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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 22h

sorry to hear this, be gentle on yourself

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 22h

“Paris Hilton personally healed my AI psychosis” is a very 2026 story

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 23h

Are women bourgeois?

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

how come all the rock gods of my childhood died but all of Metallica is still fuckin sitting there

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is completely wacky

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

pretty… good??! (perfect compliment thank you)

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

they mean they don’t want the government to censor GTA (valid, but). They don’t mean they want honest acts of self expression from risk-taking voices (art)

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

thank you. It is rare people add useful replies instead of continuing to parasocially clown at us

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I don’t know if you need to “does anyone remember” the people in this thread tho, I’m sure most of us would rather not

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

the bbc is probably going to be on the extra stupid end of the dumbass spectrum in this regard. it was a pretty shocking correspondence (hence me starting an activated thread about this at my bedtime 🙃)

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

hey folks - Experimental Games Showcase applications are still open until the 23rd! if you have a weird and unique game you're working on or have recently finished - consider submitting!

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

a shadowy cabal WAS taking over our industry! it was billionaires, and now all you get is AI slop IP generators and exploitable remakes and rereleases. nobody who cares has a job anymore. colleagues and friends privately judged me as hysterical at the time. i hope they enjoy this world now

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

this is what the central wound is; this is why i'm crazy. i don't really give a shit about having suffered abuse and harassment anymore, they had been doing that to me for years already just for being present and noncompliant. and now ten+ years on there's a fresh round of clueless mics in my face

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

i had a podcast interview request from the BBC today (big nope). the interviewer, a woman, told me it was important to hear from "both sides". that's their attitude to everything now, from trans lives to mental health and everything in between. it's bad faith delulu world all the way down

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

most people still don't get that the traumatic part was not the harrassment. i'd been in the game industry since 2008 and i was inured to abuse. it was being on the tip of the spear as reality itself came apart. we didn't yet know the whole world was about to become like that

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

if anyone had actually given a shit about 'ethics in game journalism' the egregious examples were directly under their noses. but like all the fascist misdirection acts it inspired, gamergate was simply a premise to radicalize young men to the right by lathering outrage over a false premise

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

-- we now know that bobby kotick was an epstein pal! but sure, the problem was writers covering non-commercial works by diverse emerging artists simply out of deep affection for the medium and sincere desire for alternatives to that swath of corporate shit

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

the stupid thing was: the consumer games press DID have unethical marketing mouthpiece relationships with the industry. the e3 / spike tv / actiblizz / doritogate conglomerate and the payola-dominated masculine corporate culture had a stranglehold on what got made and how it could be discussed --

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’d written a musical song, “We’re Trapped”, to accompany the tale. it went unappreciated by the other six year olds

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

my mom received a phone call that I had terrified the other children by telling them an allosaurus was waiting outside to prevent our parents from picking us up. I was surprised, I thought the allosaurus was fun

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I mean I thought it was the other kids who were weird, I was vibing

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

in the first grade I was sent to the guidance counselor for stealing fourth graders’ vocabulary quiz cards. after that they just let me go to his office anytime I wanted and he would play the board game Sorry with me

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Videogame Beaches🏳️‍⚧️ @videogamebeach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Lately I've been seeing a lot of depressing posts about how people discard their own experiences in favor of efficiency and utility, and for some reason I needed to launch into a disjointed and pedantic rant about why useless is good.

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Why are you playing at your age? What is its use?

The Rise of Utilitarianism and the Death of Leisure

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Damiano Gerli @damiano.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Appreciation post for spooky Amstrad CPC art from France

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/10/2026

I'm glad he wrote this down! It could be incredibly ironic some day

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

out now: It's in Your House, five illustrated micro-rpgs of domestic horror

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It's in Your House by Anna Anthropy

5 micro-rpgs of domestic horror

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ahhh I forgot you’d done this wonderful deep dive!! Thank you for adding it here!!!

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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The Mega Man Network @themmnetwork.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

Zero telling X "I hid myself while I tried to repair myself" in Mega Man X6.

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

if only the game industry could have learned more broadly from its systems design! but p5 is such a piece of shit it’s clear that not even the persona team learned

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

it wasn’t a significant game but it was my first crude text parser game where you could constantly die and I’m pretty sure that’s why I grew up thinking about computers and games the way I do.

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I was never interested in history as a child but learning about a mad king who spent his life adoring fantasy and constructing fictional worlds was very relatable and affecting to me. also there were gay werewolves and (what felt like) a lifelike tour of Bavaria what’s not to love

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

oh no my vain humor produced a sincere response! Thank you!

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If I’m not on it then it’s WRONG

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

i mean we received blessings like 868 hack, super hexagon, 80 days, reigns, canabalt, digital: a love story, of course lots and lots of fabulous twine games, i loved those days very much too. but i already had a specific dent in my head by then

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

i like how there is only one game here that came out in the last TWO decades. as Graphics increased systems became less sophisticated and abstract, and the power of these things to have a meaningful effect on me plummeted

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

nobody cares but here are mine. 'shaped who i am' is such a different prompt from 'favorite' (though there is some overlap)

the poster's '9 games' are Phantasy Star II, Silent Hill 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Persona 3, Chrono Cross, Disco Elysium, Escape from Rungistan, Castlevania Symphony of the Night, and Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within.

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

that sounds like a very specific experience. sorry to hear.

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

this is actually my strongest memory of him

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I see this in my dreams. maybe my favorite rpg ever, best music best vibes

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