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Julian B. Taknæs
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Bachelor in Vernepleie⚕️
Games Journalist🎮
Podcasting about games @ Radio Nova🕹️
Trying to break through…

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Julian B. Taknæs @kvelertaknes.bsky.social · Sep 21
Sommeren er over - takk gud.

Jeg har skrevet om angst, depresjon, skrekk og kos for Gamer.no, og artikkelen kan du lese her☺️
gamer.no Gamer.no @gamer.no · Sep 21
Stadig flere rømmer til koselige spillopplevelser. Men hva med dem som vil ha noe mørkere?

Les kommentaren til @kvelertaknes.bsky.social her 🍂⚰️
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Stadig flere rømmer til koselige spillopplevelser, såkalte «cozy games». Men hva med oss som vil ha noe mørkere?
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Chillin
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Share tv series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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we've a little disco elysium teaser dropping tomorrow, and the full series starts sometime next week. we'll have 5 episodes, each is currently around 40 mins. it's probably the project I've taken the most care with, given the impact of the game, and it's unique development story. i hope it's good!
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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mikebarthelauthor.com
Fish have committed credit card fraud
Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The meme of "my body is a machine that turns 'the passage of time' into 'not writing'." This is a joke about writing and how so much of writing is not writing— or at least, that's what I tell myself when I am avoiding writing, which is a big part of my actual job. I mean writing, not *not* writing. Bosses: do not look at this, especially if you are expecting something from me soon. Obviously, everything is going great. I am not procrastinating by making this meme. I am not deliberately wasting time in every possible way I can think of after already having made breakfast int he most laborious way possible, catching up on email and slack messages, engaging in some discord discourse, and checking every social media feed I have the misfortune to remain entangled with, and I fully intend on starting to write for real the moment I hit the button to send this tweet. Yes, I still call them tweets. It's an act of resistance at this point, calling them tweets. I remember there was some discussion of what to call them, and I have to say I did laugh about "skeets," since the act is comparable in some ways: it feels good in the moment, but results in something useless and gross just moments later... is this too much to get into here? I don't know if the wrongheadedly censorious people who run this platform even check descriptive alt text, come to think of it. Anyway, I should get back to writing, for real, which I will do now. That reminds me, did you catch the discourse the other day about dialogue choices in games? I don't have much to say, really, other than that creative works can be literally whatever you want them to be, so arguing about them isn't as productive as simply making the work you want to see in the world (and which I'll get back to doing in just a moment). If you want to see my approach to dialogue choices, why not play my visual novel, Eliza? If you've made it this far and haven't yet, I suggest you check it out. Okay, back to writing for real now. Definitely.
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This importance of this mindset, when approaching any form of art, cannot be overstated @aftermath.site

aftermath.site/vampire-masq...
The Art Of Playing The Damn Video Game
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 has a lot to offer if you play the game that's in front of you, instead of the one in your head
aftermath.site
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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So sorry to hear this, it's way too soon
toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 4d
Rebecca Heineman has passed away from cancer, at 62.

A games industry legend - first ever game tournament champion in 1980, Interplay co-founder, Bard's Tale 3 designer, worked on the PSP, PS4, Xbox360, many ports...

Prime pick for a Lifetime Achievement Award, @geoffkeighley.bsky.social
A selfie image of Rebecca Heineman, a red-haired 62-year-old woman
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
kvelertaknes.bsky.social
TGA´s website straight up does NOT work holy shit.
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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De som puttet Scalebound inn i dagens spillrulett fortjener applaus.
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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I love him so much
My cat, Molte, curled up on a pillow.
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Don’t forget that this game exists and is better than 90% of games being released.
November 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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aftermath.site
These developers are bringing canceled game Concord back to life: aftermath.site/concord-dead-g...
a screenshot of characters from concord
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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grubb.wtf
The Keep Killing Games initiative with another win
ign.com IGN @ign.com · 7d
The story campaign in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has numerous restrictions tied to its always-online nature, with no method of pausing levels.

You'll also be booted from your game if you're idle for too long. https://bit.ly/3JNJqn4
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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More Rockstar protests today, and a march in Edinburgh set for Tuesday www.thegamer.com/even-more-pr...
Even More Protests Held Outside Take-Two Offices In The UK And France Over Alleged Union Bus
Former Rockstar employees and their allies protest outside of Take-Two offices in London and Paris.
www.thegamer.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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jostein.radcrew.net
ChatGPT har aldri hjulpet meg i nærheten så mye som Kvinneguiden har
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Hideo Kojima er en pretensiøs overvurdert liksomkjendis som lager de beste spillene i verden, jeg elsker han, jeg skulle ønske han kunne roe seg ned, kan vi slutte å si hvor bra han er, han er ikke så bra, sånn faktisk er han ganske ufyselig, faen så kul han er.

In this essay I will…
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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An indie game
blueskynoise.com Mark Ⴟ Ⓥ Delaney @blueskynoise.com · 8d
Fill in the blank:

Before you pick your Game of the Year, make sure you play _______
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
kvelertaknes.bsky.social
KCDII x QoTSA was the collab I didn’t know I needed in my life.
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
kvelertaknes.bsky.social
Forkastelig, spør du meg.

Vi som samfunn skal ikke oppfordre folk til å ta mindre kollektivtransport.
velonitram.bsky.social VeloNitram (Not powered by AI) 📎 @velonitram.bsky.social · 10d
Det er noe grunnleggende usympatisk og føles som et brudd på samfunnskontrakten å rushtidsprise kollektivtransport.

Tror jeg det vil virke? Absolutt. Forbered byen på økt biltrafikk.
Ruter åpner for rushtidsprising på kollektivtransport
– Et tiltak som vurderes som interessant.
www.ao.no
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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GOTY
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Royal Edition - Official Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Warhorse Studios
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November 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Tenker på Persona 3 Reload OST i dag.
bart simpson is wearing headphones and dancing in front of a microphone
ALT: bart simpson is wearing headphones and dancing in front of a microphone
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November 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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noclip_2 will have a feature on Ambrosia Sky by @softrains.bsky.social next week.

The game's first act dropped on Steam this week too.
store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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mackeza.bsky.social
“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...
“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