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Levi

@rubeck.bsky.social
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he/him // managing ed + Funeral Rites ed at Unwinnable, writer there and others // poet // linktr.ee/levirubeck ; dice.camp/@leaves

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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Luis Aguasvivas @aguaspoints.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Always a pleasure to write for Unwinnable. My latest is a review of a pretty neat graphic novel about the great cyclist Major Taylor published by @dandq.bsky.social.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 09/10/2026
Hey, my next book, Old-School from the Start: 25 Years of Goodman Games, is coming to crowdfunding on Monday. Sign up to get notified of the launch and tune in Noon Eastern for the streaming launch show, featuring me and Joe! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/g...
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Goodman Games 25th Anniversary Celebration
Get notified when Goodman Games 25th Anniversary Celebration launches on BackerKit!
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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 09/10/2026
ICYMI: "Big Walk and Fortnite and the like aren’t substitutes for social spaces, but supplements against the tyranny of distance, and in a way that builds upon the humble phone call." @rubeck.bsky.social makes noise, flashes lights, shoots flares: buff.ly/AUEqpxT
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It’s an island-sized escape room, a slumber party, a kegger, a cookout, some time around the campfire, a checklist and a hike.
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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 09/10/2026
"Big Walk and Fortnite and the like aren’t substitutes for social spaces, but supplements against the tyranny of distance, and in a way that builds upon the humble phone call." @rubeck.bsky.social makes noise, flashes lights, shoots flares: buff.ly/AUEqpxT
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It’s an island-sized escape room, a slumber party, a kegger, a cookout, some time around the campfire, a checklist and a hike.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...
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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.
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Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
On a new podcast episode, @strida.bsky.social @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social and @reidmccarter.bsky.social talk about Silent Hill: Townfall. Listen here: soundcloud.com/bullet-point...
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
lol no one talks about the white kids who don't abide by merit. The conversation is ALWAYS about the Black and Brown kids who do.
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Study finds 43 percent of Harvard's white students are legacy, athletes, related to donors or staff
The number drops dramatically for black, Latino and Asian American students with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories, the study said.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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James Tocchio @jamestocchio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Aside from when you get javelin tossed by a giant robit www.uploadvr.com/titanfall-2s...
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Titanfall 2's VR Mod Is Stellar, And Its Installer Is The Best Thing About It
Titanfall 2's VR mod is stellar, and the best part is CircuitLord's excellent installer for it.
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Videodame @videoda.me · 06/10/2026
Kicking off the spooky season with some text adventure-flavored horror from @mst3k.fan. Now who wants to guess the verb? videoda.me/a-little-les...
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A Little Less Text Adventure, A Little More Existential Crisis
By Steve Horton
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Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"They never invite you to a real monster mash in The Blood of Dawnwalker." Chris Breault starts off our October horror issue with an article on The Blood of Dawnwalker. Read it below. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/10/06/l...
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Rhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well. That's me gone from TheGamer too. Six years of service, and I was at least given the dignity of it ending in a phone call. Right after dealing with weeks of institutionalized misogyny too! Thought things might be getting better So. Uh. Looking for work now I guess!
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Emmurder Killwell えま @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
if you're a woman in games/a writer who follows me please sound off, i need to follow y'all back
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goose pimple aka "the mind fucker" @goosepimple.moe · 03/10/2026
not all that recent but this is the latest piece of mine that got published! longform criticism / personal essay about marathon, zone fiction, and yuri of absence -- a love letter to the distance between two shotgun blasts bsky.app/profile/bpmo...
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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 26/09/2026
Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11
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Alex W. DeJong @hotsliceofjesus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wrote another piece for @unwinnable.com check it out unwinnable.com/2026/10/05/w...
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Would You Still Employ Me If I Was A Worm? - Unwinnable
I couldn’t help but find ways to identify with my worm.
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Rhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hello! Would really appreciate some eyes on this to support our reporting <3 www.thegamer.com/inside-rocks...
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Inside Rockstar's Union Busting Trial
We speak with one of the 34 Rockstar workers who lost their job last year, in the midst of a high-profile employment tribunal.
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A new essay from @hotsliceofjesus.bsky.social!
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Would You Still Employ Me If I Was A Worm? - Unwinnable
I couldn’t help but find ways to identify with my worm.
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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hi! I am a femme who primarily works behind the scenes as an editor, but am proud of the critical work I have published about games and film. Most recently, I wrote the cover story for @unwinnable.com's September issue, an excerpt of which is currently available online:
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The Damage Is Done - Unwinnable
The planet Sable knows is a palimpsest – its ecosystem has been overwritten.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 30/09/2026
@daytenrose.bsky.social writes beautifully, especially toward the end of this piece (and about the end of the game) about what the meaning of physical communication is for men who don't yap incessantly when they hang out. it's GOOD
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Big Walk lights the way for non-toxic masculinity in games
Interrogating "men don't talk to each other" through a game about communication
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Talha Kaya @taloketo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This game seems very original and getting really good reviews, but still seems to be going a bit under the radar. It’s by the folk who made Paratopic. store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/...
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Save 10% on Roman Sands RE:Build on Steam
A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities. Step through the cracks: find your Exit.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026
microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🐳 You’re God damned right @hesterblum.bsky.social & I made a TWENTY-FIVE EPISODE PODCAST just about 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘-𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐊. Subscribe now at exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick & enjoy our thrilling trailer:
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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In retrospect, Obsidian getting Pentiment out there into the world before Microsoft exploded really feels like they pulled off the weirdest heist in gaming history.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
During Amy Klobuchar’s tenure as a prosecutor, “the number of African-American men and boys who ended up in the state prison system, a good many of them falsely, increased by 600% ... and I questioned whether the shutting down of the CRU has something to do with covering for Amy Klobuchar.”
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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Roman Sands RE:Build review: A unique and obliterating blend of resort sim, engineering horror and alchemic ritual bit.ly/4rgN75U
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Roman Sands RE:Build review: A unique and obliterating blend of resort sim, engineering horror and alchemic ritual
Roman Sands is a brilliantly cracked, witty and imaginative "service industry adventure" that consists of two very different games in a collapsing orbit.
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Levi @rubeck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
me to Ben:
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Hate Respect
ALT: Hate Respect
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Wallace @exalclaw.com · 18/09/2026
Finally wrote about it, driving in Mafia III rules hard exalclaw.com/mafia-iii-fa...
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When The Scenic Route Is Worth It
Fast travel isn't the worst feature to include, but Mafia III is a great example of why it can be worth forcing players to spend time traveling.
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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
we’ve got a lot of cyclists in ATL, but we could use a lot more tbpfh
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Levi @rubeck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the truth is that half the time I don't bother to write about music because @bensailer.bsky.social beat me to all the good shit
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/jess... 🫵 If you liked Live At The Death Factory, this is what Astrid was co-writing during much of Live At The Death Factory. If you didn't like Live At The Death Factory, that was years ago and this is nothing like that. It is a video game for right now. 🫵 Time to game, gamers.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyone else getting unhinged and obnoxious emails from "iLands"? Some kind of AI bot paradise or something.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Levi @rubeck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sweenies come get your traitors to humanity challenge
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Steve Bannon is a white supremacist war criminal and anyone who aligns with him is antiblack. Would you pair up with David Duke if he announced he was anti-AI?
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Wallace @exalclaw.com · 15/09/2026
icymi new poem
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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
With all this said, if you are a woman or femme-identifying games journalist, please feel free to shout yourself out below. I’d love to follow you on here and also circulate your name a bit wider/perhaps make a list of us 🤍
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)
A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neckA photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 11/09/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep Elliot Page tells On Film interviewer Kevin McCarthy that despite his standout performance in Christopher Nolan's record-breaking film The Odyssey, he is getting NO acting offers. Tell me that one about how trans men get to enjoy "male privilege" again...
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Elliot Page is awesome and one of the best actors working today. We sat down for an hour long conversation about Elliot’s incredible career from Hard Candy to Juno to Inception and, of course, his bri...
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 11/09/2026
I'm writing the history of Goodman Games RIGHT NOW! I know all the dark secrets and hidden truths. Crowdfunding in October!
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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2
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Levi @rubeck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
came way too late to ETID but Andy was an undeniable force with a giant heart. this one got me down bad
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Creature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 05/09/2026
Saw people complaining the new Sleep album sucks because it was written by AI and I was like damn we lost another one, until I realized they meant Al Cisneros.
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