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Non-binary, communist, podcasting captain of Abnormal Mapping. 🎤♏️ they/them 🐻‍❄️ hey RT my pods!

Omaha, NE

https://t.co/5tWrLnwu82

Joined August 2008

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I know times are tight for everyone, but I'm going to be out of work for at least a month for recovery from the colectomy I had and the beginning of my cancer treatment. I sent up a gofundme to help cover the time out of work and initial bills.

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Help Em Begin Recovery from Cancer Surgery, organized by Em Marko

Hello, I'm Em, co-host of the Abnormal Mapping network of podcasts. In the middle … Em Marko needs your support for Help Em Begin Recovery from Cancer Surgery

www.gofundme.com

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4 years

I'll do one better: the very real people who made this game

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*been watching a lot of zelda videos in a depressed funk* underrated part of ocarina of time is how none of the child dungeons have small keys. they’re all natural places with more organic construction. it’s only in the future that ganon comes and puts doors and keys everywhere.

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did it work

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truly not prepared for this slime knight attack animation

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that gamers don’t see widescreen hacks for old 3d games as distasteful the same way movie people treat pan and scan is why nobody takes them seriously

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5 years

TDOV is strange because people treat it like pride when it should actually be the day cis people give every trans person they know $20

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4 years

Ebert was right that games aren’t art he just hadn’t identified the real reason: aggressive product testing to optimize emotional response like you’re creating a new flavor of coke

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Love to consider one's story getting leaked the worst thing that can happen to a person as that person's employees are working themselves to death I can just keep hanging this drum forever people should care more about the lives of workers than this asshole's feelings

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“It was one of the worst days of my life” – Neil Druckmann opens up on The Last of Us Part 2 leaks

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Remember when Polygon writers struggled to get their union recognized? Love to see them pay that worker solidarity forward

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1 year

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

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PLEASE stop breathlessly reporting that Nintendo's stock is dropping because they care about labor. Yes capitalism sucks but Nintendo's investors are particularly strange in that shares drop literally every time they do anything. Check these dates.

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2 years

damn if only there was a piece of media about the machine of society chewing up people’s best efforts to make something out of living through rampant exploitation and how discouraged we are on the other side

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Wario64

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Lead staff have involuntarily left ZA/UM since end of last year including Disco Elysium's lead designer/writer Robert Kurvitz, artist Aleksander Rostov, and writer Helen Hindpere ZA/UM cultural association has dissolved

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hm interesting juxtaposition, twitter

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COWARDS

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every big game on earth looks like this now

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I don't understand rich people who use twitter if I had money I'd absolutely get a place with a great kitchen and make food all day instead of be here

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5 years

The two sci-fi genres: Yesterday -> what if no Beatles Across the Universe -> what if Beatles but too much

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1 year

Here’s the thing, Spielberg is so good he can be doing annoying hack shit and it’ll still be better than many others’ best work

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NostalgiaCast / Back To Bluey

1 year

Re-watching INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, and isn't it odd how its prologue shows us how Indy got his hat, and his fear of snakes, and the scar on his chin, and his first time cracking a whip, and I love it so much, yet countless movies do the same thing now and I hate it.

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RAMBA RAL WAS THIRTY FIVE YEARS OLD AND HE LOVED HIS WIFE

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5 years

This is just a sensible response to global pandemic should not be radical AND YET

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Joe Calvello

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NEWS>>Bernie calls for the boldest legislation ever written in modern history.

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4 years

Being anti piracy is such a clown shoes position. You aren't supporting anyone but corporations by subscribing to services or buying Blu-rays. It's fine to get that stuff but let's not pretend that system rewards laborers for their work.

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2 years

how are all the vpn youtube ads gonna lie about how and why people use vpns now?

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Oh Netflix SUCKS sucks now

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Look, the Gundam is literally a metaphor for imperial might. IN FIRST GUNDAM, they call it the White Devil. GIVING SOMEONE THE GUNDAM MAKES THEM THE COPS. I thought everyone just knew this but nobody has watched Gundam or paid attention if they did. Sorry to spoil your fun.

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one of the most generous gifts you can give yourself is being willing to drop a game 85% in when they introduce the area with annoying switch puzzles with punitive fail states. Watch the final boss on youtube. Be free.

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4 years

one can simply defeat gambling exploitation by not falling for it, because personal responsibility i guess

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Gacha games can be exploitative, but if you know how they work, you can set your own price.

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5 years

Podcasts have thrived off of amateur passion hustling to grow audiences alone and find sustainability for a decade this big money celebrity splash is exploitation not a revolution

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Variety

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COVER STORY: How Conan O'Brien and other top hosts are driving the podcast revolution

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want to make an entire subculture of gamers sad instantly? one weird trick

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multiple people arguing that games don’t have authorial intent in the same way. as if aspect ratios, field of view, camera placement, character framing on the screen aren’t all decisions made by game developers. proving my point tbqh

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3 years

put it all in the public domain and walk away

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kp  🫡 𝕏

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You wake up as the new head of Disney. What would you do?

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it’s a nice world building touch, really makes the dungeons between child and adult feel different, esp when the child spirit temple isn’t like that bc it’s an ancient but complex building.

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4 years

this is the only day you can RT this

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3 years

Square Enix

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@headfallsoff $350. one of us gets to gloat in a few months.

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2 years

being taught things by your parents isn’t nepotism stop trying to conflate generational wealth and power with knowing how to make a bomb banana bread

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6 years

Adult Gohan wearing Goku's gi instead of Piccolo's outfit is top 5 anime betrayals.

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1 year

Waypoint was a whole adventure. Felt like a real moment, was always an aberration under Vice, (selfishly) still the only legitimate games site that has ever acknowledged Abnormal Mapping (we were on an episode how fucked up is that????) The era of my peers making good feels dead

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4 years

It took 11 episodes but Ultraman has finally gotten as good and weird as Ultra Q

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1 year

ff16 side quest: ah here’s a quest about how the goblins have been displaced to this desert cave and one guy is teaching them to forage to survive in a new land, clive approves very next quest 50 yards away: 6 evil goblins are menacing a guy. slaughter them! <end of quest text>

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4 years

everyone playing ffx for the first time says to themselves “no i’m going to be the one who gives blitzball a shot and actually enjoys it” every time the same result

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1 year

we have to go back. there are TWO OTHER NUMBERED FF BETWEEN THESE

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Moth (Comms OPEN!!)

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1 year

these games were released 4 years apart lol

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your favorite classic JRPG is given one of four fates: a. ugly pixel remaster b. ugly HD-2D remake c. AI upscaled port that will inexplicably be busted in some way d. never acknowledged again for as long as you live, sorry Mother 3 fans

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i’ve been laughing about chris redfield shooting the fuck out of mia in front of ethan and stealing his baby with no explanation for two days. truly top tier funny game plots

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4 years

orson welles is back baybeeeeeee

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4 years

this is honestly the most profound statement on games ever made

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4 years

Games journalists please learn what class is before you say every gamer needs to spend $600 during mass evictions and unemployment

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Ryan McCaffrey

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I was wrong to drink the "current-gen won't hold next-gen back" Kool-Aid. I've talked to enough people now. It might make sense for some games, but not AAA, system-seller kinds of big-budget productions. Cut bait on the old hardware. I wanna see what the new stuff can do.

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3 years

Think a lot about how two of the most meme-ified personality traits for Shepherd at the time were “uses being a cop to get discounts” and “punches a reporter for asking questions”

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With the Mass Effect Legendary Edition out today, we have to consider what the trilogy is really about: the necessity and privilege of being a massive cop.

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entertainment reporters who frame strikes in terms of the delays of your favorite franchises are doing the bosses’ jobs for them. worthless bastards all

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4 years

If you ask me the labor abuses and sexual harassment cover ups at Naughty Dog should already have deeply affected the reviews but if that doesn't count and shitty content that harms trans people doesn't count then what is there that makes reviews of AAA product worthwhile?

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3 years

Professor Layton and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known

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5 years

I hope I can always remain open to growth and change, but I also hope that if I do close my heart off some day I can do it with such self awareness

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Kamen Rider is so ridiculous I barely blinked at this premise until I got up to get a drink and it hit me like a truck

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did anyone ever interview someone at capcom about how clearly they didn’t know what they had with lady dimitrescu? like they saw the posts and were like “oh no she’s the first boss who goes down like a chump 3 hours in”

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it’s so funny the implication that isildur was a good king with great wisdom and power before he got the ring because they cast a guy who can only look like he stole your lunch out of the work fridge

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Damn even the supreme court was like 'better worlds are possible' just ... y'know, as their fear

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Jeff Stein

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The conservative Supreme Court justices argued that allowing the Biden eviction moratorium to remain could pave way for these kinds of outcomes

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The Booster fandom needed a win. New generations need to love the coolest guy in Mario

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3 years

limited run games is bad for old games, bad for new games, bad for preservation

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3 years

imo, aggressive generational subdivisions like the idea of geriatric millennial exist to keep people from recognizing their shared class interests and working for common cause it’s way better for our bosses if we’re busy fighting people for being five years off from us

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the problem with getting enough sleep is you have to do it every goddamn day. no way. what a scam

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6 years

Consider a Cowboy Bebop that is adapted like Netflix's Death Note. Spike is a former narco hitman who teams up with a retired CIA agent and a woman who lost her memory on 9/11. Takes place entirely in Vegas.

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it’s not that there isn’t design here it’s that the player does not care to see it or take it as seriously

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5 years

I understand nobody in games has any memory ever but Google is free and I promise Nintendo has historically delayed their biggest games almost every time and the stocks do what they all independent of each other or pressure about dev conditions.

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6 years

This is a Roux and Elle appreciation zone.

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kingdom hearts is just ready player one for gay people

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erasing all popular anime writing online by making it illegal to state that new seasonal genre show revolutionizes the genre by doing things every entry in the genre has done for decades

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wubba dubba dubba ‘s that true?

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Someone at Naughty Dog is angrily shredding their script for Uncharted 5 page by page as the Dora the Explorer trailer loops

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My favorite piece of Waypoint criticism is this Game of the Year podcast with Austin and Natalie. I think this is some of the best work anyone has ever done, I think about it all the time and aspire to be this good every time I get on a mic

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Our Favorite Games of 2018: Austin and Natalie Don't Know How to Shut Up

We spent two hours talking about our favorite games of 2018... and another 45 minutes on 'Undertale.' Sorry, not sorry.

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4 years

collectors markets are as bad for preservation as corporations pushing endless new product

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BRO

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the RG Zeong is so sick! i love this king no legs in space!

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this is genuinely outrageous an entire decade of work will basically be unavailable to anyone who doesn’t find used copies or hack these platforms

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via a source: "PSP’s and PS3’s [PSN] stores are to be closed on July 2, while the PS Vita store will stay open until August 27. After those dates, you will no longer be able to purchase digital copies of games or DLC for any of the Sony consoles mentioned above."

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sorry for off tv filming but this is SO WILD

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5 years

Really love star wars for the iconic designs like Slaves I II III and IV

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3 years

you mean they’re buying abandoned banks?

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Taco Bell wants to revolutionize the drive-thru experience with a new design 🌮

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Can't believe Nichijou is finally getting a video game.

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@MarioBrothBlog

Supper Mario Broth

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In Super Mario 64, punching Big Goombas seemingly does nothing. However, internally, it actually activates their "mark_goomba_as_dead()" function, so they exist in a state where the game considers them already dead. Leaving and coming back will cause them to not respawn.

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6 years

Venom Snake finally did it.

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A 'Fallout 76' bug has disabled all nuclear weapons in the game

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It's almost like all the language around 'buy the game to ensure devs get bonuses' was just feeding into the very problems we've all been yelling about for literal years.

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Houser brothers expected to receive bulk of $538m Red Dead royalties Analyst predicts big payout for Rockstar founders and 'a few key insiders'

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twitter dot com

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i’m sorry but the rock saying The HIERARCHY of power in the DC UNIVERSE is about to CHANGE is truly maybe the most memorable thing to come out of superhero cinema. Utterly meaningless, factually inaccurate, ceaselessly on brand. that’s why he’s the fuckin rock

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5 years

Never forget!

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feels like every week people want to think they can discern the good studios and good actors after every new big story and there simply isn't any. all bosses are bad, all companies are culpable, this is the culture of such power structures

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the best thing you can do if you’re being exploited by your company is to tell me so i can get paid off the info

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Jason Schreier

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@jeffgezy Organize, talk to a reporter, leave angry Glassdoor reviews... anything that doesn't hurt the rest of your team like this

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7 years

This article doesn't float curtailing executive pay, organized and ethical labor, and scaling products to sustainable levels so what's the point of asking the question when you ignore obvious answers?

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Loot boxes suck, but what takes their place?

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tfw your cheery friend tries to understand your depression

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i think if you view watching gundam as an insurmountable hill to climb you should con your friend into doing it a few episodes a week together for a decade idk pretty easy solution imo

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@headfallsoff gods strongest soldiers lying to themselves that lbp is good for fifteen years

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bro this is nuclear level scummy

@PaulTassi

Paul Tassi

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New info about the Bungie layoffs. Per a source:

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I always think about the noclip documentary about CDPR from years ago where they talk about how their origins were trying to convince post-Soviet Polish gamers used to piracy that capitalism was good and people should pay for games because it was good for devs and gamers

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Jason Schreier

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NEW: following the flop of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt board members are set to receive huge bonuses ranging from $4 to $6 million. Meanwhile, some employees say they got lower bonuses than expected because the board wouldn’t delay the game:

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excuse you disney already HAS a joker

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this late title splash knocked me on my ass. manga is GOOD

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Bayonetta 3 is taking so long because they can't find a better hairstyle than the first two games

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sudoku? no thanks, I prefer the real one

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I’d throw every game of the last 20 years into a volcano to get an english version of this

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Catsuka

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Souvenir of "Boku no Natsuyasumi" PS1 video game (2000).

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In the universal century mankind moved its burgeoning population to space

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Dia's meditations on games are always thoughtful and often profound but when it comes to From games her work becomes an elegy for us and for the games in an appropriately cyclical road into the dark. What I'm saying is it's GOOD, fuckin READ THIS

@PasteMagazine

Paste Magazine

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In Sekiro's Hanbei the Undying, we see a reflection of our own trauma and exhaustion, writes @dialacina

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One time years ago my partner pointed out she only ever heard gamers say ‘spiritual successor’ and its haunted me ever since

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Waypoints brought it up again but honestly it is OUTRAGEOUS the current EIC of Marvel pretended to be Japanese for years and everyone knows and he still has his job. I flip out every time I remember.

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