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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 17/09/2026

It's such a joy to receive a new draft of art you commissioned If suddenly rich i'll go full Medici A "bank error in your favor" sitch Monopoly taught us this happens often

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 11/09/2026

First week with the baby in daycare. Wow so much more is possible. Actually catching up on some projects feels wild

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 27/08/2026

I wrote a couple of short entries for this cool book!

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 27/08/2026

A few years ago I used a cool online tool to make 3D mockups of all the books. Problem is, grayscale somehow breaks the tool. So every book worked but Shovel Knight, Minesweeper, & Silent Hill 2.

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 25/06/2026

"I’ve got great reflexes. That’s because at least once a day when I was growing up, my dad yelled 'think fast!' and without any notice tossed me an object, big or small, and I’d struggle to catch it." drboring.substack.com/p/think-fast...

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 25/06/2026

Cutting emdashes is letting the robots win

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 07/06/2026

the word saddened i am saddened i am officially saddened it has come to my attention that i am saddened

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 04/06/2026

Here's a Simpsons reference I didn't get til this week, even though it's from a S7 episode, Homer the Smithers, that I watched many times. It's part of the fast moving montage that gave us "I asked for light starch on my nightcap" and "you call this a supercomputer?" #simpsons #postum

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 20/05/2026

"To comfort me, my mom popped off her prosthetic leg and let me take it with me into class." From a little story, LEG MOM. New stories weekly. drboring.substack.com/p/leg-mom-ca...

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Leg Mom (Calmly Refusing to Age, #4)

**serialized weekly **

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 19/05/2026

In nonfic it can be useful to drop in occasional reminders of the fallibility of memory: "I dunno," X added. "I might be getting it wrong. It was a long time ago." Inoculating writer & reader against the illusion that everything is perfectly verifiable, even as we all do our best.

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 19/05/2026

Today I was filling out a form to get new daughter a birth certificate, and was so stumped by the question, "Why do you want this birth certificate?"

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 11/05/2026

The baby arrived last week! @emmafyffe.bsky.social is recovering well & little Maisie Rose is doing great. The baby is getting some UV treatment for jaundice that should wrap up in a couple days, and from there we'll focus on fattening her up

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 01/05/2026

Where my Dan Harumi heads? Been getting a lot of wisdom from this guy lately. I listen in podcast form but he's on everything. www.youtube.com/@danharumi1/...

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Dan Harumi

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 21/04/2026

Having to now manually screen orders because of an influx of people buying our cheapest ebook to (most likely) test out stolen credit card numbers. If I don't screen, their bank holds us liable and charges me a scam penalty, which happened last week. WILD that this is how commerce works!

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 21/04/2026

Today, a free excerpt of our latest book. Thanks to @rcmacleod.bsky.social & @aftermath.site for publishing it!

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Pixels and Polygons 🔜 PRGE @pixelsandpolygons.net · 20/04/2026

New book review is up over on my Patreon. This is, as always, FREE to read for everyone. Come and check out my thoughts on The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask by @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com from @bossfightbooks.com. Spoiler alert: it’s great. www.patreon.com/posts/156053...

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BOOK REVIEW - Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask | Pixels and Polygons

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 15/04/2026

It is with a heavy heart that I put AMC A-list on ice in anticipation of my child's birth. Likely to be reinstated just in time for the 2029 release of The Super Mario Multiverse Movie, film's most ruthless reference machine yet

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Gaming Ray @gamingray.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just finished yet another excellent entry in the @bossfightbooks.com collection Majora’s Mask by @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com Reminding us that heroism is not just fighting monsters, but also helping those around us with the limited time we have. Empathy. bossfightbooks.com/products/the...

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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask by Gabe Durham

Release Date: October 26, 2020 192 pages ISBN: 978-1-940535-26-5 You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you? Those grim words hang over the entirety of Majora Mask, the sixth entry in the Legend o...

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 13/04/2026

Recently I was on a podcast -- all went fine til the very end when they asked, "Anything else that you want people to know?" My brain went all cosmic zoom-out: Who am I to demand anyone know anything? LONG PAUSE full of hmms and stalling that I was sure they'd cut. They left it all in.

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Boss Fight Books @bossfightbooks.com · 13/04/2026

New reader survey! This one asks the big question: What if Boss Fight moves off Kickstarter to instead offer preorders on our own site? This would be a big change for us, so we'd love to hear from you. docs.google.com/forms/d/1vjt...

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Boss Fight Books: Moving the party from Kickstarter to our own web store.

Hey Everybody: Boss Fight Books is considering moving preorders away from Kickstarter, and we want to hear from you about it! For the curious, I'll share our rationale for the proposed change: 1. S...

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 30/03/2026

Genuinely inspired by how much of our stockpile of baby stuff is from friends a year or two ahead of us. Feels like community over capitalism. It'll be fun to pass it on to the next parents as Tiny Daughter grows up

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 24/03/2026

I'd be curious to have conversations with folks who've successfully weaned off crowdfunding. I think I'm finally getting to the point where we'd do even better without it, which is exciting but scary!

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 14/03/2026

Look at this poem REAL OR CAKE by Emily Chan in Diagram: thediagram.com/25_4/chan.html

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 09/03/2026

Going through your website & repairing old links is important, BORING work. Grateful every day for Internet Archive, though

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 22/02/2026

My book BIBLE ADVENTURES is the primary source for a 6-minute chunk of the new Jacob Geller video. Well-cited, too!

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 19/02/2026

Here's my impression of someone on substack SO excited to savagely refute an opponent: Interestingly,

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Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

My texts with Gabe these past weeks have been equal parts SUPER MARIO GALAXY book updates and “oh wow, we’re gonna be dads soon”

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 18/02/2026

Last summer two days before we moved into a fixer-upper condo in need of big work, we discovered my wife @emmafyffe.bsky.social is pregnant. We're just recklessly speedrunning milestones over here

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 31/12/2025

My book's first print run of 2000 copies took 5 years to sell through, but it did! Not bad for a book I was too pandemic-depressed to promote much when it came out. A second run of 1000 copies is with the printers now. Probably good for another 5 years, I'd bet?

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 17/11/2025

Last night at dinner Emma asked a kid what's her favorite movie. She said Zootopia 2. We said "but that's not out yet." She said, "Yeah, but I've got a good feeling about it." So now my favorite movie is also Zootopia 2

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“Da” Podcast @fingastylz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

A brand new episode of “Da” Podcast is now available as I welcome back the founder of @bossfightbooks.com Gabe Durham. We talk about magazines, Japan, Star Wars, upcoming projects and so much more! linktr.ee/fingastylz #podcasts

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Boss Fight Books @bossfightbooks.com · 04/08/2025

Our campaign for books about DRAGON AGE II, LIFE IS STRANGE, & LEGEND OF THE RIVER KING ends tomorrow! Subscribe to preorder all three books. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gab... @aeneas-nin.bsky.social @kaittremblay.bsky.social @charlottereber.com

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Boss Fight Books: Season 8 - The Depths Below

Three documentary-style books on classic video games. #1: Legend of the River King. #2: Life is Strange. #3: Dragon Age II.

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Boss Fight Books @bossfightbooks.com · 15/07/2025

The next book in our new season funding on Kickstarter: LIFE IS STRANGE by Kaitlin Tremblay (@kaittremblay.bsky.social), a deep dive the 2015 time travel adventure game. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gab... #lifeisstrange #maxcaulfield #dontnod #squareenix #videogame

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Boss Fight Books: Season 8 - The Depths Below

Three documentary-style books on classic video games. #1: Legend of the River King. #2: Life is Strange. #3: ???

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 20/06/2025

@emmafyffe.bsky.social & I got to celebrate @dateeverythinggame.bsky.social last week, met their talented lead artist & dozens of voice actors. Congrats on a great game, y’all!

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Jon Irwin @winwinirwin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

And read @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com’s book about it!

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Steven Ray Morris @stevenraymorris.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

‘Tis but a splash at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire 💦💦💦 @emmafyffe.bsky.social @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com @bsinitials.bsky.social

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 26/02/2025

Mixed feelings about sharing this, but an early unfinished version of my favorite band's abandoned 4th album has finally leaked, and it's glorious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4p4... (Listen... but also give Aeon Station & Car Colors all your money!)

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The Wrens - Album 4.5 (2014 Demo)

YouTube video by Noah Meunier

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 22/01/2025

Appreciate it when youtubers take citation seriously. Hold up that book baybee youtu.be/7b3WUbKeG-g?...

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 20/01/2025

Thanks to Matt Barton for having me on Matt Chat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNTP... An hour and 11 mins in, I casually dream up a @digitaleclipse.bsky.social release called "ZX Spectrum 50" so we yanks can delve into a catalogue we missed entirely.

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MC545: Gabe Durham

YouTube video by Matt Barton

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Emma Fyffe @emmafyffe.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you’re looking for more #Castlevania this weekend, my husband wrote a cool article on the localization of “Symphony of the Night” for @polygon.com. www.polygon.com/gaming/50682...

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night’s notorious English translation didn’t need fixing

The notorious localization effort is closer to art than a flub

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Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com · 17/01/2025

One of my most satisfying creative projects was my tiktok, drboring, where I told stories from a massive series. Was such a dynamic way to try out drafts, connect with weirdos, and making a persistent case for an aesthetic. Videomaking as counterprogramming Archive: www.youtube.com/@drboring/sh...

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drboring

Wild stories. Always fiction. Follow me here or @drboring on TikTok.

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Cam Daxon @camdaxon.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I looooove this. Boss Fight Books are basically comfort reads to me and their EIC @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com is extremely good at what he does! Wonderful article, thank you @polygon.com

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