Jay K
@jkrug5.bsky.social
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Nightmare blunt rotation
December 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Nightmare blunt rotation
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One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:
consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:
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Took some time to unpack a few thoughts on Expedition 33.
Watching what I thought was a "pretty good" game get transformed into A Cultural Object has been disheartening.
So I have some thoughts on glitz, glamour, and respectability...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8027631...
Watching what I thought was a "pretty good" game get transformed into A Cultural Object has been disheartening.
So I have some thoughts on glitz, glamour, and respectability...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8027631...
The Attempt To Escape From Pain Creates More Pain
Lord forgive me, I'm blogging. I can't help it! Many years ago, I got some advice from a writer who I deeply respect, James Howell, and he told me that criticism needs to proceed confidently. Don't...
transgamerthoughts.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Took some time to unpack a few thoughts on Expedition 33.
Watching what I thought was a "pretty good" game get transformed into A Cultural Object has been disheartening.
So I have some thoughts on glitz, glamour, and respectability...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8027631...
Watching what I thought was a "pretty good" game get transformed into A Cultural Object has been disheartening.
So I have some thoughts on glitz, glamour, and respectability...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8027631...
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On Games for Impact:
“It's good that it's there, but it's also, in a way, kind of insulting. Because giving a special award for a game for actually meaning something or having some human content... we should be aspiring for that in every category."
postgame.substack.com/p/the-histor...
“It's good that it's there, but it's also, in a way, kind of insulting. Because giving a special award for a game for actually meaning something or having some human content... we should be aspiring for that in every category."
postgame.substack.com/p/the-histor...
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On Games for Impact:
“It's good that it's there, but it's also, in a way, kind of insulting. Because giving a special award for a game for actually meaning something or having some human content... we should be aspiring for that in every category."
postgame.substack.com/p/the-histor...
“It's good that it's there, but it's also, in a way, kind of insulting. Because giving a special award for a game for actually meaning something or having some human content... we should be aspiring for that in every category."
postgame.substack.com/p/the-histor...
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YES I'm glad this functionality worked, we added it super last minute and didn't get to test much!
(In Angeline Era if you clear 3/6 of your first action levels with no deaths, it asks if you'd like to turn up the difficulty so as to try to fit players with a suitable difficulty!)
(In Angeline Era if you clear 3/6 of your first action levels with no deaths, it asks if you'd like to turn up the difficulty so as to try to fit players with a suitable difficulty!)
rare case where a video game asks me to pick a *harder* difficulty. yeah sure why not. kill me
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
YES I'm glad this functionality worked, we added it super last minute and didn't get to test much!
(In Angeline Era if you clear 3/6 of your first action levels with no deaths, it asks if you'd like to turn up the difficulty so as to try to fit players with a suitable difficulty!)
(In Angeline Era if you clear 3/6 of your first action levels with no deaths, it asks if you'd like to turn up the difficulty so as to try to fit players with a suitable difficulty!)
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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Getting stuck causes players to explore the world.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Getting stuck causes players to explore the world.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
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Your game can become beloved even if it is imperfect
Super Mario World has an extremely eclectic art style whereby many enemies are drawn in completely different ways. Development files reveal Mario went through many stylistic changes; it is possible that all the enemies were made to fit Mario, but at different points in time.
November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Your game can become beloved even if it is imperfect
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“0% woke shit”
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“0% woke shit”
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
My body is a machine that turns hamsters into tyrants
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My body is a machine that turns hamsters into tyrants
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BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
Jury Awards $112 Million to 674 Immigrants Unlawfully Held by Suffolk County for ICE Handover | LatinoJusticePRLDEF
FOR IMMEDIATE
www.latinojustice.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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Fuck this
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation.
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A319
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, ET AL. v. ASHTON ORR, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[November 6, 2025]
This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreievxyvqikl7wmrg5jkqhsrta5l5xfq272x7caunvxka7vtuzp7hoa@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Fuck this
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Come for a review of Age of Imprisonment, but stay for me waxing poetic about the scene in Wind Waker where you enter a Hyrule Castle suspended in time. The best single moment in the entire series.
History matters in Zelda games. They imagine wars as multi-generational efforts where battles of the past set up the victories of the future. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment makes that explicit, even if its thin action doesn’t feel terribly warlike. My review. www.polygon.com/hyrule-warri...
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment puts the Zelda timeline to good use
The new Zelda spin-off understands that history has always mattered in Hyrule
www.polygon.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Come for a review of Age of Imprisonment, but stay for me waxing poetic about the scene in Wind Waker where you enter a Hyrule Castle suspended in time. The best single moment in the entire series.
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" For it to be scary, [men] have to be the opposite of what they usually are. So they're not the protector. They're not impenetrable. They will be penetrated! And that's scary for historically male audiences."
@ashleybardhan.bsky.social on horror games
postgame.substack.com/p/why-people...
@ashleybardhan.bsky.social on horror games
postgame.substack.com/p/why-people...
November 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
" For it to be scary, [men] have to be the opposite of what they usually are. So they're not the protector. They're not impenetrable. They will be penetrated! And that's scary for historically male audiences."
@ashleybardhan.bsky.social on horror games
postgame.substack.com/p/why-people...
@ashleybardhan.bsky.social on horror games
postgame.substack.com/p/why-people...
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When I say I don't want to have kids but I still want to be involved in their lives, this is what I mean
November 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
When I say I don't want to have kids but I still want to be involved in their lives, this is what I mean
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let them eat cake... out of the white house shitter
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
let them eat cake... out of the white house shitter
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Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist #pokemon #pokemonbeedee
October 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist #pokemon #pokemonbeedee
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love @mackeza.bsky.social on participatory video-game play + i love the idea of a "video game book club". have been thinking a lot about how we can bring video games into real-world social circumstances, gentle or raucous crowd participation, allowing social discovery. i want new event formats!
October 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
love @mackeza.bsky.social on participatory video-game play + i love the idea of a "video game book club". have been thinking a lot about how we can bring video games into real-world social circumstances, gentle or raucous crowd participation, allowing social discovery. i want new event formats!
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NEW: I spoke to original Halo devs about that ICE Halo post
One: "abhorrent”
Another: "Using Halo imagery in a call to ‘destroy’ people because of their immigration status goes way too far, and ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation”
www.gamefile.news/p/halo-ice-d...
One: "abhorrent”
Another: "Using Halo imagery in a call to ‘destroy’ people because of their immigration status goes way too far, and ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation”
www.gamefile.news/p/halo-ice-d...
Halo co-creator says ICE’s Halo-themed recruitment ad “makes me sick”
Another Halo maker says ad "ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation." ALSO: A developer whose game just launched on Xbox slams Microsoft’s silence
www.gamefile.news
October 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
NEW: I spoke to original Halo devs about that ICE Halo post
One: "abhorrent”
Another: "Using Halo imagery in a call to ‘destroy’ people because of their immigration status goes way too far, and ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation”
www.gamefile.news/p/halo-ice-d...
One: "abhorrent”
Another: "Using Halo imagery in a call to ‘destroy’ people because of their immigration status goes way too far, and ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation”
www.gamefile.news/p/halo-ice-d...
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your regular reminder that this company can get straight in the fuckin bin
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
your regular reminder that this company can get straight in the fuckin bin