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Hamlette

@hamlette.bsky.social
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Genderfluid, Pronouns: any. WLW/NBLW, ENM. Very neurodivergent. 40+. Sentient hyper-optimized data access network. Infected Activist. I took what you gave willingly. By day: Principal Game Designer. Personal opinions/comments.

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☀️ @stel.energy · 01/09/2026
i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Police don’t need these. I need these
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The ADHD test was honestly one of the easier rhythm games I've played
This individual's Auditory Persistence quotient scale score of 160 (PR=99) fell in the exceptional range. Her score on the Auditory Persistence scale showed a significant speed-up in her auditory reaction time after the end of the main IVA-2 test period. This exceptional score on the Persistence scale is considered indicative of a more positive and motivated attitude toward the IVA-2 test than that of most of her peers. Given that her Auditory Stamina quotient score fell in the exceptional range, she was not identified by the test as being mentally fatigued in her ability to respond to auditory stimuli. This pattern of responding suggests that she does not get fatigued easily when required to process auditory stimuli.
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Bungie friends: you deserve better. We as gamedevs deserve better. The industry deserves better.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I am aware of the effect that I have on women
Incoming texts: “Nice. You look like you could kill me”
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 19/05/2026
i’m gonna keep this folded up in my pocket like i’m kevin costner in DRAFT DAY
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I am aware of the effect that I have on women
Incoming texts: “Nice. You look like you could kill me”
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Asking her if she would be able to ask the server what the “pup seasoning” in the dog meal is—a normal question that a normal person could conceivably ask for normal reasons—without giving herself away. And she says, no, there’s no way she could. Not with the collar on.
“Doggie meal” entry in restaurant menu
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Same for the story, also. It’s both: —At atmospheric and surreal homage to the 19th century horror book The King In Yellow —The most Videogames treatment possible of a straight man whose only visible motivation is obsession with an offscreen woman So, you know, it depends on what’s important to you
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time
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Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Killing of Trans Man Lucas RedBeard Knapp in Rural New Mexico Teaches Us About Visibility – Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents
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The Killing of Trans Man Lucas RedBeard Knapp in Rural New Mexico Teaches Us About Visibility – Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents
The Killing of Trans Man Lucas RedBeard Knapp in Rural New Mexico Teaches Us About Visibility
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Boss 2 down (1-shot 💪🏽). Man, Saros and Returnal are so weird. A kind of…semi-rogue structure that…does it make sense actually? Some upgrades and stats and whatnot that are, like, fine? Run variance but just…a little? And then shooting and dodging and enemies that you can’t stop going back to again.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A few mins late clicking on a work meeting because I was in the middle of the first major boss of Saros. Eveything turned out fine though. I won.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Ruiner. When I saw them live last fall, Ruiner was a piano solo—which was cool, but I honestly did miss the album arrangement.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I have no opinion on this. I will not be tricked into mocking or humiliating a cis man on the internet for free.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Whenever something similar to this (player-perceived power being a one-way ratchet) came up on WoW, I called it "the flying problem". Basically, whatever new thing you want to try or change you want to accomplish, players can't be less able to fly than they were in 2007.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'm a game designer, and glimpsing his game show made me realize he doesn't entirely grasp the concept of a game show. So I imagine an employment lawyer must look at him and realize he probably doesn't understand exactly, in a important sense, what an "employee" is. It's reverse Gell-Mann amnesia.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Saving this to use in my gaming sub-hobby of trying to get my friends to play Outer Wilds
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There’s a trap that happens to early access games, which is that making any element harder spawns enormous backlash. Famous example is Darkest Dungeon. I’d kind of imagined STS2 would be immune to this, but I suppose I don’t know why exactly I thought so. youtu.be/Os5uLJbcDP8?...
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I Read Chinese Reviews to Understand Slay the Spire 2’s Backlash
YouTube video by wayshush
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The first time a lesbian says directly to your face “I like older women” is a lot of things to reckon with all at once
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy lesbian visibility day
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Obligatory note, of course, that also it wouldn’t matter anyway if trans women were really good at sports. If we have women’s sports, I tend to imagine that women who are good at sports are people that we want to have participating.
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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 27/04/2026
Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me
Discord message “you are a very dangerous, very hot woman”
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
“Why must life be so hard? Why must I fail in every attempt at masonry?”
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Even now (almost 20 years later) this makes me feel better about not getting a federal clerkship while I was at HLS (Like, I knew about FedSoc before this post, but just reading it put this way is cathartic)
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14/04/2026
The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...
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It's the Prices, Stupid
Consumer sentiment is at an all-time low because prices are at an all-time high. Consumer sentiment isn't broken, popular government data is just incomplete
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
fine
The reason we have a lot of dad games, aside from the other reasons people have mentioned, is that ultimately it fits really well with the first or third person action adventure genre in that it takes however much of your time you choose and then you can put it down and go do whatever else you want, having had the experience of Having Parented
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gains @gains-skeets.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
fell down a rabbit hole, apparently the most thorough guides for Baldur's Gate 1&2 are written by a woman who has been thoroughly blogging all her video game opinions since the 1980s. she gave Baldur's Gate 3 a 2.1/10 rating and scathingly calls it a reddit RPG lilura1.blogspot.com/2024/01/Redd...
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Reddit RPG Games and RPG Game Remakes
Criticism of Reddit RPG Games and Remakes.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Nice A10 win in flight. The remove-Exhaust event seems to somewhat commonly be a bit silly, perhaps
STS2 screenshot, killing final boss with Sovereign BladeSTS2 victory screen, showing an Ascension 10 win on Regent
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I’m playing it right now in the airport
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For folks who watch indie game industry news, Slay the Spire 2, in early access, outsold the *lifetime earnings* of Hades 2 AND Silksong in its first two weeks alone. Soft estimates suggest they are on track to make $250M over the next 12 months; a new record high for the Godot engine.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Gate 52 at LAX iykyk 🙄😵‍💫
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I use em-dashes and lists of three things and overly long sentences. But there’s no way I’m going to give them up for fear of being mistaken for AI. I’ve simply started making sure all of my documents contain a synthesis for methamphetamine.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I use em-dashes and lists of three things and overly long sentences. But there’s no way I’m going to give them up for fear of being mistaken for AI. I’ve simply started making sure all of my documents contain a synthesis for methamphetamine.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
tbh watching cis people get arrested on trans people's behalf is more heartening than I would have realized. It often feels like it's just us, when the going gets tough. If private businesses risk themselves to continue to allow trans people use of the correct restroom, it'll mean a lot too.
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is so, so well-articulated.
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Alright, I’ll be visible. Openly, it’s hard to celebrate “visibility” without discussing how the original idea, visibility from cis people, has become something of a curse by now. But visibility between trans people is more important to seek out than ever, and this day should be about finding it.
Mirror selfie, clear mirror, no makeup, T-shirt reading “END TRANS GENOCIDE”
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
My partner and I haven’t missed beat since our days A20 Silent spam. A10 Silent in STS2 has felt right at home. Fun and silly run from tonight:
Slay The Spire 2 run summary screen showing a successful Ascension 10 Silent clear
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
most of the time you don’t want true randomness and/or simulation in a game. you think you do but you’re wrong and will get mad at us if you get it.
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
@jorbs.bsky.social I agree with, I think, all your thoughts about Doormaker and what it adds. But it doesn’t add up to being a favorite boss for me. I think the randomness in the cards you lose still bugs me. >
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Dana Nightingale 🏳️‍⚧️ @danaenight.northsky.social · 25/03/2026
based on actual interactions
XKCD "experts" comic/meme:

"[transition healthcare] is second nature to us [trans people,] so it's easy to forget that the average [cis friend] probably only knows that hormone replacement therapy stimulates breast growth."
"And [realizes when we've had FFS] of course."
"Of course"

Even when they're trying to compensate for it, [trans women] wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their [healthcare].
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
what is alternative? forcing folks to enjoy the art of those who hurt them? THEY DONT LIKE IT. someone saying 'your choices harm me so i dont like your creations and i dont like you' is not offensive, it is the most basic use of human autonomy and it is SO bizarre when folks argue otherwise
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/03/2026
"please understand this entire 7,000+ word post as one primal scream issued into the void at the careless, unnecessary folly of the decision to launch an ill-considered war without considering the obvious, nearly inevitable negative outcomes which would occur" acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...
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Miscellanea: The War in Iran
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…
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Hamlette @hamlette.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Nvidia: From now on, _every_ game character can have pouty lips and a contour Me: …aha. And…what did we pay for this again? N: The RAM Me: It takes all of my RAM? N: Oh, no, no. All of _the_ RAM
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