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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 4h

new union alert!

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 4h

Battle.net workers unionize as Microsoft neutrality agreement expires
aftermath.site/battle-net-wor...

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Len @len.bsky.social · 5h

Random business guy: "Yowza! Where are you taking me hot stuff?"

Phyre: "Behind a truck in an alley with no witnesses."

Random business guy: "That is so sexy"

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 @vtmb.bsky.social · 5h

Today, we bring you a new glimpse into The Clan of Divas. Meet the Toreador characters of Seattle and see Phyre's seduction in action.

https://youtu.be/p5bbHM5zSUQ

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Len @len.bsky.social · 6h

You know what they say: "Opinions are like assholes. Yours, specifically, are worse than mine. And believe me, I've checked. Thoroughly."

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

I'd say big exceptions would be like, "Our strategy/tactics game is getting a big free update that you can check out on the following date:"

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly a big part of it is also that I don't write news anymore, so anything that's not a preview/review opportunity is probably not something it's worth pitching me on anyway. That should go to the news desk people.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

People ask how I maintain Inbox Zero, which I have done for more than a decade, and the answer is basically extreme prejudice.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

(F2P isn't an immediate spam flag, but it goes to "Promotions" which I scan maybe once a week, as opposed to my inbox which I read every morning. I have multiple levels of email purgatory.)

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

Another annoying thing about calling LLMs and GenAI "AI" is that I can't easily filter for it like I can with stuff like "F2P" because there would be too many false positives. So at this point it's basically just a blacklist where if you have pitched me on GenAI, emails from that address go to spam.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

My proudest moment in journalism school wasn't anything I wrote, but when I took a piece from another editor and cut the word count in half without changing any of the points they made.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

Denver

Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

Q: Wouldn't you be taking the weekend off anyway?

If I'm reviewing like a 60+ hour game, absolutely not. Not unless you can get me a review build 2 weeks+ before embargo. Not before launch. Before embargo. I regularly put in 10-12 hour days every day until it's done.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

One whole day is just video editing. The script for that video needs to be ready to turn in the day before, so that's two days gone. And the video team does not work weekends. So if your embargo is on a Monday, the seven days you thought you were giving me to finish the game is actually three.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

What this means to me in a practical sense is that I have at least two days fewer to review your game, and will thus be rushing unless you got code to me like at least two weeks out. Please don't do this if you can help it.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

Embargo: Monday at 9 a.m. Pacific

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

The longer the storyteller goes without telling you this, the more important to the plot it is and, probably, the more trouble you're in.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

"Chekov's Malkavian" is when there's a Malkavian NPC in a Vampire: the Masquerade story and you don't know what's wrong with them yet, because it's probably going to be relevant to the plot at some point.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

y'all played this game hades 2?

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

Hard to feel a great sense of loss about someone who thought I was some kind of abomination and was very abusive to my father, but I now have zero living grandparents, and that's certainly a life moment that feels strangely significant.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Len @len.bsky.social · 4d

If it gets above 80 at any point, summer isn't over yet.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 4d

My new benchmark for "it's actually fall" is when we have a 10-day forecast with no highs above 80 F, which would make this the first day of Actual Fall.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 4d

It seems to be a really common thing with Gen Z especially to take inclusion of content as an endorsement of its real-world antecedents and expect not just the author but the world and characters they create to reflect a certain set of values, and this is Bad Actually.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 4d

bisexual as in attracted to women and whatever this is

Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 5d

Omen
#inktober

Ink drawing of a beefy faceless minotaur sort of a guy

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Len @len.bsky.social · 5d

I don't miss a lot about public school but I do miss my weekend being everyone else's weekend in sort of a shared celebration sense. There are advantages to just having random days off though because you can like go get all your errands done when the shops aren't going to be crowded.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 5d

when you work a frontline service job or freelance and you see everyone posting "it's friday night" and "ladies and gentlemen: the weekend"

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` not to me '' written next to him .

Alt: Star Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 saying "Not to me!"

media.tenor.com

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