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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 11h

to be clear I like Ko as a regular season innings eater but...come on man that's probably the first time his face has ever been on ESPN in a non-game context

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 11h

cute to add Tyler Kolek to this list as if literally anyone would pay him that much

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assemblyman of the people's republic of anhedonia @jaybeekeeper.blacksky.app · 14h

I don’t know if there is a take that makes me angrier than ‘NYC is only for people in their 20s’

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 14h

nobody actually lives here, apparently

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15h

I’m pretending this isn’t happening btw

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 17h

I'm excited about the actual game but can't wait for the DISCOURSE to pass

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 17h

I like the idea of saying the Big Video Game in November instead of the actual title, kinda like how commercials call the Super Bowl "The Big Game"

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

bsky is the best place to be when a cool sports thing happens or Nintendo has a weird Direct. It's bad most other times

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

somehow reddit has become the least horrifying social media platform I use

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I might kind of support AI if it was just "what if everyone was playing DS games all the time again"

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

oh man that poster reminds me that the New York Knicks were, in fact, the 2026 NBA Champions, it's good to remember this from time to time

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The internet was so much better when like 70% of what went viral was just shit like this

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My pillow says “Down Alternative” on it which is the SAT way of saying “Up.”

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there's at least six deaths in the first ten minutes of Killers of the Flower Moon lol

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are not a lot of songs about the love shack these days

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Adam @thefeenmachine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Two of the four matchups feature the way lower payroll team HOSTING.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

MLB Payroll Ranks in the Division Series: Rays (27) vs. Yankees (3) Braves (9) or Phillies (4) vs. Dodgers (1) Brewers (19) vs. Padres (8) ChiSox (26) vs. Guardians (29) But let's impose a salary cap so there can be parity!

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

also, like...if they "always knew" they kept that information to themselves for some reason!

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My thoughts on Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave so far! Plus, I get to how FFX's politics resonate in the current moment. Check it out!

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The Punished Backlog @punishedbacklog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What if some of the "boring" tasks in Fortune's Weave were actually...good? @sam-martinelli.bsky.social makes the case for the grind being the POINT in the new Fire Emblem, as well as thoughts on FFX's politics and more in the latest Punished Notes! punishedbacklog.com/fire-emblem-...

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In Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, the Grind Is the Point - The Punished Backlog

In Sam's latest Punished Notes, he covers the new Fire Emblem, has a few thoughts on Final Fantasy X (all these years later), and even a bit on... tapas?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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amandatien.bsky.social @amandatien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I will not apologize for how long I spent talking about Jennifer Hale's amazing work as FemShep in the Mass Effect series in the newest @punishedbacklog.bsky.social podcast episode re: video game main characters with @sam-martinelli.bsky.social . punishedbacklog.com/podcast-vide...

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Podcast: Discussing Our Favorite Video Game Main Characters

In this podcast episode, we discuss video game protagonists. We debate create-a-character versus heroes and share our favorites.

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FFVII's original release in Japan, apparently

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everybody here talks way too much about things they say they don’t care about

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Taking some kind of psychic damage as I learn that Peter Fortune's Weave is voiced by the guy from Obsession.

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The Punished Backlog @punishedbacklog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In Donovan's Resident Evil (2026) movie review, learn why Zach Cregger's adaptation fails to emulate what the RE video games do best. punishedbacklog.com/resident-evi...

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Resident Evil (2026) Movie Review: Don't Believe the Hype

In our Resident Evil (2026) movie review, learn why Zach Cregger's adaptation fails to emulate what the RE video games do best.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Good Life but it should be noted that every single song on this album is a banger

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

what a bozo, absolute clown shit

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

biggest problem with BOTW/TOTK: lack of a weird not-Ganon villain guy before you fight Ganon. Needed Ghirahim/Agahnim/Zant, etc.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People forget the Knicks won the NBA Championship

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mario vs Donkey Kong remake Switch 2 edition?

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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The Punished Backlog @punishedbacklog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Upcoming indie horror games 👀 @blueridgehunting.com, Grave Seasons @perfectgarbage.bsky.social, Nowhere @midnightforge.bsky.social, Penguin Colony @origamedigital.bsky.social @fellowtraveller.games, Silver Pines @team17.com, Tenebris Somnia @newblood.games, Tom the Postgirl @artefr.bsky.social

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring

Steve Buscemi as Donny from The Big Lebowski

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Like when I see folks talk about unity or whatever bullshit that didn’t actually happen after 9/11, I remember everyone being scared, having people stay in our apartment cuz it wasn’t safe to in their homes in lower Manhattan, how taking the subway felt dangerous…that wasn’t happening in Wisconsin

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This gets something that has always bothered me as a NYer: most tragedies are about the specific place where it happened, but 9/11 became something that happened to ALL AMERICANS and not specifically NYC

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

anyway something that still bothers me is how the people who are/were loudest about Never Forgetting are often people who actively hate New York City and New Yorkers and spend the other 364 days of the year fighting against everything the city stands for

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sammartinelli @sam-martinelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

at the risk of sounding like a shill/fanboy...the thing that really sticks out about Nintendo especially now is that they actually release games, like, every single month. Not always a big deal (sometimes just Switch 2 Editions or whatever), but there's always *something* new and exclusive to play

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

now that you mention it, it does sound different

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