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Josh Boykin (Intelligame)
@wallstormer.bsky.social
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I run @Intelligame.us (pronounced "us"), diving deep into narratives and connecting games with the real world. #ThoughtfulPlay

For work/opps: josh@intelligame.us

https://linktr.ee/intelligame
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🔴 STREAM PART TWO! 🔴

I'm live with @silver-streak.games , @mattcaulder.com r.com , and @faunandgames.bsky.social playing....RESIDENT EVIL OUTBREAK

I have no idea what we're getting ourselves into, but it's gonna be a good time :)

twitch.tv/intelligame
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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TWO streams today, and FOUR games in the first one (at least, Imma try)

twitch.tv/intelligame

@intelligame.us , I freakin' love it here.
Duskpunk! Constance! Greenhearth Necromancer! Demonschool!
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Went on a walk today and found this attached to a pole.

Gave me a little bit of what I needed.
The back of the card. The text reads: "I made this card for YOU because I know what it's like to struggle. Take it for yourself, pass it on, or leave it here for someone else. YOU MATTER! I'd love to know if this card inspired you! Look for @peacocktrove on Instagram. National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988 Oregon Warmline: 1-800-698-2392 Trevor Project (LGBTQIA+ Youth): 1-866-488-7366 Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860 LGBT National Hotline: 888-843-4564"
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Stream's live, and we're checking out some games from the Review Backlog!

If you're into:

* Slot machines (and small knives)
* Apartments (in Berlin)
* Bluey

Or maybe other things, who knows:

twitch.tv/intelligame
Picture of Josh, a Black man with medium-length salt-and-pepper hair, standing next to a pixel art painting of Amaterasu from Okami: a white wolf with red markings in front of a blue and orange background
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Hey folks, I'm live again! Talking @riftbound.riotgames.com and opening boosters, then playing either:

- Absolum
- CloverPit
- Bluey the Videogame

You choose?

twitch.tv/intelligame
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Knew from just a few minutes into the first preview build that Clair Obscur was really special.

1000% a game I needed to have a physical copy for, and it damn well deserved the Steelbook treatment.

So, so many congrats and thanks to the @expedition33.bsky.social team, excited to hop back in.
Josh, wearing a t-shirt with Powerpuff Girls-styles versions of Goku, Vegeta, and Piccolo from Dragonball Z, holding a copy of the box for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Lumiere edition for PS5 The art book, steelbook, and insert flyer for DLC content for Expedition 33, laid out on a blue blanket (that he really should have smoothed out or something) A close up of the Steelbook front: it reads Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on the front with silhouettes of Gustave and Maelle in front The back of the Steelbook; the words "For Those Who Come After" are written in gold type, with a giant rock face below and the number 33 scrawled on it.
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Everyone's favorite post: a go-live notification with a mysterious box, LOL

First time live for @intelligame.us in a long time, would love to see you! Opening a #Riftbound package from @riotgames.com too

twitch.tv/intelligame
A black man with salt-and-pepper hair holding a closed cardboard box
November 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Also, in today's edition of "AI answers I neither asked for nor are useful because they are wrong:"
A copy paste of instructions from the bullshit happened-even-though-I-didn't-fucking-ask-for-it AI answer from Google. Gives instructions on how to allow a blocked message by directing to steps that don't exist on Discord, including going to a specific AutoMod menu that doesn't exist (maybe these are outdated answers and it once did?)
October 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Please don't be AI bullshit

Please don't be AI bullshit

Please don't be AI bullshit

Please, Affinity, please don't be AI bullshit
A screenshot of an image that reads "Creative _freedom_ is coming. See it first. October 30. Josh, we’ve been quietly working on something new and it’s almost here. A new era of true creative freedom is just around the corner. You’ve been with us from the beginning, so we want you to see what’s next before anyone else. Sign up to see what’s coming." Damnit, this better not be AI
October 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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@heartimecia.bsky.social lol I was going to keep writing but then this popped up and I had to share :D

I didn't even know a notification like this was possible, lol
October 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Gonna go do exciting birthday things like...get my license renewed, lol. Which is a little expensive, actually, especially right next to paying rent?

So, if you're in the giving mood, and wanna be part of this exhilarating process 😅:

cash.app/$wallstormer
venmo.com/@wallstormer
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Another year of @gdocexpo.com completed, and I think this was one of our best yet. Stellar games for our Direct showcase and Sale, and phenomenal talks. It was a honor to get to help lead as Head of Curation this year.

So proud of the team, all our participants and community. So, so good.
A screenshot of Josh hosting. The overlay is titled "GDOC EXPO: Josh Boykin, Head of Curation and Host". A Black man with salt and pepper (mostly salt at this point) hair stands in a room wearing a black-and-red sweater (It's a Miles Morales sweater, lol). On his left, a black curtain. Behind him on the left, a silver and gold picture with three bears gathered around a laptop. Behind him on the right, a blue-and-orange painting. On the right, a Daft Punk poster of a head in a helmet, half-silver, half-gold.
September 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Me, yesterday: Ooh, Hades is cool. I'd play it again maybe, get ready for Hades II, but I don't have it on Steam

Today: wellllllllllllllll shit
A notification from the Steam interface, saying that Hades is on sale A notification saying that Hades is 75% off, which, unfortunately, is damn good bait
September 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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JFC these fucking tariffs
September 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It's been a long time since I've been able to stream regularly for a whole host of reasons, but TODAY:

- We EXPLORE awesome, narrative-focused games
- We CLIMB with friends (at 5:30p Central)
- We celebrate the ability to share games with good people

Would love to see you: twitch.tv/intelligame
August 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Got this notice from @chillhop.com and just....

jfc. Tariffs.

It's gonna get worse, y'all. And in likely all sorts of ways even we who "get it" won't expect.
A screenshot from a newsletter sent by Chillhop Records. The top of the image is an anthropomorphic raccoon in a goldenrod hoodie typing at a desk surrounded by plants. The computer has a speech bubble, and inside it is "$!" The text of the image reads: New tariffs update + 30% Off Flash Sale until August 11th! We wanted to give you a heads‑up: unfortunately new tariffs will hit all US-bound shipments starting August 29, which includes stuff sent from our warehouse in the Netherlands. The new tariffs mean that there will be a minimum extra charge of $80 per item to customers receiving orders in the US for at least until January 2026. It simply makes the price of ordering our products to US addresses unreasonably high, and we wouldn't want to give anyone any unexpected surprises on delivery. Thus, we've decided to pause shipping to the US after August 11, for the time being. But before we do, we're running a flash sale for our US folks: 30 % off everything in our webshop until August 11. Use the code TRUMPNOCHILL for 30% off everything on the webshop *sale ends August 11!"
August 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Sooo watched the first ep of the Gumball reboot on Hulu and it KINDA HITS

Maintains all the chaotic humor and wild animation of the original, also

SHARP social commentary about modern food supply and the end is just *chefs kiss*

Eps 2 and 3 also wreck

💯🌟🏆

(Also random loud noise at 0:40 sry)
July 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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A piece of genuinely FANTASTIC news: it's 🎂 @kimchica.bsky.social's BIRTHDAY! 🎂

Honestly, one of the best people not just in this industry, but on the planet. And if you know her, you know I'm not exaggerating.

So thankful to have an amazing friend like you, Jenny <3 All the Happy Birthdays!
Jenny, holding a lil yellow tamagatchi buddy Jenny and me, with headphones on and a big microphone, getting ready to stream Jenny and I, masked, standing in a hotel lobby during a game convention (we're smiling, but you just have to tell from the eyes)
July 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The Citizen Sleeper tarot cards are genuinely so, so beautiful.

PLEASE tell me there's gonna be a yellow-themed deck now that we've had Starward Vector

@jumpovertheage.com, it's so needed, lol
July 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Streaming two of my recent favorites: @starvaders-game.bsky.social and @blueprincegame.bsky.social :)

Good way to wind down the week.

twitch.tv/intelligame
May 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Really thankful for an event like LudoNarraCon, especially days when the games industry looks like...well, what it looks like right now.

Stream's live, folks: twitch.tv/intelligame
May 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Sinners. Genuinely an incredible movie.

Feeling very lucky to live in a time where it exists and I could see it, feel the power of it. Of our culture, our history. Our spirit.
April 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Saturday Streams are for trying whatever feels interesting.

Today, it's UFO 50, a metroidvania/soulslike called Mandragora, and...

BLUE PRINCE Day 2 :D

twitch.tv/intelligame
April 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Alright folks, time to check out a couple of the games people are talking BIG about: @blueprincegame.bsky.social and @kaizengameworks.com 's Promise Mascot Agency!

These were gifted by a member of the @intelligame.us community, and I'm real stoked to dive in. Join us?

twitch.tv/intelligame
Josh, a black man with short cut salt-and-pepper hair, wearing a black hoodie and t-shirt smiling at the camera.
April 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Folks, @miladyconfetti.bsky.social is streaming South of Midnight, and her videos were some of the first I saw that convinced me to play the game.

Please, GO SUPPORT BLACK WOMEN playing this game! twitch.tv/miladyconfetti
MiladyConfetti playing South of Midnight!
April 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM