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Steve Watts

@sporkyreeve.bsky.social

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Editor at GameSpot. No, not the store in the mall, the other one. (he/him)

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · Jan 2

This is a cool idea and despite my near-certainty that I'll eventually miss a day and feel bad, I'm going to give it a shot.

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · Jan 2

Get to know my game taste in 365 games!

For 2025, I'm going to post every day about a game that has been meaningful to me. Might not be the "best" games, or even my "favorites," but they're all ones that have stuck with me in one way or another, in rough ascending order of impact.

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 13h

“Trump admin requests a stay pending appeal”

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 14h

It’s so funny how we got a thousand credulous op-eds about how Charlie’s death cut deep because he was practically a son to Donald and then he shows up to the memorial like “welp guess he shoulda ducked like I did lol”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 14h

Who decided that all stovetops must be at standing height, why can’t I just sit down to cook

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 16h

Couldn't quite land that plane huh

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 19h

Lots of young people (and especially young men) go through an edgelord phase and then grow out of it. A big problem right now that we need to solve is that an entire political party encourages and rewards edgelord shitposting, so it's no longer seen as a thing to grow out of.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 19h

286. Team Fortress 2

I was obsessed with this game for a year. Unfortunately, I was playing on Xbox 360, which did not get much post-launch support and suffered a dwindling player base. To my credit, I was *very* good among 360 players. Sort of a big fish in a small pond situation.

#365games

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 19h

285. Torchlight

As of the time this came out, Diablo 3 hadn't, so it was seen as beating Blizzard to the punch. I actually hadn't played a Diablo before so this was my first proper intro to the genre. I like its Steampunk vibe that differentiates it, but Torchlight 3 was not great.

#365games

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 19h

284. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

What if you could pull a got danged Star Destroyer out of the got danged sky? That was basically the pitch. An in-canon (kinda) story about Vader's OP apprentice. It's a little silly now but it as great fun rag-dolling Stormtroopers around.

#365games

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 19h

283. Retro Game Challenge

Backing up to DS because I remembered this little gem. It was sort of a fake retro compilation with play-alikes for classic games, with a little in-universe fiction including magazines. Anyone who knows my affection for UFO 50 should be able to understand this.

#365games

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 20h

282. WarioWare DIY

Before Roblox and Fortnite there was a big stir over "UGC" or User Generated Content. See, the players make the games for you! WarioWare was a cool direction for this with simple logic strings and pre-made assets. I suspect it's ho we later got Game Builder Garage.

#365games

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 20h

281. Mega Man 10

I'm not sure why they did the 8-bit gimmick twice. The first time it was novel (but bonkers hard) and the second time it was less so. A better-made game, altogether, because it learned the lessons of the first, but the novelty wasn't there a second time around.

#365games

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 21h

28. October Panic

An impulse purchase meant to be played in one sitting, which probably takes like 30-40 minutes. So not a lot to it but cute art and fun seasonal flavor. The Dracula power-up is so OP that it's never worth picking up anything else.

store.steampowered.com/app/3165420/...

October Panic on Steam

An arcade-style platformer with five levels and no saving/loading. A small trick-or-treat bag packed to the brim with both treats and tricks.

store.steampowered.com

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

I maintain that the best thing about that stupid-ass event was the great illustration of Spidey getting his ass beat within an inch of his life and still getting back up.

Second place is the Phoenix costume designs.

End of list.

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

The X political position in the big AvX crossover event was so obviously lopsidedly wrong that it as impossible to take their side, and has only gotten more so in light of real-life events.

"Should being legit under threat entitle you to a world-ending superweapon and no oversight?" fuckin'... no.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

Until fairly recently my wife’s parents had the same phone number they did when we were dating and I dialed it from memory so many times I never forgot it

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

Literally any of them

Sophia Loren

Mario Puzo

Mario Mario

Your local deli owner

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s roots are too deep” is conservative crank speak for “it has become too popular which we knew would happen and that’s why we tried so hard to prevent it”

James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson: It's Obama's fault that we can't repeal Obamacare.

Jake Sherman: "JOHNSON this AM: 'Can we completely repeal and replace Obamacare? Many of us are skeptical about that now, because the roots are so deep, it was really sinister, the way it was created. I believe Obamacare was created to implode upon itself, to collapse upon itself.'”

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

Finished the Lego Game Boy set tonight and man, what a cool little build. Love the little touches like the swappable lenticular screens and how you can actually feel the click of inserting a cart.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think they’ve got a ton of experience with correcting him

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

Clearly a coverup after those big boys with Ditka mustaches saw native Chicagoans, realized they had for the first time in their lives found their real home, and defected

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2d

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not super observant anymore but this is, like, core Christianity 101 stuff. So basic and fundamental to the entire concept that there’s just no way to call yourself a Christian if you don’t get it. It’s baffling.

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

If there’s one belief central to Christianity it’s that no one is beyond redemption and you aren’t saved by good works. The idea that you’ve been so bad that you’re beyond grace, or that you have the power to earn it yourself with goodness, is totally antithetical to the whole religion.

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

I remember when evangelical Christians tried to pretend he was sincerely a Christian convert, and excused his weird apostasy as him simply being inexperienced. A “baby Christian” they called him.

They don’t say that so much anymore.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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