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gril @funambulism.com · 3h

IIRC, there’s that great leek & coriander stew though, called Unwinding?

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(To clarify: I was an additional writer on it, only started earlier this year. I don't know the status of the team in Amsterdam, hope they're okay.)

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Looks like making money from news journalism just died.

ah, booooo. journalism, she is dead.

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(Congratulations! Q - I can see you're lead VA on it. What does that mean, assuming Very Awesome but not Visceral Agony?)

gril @funambulism.com · 7h

So this was shit. Barely got started on it. Thanks anyway to the team in Amsterdam!

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gril @funambulism.com · 8h

Agree. If all games journalism can do that gets traffic is function as an extension of marketing, we may as well be done.

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gril @funambulism.com · 8h

Saw Simon Pegg talking about how his daughter hated Blue Velvet and how she talked about it for the next two days and thought about this comment.

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 9h

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It's only a Collector's Edition if it comes from the "Includes The Game" region of the store, otherwise it's just sparkling Merch.

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gril @funambulism.com · 8h

Agree. If all games journalism can do that gets traffic is function as an extension of marketing, we may as well be done.

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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 9h

I just want to write about art and spotlight artists making noteworthy and adventurous work that exists in conversation with our present moment. I don't want to breathlessly launder hype and write listicles until the sun explodes.

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Looking at you and @vben.bsky.social and being very glad I'm not into game music.

What is Fincher doing now that is more important than S3? Fight Club 2: Duh Duh Durden?

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BRB, moving all my pension investments over to guillotines.

I'm luckier, I last 20 minutes, then inattentive ADHD draws a blanket over whatever's being said. But if I'm painting, I last for hours...

I associate it with Pynchon's Imipolex G, addictive to touch.

Happy bioexplosion day!

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Send Vonnegut, he might get an envelope while he's out.

I'm not even going to volunteer. You have every bloody narrative designer in the world in the comments. Go for the weird ones!

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Ahhh! I've only ever seen it tiny and thought it was a drawing! Ahhh!

Ah, congrats! Also, that's the first time I've seen a real picture of you and you look just lovely <3.

Don't you FUCKING DARE correct that again and ruin all my best jokes.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 29/09/2026

"...the iconic character is a ‘orrible ratcatcher with that small and viscous dog." Heinrich: "What's with the dog, Karl?" Karl: "It's thick and just won't go with the flow."

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The entire of Heaven Vault’s spoken language was built this way. Eg “Maersi” has a translation which shares syllables with “Elasra”, Aliya’s surname, enabling the decipherment of the true meaning of “Heavens Vault” in Book 4. Maersi is “Mars with a few more vowels”. (Iox is Io with an X on it)

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ZEPHON players live to troll me.

A massive structure representing ZEPHON lore, resting on a single tiny column labelled "a writer who thought Amoetia sounded cool."

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Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

oh to be held by carrier 💔

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gril @funambulism.com · 28/09/2026

Nu, but you’re going to write it anyway? Do YOU think The Strangers was your best piece?

Steve Will Shan @stevewillshan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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I remember when this Far Side comic was just a joke way back then.

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gril @funambulism.com · 26/09/2026

Forseeing your next book being Kind Hearts & Coronets but with the bestseller list and thinly veiled contemporaries…

gril @funambulism.com · 24/09/2026

Aw, that was my idea! couldn’t work out we could get all that gorgeous background into the game otherwise!

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Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

”Hello! Before you start playing, please be aware that this game‘s budget was less than a AAA studio spends on coffeee in a year. Okay? We tried. Let the game begin…”

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gril @funambulism.com · 24/09/2026

(You jest, but I suspect you might actually be right on the coffee budget.)

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gril @funambulism.com · 24/09/2026

Ha, get the same thing on our 4X games, especially the 40K one which is judged against Dawn of War or Total Warhammer. It’s a compliment that we can pass as the same kind of creation at all!

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The shortlived Qin dynasty produced a wealth of richly coloured art, something the successor Han dynasty was never quite able to match, thanks to poor Han-dye coordination.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

1) their boss barely works & mostly plays golf 2) they buy ten companies at a time 3) they buy a nice office with a sign and crew up to a few hundred people 4) they sell the companies to someone bigger for 20-30x the amount paid 5) they shutter the ones that don't sell

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gril @funambulism.com · 23/09/2026

Congratulations! BTW, are you submitting for BAFTA this year? Or IGF?

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?

Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven’t reported this, perhaps because they don’t think it’s noteworthy. It’s as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.

If you’re scratching your head at this “news,” well, it’s because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors’ identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world’s public honors (and so much else), shouldn’t you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right’s efforts to politicize the arts, won’t you also object when the efforts come from the left?

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the current hiring discourse is reminding me of the hard-won lesson that if someone is extremely technically skilled but an obstinate arrogant nightmare to work with, they will absolutely be a net negative to your project or kill it. you can train someone you work with but you cannot socialize them

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published

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I fell in love with a motorhome I rented for the same reason. Lovely big girl with these huge mirrors like jug ears, but she swooshed that big boot around like a dream.

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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Also the musketball line. Excellent.

“a retro pastiche of tropes” is such a KG throwaway

Go on holiday! Quick! It’ll be years until you can enjoy one properly again…