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Julian Titus
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Former host and producer of Nerds Without Pants (2012-2023). Host and producer of The Stage Select: A Video Game Variety Show (2024). Banner art by @Gholson.bsky.social

Be Excellent to Each Other

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America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
"I code so others can dream."

Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.

Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Other people who get seasonal depression: I am depressed
Me, who usually comes alive at this time of year but the season has not changed: I am depressed
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people.

It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear

"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!

Let it Go!
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks
J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
My cohost says I’m the Roger Ebert of video games and after looking at some of his takes over the years I’m inclined to agree. It’s the only way for me to explain that Bloodlines 2 is on my top ten and Expedition 33 is not.
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Doing Praetorium runs for Moogle tomestones in FF XIV. I can’t be the only dragoon main that wants Nero’s helmet for glam, right?
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
On this 20th anniversary of the Xbox 360 I thought I’d share some of my favorite B games from the console. One of the last times we had games of this tier come out regularly, and we’re worse off for it imo:
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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It's time for one of my favorite articles that I do every year.

All of my game awards predictions

PLUS

My fake betting odds for all categories.

Stay tuned for a contest related to this later today 👀

bignerdgaming.com/2025/11/20/f...
Fake 2025 Game Awards Betting Odds + My Full Predictions
Welcome to year three of my Game Awards winner predictions and fake betting odds. This idea was born out of a simple and foolish desire. My desire to actually bet on The Game Awards. The betting si…
bignerdgaming.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Loved this game on Steam and absolutely recommend now that it’s on console!
📣 VIDEOVERSE is out on consoles! 📣

Set on a fictional gaming system, VIDEOVERSE is a love letter to video games. If you're looking for an emotional narrative experience, this one is for you!

PlayStation 💙 tinyurl.com/yuhzcbhc
Nintendo Switch ❤️ tinyurl.com/4cy48abw
XBOX 💚 tinyurl.com/4w636war
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
@gholson.bsky.social did our logo and I’ve been trying to get him into some art commission work.
LOOKING FOR A LOGO!

Long time, no talk BlueSky! I’m workshopping a new, Christian podcast concept and I need a logo, instead of querying ChatGPT and getting an easy result with stolen assets. Currently out of a job, so I can’t pay much, but happy to compensate for quality work! Spread the word!
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I think my time with Ball x Pit is at an end. I don’t think I ever clicked with the deeper mechanics and it seems like what I’m missing is grinding out a bunch of the base building stuff, which just doesn’t appeal to me at all. Totally get why people love it though
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Black Ops 6 felt like this breath of fresh air. Like a studio given the freedom to do some new and interesting things in a franchise that doesn’t need to be interesting to sell millions of units.

BO7 feels like the most built by c-suite “ideas” thing I’ve seen in a long time.
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Whoops, I’m too stupid to play Demonschool.
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Hell yeah.
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Easy!
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Also, as a newish Hololive fan it was cool to see Pekora nominated last year and Miko this year. But considering the target audience I’m surprised that none of EN has gotten a nod. Biboo, Calli, Ceci, or Gigi seem like easy nominations
a group of anime characters are dancing on a stage in a video game .
ALT: a group of anime characters are dancing on a stage in a video game .
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November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Only three games from my likely top ten were nominated for anything, so this is mostly vibes based. Great year for video games, but my favorite games this year were the 7 out of 10s for the most part, with some indies sprinkled in
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Running into an issue with Dispatch that I had with the Telltale Batman games, which is that the stories can’t handle it if you don’t try to romance someone. WHAT DO MEAN YOU DON’T WANT INVISIGAL OR BLONDE BLAZER???

Sorry game, I don’t care for either of them.
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Didn’t know about this game until it moved out of the way of Silksong, and it’s a shame, because I would have bought it right there and then since it’s 1000 times more my jam than Silksong. Glad to be able to grab it now!
November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I've said it before, but Princess Crown is one good looking Saturn game.
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Bloodlines 2 complete! Ending was a little bit of a buzzkill (and a really bullshit final boss), but it’s easily one of my top games of 2025
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I was already planning on dropping Gamepass after we record our game of the year shows, but damn, just incredibly mind blowing how it went from one of the best deals in gaming to a fucking albatross
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Continually ASTOUNDED at the choices made with anything under the Xbox brand. Truly feels like they’re trying to make the gaming experience as awful as possible so they can have a reason to exit the games industry. 1/?
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A lot of people don’t seem to understand this. I’m not interested in hearing an objective look at art. Tell me how it made you feel. You, the person telling me about it:
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
So close to finishing Bloodlines 2, but the desire to play the Black Ops 7 story is STRONG
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM