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Andrew Brown

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Opinion-haver at playcritically.com. #Indie reviewer of indie videogames. Your post reminds me of a Simpsons episode. he/him

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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I still consider many of you to be dear friends and if you would like to keep in touch with me, you are welcome in my Play Critically discord server. It's small, but active, where we mostly talk about videogames we're playing, TV shows and movies, and trying to find a job.
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Join the Play Critically Discord Server!
Check out the Play Critically community on Discord - hang out with 8 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Thrilled to see so many more of you have abandoned the Other Place to make Bluesky your new social media home. I am avoiding all social media right now because making Donald Trump and Elon Musk's every move a major part of my life will make me so miserable I will never get anything done.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Reappearing here briefly to announce that I just posted my 200th review at playcritically.com for a little game from last year called The Plucky Squire. www.playcritically.com/2025/03/22/t...
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The Plucky Squire Review
The Plucky Squire has an incredible premise that feels underutilized by its small final product.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I'm uninstalling Bluesky from my phone for my own emotional health. If I never return, I wish old friends and new all the best in whatever comes next.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
The Red Mirage sucks. Wisconsin is not giving me good feelings. I know I should stop but I can't look away. I envy the drooling morons who are only vaguely aware there's an election tonight.
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
If it helps, here's the 2020 timeline of when stuff was called
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I really let myself believe that Trump would shit himself to death when Florida was called for Harris early on night 1.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Florida let me down but that's my fault for taking all those "Florida is in play because of abortion, honest guys!" people seriously.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
media.tenor.com
a man wearing a helmet and goggles is standing in a crowd of people .
Alt: An air force plane technician wearing a helmet with a larger microphone attached salutes earnestly.
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crimesididntcommit🏳️‍⚧️ @crimesididntcommit.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
this image makes me more patriotic than any song or flag or parade ever could
voting booth photo where someone behind a curtain visibly has their pants around their ankles
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Shouting this at the 24 hour news channels. There is no use in making announcements literally the minute polls close! No use at all!
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Count Trashula 🎃🔪 @trashlevania.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I'm glad the Switch 2 has confirmed backwards compatibility so I can ignore my backlog on a whole new console.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
The electoral map was terrifying but the popular vote difference was only a few points.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Putting on whited out glasses and blasting my skull with green noise.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Last I checked it showed Trump has a 67% chance of victory, a number which will change as more data comes in, which is... not how probability works. You don't bet on a 2/3 chance in roulette then stand there smiling while the house adds 70 new numbers to the wheel.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 06/11/2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Andy Kim wins election to U.S. Senate from New Jersey.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I am so surprised at how people are freaking out about a result announcement pattern that is exactly the same as it usually is. Big cities take longer. The west coast is still voting. Turn off cable news.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 06/11/2024
REMINDER: You shouldn't avoid the NYT election needle because it's behind a picket line (it isn't). You should avoid the NYT election needle because it conveys zero useful information while inflating your anxiety!
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
IF IT CONSTANTLY CHANGES IN REAL TIME THEN TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE 66% CHANCE OF WINNING THAT IS NOT HOW PROBABILITY WORKS THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 05/11/2024
reminder that in 2020 we didn’t know the results until Saturday. get ready to keep the good vibes coming all week because this is probably going to be a similar situation
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Friend, there aren't going to be any senate confirmations in a second Trump administration.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Things felt really dark in 2020 on tuesday night too, now it's commonly accepted that Biden won that election handily.
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Happy #indie review day, this week's review is for Europa. Prompted by his deceased father's journal, Zee travels across the terraformed surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. A device that lets him rocket into the sky and glide back to the ground adds whimsy which is defied by a misanthropic backstory.
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Europa Review
Europa’s whimsical movement and watercolor art style contrasts poorly with its dreary and misanthropic backstory.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Happy bonus #indie review day, I finished this Dungeons of Hinterberg review a few weeks ago but couldn't find time to post it. Luisa goes to Hinterberg for a vacation filled with magic, monsters, and dungeon crawling. The setting and puzzles are wonderful. The movement and combat is mediocre.
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Dungeons of Hinterberg Review
Looking backwards at Dungeons of Hinterberg, I will forget its weaknesses. When I am playing, they are impossible to ignore.
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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Nintendo choosing the perfect time to confirm Switch 2 backwards compatibility
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Okay, I popped into a results livestream to see if this was gonna be an election where we have the results before the west coast sits down for dinner. It's not gonna be one of those elections. So I'll try to concentrate on something else this evening.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Fucking Florida, man.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
We cant extinguish this noxious party once and for all until the depths of their vileness are common knowledge.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
5pm on the west coast, let's see if I can get any writing done tonight (narrator: he got no writing done that night).
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
It's gonna bug me for years that Echoes of Wisdom has main quests called "A Rift in the Faron Wetlands," "The Rift on Eldin Volcano," and "Rift on Holy Mount Lanayru." That's the kind of thing I would have refused to let go back in my copyediting days.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Annnd the office is now closed for the rest of the week. I was kinda looking forward to being downtown when the election is called on Thursday (wasn't it Thursday in 2020?)
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Who is "the highest score on the age of consent pop quiz."
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
do it
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
I know Hell's Kitchen has really turned itself around since the days of Raj and Elise but it still feels weird to start a new season and see that all of the contestants are competent.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/11/2024
You otter vote today
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
They'll just let him sleep.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
I had this problem in Oregon when I voted for Kerry, twenty years ago. This is a known problem. The lack of a solution is because it's being exploited to suppress votes.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Oh wait this strike means we won't have the fucking election needle? Bless these folks, they should go on strike in November every four years.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Mine was emailed to me.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Just don't drink dude.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Exactly, with many sequels where the Arniebot continues to be a protagonist.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
How does anyone not know that in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Remember at Trump's poorly attended inauguration where they had to get a local cover band to perform because no real bands were interested (and knew they would get stiffed on their bill).
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
They're all subconsciously aware that they can only rally the support of mediocrities, but they can never articulate and internalize that feeling, hence the constant railing against "elites" despite most of them coming from the wealthy and privileged classes.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Biskey is the chosen one but the app is garbage.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
It's as much a gift for themselves as for the rest of us. It will barely change Ted's life, anyway, he spends more time podcasting than legislating.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Whatever happened to Rough Draft.
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
The US is trying to make sense of it too.
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