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Jonathan Holmes, Original Chungus
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Writer for Nintendo Force - https://www.nintendoforcemagazine.com/
Maximum Utmost - https://maxutmost.com/
And many other things! Also running the Talking to Women about Videogames podcast network! - https://anchor.fm/jonathan-c-holmes
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Jonathan Holmes, Original Chungus @tronknotts.bsky.social · 9d
New PODCAST! Me and @adzuken.bsky.social get on the @ttwav.bsky.social about Katamari and plans for a Bonk Metroidvania! Then Tony Ponce tells us all about THE MEGA MANS!!! It's what wet is made of!
Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/672Y...
itunes - podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/m...
Maximum Utcast - 09 - Rolling Up Rock Man
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Before you start your holiday shopping, check out my Directed By Women Holiday Gift Guide with curated recommendations of books, Blu-rays, posters, and more suggestions to spread the love of women-directed cinema!
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
Directed By Women Holiday Gift Guide
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November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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look I'm extremely not feeling promote-y or salesman-y this season but i just made the grave mistake of looking at my bank account so i should probably lyk there's a sale on in my etsy store this week: www.etsy.com/shop/panands...
Screenshot of some items in my etsy store including my David Lynch calendar, Troll 2 poster, Rocky Horror print set, women filmmaker zine, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch sticker.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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dominictarason.com
Yoooooo - all-star team including the developer of Cave Story.
November 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Omega 6 by legendary Nintendo game designer @omega6.bsky.social, is available wherever you buy manga. Courtesy of @darkhorse.com!

Celebrate with us and pick up the retro-future, adventure - OMEGA 6: The Triangle Stars now!

85% off on Steam until December 1st!

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#DHManga
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Writer-painter Josh Hickman, my friend since high school, wrote a powerful book about being his mother's caretaker during her decline from dementia. Reading it healed me after going through a similar experience. I recommend it to all caregivers. We carry it signed by Josh. mzs.press/SIGNED-Forge...
Screenshot of a section of Josh Hickman's book Forgetting: She was… difficult," I have caught myself, sighing weakly, in unguarded and honest moment since my mother's passing. In fact, she was probably the most difficult person I've ever known. She was difficult to deal with, difficult to communicate with, and difficult, if not impossible, to please. When I asked about her by those who had never met her, she also remained somewhat difficult to describe. For me – especially the younger version of me – she was a frightening and enigmatic contradiction, only predictable in her unpredictability. She affected a misplaced aristocratic, even snobbish air, such that many, who didn't know her well thought her well educated, or perhaps some sort of blue blood, but she came from a poor, broken Canadian home and never attended college. She strive to appear polished and controlled, though she possessed a virtually unveiled violent temper. She was endlessly critical, overbearing and argumentative. She always acted as if she deserved better, no matter what she was getting. Where did all this come from? At times I still catch myself struggling to figure it out." Excerpt from forgetting, Josh Hickman's memoir about caring for his mother as she declined from dementia: "One evening, she rose from the couch to go to the bathroom, stumbled, wobbled for a long moment, then collapsed in a heap on the carpet. Horrified, I jumped up and examined her, trying to rouse her, but she was unconscious. Panicking, I dragged her by the armpits back onto the couch, noticing she had soiled her underwear. Yanking the underwear off and throwing them in the bathtub, I pulled her sweatpants up and stared into her ashen face. Was she dying? My mind raced as I tried to figure out what to do. For the moment, I handled things myself in lieu of calling 911. Remembering a brief conversation from months carlier, I recalled her vagucly mentioning she had been diagnosed with a heart condition, a diagnosis she had of course brushed off as "bullshit." She had been given a prescription for this which she wasn't taking. The ailment was atrial fibrillation, which can cause sudden tachycardia and subsequent fainting, My mind shot to the incident of her "falling" on the balcony and breaking her wrist. I hurriedly scoured her voluminous medicine closet, found the medication she had shown me, pulled a pill out, then tried to jiggle her awake so I could force it in her mouth. Her eyes finally opened after several tense seconds, widening as she stared blankly at me. As I yelled at her to wake up and take the pill, she gazed at me vacantly, as if she had no idca who I was. Was she having a stroke? My mind raced. I knew strokes were also possible due to blood pooling in the atrium, especially if one..." Excerpt from Josh Hickman's book Forgetting, about caring for his mother during her decline from dementia: "I had barely I finally informed my mother that she had had nearly two months to mentally and physically prepare herself for this last move, and the time had arrived. Still, she claimed that she hadn't understood that we were actually moving to the condo. She said she thought that was just an "idea." Forced to ignore her protests yet again, I told her she could wait on her couch, and I would do my best to have it packed last. I thought it might help her to actually see the boxes and furniture physically leaving the apartment, that it might aid her in comprehending the inevitable was actually happening before her eyes. I figured it might be best to depart the empty apartment together, mysclf, my mother, and Sammy driving last to the new place as it filled up with our belongings." The cover of Josh Hickman's book Forgetting: The Trials and Tribulations of Caring for a Difficult Parent with Dementia. The cover on the photo shows the author's mother, a woman with brown hair, wearing a black pullover, holding the author as a toddler. He is reaching out to touch her collar. Behind them is a Texaco station in front of a shopping mall in Dallas in the 1970s.
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
finally watched kpop demon hunters. FANTASTIC
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Dead Island 2 knew exactly what it was meant to be: a silly "7/10" first person gore-filled beat 'em up. The DLC added a large, Far Cry-esque playground that is a lot of fun, and this boss fight against a zombified Boho VSCO girl at a Coachella-pastiche is a hoot.
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Every good NES type mascot character needs a misleading cover art counterpart too imo 💪🛸❤️
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Its my birthday today! More importantly I finally got the new pins I teased up on my shop, my birthday gift to you all!!

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enamel pins of pokemon done in the style of monster hunter icons. Tyranitar, garchomp, rayquaza, espeon, umbreon, sylveon, gengar, lucario, flygon
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Watching the 1990 Japanes Robocopsploitation movie 'Lady Battle Cop'. It may not be a traditionally 'good' movie but it's entertaining as hell, and that's what truly matters
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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maxutmost.com
This (American) Thanksgiving, @tronknotts.bsky.social is giving thanks for the life and career of Rebecca "Burger Becky" Heineman, who we tragically lost this month.

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Let’s give thanks for the life and work of Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman
This month, we lost one of the foundational members of the art form. We say good-bye to Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman by taking a look at her life. Not just her career, but the person…
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November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Literally just got off a call w @tronknotts.bsky.social talking about how getting "stuck" in Blippo forces you to explore the game more and learn more about the world & the rules of the experience. Friction helps to give intentionality and meaning to your choices when wielded thoughtfully!
mossmouth.bsky.social Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 1d
Getting stuck causes players to explore the world.

Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.

An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.

We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
November 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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dominictarason.com
The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical.

They're AI-generating the music here.

Fuck that.
eurogamer.bsky.social Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 1d
The Let it Die sequel - Let it Die: Inferno - which is coming out next week (4th December), seems to have been built using a considerable amount of generative AI. https://bit.ly/4ol7lIA
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Another holiday shopping season is here, another chance to give the gift of VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR linktr.ee/jordanwminor
jordanwminor.bsky.social Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social · Oct 17
VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR, my book, is one of the best video game history books around
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November 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
illustration of nausicaa standing by an ohmu
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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It seems irresponsible to spend 5 paragraphs and a headline talking about the game without saying this is not developed by Grasshopper Manufacture.
eurogamer.bsky.social Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 1d
Made with AI - Let it Die sequel Inferno discloses substantial generative AI use www.eurogamer.net/made-with-ai...
An illustration of the grip reaper, whose hooded, skeletal head is thrown back as if in a laughing pose. The reaper is also wearing sunglasses to hide hypnotic swirly glowing eyes. They appear against a sun-bright disc of light behind them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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playing around with possibly making a "GBA-style" camera/postprocessing setting for knuckle jet (didn't touch the jet effects so they look a bit out of place)
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Discount will be shown on the final checkout screen.

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Get up to an EXTRA 20% OFF purchases in the Woot app!

November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#batman #thisweirdfigureofthedark
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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$50 IHOP Gift Card for $39.50 via Amazon (Prime Eligible). https://ow.ly/GI1c50Xz1Ii
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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WEATHER IS HAPPENING
A THEY LIVE MEME WHERE THE MAIN CHARACTER FROM THEY LIVE HAS HIS SUNGLASSES DOWN & IS VIEWING A FULL COLOR WEATHER IS HAPPENING LOGO WITH THE GLASSES ON, HE IS VIEWING A BLACK AND WHITE WEATHER IS HAPPENING LOGO
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Jonathan Holmes (of road rules) on BFS "I am usually a rounded, sexless lump, most similar to a newt, occassionally slightly ok in good lighting" [five minutes later] *posts utterly ripped mirror selfie*
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM