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6 months

we got so tired of hearing everyone ask “why isn’t there a defector for games” that we decided to make our own. welcome to aftermath

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

2 years

games should stop aspiring to be like cinema because cinema could never aspire to this

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@Kotaku

2 years

Elden Ring speedrunner kills toughest bosses with only his ass:

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

5 years

little known fact: bill nye is short for william new years eve

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@Vahn16

9 months

if you're not using baldur's gate's speak with animals spell, you're missing out

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

5 years

love to watch twitter get brutally owned in this exact way every time it tries to pretend it's a person

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 years

direction that results in crunch is, by definition, bad direction

Kotaku

@Kotaku

3 years

Games Made Under Crunch Conditions Don’t Deserve ‘Best Direction’ Awards

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 years

maybe I’m just tired and/or have been trapped inside for the better part of the past two months, but goldo is the funniest shit I’ve seen in my life

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

2 years

just emailed the white house. can't wait to hear back

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

2 years

earlier this year @ironmouse streamed nonstop for 31 days. it was a huge undertaking; IRL she suffers from a chronic illness that's kept her isolated and bedridden for years. I interviewed her about how she became twitch's biggest vtuber in spite of that:

How a pink-haired anime girl became one of Twitch’s biggest stars

"[She] is me, but more like a coat," said Ironmouse of her online persona. "She’s a bigger version of me.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

1 year

there is only one real gamer in the world and it's this person

MissMikkaa

@MissMikkaa

1 year

I BEAT MARGIT AND GODRICK (!!) today on my Ultimate Challenge run where I play Elden Ring two times simultaneously (dance pad & controller). It was really hard but we got it in the end! Very satisfying Margit kill where I walk off the battlefield into gravity in the end.

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 years

it doesn't get much more on the nose than this

Kotaku

@Kotaku

3 years

Hogwarts Legacy Lead Designer Used To Run Anti-Social Justice YouTube Channel

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

2 years

The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

2 years

Netflix is staging a real-life #SquidGame series that’s billed as “the biggest reality competition ever." #SquidGame : The Challenge will include 456 players in real competition in a series of games for a record-setting $4.56 million cash prize:

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

2 years

twitch has suspended two popular political streamers, @hasanthehun and @VaushV , for using the word “cracker,” which twitch seemingly considers a slur

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

5 years

every time blizzard purports to make a game about a better world, battling against an unfair status quo, or empowering marginalized people, think about this. think about the company's real world actions when money is on the line

Blizzard Suspends Hearthstone Player For Hong Kong Support, Pulls Prize Money

Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai, a pro Hearthstone player from Hong Kong, ended a stream earlier this week with a statement of support for those engaged in months-long protests against local police and...

kotaku.com

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 years

just got released after being detained by police in a parking garage (and then a series of immobile buses where I almost certainly got exposed to covid) for 14 hours as part of richmond’s crackdown on protests/riots. will have more thoughts later, but for now: acab

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

9 months

lmao at the fact that this is greg kasavin, who went on to write bastion, transistor, pyre, hades, and now hades 2

wwwdotcyder 🖥️🏄

@HotCyder

9 months

"Games Journalists" today would never open a video essay like this 😢

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

7 years

don't 👏🏻 break 👏🏻 up 👏🏻 with 👏🏻 orcs 👏🏻 via 👏🏻 text 👏🏻 message

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

5 years

with the blade reboot announced and taika waititi continuing to direct thor, we now exist in a universe where it's not entirely inconceivable that the vampires from what we do in the shadows will cameo in a marvel movie and thereby become part of the canon

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

5 months

evergreen post

Lead Actor from Pixar’s Sodas

@ByYourLogic

5 months

I can’t believe I’m defending the God of War reboot games! I fucking hate them! but what is this even supposed to mean? yeah, I would hope a live service multiplayer focused game would have more active players than a 4 year old single player campaign

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 years

if I was "committed to making activision blizzard the most welcoming, inclusive, and safe workplace possible," I would simply not destroy sexual harassment evidence

Kotaku

@Kotaku

3 years

California steps in to prevent Activision Blizzard destroying sexual harassment evidence:

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

2 months

there's been debate over the years about how much articles from press harm under-the-radar fan projects based on popular series. according to pokemon's former chief lawyer, who @LukePlunkett interviewed, the answer is: a lot

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 years

after twitch and the army received widespread criticism for a series of fake giveaways in which the army offered viewers a chance to win a nice controller, only to dump them into a recruitment page, twitch has forced the army to stop

Twitch Forces U.S. Army To Stop Tricking Viewers With Fake Giveaways

The U.S. Army has a Twitch channel that it uses to fish for potential recruits. Last week, it came under fire for issuing bans to viewers who asked about war crimes. This week, a report by The Nation...

kotaku.com

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

5 years

pewdiepie is, once again, doing exactly what neo-nazis want. whether he's just memeing or he ascribes to these values, it doesn't matter. what matters is that he normalizes these ideas as jokes on THE platform where kids increasingly get their first exposure to the world at large

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 months

sony is forcing a popular fan game, bloodborne kart, to rebrand days before launch. creator is grateful the game got this far and will be able to release eventually, but imo it still feels like sony benefitted from good pr for years and then screwed over fans at the last second

🪄✨ PSX Bunlith 🐰🏳️‍⚧️ BLM ACAB 🇵🇸

@b0tster

4 months

WHELP. IT HAPPENED Sony contacted me 🫣 Long story short I need to scrub the branding off of what was previously known as Bloodborne Kart, which we will do. But that requires a short delay. Don't worry, the game is still coming out! It'll just look slightly different 💙

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 years

you, a fool: I'm playing genshin impact bc it's breath of the wild but with anime girls me, wise:

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

2 years

this week twitch suspended three streamers, @hasanthehun , @vaushv , and @fawnchild_ , for saying "cracker." many have protested twitch's decision, citing much larger problems with anti-black racism and a lack of action against ableist slurs. my story:

Twitch suspension of Hasan Piker sparks debate over what qualifies as racist language

The suspension also prompted questions about how the live-streaming platform administers punishments for offensive language.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 years

if I was a child in the era of covid, I would simply throw out my video games, go outside, watch neighbors I cannot interact with pass by, reflect on the childhood I'm being deprived of by a society that does not care about me, and weep for several hours

The New York Times Is Worried Kids Are Playing Video Games Too Much During The Pandemic

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story that focused on how kids are spending too much time playing video games and using their phones during the covid-19 pandemic. Today, that story was on the...

kotaku.com

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 years

us army is back on twitch. not playing video games yet. just sporadically responding to chat. this is chat:

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

6 years

tfw you're trying to convince everybody that things are going gr8, but actually you're a fetus that was incubated inside norman reedus

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

11 months

lmao RIP to this sad joke of a website

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

5 months

triple-a game development is not sustainable

AmericanTruckSongs9

@ethangach

5 months

Hacked files released online as part of a malicious ransomware attack offer a glimpse at the complex challenges Insomniac faces juggling teams, projects, and budgets to deliver top-tier games while contending with potential cost-cutting measures from Sony

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 years

saw that onlyfans is banning sexually explicit content and immediately thought of something very smart (but also very grim) @acvalens told me earlier this year

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

9 months

video games: imagine a mindbogglingly vast universe with near-infinite worlds to explore also video games: imagine there’s only one band, and it’s imagine dragons

Starfield

@StarfieldGame

9 months

Explore the many worlds of #Starfield with a special song from @ImagineDragons .

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

1 year

incredibly funny/depressing that the actor hewn from diamond specifically to play geralt and superman is now playing neither

Rob Keyes

@rob_keyes

1 year

Henry Cavill is officially out as both Geralt in The Witcher and... Superman in the DCU. Here's a 🧵 on this wild news.

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

7 months

[narrator voice] 1.5 years later

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

5 years

this was on the teleprompter midway through sonicfox’s speech, but he dgaf #thegameawards

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 years

shit's bleak, y'all

Kotaku

@Kotaku

3 years

No one can fully explain this baffling Roblox ad scam

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 years

botw 2 is a battle royale, confirmed

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 years

my extremely lukewarm take is that activision blizzard should probably not be allowed to pay its way out of a jam caused directly and indirectly by its executives for less than some of those executives make in a year

Kellen Browning

@Kellen_Browning

3 years

Breaking: Activision Blizzard is settling with a federal employment agency (EEOC), which just filed a complaint accusing it of sexual harassment and discrimination. Creating an $18 million fund to "to compensate and make amends." Story coming soon.

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 years

wow, fuck this!!

jordan

@JordanUhl

4 years

103 Democrats just joined Republicans to continue the military's predatory recruiting practices on Twitch

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

2 months

found out about akira toriyama's death while in the gym, where I would not have been if not for the influence of dragon ball z, which basically invented the nerd-to-workout-nerd pipeline

DRAGON BALL OFFICIAL

@DB_official_en

2 months

Information ; Dear Friends and Partners

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

2 months

g/o media is effectively forcing kotaku to pivot away from news and demanding that its staff of seven writers churn out an impossible number of guides per week. not what writers signed up for and not why people visit kotaku in the first place. stupid and cruel

Aftermath

@Aftermath_site

2 months

Kotaku EIC resigns over new editorial edict

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

2 years

keffals, one of the most popular trans streamers on twitch, remains suspended after an appeal. this follows a meteoric rise and clashes with centrist/right-wing personalities, which you can read about in @TaylorLorenz ’s profile of her from last month:

The trans Twitch star delivering news to a legion of LGBTQ teens

Clara Sorrenti, a 28-year-old Canadian known online as Keffals, built her fanbase by leaning into news and politics on the platform that is mostly used by gamers.

www.washingtonpost.com

koofal

@keffals

2 years

twitch rejected my appeal. I am banned for another 28 days for displaying a list of hateful slurs that were actually hurled at me by bigots in order to illustrate the kind of harassment I receive for being an openly trans twitch streamer. I have never been this disappointed

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@Vahn16

2 years

NEW: following playstation head jim ryan's email urging employees to respect "differences of opinion" surrounding abortion (and then going on about his cats), insomniac plans to donate $50,000 to a reproductive rights organization, which sony will match

After Roe v. Wade cat email gaffe, Sony and Insomniac plan donations

Neither Sony nor Insomniac plan to tweet about their donations, and Insomniac employees have been forbidden from mentioning either company on social media in the context of donations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 months

last month sony announced a movie adaptation of until dawn. this month, 90 layoffs at the studio that made the game

Supermassive Games

@SuperMGames

3 months

A statement from Supermassive Games.

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 years

twitch mainstay @drlupo just signed an exclusive deal with youtube. I spoke to him about why, and he did not beat around the bush: this means he's functionally set for life and can ease off a grueling streaming schedule to spend more time with his family

Twitch star DrLupo signs exclusive YouTube deal, now ‘secure for life’

"Everybody's just trying to secure the bag, right?" Lupo said. "There's no shame in that."

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

6 years

this is a galactically bad take, but it’s also a perfect encapsulation of how right-leaning people (and many self-described gamers) view advocacy of pretty much any sort. nobody cares about anything! it HAS to be self-interested posturing, virtue signaling, etc

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@Vahn16

2 months

went to tonight’s stardew valley concert in nyc, and @ConcernedApe gave a short speech about making music: “no one ever wanted to listen to my music. so after many years of failure, I’ve finally discovered the secret: all I had to do was develop an entire video game from scratch”

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@Vahn16

2 years

NEW: blackbird, the 300-person studio behind homeworld and hardspace: shipbreaker, is switching to a 4-day workweek after a lengthy trial. 100% of employees —many on a team perilously late in development—said they wanted to make it permanent. my report:

A video game studio moved to a four-day workweek. It ‘saved us,’ employees say.

After a months-long test period, workers voted nearly unanimously in favor of the change.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

5 years

what you need to know is that blink 182 just shouted out untitled goose game, and yes, this is the actual reality we live in

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 years

fun fact!

In Case You Missed It, Reagan Was A Scumbag

America’s 40th president was a lot of things: a right-wing talk radio host, a Hollywood actor, a Red Scare monger, a charismatic liar. A great leader wasn’t one of them but for some reason Call of...

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 years

jk rowling will forever be remembered as a person who could have shut the fuck up after 2007, but for some reason did not

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

8 years

video games: where people are more likely to stand up for a fake woman's butt than a real woman's job

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2 months

NEW: sweet baby, a small video game narrative studio, has found itself at the heart of a massive anti-woke conspiracy theory – a wild one involving blackrock (yes, that blackrock). it's obviously untrue, but on the modern internet, that barely matters

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 years

I got taken in for breaking curfew. a group of at least 20 armed, armored police officers and national guard members told me and two other people to go home. we tried to go home. when we made it halfway down the block, they gave chase and told us we were under arrest

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 years

if you're wondering why ninja is trending, it's because he participated in one of the most incredible trainwrecks to ever grace this website

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@Vahn16

3 years

obscure amateur streamer @AOC is on top of twitch again

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@Vahn16

3 years

alright, I can finally announce this: next week I’m starting my new job as a video game reporter at the @washingtonpost . extremely excited!

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@Vahn16

5 years

you know an esports scene has issues when a) someone identifying as a woman feels the need to hide her identity, and b) the community proceeds to demonstrate exactly why anyone would take those precautions in the first place

Overwatch Pro Quits After Harassment Over Whether She Was Really Playing [UPDATE]

Update - 10:30 PM, 1/04/19: Since the publication of this story, new signs have emerged that Ellie may not have been who people thought she was. Earlier today, Aspen, an Overwatch streamer for...

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 months

I see people turning up their noses and tut tutting at this, blaming The Kids for eventual election results. it’s the job of politicians to enthuse voters and give them what they want. if politicians are not accomplishing this, THEY have failed; young people have not failed them

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

3 years

hmmm

Kotaku

@Kotaku

3 years

Riot Games Says It Finds No Evidence Of Wrongdoing By CEO Accused Of Sexual Harassment

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@Vahn16

4 months

lmao, I was doing all these things at WaPo. they still laid me off. you cannot make yourself indispensable to companies that see human beings as disposable/interchangeable — and, with AI in the picture, replaceable

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No. What it comes down to is, if you wanna make it/survive, you have to make yourself indispensable. You have to be able to do 100 things. Can't just be a writer. Have to be a podcaster, a Tik Toker, a blogger. It's just reality. It sucks. It's grinding. It blows. But it's true.

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5 years

here it is, the rarest diamond in all the world: an objectively correct take

An Easy Mode Has Never Ruined A Game

In video games, easy is a dirty word, even when it shouldn’t be. There’s something about the word “easy” that rubs some players as condescending, something that we should maybe leave behind—except...

kotaku.com

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 months

NEW: after yesterday's confusion, we have a clearer picture of who was hit by the microsoft/activision blizzard layoffs, and it's not pretty

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@Vahn16

5 years

frog detective 2: it’s good

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@Vahn16

2 years

the white house, evidently run by cowards, will not say if joe biden the guilty gear player and joe biden the president are one and the same

‘Joe Biden’ has been dominating a niche fighting game for years

In fighting game series “Guilty Gear,” Joe Biden has been striking fear into the hearts of his rivals.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@Vahn16

3 years

animal crossing is finally realistic

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@knittedsweater

3 years

gamers..

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@Vahn16

2 years

hate it when companies make these sorts of comparisons bc size means nothing. tons of mediocre games have enormous maps stuffed with repetitive filler content. prey was great because of map density, design, and focus, not square footage

IGN

@IGN

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Just one section of Redfall’s map is bigger in size than the entirety of Talos I, the space station setting of Prey.

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@Vahn16

5 years

finally, I can call myself a post-hardcore gamer

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@pcgamer

5 years

Research says 'casual' and 'hardcore' no longer accurately describe today's gamers

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@Vahn16

2 months

this kinda lays the whole thing bare. a lot of these people don't even care about the games they're trying to police all that much! some who've latched on do, sure, but the crusade itself is what they're here for. no amount of explaining how things work will change that

Megan Farokhmanesh

@Megan_Nicolett

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The person who started Sweet Baby Inc Detected says he's not actually played some of the games he claims he detected a "pattern" in

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2 years

went to the booth just now. talked to a person staffing it and got answers to questions I’ve seen floating around: -not twitch’s. booth is a collaboration between intel and lenovo -the foam pit is now closed. they shut it down at noon bc people were breaking rules (and bones)

Jake Lucky

@JakeSucky

2 years

Probably the most painful thing I’ve seen in awhile. Twitch streamer Adriana Chechik has confirmed broken her back in two separate places following this jump at TwitchCon

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5 years

glad to see red dead authentically representing the great boat calamity of 1899, a plague in which identical boats rained from the sky for 13 days and 13 nights because god was mad at americans for industrializing

Mysterious Boats Are Falling Out Of The Sky In Red Dead Online

Red Dead Online’s beta launched this week, and it’s a looser, sillier experience than the main game. But a beta mean glitches, and there’s been nothing stranger than the cavalcade of burnt-out boats...

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@Vahn16

4 years

the ones who arrested me were *giddy* to be rolling with the national guard and their arsenal, too. they were having the time of their life pretending to be soldiers, laughing and joking as they talked about cutting off protesters and chasing down a black guy in a red hoodie

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@Vahn16

2 years

get ready, because with hollywood starting to run low on comics and books, expect to see basically every video game you've ever heard of get a tv/film adaptation

Netflix Tudum

@NetflixTudum

2 years

Would you kindly…get excited because Netflix is partnering with 2K and Take-Two Interactive to produce a film adaptation of the renowned video game franchise BIOSHOCK!

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hell is someone at karaoke breathlessly trying to tell you why uber, lyft, and corporations are good and any sort of government is bad, and then they go in and sing rage against the machine

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

6 years

ninja’s stance here is thorny as hell. while I get where he’s coming from (people IMMEDIATELY start gossiping about/harassing women who interact w big male streamers), this lends credence to the idea that women *are* different and should be treated as such

Ninja explains his choice not to stream with female gamers

‘The only way to avoid [the rumors] is to not play with them at all’

www.polygon.com

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@Vahn16

6 years

I've found it, the least surprising tweet in history

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

6 years

@scoti5 @levine Bioshock is amazing

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@Vahn16

3 years

at the very least, this functions as a look at the inner machinations of big companies when it comes to far-right extremism, gamergate, etc. they try to feign ignorance when they really step in it (see THQ going on 8chan), but the truth is that they know. they just don't care

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@Vahn16

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there are 3,084 mods for crusader kings ii and 141 mods for crusader kings iii, and *none* of them turn all the characters into members of donkey kong's extended family (aka crusader kongs)

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@Vahn16

4 years

in some cases, officers tricked people. the guy from out of town was there to take photos and maybe pitch them to a magazine. he casually chatted with officers for an hour prior to curfew, during which time they did not inform him of curfew. when curfew began, they arrested him

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@Vahn16

10 months

guy whose company notoriously inflated numbers to convince people to publish video on his platform says new platform has attracted an enormous number of people

Dexerto

@Dexerto

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Mark Zuckerberg claims his new Twitter competitor passed 30 million sign ups

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@Vahn16

4 years

when I said "that's awfully specific given what I just told you" he replied "oh uh that's a general area haha uh here I'll note that you were just downtown" and changed it. he was trying to pin me to a specific location/officer without evidence, right? I'm not misreading this?

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@Vahn16

3 years

dipshits coming out of the woodwork to pretend like my tweets have in any way impacted their awareness of a game based on *checks paper* one of the single most popular series in human history is the funniest shit on earth

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@Vahn16

2 years

bigger story on why g4 failed coming soon, but for now a major theme: failure to acclimate to the YT/twitch era despite desperation to fit in. former employees tell me some major content creators charged day rates of $25,000-$30,000. not sustainable!

G4 shuts down after layoffs, high-profile talent departures

Comcast's video game-centric channel hoped to reboot amid heightened interest in gaming culture.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@Vahn16

3 years

as hate raids worsen, streamers implore twitch to do better. but this is more than just a twitch problem. I investigated the openly racist, homophobic discord servers that plan hate raids and discovered how they stay one step ahead of the banhammer

Twitch hate raids are more than just a Twitch problem, and they’re only getting worse

Since Twitch addressed "hate raids," where trolls bombard marginalized streamers with derogatory language, the raids have only gotten worse.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@Vahn16

4 years

alright, now that I've rested a little: here's what happened and why it was just a completely unjustified, irresponsible response from police at every turn

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@Vahn16

4 years

glad to see miles morales fighting one of spider-man's most famous enemies: ubisoft's hyper scape

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@Vahn16

3 years

he's dead, folks

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@Vahn16

4 years

"so all of you were rioting last night, huh?" "I heard you threw a brick through a window." stuff like that. these claims were unsubstantiated. cops made them just to see if they'd stick

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@Vahn16

4 years

I heard stories like this from countless people I talked to while we were all detained: a woman who got arrested while walking to her car, a man who got taken from his own porch, a man from out of town who didn't even know there was a curfew

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@Vahn16

4 years

perhaps... it is generally very bad that we live in a world where countless companies and other entities relentlessly and unaccountably collect our data. maybe... we should do something about that instead of just this one app. idk, just spitballing here

chasing the dopamine

@randileeharper

4 years

you play fortnite. tencent owns 40% of epic. tencent is a chinese company.

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@Vahn16

6 years

you say north carolina teen, I say north carolina hero

As Tornado Closes In, North Carolina Teen Just Keeps Playing Fortnite

Last night, as a tornado ravaged Greensboro, North Carolina, a local teen was just staying put trying to survive the storm in Fortnite Battle Royale, he told local news station WXII 12.

kotaku.com

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@Vahn16

4 years

oh hey it's @jon_bois just casually writing one of the best paragraphs about games I've ever read

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@Vahn16

1 year

so cool how marketing now rules the world to the extent that utility no longer matters, that the internet is basically robots tricking people into clicking on trash

@carlivelocci.com on the other app

@velocciraptor

1 year

"But the robot articles published on CNET don’t need to be “good” — they need to rank highly in Google searches so lots of people open them and click the lucrative affiliate marketing links they contain." 👆👆👆👆

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@Vahn16

4 years

this is gross even by their low standards

jordan

@JordanUhl

4 years

Fucking disgusting The Navy recruiters on @Twitch are playing Among Us and two players are named "Nagasaki" and "Japan 1945," celebrating the US war crimes in Japan.

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@Vahn16

3 years

both the mario brothers are now dead. it's canon

Wake Up, Sheeple: Luigi Is Still Dead

I’m Nathan Grayson, host of Nint-Infowars, coming to you live from THE BOTTOM OF A HOLE from which I’m now forced to broadcast after having been banned from all social media and also the earth’s...

kotaku.com

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

5 years

valve spent years cultivating a hyper-toxic "pro-consumer" user base via inaction and avoidant rhetoric, and now it's using messaging that seems *highly* likely to get that user base to throw a fit and lash out at people who don't put their games on steam

Valve Says It's 'Unfair' That Metro Exodus Is Exclusive To Epic Store

Metro Exodus, true to its name, is exiting Steam. The post-apocalyptic shooter will only appear on the Epic Games Store when it launches on February 15, and will stay there exclusively until 2020....

kotaku.com

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Nathan Grayson

@Vahn16

4 years

they did not allow us to make a phone call, nor did they read us our rights. over time, we started to worry that friends and family thought we were dead. but they refused to charge us or tell us anything. even the talkative ones claimed that they did not know what was happening

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@Vahn16

3 years

hi, person who was literally present at gamergate ground zero here, and... no, nope, absolutely not lmao

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