Len
@len.bsky.social
Solo indie developer. Strategy/RPG/Horror games freelancer at IGN, PC Gamer, and others. Producer: Three Moves Ahead. Lover of languages, folk metal, and history. she/they
sic semper tyrannis
sic semper tyrannis
"But you don't really care for music, do ya?" is a harder bar than like 95% of battle rap disses
December 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"But you don't really care for music, do ya?" is a harder bar than like 95% of battle rap disses
I actually liked Avatar 3 a fair bit more than the second one, contrary to popular opinion. Bad Na'vi is the most interesting idea they've had since 2009 and doing more with that is the only way I think you get two more three-hour movies out of this that aren't exhausting.
December 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I actually liked Avatar 3 a fair bit more than the second one, contrary to popular opinion. Bad Na'vi is the most interesting idea they've had since 2009 and doing more with that is the only way I think you get two more three-hour movies out of this that aren't exhausting.
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Alright, here's how I'm going to structure my GOTY list for 2025. I have four games that are my "Runners Up" in no particular order, one Overall Winner, and three Honorable Mentions.
We'll start with the Runners Up:
Hades 2
Silent Hill f
Dune: Awakening
Two Point Museum
We'll start with the Runners Up:
Hades 2
Silent Hill f
Dune: Awakening
Two Point Museum
December 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Alright, here's how I'm going to structure my GOTY list for 2025. I have four games that are my "Runners Up" in no particular order, one Overall Winner, and three Honorable Mentions.
We'll start with the Runners Up:
Hades 2
Silent Hill f
Dune: Awakening
Two Point Museum
We'll start with the Runners Up:
Hades 2
Silent Hill f
Dune: Awakening
Two Point Museum
And that's Jedi Survivor done. About twice as long as the first one, which I don't think it needed to be, but I have become a fan of this series over the last 30 days from having never played it. Kind of reminds me of KotOR in that it walks the line of not pandering but delivering the high points.
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
And that's Jedi Survivor done. About twice as long as the first one, which I don't think it needed to be, but I have become a fan of this series over the last 30 days from having never played it. Kind of reminds me of KotOR in that it walks the line of not pandering but delivering the high points.
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Anyway, don't sleep on Dune: Awakening. I think that was one of the least talked about bangers of the year. It is a very good 80-hour single-player survival crafter that you can stop when you finish the main story and not worrry about the fact that the endgame isn't very good. Worth those 80 hours.
December 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Anyway, don't sleep on Dune: Awakening. I think that was one of the least talked about bangers of the year. It is a very good 80-hour single-player survival crafter that you can stop when you finish the main story and not worrry about the fact that the endgame isn't very good. Worth those 80 hours.
Alright, here's how I'm going to structure my GOTY list for 2025. I have four games that are my "Runners Up" in no particular order, one Overall Winner, and three Honorable Mentions.
We'll start with the Runners Up:
Hades 2
Silent Hill f
Dune: Awakening
Two Point Museum
We'll start with the Runners Up:
Hades 2
Silent Hill f
Dune: Awakening
Two Point Museum
December 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Alright, here's how I'm going to structure my GOTY list for 2025. I have four games that are my "Runners Up" in no particular order, one Overall Winner, and three Honorable Mentions.
We'll start with the Runners Up:
Hades 2
Silent Hill f
Dune: Awakening
Two Point Museum
We'll start with the Runners Up:
Hades 2
Silent Hill f
Dune: Awakening
Two Point Museum
Still working out my 2025 GOTY list but I have decided to follow the likes of @indiegameawards.gg and say games that used generative AI will not be up for consideration. It doesn't mean they are horrible and irredeemable slop, but it does mean they are not eligible for my highest personal accolade.
December 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Still working out my 2025 GOTY list but I have decided to follow the likes of @indiegameawards.gg and say games that used generative AI will not be up for consideration. It doesn't mean they are horrible and irredeemable slop, but it does mean they are not eligible for my highest personal accolade.
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And if they don’t - wow, that’s great for you! You’re going to leave your competition in the dust.
“Don’t be stuck in the past,”
Or what, Good Samaritan? Why are you so concerned for me? Won’t you benefit if I falter and stumble into the dust bin of history?
“Don’t be stuck in the past,”
Or what, Good Samaritan? Why are you so concerned for me? Won’t you benefit if I falter and stumble into the dust bin of history?
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
And if they don’t - wow, that’s great for you! You’re going to leave your competition in the dust.
“Don’t be stuck in the past,”
Or what, Good Samaritan? Why are you so concerned for me? Won’t you benefit if I falter and stumble into the dust bin of history?
“Don’t be stuck in the past,”
Or what, Good Samaritan? Why are you so concerned for me? Won’t you benefit if I falter and stumble into the dust bin of history?
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If devs are *licensing* their own tech, sure. But a dev saying “if you don’t use bump mapping / IK / Source Engine you’re a Luddite / stuck in the past / etc.” - why would they care?
IME if someone uses tech that has self-evident value, people scramble to adopt it.
IME if someone uses tech that has self-evident value, people scramble to adopt it.
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
If devs are *licensing* their own tech, sure. But a dev saying “if you don’t use bump mapping / IK / Source Engine you’re a Luddite / stuck in the past / etc.” - why would they care?
IME if someone uses tech that has self-evident value, people scramble to adopt it.
IME if someone uses tech that has self-evident value, people scramble to adopt it.
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I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere.
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
My conspiracy theory about genAI in games blowing up more and more by big companies is that they’ve all got a ton of investors insisting they use genAI tools otherwise they(investors) won’t be able to bankroll em anymore
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere.
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
explaining to relatives why the plural of "modus operandi" is "modi operandi" not "modus operandis" and watching them shove me into a locker with their eyes
December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
explaining to relatives why the plural of "modus operandi" is "modi operandi" not "modus operandis" and watching them shove me into a locker with their eyes
The Escapist is really what all gaming journalism would look like if the top level money guys had zero shame and felt like they could get away with it. This is the point it all converges on under our current organization of the attention economy. Don't think it can't happen to your faves.
Do not trust anything you read or see from The Escapist. Their quality and accuracy has crashed through the floor. The real team jumped ship and formed @secondwindgroup.com.
What is on the website now is powered by barely legal casinos and gambling. They hide dirty advertisements as reviews. 🎰🎲🃏
What is on the website now is powered by barely legal casinos and gambling. They hide dirty advertisements as reviews. 🎰🎲🃏
December 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The Escapist is really what all gaming journalism would look like if the top level money guys had zero shame and felt like they could get away with it. This is the point it all converges on under our current organization of the attention economy. Don't think it can't happen to your faves.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Twas the night before Solstice
And on all the sites
The posters were posting
About picking bad fights
In slow motion they watched
The Top G take his licks
And the children did chuckle
For it was pretty sick
And on all the sites
The posters were posting
About picking bad fights
In slow motion they watched
The Top G take his licks
And the children did chuckle
For it was pretty sick
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Twas the night before Solstice
And on all the sites
The posters were posting
About picking bad fights
In slow motion they watched
The Top G take his licks
And the children did chuckle
For it was pretty sick
And on all the sites
The posters were posting
About picking bad fights
In slow motion they watched
The Top G take his licks
And the children did chuckle
For it was pretty sick
[Mobster Voice]: "I wantcha to go find this no good fuckin sussy fuckin baka and tell him if he doesn't have my money, that pretty little waifu of his is gonna be starrin in a fuckin live action netflix adaptation. You naruhodo what I'm sayin? Ikuzo! Let me see ya put a little pep in your step!"
December 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
[Mobster Voice]: "I wantcha to go find this no good fuckin sussy fuckin baka and tell him if he doesn't have my money, that pretty little waifu of his is gonna be starrin in a fuckin live action netflix adaptation. You naruhodo what I'm sayin? Ikuzo! Let me see ya put a little pep in your step!"
I've been pushing back on the Respawn Jedi games being "soulslike" but I just defeated Son of Oggdo and yelled, "Choke on my everlasting hatred!" in a way that generally only some of Miyazaki's most sadistic creations could inspire so maybe I'll give it the nod.
December 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I've been pushing back on the Respawn Jedi games being "soulslike" but I just defeated Son of Oggdo and yelled, "Choke on my everlasting hatred!" in a way that generally only some of Miyazaki's most sadistic creations could inspire so maybe I'll give it the nod.
Nah the more I think about it the more I think Imperial Agents go into "It's on sight" with Magnus and the allergen brigade
I've never actually done a 40K faction tier list, so with all the news lately, here's one I thought about for a medium amount of time.
December 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Nah the more I think about it the more I think Imperial Agents go into "It's on sight" with Magnus and the allergen brigade
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I don't know how somebody managed to take a photo of my bookshelves but
December 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I don't know how somebody managed to take a photo of my bookshelves but
Predicting I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of this thread.
I don't see a coherent case for the idea that we shouldn't rush to judgement about GenAI use that doesn't hinge on the idea that it couldn't be *that* bad if [studio I think is cool] is using it. If it's "early visualization" you're still hitting there plagiarism button that makes RAM unaffordable.
December 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Predicting I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of this thread.
I've never actually done a 40K faction tier list, so with all the news lately, here's one I thought about for a medium amount of time.
December 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I've never actually done a 40K faction tier list, so with all the news lately, here's one I thought about for a medium amount of time.
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i try to never do things like this but we were displaced very suddenly this week. it's a hard financial hit. our new apartment is unfurnished. my friend suggested i make a Throne wish list so i don't have to finish editing this video on the floor. anything helps, thank you 🩵
throne.com/lolasebastian
throne.com/lolasebastian
December 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
i try to never do things like this but we were displaced very suddenly this week. it's a hard financial hit. our new apartment is unfurnished. my friend suggested i make a Throne wish list so i don't have to finish editing this video on the floor. anything helps, thank you 🩵
throne.com/lolasebastian
throne.com/lolasebastian
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"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
for all people make fun of falun gong, it's wild how much this is basically the same thing as shen yun
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
If you want to feel old today, check out this zoomer on @askhistorians.bsky.social trying to figure out how you can logically trace a path from 9/11 to invading Iraq.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
If you want to feel old today, check out this zoomer on @askhistorians.bsky.social trying to figure out how you can logically trace a path from 9/11 to invading Iraq.
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Correct and the other thing about wEsTeRn CiViLiZaTiOn is that if such a thing were approached seriously as a matter of history, there are good reasons it shouldn't, Islam is undoubtedly included.
That its boosters also hate Spanish speaking Christian countries to our south gives the game away.
That its boosters also hate Spanish speaking Christian countries to our south gives the game away.
thats the wildest part about this entire "western civ" schtick.
ALL of the europeans hate each other, lmao. they do the best they can to avoid all out war every few decades.
ALL of the europeans hate each other, lmao. they do the best they can to avoid all out war every few decades.
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Correct and the other thing about wEsTeRn CiViLiZaTiOn is that if such a thing were approached seriously as a matter of history, there are good reasons it shouldn't, Islam is undoubtedly included.
That its boosters also hate Spanish speaking Christian countries to our south gives the game away.
That its boosters also hate Spanish speaking Christian countries to our south gives the game away.