Gim
@bestyoutuber69.bsky.social
Producer in gamedev by day, Youtuber by night. Your mother probably played something i worked on
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnCMyG-qWnHMZsuzjmGgjA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnCMyG-qWnHMZsuzjmGgjA
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Gim
@bestyoutuber69.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Gim
I review video games and no one likes me
www.youtube.com
There are many new followers so it's time for a new pinned post.
I'm Gim, I like old and indie games
Youtube:
www.youtube.com/@bestyoutube...
Steam Curator: store.steampowered.com/curator/4491...
Anti-woke blocklist:
bsky.app/profile/best...
Otherwise don't expect much, it's just a hobby for me
I'm Gim, I like old and indie games
Youtube:
www.youtube.com/@bestyoutube...
Steam Curator: store.steampowered.com/curator/4491...
Anti-woke blocklist:
bsky.app/profile/best...
Otherwise don't expect much, it's just a hobby for me
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I wrote this joke article about Ian Bogost's idiotic takes on game narrative *eight years ago*, there's absolutely no point in relitigating this nonsense. He's just a stupid old man playing the same stupid old song.
medium.com/@NotBrunoAga...
medium.com/@NotBrunoAga...
Videogames Are Better Without Mechanics
A transcript I salvaged from a 1992 issue of PC Prospect magazine.
medium.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I wrote this joke article about Ian Bogost's idiotic takes on game narrative *eight years ago*, there's absolutely no point in relitigating this nonsense. He's just a stupid old man playing the same stupid old song.
medium.com/@NotBrunoAga...
medium.com/@NotBrunoAga...
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How come books are allowed to tackle challenging topics but games aren’t
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
How come books are allowed to tackle challenging topics but games aren’t
"Conflict in Ukraine" and "Israel-Hamas war"
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"Conflict in Ukraine" and "Israel-Hamas war"
Valve and Epic are well within their right not to distribute Hors-
Shut the fuck up you daft cunt, no one cares what you have to say, we all know they have that right, you fucking teachers pet, it's not what we have issue with.
You could figure it out if you weren't a corporate-sucking troglodyte
Shut the fuck up you daft cunt, no one cares what you have to say, we all know they have that right, you fucking teachers pet, it's not what we have issue with.
You could figure it out if you weren't a corporate-sucking troglodyte
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Valve and Epic are well within their right not to distribute Hors-
Shut the fuck up you daft cunt, no one cares what you have to say, we all know they have that right, you fucking teachers pet, it's not what we have issue with.
You could figure it out if you weren't a corporate-sucking troglodyte
Shut the fuck up you daft cunt, no one cares what you have to say, we all know they have that right, you fucking teachers pet, it's not what we have issue with.
You could figure it out if you weren't a corporate-sucking troglodyte
Yeah seems about right
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Yeah seems about right
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Parrying is the worst thing in video games: aftermath.site/parrying-bad
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Parrying is the worst thing in video games: aftermath.site/parrying-bad
Everyone who says old RPGs were better haven't played them in a good while and if they did they played the fan patch where people spent decades ironing out a lot of frankly idiotic balance decisions
No, I 100% agree that computer RPGs these days have too much handholding. I, too, yearn for the days of being able to spend hours crafting my perfect build from hundreds of available options, only to discover that it mathematically cannot survive the mandatory rat fight portion of the first dungeon.
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Everyone who says old RPGs were better haven't played them in a good while and if they did they played the fan patch where people spent decades ironing out a lot of frankly idiotic balance decisions
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Tifa Lockhart with more muscles comparison.
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Tifa Lockhart with more muscles comparison.
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saying "normal milk is fine" at the woke coffee shop
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
saying "normal milk is fine" at the woke coffee shop
Been fascinated with this AI-disclosure for a while now
From everything I can tell about the game, it's truly AI-free.
Which makes me wonder why on Earth you would decide to use it for store assets, one of the easiest and cheapest to produce things, now that you have A WHOLE GAME finished?
From everything I can tell about the game, it's truly AI-free.
Which makes me wonder why on Earth you would decide to use it for store assets, one of the easiest and cheapest to produce things, now that you have A WHOLE GAME finished?
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Been fascinated with this AI-disclosure for a while now
From everything I can tell about the game, it's truly AI-free.
Which makes me wonder why on Earth you would decide to use it for store assets, one of the easiest and cheapest to produce things, now that you have A WHOLE GAME finished?
From everything I can tell about the game, it's truly AI-free.
Which makes me wonder why on Earth you would decide to use it for store assets, one of the easiest and cheapest to produce things, now that you have A WHOLE GAME finished?
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seeing people being like "ehhh Idkkkkk horses DOES sound kinda icky, I get why it was banned" like barely 2 months after a bunch of people kicked up the wildest possible hostile campagn against _itch_ makes me feel like I'm losing my mind lol
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
seeing people being like "ehhh Idkkkkk horses DOES sound kinda icky, I get why it was banned" like barely 2 months after a bunch of people kicked up the wildest possible hostile campagn against _itch_ makes me feel like I'm losing my mind lol
Amount of utter, AI-infested, roguelite-deckbuilding-balatrolike-without-the-sauce garbage I have to sift through on steam in Discovery Queue and during Next Fest is so high and yet this is what they ban
Not 1000000th porn game, not 1000000000000th AI-infested scam, but an original, human-made game
Not 1000000th porn game, not 1000000000000th AI-infested scam, but an original, human-made game
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Amount of utter, AI-infested, roguelite-deckbuilding-balatrolike-without-the-sauce garbage I have to sift through on steam in Discovery Queue and during Next Fest is so high and yet this is what they ban
Not 1000000th porn game, not 1000000000000th AI-infested scam, but an original, human-made game
Not 1000000th porn game, not 1000000000000th AI-infested scam, but an original, human-made game
Me, HR, about to make everyone's lives harder during development of AAAA game everyone in the world is waiting for:
"Ya know what we should do now that we are at a final push to finish it? We should purge Slack offtopic chats to keep productivity up!"
And I thought it was some smart union busting!
"Ya know what we should do now that we are at a final push to finish it? We should purge Slack offtopic chats to keep productivity up!"
And I thought it was some smart union busting!
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Me, HR, about to make everyone's lives harder during development of AAAA game everyone in the world is waiting for:
"Ya know what we should do now that we are at a final push to finish it? We should purge Slack offtopic chats to keep productivity up!"
And I thought it was some smart union busting!
"Ya know what we should do now that we are at a final push to finish it? We should purge Slack offtopic chats to keep productivity up!"
And I thought it was some smart union busting!
Bro, I think I'm capable of figuring out a summary for 7 responses without AI's help
I'm assuming AI did that red text as well, considering it's shit from an ass
Billion dollars company everybody
I'm assuming AI did that red text as well, considering it's shit from an ass
Billion dollars company everybody
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Bro, I think I'm capable of figuring out a summary for 7 responses without AI's help
I'm assuming AI did that red text as well, considering it's shit from an ass
Billion dollars company everybody
I'm assuming AI did that red text as well, considering it's shit from an ass
Billion dollars company everybody
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Geopolitics is complicated.
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Geopolitics is complicated.
AI is such an amazing tech that every company is desperate to bundle it with actually useful features to inflate adoption numbers in their reports
When I turned that off, the tabs "Updates, Promotions, Social, InBox" were deleted by default. The tabs that existed BEFORE Gemini. #rage
a cartoon drawing of a cat 's eyes with fire in them
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a cat 's eyes with fire in them
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
AI is such an amazing tech that every company is desperate to bundle it with actually useful features to inflate adoption numbers in their reports
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Can't wait for GTA6 to sweep the indie awards next year
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Can't wait for GTA6 to sweep the indie awards next year
Call of Duty is a soulless, profit-driven, capitalist embodiment that stops making industry marginally worse for everybody only so it can deepthroat the US imperialistic military
It was shit when Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare came out, and it's shit now
0/5 is the only rating it deserves
It was shit when Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare came out, and it's shit now
0/5 is the only rating it deserves
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Call of Duty is a soulless, profit-driven, capitalist embodiment that stops making industry marginally worse for everybody only so it can deepthroat the US imperialistic military
It was shit when Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare came out, and it's shit now
0/5 is the only rating it deserves
It was shit when Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare came out, and it's shit now
0/5 is the only rating it deserves
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Game reviewers should use the full range of scores and opinions available to them. It’s not a healthy cultural environment otherwise. Tommy Wiseau worked really hard on The Room but that doesn’t make it a good movie.
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Game reviewers should use the full range of scores and opinions available to them. It’s not a healthy cultural environment otherwise. Tommy Wiseau worked really hard on The Room but that doesn’t make it a good movie.
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Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it
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Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
“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 6:34 PM
Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
I think if your production problem is "We don't like doing boring parts of our work" maybe your solution shouldn't be "Let's remove humans entirely from the process"
I wouldn't watch NoClip without Danny O'Dwyer actually voicing each documentary, even the boring parts.
It wouldn't be NoClip
I wouldn't watch NoClip without Danny O'Dwyer actually voicing each documentary, even the boring parts.
It wouldn't be NoClip
The debate around using AI/ML/text-to-speech for voicework for games is fascinating because it's one of the only times I can see in gaming where a genuine, decades-long design / production problem is meeting a justifiably sensitive topic within games culture at perhaps the worst possible time.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I think if your production problem is "We don't like doing boring parts of our work" maybe your solution shouldn't be "Let's remove humans entirely from the process"
I wouldn't watch NoClip without Danny O'Dwyer actually voicing each documentary, even the boring parts.
It wouldn't be NoClip
I wouldn't watch NoClip without Danny O'Dwyer actually voicing each documentary, even the boring parts.
It wouldn't be NoClip
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In news of the entirely unsurprising.
Fuck the VGAs and Keighly in particular. That whole thing has just been a clout machine for him. “Video Game Oscars” my butt.
Fuck the VGAs and Keighly in particular. That whole thing has just been a clout machine for him. “Video Game Oscars” my butt.
“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 2:35 PM
In news of the entirely unsurprising.
Fuck the VGAs and Keighly in particular. That whole thing has just been a clout machine for him. “Video Game Oscars” my butt.
Fuck the VGAs and Keighly in particular. That whole thing has just been a clout machine for him. “Video Game Oscars” my butt.
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Everybody should just pirate everything. Download all the ROMs you can, play old games that Nintendo wants to charge you $60 for the privilege of playing again, anybody who has a problem with this has incurable cop-brain and you shouldn't listen to anything they say
tbh as much as official rereleases are good for accessibility, I also feel like a lot of people just won't play games if they don't have official versions and that's not great for culture. Everyone should be downloading random ROMs until they find that special one that breaks their brain wide open.
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Everybody should just pirate everything. Download all the ROMs you can, play old games that Nintendo wants to charge you $60 for the privilege of playing again, anybody who has a problem with this has incurable cop-brain and you shouldn't listen to anything they say
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also sorry I am never going to call deduction games “metroidbrainias”. sorry. I am open to other terms but not to that one
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
also sorry I am never going to call deduction games “metroidbrainias”. sorry. I am open to other terms but not to that one