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JP Corner / jayparkin
@jayyparkin.bsky.social
minnesota multimedia and more!

10 yrs of esports industry + video game development + journalism + editing + marketing + photography + brand strategy

Previously:
Version1/MN Røkkr
Activision-Blizzard
Editor/Journalist @ EsportsEdition
Bard College ‘14
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Counter-Strike website in 2004

#WebDesignHistory
June 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The original Dr. Mario game on NES is garbage.

No idea how it made the journey from original pitch to actual published software.

“The interactions between the different block shapes in Tetris are so fascinating!”

“I agree. That is why our game will only have one shape of block.”

🤔
June 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Spent some time hanging out with this bluejay last week in upstate NY.
June 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It always comes back to zoning! Always!

Fantastic local journalism from @lukehanson.bsky.social.

I am regularly delighted and impressed by the depth and quality of work published by @streets.mn. We’re lucky to have them.

streets.mn/2025/06/11/a...
Allow Corner Stores and Coffee Shops in St. Paul’s Residential Zones
It’s illegal to build corner stores and other small commercial spaces in most of St. Paul, thanks to decades-old zoning codes. That should change.
streets.mn
June 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Newly scanned from us: an ad from the trade magazine Videogame Advisor (November 1995), which has Sega vainly telling retailers not to support PlayStation, right after the PS1 famously undercut the Sega Saturn

Basically the game industry version of "please don't put in the newspaper that I got mad"
May 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Three hours into No More Heroes III.

It feels like a brainrot version of Yakuza, but the deliciously weird and varied visual aesthetics it spontaneously introduces are compelling. Curious to see how far I get.
March 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
3am call of duty is PEAK

- won a 3v4 ranked game against a four stack rocking their cringy clan tag
- they are HORRIBLE
- all wearing ninja turtle skins
- teammates and I take them hostage over and over again and scream about how their shells will make a fine addition to our collection
February 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I fucking love Counter-Strike
February 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
my precious lil weirdo
January 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM