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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 6h

quaver semiquaver demisemiquaver

promo art of a plushie of UNBEATABLE character Quaver

just the left half of the previous image

just the top half of the previous image (upper left quarter of the original)

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My contribution to the recent 9 games trend, featuring my most formative or impactful games:

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Rhythm Heaven
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
The Binding of Isaac
Portal 2
Kentucky Route Zero
The Beginner’s Guide

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a list of all the longest words (that I remembered to write down) that my brother and I have used in @petalgrams.bsky.social (also “fiddledeedee” because I thought it was funny) was interesting looking back through these and realizing they literally all use the letter i

anticonstitutionalist
noncondescendingness
semitransparentness
interdifferentiated
nondisingenuousness
ultranationalistic
antiadministration
interdifferentiate
possessionlessness
nontransformation
misadministration
disinterestedness
indeterminateness
preinterpretation
noninterventional
noninclinational
mediterraneanism
meanspiritedness
intertrinitarian
nonenvironmental
noncontinuation
antitrinitarian
assassinatress
fiddledeedee

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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 23/09/2026

She's missed you. Knights of Guinevere returns October 9. The season will feature 8 episodes.

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

there’s this daily word game Petalgrams that my brother and I complete together every evening, and tonight—with the aid of a 21-letter monster of a word—we got not only a new PB but the highest score I’ve ever seen anyone get in this game: petalgrams.com — Sep. 17 Score: 725 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 💐 PERFECT 💐

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Petalgrams.

Petalgrams · A daily word game where you grow your flower and find hidden words. Can you find all 7 pangrams?

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

rare 3x combo on the timeline (RIP Cohost)

three consecutive reposts of this post by Pebble / @cloacadentata.bsky.social:
“l've seen more Cohost screenshots than l've seen Threads screenshots and that site literally died almost two years ago.”

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

shower thought just now: “permanent tournament” is a pretty good tongue-twister phrase, it’s very easy to get tripped up by the shifting “m” and “n” sounds and accidentally say “pernament” or “tourmanent”

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sudokuvania 2 complete! (minus one optional boss that I will tackle tomorrow)

The “Yey, Congrats!” Sudokupad victory graphic

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Love that Dropout is picking up more offbeat independent comedy stuff, first Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared and now Don Hertzfeldt’s filmography. In particular, It’s Such a Beautiful Day is my favorite movie so I’m ecstatic about more people getting exposed to it.

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just finished watching Journal with Witch. Terrible title, but an excellent anime, full of well-realized characters and brimming with empathy. Gets the “Made Me Cry” ringing endorsement. I kinda love that I could tell that Kensuke Ushio was responsible for the score basically instantly.

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mochiiniko @mochiiniko.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

it’s like shes in some king of no eulogies #unbeatable

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Fun wordplay exercise I’ve been engaged in: coming up with puzzle-themed team names for the puzzle-solving events I attend every summer. So far I’ve got: Sokobanned for Life Noughts and Picrosses Puzzle Me This, Batman! One Prince, Two Prince, Red Prince, Blue Prince Void Stranger Danger

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Not pictured: both Super Sudokoid games (Final Transmission and Dark Inversion), which aren’t on backloggd. Those, 868-BACK, and La-Mulana 2 were/are being played together with my brother, taking turns at the controls.

My “Recently Played” backloggd list, with the most recent first:
The Mermaid Mask (still playing)
La-Mulana 2 (still playing)
Soul of Sovereignty: Prelude (5 stars)
DELTARUNE: Chapter 5 (4 stars)
868-BACK (still playing)

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Show me a comic page you love; no explanation needed.

From Hawkeye (2012) #3 (written by Matt Fraction, art by David Aja), in which a nude Clint Barton desperately tries and fails to fend off Tracksuit Mafia thugs with only a bedside lamp. Captions are as follows:
“Anything is a weapon if you’re in deep enough trouble. There’s no special training. No special skill. Just the belief that at any time you might have to hurt someone to stay alive. What kind of an animal walks into a room and figures out what they can use to hurt people if they have to hurt— —what kind—“

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My brother and I finally finished our first 868-BACK run after chipping away at it over the past month. 11th on the all-time leaderboard is crazy for a first attempt, very proud of us.

our 11th place 868-BACK leaderboard placement with 4512 legacy

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Scissor Seven rocks, can’t wait for this

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Read Tatsuki Fujimoto’s “Goodbye, Eri” in one go last night. Fantastic comic, really loved how it plays with artifice—the question of how much we see is genuine or performance, the way the edit transforms even true events into a skewed narrative, the use of film to overwrite or replace memory

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Finished Super Sudokoid: Final Transmission and just started the sequel Dark Inversion. Really interesting evolution in design from the first one, which hewed much closer to the template set by Sudokuvania (overlapping grids that you generally fill out to completion or near-completion one at a time)

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Mezzo @heartbreak.one · 21/06/2026

Overhead at the Utena movie screening: "My daughter has an Utena tattoo that she regrets...because she got it when she thought she was a boy, and now she's the only straight girl in the world with an Utena tattoo."

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

just completed my first 868-BACK server with the Advanced Graphics modifier, and jesus christ was that stressful

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

To stick with the spirit here of boosting lesser-known games, I made my picks here by reverse-sorting my played games by popularity and then picking the first 9 that jumped out at me (that were actually on Steam). These could all absolutely use some more love.

9 STEAM GAMES I WANT TO SPREAD:
Open Sorcery: Sea++
Slimes
The Telwynium
EMUUROM
The Fall Part 2: Unbound
soundless - A MODERN SALEM IN REMOTE AREA -
Lingo 2
Understand
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/06/2026

Absolutely brutal thread. "A.i." in education is a fucking plague and anyone who pushes it on professors and students is betraying education itself. An act of abuse and betrayal to push this fucking cheating, lying, bullshit machine on anyone, ESPECIALLY in an educational environment.

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Rhythm Doctor @rd.7thbe.at · 16/06/2026

Surprise! The Rhythm Doctor OST is OUT NOW! 🎵 64 tracks of music found in levels, menus, and cutscenes 🎵 English + Chinese versions of several vocal songs 🎵 A few instrumentals and sheet music included! Promo code seventhbeat for 30% off until June 30th! 7thbeat.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm...

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Rhythm Doctor OST, by 7th Beat Games

72 track album

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

“sometimes spiders just do that” #FallenLondon

"Tell you the truth, this one was a mystery to all of us." The Clerk shrugs, as if admitting something. "I mean, we always deny all knowledge. But this time we didn't have anything to deny. The working theory is 'sometimes spiders just do that'."

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Been loving all the Telwynium installments over the years, looking forward to the full thing!

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

been playing lots of EMUUROM lately with my brother, very cool puzzly exploration platformer. am currently secret-hunting in the post-game, and came home from work today to find out that my brother had made a custom font so we can now type out the game’s runes, it’s really sick

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EMUUROM on Steam

A creature-scanning metroidvania. Explore an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the EMUUROM creatures, document your findings in the EMUUDEX, and use what you learn to unlock new paths.

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Brianna Lei @briannalei.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Kickstarter for The Crane Rider's Tale is now live! Fly passengers around a fantasy town inspired by Chinese folktales and unravel a mindbending mystery with multiple endings. Zero Escape meets Disco Elysium 🗡️🎲 LINK: www.kickstarter.com/projects/psy...

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

if I had a nickel for every TV episode this week with a supernatural emotional corruption zone that made the protagonist call one of his friends a bitch and drove the characters to all try to kill each other, I’d have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

was pretty funny trying to fill out my ballot for backloggd’s 1998 Replay event and realizing I only had 2 games to pick from

lukebee’s Best of 1998. Photopia wins for GOTY, Gameplay, Narrative, and Art Direction, and The Game of Life wins for Soundtrack and Multiplayer

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I always enjoy filling these out even if deciding what makes the cut is a struggle

About Me: Video Games
Favorite Game: Kentucky Route Zero
Beat Story: Pentiment
Favorite Art Style: Crawl
Biggest Personal Impact: The Beginner’s Guide
Best Combat: Hollow Knight: Silksong
Overhated: Telling Lies
Underrated: Full Metal Furies
Overrated: Super Mario Odyssey
Needs a Remake: Progress to 100
Criminally Overlooked: Open Sorcery: Sea++
Favorite Protagonist: Void Stranger
Favorite Antagonist: Portal 2
Best Soundtrack: Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
Best Multiplayer: Samurai Gunn
Not Usually My Thing, But…: ZeroRanger
Turn My Brain Off: Rhythm Heaven Fever
Best With Friends: Spaceteam
Best Retro Game: Super Mario Bros. 3
Nostalgic Childhood Game: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Game Everyone Should Play: corru.observer

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

First Ascension 10 win in Slay the Spire 2, let's go! Cascade+ with Chemical X is real silly, especially when you've got 2 of them. Final fight got a little dicey because they both decided to hide at the bottom of my deck, but I pulled through even if I got down to single-digit health.

Me playing Ironclad vs. Doormaker on Ascension 10 in Slay the Spire 2. I have only 8 HP left, but Doormaker is down to 44 HP and I'm about to hit him with a 54 damage Perfected Strike+

Run history screen for the successful run, showing relics including Runic Pyramid and Chemical X, and cards including 2x Cascade+, 3x Headbutt+, 5x Perfected Strike (most of which were upgraded or enchanted), 5x Pommel Strike+, and Expect a Fight. Also, the timer shows 50:07, my fastest run yet!

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

After enjoying @jamies.page’s music in a few different rhythm games (and in anticipation of her upcoming UNBEATABLE DLC) I recently picked up her whole discography, and now can’t stop playing the deluxe edition of Constant Companions on loop (and tearing up every time I listen to Clouddrop).

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Clouddrop

YouTube video by Jamie Paige - Topic

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packed full of protein @ae2501maeth.smallbird.social · 02/04/2026

lost a couple patrons for my patreon this month. much as i struggle to produce updates for it for psychological reasons, i do have to note it *is* my sole source of income, the means by which i pay my rent, and thus every dollar counts, and that loss *is* gonna hurt. so if *anyone* new can sign up--

patreon.com

Get more from Tara Wrist on Patreon

creating Critical Essays and Art

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Went infinite in Slay the Spire 2 (again), killed the final boss in a single turn. I can see why they're rebalancing this character, because completely breaking the game like this is a fun sometimes-treat in roguelikes but you don't really want it to be this easy to pull off.

Ironclad fighting against Queen in Slay the Spire 2. Queen is at 10/400 HP on turn 1 and is being targeted by a Pommel Strike ("Deal 15 damage. Draw 2 cards.") to finish her off. Ironclad also currently has 77/80 HP and 43/3 energy, and every card remaining in the deck has been drawn except for 1 card in the discard.

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Rhythm Doctor @rd.7thbe.at · 21/03/2026

This video is very kind, and it's surreal to be grouped together with two other really great games. Great breakdown of our final level, and the idea of "saving the best for last" even if a lot of players will never see it. Thanks Jacob!

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

From the article:
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Fascinating that I somehow ended up loosely in the vicinity of @skepticalmario.bsky.social, @godfeels.bsky.social, and @scanlinemedia.com but miles away from virtually everyone else I follow.

Visualized map of Bluesky users labeled with me and my follows. I’m in a loose cluster with 3 of my follows near the top, and other than one other follow even further north, the hundreds of other people I follow are all spread across the bottom half of the map.

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

was idly scrolling back through my Fallen London journal of saved passages and this bit from the latest chapter where the usually 2nd-person narration switches to 1st-person rules. what a cool game.

I Close the Door Which I Have Opened
29 January, 2026
(Queeneater's Castle)
I have pushed away the dreams and the red and the sacrifice. I have clawed my way back into my own skull. The face I feel when I reach up and touch it is my own: not hers. Mine. Mine alone.

I can see beyond the mirrors now with mine own eyes. I see there is a breach open from the Stacks, in the chamber of the Rites of the Ruby. Dreams spill from it like blood from a strung-up bull. It wants me: I must get to it. It is here I am made and unmade: it is the source of the sanguine dreams; it is the call I must answer. It is the slab and I am the sacrifice, if I do not best it.

The mirrors around the Palace make the Flaw: it keeps any from dreaming into this mind, into what leaks from the gate, the portal, the breach. And in sealing away those dreams, the flaw is recursive: All dream of the red castle as it stops any from dreaming their way into the castle. It is a cork placed in a bottle being shaken: it will not hold.

I must unstop it. I must reach the breach and perform the Rites of the Ruby.

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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I’m currently watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya for the first time, and Endless Eight kind of rules? My cultural osmosis impression of it was that it was literally the same episode 8 times, when instead it’s 8 versions of the same script each making unique creative choices.

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C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 21/01/2026

Author Spotlight: RPGLit Sci-Fi Author, eskay Meet debut author eskay (no pronouns/use eskay as pronoun/isn't offended by they/them!). eskay has a free novel on Itch, and discusses how eskay went from creative writing novice to finishing a whole novel. Read on to find out!

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Author Spotlight: RPGLit Sci-Fi Author, eskay

Meet debut author eskay (no pronouns/use eskay as pronoun/isn't offended by they/them!). eskay has a free novel on Itch, and discusses how eskay went from creative writing novice to finishing a whole novel. Read on to find out!

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Took me longer than I'd like but I finally finished my GOTY 2025 writeup, please check it out! medium.com/@LukeBeeman/...

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My Favorite Video Games of 2025

Hot take: video games are pretty good sometimes.

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