Adam. Pottery Beard.
@thatbeardoadam.bsky.social
PR, marketing, narrative in games. For hire. Former game journalist (possibly relapsing). I do stuff for BitSummit and IGF. Geek and expensive-whiskey-wanter. My opinions are my own.
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First pottery class done! Never done this before but I really enjoyed it and my instructor was impressed by my first attempts. I picked it up pretty quickly and made what I wanted (a yunomi 湯のみ) after my third attempt. It was then cut in half to better understand the process 😅
The country only culled half as many as they did last year too.
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The country only culled half as many as they did last year too.
Reposted by Adam. Pottery Beard.
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
What movie villain is a horrible "person", but an absolute joy to watch on screen?
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
What movie villain is a horrible "person", but an absolute joy to watch on screen?
Don’t mind me, just having my own personal rave to STEAM AHEAD on @enhance-experience.com’s Lumines Rise.
a crowd of people watching a show with blue lights
ALT: a crowd of people watching a show with blue lights
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November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Don’t mind me, just having my own personal rave to STEAM AHEAD on @enhance-experience.com’s Lumines Rise.
I mean, considering how long Bond has been going for and his varying appearances over the years, I just assumed "James Bond" was a "legend" identity just as much as the 00 codename was.
Just go with that!
@richardepcar.bsky.social Waddaya think, man?
Just go with that!
@richardepcar.bsky.social Waddaya think, man?
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I mean, considering how long Bond has been going for and his varying appearances over the years, I just assumed "James Bond" was a "legend" identity just as much as the 00 codename was.
Just go with that!
@richardepcar.bsky.social Waddaya think, man?
Just go with that!
@richardepcar.bsky.social Waddaya think, man?
Repost this enough that Geoff sweats.
“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 1:42 PM
Repost this enough that Geoff sweats.
Doodled this yeeeeeeeeears ago.
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Doodled this yeeeeeeeeears ago.
Hooooo boy! THIS! It was Aura that got me into IGF judging about 5 years ago and I take it very seriously. The last few years of event judging has been more than a little frustrating when it’s just demos. A public vertical slice won’t cut it if you want you game to be put forward on its best merits.
blog post boiling within me titled "indie publishers, you need to get your shit together" based on this year of indie pubs submitting games to IGF w/ a demo and then when asked for a dev build so anyone can actually judge it, either ghost or go "we will provide you with a build on the release date"
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Hooooo boy! THIS! It was Aura that got me into IGF judging about 5 years ago and I take it very seriously. The last few years of event judging has been more than a little frustrating when it’s just demos. A public vertical slice won’t cut it if you want you game to be put forward on its best merits.
Stumbled across a small pottery exhibition on my way to Sunny George for coffee. Came away with a really nice cup to add to the collection.
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Stumbled across a small pottery exhibition on my way to Sunny George for coffee. Came away with a really nice cup to add to the collection.
Just reposting this again because you should all be playing this wonderful game. It’s like ¥990 on JP Steam and a neat 4 hours of solid gameplay.
I've just been playing some of Hypogea and it's absolutely wonderful!
A really well designed platforming third person adventure with some really novel traversal mechanics. This has to be the first ever "pole-vault em' up", surely!
Go play it!
A really well designed platforming third person adventure with some really novel traversal mechanics. This has to be the first ever "pole-vault em' up", surely!
Go play it!
THE GAME IS OUT, I REPEAT, THE GAME IS OUT
Hopefully I squashed all the bugs, hope everyone enjoys it!
store.steampowered.com/app/2980260/...
Hopefully I squashed all the bugs, hope everyone enjoys it!
store.steampowered.com/app/2980260/...
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Just reposting this again because you should all be playing this wonderful game. It’s like ¥990 on JP Steam and a neat 4 hours of solid gameplay.
Been thinking about this Ginger and lemon tea for days. I’m going back to Cafe Kocsi in the next half hour. Come join me for a late lunch in Kyoto!
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Been thinking about this Ginger and lemon tea for days. I’m going back to Cafe Kocsi in the next half hour. Come join me for a late lunch in Kyoto!
Okay, now I’M curious.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Okay, now I’M curious.
Part of me doesn't quite agree with reviewing a game badly for biased reasons, but also a much larger part of me is in FULL agreement with putting a studio on blast for its continued use of AI to undercut voice actors and creatives for the BS excuse of time and budget. Embark can afford all of it!
For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Part of me doesn't quite agree with reviewing a game badly for biased reasons, but also a much larger part of me is in FULL agreement with putting a studio on blast for its continued use of AI to undercut voice actors and creatives for the BS excuse of time and budget. Embark can afford all of it!
I've just been playing some of Hypogea and it's absolutely wonderful!
A really well designed platforming third person adventure with some really novel traversal mechanics. This has to be the first ever "pole-vault em' up", surely!
Go play it!
A really well designed platforming third person adventure with some really novel traversal mechanics. This has to be the first ever "pole-vault em' up", surely!
Go play it!
THE GAME IS OUT, I REPEAT, THE GAME IS OUT
Hopefully I squashed all the bugs, hope everyone enjoys it!
store.steampowered.com/app/2980260/...
Hopefully I squashed all the bugs, hope everyone enjoys it!
store.steampowered.com/app/2980260/...
Save 25% on Hypogea on Steam
Escape from a mysterious underground megastructure in this short atmospheric 3d-platformer.
store.steampowered.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I've just been playing some of Hypogea and it's absolutely wonderful!
A really well designed platforming third person adventure with some really novel traversal mechanics. This has to be the first ever "pole-vault em' up", surely!
Go play it!
A really well designed platforming third person adventure with some really novel traversal mechanics. This has to be the first ever "pole-vault em' up", surely!
Go play it!
Goon a movie
Big Goon in Little China
Big Goon in Little China
Goon a movie
Sherlock Goon
Sherlock Goon
Goon a movie
Shanghai Goon
Shanghai Goon
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Goon a movie
Big Goon in Little China
Big Goon in Little China
That’s….that’s not what I watched…
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
That’s….that’s not what I watched…
Decided to check out a few rooftop bar/restaurants a couple of nights ago. First one was great. Cocktails, nice food, chill ambiance.
The second one was all tourists and students then I turned into this.
The second one was all tourists and students then I turned into this.
This is a betrayal on levels no one has ever seen
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Decided to check out a few rooftop bar/restaurants a couple of nights ago. First one was great. Cocktails, nice food, chill ambiance.
The second one was all tourists and students then I turned into this.
The second one was all tourists and students then I turned into this.
Fuck Schumer really is a coward huh? It’s clear he’s always been benefiting somehow when he sides with Republicans.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Fuck Schumer really is a coward huh? It’s clear he’s always been benefiting somehow when he sides with Republicans.
You could’ve just said Bulb Boy and saved yourself a lot of headline space PC Gamer…
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
You could’ve just said Bulb Boy and saved yourself a lot of headline space PC Gamer…
Hey Wizards of the Coast! Just make a Berserk themed Magic The Gathering set already, you f**king cowards!
a man wearing a hooded jacket in the rain .
ALT: a man wearing a hooded jacket in the rain .
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November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Hey Wizards of the Coast! Just make a Berserk themed Magic The Gathering set already, you f**king cowards!
In the times of early man, sticking one’s hand into fire would be a learning experience for everyone else not to do it.
Aaaaaanyhoo, here’s people hurting themselves over and over again because they saw someone else do it.
Aaaaaanyhoo, here’s people hurting themselves over and over again because they saw someone else do it.
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
In the times of early man, sticking one’s hand into fire would be a learning experience for everyone else not to do it.
Aaaaaanyhoo, here’s people hurting themselves over and over again because they saw someone else do it.
Aaaaaanyhoo, here’s people hurting themselves over and over again because they saw someone else do it.
You love to see it!
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
You love to see it!
Everyone like this has what I like to call the "Wimp Lo factor"
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Everyone like this has what I like to call the "Wimp Lo factor"