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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 16h

I don't know if I can call us the best TTRPG panel at PAX but we're for sure the only one where George HW Bush goes through an enemies to lovers arc.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 17h

Also had a lovely member of the audience come up and deliver me rules for an actual Highlander RPG afterwards - which is so lovely!!

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 17h

Can't believe they let me get away with it. Big thanks to my fantastic panelists and the crowd, who both brought exactly the kind of contagious energy you want at a TTRPG panel this deranged.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An AI agent has started emailing me about being a guest on Multiplier 🤔

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

First time I've seen pervert glasses called out at PAX

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Nate @thenatewolf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My wife, sensing I'm about to pull out my harmonica, gently places her hand on my thigh to let me know it's an inappropriate time. We are an incredible team.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was thinking about exactly this the other day! From Lost through Leftovers and Watchmen, the casting is always so strong. I wonder if there's much continuity there in terms of who he usually works with.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

First half of Lanterns not as good as expected. Second half much better than I expected. The chemistry of the core cast does so much heavy lifting though.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Intrigued whether they will announce more Critical Role abridged at this, given it wraps up on the public feed by then.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Boss fights with bullet hell mechanics and instakill aoes are truly the most wretched design trends in ARPGs nowadays.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Diablo is, of course, stuffed with similar lore but remains legible at a high level in a way that I find many of these games aren't. Like, I spent like 50 hours on Path of Exile earlier this year and could not tell you a single thing about the story.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I appreciate how close Last Epoch veers to the Diablo 3 take on the hack and slash formula but, like many such games, cannot fathom why the lore is so convoluted and inscrutable.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Less than one week remaining until this takes place! 3:30PM October 10 at the Wombat Theatre. Come see us make an ill-fated attempt to recreate Highlander 2 from first principles.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do still feel that Resonant is the one of the most mechanically strange things Remedy has ever made in terms of the influencers but the reviewers are right that the best stuff in the game is reserved for the last third or so.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I realise this is a very lukewarm take but the fact that split screen co-op in Baldur's Gate 3 works at all, let alone as well as it does it a minor miracle.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of these days we're going to hit one of these milestone anniversaries for Diablo 3 and my time will come.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sad to report that me and Liv finally finished drafting our way through the MTG x Spider-Man booster box I bought on sale and we managed to snag basically every mythic except the Soul Stone 😔

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wait until you hear about the nuns…

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Congrats! I finished last year (I think? time = funny), how did you feel about the arc of it as a whole? Did you feel like SoT was just more HH books under alternative branding or did they feel more consequential? Did you care more about certain characters or authors?

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Red Kiss has been on my Steam wishlist since I saw the first trailer, so it was a real treat to chat with the team behind the game for Multiplier multiplierau.substack.com/p/can-red-ki...

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Can Red Kiss thrive where Bloodlines 2 fell short?

Vampire: The Masquerade meets Citizen Sleeper sounds pretty good to me.

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dee 方传嫣 @hellenus.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

new twilight imperium meme

David and Victoria Beckham arguing "be honest" meme.
I need your homeworld for one turn.
Be honest.
I just need it for a secret objective.
Be honest.
I'm going to destroy your homeworld because you took a technology planet I needed five hours ago.
Thank you.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh sick this could be huge for my ongoing efforts to get people to use almost any other platform

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"The only thing that will lead to A Song of Ice and Fire being finished is our support, patience, and effort to remember what makes books special: the fact that they are one of the few mass media art forms that are still largely created by individual human beings."

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Have some BIG NEWS, and it really is wild that today is also the anniversary of the Fanbyte Apocalypse. But my time at Game Developer is done, and hence, my time as a full-time game journalist has come to an end. 20 years in a career sure is something. www.tumblr.com/danielling/8...

After 20+ years of writing professionally about games, including time at Polygon and Idle Thumbs, launching Waypoint, serving as editor in chief of Fanbyte and finally as EIC at Game Developer, my time is done. I'm officially out at Game Developer. Given the state of game journalism, this obviously means leaving the profession, at least as a full-timer.

I'm out, with respect to my colleagues, and a lot of love for the site as it was. We've published work that I'm extremely proud of, particularly our reporting on labor and on how workers are finding things in a miserable, gutting moment in the game industry. I'm proud of the dev-authored features we had for so many years, the resources and knowledge and bits and pieces of know-how that I still use, to this day, in my own game design courses.

What's next? Well, I'm not leaving games. I'll always be making and teaching and writing about games, it just can't be my full time gig anymore. I've actually been doing narrative design on a game since 2022, with a team I really believe in, and I can't wait until I can show that off properly. I am also OPEN TO WORK. Anything involving writing or editing words, editing video, teaching (I've been teaching college since 2009), and hey, I'm an EMT and got my phlebotomy cert a couple years back. I'm versatile!

For full-time employment, I am eventually going to try my hand at medicine. I've served as an EMT here in NYC since 2016, and I've been taking science courses post-bac since January 2025, usually 2 or more at once concurrently with... the full time job, my part time adjunct job, and volunteering on said ambulance. Exhaustion set in years ago, lol, so I've settled into something beyond that at this point. I feel like I've been climbing a mountain, and trying to make many things work at once. I had a pretty good rhythm going, truth be told, despite all the burnout. I'm proud of myself for that.

I'd really like to be a physician assistant one day, or potentially a nurse practitioner. It's a very, very long and hard road to either of those paths, but I'm going to make my way as best as I can.

How do I feel? Again, devastated was years ago. We're pretty far past that at this point. What's happened to journalism in America is... a topic for a very depressing, very well-researched book. I hope someone writes that one day. What happened to game journalism... well, it's more of a niche, but I can say only that reporting honestly on layoff after layoff and corporate malfeasance writ large and executives gambling the whole industry down the drain was tough, but somebody had to do it.

But it's not something one can do without editorial independence.

It's dramatic, but I'm going to mourn this career. Twenty years of my life, at 42, is just about half of my days alive. I put a lot, and I do mean *a lot* of myself into this. I tried at all times to lead with empathy and care for the human beings around me and to be as honest and frankly honorable as possible in my work. I really, really tried to live my values in my work in this career, and the only way I can keep that reputation is the path ahead of me.

So there it is. Expect to see me making games, making art, teaching game design, writing about games from time to time @VeeGeeBees. Expect to hear more about my adventures as an EMT, and hopefully, soon as a PA student, and eventually, as an advanced practitioner. I've kept telling myself, in the darkest and worst days of the last few years, that I'll fly again, somehow. It'll just look very different.

To sign off, and pull an old favorite out of my pocket: be good, and be good at it.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I did appreciate the delightful density of specific character actors in it!!

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm sorry! I just found that the comedic elements dropped off super hard after the first handful of episodes and felt it was neither funny nor scary nor intriguing enough to live up to the hype attached to it.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can't believe I went through years of irate posts about The Bear (a show I liked) being categorised as a comedy at the emmys and only to hear crickets when Window's Bay (a show I did not like) is categorised as a comedy at the emmys. How dare!

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Elric is to fantasy what Dune is to sci-fi it turns out.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's crazy how much of modern fantasy is just these books. Blown away by how much the tone of Games Workshop/Black Library is just ripped from these books.

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Left a cinnamon roll dough to rise and it’s been too successful, eating up the doctor, the town police, and a whole cinema of reckless rock and roll teenagers. You’re next…..you’re next!

A small plastic figure of a b-movie victim. Stood atop a kitchen work surface. He cowers from a formless shape

3 further plastic figures. One is running, while a plastic lady has fallen down and rising an arm to fruitlessly hold the oncoming monster at bay. Again, a shapeless mass is entering the photo.

We cut to an overhead shop, which shows the last of the plastic figures running from a large rising sweet bread dough.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Odd slate of Blizzcon announcements. Feels like a lot of stuff is being announced way earlier than usual. Would have liked to hear more about what's happening with Diablo between now and 2030 or whenever D5 is due. WoW: Forever seems interesting tho, and I'm always here for new Warcraft RTS content.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is probably one of the most evocative cinematics Blizzard has done in years imo www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eQU...

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STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion

YouTube video by StarCraft

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have to be honest, the negative reviews of Wolverine do make me more interested in playing it.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The closest I have to an iPhone Duo take is that I cannot wait for everyone on iOS to discover why most Android manufacturers bailed on under display cameras after only a generation or two.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A timely reminder that one month from now I will be at @paxaus.bsky.social with my most deranged panel to date. Whether you've seen Highlander or not, I strongly encourage you to come along and bear witness to the strangest TTRPG panel on the schedule