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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 23h
What's your version of convincing yourself something is a meal by chopping up a hot dog into it?
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This was peak design for this series.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have great admiration for Lost in Cult doing this. Solidarity involves cost. It is burdensome. That is why it is so precious and why engendering it matters so much. Thank you to the entire team for doing this.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This actually happened a lot in Japan during the Tokugawa shogunate. Naughty Dog's commitment to accuracy is unrivaled.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is weird purity culture in action. You should not harass a writer. To have a bone to pick with Luis because he reviewed a book by someone who was later revealed to be an abuser is a disingenuous attempt to score points in an imaginary game no one else is playing.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is not a reason your toothbrush needs to be AI enabled. Most things do not need any kind of machine learning capabilities but seriously that might be the lowest on the list.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I often find the NYT's reporting on videogames to be...weak but this piece and Zachary Small actually are really interesting. Small is not writing for an audience of people who know things about games and, likely, his editors do not either. It shows.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lol I can't wait to read that piece in the Times about Xbox
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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 29/09/2026
ICYMI: "The crash was not an ending, but a beginning: the opening salvo of an extinction event." Feature Excerpt: @kellymerka.bsky.social muses on man-made ecological change in Sable: buff.ly/v1QUIqW
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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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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is sort of the market failure in a nutshell. Journalism/print is worth so much but has a "free rider problem" (also it's biggest benefit!) and it has become super difficult to collect rent from advertisers.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kind of amazing how far we've come on "horse armor" over the last 20 years
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I didn't understand why people thought FF7 Rebirth was bloated until I found out there was a card game. Is there fishing too?
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not really sure I understand why people liked the Backrooms movie but it is probably the second best videogame adaptation. Not sure how else you could make The Sims work cinematically.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can't quite put my finger on it but there's something.... disdainful? In the way analog horror reproduces the pre-digital era? Idk it doesn't feel like a loving tribute as much as being regarded as a wasteland.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jensen Huang's comments about basic knowledge are interesting to me because: 1: He points out ways our systems are increasingly divorced from certain skills and knowledge. 2: He points out the way that he is specifically not required to participate in those systems.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anyone ever have a tap to pay transaction declined 30 minutes later?
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everything happens for a reason, especially if that reason is cowardice of screenwriters and studio executives.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pirelli kinda ruined this one. Honestly they should just bring the three softest tires every race.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really interested in Ace Combat 8 and its anti-war message vis-a-vis all of the defense contractors represented in the game.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Working on my essay on the idea of a narratively constructed hallway and when it works and when it doesn't and landing on the realization that the new Resident Evil movie is one of the greatest hallways ever made.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Any Android Auto users ever get a "plunk" or "ka-plonk" sound for basically no reason?
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
F1 penalities should not be capped at starting last or in the pits. If you get a penalty that exceeds the number of grid slots, you should start down laps like in the 24 Hours of Lemons.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Freddy Krueger: Hat and Red Shirt
Alt: Freddy Krueger putting on sunglasses
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I really enjoy the tried and true hero's arc of fighting a bad guy, fighting an evil version of yourself, joining forces with that evil version to defeat the metal/cyborg version of you, fighting an other that is your opposite in every way and much stronger than you, and then the return.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I feel like many, many games would benefit from a new game plus mode that just become super OP or clip through walls or whatever. I don't often want to replay a game to use a weapon with 1.3x damage but I would love to if I had a jetpack and an X-ray gun.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kind of a beautiful coincidence this landed on Sable's anniversary. A pleasure as always to work with @kellymerka.bsky.social along with all the regular rogues.
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KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
as always, I am thankful to Unwinnable for letting me run with this pitch and for @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social's thoughtful edits you can grab a copy here: unwinnable.bigcartel.com/product/unwi...
An image of Sable biking across the desert, accompanied by the text "The Damage Is Done, by KM Nelson."
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is really good and really outlines that there is a plan at work and it's success or failure have yet to be seen. McWhirter saying a lot of what has been seen elsewhere, Game Pass took what once would have been primary sales and diluted them.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Something I see a lot in peers is a kind of judgement where something is a bad idea it doesn't work out. I try to resist this sort of "ends based" thinking. I think something is bad idea if it costs you more than you can afford, ignored good info, didn't work hard enough to collect info.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's two things happening here that are really interesting to me. First, I think Nathan's evaluation of what is happening on an operational level is likely 100% correct. Second, I think there is a plan but one that is boring to gamers and speaks to institutional investors.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Kojima's publishing deal is looking really good right about now.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you'd like to know more about why Microsoft is doing this I wrote something for that! unwinnable.com/2026/07/29/l...
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Line Go Up - Unwinnable
But David, how do these super-mergers create value for the shareholders and why did we talk about the Italian Renaissance?
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I finished FF7 Remake last night and for almost 25 hours my prevailing thought was "when does this game get to the part people liked?" Eventually, I found it! The last 5ish hours are awesome! But that is weird when you could get to the same point in about 5 hours in 1997.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Has anyone named the whale movie yet? "Help I'm Trapped in a Whale" is really speaking to me and has some resonance with "The Beach that Makes You Old"
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Resident Evil is a good movie out now in theaters
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This also makes me miss a lot of super high concept arcade games of yester year
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kinda feel like they should have a new cast every episode. Maybe even a couple of times an episode.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yeah this is sort of an aspect I was worried about this, nothing in the pre release stuff made it look like it capitalized on anything I liked about the first game?
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Going to see Resident Evil on Saturday so muting the words Resident Evil but you could pay me to review it still
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Being a White Sox fan is so rough this time of year every year I have been alive except one.
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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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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Something I have been thinking about...there's a difference between what colleagues and other people do in this space with actual written work and what they post. There's something extra and weirdly distasteful about the enthusiastic skeets as opposed to milquetoast blogs.
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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 16/09/2026
"Mistria isn’t escapist as much as it is aspirational. But the effect is the same." @jaymcastello.bsky.social looks at Fields of Mistria's frictionless world: buff.ly/LPNPoEZ
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It's Always Sunny in Mistria - Unwinnable
Fields of Mistria isn’t escapist as much as it is aspirational. But the effect is the same.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Woah Shogun 2 remaster!? I will buy it but I kinda love how well it runs because it is older and doesn't have super high setting needs. Also I hope they don't fix the siege cheese.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Looking at Ziff Davis's financials, its kind of baffling that they're firing anyone unless they were preparing to start selling off parts of the company. The financials look pretty good! Line is going up! But line cannot go up enough when there are investors to satisfy!
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Wish my local lit fest would ban AI products
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I am genuinely not sure how much coalition Johnson has at this moment. Four years ago, that coalition really emerged when Paul Vallas was the front runner. Four years later, a lot of those coalition members would like to try the same thing again.
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Anyone have a donut tunnel for cat that their cat really likes? We have $30 in Chewy credit
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Give Lewis the meat ball flag
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I also think a lot of this problem comes from the fact that most games that are widely reviewed are pretty competent. Games like Mindseye sometimes get a lot of attention relative to how much actual anticipation there is and ultimately only serve to remind people there's a low end of the scale.
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