Chris Edgerton

Chris Edgerton

@wheels1993.bsky.social

disabled 33 year old looking for work. Games/tech/disability journo. WORK SAMPLES HERE: https://muckrack.com/wheels1993

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I didn't mean to post this at midnight on purpose but oh well. after about a month or so of back and forth we discovered that the laptop i was using had a faulty motherboard.. it ended with me just getting a new machine and thankfully I have that now. im going to be much louder now 1/2

2/2 towards the end of this year im working on finally launching a real creative project that has been about a decade in the making if im being honest. my reach on bluesky has always been worse than twitter.. if you could interact so i know people see this it'd mean a lot.

To be able to explain your disability to other adults was a big part of me being able to feel comfortable online and was a really big part of me growing as a person and learning to be better.

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Season passes, in-app purchases and loot boxes have made every AAA publisher treat you like a thief for playing their multiplayer game. Kernel-level anti-cheat should be treated like it’s just as invasive as a Flock camera: they demand so much from you in return for so little.

i got a decent roll on my laptop repair.. the lightly distressing thing is they couldnt fix the bootloop by recreating it.. so in theory it could happen again but the odds are smaller with a new battery ig

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i will never understand why so many military style games let you do stuff like this.. in Rainbow 6 and HellDivers 2 you can just team kill people who arent playing up to your standard for some reason. it sucks ass it makes me never play those objectively well made games.

Zack Zwiezen@zackzwiezen.com

I like Wardogs, but between the team switching shit, unbalanced eco and drills become the meta, the game feels in a weird place right now.

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Games writing is all about working hard and getting abused by your audience until one day your boss recognizes that they could be paying freelance rates for your work by abusing the constant churn of new writers.

this is the part that just destroys my particular soul.. theres not even space for 'hey try better next time'

can't even remember the last time I got *actually rejected* for a games job. the applications just go into the void. subsisting on the kindness of strangers is not tenable and retail jobs won't hire me so I don't know what to do. have to figure something out, somehow

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You're avoiding the Wolverine game because the reviews are mid. I'm avoiding it because the government should've given up a half century ago on its Jean ship psyop everyone hates. We are more or less the same

that sounds like a diss but its really not.. it used to be ok to make shit that was cool to play for exactly 1 sleepover.. we need a model where its ok to swing and miss.

Chris Cruz@yochriscruz.bsky.social

Wolverine is just a mediocre Super Nintendo game gussied up to look modern. It would be a Blockbuster rental.

one of my biggest problems as i get deeper into my 30s is i just don't have good energy balance.. its not even predictable really.. which is the worst part

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i dont mean to be pedantic on purpose but the extra stores that come from the bonus edition will be sold later we have to assume.. if they are genuinely locking a few extra stores behind a specific version of a game thats bananas. also GTA online is a thing i get why you wrote it this way but still

Jason Fanhees@jasonfanelli.com

Props to @gameovergreggy.bsky.social and @andycortez.cool for dropping this nugget on the Kinda Funny Gamescast: No microtransactions in GTA VI, nor any generative AI. www.gamespot.com/articles/gra...

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Sophie Cunningham scored 0 points in 15 minutes for the Fever tonight. Thought I'd share these stats, since she wants us to talk about basketball now.

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Yo all, this prick is impersonating me on Discord. If you're a developer, this is not me. I will never contact you from the cold on Discord. I will email you. Discord is a platform I can log into if asked to, but otherwise never use, check, or think about.

if you're screenshoting a game without mentioning what it is.. you should be using the ALT text to at least say the name of the game.. that way, i don't have to waste your time and ask you what game this is. accessibility tech can help you do so many things

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can anyone who has experience in video game publishing give me a rough idea of what the PIF will make from a sale of star wars zero company? i understand it will be nominal but I want to understand the difference between things that they publish and the EA sports titles that they make.

can anyone who has experience in video game publishing give me a rough idea of what the PIF will make from a sale of star wars zero company? i understand it will be nominal but I want to understand the difference between things that they publish and the EA sports titles that they make.

being a freelancer right now means having 0 recourse when managment of a site decides not to pay anyone. we dont talk about this enough. thats a conversation for a different day. right now you should help kate if you can.

Kate Sánchez@ohmymithrandir.bsky.social

Even if you're not an editor and know of any leads. Since Restart still hasn't paid me for my CFB review, I need to cover that pay for that assignment and Madden. - features - guides - anything at all If you know anyone who needs sports games coverage 🙏🏾

jisu is having car trouble so you should click into their profile and buy stuff from them or help them somehow because helping them is like helping me.

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CW death, family violence against disabled people. well.. it sure is august again. if you've known me a long time.. you know what that means. if you're a newer friend.. please hang with me while i take a few posts to get this out.. forgive me the twit longer i posted years ago is now dead.

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we knew each other as tiny children and only saw each other 1 summer a year for a few years.. he had a big smile.. and he loved to do a big muscle flex.. he couldn't talk.. but he knew how to get people to laugh and smile.. that was huge for me as a child.

i struggle to feel like im doing enough to honor him.. when i was freelancing it was easy to prop myself up and feel like i was using my voice to honor his memory.. and thats only gotten harder and harder as time has gone on.

CW death, family violence against disabled people. well.. it sure is august again. if you've known me a long time.. you know what that means. if you're a newer friend.. please hang with me while i take a few posts to get this out.. forgive me the twit longer i posted years ago is now dead.

it really didnt hit me until now that its been 10 years.. ah fuck. in 2016 my friend Theron that i met at a summer camp for disabled kids, was stabbed to death by his mother. He was non verbal and so his mother 'snapped' and killed him because she thought he didnt 'have a good life'