Dancing Viru
@dancingviru.bsky.social
he/him | South Asian Swiss | autistic | invested in autistic accessibility in games | <3 Destiny 2 & tv shows | streams on:
https://twitch.tv/dancingviru
here to do whats necessary, not to make you & me comfortable, since living is political now.
https://twitch.tv/dancingviru
here to do whats necessary, not to make you & me comfortable, since living is political now.
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Private-health crony Wes Streeting walks straight into a ratio from Zack Polanski www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Private-health crony Wes Streeting walks straight into a ratio from Zack Polanski
Zack Polanski gives Wes Streeting a public dressing down over his love affair with private donors, at the expense of the NHS and its staff
www.thecanary.co
December 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Private-health crony Wes Streeting walks straight into a ratio from Zack Polanski www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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The trailers in The Game Awards show that especially AAA, it's super critical to look at your voiceover, dialogue, and title cards and ask:
Does this sound like my game and only my game?
I saw a decent number of very pretty games with well cut trailers and very forgettable messaging.
Does this sound like my game and only my game?
I saw a decent number of very pretty games with well cut trailers and very forgettable messaging.
December 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The trailers in The Game Awards show that especially AAA, it's super critical to look at your voiceover, dialogue, and title cards and ask:
Does this sound like my game and only my game?
I saw a decent number of very pretty games with well cut trailers and very forgettable messaging.
Does this sound like my game and only my game?
I saw a decent number of very pretty games with well cut trailers and very forgettable messaging.
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If I had a dollar for the times i've advised leadership/decision makers to "earmark at *least* 20% of dev costs to go towards marketing to hedge our bets" & it goes ignored
Advertising X Games discourse again today.
My humble contribution:
1. Price tags are absurd for most of us. Those shows aren’t for us. They are for games with $50MM+ marketing budgets.
2. You must budget for marketing at any size. No one can play your game if they don’t know about it.
My humble contribution:
1. Price tags are absurd for most of us. Those shows aren’t for us. They are for games with $50MM+ marketing budgets.
2. You must budget for marketing at any size. No one can play your game if they don’t know about it.
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
If I had a dollar for the times i've advised leadership/decision makers to "earmark at *least* 20% of dev costs to go towards marketing to hedge our bets" & it goes ignored
I'm live!
continuing my #Destiny2Renegades journey to commit Star Wars in Destiny:
twitch.tv/dancingviru
continuing my #Destiny2Renegades journey to commit Star Wars in Destiny:
twitch.tv/dancingviru
December 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm live!
continuing my #Destiny2Renegades journey to commit Star Wars in Destiny:
twitch.tv/dancingviru
continuing my #Destiny2Renegades journey to commit Star Wars in Destiny:
twitch.tv/dancingviru
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See also: BAFTA's "Game Beyond Entertainment", which ends up as a catch-all for games with PoC in them + social impact games. While it's an honour to be nominated for a BAFTA I was utterly baffled that *Thirsty Suitors* a game about fighting your hot toxic exes and wuxia cooking was in this category
On Games for Impact:
“It's good that it's there, but it's also, in a way, kind of insulting. Because giving a special award for a game for actually meaning something or having some human content... we should be aspiring for that in every category."
postgame.substack.com/p/the-histor...
“It's good that it's there, but it's also, in a way, kind of insulting. Because giving a special award for a game for actually meaning something or having some human content... we should be aspiring for that in every category."
postgame.substack.com/p/the-histor...
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
See also: BAFTA's "Game Beyond Entertainment", which ends up as a catch-all for games with PoC in them + social impact games. While it's an honour to be nominated for a BAFTA I was utterly baffled that *Thirsty Suitors* a game about fighting your hot toxic exes and wuxia cooking was in this category
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Iceland joins the right side of history, which is about as far opposite from Germany as you can get.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
Iceland joins Eurovision 2026 boycott over Israel
Iceland's public broadcaster RÚV has confirmed it will not take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, becoming the fifth country to withdraw in protest at Israel's participation.
www.rte.ie
December 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Iceland joins the right side of history, which is about as far opposite from Germany as you can get.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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Palestine Legal wrapped 2025: Most absurd anti-Palestinian censorship at universities!
December 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Palestine Legal wrapped 2025: Most absurd anti-Palestinian censorship at universities!
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Really good video from @zachbussey.tos.gg on the abysmal sponsorship rates being offered to folks. youtu.be/rCTe1wrZmT8?...
Twitch Sponsors Offering Pennies instead of Dollars! Greed??
YouTube video by Zach Bussey
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Really good video from @zachbussey.tos.gg on the abysmal sponsorship rates being offered to folks. youtu.be/rCTe1wrZmT8?...
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New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard.
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Confessions of the influenced
Behind every influencer is an army of the people mired in debt and mass-produced clutter.
www.theverge.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard.
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.
Opinion | Banning Abortion a Hallmark of Authoritarian Regimes
Seda Saluk writes about how U.S. policy on abortion rights has started to mirror patterns seen in authoritarian regimes around the world.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.
I've effectively not streamed for almost 3 months, but I'm back for #Destiny2's Star Wars-inspired expansion #Destiny2Renegades! (I know I'm late to the party)
time to see how Destiny 2 commits a star war:
twitch.tv/dancingviru
time to see how Destiny 2 commits a star war:
twitch.tv/dancingviru
December 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I've effectively not streamed for almost 3 months, but I'm back for #Destiny2's Star Wars-inspired expansion #Destiny2Renegades! (I know I'm late to the party)
time to see how Destiny 2 commits a star war:
twitch.tv/dancingviru
time to see how Destiny 2 commits a star war:
twitch.tv/dancingviru
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The new National Security Strategy of the U.S. contains some pretty explicit white nationalism:
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The new National Security Strategy of the U.S. contains some pretty explicit white nationalism:
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
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Reminder that I'm still looking fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Reminder that I'm still looking fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
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Two years ago, today, on December 6, Refaat Alareer was killed in an Israeli airstrike, together with his brother, his brother’s son, his sister, and her three children.
Today, we remember him, honoring his life, his words, and his courage.
#FreePalestine
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
Today, we remember him, honoring his life, his words, and his courage.
#FreePalestine
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Two years ago, today, on December 6, Refaat Alareer was killed in an Israeli airstrike, together with his brother, his brother’s son, his sister, and her three children.
Today, we remember him, honoring his life, his words, and his courage.
#FreePalestine
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
Today, we remember him, honoring his life, his words, and his courage.
#FreePalestine
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
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It’s my birthday on Sunday and I am currently still looking for a second job! Please consider booking a reading with me, or even just throwing a few dollars my way so I can pay down some debt, buy food, and have a bit of wiggle room this month?
ko-fi.com/moonvald
ko-fi.com/moonvald
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It’s my birthday on Sunday and I am currently still looking for a second job! Please consider booking a reading with me, or even just throwing a few dollars my way so I can pay down some debt, buy food, and have a bit of wiggle room this month?
ko-fi.com/moonvald
ko-fi.com/moonvald
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A Dead by Daylight tournament banning trans women from participating, first off… do they know how inclusive the game is?!
Ah, a tournament “run by a male Kick streamer who has a history of using AI graphics”. That explains a lot more.
Glad to see teams dropping out of this.
Ah, a tournament “run by a male Kick streamer who has a history of using AI graphics”. That explains a lot more.
Glad to see teams dropping out of this.
Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.
Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
www.out.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A Dead by Daylight tournament banning trans women from participating, first off… do they know how inclusive the game is?!
Ah, a tournament “run by a male Kick streamer who has a history of using AI graphics”. That explains a lot more.
Glad to see teams dropping out of this.
Ah, a tournament “run by a male Kick streamer who has a history of using AI graphics”. That explains a lot more.
Glad to see teams dropping out of this.
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Hey y'all, the #AntiPlanner by @danidonovan.com is a resource that's fantastic, especially if you struggle with getting things done! If you need a planner/organizer, I recommend the Anti Planner! Go get one, support a small biz!
www.anti-planner.com
www.anti-planner.com
Home | Dani Donovan / Anti-Planner
www.anti-planner.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey y'all, the #AntiPlanner by @danidonovan.com is a resource that's fantastic, especially if you struggle with getting things done! If you need a planner/organizer, I recommend the Anti Planner! Go get one, support a small biz!
www.anti-planner.com
www.anti-planner.com
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It's fascinating to me: media discourses in Germany (elsewhere too, but I see it most clearly in Germany) have a tendency to retain a structure, but to slowly substitute the specific elements connected by that structure. It's like a discursive Ship of Theseus... (1/4)
lol
(Spoiler: es geht übrigens um die bösen Palästinasolidarischen)
(Spoiler: es geht übrigens um die bösen Palästinasolidarischen)
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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It’s the racism . It’s always been the bigotry and they are taking the silences and refusal to define bigotry and rebuke to take away every single right
🚨 Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced legislation to effectively eliminate shareholder democracy, after shareholders of 30 out of 30 companies rejected anti-DEI proposals, most by 98-99%.
A Bill Framed as an ESG Crackdown but Written to Remove Voting Power Entirely
esgnews.com/sen-cruz-see...
A Bill Framed as an ESG Crackdown but Written to Remove Voting Power Entirely
esgnews.com/sen-cruz-see...
Sen. Cruz Seeks to Block ESG, DEI Voting in $1 Trillion Federal Retirement Plan
The bill would bar BlackRock and State Street from casting any shareholder votes tied to the $1 trillion Thrift Savings Plan
esgnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It’s the racism . It’s always been the bigotry and they are taking the silences and refusal to define bigotry and rebuke to take away every single right
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This was two days ago.
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This was two days ago.
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bungie make the best looking, best playing console shooters on the market and none of the competition has really come close in over 2 decades. yet every decision management has ever made has been as if they were time travellers sent back from the future to somehow force them into failure
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
bungie make the best looking, best playing console shooters on the market and none of the competition has really come close in over 2 decades. yet every decision management has ever made has been as if they were time travellers sent back from the future to somehow force them into failure
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X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...