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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 30/09/2026

You know this already, but Transistor. My honorable mentions are OlliOlli World, Splosion Man, What Remains of Edith Finch, Inside, and Tacoma.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 22/09/2026

Everytime I see a trailer for that tv show Doc about the lady doctor with amnesia it's a jump scare because I grew up watching that Bill Ray Cyrus doctor show by the same name on PAX TV.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 14/09/2026

Haven’t seen anyone else call this part out specifically, but it is NFL owners who pressured Ed’s tour to ditch Macklemore and that is such a weirdly shitty new stain on this goddamn sport.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 12/09/2026

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 10/09/2026

I would like AAA action developers to lean more into this type of dude for their protagonists.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 28/08/2026

Remembering that Tim Curry voiced Slagar the Cruel.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 23/08/2026

Once I start working through some more national parks we’ll be checking more of this map off.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 21/08/2026

Profound theater kid energy coming off of this game.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 18/08/2026

I think I’ve just seen the most incredible grift on Threads. This person posted a huge long conversation about an employee’s conflict with HR over a work suspension. Like seven posts. The last post contained a totally unrelated affiliate link, and apparently that’s her whole schtick. Buckwild stuff.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 07/08/2026

Extremely pumped for this episode, and also very pleased to see the excellent writing at @stopcar.ing spotlit in the newsletter!

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 04/08/2026

New Fire Emblem looks great.

Stock image of a nun in a habit and frock holding a handgun.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 31/07/2026

"Excuse me, dictionary? It's 1988 and it's very important you add these five words. I know, it doesn't make any sense, but one day there's gonna be a pretty mid, overeducated dude who's gonna love doing a bit of performative self-authorship with them."

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 31/07/2026

A thread, in no particular order, about some of my fav records so far this year:

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 30/06/2026

Monochrome Monday because I wanted to edit this selfie.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 19/06/2026

That time Steven Curtis Chapman, Scott Stapp, Lauryn Hill, and Mark Hoppus were all on the same record thanks to Mel Gibson and Jesus.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 17/06/2026

I don’t actually have a job writing about games, but if I magically wrote about games as a full time job instead of as a fringe freelance thing I’m trying to get going somehow, this is how I’d prioritize.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 16/06/2026

This was my first interaction on Threads in months.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 16/06/2026

Really intense shot-chaser on the feed this morning.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 12/06/2026

Cracked open God Gave Rock and Roll to You by @drleahpayne.bsky.social this morning. Feel like I’ve been waiting for a book like this for years.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 03/06/2026

Your boy made it to Opencritic. The 13 year old kid who wrote a three page paper convincing my dad to let me buy an Xbox is really pumped about this.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 01/06/2026

“This is 10 percent luck, 20 percent skill, 15 percent concentrated power of will.”

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 26/05/2026

“Weapon degradation is fine as a form of productive friction within a game’s design, but when actual engagement with that friction introduces a set of administrative interactions that conflict with the game’s open, experimental, and breezy aesthetic, it’s simply an unpleasant bit of bookkeeping.”

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 24/05/2026

Make fun of the Bluesky trending algorithm as much as you want, but this is the nightmare shit going on over in Zuck’s platform.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 23/05/2026

I made a playlist documenting the weird explosion of Christian metal, metalcore, and screamo in the 2000s and I’m about as proud of the title as I am anything else I wrote this month.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 12/05/2026

This was the last show I saw before COVID. Thrice and mewithoutYou in Rochester.

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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 09/05/2026

This is actually the right answer tho.

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