Thesaurus Rex (They/Them)
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Writer, editor, and asks lots of questions about videogames. | Wrote lots of places; haven't written lately, will get back to it eventually. | https://thethesaurusrex.com | They/Them
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For CNN I'm looking to talk to young men (feel free to interpret "young" broadly) who are actively sports betting sober—as in, you made a conscious decision to abstain for your wellbeing or you quit gambling—but are still sports fans. If that's you: Hannah[dot]keyser[at]cnn[dot]com
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
For CNN I'm looking to talk to young men (feel free to interpret "young" broadly) who are actively sports betting sober—as in, you made a conscious decision to abstain for your wellbeing or you quit gambling—but are still sports fans. If that's you: Hannah[dot]keyser[at]cnn[dot]com
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
Isn't he also the one always telling people that they don't have the cards in negotiations? So, he knows they have negotiating leverage, and would be willing to meet and negotiate only if they give up all of their cards. "It's so easy."
October 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Isn't he also the one always telling people that they don't have the cards in negotiations? So, he knows they have negotiating leverage, and would be willing to meet and negotiate only if they give up all of their cards. "It's so easy."
I wish being a critic didn't include so many adjacent skills. A majority of the things I need to learn have the best shot at professionally doing criticism have little to do with media literacy and writing craft, and much more to do with production and monetization.
October 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I wish being a critic didn't include so many adjacent skills. A majority of the things I need to learn have the best shot at professionally doing criticism have little to do with media literacy and writing craft, and much more to do with production and monetization.
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have you ever created a video game mod to make characters "look better" (whatever that means to you)? i want to talk to you for an article i'm writing! get at me via maddymyerswrites at gmail dot com. or repost this if it's not you and you just wanna help me spread the word. thanks <3
October 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
have you ever created a video game mod to make characters "look better" (whatever that means to you)? i want to talk to you for an article i'm writing! get at me via maddymyerswrites at gmail dot com. or repost this if it's not you and you just wanna help me spread the word. thanks <3
Even if I agreed with this sentiment—which I don't—I would probably find any of this more compelling if this exact cohort wasn't going out of their way to cut mental health medications, resources, research, practitioners. Identifying another cause and then cutting that too is still ghoul behavior.
Speaker Mike Johnson on the Minnesota shooting: "At the end of the day the problem is not guns. Ok, Jen Psaki? The problem is the human heart. It's mental health."
August 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Even if I agreed with this sentiment—which I don't—I would probably find any of this more compelling if this exact cohort wasn't going out of their way to cut mental health medications, resources, research, practitioners. Identifying another cause and then cutting that too is still ghoul behavior.
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Are you a freelancer near GDC? We got an opportunity!!!
Looking for a freelancer *who will be at* GDC to cover a few talks for @gamedeveloper.bsky.social. If you have a bunch of experience writing about games and want to do talk write-ups in this style: www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/..., send me an email at danielle dot riendeau AT gamedeveloper.com.
How Nintendo did the impossible with Tears of the Kingdom's physics system
Tears of the Kingdom technical director Takuhiro Dohta and lead physics programmer Takahiro Takayama share secrets from developing the game's amazingly complex physics system.
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February 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Are you a freelancer near GDC? We got an opportunity!!!
After missing several dozen days, I think I've decided to hang up the towel on 365Games. I'm sure I've played more than enough games, but I don't know if I have that many I feel really strongly about discussing. I want to revisit the concept, but with fewer games and more said about each later.
February 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
After missing several dozen days, I think I've decided to hang up the towel on 365Games. I'm sure I've played more than enough games, but I don't know if I have that many I feel really strongly about discussing. I want to revisit the concept, but with fewer games and more said about each later.
In the wake of the government being picked apart, giant piece by giant piece, I can't help but wonder. When this is all over, what sort of massive undertaking will it be to rebuild something functional in the aftermath, assuming enough of it is left to salvage by survivors?
February 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
In the wake of the government being picked apart, giant piece by giant piece, I can't help but wonder. When this is all over, what sort of massive undertaking will it be to rebuild something functional in the aftermath, assuming enough of it is left to salvage by survivors?
I know it's very little comfort now, but I hope every person even loosely adjacent to this administration becomes radioactive. I hope when the awful stops happening at full speed, everyone with a foot on the pedal gets hammered with consequences: No more service in public. Never getting hired again.
February 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I know it's very little comfort now, but I hope every person even loosely adjacent to this administration becomes radioactive. I hope when the awful stops happening at full speed, everyone with a foot on the pedal gets hammered with consequences: No more service in public. Never getting hired again.
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kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in an office .
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February 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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It's the tiniest little thing, but now feels more relevant than ever to make my pronouns even more visible.
January 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It's the tiniest little thing, but now feels more relevant than ever to make my pronouns even more visible.
I try not to lean too hard into doom spiraling, but it's hard to see headline after headline of the least empathetic or loudest cruelties day, after day, after day. I know this won't be forever, but it's hard for me to really grapple with the idea that these are the people sharing life with me.
January 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I try not to lean too hard into doom spiraling, but it's hard to see headline after headline of the least empathetic or loudest cruelties day, after day, after day. I know this won't be forever, but it's hard for me to really grapple with the idea that these are the people sharing life with me.
I'm going to do a little hoping right now, instead of leaning into the sadness everywhere.
I hope that ignorant, conservative voters can start to feel less scared soon. Less scared of people who aren't a threat to anyone, be they across a border or in a bathroom.
I hope that ignorant, conservative voters can start to feel less scared soon. Less scared of people who aren't a threat to anyone, be they across a border or in a bathroom.
January 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I'm going to do a little hoping right now, instead of leaning into the sadness everywhere.
I hope that ignorant, conservative voters can start to feel less scared soon. Less scared of people who aren't a threat to anyone, be they across a border or in a bathroom.
I hope that ignorant, conservative voters can start to feel less scared soon. Less scared of people who aren't a threat to anyone, be they across a border or in a bathroom.
I'll admit I'm personally let down the the Switch 2 just looks like a physically larger, likely more powerful version of the Switch.
However, every complaint I've seen about the Switch is that it doesn't look better or run more modern software. Switch 2 looks like it will do exactly those things.
However, every complaint I've seen about the Switch is that it doesn't look better or run more modern software. Switch 2 looks like it will do exactly those things.
January 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'll admit I'm personally let down the the Switch 2 just looks like a physically larger, likely more powerful version of the Switch.
However, every complaint I've seen about the Switch is that it doesn't look better or run more modern software. Switch 2 looks like it will do exactly those things.
However, every complaint I've seen about the Switch is that it doesn't look better or run more modern software. Switch 2 looks like it will do exactly those things.
I miss a more amateur internet. I think we're losing something that every website has professional templates, web forums are a lost part of internet discussions, and it was possible to see YouTube videos that don't have professional lighting, make-up, camera, and editing for hobbyist videos.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I miss a more amateur internet. I think we're losing something that every website has professional templates, web forums are a lost part of internet discussions, and it was possible to see YouTube videos that don't have professional lighting, make-up, camera, and editing for hobbyist videos.
Doing anything daily will be a challenge for me, but I think I'll hop in on this idea as well. I fully expect I may miss some days, but I will backfill when I have energy.
So, full thread:
0/365
So, full thread:
0/365
Get to know my game taste in 365 games!
For 2025, I'm going to post every day about a game that has been meaningful to me. Might not be the "best" games, or even my "favorites," but they're all ones that have stuck with me in one way or another, in rough ascending order of impact.
Mega Daily 🧵
For 2025, I'm going to post every day about a game that has been meaningful to me. Might not be the "best" games, or even my "favorites," but they're all ones that have stuck with me in one way or another, in rough ascending order of impact.
Mega Daily 🧵
January 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Doing anything daily will be a challenge for me, but I think I'll hop in on this idea as well. I fully expect I may miss some days, but I will backfill when I have energy.
So, full thread:
0/365
So, full thread:
0/365
I don't want to make any grand plans for 2025—that just feels like a good way to make myself so anxious I do nothing—but I do think I want to do some professional criticism this year.
January 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I don't want to make any grand plans for 2025—that just feels like a good way to make myself so anxious I do nothing—but I do think I want to do some professional criticism this year.
Being kind is heckin' hard. It requires time, care, consideration, and effort all the way around to be truly kind a lot of the time. To be attentive to what people need in their lives, an understanding of how to contribute to it helpfully, and the time to get the resources together to provide it.
December 27, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Being kind is heckin' hard. It requires time, care, consideration, and effort all the way around to be truly kind a lot of the time. To be attentive to what people need in their lives, an understanding of how to contribute to it helpfully, and the time to get the resources together to provide it.
I don't know if I've even played enough recently to be able to lean into blogging, but as much as I've seen it as the topic of discussion today, it feels like it would be worth doing anyway.
December 24, 2024 at 7:13 AM
I don't know if I've even played enough recently to be able to lean into blogging, but as much as I've seen it as the topic of discussion today, it feels like it would be worth doing anyway.
I cannot imagine a version of my work that could be faultless. Even if I manage to nail exactly what I'm trying to do, there will always be ways other "ears" can pick out tone, the flows, and rhythms. Even if I miraculously produce a "perfect" work, I still would benefit from another editor's lens.
I've worked with writers who said they thought their writing was as good as it could be, or who rejected the idea they would benefit from training, who reverted edits in copy after an article was live. This doesn't make you a bad person but it is a bad professional attitude!
December 24, 2024 at 1:19 AM
I cannot imagine a version of my work that could be faultless. Even if I manage to nail exactly what I'm trying to do, there will always be ways other "ears" can pick out tone, the flows, and rhythms. Even if I miraculously produce a "perfect" work, I still would benefit from another editor's lens.
I cannot think of any words sufficient to express my frustration.
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December 16, 2024 at 7:59 PM
I cannot think of any words sufficient to express my frustration.
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It's kind of miraculous to me that .txt files are still readable on modern hardware.
December 16, 2024 at 4:40 PM
It's kind of miraculous to me that .txt files are still readable on modern hardware.
I'm sure there's an actual article to be made out of this, but it's very uncommon to have games that allow you to be mechanically kind, isn't it? Narratively, sure. Morality systems do sometimes systematize it. But not very often through the primary play mechanic.
December 15, 2024 at 10:19 PM
I'm sure there's an actual article to be made out of this, but it's very uncommon to have games that allow you to be mechanically kind, isn't it? Narratively, sure. Morality systems do sometimes systematize it. But not very often through the primary play mechanic.
Seeing this is probably the closest I've ever come to understanding Lovecraft. The thing I am watching cannot possibly be, but if true, the world as I understand it hasn't survive. How could I describe this to someone else in a way that would not make me sound mad?
December 12, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Seeing this is probably the closest I've ever come to understanding Lovecraft. The thing I am watching cannot possibly be, but if true, the world as I understand it hasn't survive. How could I describe this to someone else in a way that would not make me sound mad?