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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

wild that i've been in the industry long enough to see the "E3 is a disgusting orgy of excess" thinkpieces morph into "the fact that we don't have E3 anymore is a damning sign of our decline" thinkpieces

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

sadly, i forsee that a lot of AAA devs are going to be burnt twice in this deprofessionalization era: once when they get laid off and another when they buy into the "just go indie" narrative.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

mandalorian and he-man are demonstrating that the elder millennial audience is no longer capable of being a load-bearing pillar of the entertainment complex. probably going to be a tough rest of decade for 40-yr-olds who's personality is "console AAA games and blockbuster action movies"

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

it's funny there's a bunch of people who think the biggest problem in video games is something like "woke devs" or "GAAS slop" when really it's "the only people who play them are all going to start dying real soon"

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

definitely the funniest thing ever written about me, personally

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Some of you would blow your brains out if ever realized how close your gaming hot takes are to those of the biggest chuds on x, the everything app.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

At the height of the cinematic sad dad game craze in the late 10s/early 20s not a soul was thinking about how that kind of content becoming popular was a huge red flag for the future prospects of the traditional console games biz.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

i see this year's big scary powerpoint deck has dropped so it's a good time to remind everyone that the author was considered to be "one of the leading minds of the metaverse" from 2020-2024.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

crypto bros experiencing a real monkey's paw moment because while it turns out Bitcoin was very ahead of it's time as a degenerate speculative financial instrument, between options trading, sports betting, 24/7 prediction markets, etc. it's now the most boring game in the casino it helped build

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

this is a guy in 2016 taking the same turn on angeles crest highway, almost 90 degrees coming out of the tunnel. by the time you can actually see the road again it's too late to figure out that you can't take this at more than 60mph.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"qualityslop" discourse demonstrates the totality of 4chan-style contrarianism becoming the default for the mainstream internet

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

if gamergater types REALLY wanted to hurt games journalism they'd figure out a way to take down steamcharts.com

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

every year the game award reaction thinkpieces get more and more hyperbolic. we might be at horseshoe theory levels given that there's a popular one this year that straight-up suggests that the audience for the show is sub-human.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

we either have Too Much AAA or Not Enough AAA or Too Many Trailers or Not Enough Trailers or Not the Right Trailers, the one constant is that something is wrong!!

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

this poster is the only thing that has made me laugh out loud all year

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Gerry Duggan @gerryduggan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

How metal is this trade desk from @elliottgray.bsky.social? Vol 2 is off to print.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

not sure if this makes sense but the thing i like about daft punk's work on tron legacy is that it's "what if daft punk did a movie score" as opposed to tron ares which is "what if a movie score was a NIN album"

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

how could they forget the fourth pillar which is drunk indie devs causing massive amounts of drama in their "scenes"

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

<bioshock vending machine voice> fill your cravings at the festival of gaaaaaming!

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

i'm surprised there hasn't been more writing on how the boom/bust cycle of the marvel film biz basically mirrors the 90s comic book industry crash? like even down to the infinity gauntlet marking the top of the boom period, preceding endless crossovers and gimmicks that crashed the industry.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

going to do a double feature of the last couple eps of andor s2 then "mandalorian and grogu" to see if it's possible to die in real life from tonal whiplash

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

there was a five-ish year stretch where i was designing almost all the non-licensed merch, designing all of the signage and video displays, and also physically working the booth from show open to show close at the pax west bungie store booth good times but pretty much burned me out on cons forever

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

every year i get a couple twitter or linkedin dms with unsolicited "UX case studies" and every time they consist mostly of a bunch of new feature wishcasting and very little UI/UX work.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

i'm not sure many game devs (at least the ones on social media) have quite come to grips with how much what most of us traditionally know as "the games industry" was entirely based upon that industry having an incredible bull run of double-digit growth every year for 20+ years.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

i only remember one and it was people freaking the fuck out/crying hysterically/leaving the theatre at an opening weekend showing of the blair witch project

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

actually i forgot “I looked at this games concurrent player count on steamcharts: find out what it is inside”

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

games media headlines in the big 2025 are either "THIS IS KILLING GAMES: WOKE Greedy AAA Game Devs Give Lara Croft DEI JAW" or "Donkey Kong Bonanza Reviewed: Why I Can't Enjoy It Because of Capitalism And Neither Should You"

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

whenever i feel myself starting get pissed off by content creators/critics/enthusiast media outlets etc. i think about the chokehold harry knowles/AICN had on the movie industry during the late 90s to early 00s... now millennials my age struggle to remember him, mandela effected out of existence.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

it's appropriate that this is the coda of lazarus because i think biggest impact the series will have is making the notoriously divisive wolf's rain look WAY better in retrospect

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

game changer! elon just invented taxis and/or having your mom drop you off

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

bsky about to go into this mode again.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

altnps being the 11th most followed account on here is one of the worst things anyone has said about bluesky

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

do NOT show a blueanon that "secret invasion" had 2x the viewers of andor s2 if you value your life

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

funny how many on both the left and right-wing spheres of the viddy game influencer economy tried to convince everyone "idk the vibes are off guys :(" before this launch. don't work yourself into a shoot, brother.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

shinichiro watanabe is definitely not dodging the "was totally carried by keiko nobumoto" allegations after lazarus.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

"mountainhead" is only watchable if you enjoy seeing a bunch of accomplished actors doing bad jeremy strong impressions

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

it feels like i always see chronically-online AAA developers talking about how we need to drastically rebuild the industry from the ground up but when you dig a little deeper they just want to recreate the same systems we have now but with the "right" people at the top making decisions.

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elliott @elliottgray.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

mission impossible: the final reckoning is about people in a race against time to stop an evil ai from becoming god not because it would be bad but because they don't want tom cruise to lose his job

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