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Harriet Prebble

@harrietprebble.bsky.social
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Horror gameslinger @ PikPok Games. Actor @ Gail Cowan Management & BigMouth Voices. Freelance writer at various. Aotearoa New Zealand 💗🌵 linktr.ee/harrietprebble

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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Two poems of mine in the latest issue of Landfall Tauraka published by Otago University Press. First time seeing my work in print in a real bookstore. Chuffed.
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The high of getting through your shotlist AND extras and finishing on time 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼
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NZ CODE @nz-code.nz · 31/03/2026
Travel Grant Round 8 is now open for Expressions of Interest. This round is targeting Gamescom, with other events allowed. Given the current situation with flights, we have risen the cap for Gamescom cohort travel for $14,000 for two people. Details here. www.nz-code.nz/funding
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Funding | CODE
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🦇 Hexavier 🎃 @xavierck.com · 15/03/2024
Once again begging you to stop saying "content" and "consume" in relation to art, literature, performance, and anything you aren't literally eating, drinking, or stuffing into a box for storage
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
One, two, three, four! I declare a peaknuckle war!
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Hear hear. www.polygon.com/game-awards-...
polygon.com
It’s time for The Game Awards to add a Best Horror Game category
Why doesn't the biggest awards show in gaming honor one of its most popular genres?
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Our game is nominated for Most Anticipated at the Unity Awards this year 🥰
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Gematsu @gematsu.com · 28/10/2025
Fixed camera survival horror game The Florist announced for consoles, PC New Zealand-based studio Unclear Games has announced The Florist, a fixed camera survival horror game coming to unspecified consoles and PC via Steam in 2026.
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Fixed camera survival horror game The Florist announced for consoles, PC
New Zealand-based studio Unclear Games has announced The Florist, a fixed camera survival horror game coming to unspecified consoles and PC via Steam in 2026.
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
“Everyone has their own method of coping, some more effective, or self-destructive, than others...” He gives you a meaningful look.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/09/2025
“Workaholics are addicted to the solace they find in extreme fatigue; it’s like the high that a marathon runner might get in her last mile,” Weike Wang writes, in an essay on work.
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Notes on Work
There’s a masochistic pride to overworking. How heavy a workload can I truly handle? How many plates can I keep in the air?
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NZ Game Developers Association @nzgda.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Keynote Speakers!! ✨ David Gaider & Liam Essler, Co-founders, Summerfall Studios ✨ The Seasons of Summerfall. Hear the story of Summerfall Studios through the lens of two of its founders, at NZGDC 2025! Get your tickets now: www.nzgdc.com
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/07/2023
Doctor: Great job, you've been born. You're a natural. Now, press [A] repeatedly to cry. Right, just like that. As a baby, crying is one of your most useful abilities
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/08/2025
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told reporters that Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost the plot” in the Gaza war. Luxon is facing calls for his government to recognise the state of Palestine.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/08/2025
another way in which LLMs make me feel like an alien as compared to their many fans: I find their default fawning conversational tone to be intensely, viscerally repulsive and suspicious.
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die -- or overcome it.
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Jess McAllen @jessmcallen.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
someone should write an essay on how we've gone backwards on a very elementary understanding of what sexism is, to the point where ppl are missing the subtle and unequal ways it is wielded & just think it's like bugs bunny heart eyes at a broad
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The second might work.
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
One of the biggest culture shocks for me travelling to smaller towns in rural USA was coming across places where you’d have to drive for hours to get fresh produce. Like whaddya mean there’s nowhere that sells fruit and veges?
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 08/08/2025
Environmental storytelling.
Street sign for Horneytown Rd. Under is a second sign that says "This sign has RFID and GPS tracking"
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Two of the best.
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Oh man. That’s depressing.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 06/08/2025
A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.
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Former 'Alligator Alcatraz' worker describes 'inhumane' conditions inside
In an exclusive report, NBC6 spoke with a former corrections officer who says she saw hundreds held in cages with no sunlight, backed up toilets and little access to showers.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Stanford has not always conducted itself honorably as an institution, but I am daily awed by the levels of principle and commitment that exist among our students.
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
“Remember when "selling out" meant something? Gen Xers threw that accusation around like a moral hand grenade. The whole concept rested on a clear line between authentic artistic expression and commercial compromise.” oliverbatemandoesthework.substack.com/p/the-work-o...
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The Work of Plagiarism and the Work of Selling Out
When everyone's a thief and everyone's for sale, the words lose their sting
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I do sometimes complain about New Zealand feeling boring but it has its upsides. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/05/p...
newsroom.co.nz
Police fired their guns just three times last year
New data shows police are drawing their weapons more frequently than in the past, even as firearm and Taser discharges remain rare
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
When even Chris Finlayson is criticising National...
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Leah J. Williams @legenette.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
umbrella (formerly umbrella entertainment), distributor of very cool 4K blu-rays and local films, has announced a new wing dedicated to video games
screenhub.com.au
Australian film distributor Umbrella expands into game publishing
Umbrella, one of ANZ's leading film distribution companies, has officially announced a new game publishing wing, Umbrella Gaming.
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This is fucked up.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
“Bluntly: Making healthy cognitive choices is hard. In a culture saturated with more accessible and engrossing forms of entertainment, long-form literacy may soon become the domain of elite subcultures.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
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Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 05/08/2025
“A.I.-driven propaganda is no longer a hypothetical future threat. It is operational, sophisticated and already reshaping how public opinion can be manipulated on a large scale,” write Brett Goldstein and Brett Benson.
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Opinion | The Era of A.I. Propaganda Has Arrived, and America Must Act
Documents show that GoLaxy has emerged as a leader in technologically advanced, state-aligned influence campaigns.
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
People are drawing horny fan art of our video game. As a former horny fan art practitioner, this is a very exciting time.
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Maybe I should get her to sign an NDA.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon
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dfm @cthonicyouth.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
From a coastal ice cream shop - but on a rainy day #udo
An overcast view of a shore with a picnic table nearby
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I’m at four. Just to spread out the yapping.
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I don’t know where I’d be without my group chats to crash out in.
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Mike Laidlaw @mikelaidlaw.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?” No. Fuck you. I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/01/l...
newsroom.co.nz
Large-scale layoffs at Wētā FX ‘imminent’
Hundreds of staff, both permanent and contracted, are expected to be impacted by the job losses
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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
NEW ZEALAND: “Live: Tsunami activity expected in NZ after 8.8 quake near Russia” www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5... - RNZ #NewZealand #Tsunami #Wellington
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Live: Tsunami activity expected in NZ after 8.8 quake near Russia
The 8.8 earthquake, the world's strongest in at least 14 years, and has also seen parts of Hawaii ordered to urgently evacuate.
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We've got a rare and exciting opening for a Junior Audio Designer here at PikPok in Wellington, New Zealand. Entry level roles in the games industry are rare and the audio team are particularly rad so get applying and we can make beautiful stuff together. apply.workable.com/pikpok/j/4BB...
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Junior Audio Designer - PikPok
Who we are:We love games, so we make games people love to play! Since 1997, PikPok has developed games for mobile, console, and PC that have engaged and delighted players with high quality art, immers...
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I think about this one often. From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379 #poem #books #writing
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Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Also my experience with Joni Mitchell. Her singing irritated me until it really, really didn’t.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
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