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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Game Mag Print Ads @gamemagprintads.famiconsumer.com · 27/07/2026

Resident Evil 2 Has Risen. Source: Tips & Tricks 37 (March 1998) Scan Source: RetroMags #retrogaming #playstation

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Simon the Sorceror. Any screenshot from that game just immediately fills me up with the warm and fuzzies.

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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 16/07/2026

are young people today aware that there was an active effort 20-25 years ago to stop depicting smoking as cool and glamorous because people got tired of watching their loved ones die of cancer and heart disease from something preventable? seems like classic history repeating itself stuff

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I write a narrative design column for debug magazine, def keen to play, big fan of the previous two games!

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I haven't seen nearly enough discussion of this incredible, very in-depth piece of reporting on Palantir. We tend to talk about the company as if they're some all-powerful panopticon, but the reality is they're a sub-par data integration middleware company with better branding and lobbying.

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I used to have to drive around the country doing UCAS events and my uni was too cheap hire me a Tomtom so I printed off AA route Finder instructions and sellotaped them to the dash. 9/10 they got me to the general vicinity whereupon I just had to start shouting at pedestrians for directions. Love it

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

generally i don't like to prescript how people should live but in this case, i'll make an exception

a pretty, simple illustration of australian native birds and plants (including a lorikeet and a kookaburra) acting as a sort of frame around a black-text-on-white box in the middle that says

You dont need more things. You need trees, bird calls in the morning, fresh air, thriving plants and real connection.

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Right? I'm like, I can buy more great games that I can physically plan for a sum total of about 100$, to say nothing of some of the greatest literary works ever created for a few quid each... I'm really not too upset about not being able to afford playing GTA6 at 500fps?

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Harold Halibut ($9.79) - a literally hand made game, crafted in stop motion. harold lives on a spaceship at the bottom of the ocean, but is driven to find somewhere new he could call home... but what is 'home', exactly? bittersweet, sincere, a treat. store.steampowered.com/app/924750/H...

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Also a good reminder to occasionally kiss your monitor so it knows you appreciate it

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

when I got laid off from Vice, I later found out that members of the c-suite had awarded themselves bonuses that were higher than my annual salary. I hope that answers your question.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

There's a common mythology that those with wealth and power must have "deserved" that wealth or power: they must have been smart, or good, or kind. But it's just that. A myth. They'll keep making bad decisions that make money hurting the lives of their own workers until we wrestle that axe BACK.

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Yeah always so weird to me that the c-suite of these companies that quite literally sell their employees just escape any scrutiny. I mean I get it, 'lots of money + more resources' is always going to be attractive and it takes bravery to resist and plan for the long game, but...due diligence much?

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Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Beautifully put The contradictions of our cruel and idiotic system are laid bare. Frankly, they have been for a couple of centuries already, but at least we, in gamedev, are getting the first-hand experience.

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Of course it had to be a turtle magician. Inevitable really.

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

When the days get tough, and your boyfriend broke up (oh) And your house burned down, and your money run out There's a red round thing that will make it all right Take a bite, take a bite, take a motherfucking bite - horsegiirL, 2026

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Ah, I see you woke up today and chose violence!

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Mike Straw | Insider-Gaming.com @mikestrawmedia.com · 10/06/2026

Ubisoft EMBARGOED news to outlets about the layoffs and studio closures, FYI. Employees were told this morning. And then many reached out to us. Companies trying to embargo layoffs and closures might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in my 16 years.

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Mailchimp died, so I had to move to Substack, which seems good, bar the politics of the owners, but then what tech platform isn't owned by crypto-facists I suppose...

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Anyone playing Mina the Hollower? Demo put me right off but apparently it's mana from heaven. It's a game I WANT to like but it just looks so frustrating and fiddly?

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

There are no new games ideas left, I guess. We just endlessly remake and port everything now. And yet we still don't have light gun games on Switch 2.

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Dan Morison @darkmechanic.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Do you need Lo-fi illustrations for your project or games? Want something real? Budget isn't triple AAA? Get in touch! (Graphic design is my passion!)

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Yeah it's all about the journey. Most of the 'twists' are fairly predictable but it's how you get there and what they mean for the characters that makes them feel significant.

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Really didn't vibe with Marathon over the free week. What it boiled down to was I just didn't feel the extraction fantasy. The setting felt kinda incoherent to me, loot was confusing and traversal didn't feel good. Even successful runs didn't feel very satisfying.

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Just reply to this with a link to your website/portfolio please!

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I'm looking to build up my list of freelance writers in case of opportunities in the near future, send me your links/portfolios. Please RT and/or holler directly if you want to recommend someone.

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

this bird with no hands is a better weaver than I am.

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Happy belated birthday, looks like a fun way to spend it. 2nd half of your 30s is what it's all about trust me ;)

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I just feel like we need to put some distance between games as a medium and the Whedon eta of post-irony Marvel. Protagonists should be allowed to stay quiet for more than 30 seconds without inane self-talk and one or more quippy/sarcastic sidekicks. It just all blurs together otherwise.

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Laufey setting looks rad. Cube is fun. But ooof the writing.

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Shaya @shaya29.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Exposition des figurines utilisées pour le jeu vidéo Harold Halibut #Utopiales #Utopiales2024

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Rosalind Elise @rosalindelise.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I did not expect a game called Harold Halibut to be one of the most emotional gaming experiences I've ever had but here we are

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Thanks! I can tell you why ;) Sheer ineptitude and a bunch of corporate yes-people. Ah the stories I could tell if I wasn't still slightly scared of being sued for defamation...

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Danny Salfield Wadeson @dannysw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Looks like they finally announced Until Dawn 2, so I can at least say it's what I worked on for years before being unceremoniously made redundant (along with lots of talented colleagues) because Sony decided to spend a gazillion dollars on buying 15 doomed live-service projects.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.

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