Janette reviews indie games
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AuHD schizoaffective sex positive cinnamon roll. Lover of indie games, anime, manga and romance novels. Writer for The Geekly Grind. Send all business inquiries to possumcoffee@thegeeklygrind.com. Icon artwork @prismadreams
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Need help choosing what to stream next.
Continue my Final Fantasy series Playthrough with: Final Fantasy IV Interlude (followed by The After Years)
OR Start Fallout New Vegas and go for 100% trophies on a fresh playthrough?
⚔️Final Fantasy IV Interlude
🃏Fallout New Vegas
Vote in comments!
Continue my Final Fantasy series Playthrough with: Final Fantasy IV Interlude (followed by The After Years)
OR Start Fallout New Vegas and go for 100% trophies on a fresh playthrough?
⚔️Final Fantasy IV Interlude
🃏Fallout New Vegas
Vote in comments!
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Need help choosing what to stream next.
Continue my Final Fantasy series Playthrough with: Final Fantasy IV Interlude (followed by The After Years)
OR Start Fallout New Vegas and go for 100% trophies on a fresh playthrough?
⚔️Final Fantasy IV Interlude
🃏Fallout New Vegas
Vote in comments!
Continue my Final Fantasy series Playthrough with: Final Fantasy IV Interlude (followed by The After Years)
OR Start Fallout New Vegas and go for 100% trophies on a fresh playthrough?
⚔️Final Fantasy IV Interlude
🃏Fallout New Vegas
Vote in comments!
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Ten years on 2XKO, 12 at Riot and I got laid off with 30min notice lol
Gonna take some time.
Gonna take some time.
February 9, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Ten years on 2XKO, 12 at Riot and I got laid off with 30min notice lol
Gonna take some time.
Gonna take some time.
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VIDEOVERSE (Steam) w/ 2 more games is $9.99 on Fanatical Platinum Collection - Build your own Bundle buff.ly/SKohFy5 #ad
add more games to save more
add more games to save more
February 9, 2026 at 9:12 PM
VIDEOVERSE (Steam) w/ 2 more games is $9.99 on Fanatical Platinum Collection - Build your own Bundle buff.ly/SKohFy5 #ad
add more games to save more
add more games to save more
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The process of art is such an important part of creativity. Writers, artists, musicians, whatever you can think of benefits from the human spark, and generative ai will never catch up.
Something else I think about is how much these AI prompt jockeys are stealing the experience of writing from themselves, they don't even realize what they're losing out on, cos writing is wonderful and you can grow and learn so much about yourself, the process is a gift. They're robbing themselves.
Even beyond the quality argument, these people aren't even 'writers', they're just assholes hitting what they think is the FREE MONEY button. Which sometimes works, so they keep doing it. If they gave even one solitary shit about art or even storytelling they would know better. They just don't care.
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
The process of art is such an important part of creativity. Writers, artists, musicians, whatever you can think of benefits from the human spark, and generative ai will never catch up.
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Just got this email back. Don't use email, use their form: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req...
If you haven't used their support portal, you may need to request activation and use the email you have associated with your disc account.
Hit the same points as you would in an email, tips below ⬇️
If you haven't used their support portal, you may need to request activation and use the email you have associated with your disc account.
Hit the same points as you would in an email, tips below ⬇️
February 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Just got this email back. Don't use email, use their form: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req...
If you haven't used their support portal, you may need to request activation and use the email you have associated with your disc account.
Hit the same points as you would in an email, tips below ⬇️
If you haven't used their support portal, you may need to request activation and use the email you have associated with your disc account.
Hit the same points as you would in an email, tips below ⬇️
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🎉The Health & Security update is live!
❤Doctors, medicine and wildflowers keep your folks healthy
🛡️Guards and walls keep raiders away
📊More graphs and statistics
📜Improved quests
✨Tons of fixes
Read more: store.steampowered.com/news/app/228...
#gaming #indiegame #retrogaming #retro
❤Doctors, medicine and wildflowers keep your folks healthy
🛡️Guards and walls keep raiders away
📊More graphs and statistics
📜Improved quests
✨Tons of fixes
Read more: store.steampowered.com/news/app/228...
#gaming #indiegame #retrogaming #retro
February 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM
🎉The Health & Security update is live!
❤Doctors, medicine and wildflowers keep your folks healthy
🛡️Guards and walls keep raiders away
📊More graphs and statistics
📜Improved quests
✨Tons of fixes
Read more: store.steampowered.com/news/app/228...
#gaming #indiegame #retrogaming #retro
❤Doctors, medicine and wildflowers keep your folks healthy
🛡️Guards and walls keep raiders away
📊More graphs and statistics
📜Improved quests
✨Tons of fixes
Read more: store.steampowered.com/news/app/228...
#gaming #indiegame #retrogaming #retro
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yakuza kiwami 3 is an insult to the game rgg has purported to remake, its players, the studio's previous quality output and, bewilderingly, women. oh, and the casting of an admitted sex pest. i'm somewhere between dejection and fury.
my review for vgc:
www.videogameschronicle.com/review/yakuz...
my review for vgc:
www.videogameschronicle.com/review/yakuz...
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties review: How not to do a remake | VGC
Sega delivers a disappointing remake built on disdain, not reverence, looking to fix a game that wasn’t broken…
www.videogameschronicle.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Well I cancelled nitro
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
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February 9, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Well I cancelled nitro
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I'm so glad to share this piece I've been working on with you all! The closet is a dark place for many of us. I had to deal with a lot of homophobia, silently suffering in it for many years. Heated Rivalry gave a way to organize my thoughts, and I'm so grateful for it.
CW: discussions of homophobia
CW: discussions of homophobia
Heated Rivalry and the hostages of the closet by @rorenado.bsky.social
"For many closeted men, what society and our families want dictates our lives. We’re having to be someone else. Never our true selves."
Read on:
"For many closeted men, what society and our families want dictates our lives. We’re having to be someone else. Never our true selves."
Read on:
Heated Rivalry and the hostages of the closet
On how HBO's Heated Rivalry portrays the fears and challenges of "the closet" as an antagonistic force.
skyboxcritics.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I'm so glad to share this piece I've been working on with you all! The closet is a dark place for many of us. I had to deal with a lot of homophobia, silently suffering in it for many years. Heated Rivalry gave a way to organize my thoughts, and I'm so grateful for it.
CW: discussions of homophobia
CW: discussions of homophobia
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And just like that, we are wrapped with Day 1 of #BTB26 with a total of $10,480 raised for Race Forward so far!
If you're watching on Twitch, we're gonna have a replay of the whole day starting now!
Make sure to come back tomorrow when Back to Black is back live for Day 2 at 12:35PM Eastern!
If you're watching on Twitch, we're gonna have a replay of the whole day starting now!
Make sure to come back tomorrow when Back to Black is back live for Day 2 at 12:35PM Eastern!
February 6, 2026 at 5:39 AM
And just like that, we are wrapped with Day 1 of #BTB26 with a total of $10,480 raised for Race Forward so far!
If you're watching on Twitch, we're gonna have a replay of the whole day starting now!
Make sure to come back tomorrow when Back to Black is back live for Day 2 at 12:35PM Eastern!
If you're watching on Twitch, we're gonna have a replay of the whole day starting now!
Make sure to come back tomorrow when Back to Black is back live for Day 2 at 12:35PM Eastern!
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Welcome BACK to Back to Black 2026 presented by @blackinaflash.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!
Celebrate Black Joy with us and the Black speedrunning community all weekend long as we raise money for @raceforward.org!!!
Watch on Twitch or YouTube!
twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
youtube.com/@gamesdonequick
Celebrate Black Joy with us and the Black speedrunning community all weekend long as we raise money for @raceforward.org!!!
Watch on Twitch or YouTube!
twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
youtube.com/@gamesdonequick
February 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Welcome BACK to Back to Black 2026 presented by @blackinaflash.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!
Celebrate Black Joy with us and the Black speedrunning community all weekend long as we raise money for @raceforward.org!!!
Watch on Twitch or YouTube!
twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
youtube.com/@gamesdonequick
Celebrate Black Joy with us and the Black speedrunning community all weekend long as we raise money for @raceforward.org!!!
Watch on Twitch or YouTube!
twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
youtube.com/@gamesdonequick
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We are excited to announce that we are sponsoring the Back to Black 2026 event happening RIGHT NOW on @gamesdonequick.com @blackinaflash.bsky.social !
📺Watch the stream here:
gamesdonequick.com
☕ Shop the collection here:
dragonroast.coffee/collections/...
📺Watch the stream here:
gamesdonequick.com
☕ Shop the collection here:
dragonroast.coffee/collections/...
February 5, 2026 at 7:11 PM
We are excited to announce that we are sponsoring the Back to Black 2026 event happening RIGHT NOW on @gamesdonequick.com @blackinaflash.bsky.social !
📺Watch the stream here:
gamesdonequick.com
☕ Shop the collection here:
dragonroast.coffee/collections/...
📺Watch the stream here:
gamesdonequick.com
☕ Shop the collection here:
dragonroast.coffee/collections/...
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February 6, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Good morning all!!! Hope you have a good Friday!!!
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Good morning all!!! Hope you have a good Friday!!!
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Great summary of one of the best Chinese RPGs ever made.
Hopefully soon people will actually play the upcoming remake and experience this story themselves. Would hate to see it get dismissed as "that Chinese E33 clone".
Hopefully soon people will actually play the upcoming remake and experience this story themselves. Would hate to see it get dismissed as "that Chinese E33 clone".
And everyone can now read this piece on Softstar's Sword and Fairy 4, an admirably thoughtful RPG that dares to question and then challenge some important narrative pillars of the genre:
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/02/06/s...
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/02/06/s...
February 6, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Great summary of one of the best Chinese RPGs ever made.
Hopefully soon people will actually play the upcoming remake and experience this story themselves. Would hate to see it get dismissed as "that Chinese E33 clone".
Hopefully soon people will actually play the upcoming remake and experience this story themselves. Would hate to see it get dismissed as "that Chinese E33 clone".
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Friday is a blessed day,
and today we hope to provide meat and rice.
Every amount you donate means a **filling meal** for my family,💚
and every share you make gives us **renewed hope** 🌱
and today we hope to provide meat and rice.
Every amount you donate means a **filling meal** for my family,💚
and every share you make gives us **renewed hope** 🌱
February 6, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Friday is a blessed day,
and today we hope to provide meat and rice.
Every amount you donate means a **filling meal** for my family,💚
and every share you make gives us **renewed hope** 🌱
and today we hope to provide meat and rice.
Every amount you donate means a **filling meal** for my family,💚
and every share you make gives us **renewed hope** 🌱
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#FlashGameVibes Festival on #Steam starts tomorrow!
Check #AvanteAtlantis and 500+ games on this awesome fest!
🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/3172160
Thanks @rogueduck.net for the event!
#TurnBased #Demo #Wishlist #IndieGame
Check #AvanteAtlantis and 500+ games on this awesome fest!
🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/3172160
Thanks @rogueduck.net for the event!
#TurnBased #Demo #Wishlist #IndieGame
February 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM
#FlashGameVibes Festival on #Steam starts tomorrow!
Check #AvanteAtlantis and 500+ games on this awesome fest!
🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/3172160
Thanks @rogueduck.net for the event!
#TurnBased #Demo #Wishlist #IndieGame
Check #AvanteAtlantis and 500+ games on this awesome fest!
🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/3172160
Thanks @rogueduck.net for the event!
#TurnBased #Demo #Wishlist #IndieGame
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February 6, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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"we're doing another Bandcamp Friday in 3 days lol good luck"
well okay I guess I need to finish some Loud Guitar Music for you fine people right quick
well okay I guess I need to finish some Loud Guitar Music for you fine people right quick
February 4, 2026 at 7:50 AM
"we're doing another Bandcamp Friday in 3 days lol good luck"
well okay I guess I need to finish some Loud Guitar Music for you fine people right quick
well okay I guess I need to finish some Loud Guitar Music for you fine people right quick
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I feel this so deeply. Sandman was extremely foundational to my taste in literature, mythology, overall story telling (plus—spoiler warning for a 30 year old comic—the new dream is called Daniel and so I always thought the book was speaking directly to me).
Thread.
Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
February 6, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I feel this so deeply. Sandman was extremely foundational to my taste in literature, mythology, overall story telling (plus—spoiler warning for a 30 year old comic—the new dream is called Daniel and so I always thought the book was speaking directly to me).
I have so much I need to do, but giving myself permission to take the night off and play MEANCE because gosh darn I have waited for this game
February 6, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I have so much I need to do, but giving myself permission to take the night off and play MEANCE because gosh darn I have waited for this game
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I hope the video consists solely of the words "because they're racist" on a blank background
February 5, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I hope the video consists solely of the words "because they're racist" on a blank background