Commander Sterling
@commandersterling.bsky.social
Stephanie Sterling. A Transfem She/Them Polyantagonist. Writer for Vampire Survivors, Date Everything, & Quantum Witch. Also a pro wrestler. Currently accepting writing gigs for cool games by cool people.
Replaying Kirby: Mass Attack for the first time since it was new. The image of ten Kirbies swarming on a guy like ants is never not endearing (and faintly alarming).
I also forgot there’s a whole ass Kirby Pinball successor as a sub-game, too. Picking this up was a good move.
I also forgot there’s a whole ass Kirby Pinball successor as a sub-game, too. Picking this up was a good move.
January 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Replaying Kirby: Mass Attack for the first time since it was new. The image of ten Kirbies swarming on a guy like ants is never not endearing (and faintly alarming).
I also forgot there’s a whole ass Kirby Pinball successor as a sub-game, too. Picking this up was a good move.
I also forgot there’s a whole ass Kirby Pinball successor as a sub-game, too. Picking this up was a good move.
It’s a bad show that’s not good to enjoy, and here’s more of it.
Slurp on another Boston’s Favorite Son: bostonfavoriteson.podbean.com/e/eternal-sa...
Slurp on another Boston’s Favorite Son: bostonfavoriteson.podbean.com/e/eternal-sa...
Eternal Sandwich | Boston’s Favorite Son
A sandwich which never ends, a penguin goes flipper-deep, and all the handy hands you can handle.
bostonfavoriteson.podbean.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM
It’s a bad show that’s not good to enjoy, and here’s more of it.
Slurp on another Boston’s Favorite Son: bostonfavoriteson.podbean.com/e/eternal-sa...
Slurp on another Boston’s Favorite Son: bostonfavoriteson.podbean.com/e/eternal-sa...
Yes. I’m not yet credited as I was originally just consulting, but I’m actually co-authoring this. Much of the lore will come from yours truly 😊.
Are you involved with this @commandersterling.bsky.social?
Vampire Survivors: The Grimoire lore book revealed, pre-orders open https://nintendoeverything.com/vampire-survivors-the-grimoire-lore-book-revealed-pre-orders-open/
January 1, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Yes. I’m not yet credited as I was originally just consulting, but I’m actually co-authoring this. Much of the lore will come from yours truly 😊.
It’s not “booming markets” so much as exploding prices and shrinking value. It’s railroading normal people into paying more for less, to increasingly unsurvivable rates.
The markets these fuckers peddle is a scam and billionaires are thieves.
The markets these fuckers peddle is a scam and billionaires are thieves.
"What a year for the ultra wealthy. The world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025’s… booming markets, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And about a quarter of this year’s gains went to just eight billionaires.” — Bloomberg Morning Brief
December 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It’s not “booming markets” so much as exploding prices and shrinking value. It’s railroading normal people into paying more for less, to increasingly unsurvivable rates.
The markets these fuckers peddle is a scam and billionaires are thieves.
The markets these fuckers peddle is a scam and billionaires are thieves.
My birthday present to myself, these amazing little Kirby ornaments from Japan. Got two more to assemble, but had to show them off now.
There’s very little Marx or Kracko stuff, so I love these extra hard.
There’s very little Marx or Kracko stuff, so I love these extra hard.
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My birthday present to myself, these amazing little Kirby ornaments from Japan. Got two more to assemble, but had to show them off now.
There’s very little Marx or Kracko stuff, so I love these extra hard.
There’s very little Marx or Kracko stuff, so I love these extra hard.
Reposted by Commander Sterling
Posting this one again because goddamn.
December 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Posting this one again because goddamn.
I want a Kirby crossover with Blood called Crudux Poyo.
December 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I want a Kirby crossover with Blood called Crudux Poyo.
It was hell doing it with YouTube’s awful inbuilt editor, but I believe I’ve been able to surgically remove the line relatively seamlessly.
Might take a while for it to show, but it’s fixed. I can’t stand to not have my arguments as flawless as possible.
Might take a while for it to show, but it’s fixed. I can’t stand to not have my arguments as flawless as possible.
Fair enough, I’ve made a note in the scrippy. Doesn’t change my opinion of the game at all, of course, but it’s fair to point out.
A small correction to your commentary about Z-A: Lumiose City is *not* rendered as a single model, that's misinformation based on a leaked model for a... model. On the second floor of the museum. There's a model of the city there, and *that* is what the leaked model was used for.
December 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It was hell doing it with YouTube’s awful inbuilt editor, but I believe I’ve been able to surgically remove the line relatively seamlessly.
Might take a while for it to show, but it’s fixed. I can’t stand to not have my arguments as flawless as possible.
Might take a while for it to show, but it’s fixed. I can’t stand to not have my arguments as flawless as possible.
Fair enough, I’ve made a note in the scrippy. Doesn’t change my opinion of the game at all, of course, but it’s fair to point out.
A small correction to your commentary about Z-A: Lumiose City is *not* rendered as a single model, that's misinformation based on a leaked model for a... model. On the second floor of the museum. There's a model of the city there, and *that* is what the leaked model was used for.
December 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Fair enough, I’ve made a note in the scrippy. Doesn’t change my opinion of the game at all, of course, but it’s fair to point out.
It's that time of year! Time to look back at the Top Ten Shittiest Games of 2025. Eat it whole, you hounds!
Watch here: youtu.be/BnjMcU0EQCo
Watch here: youtu.be/BnjMcU0EQCo
The Top Ten Sh*ttiest Games Of 2025
YouTube video by Stephanie Sterling
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It's that time of year! Time to look back at the Top Ten Shittiest Games of 2025. Eat it whole, you hounds!
Watch here: youtu.be/BnjMcU0EQCo
Watch here: youtu.be/BnjMcU0EQCo
This is one of the most delightful things I’ve ever gotten. POYO!
December 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is one of the most delightful things I’ve ever gotten. POYO!
Posting this one again because goddamn.
December 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Posting this one again because goddamn.
Tech platforms censor words, not meaning. It’s frighteningly insidious. This kind of censorship explicitly empowers bad actors by robbing their critics of the language to criticize.
Euphemisms are often the domain of fascists and predators. It’s a domain that online media wants to gate us inside.
Euphemisms are often the domain of fascists and predators. It’s a domain that online media wants to gate us inside.
December 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Tech platforms censor words, not meaning. It’s frighteningly insidious. This kind of censorship explicitly empowers bad actors by robbing their critics of the language to criticize.
Euphemisms are often the domain of fascists and predators. It’s a domain that online media wants to gate us inside.
Euphemisms are often the domain of fascists and predators. It’s a domain that online media wants to gate us inside.
Reposted by Commander Sterling
Blanket censoring the word “gambling” is literally a pro gambling move.
Gambling platforms avoid the word for obvious reasons, so YouTube eliminating its use under the pretense of combating gambling is the best fucking cover a gambling platform could ask for.
It’s pretty disgusting.
Gambling platforms avoid the word for obvious reasons, so YouTube eliminating its use under the pretense of combating gambling is the best fucking cover a gambling platform could ask for.
It’s pretty disgusting.
YouTube removed another of my anti-videogame gambling videos for being pro-gambling.
What a fucking farce of a website.
What a fucking farce of a website.
December 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Blanket censoring the word “gambling” is literally a pro gambling move.
Gambling platforms avoid the word for obvious reasons, so YouTube eliminating its use under the pretense of combating gambling is the best fucking cover a gambling platform could ask for.
It’s pretty disgusting.
Gambling platforms avoid the word for obvious reasons, so YouTube eliminating its use under the pretense of combating gambling is the best fucking cover a gambling platform could ask for.
It’s pretty disgusting.
Blanket censoring the word “gambling” is literally a pro gambling move.
Gambling platforms avoid the word for obvious reasons, so YouTube eliminating its use under the pretense of combating gambling is the best fucking cover a gambling platform could ask for.
It’s pretty disgusting.
Gambling platforms avoid the word for obvious reasons, so YouTube eliminating its use under the pretense of combating gambling is the best fucking cover a gambling platform could ask for.
It’s pretty disgusting.
YouTube removed another of my anti-videogame gambling videos for being pro-gambling.
What a fucking farce of a website.
What a fucking farce of a website.
December 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Blanket censoring the word “gambling” is literally a pro gambling move.
Gambling platforms avoid the word for obvious reasons, so YouTube eliminating its use under the pretense of combating gambling is the best fucking cover a gambling platform could ask for.
It’s pretty disgusting.
Gambling platforms avoid the word for obvious reasons, so YouTube eliminating its use under the pretense of combating gambling is the best fucking cover a gambling platform could ask for.
It’s pretty disgusting.
YouTube removed another of my anti-videogame gambling videos for being pro-gambling.
What a fucking farce of a website.
What a fucking farce of a website.
December 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
YouTube removed another of my anti-videogame gambling videos for being pro-gambling.
What a fucking farce of a website.
What a fucking farce of a website.
Dead Space: Extraction is a good idea let down by the fact it’s so fucking broken I can’t finish the second level because it always softlocks in the same spot.
So annoyed I spent like three quid on it.
So annoyed I spent like three quid on it.
December 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Dead Space: Extraction is a good idea let down by the fact it’s so fucking broken I can’t finish the second level because it always softlocks in the same spot.
So annoyed I spent like three quid on it.
So annoyed I spent like three quid on it.
The husband’s kids got Beyblades and now I want Beyblades.
December 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The husband’s kids got Beyblades and now I want Beyblades.
Oh my god, I absolutely love this!
Really fantastic stuff.
Really fantastic stuff.
The only thing your pathetic mouth has to say is “Yes, Commander.”
This started as just a warm up sketch and I think I over did it, but, I’ve been wanting to do a piece for @commandersterling.bsky.social for awhile now.
This started as just a warm up sketch and I think I over did it, but, I’ve been wanting to do a piece for @commandersterling.bsky.social for awhile now.
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Oh my god, I absolutely love this!
Really fantastic stuff.
Really fantastic stuff.
Give me a deliciously fabulous villain and you have my heart. Final Fantasy IX gave me the swishiest, fanciest, most hips-havingest villain of all.
In a genre full of campy baddies, Kuja’s still one of the all-time greats.
In a genre full of campy baddies, Kuja’s still one of the all-time greats.
December 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Give me a deliciously fabulous villain and you have my heart. Final Fantasy IX gave me the swishiest, fanciest, most hips-havingest villain of all.
In a genre full of campy baddies, Kuja’s still one of the all-time greats.
In a genre full of campy baddies, Kuja’s still one of the all-time greats.
In my life I’ve always been predisposed toward forgiving a fuck up and I extend that to game dev too.
Arriving to that conclusion about AI on your own and doing the work to undo it, that takes some integrity I think. I can’t in good faith judge that harshly.
Arriving to that conclusion about AI on your own and doing the work to undo it, that takes some integrity I think. I can’t in good faith judge that harshly.
Curious what your stance is on companies that used it and then realized it was a mistake (not from backlash) after the fact and removed it. Im personally a proponent of supporting people that are willing to reevaluate and change. Several small indie projects I've enjoyed had this kind of trajectory.
December 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In my life I’ve always been predisposed toward forgiving a fuck up and I extend that to game dev too.
Arriving to that conclusion about AI on your own and doing the work to undo it, that takes some integrity I think. I can’t in good faith judge that harshly.
Arriving to that conclusion about AI on your own and doing the work to undo it, that takes some integrity I think. I can’t in good faith judge that harshly.
I very much don’t regret hedging my bets with my award video now.
I’m fine with this reasoning. I can understand playing with AI BS back then. I dicked around with really early image makers like many people did when it seemed more like a toy.
So yeah, not gonna pillory it, glad I hung back a bit.
I’m fine with this reasoning. I can understand playing with AI BS back then. I dicked around with really early image makers like many people did when it seemed more like a toy.
So yeah, not gonna pillory it, glad I hung back a bit.
In order to put to rest “did they actually use it or not”, Guillaume Broche said it a recent Q&A that they tried AI when the tech was new, but they didn’t like it, it felt wrong to them. And they will not be using it in the future.
December 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I very much don’t regret hedging my bets with my award video now.
I’m fine with this reasoning. I can understand playing with AI BS back then. I dicked around with really early image makers like many people did when it seemed more like a toy.
So yeah, not gonna pillory it, glad I hung back a bit.
I’m fine with this reasoning. I can understand playing with AI BS back then. I dicked around with really early image makers like many people did when it seemed more like a toy.
So yeah, not gonna pillory it, glad I hung back a bit.
Reposted by Commander Sterling
It's time for some Simply Sterling Game of the Year Awards! It's a new video looking back at 2025 and picking my favorite games from the lot. Will Clair Obscur make it despite AI controversy? Let's find out!
Watch here: youtu.be/ELgU4iCkETo
Watch here: youtu.be/ELgU4iCkETo
The Simply Sterling Game Of The Year Awards 2025
YouTube video by Stephanie Sterling
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's time for some Simply Sterling Game of the Year Awards! It's a new video looking back at 2025 and picking my favorite games from the lot. Will Clair Obscur make it despite AI controversy? Let's find out!
Watch here: youtu.be/ELgU4iCkETo
Watch here: youtu.be/ELgU4iCkETo
Reposted by Commander Sterling
One of Stephanie Sterling's games of the year was a Bloober game.
THE END TIMES ARE NIGH.
THE END TIMES ARE NIGH.
It's time for some Simply Sterling Game of the Year Awards! It's a new video looking back at 2025 and picking my favorite games from the lot. Will Clair Obscur make it despite AI controversy? Let's find out!
Watch here: youtu.be/ELgU4iCkETo
Watch here: youtu.be/ELgU4iCkETo
The Simply Sterling Game Of The Year Awards 2025
YouTube video by Stephanie Sterling
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
One of Stephanie Sterling's games of the year was a Bloober game.
THE END TIMES ARE NIGH.
THE END TIMES ARE NIGH.
That’s one way of looking at it.
I thought I made it very clear - I had to mention the game due to my acclaim of it earlier this year but if it used AI anywhere in the process then no, it’s not awarded anything.
It’s not on the list.
I thought I made it very clear - I had to mention the game due to my acclaim of it earlier this year but if it used AI anywhere in the process then no, it’s not awarded anything.
It’s not on the list.
Disappointed E33 is still on the list.
It's cut and dry, they used gen AI in the developement of the game.
You're cutting this game and it's devs too much slack.
The moment a big dev or pub as much as peeps about ai you tear into them.
Yet here you put on silk gloves.
Be consistent.
It's cut and dry, they used gen AI in the developement of the game.
You're cutting this game and it's devs too much slack.
The moment a big dev or pub as much as peeps about ai you tear into them.
Yet here you put on silk gloves.
Be consistent.
December 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
That’s one way of looking at it.
I thought I made it very clear - I had to mention the game due to my acclaim of it earlier this year but if it used AI anywhere in the process then no, it’s not awarded anything.
It’s not on the list.
I thought I made it very clear - I had to mention the game due to my acclaim of it earlier this year but if it used AI anywhere in the process then no, it’s not awarded anything.
It’s not on the list.