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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 13h

Congrats dude!!! That's amazing

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 20h

Three indie games, three different takes on a digital nightmare. While Proximate, Without a Dawn, and Dead Letter Dept. differ in their approaches, the takeaway is the same: our very perception of the world has been warped by systems outside our control. youtu.be/0zxQ9YAzy00

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BlueSR @bluesr.bsky.social · 23h

Hello everyone, i'm currently live streaming Silksong Steel Soul+, Raising money for Palestine Children's Relief Fund, an organisation providing lifesaving humanitarian aid in Gaza and the West Bank. Join us as chat makes my game harder for a great cause!

WATCH: youtube.com/live/3xmGmBD...

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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 22h

I gave Jacob some of my Proximate footage for this video. In a way, I am a SonaVisor for him to wear, except I break down more somehow.

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1d

NEW VIDEO on spooks and indie horror games and computers distorting our understanding of the world, available right now on Nebula! nebula.tv/videos/jacob...

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1d

I sometimes read old gaming magazines and stumbled upon this "babe of the year" section from Playstation: The Official Magazine.

If I was the editor I would have gently suggested this writer be put down like a rabid dog

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1d

This hasn't been my experience! The difficulty is definitely adjusted for singleplayer

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1d

Will talk more about it on the upcoming @minnmax.com but I'm having co-op experiences in this that are giving me Journey-level connections with random other players

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1d

So many good games I need to be playing and yet they have all fallen by the wayside because ABSOLUM IS THE FUCKING COOLEST THING

Dotemu @dotemu.bsky.social · 3d

The legions of the Crimson Order are on the move💥

Absolum is OUT NOW on PC, PlayStation 4|5, and Nintendo Switch!

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1d

it actually came out 15 minutes ago but I was watching the summoning salt Cuphead video lol

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1d

NEW VIDEO on spooks and indie horror games and computers distorting our understanding of the world, available right now on Nebula! nebula.tv/videos/jacob...

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 2d

crests don't do different damage! It's one of the reasons Reaper isn't always the best, the DPS from faster attacking crests is way higher

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 2d

my body image is pretty good! I mostly wanted to help normalize people not wanting to know their weight! but what a WILDLY narrow read on why people might not want to know how much they weigh, jfc

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 2d

Thinking about when I went to the doctor a lil while ago and the nurse asked if I wanted to know my weight and I said "nah" and then he said "if it helps, you weigh less then last time"

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 3d

what's your piece of media you try and pitch to every single person you meet? I've realized mine is Priestdaddy

The book Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 3d

You can now get the first book from a number of sources that may be a little kinder on the conversion! www.harpercollins.com/products/how...

How a Game Lives

The first of two volumes: How a Game Lives, Vol. 1 is an artfully packaged must-have book for the devoted and casual fans alike, inviting readers to look at...

www.harpercollins.com

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 3d

Reminder: you can still get the deluxe edition of You're Not Overthinking It, with slipcase and vinyl and print and patch and stuff!! Also we'll include a whole book I guess

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 26d

THEY LET ME WRITE ANOTHER BOOK

"You’re Not Overthinking It" is available for pre-order right now. It collects the most meaningful essays of my career alongside hundreds of new annotations on each piece’s creation, background, and legacy. Far more details below: www.lostincult.co.uk/overthinking

Book: "You're not overthinking it," blue cover depicting an overgrown futuristic cityscape. Alongside it is a yellow slipcase with a patterned die-cut and an emboss of the same city.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 3d

Much like Kentucky Route Zero, your dialogue choices in Mario Galaxy 2 don't affect the path of the story but they change your understanding of the character

Dialogue choice in Mario Galaxy with two options: "that's right" and "yes"

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4d

Consume Me is one of the must-plays of this year, just wonderful. Hard to capture in still images how charming the art is in every single moment.

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Pew Pew Bang! @pewpewbang.bsky.social · 4d

Pew Pew Bang is officially an award-nominated podcast! Thank you to The Astra Awards for putting us up for Best Game Podcast & to everyone who has listened to/shared our show. 💛

Best Game Podcast

Nerd of Mouth
Pew Pew Bang
The Besties
The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4d

Also: the man in this picture is 35 years old

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4d

Meeting of the minds

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4d

Do the children know that one of the major characters in Fiddler on the Roof is named "Lazar Wolf"

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4d

Yeah this isn't a real distinction! no one talks about movie/book reviews this way

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4d

Just had a call with Lyle where we talked about possible edits to his essay, while at any time, North Carolina could decide to throw him in a gas chamber. How is it possible to create a system this cruel.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4d

Due to a new bill signed by NC Governor Josh Stein (a Democrat), the moratorium on our state's death penalties has been ended and may now proceed via *any* method. Welcome back, barbarity.

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 23d

In the book, my essay “The False Evolution of Execution Methods” will be accompanied by a new essay by Lyle May. May interrogates capital punishment from his singular perspective; he has been incarcerated on North Carolina’s death row for over twenty years.

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 26d

THEY LET ME WRITE ANOTHER BOOK

"You’re Not Overthinking It" is available for pre-order right now. It collects the most meaningful essays of my career alongside hundreds of new annotations on each piece’s creation, background, and legacy. Far more details below: www.lostincult.co.uk/overthinking

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