Kennan Ward🍉
@kennanw.bsky.social
"I wish I was more attractive like Dagless. Still, one can only dream."
Gaming, sociology, & intersectional feminist/labor/human rights issues
https://www.backloggd.com/u/Kennan/
Gaming, sociology, & intersectional feminist/labor/human rights issues
https://www.backloggd.com/u/Kennan/
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Kennan Ward🍉
@kennanw.bsky.social
· Jan 2
62 Games finished in 2024. First completion of 2025
Rewind Or Die: Grindhouse somewhat PS1 visual styled horror that, while ok, isn't as atmospheric or tense as the similar Bloodwash and spends too much time in a dull sewer section. www.backloggd.com/u/Kennan/rev...
Rewind Or Die: Grindhouse somewhat PS1 visual styled horror that, while ok, isn't as atmospheric or tense as the similar Bloodwash and spends too much time in a dull sewer section. www.backloggd.com/u/Kennan/rev...
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How Inkle's Heaven's Vault started life as a Doctor Who game, before it was exterminated www.eurogamer.net/how-inkles-h...
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
How Inkle's Heaven's Vault started life as a Doctor Who game, before it was exterminated www.eurogamer.net/how-inkles-h...
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Ana decided to call out payment processors and their unilateral response was attempting to fuck up her life and that should be bigger news than it is as of now
The full count as of today:
YouTube suspended
Twitch banned 3x
Patreon suspended (temporary)
Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi)
Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?)
Buy Me a Coffee suspended
Vice reporting censored
Pornhub censored 3x times
Fansly censored 1x
YouTube suspended
Twitch banned 3x
Patreon suspended (temporary)
Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi)
Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?)
Buy Me a Coffee suspended
Vice reporting censored
Pornhub censored 3x times
Fansly censored 1x
Is it really a conspiracy to say Ana is being explicitly flagged by finance bros when she's now been banned (or censored) from Twitch, Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, Ko-Fi, and *PornHub*??
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Ana decided to call out payment processors and their unilateral response was attempting to fuck up her life and that should be bigger news than it is as of now
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Just an indescribable loss. Rebecca has been around this industry, doing incredible work for decades. It's been heartbreaking to watch her health decline via social media, and hearing confirmation from friends that she has, in fact, passed away, is devastating.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Just an indescribable loss. Rebecca has been around this industry, doing incredible work for decades. It's been heartbreaking to watch her health decline via social media, and hearing confirmation from friends that she has, in fact, passed away, is devastating.
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please remember to use photos of norman reedus to pass these tests because they WILL store this and it WILL get stolen
Twitch is officially releasing age verification in the UK.
Users will need to verify their age using an in-app facial scan; otherwise, they will lose access to watching mature content based on Content Classification Labels (CCLs).
Users will need to verify their age using an in-app facial scan; otherwise, they will lose access to watching mature content based on Content Classification Labels (CCLs).
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
please remember to use photos of norman reedus to pass these tests because they WILL store this and it WILL get stolen
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Time for a 🧵 of cool games you might have missed in 2025!
I will be including stuff that's come out in November/December 2024 as well, since those months usually get left out of lists for both years.
I will be including stuff that's come out in November/December 2024 as well, since those months usually get left out of lists for both years.
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Time for a 🧵 of cool games you might have missed in 2025!
I will be including stuff that's come out in November/December 2024 as well, since those months usually get left out of lists for both years.
I will be including stuff that's come out in November/December 2024 as well, since those months usually get left out of lists for both years.
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This is some horrifying predatory shit.
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This is some horrifying predatory shit.
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admitting to statutory rape to own the libs
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
admitting to statutory rape to own the libs
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at one point I contemplated doing one of those "console challenges" where you play every game for a given console and decided to research the PS1 library.
I have come to the conclusion I would've needed to have started about 10 years ago to have had any real shot at completing it before I died.
I have come to the conclusion I would've needed to have started about 10 years ago to have had any real shot at completing it before I died.
"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
at one point I contemplated doing one of those "console challenges" where you play every game for a given console and decided to research the PS1 library.
I have come to the conclusion I would've needed to have started about 10 years ago to have had any real shot at completing it before I died.
I have come to the conclusion I would've needed to have started about 10 years ago to have had any real shot at completing it before I died.
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The "we don't use AI" to "oh woopsie the AI art just slipped in because of lack of oversight" to "well we use AI but everything is touched by a human" to "AI will revolutionize game dev" cop-out pipeline.
I asked Acti about using generative AI in August. Yale Miller's response:
"There's AI tools and different things that we've used as part of, like, started to look at a little bit as far as workflows, but every single thing that goes in is touched by a human, there is no question on that."
"There's AI tools and different things that we've used as part of, like, started to look at a little bit as far as workflows, but every single thing that goes in is touched by a human, there is no question on that."
Fuck me there's loads of em.
November 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The "we don't use AI" to "oh woopsie the AI art just slipped in because of lack of oversight" to "well we use AI but everything is touched by a human" to "AI will revolutionize game dev" cop-out pipeline.
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Hero's Adventure is 50% OFF: store.steampowered.com/app/1948980/...
One of the best RPGs I ever played, got over 130 hours in it. It's an open-world martial arts RPG with unparallel levels of freedom - join or destroy any faction, siege / save towns, become emperor, hunt secret arts, marry, etc...
One of the best RPGs I ever played, got over 130 hours in it. It's an open-world martial arts RPG with unparallel levels of freedom - join or destroy any faction, siege / save towns, become emperor, hunt secret arts, marry, etc...
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Hero's Adventure is 50% OFF: store.steampowered.com/app/1948980/...
One of the best RPGs I ever played, got over 130 hours in it. It's an open-world martial arts RPG with unparallel levels of freedom - join or destroy any faction, siege / save towns, become emperor, hunt secret arts, marry, etc...
One of the best RPGs I ever played, got over 130 hours in it. It's an open-world martial arts RPG with unparallel levels of freedom - join or destroy any faction, siege / save towns, become emperor, hunt secret arts, marry, etc...
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I say this with empathy toward every struggling actor who is just trying to make due:
Providing your voice for A.I. undermines everyone in the industry. It is a net negative, that will only make it harder for you and everyone else down the line.
It. Is. Wrong.
Providing your voice for A.I. undermines everyone in the industry. It is a net negative, that will only make it harder for you and everyone else down the line.
It. Is. Wrong.
“But in ARC Raiders the GenAi voices were officially sanctioned by the actors! And so did Fortnite!” - and their agreement to this undermines everything the rest of us Voice Actors, our union, and other industries have been fighting against.
November 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I say this with empathy toward every struggling actor who is just trying to make due:
Providing your voice for A.I. undermines everyone in the industry. It is a net negative, that will only make it harder for you and everyone else down the line.
It. Is. Wrong.
Providing your voice for A.I. undermines everyone in the industry. It is a net negative, that will only make it harder for you and everyone else down the line.
It. Is. Wrong.
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latest on noclip_2, @nocapsbb.bsky.social takes us through the scalable heights of HYPOGEA by @ccharnul.bsky.social.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlI9...
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlI9...
the freedom of HYPOGEA makes it hard to put down
YouTube video by noclip_2
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
latest on noclip_2, @nocapsbb.bsky.social takes us through the scalable heights of HYPOGEA by @ccharnul.bsky.social.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlI9...
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlI9...
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The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.
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If they didn't want this pope why did JD Vance kill the last one?
The U.S. bishops defended migrant families. Tom Homan snapped. Nan Hayworth called Pope Leo a “tool of our enemies.” Tim Burchett accused the church of getting rich off of sex trafficking.
Matt Walsh, Lara Logan, and the rest joined in. This is what MAGA anti-Catholicism looks like.
Matt Walsh, Lara Logan, and the rest joined in. This is what MAGA anti-Catholicism looks like.
“Pope Leo Is a Tool of Our Enemies”: Homan Leads MAGA Attacks as Hayworth, Others Pile On
It’s the latest MAGA attack on Pope Leo’s pro-immigrant stance. Disgraced border chief Tom Homan — caught taking a $50,000 bribe in a Cava takeout bag — led the charge against Leo and the bishops.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
If they didn't want this pope why did JD Vance kill the last one?
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loving the idea of freelance private security firms reaching out proactively to people to tell them they're getting death threats on the internet
No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
loving the idea of freelance private security firms reaching out proactively to people to tell them they're getting death threats on the internet
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Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective
YouTube video by Noah Caldwell-Gervais
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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This is *it* folks - the hollow, silly appeal to inevitability has to be repeated constantly because otherwise we'd all realise that we can actually push back against awful deployment of ineffective and crappy technology
re: Bsky staff being AI weirdos, I see this sort of thing a bunch from people who like AI but don't want to outright go all in on public zealotry
just because it's invented doesn't mean you gotta use it! Syphilis isn't being uninvented anytime soon but that doesn't mean I'm rushing to get infected
just because it's invented doesn't mean you gotta use it! Syphilis isn't being uninvented anytime soon but that doesn't mean I'm rushing to get infected
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is *it* folks - the hollow, silly appeal to inevitability has to be repeated constantly because otherwise we'd all realise that we can actually push back against awful deployment of ineffective and crappy technology
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News: the final front cover for the U.K. edition of Power Play, my debut non-fiction book, has landed.
Thank you to the team @wildfirebooks.bsky.social and @headlinebooks.bsky.social for the great work.
Pre-order your copy ahead of its June 2026 release here: linktr.ee/Power_play_b...
Thank you to the team @wildfirebooks.bsky.social and @headlinebooks.bsky.social for the great work.
Pre-order your copy ahead of its June 2026 release here: linktr.ee/Power_play_b...
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
News: the final front cover for the U.K. edition of Power Play, my debut non-fiction book, has landed.
Thank you to the team @wildfirebooks.bsky.social and @headlinebooks.bsky.social for the great work.
Pre-order your copy ahead of its June 2026 release here: linktr.ee/Power_play_b...
Thank you to the team @wildfirebooks.bsky.social and @headlinebooks.bsky.social for the great work.
Pre-order your copy ahead of its June 2026 release here: linktr.ee/Power_play_b...
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The webpage for our upcoming book has the cover on it now which is enough of a milestone for me to write another post about the book we have coming out soon. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The webpage for our upcoming book has the cover on it now which is enough of a milestone for me to write another post about the book we have coming out soon. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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confused about why literacy rates in the United States are plummeting? the answer is infuriating: poor literacy amongst the working class benefits oligarchs & other fascists.
check out this short video from Michael Parenti on how reading is a revolutionary act:
check out this short video from Michael Parenti on how reading is a revolutionary act:
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
confused about why literacy rates in the United States are plummeting? the answer is infuriating: poor literacy amongst the working class benefits oligarchs & other fascists.
check out this short video from Michael Parenti on how reading is a revolutionary act:
check out this short video from Michael Parenti on how reading is a revolutionary act:
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credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point
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Reminded me a little bit of the five-year-old girl I nannied when I was right out of college who, when I asked if she liked being the youngest, said “It rocks! ‘Cause I’ll be the last to die!”
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Reminded me a little bit of the five-year-old girl I nannied when I was right out of college who, when I asked if she liked being the youngest, said “It rocks! ‘Cause I’ll be the last to die!”