Ana Diaz
@pokachee.bsky.social
big-brained culture writer. i've covered games and internet culture at polygon, gamespot, verge, npr, wired, and lots of other places; alum and occasional guest at minnmax 😈🏳️🌈 - looking for work
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Ana Diaz
@pokachee.bsky.social
· May 2
Hi my name is Ana! ✍🏼 I worked as a service writer and culture reporter for Polygon for several years and was among the many journalists laid off at Polygon following its sale to Valnet.
I am now open to work opportunities and am available to contact at: anadiazwrites@gmail.com.
I am now open to work opportunities and am available to contact at: anadiazwrites@gmail.com.
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deeply annoying to me that you wouldn’t know from games media coverage that love and deepspace is reportedly makeing more money than genshin rn and regularly does so. shoutout to @ashleybardhan.bsky.social and @pokachee.bsky.social for actually having a finger on the pulse.
January 2, 2026 at 5:39 PM
deeply annoying to me that you wouldn’t know from games media coverage that love and deepspace is reportedly makeing more money than genshin rn and regularly does so. shoutout to @ashleybardhan.bsky.social and @pokachee.bsky.social for actually having a finger on the pulse.
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Amazing Game Informer article by @pokachee.bsky.social interviewing Toby Fox. These two are such a good comedic duo, I hope to read future convos between them.
gameinformer.com/2025/09/30/i...
gameinformer.com/2025/09/30/i...
Inefficient And Laborious – The Ongoing Path To Making Deltarune
We spoke with Toby Fox about his “stupid” way of making games and the big leap from Undertale to Deltarune.
gameinformer.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Amazing Game Informer article by @pokachee.bsky.social interviewing Toby Fox. These two are such a good comedic duo, I hope to read future convos between them.
gameinformer.com/2025/09/30/i...
gameinformer.com/2025/09/30/i...
each day i reflect on current state of media and it's just like
December 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
each day i reflect on current state of media and it's just like
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
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The Xbox Boycott (Still) Matters
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I can’t emphasize how many of my social, mental, and physical problems would be solved if I could just go to a bathhouse with my friends even one to two times a week.
December 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I can’t emphasize how many of my social, mental, and physical problems would be solved if I could just go to a bathhouse with my friends even one to two times a week.
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I'd just like to say no one else at @minnmax.com has gotten a set like this for a 2025 game.
December 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I'd just like to say no one else at @minnmax.com has gotten a set like this for a 2025 game.
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⭐✨🔴 here's a little list of everything i've written about silent hill f so far:
pills 💉 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
haunted houses 🏚️ plant-or-beast.net/posts/2025-1...
dolls 🧸 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
and my new big, buttery interview 🪓 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
pills 💉 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
haunted houses 🏚️ plant-or-beast.net/posts/2025-1...
dolls 🧸 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
and my new big, buttery interview 🪓 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
December 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
⭐✨🔴 here's a little list of everything i've written about silent hill f so far:
pills 💉 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
haunted houses 🏚️ plant-or-beast.net/posts/2025-1...
dolls 🧸 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
and my new big, buttery interview 🪓 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
pills 💉 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
haunted houses 🏚️ plant-or-beast.net/posts/2025-1...
dolls 🧸 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
and my new big, buttery interview 🪓 www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
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yeah........
December 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
yeah........
Buca di Beppo is having very many big thoughts today
December 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Buca di Beppo is having very many big thoughts today
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This sequence of sources made me laugh
December 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This sequence of sources made me laugh
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This year MinnMax is using our reaction stream for The Game Awards to raise money for the Somali Museum of Minnesota.
People aren't "garbage".
Please donate/share to help the museum's mission of connecting Minneapolis with the beauty of Somali art, dance, and history. www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
People aren't "garbage".
Please donate/share to help the museum's mission of connecting Minneapolis with the beauty of Somali art, dance, and history. www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
December 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This year MinnMax is using our reaction stream for The Game Awards to raise money for the Somali Museum of Minnesota.
People aren't "garbage".
Please donate/share to help the museum's mission of connecting Minneapolis with the beauty of Somali art, dance, and history. www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
People aren't "garbage".
Please donate/share to help the museum's mission of connecting Minneapolis with the beauty of Somali art, dance, and history. www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
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Thanks Ana, this was a great convo! Funny looking back on this part hehe... 😈
December 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thanks Ana, this was a great convo! Funny looking back on this part hehe... 😈
With Angeline Era out, now is my time to bump this wonderful conversation I had with Marina Kittaka (one of the devs behind the game) that was published in MN Artists for the Walker Art Center a while back: mnartists.walkerart.org/against-the-...
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
With Angeline Era out, now is my time to bump this wonderful conversation I had with Marina Kittaka (one of the devs behind the game) that was published in MN Artists for the Walker Art Center a while back: mnartists.walkerart.org/against-the-...
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If you’re tired of end of year top ten lists and other TGA-ass categories, allow me to introduce you to the @pewpewbang.bsky.social awards. We’ve got fun categories like “best little guy of the year”, “best character’s outfit of the year” and “best passes the bechdel test game of the year”
Introducing The Pew Tens, the Pew Pew Bang Awards show that promises to bring a dying industry to its knees (implied). Kick off this month's celebration of an incredible year in gaming on YouTube or your favorite podcast app: www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Wm...
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If you’re tired of end of year top ten lists and other TGA-ass categories, allow me to introduce you to the @pewpewbang.bsky.social awards. We’ve got fun categories like “best little guy of the year”, “best character’s outfit of the year” and “best passes the bechdel test game of the year”
Heated Rivalry is healing so much of the culture. The fujoshi x gay alliance has never been stronger. Yuri on Ice and Challengers edits are back on the FYP. Yaoi addiction is being normalized. We are so back.
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Heated Rivalry is healing so much of the culture. The fujoshi x gay alliance has never been stronger. Yuri on Ice and Challengers edits are back on the FYP. Yaoi addiction is being normalized. We are so back.
the weird thing about freelancing right now is that there is a ton of potential to do so much interesting and valuable work on a regular basis (exciting!!) but it's just that you will only be paid $200-250 for a multi source report, it's pretty far behind what rates were 4+ year ago. (not good!!)
December 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
the weird thing about freelancing right now is that there is a ton of potential to do so much interesting and valuable work on a regular basis (exciting!!) but it's just that you will only be paid $200-250 for a multi source report, it's pretty far behind what rates were 4+ year ago. (not good!!)
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Casual sexual harassment of women and femmes is so common that it’s often difficult to convince people that it even is harassment
Incredibly weird behavior from a man who has previously sexually harassed me. AI makes it even easier to spread low-effort misogyny, so I'm not surprised the online right is using it so much that it's melting their brains.
Exhausting, but expected.
Exhausting, but expected.
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Casual sexual harassment of women and femmes is so common that it’s often difficult to convince people that it even is harassment
anyone who writes "hehe" in text and chat gets an immediate thumbs up from me. i will trust you with my life and i interpret that as the greenest of green flags.
December 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
anyone who writes "hehe" in text and chat gets an immediate thumbs up from me. i will trust you with my life and i interpret that as the greenest of green flags.
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Advent Calendars were the first Daily Login Rewards
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Advent Calendars were the first Daily Login Rewards
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DOLLSWEAT, my solo ttrpg about turning into a doll, 🐾🪆, will release on january 5, 2026 ⋆｡°✩
it'll be available to download as a free PDF on itch
you can keep up with the OCCULT, CURSED, DANGEROUS project here plantorbeast.itch.io/dollsweat
🎧🫀🦢
it'll be available to download as a free PDF on itch
you can keep up with the OCCULT, CURSED, DANGEROUS project here plantorbeast.itch.io/dollsweat
🎧🫀🦢
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
DOLLSWEAT, my solo ttrpg about turning into a doll, 🐾🪆, will release on january 5, 2026 ⋆｡°✩
it'll be available to download as a free PDF on itch
you can keep up with the OCCULT, CURSED, DANGEROUS project here plantorbeast.itch.io/dollsweat
🎧🫀🦢
it'll be available to download as a free PDF on itch
you can keep up with the OCCULT, CURSED, DANGEROUS project here plantorbeast.itch.io/dollsweat
🎧🫀🦢
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Welcome back to online, here is a cool (and mildly upsetting) interview about how keeping up with massive entertainment franchises is not unlike being a conspiracy theorist, among other things
I talked to @ckunzelman.bsky.social about his Assassin’s Creed book, which turned into wide ranging conversation about how everything in entertainment is basically trying turn us into conspiracy theorists
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
Conspiracy Thinking Is Flourishing. Some of Our Most Popular Franchises Aren’t Helping.
Video games may be turning players into conspiracy theorists, but so is everything else.
slate.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Welcome back to online, here is a cool (and mildly upsetting) interview about how keeping up with massive entertainment franchises is not unlike being a conspiracy theorist, among other things
Hi there!!!! I am looking to talk to super fans of Love and Deepspace for a very fun article I'm writing for GameSpot. If this is you and you'd be down to answer a few questions via DMs please get in touch!! ❤️❤️🔥😍💜💙✨💖
December 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hi there!!!! I am looking to talk to super fans of Love and Deepspace for a very fun article I'm writing for GameSpot. If this is you and you'd be down to answer a few questions via DMs please get in touch!! ❤️❤️🔥😍💜💙✨💖