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davidpucik.bsky.social
Kyoto-based video games academic & industry analyst, market researcher, 🇯🇵bullet-train traveler. Easily distracted by cats and casually-placed Master Swords. Bad at multiplayer games, but can't stop playing them.
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I keep getting asked why I haven't written a piece on the Bryce Mitchell stuff. Truth is, I've been writing about the MMA-to-Nazi pipeline for nearly a decade, including how it festers in the UFC. This isn't new. This is the norm. www.sportspolitika.news/p/mma-nazi-u...

Chúc mừng năm mới, everyone!

If the killer played Among Us and that drove him to kill according to the media, then considering how well that game sold, every healthcare CEO should be rightfully shitting themselves.

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

NBC is breathlessly reporting that the UHC shooter suspect played lots of (🥁🥁🥁)…Among Us! You know, that game that *checks notes* everyone and their 6-year-old-cousin played during the lockdowns including Jimmy Fallon and the cast of Stranger Things on *checks notes again* the Tonight Show on NBC.

A German cleaning equipment company used its high-pressure washers to create a giant image of Godzilla on the Iwaya Kawauchi Dam in Saga Prefecture.

I really need to post more, but I’ve never really had a great routine for social media. How do people get into the habit without it feeling like *work*?

LFG youtu.be/Lg-Ctg6k_Ao?...

Welp, that sure didn’t take long.

We all let Jimmy Carter down.

UPDATE: This approach is working.

This is a post about Dynasty Warriors.

I made a bet with myself that the linked article didn’t mention healthcare or medical insurance complications for part-time or temp workers at all. So now I’m going to get ice cream!

Honestly, if you object to a movie having sharks in the Colosseum, I appreciate your historical dedication, but you probably hate fun.

I remain uncertain about how well Bluesky’s Discover algorithm works, so purely as a test, I have been liking all the cat photos.

PSA for some of the new folks on here, @numb.comfortab.ly got you covered with moderated block lists that you can just subscribe to, and can individually modify if you want. Keep the trash out.

I really need to focus on self-care and video games this weekend, but I suspect it’s going to be very hard to find that focus.

It’s bone-chilling the extent to which half the country voted, and got, cruelty personified. Not hidden, not implied, but outright promised, with gusto and giggling. But I’m not at all surprised.

Curatable, sharable block lists as a standard, non-API-required feature is a massive, massive deal. Holy shit.

So let me get this straight. Instead of doing something sensible like bringing CA’s data privacy laws nationwide to protect everyone against every overzealous tech company, we’re going to specifically target TikTok because of vibes and red-scare? Really?

Hey. Yeah, you, hey: if you are not currently sick or disabled, one day you will be, and you will wish you lived in a world that had the resources and culture to make your life as full and thriving and happy as anyone else's. You will want that world, and you can start helping make it, right now.

Someday, someone will come up with an app to cross-post on social media without it being a security/safety nightmare. Until then, we’re all just stuck in the attention/energy draining whirlpool of everything it takes to exist online. *pours one out for Trillian*

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from the one you do now: Localizer English teacher P&L analyst Assistant Producer SEO/SEM expert Media Planner

Would I be completely out to lunch if I said that this place seems to have brought the combative nature of conversations from The Other Place with it, whereas Threads seems to mostly be people openly grateful that (for now) it remains chill and friendly, despite its size?

Don’t worry about your funding term sheet details, it’s non-binding anyway.

Let’s GOOOOOO! #TGS #FF7Rebirth

Katsuhiro Harada of Bandai-Namco talking about how the landscape for post-install monetization has changed as consumer expectations for post-launch content has changed and willingness to pay post-install has evolved, becoming both more expected but also more complicated. #TGS

…though look at the massive green bar for mobile revenue! It’s never been clearer that mobile is really where the non-NA/EU gaming market is. #TGS

Pierre-Loupe Griffais and Erik Peterson talking about the relative rise of PC as a place for AAA gaming in Japan and Steam’s role in that rise. #TGS

Well, I think I’m in the right place.

I like how Twitter's latest tactic to keep people from switching to another service is by pretending that your follow list isn't working so you can't manually look people up if you don't remember their full name. 'Cause yeah, that will definitely work...🙄

Welp, here we go again. Brand new place.