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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮

@itsmeamykate.bsky.social

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Amateur Video Game Scientist. Highly caffeinated. Usually sarcastic. She/They. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (formerly @jerobolod in the Bad Place) Video essays: youtube.com/@itsmeamykate Podcast: youtube.com/@wordsaboutgamesuk Twitch: twitch.tv/wordsaboutgames

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · Mar 15

NEW VIDEO ESSAY!

are the Souls games only for the hardest of the hardcore?

or is that an illusion created by hyperbole and gatekeeping?

let's talk about Dark Souls and it's difficulty

youtu.be/dKDDv6vKX94?...

Elden Ring Is For Everyone (And So Is Dark Souls)

YouTube video by Amy Kate Alexander

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 7h

stop

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 12h

🎮 PIXELS → POWER-UPS → PURE MAGIC ✨
Next week changes everything.
GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 registration launches!

Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 1d

i definitely needed it. about halfway through the day the exhaustion i've probably been feeling for a while hit me like a ton of bricks 😅

if you see this post consider it your reminder to take some time to relax every now and again. your body will thank you for it.

Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 1d

for the first time in what feels like ages i've managed to have a day of actual rest. no work, no chores, no going out or doing anything substantial.

spent some time reading, gaming & generally chilling.

Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 1d

i successfully used multiple video clips while making a presentation in google slides, though this was using embedded youtube links and not direct video files

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 2d

the benefits of having planned my next few videos ahead of time means i can spend the next couple of months catching up on a bunch of games i've missed this year

forward planning, what a concept

Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 2d

downloading promise mascot agency

honestly, considering how much i love paradise killer, i'm surprised it's taken this long

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AndresPlays🎮🦇 @andresplays.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about the best monologue of all time:

Igon in the fight against Bayle The Dread

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 2d

WITH A HAIL OF HARPOOOONS

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 3d

summoning salt always manages to tell the story of a world record in such a gripping way, no matter the game - once you hit play it's next to impossible to stop

new video good

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The History of Cuphead World Records

YouTube video by Summoning Salt

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 3d

the full episode: youtu.be/nOsbSGdcYZE

Moody Demanded We Battle It Out To Recommend Him Some Games | Words About Games Podcast #471

YouTube video by Words About Games

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 4d

that moment when @dafyddmoody.bsky.social puts me in a competition to recommend video games and @vitzpatel.bsky.social finds out i don't miss

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 4d

certified GAVG™️

Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 4d

finished skin deep, and yeah, it rules

come for the tightly designed immersive sim, stay for the slapstick outcomes of the creative ways you can interact with its systems

oh, and you make a bunch of cat friends along the way

Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 5d

i am here to say that Skin Deep is a Good Ass Video Game™️

any game where a banana skin is one of the most powerful items you can hold is a game you should play

Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 4d

joke's on you i already bought it yesterday

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 5d

Everyone who retweets this is contractually obligated to buy Eternal Strands.

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 5d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 4d

finished Some Desperate Glory by @emilytesh.net last night

occasionally uncomfortable, but consistently engaging. Kyr's journey out of extremist indoctrination is fantastic and hard to put down.

A photo of me holding the novel Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh.

A photo of the back of the book, so I could show you the blurb and what it's about:

"All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet.

But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates Kyr to the nursery to bear sons, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands. Alongside her brother's brilliant but seditous friend, and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr must escape from everything she's ever known. If she succeeds, she will find a universe far more complicated than she was ever taught and far more wonderous than she could have ever imagined."

There are also some quotes from outlets and other authours about how much they enjoyed the book.

Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 5d

a man with a big wig is waving at the camera .

Alt: Vir from Babylon 5 doing his iconic wave.

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 5d

i am here to say that Skin Deep is a Good Ass Video Game™️

any game where a banana skin is one of the most powerful items you can hold is a game you should play

Reposted by Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮

Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 6d

I gotta hand it to whatever advertising firm Informa hired to make these, there really is something almost poetic about GDC's advertising being "an AI-looking depiction of an industry staple being destroyed with no clear elaboration of what comes after." Masterclass in unintentionally nailing it.

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 6d

A New Era Awaits!

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 6d

A shower curtain that is a screenshot of Ocarina of Time where the text “Water Temple” is on the screen, hung up over a shower.

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 6d

i've been having a really fun time with Skin Deep for the last couple of days

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Save 25% on Skin Deep on Steam

Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 6d

oh no

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Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 6d

i'm in

Amy Kate Alexander 🏳️‍🌈🎮 @itsmeamykate.bsky.social · 7d

Rieko Kodama was a legend and more people should know her name and story

VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/