Hvorup, Kurt M.
@kurtofcambridge.bsky.social
Writer/critic. Bi man, he/him. Punch Nazi scum.
Personal site: kurtofcambridge.blogspot.com
Patreon:
patreon.com/KurtHvorup
Personal site: kurtofcambridge.blogspot.com
Patreon:
patreon.com/KurtHvorup
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Hello, Bluesky. I'm Kurt Hvorup, independent writer & media critic. I primarily cover games, but have also dipped into film and TV coverage. If there's an opening at your publication, please give me a holler.
(Also: Indie devs, hit me up for coverage)
Hello, Bluesky. I'm Kurt Hvorup, independent writer & media critic. I primarily cover games, but have also dipped into film and TV coverage. If there's an opening at your publication, please give me a holler.
(Also: Indie devs, hit me up for coverage)
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Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
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Having the sum of human creative output called “ai training data” is frying me
Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Having the sum of human creative output called “ai training data” is frying me
Summary of my time with CALL OF DUTY: VANGUARD
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Summary of my time with CALL OF DUTY: VANGUARD
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It should be illegal to use copyrighted music for political purposes without the consent of the creator or rights holder
ICYMI: “Sabrina Carpenter slammed the Trump for using her song in a video depicting ICE arrests — ‘This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.’” globemagazine.com/sabrina-carp...
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It should be illegal to use copyrighted music for political purposes without the consent of the creator or rights holder
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I have a previous thread with links to pieces I'm proud of, but you can find my other stories here:
bsky.app/profile/king...
muckrack.com/peter-glagow...
www.youtube.com/@kingsigy2001
nintendowire.com/user/peter-g...
bsky.app/profile/king...
muckrack.com/peter-glagow...
www.youtube.com/@kingsigy2001
nintendowire.com/user/peter-g...
I did one of these on Twitter, so it only makes sense to plug myself here. My name is Peter and I've been writing in the games industry for various outlets since 2016. I've had the honor of attending various conventions including PAX and E3, and I love doing interviews with devs about their games.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I have a previous thread with links to pieces I'm proud of, but you can find my other stories here:
bsky.app/profile/king...
muckrack.com/peter-glagow...
www.youtube.com/@kingsigy2001
nintendowire.com/user/peter-g...
bsky.app/profile/king...
muckrack.com/peter-glagow...
www.youtube.com/@kingsigy2001
nintendowire.com/user/peter-g...
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I've written for outlets such as Destructoid, TheGamer, Nintendo Wire, and Flixist. I've also done commentary work for 88 Films, Spectrum Films, and Shout Factory. You can even find my writing in Blu-Ray releases from Arrow Films and Vinegar Syndrome.
December 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I've written for outlets such as Destructoid, TheGamer, Nintendo Wire, and Flixist. I've also done commentary work for 88 Films, Spectrum Films, and Shout Factory. You can even find my writing in Blu-Ray releases from Arrow Films and Vinegar Syndrome.
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I've been putting this off for too long, but I need to do one of those "looking for work posts." I'm open to full-time, part-time, or freelance work in either games or films media/criticism.
I have experience as a news writer, interviewer, video editor, sound editor, and essayist.
I have experience as a news writer, interviewer, video editor, sound editor, and essayist.
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I've been putting this off for too long, but I need to do one of those "looking for work posts." I'm open to full-time, part-time, or freelance work in either games or films media/criticism.
I have experience as a news writer, interviewer, video editor, sound editor, and essayist.
I have experience as a news writer, interviewer, video editor, sound editor, and essayist.
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you used to not have to make statements like this
🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
you used to not have to make statements like this
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Just learned that Tommy Tallarico is now quietly starting to go by the name Sammy Salazar, and honestly, has anyone ever done a number on someone on the scale hbomb did on this dude? just legendary
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just learned that Tommy Tallarico is now quietly starting to go by the name Sammy Salazar, and honestly, has anyone ever done a number on someone on the scale hbomb did on this dude? just legendary
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I'm still unconvinced that "POTTER" actually has staying power beyond Millennials. I feel like it's going to be the 90s/2000s thing that GenZ/A is more actively willing/eager to reject as "No, that was a thing my parents were annoyingly into" pop-media.
Harry Potter movie star Rupert Grint has said he'll likely never leave the "shadow" of Ron Weasley behind. https://t.co/LXgxKwk4PB
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I'm still unconvinced that "POTTER" actually has staying power beyond Millennials. I feel like it's going to be the 90s/2000s thing that GenZ/A is more actively willing/eager to reject as "No, that was a thing my parents were annoyingly into" pop-media.
Grabbed from local pawn shop a copy of Call of Duty Vanguard.
Will have more fleshed out thoughts later but... Wow, folks REALLY did just overreact with this one, huh?
Will have more fleshed out thoughts later but... Wow, folks REALLY did just overreact with this one, huh?
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Grabbed from local pawn shop a copy of Call of Duty Vanguard.
Will have more fleshed out thoughts later but... Wow, folks REALLY did just overreact with this one, huh?
Will have more fleshed out thoughts later but... Wow, folks REALLY did just overreact with this one, huh?
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George can now throw his bombs beyond ledges he could previously jump from!
I've seen multiple people trying to do this before, so I felt like I had to implement this feature. Makes this enemy way easier to take down as well!
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker
I've seen multiple people trying to do this before, so I felt like I had to implement this feature. Makes this enemy way easier to take down as well!
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
George can now throw his bombs beyond ledges he could previously jump from!
I've seen multiple people trying to do this before, so I felt like I had to implement this feature. Makes this enemy way easier to take down as well!
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker
I've seen multiple people trying to do this before, so I felt like I had to implement this feature. Makes this enemy way easier to take down as well!
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker
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See, here's the thing: If they STOPPED doing "Mission Impossible" for awhile, then came back and did the same twist with Ethan Hunt they did with Jim Phelps in the first movie? That would rule.
It would work wonders if there's a triple-take on specifically Mission: Impossible not changing for the second time around.
"What do you mean Tom Cruise is still doing it? Did he get frozen too?"
"What do you mean Tom Cruise is still doing it? Did he get frozen too?"
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
See, here's the thing: If they STOPPED doing "Mission Impossible" for awhile, then came back and did the same twist with Ethan Hunt they did with Jim Phelps in the first movie? That would rule.
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No one is cancelled by accident. This isn't the 1950s- we're not cancelling people for being gay, using drugs, or for martial infidelity. If you have been cancelled in the 21st century, it is for hate speech and sex crimes. Full stop.
Why would ANYONE think "Yeah, but what if we brought them back?"
Why would ANYONE think "Yeah, but what if we brought them back?"
November 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
No one is cancelled by accident. This isn't the 1950s- we're not cancelling people for being gay, using drugs, or for martial infidelity. If you have been cancelled in the 21st century, it is for hate speech and sex crimes. Full stop.
Why would ANYONE think "Yeah, but what if we brought them back?"
Why would ANYONE think "Yeah, but what if we brought them back?"
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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Said this before, but "AUSTIN POWERS 4" should be a spoof of "Maverick"-legasequels, with Austin as mentor to an agent frozen at end of the 90s and thawed now - but with a recurring gag re: how STAGGERING little society has changed between 1997-2027 compared to Austin's massive 67-97 culture shock
Watching AUSTIN POWERS and another reminder of the wildness of time.
Powers is frozen for 30 yrs, defrosting in 1997.
Surprised with all the reboots, they aren’t doing a 2027 reboot of how a secret agent frozen in 1997 comes back in 2027 to defeat an evil henchman.
Maybe too on the nose.
Powers is frozen for 30 yrs, defrosting in 1997.
Surprised with all the reboots, they aren’t doing a 2027 reboot of how a secret agent frozen in 1997 comes back in 2027 to defeat an evil henchman.
Maybe too on the nose.
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Said this before, but "AUSTIN POWERS 4" should be a spoof of "Maverick"-legasequels, with Austin as mentor to an agent frozen at end of the 90s and thawed now - but with a recurring gag re: how STAGGERING little society has changed between 1997-2027 compared to Austin's massive 67-97 culture shock
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Why don't we like "AI?"
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Why don't we like "AI?"
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
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Yea look I'm a confirmed "Hunger Games was always bad, actually" guy but Quentin is in fact being a douche about this
says the man whose career was not prematurely ended by a massive lawsuit from ringo lam, director of “city on fire” and went on to brag about his theft at the cannes film festival.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Quentin Tarantino Slams ‘Hunger Games’ for Ripping Off ‘Battle Royale’
The Japanese film was released more than a decade before the first 'Hunger Games' installment.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Yea look I'm a confirmed "Hunger Games was always bad, actually" guy but Quentin is in fact being a douche about this
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Stranger Things Season 5
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Stranger Things Season 5
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Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
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Fuck Joseph Campbell this is the real foundation of 70% of things guys have ever written from 3000 BCE to present day
The basic idea: You have a boat (or boats) full of guys. You pull up next to another boat full of guys and tell your guys to stab those guys.
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Fuck Joseph Campbell this is the real foundation of 70% of things guys have ever written from 3000 BCE to present day
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Private Equity and Layoffs.
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Private Equity and Layoffs.
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Nice to hear a leader valuing human art and artists instead of asking AI to make a video where he literally shits on us from a jet. I don’t mean to be controversial but I think this is better.
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Nice to hear a leader valuing human art and artists instead of asking AI to make a video where he literally shits on us from a jet. I don’t mean to be controversial but I think this is better.
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