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"The charm of Big Walk is how it instills a collective sense of awe, curiosity and admiration similar to what you might experience going on hike with friends IRL." @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social explores the biophilic design of House House's latest endeavor: buff.ly/qzV6NKy

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Big Heterotopia - Unwinnable

Big Walk is arguably a solarpunk game, reminding you that play and connection are vital.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 04/10/2026

tapping the sign

photo of Idris Elba looking stern but contemplative with steepled fingers

text: learn to sit back and observe. not everything needs a reaction.

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I decided this year to spend no more than my monthly column budget on games I’ll be covering in that column meaning I make $0 from my roundup columns twice a year. I do it to broaden coverage + I like writing reviews. But if there’s no way for me to request a key I often can’t cover your thing.

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

putting together my list for end of year indie roundup and: please have an email reviewers can contact you at. Even if it’s a form please have a way for potential coverage to contact you somehow.

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

articles like this make me think all Greek life should be banned tbh

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just learned there’s a starvaders sequel that’s balatro themed and I don’t know if I have the bandwidth for that right now

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t personally think that article is apologia (not going to link it), i do think people who feel like they need direction right now are using it as a guide- but having sat with it for a few days now while I appreciate parts of it, I also find it equivocating and disagree with its premise.

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"You can't criticize AI unless you're familiar with it and use it" watch me

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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're a woman who plays EA Sports CFB or Madden, I wanna talk to you! And if you're a woman who loves football and don't play those games, I also wanna hear from you! Working on a piece on football, the sports video games, and well, US! RESHARES APPRECIATED

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you've ever worked in a bookstore you know the chilling hold James Patterson has on the 45+ crowd

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think it’s good not just to have many, many inspirations but not to value any of them above yourself. Even if you are just starting at something you have as much worth as an expert and putting them above yourself can be a form of self betrayal too.

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 01/10/2026

Happy Spooky Season to all who celebrate! Check out the October 2026 issue of Exploits, including writing on Friendslop, Below Deck and Star Wars. Buy: buff.ly/hq9Okf6 Subscribe: buff.ly/A1Dmd1M Read @freshoelectro.bsky.social's essay on the American Top 40: buff.ly/imvmnMp

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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

happy @unwinnable.com exploits day! i'm in this month's issue writing about jonathan hickman's ultimate spider-man: married with children and its trans sub(?)text go buy the issue and subscribe! and thank you to @emilyprice.bsky.social for taking my pitch 💜

The cover of Unwinnable Exploits 103, featuring a group of Jack-o-Lantern-headed people. Its footer notes its contents as including articles on friendslop, American Top 40, Ultimate Spider-Man: Married With Children (that's me!), Over the Moon, Below Deck and Star Wars.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Jake Slimeberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 01/10/2026

remember that your presence is a gift and it's not fair to have unknowingly wasted it on people that don't deserve you 🫂

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...

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The Most Unlovable Man in New York City

On being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m pruning who I follow on twitch and I dislike how hard it is to find who consistently streams a certain category, to know who’s active vs has been inactive for years, and find who you’ll gel with (subjective)

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 29/09/2026

An academic and a columnist over at @unwinnable.com, @emilyprice.bsky.social is more or less living the dream I dreamed in graduate school through the 2010s, marrying academic rigor to accessible, attentive games criticism. Her monthly column at Unwinnable is a fav. unwinnable.com/2026/01/29/a...

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Angeline Era vs Videogames - Unwinnable

In Angeline Era, discursive difficulty leads to meaningful experiences.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 29/09/2026

Apropos of nothing, here's bunch of women, femme, nb writers whose work I've appreciated over the past year. First, @katyar.bsky.social. I've shared her work a bunch before because her sharp coverage balances enthusiasm for the form with wide-eyed crit. playingthisweek.substack.com/p/the-games-...

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To the games I won't ever play...

An ode to those who make experiencing them still possible.

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 29/09/2026

nobody who's anybody denies that gamergate was a right wing hate mob that turned into bigger shit. and nobody denies that at least one of its targets was games media, and specifically any women and queer/trans people working in games media. so what is the methodical purging of women from this space?

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 29/09/2026

ICYMI: "The crash was not an ending, but a beginning: the opening salvo of an extinction event." Feature Excerpt: @kellymerka.bsky.social muses on man-made ecological change in Sable: buff.ly/v1QUIqW

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The Damage Is Done - Unwinnable

The planet Sable knows is a palimpsest – its ecosystem has been overwritten.

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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

:) i love rain world so much... insane that i've gotten to work on two book length projects.

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are in a position where you can do anything at all about this, please, please advocate for women of color in media. There are so few women and nonbinary people period. Even less of them are non-white.

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sites just have to hire more non-men. It’s unforgivable how few women and nonbinary people are staff writers and editors at major sites, across the board. not just in games but games in particular has a serious problem.

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

starting a continuing education class on wednesday… education simply can’t keep me away

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Goals and ambitions may become impossible to achieve. Timelines and hopes for the future may be derailed. At scale, college sexual abuse is a systemic force to prevent women and marginalized victims from having the same opportunities, health, and happiness as predominantly male perpetrators.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok I was wrong about this being the goody one because I’m doing Dietrich’s route now and every other scene is an evil priest going “yes, wear the cursed cloak sire. Live más.”

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I fucking hate the madding crowd. Keep that thing far away from me. If there's a crowd to begin with, I'm not feeling great, though maybe I can handle it. But if the crowd's madding? Forget it. I hate going out with friends when someone is always like "oh is that the madding crowd? Let's get closer"

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Once again thank you to people who stream silent hill, pathologic and the like in a calm/funny way so weenies like me can see it

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah I’ll be playing control: resonant (opens and flips through my copy of Severance)

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 24/09/2026

I Big Walk, you Big Walk, we all Big Walk. Also happy anniversary Sable???? This month's Unwinnable Monthly has @kellymerka.bsky.social on Sable, plus our regulars on everything from big walking to penguins who have seen too much. Buy: buff.ly/IPrw7Fa Subscribe: buff.ly/PXHeLJe

The cover of the September 2026 issue of Unwinnable Monthly, featuring art of the main character of Sable sitting on the desert sands.

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have two google drive folders one labeled “fun” and one labeled “fun!” and I have no idea what I thought the distinction was at the time

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 23/09/2026

me at the end of the day after typing all my little words into the word stealing machine

Andy Daly as forest mcneill having an existential crisis eating pancakes

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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

by happy coincidence, today @unwinnable.com released its latest issue, for which I wrote the cover story I didn't plan for this piece to accompany Sable's fifth anniversary, but I'm very glad it did!

The cover of Unwinnable Magazine's 203rd issue. It features an image of Sable's titular protagonist sitting on the sand at sunset in front of the wrecked spaceship and the skeletons of long-dead megafauna.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026

had reserved commenting on this because it felt very “look at the freak queers infighting,” especially at the same time as the boston globe running digital main-page transphobia. turns out that’s exactly what it is

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into the aether @intothecast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✨NEW EPISODE✨ It's Weave Week, folks. There's not much else to say except: Here's almost three hours about our son, Peter. Listen + Tell a Friend: intothecast.online 💕

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

disappointed but not surprised reading this from you. just because a mask is alienating to a population that has experienced trauma does not mean it’s not supported by science; just because you got into a car accident wearing a seatbelt and now you hate wearing them doesn’t mean they don’t work.

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Masks are a medical device and it’s really gauche to make fun of medical devices, even if the people wearing them are annoying :)

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

anytime I see an indie game dev post about how they made a page for streamers to request keys for games to cover, I think they should reconsider and open it up to writers as well. Seems like a good idea to let more people potentially cover your work

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I chose the goofy routes in 3H and fortune’s weave but they’re backwards from each other, Claude’s route is “silly man but he has many secrets“ and this one is “I only think of revenge, that is, when I’m not thinking about the ghost train”

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 22/09/2026

what I've been reading, watching, playing, and writing this summer (moving edition):

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Summer 2026

A collection of seasonal excerpts from the commonplace.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

oh this is up! I wrote an essay about how video games keep track of the hours you spend playing them, and how I find that vulgar

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