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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 1h

while we are talking about all this can I also just say ban all fraternities already

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 5h

remember that your presence is a gift and it's not fair to have unknowingly wasted it on people that don't deserve you 🫂

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 5h

between this and the cornell stuff coming back up this week, idk. Probably worth remembering that someone you know surely had a similar experience in college and that this stuff even being in the news is making their life harder

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 5h

tough to read. pretty triggering. really sorry for anyone and everyone affected by the constant painful reminders that this is the reality we live in

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 5h

sorry I had it saved and have been waiting for the right time to repost

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

you don’t have to wait til a company does layoffs to have an adversarial relationship with it. it is weird to see games journalism do this Lucy and football routine when we all know how these companies work

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 11h

an emulation handheld + these things feels like a life hack

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 12h

beyond worth the $1 to access!!!

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 12h

New from me: I did a deep dive and spoke to Pokemon fan game creators for @fansplaining.bsky.social. This was so hard to source, but I am humbled by the sources who took the time to talk to me about this super massive, and relatively under-examined, fandom. fansplaining.com/pokemon-fang...

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Pokémon Fangames Evolve Beyond Their Origins

For fangame creators, the work they develop and the communities they inspire are inextricably tied.

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 12h

“She arrived for lunch at the Modern in a suede jacket despite the sweltering heat and wildfire smoke outside. Alongside her was Craig Cincotta, a corporate attaché in a fedora." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/a...

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Xbox’s Millennial C.E.O., Asha Sharma, Isn’t Playing Around (Gift Article)

“I think the industry will require disruption,” said Asha Sharma, who has overseen layoffs and divested studios since inheriting Microsoft’s flailing video game division.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 30/09/2026

listen this one is also an incredible piece of writing though

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 29/09/2026

it's been such a long day and I fell so behind on grading papers (lmao) I would probably pay $300 to watch the Lanterns finale right now (I am weak)

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 29/09/2026

Witcher 3 on Switch 2 a bit uglier than I expected?? Obviously a big jump from Switch 1, but I feel like there's a lot of room for improvement here

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 29/09/2026

We have to bring back [laid-off gaming brand consisting of seven white guys a corporation spent years funding to convince us they were the faces of gaming]

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 29/09/2026

feels downstream of a culture where writers believe all the answers can be found in games themselves. If games are your primary cultural and intellectual reference point, that narrowness limits your ability to situate them within a larger social world or participate meaningfully in that world at all

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 29/09/2026

if I ever glaze anything this hard please don't tell my wife

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 29/09/2026

here's what i will say: i read every word of this piece

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 29/09/2026

no no you guys have just never seen an Eagles game before we have them right where we want them

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 29/09/2026

if you like Haikyu at all you just gotta check this thing out

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 29/09/2026

just played seven off folklore and holy shit man what happened

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 29/09/2026

Taylor Swift is real life Don Quixote it's awesome

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 28/09/2026

standing and clapping for Lanterns again this week huh

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 26/09/2026

The control scheme is QWOP-esque. It's like patting your head and rubbing your tummy at the same time. A lot of precision but your hands are gonna get tied up lol

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 26/09/2026

go to Steam and play this as soon as possible

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 25/09/2026

frankly it's a miracle i haven't rewritten this blog 100 times to each and every one of you

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 25/09/2026

Use the Nintendo Switch 2 microphone to VOICE COMMAND your Pokémon! Hopped on my poketuber friend's channel to pitch him on a gimmick I would love to see in Winds & Waves. youtu.be/NdryPuyBgfI?...

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The Next Pokémon Gimmick

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 25/09/2026

Funny how much the idea that YOU HAVE TO "beat" (lol) a game to review it is coming up because you just super don't. criticism doesn’t require exhaustive experience; it requires sufficient experience for the claims being made. (as long as you are not an objectivity/verdict pervert)

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 25/09/2026

this was such a smart and resonant conversation, a zillion percent recommend (although if you’re watching final fantasy cutscenes on 1.25x you should honestly just watch them on youtube rather than bother trying to ‘play’ the game)

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 25/09/2026

Required viewing! Educational and important work

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/09/2026

quick find every stranger you can on here with a jewish sounding name and ask them to clarify if they have allegiance to Israel

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/09/2026

You are proving my point. You are not an ally. I urge you to look inward. My politics are clear to anyone familiar with my content, but I don't need the support of people like you investigating anyone with my last name www.newarab.com/news/twitch-... jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/being-an-a...

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Twitch sparks calls for boycott after labelling Zionist as racial slur

Pro-Palestine users online have expressed their frustration with the popular livestreaming app after issuing its latest policy to include banning 'Zionist'.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/09/2026

You see a Jew and think there might be a connection to Israel to investigate. That is antisemitism. There are vastly more Christian Zionists in America than there are Jews, yet somehow I doubt you demand random Christians disavow Israel before deciding whether their existence is acceptable to you

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/09/2026

Jesus Christ people be trying to watch this huh

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/09/2026

There’s something strange about being told a game “gets good after 40 hours” by someone who managed to play 40 hours of it in less than a week. At that point, I’m not sure the 40 hours are evidence that the game eventually won them over. It's evidence that the game had them from the beginning.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/09/2026

i just texted this to christopher nolan

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“How many hours in did that person’s review of the game stop changing?” Banger

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Grayson Morley @graysonmorley.com · 24/09/2026

For anyone hoping I wouldn’t talk about running, I’m sorry to disappoint. Thanks to @jakesteinberg.substack.com for inviting me on the pod.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/09/2026

"40 HOURS until it gets good?!?" Aren't we just getting the opinions of people who have ravenously consumed a game and eliminating those that bounced off? What does duration tell us about critical perspective? CRITICAL ERROR PODCAST: youtu.be/UF9jEnXNLSw?...

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You Haven’t Played Enough

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/09/2026

edited my 4 hour Xenoblade Stream wayyy down for YouTube! Got a lot of questions about the angle I take on my streams recently and I think this does a decent job showing how I am constantly investigating choices in craft while I play through a game youtu.be/5IjXm_7b0zM?...

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Writer Plays Xenoblade Chronicles 3 for the First Time

YouTube video by Jake Steinberg

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