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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

currently in the middle of being told that the entire service request page on an appliance company's website is an AI hallucination after we purchase a fridge from them that broke in two weeks. i love the future

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i'm proud to announce that, as the next step in xbox's transition (i've abandoned all of my principles and work for microsoft now), we've decided to put a bullet in the back of Obsidian's head and will be burying them in a shallow grave by the side of the road. also kill yourself

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

wow the FF Resonance UI looks bad. we should've never taught gamers about partial transparency.

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

reject modernity and embrace tradition meme but its subtitled voice acted cutscenes and textboxes

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

to briefly clarify what i mean here: take a look at this cutscene from FFVII Revelation: youtu.be/iC5rCUg1av4?... every one working here is talented. the voice actors, the animators, the writers. but the moment-to-moment pacing and composition of the scene is uh. its bad.

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation NEW Gameplay Demo PS5 (PlayStation State of Play)

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i actually think the problem is full V.O., for many many different reasons. it not only balloons production scope, but it also frequently grinds narrative pacing to a halt. especially for dialogue heavy games! if they're this skippable; many of these cutscenes could have and should have been emails.

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i fucking hate UE5 lmao. i do not need to know what an overworked 35 year old thinks the skin and clothing texture of a 23 year old looks like. i just don't.

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

launching a new website where i tell you which video game reviewers are Fake and which are Gay

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

it is a real tragedy that we are not all constantly talking about Prominence, a modder for the solo-dev tactics RPG Horizon's Gate, who has almost singlehandedly produced an entire second video game's worth of content; seemingly unprompted. a just industry would never shut up about people like this.

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i fear that if i publicly state the way i feel about video game reviews; that they will put me in a facility. i will be placed inside of a Sphere

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

ty to suriel for reminding me to also plug my consultancy services. i *also* provided feedback on MS2 among other things recently. i really, really love providing feedback on in-development projects and do so at competitive rates! (particularly flexible for indie devs)

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

[workshopping a joke for the worst video essay you've ever seen]: do we think that microsoft sam contributed materially to the iraq war

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

AHEM. i had what i would describe as "a housing emergency" which delayed the difficulty series A Lot. thankfully, i am submitting three shorter video scripts to my editor later today. i will not give firm dates yet but expect those sooner than you may think!!! i will reveal 2 of the 3 draft titles.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

also if you ARE submitting, new for this year: I wrote up a detailed guide for the actual submissions process! (and am now reposting this post bc I fucked up the link the first time) auratriolo.com/blog/2026/07...

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A quick guide to the Submissions Interface for The Independent Games Festival (IGF) – AURAMBLES

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

microsoft (evil) will keep doing this for as long as they have dozens to hundreds of consultants constantly telling them that their only path to profitability is through downsizing internal teams and outsourcing development to large 3rd party studios like Keywords.

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

what if one of them was rendered into tallow

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

let me just say: i would Personally be cautious about reporting about situations for which there are likely ongoing negotiations. especially when those negotiations will be heavily influenced by the public perception of the parties in question.

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

i think that "we need consoles because they are plug and play" is part of how we got here in the first place. consoles have never been frictionless game machines. they have mechanical parts. they break! sometimes you need to blow on a cartridge or clean a disk or even replace a disk drive.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 01/07/2026

really appreciate the sympathy and listings people have sent so far! and if you need writing, research, interviews, or editing in the near future I will have a lot more time starting in August to take on more one off projects.

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

i hope that harry kane is consumed in a pillar of light and rendered into a pile of salt like lot's wife.

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Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 22/06/2026

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

neurotic on this episode of podcast in ways you would not believe

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

i think that, to maintain the spirit of the Wacky world cup we're having, one of the england players should explode on the pitch like a baseball struck bird

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

belgium v egypt providing us all with a great reminder of why it is important to actually try kicking the ball into the goal during the world cup

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

is it a microaggression when i show trans men pictures of horses and other horse related content

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

is it a microaggression when i show trans men pictures of horses and other horse related content

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

why play forza horizon 6, which is both fake And gay, when you could instead be playing Racing Lagoon for the playstation. you too could be whipping shitties through the streets of yokohama in a car that feels like ass.

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

with hd-2d we have re-invented the PSX rpg. square should try making Ten Thousand of them again

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

i've started calling every drink that i make "faggot's sprite" which is making it really confusing when my friends ask me to make them something. could be a blood orange espresso tonic. could be sparkling water, lemon juice, and home made rose syrup. who is to say

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

tbc. video games can do single-shot scenes really well (see: dead space 2), and actually have unique advantages over film when it comes to doing so. however! i do not think!!! that most games!!! are going!!! for what dead space 2 is going for!!!

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

thank god video games have finally begun to embrace Truly Cinematic Storytelling with interminably long single-shot cutscenes. real artists hate lev kuleshov and his hack bullshit.

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

he is six!!! he does not know what any of these words mean!!!

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

did you know that if you serve too much cunt, they send someone from the government to kill you?

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

was looking at patrick jane, the mentalist's, wikipedia page and saw this section. i think they should have this on everyone's wikipedia page.

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

james vowles is kinda like what would happen if you accidentally left another F1 team principal sit in a washing machine for two days straight bc you forgot to switch him over to the dryer : ( this is why i like him tbc

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

made my account on memorial day because i am like the Troops of Gaming

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

wait FUCK. i have one of these accounts now. i'm streaming slay the spire 2 right now : ) www.twitch.tv/renorraven

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renorraven - Twitch

monday vibes stream. maybe slay the spire, idk. my heart is open to joy.

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

as a reward for making a bluesky account, i have decided to rewatch my favorite maki amv. despite my endless frustrations with jjk, she remains my little blorbo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMki...

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Jujutsu Kaisen (season 3) -AMV- Maki vs Zen’in Clan

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Jurge Cruz-Alvarez @jurge.site · 25/05/2026

Renata Price is my #1 go to mock reviewer. Her insight feels like a cheat code when helping the game get better. It's ridiculous how good and thoughtful her opinions are!! Her reports are also great reads! Here are some of the projects I've worked with her on:

A Moby games page that lists Morsels, Arco and Another's Crabs Treasure

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

crit build's first big video essay came out last month, and is the proudest i've ever been of any piece of writing that i have released. it is about playing games while managing chronic pain and fatigue and how we talk about difficulty more broadly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoWg...

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Difficult Games: Beauty And Pain

YouTube video by Crit Build

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

wanted to make my name on this app "slur girl" but though it would be bad for me professionally, so i settled on the much more regular "gyrados of hot women"

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

i am very, very open for work at the moment and very good at mock reviewing/consultancy. my feedback is more dev-centric than most and generally revolves around aspects of game design which are often left out of other mock reviews (frame data, balance, and other fundamentals of feel and design).

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the gyrados of hot women @renorraven.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

i have said, time and time again, that i would not create a bluesky account unless i was under Significant Financial Duress. alas! we have arrived at that point and so! here we are. so begins the promotional excruciation

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