an inch on anything related to AI. I know it is counterproductive, I know this is how we get stories about woke-scolds... but I just kind of love people who will head-down run into a brick wall, no questions
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I like her energy even if she has entirely misunderstood the post.
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What a weekend
The last 4 films I watched: Heart of the Beast (2 and half stars on Letterboxd), Nemesis 2: Nebula (2 on Letterboxd), Zack and Miri make a Porno (1 star on Letterboxd), and the new Resident Evil (4 stars on Letterboxd) movie.
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That film has me playing the Resident Evil 3 remake
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nemesis 2: Nebula walked so that Prey could run. Holy shit, what a movie
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I saw this film years after it was released, it seemed solid... but everyone hated it at the time
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looks like the Overton window has fully shifted right
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am using mild language here - it is fucking awful
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can tell this is a US site that made this as The Chaos Engine is referred to as Soldiers of Fortune and has terrible cover art
A grid of 3 by 3 game cover art for 9 games that shaped me - Speedball 2, The Chaos Engine, EDF 2017, Ghouls n Ghosts, Sonic 2, Citadel, Super Streetfighter 2, Halo: CE, Limbo
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c08... They got written off as the Teen Titans pop group, but they are super fun
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Planet Tokyo- Puffy Ami Yumi
YouTube video by hogger13
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Sean Dick @seandick.net · 23/09/2026
oh yeah, don't forget to share and wishlist puppy truck.
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Puppy Truck on Steam
Puppy Truck is a puzzle-packed 3D platforming adventure about a tiny truck with the heart of a puppy! Explore Grandma’s eclectic house, filled with contraptions, challenges, and surprises as you race ...
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The love of layering lots of cinematic influences into every frame, a genuine love of film, weird attitude towards women in films, a deeply political view in his story telling, dogshit naming of characters, complete inability to make films... The comparisons go on and on
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eric wenske @capsulecity.com · 15/09/2026
Imagining every game as a Simple 2000 game.
A photoshopped cover making Mario Sunshine look like a Simple 2000 PS2 game titled "The Jumpman Vacation"
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This explains alot of things about my feelings for both of them
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That is some fanfiction right there, that no one needs
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I bought the 4 movie Nemesis collection - my partner was so overwhelmed with how awesome Nemesis was that she has refused to watch any of the sequels - to quote her glowing endorsement 'I can't believe they made 3 sequels to this shit'
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The games industry as a whole
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sound garden is older than SOAD... ?
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Return to Silent Hill the recent movie was such a slavish re-enactment of the Silent hill 2 cutscenes, and the fans hated it. I was so happy watching it, because I was imagining the same sorts of people as that screenshot frothing uncontrollably at the mouth
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It was a solid week of films
The last four films I watched on Letterboxd - 2025 film/series Silencio, Ready or Not 2 (here I come), The Rivals of Amziah King, and the 1992 masterpiss Nemesis
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am so sorry - it was someone like Mike Bithell that posted it and it was about the film industry, but I listened to it and then didn't subscribe to the whole thing - it was definitely a sales pitch but it gave a really interesting insight into how movie people see video games
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There is an interesting podcast interview with the people who own the rights to the film franchise
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AJ Small @badgercommander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am a Blue Beetle and Black Adam defender - so, yes, I agree
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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 18/09/2026
what cis people fail to understand about transphobia is that it's not "treating trans men as women and trans women as men," it's "constantly occupying the status of Third-Sexed Unhuman who can be gendered in whichever way is most convenient at any given moment"
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