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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Going back to my roots a bit this week, tight ~20 minute video on 5 indie games I think you should check out. Hope to always be able to do this kind of content periodically no matter what kind of other stuff I'm working on!

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Installed it right after I rolled credits on KCD2, it's next! Not my usual thing but the amount of people who would say the same that absolutely love it tells me I need to give it a try!

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

In the last 24 hours I rolled credits on 3 very different GOTY contenders: -DOOM The Dark Ages -Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 -Blue Prince All pretty phenomenal experiences, I think KCD2 still takes it for me but MAN gaming is good in 2025.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Day 5 and final thoughts on DOOM The Dark Ages, greatly enjoyed will flesh these thoughts out for a video soon-ish!

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I'm like 120 hours into my playthrough of KCD2, finally wrapping up the story. Thought I had seen all it had to offer and was ready to wrap up, then the game hit me out of nowhere with an OPTIONAL encounter I now think is very close to the pinnacle of storytelling in the medium.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

DOOM The Dark Ages Day 4 Notes: Cosmic realm was sick!

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Day 3, had more crashes again and the shield bug a couple times. Still overall enjoying a lot, about ready for it to wrap up though (not in a bad way it's just starting to feel LONG).

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Just wanted to remind people I got a video on the modern DOOM games out, it had a great first day but views slowed down a lot (prob because of Dark Ages review embargo going up). But if you're waiting for the wide release today and need to kill 2 hours, I gotchu!

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

DOOM The Dark Ages Session 2 thoughts:

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Gonna just post my daily thoughts/notes on Dark Ages as I play for those interested! Had a lot of fun in my first session. Whelmed by the mech and dragon segments, but everything else is top notch so far.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

There are DOZENS of us! I actually rolled credits on Hollow Knight and thought it was FINE, but apparently it's like sacrilege to some that I didn't like it enough to 112% it or whatever.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

And if you disagree with me that's fine, it's just not a perspective I've ever claimed to provide on my channel, and approaching my videos hoping for deep technical analysis and expert-level understanding is just fitting a square peg in a round hole.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

All to say while more time in a game does provide a certain authority on the ins-and-outs of the game, I think to the average person the less educated 'visceral reactions' are more valuable, since that more reflects how most people engage with a game.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

In general I actually much prefer if reviews and critiques are done by people who are not experts and have a breadth of gaming experience and made an honest attempt to engage with a game, than someone who knows every single mechanic and detail in depth.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Interesting phenomenon where as soon as you criticize a game at all, people with 500+ hours will come out of the woodwork to tell you you're wrong. I actually do appreciate being corrected on things I get wrong, but at a point your experience of a game does become TOO niche IMO

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I am a relative newcomer to DOOM, but it is impossible to deny that my channel might not exist today without DOOM 2016. Today I am finally taking a trip back through the modern DOOM games, dissecting everything great and not so great, and how they tee us up for Dark Ages. youtu.be/g_hX4DZcC6k

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Well chat, we had a good run but it's time to hang up the old trash can lid and devote my life to our lord and savior Jesus Christ.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

On one hand: Never been so stoked on a video while editing. On the other hand: It's consuming all my free time, don't even have time to stream. Definitely never doing another long video on a time crunch like this...

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I'm trying not to overhype this video too much, but I'm genuinely just so excited to release it cause I think it's my best work ever. Here's a peek at the thumbnail, estimating this should be out a week from today.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Oh yeah and I'm playing the Ancient Gods for the first time as a result as well and uhh.... Yeesh they really weren't messing around with these DLCs 😅

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Currently in the process of recording my longest commentary video ever, which is a critique of DOOM 2016 and Eternal. Didn't realize how much I would have to say after years of holding myself back from making DOOM content. Hopefully out before Dark Ages drops!

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I feel strongly that backseating ruins both the streaming and viewing experience of streams and it has guided a lot of how I moderate my stream, but I've never talked concisely about WHY I feel this way... Until now. Made a little video on it for my second channel, check it out youtu.be/VqvKsi0p_Ks

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I am replaying DOOM Eternal at the moment and having a blast overall but I have a confession to make... The Marauder is a bad enemy, it makes the game less fun to play every time it appears. "Skill issue" "Just one-cycle combo it dood" This is my truth and I'm sticking with it.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I am still scratching my head over what criteria Youtube removed my partnership. I wasn't even aware that was a thing they could do and I didn't even get so much as a heads up email or anything. And fwiw, I hit the OLD, more strict partnership criteria on this channel...

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Youtube wants me to make 3 videos in 90 days to reinstate monetization on a channel that ALREADY had it and they revoked it from for no reason... So I started off by making a video talking about how incompetent they are :) Watch: youtu.be/d9iA77VLJ3M

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Oh Youtube revoked monetization from a channel of mine that gets ~90k shorts views in a month because... I haven't uploaded a regular video (non-short) in 90 days? Since when has this been a thing?

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

And yes if you're wondering: the clip of me seeing the title drop of Ultrakill is probably the most used clip on the entire channel, and every time I use it I open the original video project to grab it.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I reference old Premiere projects all the time and some of them have been through so many versions of Premiere my files start to look like this LMAO

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Butterfly app exclusive since I don't post here enough: I'm currently working on a video script about the intersection of video games and urbanism, and I have no idea when it will be done, but it's the most excited I've been writing a video script in a long time.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Can I just say, it's consistently annoying that in 2025 opinions on new games are still more than ever muddied by peoples' console preferences. Dawg, I'm a PC player I just wanna know if the game is good. I have no stake in which $500 plastic box is best.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Finally got around to Psycho Patrol R today, might be the fastest I've ever 180ed on a game. Spent first 90 minutes lost, confused, angry... Turns out I was going the wrong way. It's actually peak. Possibly one of the roughest intros I've ever had to a game though LOL

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Wake up honey, another hour of Dumpster Man shilling a New blood game just dropped! Gloomwood has come a long way since it's original early access release, I revisited the game this year and it was honestly one of the best gaming experiences I've had in a while. Check it out: youtu.be/BqLTHkUP-Pk

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Me: *Posts a video where I talk positively about DOOM 2016* Weirdos online: "Yeah Doom Eternal DOES suck!!" *sigh*... This is precisely why I haven't made much DOOM content. I'm working on a big comprehensive nu-DOOM video now, but not looking forward to the ~discourse~

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Was out with my wife & some of her friends yesterday. They know I stream/do content but maybe not specifics. This time she decided to try and explain what a "boomer shooter" is to VERY confused looks. It was sweet but I'm gonna stick with "I play video games" from now on LOL

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This must be pretty a pretty common experience cause this is almost exactly where I gave up as well, and then beating Lady Butterfly kinda gave me the push to continue and I'm very glad I did!

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Dark Ages looks like it's gonna be really different again (which is cool in my book) but I think between 2016 and Eternal my ideal game lies somewhere nearly smack dab in the middle of the two haha

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Yeah, I am inclined to agree honestly. I think a lot of what Eternal did, for better or worse, just sticks out in my mind more because it was a little more "bold" across the board. But I actually appreciate 2016's more stripped back approach every time I come back, more is not always better!

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Replaying DOOM 2016 at the moment, and I think a lot of people honestly are due to do the same. A lot of what's great about this game was overshadowed in my mind by Eternal, but frankly 2016 got a lot right for a 'first draft' and even does some stuff better.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Very poetic that the word 'slop' (easily reproducible, formulaic, low quality) has itself become slop. I'm seeing 'slop' tacked onto literally anything people don't like. Call that slopslop.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I've been asked a lot where my name comes from, long story short it's a reference to a sign I saw at a pizza place when I was in college in Fargo, ND... I thought for sure the sign would be long gone but NOPE. Someone in my Discord not only found the sign, it even made the news!

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Seems like your mom should've done the same a decade or two ago...

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

New video out now! Confronting ULTRAKILL: Past, Present, and Future, in the Ultra-Revamp Update… Watch: youtu.be/aCKJR-M2T8o

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

When Premiere eats one of my inputs so I just press the keys harder and then it works.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Really valuable brainstorming going on in modchat, of content ideas I'd do if I was immortal.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

0-E may genuinely be my new favorite Ultrakill level. Just really hits that sweet spot of challenge and fun for me, and it really makes the Prelude feel like one big interconnected beast behind the curtain. Not to mention, a cool gimmick + extra incentive to play fast!

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Ultrakill update is sick, thank you to everyone who stopped by stream on both Twitch and Youtube, I peaked at over 500 VIEWERS between the two platforms which is wild. That's like triple my next most ever. I'm just a dude who plays the video game at a barely passable level wtf

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I'mma be honest man, game development is hard, I get it... but if you launch a Steam page with one iota of AI art even if it's a placeholder that's going to be replaced, I'm avoiding your game forever on principle.

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Dumpster Man @dumpsterman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Damn I just realized I am working on like six videos simultaneously. Pretty excited about all of them too, gotta actually FINISH some of them though LOL

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