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Adam McVay
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Video & Film Editor | BFA in Motion Pictures | Video Game Analyst | Writer | Artist | Voice Actor | Lead at ADAMNATOR, http://youtube.com/adamnator | EDITOR of Award-Winning Short Film “Stowaway” (dir. Benjamin Hollinger)
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The very unfortunate passing of Rebecca Heineman has also lined up with other developments and findings involving her 3DO port of Doom.

So I’m making an update video because there’s enough for a whole video. I was originally planning on just a short!
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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need to know this video is on this website
November 14, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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I cosign every single word of this

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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What I saw.
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Happy Half-Life 1 Day. My favorite game of all time.

Celebrate by watching the most insane thing I ever got to make, until a year later when I got to do it again.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ3...
Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary
YouTube video by Valve
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Double-checked terminology for this post, my google history now includes “lungs areola”
God I expose my lungs to the even just a BIT of dusty air particulates and I can practically feel my alveoli recoil with sudden onset Burning Sensation, thanks fellas

Asthma’s no joke bucko, puff em if you got em
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
God I expose my lungs to the even just a BIT of dusty air particulates and I can practically feel my alveoli recoil with sudden onset Burning Sensation, thanks fellas

Asthma’s no joke bucko, puff em if you got em
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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This rules, this is the way to name a kid. Stop all the bullshit with baby name gurus and just pick the two movies you went to last, pick two characters in those movies. Boom you’ve got a kid named Zora Galactus, you were never gonna pick a name that good Hollywood did it for you.
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I wrote about the career of the late Tatsuya Nagamine, his creative strengths on projects like Dragon Ball Super: Broly and the One Piece anime's Wano arc, and how he influenced his staff to produce their best work: www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I love this idea:

“anytime a billionaire is asked for public comment on anything, someone with < $1,000 in the bank should get equal time to offer a rebuttal.”
In this week's newsletter I wrote about losing a parent (to bad politics) and good tv shows and the billionaires who pretend they're going to leave a city if their taxes go up by an amount that will never make their lives worse.
#158. New York's Billionaires and You
Hi everyone, We are still firmly in what any calendar would tell us is the middle of November, and yet I feel like the year is basically over. It's not that I'm winding down for the holidays. Quite t...
www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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RIP Burger Becky.
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I'll have more to say on the pod, but I've been playing Sektori for weeks now on Steam Deck and it is my ideal arcade shooter. I've been waiting for years for something that could match my love for Geometry Wars 2, and this has successfully reached that impossible standard.

It's basically perfect.
This is Sektori! A twin-stick shooter I've been making (and documenting the journey) since April 2021. And it finally launched TODAY on Steam, PS5 and Xbox! Here's a fresh launch trailer, all shares highly appreciated. More game info in replies.

#indiegame #ps5 #xbox #steam #indiedev #gamedev
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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RIP to a games industry pioneer and legend, Rebecca Heineman (@burgerbecky.bsky.social) If your unfamiliar, look her up. Her career is like the story of videogames itself.
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Ana is being put on a plinth and sacrificed to show that people speaking out will be removed from society. They're counting on this being what stops people from speaking out.
This is going to be every single creator in a few months too if people allow this to work. Never been more important to call.
Spoke to a second source familiar with what’s going on with paypro censorship toward me. It seems I’ve been blacklisted among paypros as a creator, particularly for mommy domme content. This could escalate into debanking, I learned
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Make sure to donate to her funeral costs if you can!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
November 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I'd like to share this old video of hers, where she talks about her time working on the 3DO port of Doom.
it's a wild story that stuck with me, and a reminder that sometimes "bad games" have amazing people working on them
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Rebecca ported the adventure game Out of This World / Another World to the SNES. It plays at half the speed of the original, but she made that slow, plodding pace serve the game’s wordless mysteries.

The SNES OOTW also has an understated soundtrack. RIP to a legend.

youtu.be/42TupUcpxPw?...
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Rest in Peace. Industry legend, trans icon, and absolute trailblazer.

Rebecca Heineman was so fucking cool.

Worked on SO much, but to me, it rules that she’s responsible for programming a game that’s been lodged in my brain since childhood: Bugdom!

She’ll be sorely missed.
Burger Becky Forever ❤️
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
They should really oversaturate the greens and darken the shadows a lil or something, the images are just way too drab for me to actually feel fantastical imo

Honestly can probably blame BotW / TotK for the grayness in the environmental green hues

But idk, it’s a delicate balance, shit’s real hard
First photos of Link and Zelda in The Legend of Zelda live-action movie released www.vooks.net/first-photos...
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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man why'd they have to go live action
First photos of Link and Zelda in The Legend of Zelda live-action movie released www.vooks.net/first-photos...
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Imploring anyone that can help with the proceedings to lend a hand, but also for anyone unfamiliar with Rebecca's work to watch @stopskeletons.bsky.social's amazing deep-dive into her herculean effort on the Doom 3DO port. Her talents are nothing short of legendary.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxF1...
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM