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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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!”
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“Why is literacy important?”
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
“Why is literacy important?”
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
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Y'all really need to see this excellent video that is mostly about the Rogansphere comedy scene, but a lot about Elon too and how they all suffer from bad dad syndrome and a need to "get the hell out of here."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Y'all really need to see this excellent video that is mostly about the Rogansphere comedy scene, but a lot about Elon too and how they all suffer from bad dad syndrome and a need to "get the hell out of here."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...
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And the worst part is, Elon's car actually looks like the 1994 classic JCVD action flick Timecop.
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
And the worst part is, Elon's car actually looks like the 1994 classic JCVD action flick Timecop.
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Again, this seems like it's largely just to fuck with western studios, because there are some enormously gory Chinese games I've played recently, and here's one about BEING a skeleton that fights skeletons. By a Chinese studio. Set in China.
store.steampowered.com/app/3833280/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3833280/...
Diablo 4 In China Censored, Blood And Skeletons Removed
Diablo 4 In China Censored, Blood And Skeletons Removed
A large skeleton boss found in Blizzard's action RPG is made out of rocks in the upcoming Chinese version
kotaku.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Again, this seems like it's largely just to fuck with western studios, because there are some enormously gory Chinese games I've played recently, and here's one about BEING a skeleton that fights skeletons. By a Chinese studio. Set in China.
store.steampowered.com/app/3833280/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3833280/...
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id never post a youtube video again if i got a debunk this serious
November 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
id never post a youtube video again if i got a debunk this serious
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The sad violins documentary about how sad it made Israeli soldiers to do genocidal war crimes for more than two years straight because "an order is an order" will of course be prohibited by Israeli censors.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The sad violins documentary about how sad it made Israeli soldiers to do genocidal war crimes for more than two years straight because "an order is an order" will of course be prohibited by Israeli censors.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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OK, let's go! You want to hear about cool strategy games? I want to write about them! Let's help each other make this happen :D
ko-fi.com/kimimi/goal?...
ko-fi.com/kimimi/goal?...
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
OK, let's go! You want to hear about cool strategy games? I want to write about them! Let's help each other make this happen :D
ko-fi.com/kimimi/goal?...
ko-fi.com/kimimi/goal?...
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Yesterday was the last day that my ol' gaming website VoxelSmash was online. There was a point in 2023 when we were operating with a (small) staff and even had a tiny but substantial freelance budget. Then, in November, Google hit us and destroyed all hopes of doing (decent) journalism.
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Yesterday was the last day that my ol' gaming website VoxelSmash was online. There was a point in 2023 when we were operating with a (small) staff and even had a tiny but substantial freelance budget. Then, in November, Google hit us and destroyed all hopes of doing (decent) journalism.
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I read a thread about games with terrible UI earlier and this video has been destroying me all day.
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I read a thread about games with terrible UI earlier and this video has been destroying me all day.
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Delayed air travel is probably the only element of the government shutdown that actually inconvenienced dems in Congress, unsurprising that they folded basically immediately
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Delayed air travel is probably the only element of the government shutdown that actually inconvenienced dems in Congress, unsurprising that they folded basically immediately
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Earlier this morning we passed the 300% funding mark with 26 days left to go! Thank you all so much for supporting APWOT!🤖⭐
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Earlier this morning we passed the 300% funding mark with 26 days left to go! Thank you all so much for supporting APWOT!🤖⭐
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You don't hate Rockstar enough, once again circumstances prove that the negative stories about them aren't exaggerated, but watered down.
gtaforums.com/topic/100418...
Boeing of gaming companies.
gtaforums.com/topic/100418...
Boeing of gaming companies.
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You don't hate Rockstar enough, once again circumstances prove that the negative stories about them aren't exaggerated, but watered down.
gtaforums.com/topic/100418...
Boeing of gaming companies.
gtaforums.com/topic/100418...
Boeing of gaming companies.
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This was one of the all-time bangers of deep dive journalism from Waypoint. I was a part of Sierra fandom and closely followed these developments as they happened, and it's unreal to see it retold but with all of the wild, crazy financial business shit laid bare.
Rediscovered this electric article from 2020 by the great @duncanfyfe.net about the death of Sierra, a studio that was so so important to my childhood.
How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud
Sierra was one of the biggest game publishers of the 90s. Then they got an offer that was way too good to be true, but too good to decline.
www.vice.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This was one of the all-time bangers of deep dive journalism from Waypoint. I was a part of Sierra fandom and closely followed these developments as they happened, and it's unreal to see it retold but with all of the wild, crazy financial business shit laid bare.
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CDRomance (name) is back! And I'm saying goodbye. This profile will be gone too. I share with you all the message I sent them, and I say the same to you all from bluesky. I've met so, SO MANY great people thanks to our work in the website, and it's sad I can't be closer to you. Take care. <3
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
CDRomance (name) is back! And I'm saying goodbye. This profile will be gone too. I share with you all the message I sent them, and I say the same to you all from bluesky. I've met so, SO MANY great people thanks to our work in the website, and it's sad I can't be closer to you. Take care. <3
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This week: community and continuity form a thematic throughline for seventeen new picks:
critical-distance.com/2025/11/09/n...
critical-distance.com/2025/11/09/n...
November 9th
Welcome back readers. Okay, I lied a small lie last week. I’m not going to plug our money stuff this week. Instead keep your focus on The Jamaican government’s official portal for Hurri…
critical-distance.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This week: community and continuity form a thematic throughline for seventeen new picks:
critical-distance.com/2025/11/09/n...
critical-distance.com/2025/11/09/n...
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Joyce Carol Oates absolutely reading Elon Musk for filth is pretty incredible, but something I'd point out is his feigned interest in games, and how fake that was, paying people to boost his accounts and play for him, and the rare time we actually got to see him play, he was absolutely miserable.
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Joyce Carol Oates absolutely reading Elon Musk for filth is pretty incredible, but something I'd point out is his feigned interest in games, and how fake that was, paying people to boost his accounts and play for him, and the rare time we actually got to see him play, he was absolutely miserable.