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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I reviewed TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, a movie that struck so close to my heart I found it hard to put my feelings about it into words. Weird, personal, intimate, sleazy, and beautiful. www.patreon.com/scumbelievab...

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ditto for game writing vs. film/tv writing.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Think about the lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, the horrors we perpetrated there for no reason beyond fundamentalist bloodthirst, corporate greed, and racist hysteria. Over a million people dead, for nothing. Think about that

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Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Act Two is officially out now!!!!

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 19/07/2026

Mamdani's critics in one screenshot, lol

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I met up with a friend of mine who lives in NYC and got fucked over a reasonable amount by his policies but it’s hard to deny the guy loves the city and its people

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@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Curious to know what policy and fucked over how?

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@eternalcatwar.bsky.social
· 19h
They’re an art instructor and most of their clients are in various places around the city, Long Island, Staten Island, their commute got an extra hour a day added on due to increased traffic. (1/2)

A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
· 18h
Increased traffic due to policy?

Eternal Cat War
@eternalcatwar.bsky.social
· 18h
yeah lane changes for rapid buses

Zach Rabiroff
@zachrabiroff.com
· 18h
Didn’t he just announce his bus lane policy last week? It hasn’t even been rolled out yet.

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@eternalcatwar.bsky.social
· 18h
I don’t have the details, I do not live in NYC

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Original Chungus @tronknotts.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth! I promise I didn't plan it this way, but we happened to talk a lot about being a black game developer in 2026 with @shawndoublea.bsky.social in the podcast last week and they're passions and insights are perfect for the holiday. youtu.be/NEq9dH9hflw?...

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Surviving and Thriving in Beatdown City Survivors with Shawn Alexander Allen

YouTube video by Maximum Utcast

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Black Voices in Gaming is where all the best Black developers hang. We had and amazing showcase this year, and we've got an excellent collection of newly released and upcoming games on steam from Next fest. store.steampowered.com/sale/BlackVo...

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Black Voices in Gaming Summer Game Fest Showcase

Spotlighting new games, exciting updates and demos from talented Black creators around the world.

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Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

More than anything else, I want video games to be a space where Black art flourishes. This week we got a brand new @shawndoublea.bsky.social game Beatdown City Survivors! But we also lost Compulsion Games after its excellent example of gaming Blackness, the deeply underappreciated South of Midnight

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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I truly fucking love the idea that universities are "indoctrinating" students to do anything. The sort of sentence uttered by someone who's never tried to get a college student to attend class or turn in a paper.

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Think of creative advice the same way you would dating advice: be your authentic self, not a pick-up artist creep. People can smell the difference.

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Justin Ellis @justinellis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

So proud to be on this list! @literaryhub.bsky.social says The Cruelty of Nice Folks:"deftly situates the state’s paradoxical history of outwardly progressive politics and quietly regressive policies within the epoch-making tumult of the past six years"

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Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in June

If you’re the kind of reader who prefers some heft in your beach reads, than June is the month for you. This month’s picks feature natural histories of American megafauna, domestic memoirs of paren…

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi died today & the world lost a powerful and eloquent voice. I met her almost 20yrs ago and spent an afternoon w/her drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. I loved her. She was only 56. That monsters live to 100 proves to me of the absence of god. filmfreakcentral.net/2008/04/satr...

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Satrapolis: FFC Interviews Marjane Satrapi - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

April 13, 2008|I sat down with Iranian writer/cartoonist/columnist and now filmmaker Marjane Satrapi at Denver’s Hotel Monaco, right off 16th Street Mall–just a few minutes from the Convention Center,...

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is not an exaggeration. My parents literally forced me to destroy my RPGs when I was 16 because the Christian psychologist they sent me to told me "Satan is real" and I might "catch a demon" if I didn't stop. This man had a PhD on his wall.

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If you ever wondered why Lucas' projects seemed different after Return of the Jedi, you need to read up on Marcia's *enormous* contribution to his early work, as well as her collaborations with Scorsese and others. The Death Star raid is one of the great film sequences primarily because of her.

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Best thing about IOI's #JamesBondGame so far is how it uses familiar tropes against you, like when the classically hot girl at the bar is not your contact, or how you think the tux is yours but then Q informs you're going to be the chauffeur on this mission.

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Yes, this is famously why Stranger Things never made any money or connected with Gen-Z audiences. :P People who think this don't understand what the point of referencing pop-culture / generational specificity even is in a story. [1/21]

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Peter's the best collaborator a Narrative Designer could want, and was a blast to work with in crafting the main story campaign. Check out his interview here if you want to know what makes #ChaosGateDeathwatch unique from its predecessor. www.ign.com/articles/war...

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'The Leman Russ Will Make Sure It Fits!' — How Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Deathwatch Packs a Bigger, More Flexible Punch

IGN interviews Complex Games on Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Deathwatch.

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Wonder if this person has seen Last Night In Soho.

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

indie game making in the early 2010's was filled people making simple 2d platformers who had bizarre elaborate life philosophies behind what they were doing. now it's filled with people making weird 3d games called Dream Explorer but every word out of their mouth sounds like a marketing executive

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The third Mario movie should be a straight adaptation of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead but with Wario and Waluigi.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 31/03/2026

I am begging people to stop acting like we have to compromise or right wingers will enact fascism. THEY WILL ENACT THE FASCISM ANYWAY. The conservative justices on SCOTUS are going to rule against trans rights no matter what principle Kagan and Sotomayor try to follow. So why join them?

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Because #DarkSouls is in the news: here is an article I wrote for VICE a while back about how the true genre of FromSoft's games is RELIGIOUS HORROR, in which the only real enemy is a heartless God, and our only real triumph as players is to bear witness to mortal pain. share.google/kwnlgEKKyIyd...

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The Horror That FromSoftware Lost Between ‘Demon's Souls’ and ‘Elden Ring’

The themes and mechanics are still there in places, but nothing has come close to the bleak religious survival horror of From's 2009 masterpiece.

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Toxic game bros who misread the difficulty of these games as a macho challenge have sullied the legacy if one of the most thoughtful, empathetic franchises games have to offer. I love these games because they feel like the OPPOSITE of bro-y bullshit, but bros will fucking ruin anything, won't they?

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Razorblade Apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I absolutely was turned off by the descriptions of these games - very often from men in the Souls community - were punishing and not for the faint of heart. But my bff @tylercolp.bsky.social loved them so much that I tried them and realized all the games were asking of me was to learn and be patient

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Shoutouts to Signalis and Crow Country, two of the best survival horror games (indie or otherwise) of the last few years. And it's not indie, but Silent Hill f is basically a primal scream about languishing under systemic misogyny. There's some great stuff out there...

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

ARM (Always Repost Mifune)

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Had a great time at GDC. Reconnected with the community, met cool new folks, commiserated with other writers (an important past time), and thanks to @toiya.bsky.social, @nessathewriter.bsky.social, @ashleyruhl.bsky.social, and @asaraviapt.bsky.social the panel was a smash. See y'all in the next one!

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

#RE9 feels like alternating between being Ash in Evil Dead 1 and Ash in Evil Dead 3.

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Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I'm not at #GDC, though I'd have loved to see people's pretty faces. You can find many of my NYC darlings there, however, so say hi if you meet @mjweise.bsky.social, @jesshaskins.bsky.social and any of my amazing colleagues and students from the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social because they're the best.

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Late to the party I know, but I just finished #SIGNALIS for the first time, and if you ever wanted Resident Evil to be a lot more like Portrait of a Lady on Fire, I very much recommend it.

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Chulip (be a kissing mailman) Disaster Report (survival without the horror) Haunting Ground (most disturbing final girl sim ever) Life Line (control with mic, terrible and fascinating) Mister Mosquito (suck blood of human giants) (more...)

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Y'all looked at us funny when we said this apocalyptic death-cult mutation of Christianity was a feature, not a bug, of the Religious Right, but now here we are. They were telling us shit like this in Sunday School in the 80s.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

@adriandaub.bsky.social You mentioned having some dealing with the Bay Area tech world in the last podcast. Do you ever make it to GDC, or is the game branch of tech sort of apart from the circles you've been in?

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 21/02/2026

i think games should be weird and frustrating sometimes for the same reason i think billionaires should not exist-- a lack of friction in your experiences will drive you crazy if you let it

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The problem with stormtroopers isn't "training". The problem with stormtroopers is that they are stormtroopers.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 04/01/2026

It's more than a little disconcerting that invading another country to steal its resources is now less controversial and more acceptable to my government and much of this country than me using the bathroom

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Sophie BoooOoOoOOoOoOooo! @pogform.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The new transfer of Eyes Wide Shut is completely stunning, and in the service of a deeply rich text. I tried to organize some thoughts about the movie. boxd.it/coS1wR

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A ★★★★★ review of Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

agree with this thread, but: i wouldn't assume people have seen some challenging piece of art. so many gamers don't engage with any media outside 'nerd' spaces. likely a big reason why we're sleepwalking into reliving 20th century censorship battles is these people don't know the history at all

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MJ Weise @mjweise.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

#WakeUpDeadMan convinced me The Last Jedi is about Rian Johnson's relationship with Christianity. Faith, pacificsm, the distance between reality and myth... the way the two films' thematic obsessions echo each other is hard to ignore.

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