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Matt Caulder
@mattcaulder.com
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Your Nonbinary&Ace "Pro" Gamer Dad (they/he)

2025-2026 @twloha.bsky.social Streamer Ambassador

Host of @whatchadoingpod.bsky.social podcast

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Matt Caulder @mattcaulder.com · Oct 19
Hey everybody! I'm Matt (He/They) and I'm a queer streamer and podcaster! I love video games (especially retro games and horror games) TTRPGs and board/card games!

I'm a variety streamer, five days a week over at twitch.tv/MattCaulder, streaming all kinds of stuff including Community Choice games!
A picture of Matt. They are a masc presenting person, with brown hair, a beard, glasses and they are holding a plush PokeBall
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ko-op.com
No.
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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necrosoftgames.com
Hello, not only do we not use AI we would rather cut off our own arms than do so. Demonschool is 100% human made.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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writnelson.bsky.social
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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mattcaulder.com
Them: Never read the YouTube comments

YouTube comments: Matt was great in this, I would love to see this as a series

😭😭😭
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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pixelsandpolygons.net
I need to book a few new guests for the Pixels and Polygons podcast. Any recommendations?
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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belgianboolean.bsky.social
This is the scam I had! Hopefully helps folks
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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snow117.bsky.social
I made a fucked up little poster for Lilancholy. Help me get it printed <3
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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yellghoul.bsky.social
if u mfs want to see books and video games and comics about darker themes actually get funded you need to actually stop being a fucking whiner when horror creators tell you the cozy label is hurting us. the publishers don't care about the niche made up definition of cozy you have in your head
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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superdillin.bsky.social
I got a very moving Ask about avoiding defeatism on the forbidden website, and I wanted to share it because it's something I believe very strongly
a tumblr ask post. anonymous asked, If this isn't overstepping, do you have any advice for not falling into defeatism? You seem good at having hope for the future. Superdillin answered, It's NOT easy. The world doesn't make it easy. But take a look at someone you love. Or someone who brings you joy, whether you know them intimately or not. Would you want them to give up? At their lowest moment would you tell them there's no point, and that there's no chance that things get better? Likely not, but it's harder to turn that grace inward. To widen that same concept, make sure you are looking at the overwhelming amounts of people who are helping to make the world better. The food bank operators and the organizers and the caretakers and the volunteers. People who research under-funded illnesses and who vaccinate in their local neighborhoods. People who create art and share it with strangers to feel connection. People who make soup for their sick loved ones and who encourage them to achieve their dreams. None of those people deserve to be told that none of it is worth it. And the world would be worse if a single one of them gave up. And the world would be worse if you did, too.
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
mattcaulder.com
Okay so every game now needs to talk VERY LOUDLY about all of the amazing work from the humans who worked on it
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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duckvalentine.bsky.social
Okay sorry I just want to say that it's a pretty clear sign both of how devastated the media landscape is and how hard it has especially hit women that we are not INUNDATED with cool writing at every single outlet about Silksong and WOMEN
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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iiotenki.bsky.social
I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.
You Can't Report on Hunger While Taking Bread Off the Table
On the proliferation of machine translation in video game outlets covering the effects of AI on labor.
dateemups.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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noescapevg.com
shit sucks rn and I had a bad year but I'm trying to be silly with things and so I've got a ko-fi going to get a switch... too

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November 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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mattcaulder.com
Absolutely love to honor the 30th Anniversary of one of the premier series in video games by selling you a bunch of absolutely worthless plastic and paper

What a great fucking metaphor for AAA gaming right now
A graphic of the "Resident Evil Generation Pack" for the Nintendo Switch 2. Resident Evil Biohazard, Village and Requiem are featured, with the box arts showing the Game Key Card banner of shame
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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thismaybegraham.bsky.social
I'm posting about the the design process of SCIRE and megagames on Reddit. Hit me with some questions to fight the algo!
www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...
From the rpg community on Reddit: I GMed a CBR+PNK Megagame for 30+ people at GenCon! Here's how it went and what I learned.
Explore this post and more from the rpg community
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November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
mattcaulder.com
me: I really sick of remakes

*watches JP State of Play*

me: I still really sick of remakes
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
mattcaulder.com
"We have a really cool controller and also an app for your phone"
brianpshea.bsky.social Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 10h
The end of the State of Play Japan is a rundown of the features of a five-year-old console and its controller.
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
mattcaulder.com
If you go "oh boo pocketpair" you'd better have that exact same energy for every dev/publisher that screws people out of credits, that uses AI, that does mass layoffs and closes studios

Because for whatever Pocket Pair did (which was nothing) there's massive corporations yall cape for doing worse
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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falconianp.bsky.social
Looking for work in the upcoming couple months, to be sure I meet, you know, rent and such.

Let me know if there's anything I can do! I have a lot I'm working on but I can fit in some rush assignments.

#TTRPG #MutualAid #Freelance
July 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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gilarpgs.bsky.social
Kill the gods. Burn the world tree.

Try the RAID playtest today! Cyberpunk meets Norse mythology, with OSR vibes.

gilarpgs.itch.io/raid-playtest
RAID (playtest) by Gila RPGs
Cyberpunk meets Vikings meets OSR, Gila style
gilarpgs.itch.io
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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spookybiscuits.com
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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blackjackgabbiani.bsky.social
If games companies don't want to pay voice actors what they could do is just not have spoken dialogue. Games did that for decades. It's fine. Just DON'T USE THE PLAGIARISM SLOP MACHINE OH MY GOD IT IS NOT HARD TO NOT USE IT YOU JUST DON'T USE IT THAT IS ALL. GAMES DO NOT ALL NEED VOICES.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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fellowtraveller.games
🚨 The Clones and Consciousness bundle ends soon! 🧠

Explore both The Orchard and the Starward Belt in this blockbuster bundle, including Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and 1000xRESIST for 17% off!

Be quick, the bundle is only live for one more day ⏱️
💠💫 bit.ly/ClonesAndCon...
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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jadedfortunato.bsky.social
For those of you who haven’t been following this fight, Ana has been leading the charge against censorship by corporations, specifically payment processors.

Recently it seems someone figured this out and has managed to black list them from almost any way of earning a living as an artist.
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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skapokon.bsky.social
"Gay people should just create their own stuff" Webfishing dev got doxxed because their game was too gay, you guys literally don't let us have anything
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM