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hiruncryer.bsky.social

@hiruncryer.bsky.social
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Gamedev. Recovering journo. I don’t like it here. hirun dot cryer at gmail dot com

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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Needy, bratty (not in the charli xcx way), not a good decision in sight
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
yo
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Dragons Dogma Dd2
ALT: Dragons Dogma Dd2
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/10/2026
Commentary: All Right, All Right, You Guys Have Won Me Over, by Osama bin Laden theonion.com/all-right-all-right-yo…
Commentary: All Right, All Right, You Guys Have Won Me Over, by Osama bin Laden
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m the last person to get defensive about british shit, but an italian judging WW2 things coming back is pretty funny
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ubisoft Milan and Ubisoft Barcelona Mobile are both on strike this week, as workers continue to push back against the company's decision to scrap work from home. Read our report here (it's a Patreon link, but open to everyone): www.patreon.com/PeopleMakeGa...
patreon.com
Ubisoft workers go on strike, again | People Make Games
Note from PMG: We were contacted a couple of weeks ago about an upcoming strike taking place across two Ubisoft studios. This is a significa
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m sure this will involve forgiving israel somehow
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Norway win isn’t enough I need to see Bernardo Silva’s knees explode on the pitch
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this
My dad used to work with Ted Bundy at the University of Utah and every Friday my dad would say, "See ya Monday-Bundy" and I can't imagine how much Ted actually thought about murdering him for
it.
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The fuck???
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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Important paragraph. This seems to me like cleaning up public image more than any serious step towards stopping support for Israel and until stated otherwise by BDS, the boycott should continue
According to Globes, Microsoft's exclusion from the Israeli government's "Nimbus" deal with Google and Amazon in 2021 has limited its relationship with the state, though it is allegedly looking to renew its contract with Israel's Ministry of Defense when it expires this year.
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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
jess is right! it’s worse than ever for women in this field, and it was still pretty bad at our peak. im one of the lucky freelancers who has regular work (probably work more than i did at polygon!), and it’s still not a livable amount of pay. it’s pushing important and skilled women out.
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As Xbox swings the axe, Gears of War: E-Day developers fear they'll be laid off straight after launch - and right before they'd be due their bonuses. "It's hard to believe anything they say anymore," Coalition devs tell Eurogamer. www.eurogamer.net/the-coalitio...
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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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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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have read the NYT piece on Sharma and we have her acknowledging the need for "disruption" and "clarity" without providing any tangible solutions to the challenges facing Xbox. That's alongside a paragraph claiming Xbox's chief strategy officer has been 'tutoring' reporters. Whatever that means?
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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the past week reminds me of this @lopatto.bsky.social piece about *just how much* of the past several years has been shaped by powerful men dismantling the court of public opinion, because it was the last court they might face any consequences in
theverge.com
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah there’s like nothing, and I can’t work out if that says more about FW’s characters or just the change in social media platforms
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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i love that every journalism job right now is "train the evil robot vizier for $500 an hour" or "write thousands of words in the hope that valnet's goblins will throw you a few nickels" that's really great
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
guys cutting edge zuck AI is just humans doing tasks for you in call centers
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Watched Hope! That wasn’t a good film!
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 21/09/2026
idk man it's chickenshit behavior to write about Erika Ishii's employment anywhere as being "controversial." They have done literally nothing wrong at all and the only people mad at them are the same people mad at Horizon for designing women "ugly"
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Elizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
just read the news and smile and show up to meetings and smile and continue to make video games and smile and run 1:1s and smile and deliver reports and smile and read the news again and smile and get laid off and smile and watch friends get laid off and smile and watch every collapse around you and
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Only 1k+ layoffs to go in a 'reset' that is lasting months interspersed with the Kojima deal and pieces highlighting the CEO taking on support tickets. I would say all this does not fill one with confidence of success. But that relies on knowing the real end goal and that still seems up in the air.
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The gang’s all here!
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everything I’ve heard and learned about this studio over the last few days sounds increasingly insane
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Resident Evil is a banger and if you don’t like it you’re a big baby
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Same! Was just thinking this earlier on the back of like the third dungeon in an hour
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think people should question why xbox had dollars for Kojima’s latest ballooning project and not fucking double fine or tango
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Still included in the boycott 👍
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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
*explaining fire emblem* so it’s like chess but with personified pieces, every eight years one comes out and it’s the greatest story ever told, then halfway through that time period they release another one where the main character is the Colgate man
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He’s excited for Fire Emblem time
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
The reason Kanye is allowed to continue to work & Macklemore isn’t is because the people making these decisions don’t care about preventing antisemitism they care about protecting settler colonialism.
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“The person is sick and you go to work, you come back and their soul has left this world. There is a sense of ineluctability in that situation that I thought was moving. As a player you feel in control and indestructible. And then you feel the gut punch of realizing your old mentor has just died"
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The classroom! I remember that, very fun setting
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There’s a bit that didn’t make it in here where Dinga Bakaba beautifully reflects on Daud’s death. Might see if I can dig it up
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy birthday Death of the Outsider, you’re almost old enough for big school www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-making-o...
rockpapershotgun.com
The making of Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider, and how Arkane killed a god
Hirun Cryer interviews some of the narrative team on Death Of The Outsider - including Harvey Smith, Dinga Bakaba, Sandra Duval - to learn how you kill a god
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
😊 www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-making-o...
rockpapershotgun.com
The making of Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider, and how Arkane killed a god
Hirun Cryer interviews some of the narrative team on Death Of The Outsider - including Harvey Smith, Dinga Bakaba, Sandra Duval - to learn how you kill a god
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Embarrassing time to be a Resident Evil fan. You get the director of Barbarian and Weapons trying something new (in a game series that's reinvented itself twice) and half the fanbase are mad the zombies run
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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Me when the writing is coming out really easily: This can't be good. Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.
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hiruncryer.bsky.social @hiruncryer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
King of the Cosmos or gtfo
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Lizzy (attack regardless of target) @icecreamjones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
its BlizzCon, you know what that means bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...
bdsmovement.net
Boycott Microsoft's Xbox
Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza – which is why Microsoft is a now pr...
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