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Josh Boykin (Intelligame)

@wallstormer.bsky.social

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I run @Intelligame.us (pronounced "us"), diving deep into narratives and connecting games with the real world. #ThoughtfulPlay For work/opps: [email protected] https://linktr.ee/intelligame

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Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hey, folks! I'm Josh, and I focus on what I call #ThoughtfulPlay: gaming with a focus on talking about narrative and making connections to the world around us.

If you like that, drop a follow over to @intelligame.us! Plenty more to come.

P.S. HMU if you have writing/editing/narrative design work!

A picture of Josh, a Black man with short cut, salt-and-pepper hair, beard, and mustache (emphasis on the salt as of late). He's sitting in a car wearing a denim hooded jacket with a red t-shirt underneath.

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Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, I'm sold, lol

Compile's my big go-to and it sounds like there might be some shared checkbook

But also just excited for games that other people are excited for to this extent LOL

Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 1d

I'm super curious! I love 1v1 card games; what made this one stick out to you?

Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 1d

Very cool! Thanks for the recommendation :)

Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 1d

If you've got a Steam Next Fest demo that would be good @intelligame.us fare (narrative-driven, any genre, connects to real-world themes/issues), please drop me a link!

Currently excited about Ambrosia Sky by @softrains.bsky.social and Relooted by @nyamakop.co.za, but on the hunt for more

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 12d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense that it's the Governor AND the Mayor AND the Chief of Police AND the Superintendent of the Highway Patrol who are all lying.

And let's not forget the tons of Portlanders, news reporters, judges, etc. All lying.

Yep. Makes total sense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Kristi Noem: "I was in Portland and met with the governor and mayor and chief of police and superintendent of the highway patrol. They are all lying and disingenuous and dishonest people. Because as soon as you leave the room, then they make the exact opposite response."

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prettysmart games @prettysmart.bsky.social · 12d

THE SPIRIT LIFT FINAL DEMO IS HERE! 👻 🏨 Welcome to your free stay at the Vexington Hotel. Play the new demo and earn a bonus in the final game when it launches!

Discover more battles, cards, creature, gear, and gold because we’ve upgraded you to a luxury suite! ✨

A screenshot of the Spotacula boss battle gameplay for prettysmart games THE SPIRIT LIFT

A screenshot of gameplay from prettysmart games’ THE SPIRIT LIFT ghostpunk rogue-like deckbuilder haunted hotel crawler. The screenshot shows the game’s character dashboard with only Sako, Tobias, Briar, Quintin, and Maria available to choose from in the demo. The character featured to the right of the dashboard shows Briar, a young brown-skinned girl with braids in a half updo with two buns wearing purple fishnets on their arms and legs with a purple and black collared dress with an apron with pockets full of art-related options and black boots. Briar is a Spiritual character class dubbed “The Artist” with item cards of the palette knife, oil paints, sketchbook, and an item equipped is a brush belt.

A screenshot of gameplay of an event in THE SPIRIT LIFT from prettysmart games

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Maia McDonald 💫✌🏽 @maiamcdonald.me · 14d

In my @teenvogue.com debut, I spoke with congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social about the incident involving her and an ICE agent at the Broadview ICE facility earlier this month, where protests against the Trump administration's aggressive immigration policies are ongoing daily.

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 14d

Earlier this month, U.S. House candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, 26, was involved in a confrontation at an ICE rally that went viral.

“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”

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Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"

“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Ambrosia Sky 🪐 - Wishlist on Steam! @softrains.bsky.social · 13d

✨ Ambrosia Sky is part of #IGNFanFest! ✨

Tune in on October 15th to learn more about your upcoming trip to The Cluster, and discover what awaits you when you arrive...

Learn more here: www.ign.com/articles/ign...

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Ollie @chamberlago.bsky.social · 13d

Ash very cool and is working so hard to get to 1k subscribers on YouTube so they can start earning ad revenue!

They've already got a ton of stuff on there like E33, Kingdom Hearts, Silent Hill 2, Last of Us 1&2, Final Fantasy 7, Life is Strange, Neva etc etc

And subscribing on YouTube is FREE

ash 🥀 @ashiirosee.bsky.social · 13d

Being annoying and sharing my YT again as I edit through Alien Isolation for scary season 🖤

youtube.com/@ashiirosee?...

ashiirosee

Hi, hello! I'm Ash, a variety content creator playing all of the games I never got to experience! ✨ My content is primarily focused on first playthroughs, and I especially love story-driven games, i...

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 12d

Workers at the Department of Education tell me their out of office messages were changed without their consent or knowledge to blame Democrats for the shutdown.

Out of office message blaming Democrats for shutdown

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Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 13d

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 13d

Speaking of said winner and other winners I would take it as a personal favor if you would try out excellent games made by former students, such as:
CONSUME ME
store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

DESPELOTE
store.steampowered.com/app/2367820/...

BABY STEPS
store.steampowered.com/app/1281040/...

Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 14d

Hard for me fault anyone who doesn’t know good games exist when almost no major gaming website reviewed or covered this year’s Seamus McNally Grand Prize winner.

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Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 13d

Tyty! It was solid, would do it again (but in about a year) lol

Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 13d

Much appreciate you! Tyty, and hope you've been well! Looking forward to seeing whatever you've got cooking :D

Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 13d

Awww, you :D Thank you thank you!

Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 13d

Hey!!! It's great to hear from you, and thank you so much! Would definitely love to catch up soon when you've got some time :)

Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 13d

Alexia, so freakin' kind of you! Thanks a ton, and looking forward to what we put together next :)

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Josh Boykin (Intelligame) @wallstormer.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks so much, Ash! Hope you've been doing well :)