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Willa Bloomfield-Rowe

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Trans. Tall. Tired | Writer w/ bylines @ AV Club, Digital Trends, Kotaku, and more | Host @ Girl Mode | she/her | email: willa.d.rowe@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/girlmodepod

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RT if $3000 would literally change your life

05.03.2026 02:44 πŸ‘ 4445 πŸ” 3082 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 28
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By treating the past with reverence, Resident Evil Requiem loses its profane bite Resident Evil Requiem treats its past with too much reverence, undermining the mystery and blasphemy so crucial to great horror.

Wrote a bit about Resident Evil Requiem and how it's part of a long-term horror trend of reboots and re-visitations which are more nostalgic than terrifying.

05.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

Mug that reads β€œdon’t discourse with me until I’ve had my coffee”

05.03.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Alternatively we should all endeavor to write fair and measured reviews of indies, and we could all be way meaner to AAA at all times

05.03.2026 13:02 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

More and more whenever I end up going down the rabbit hole of whatever games discourse of the day we’re having I just find myself thinking…. β€œI wish I was an editor” so instead of shouting into the void here I could just teach some writers in a real way

05.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry for always being late to discourse. I just remember being told once that it wasn’t worth writing about an indie if I didn’t have anything nice to say. Never sat right with me.

05.03.2026 13:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m probably (clearly if you’ve read my work) the biggest believer in writing criticism of indie games like you would any game. The second we treat indies with kid gloves is the second you feed into the narrative they are less then AAA for some reason

05.03.2026 12:58 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Forever chasing the Horimiya high

05.03.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Which is why we deserve a cigarette… as a reward

05.03.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If love through a prism has no fans then I’m dead

05.03.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh you liked Bridgerton S4, in which a rich white guy who likes art falls for a hot Asian girl way out of his league? Well then may I interest you in Love Through a Prism?

05.03.2026 02:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Roger Rees in Robin Hood Men in Tights, you will always be famous

05.03.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Your girl desperately wants to be smoking regularly

05.03.2026 00:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Due to *the horrors* I think the universe should let us all indulge in one vice each without consequence

05.03.2026 00:56 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember writing a piece on, of all things, immortals of aveum about how the FPS as a genre should maybe be tossed out whole cloth because it’s so intrinsically tied to war propaganda even when it isn’t a β€œrealistic” shooter

04.03.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œThe War Economy”: Neocolonialism in games
β€œThe War Economy”: Neocolonialism in games YouTube video by Game Assist

I always come back to this amazing @gameassistyt.bsky.social video when we talk about the complicity of the games industry (developers, media, players) in the US war machine

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvc...

04.03.2026 23:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Why isn't Xbox issuing a takedown notice??"

They don't want to! They profit off of this!!

When you buy Xbox games, when you promote them uncritically, this is what you are helping fund.

04.03.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 149 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

About time Bluesky had β€œyuri is for men” discourse

04.03.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The worst person you know watched the Lanterns trailer and said yippee (they like tom king)

04.03.2026 19:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not to say everything wrong with the new DC film and tv direction is Tom Kings fault, it’s also James Gunn’s! But damn the stench of King is so obvious lol. He made Omega Men and someone said β€œyeah, let’s let him do more green lantern stuff”. So hilarious

04.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah Lanterns certainly is a show that Tom King is clearly involved in lmao

04.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Resident Evil title calls RANKED As a reminder of what Capcom has kept from us, I ranked all the title calls from the Resident Evil franchise.

The DEFINITIVE RANKING of Resident Evil title calls. Because I have a lot of free time!

willarowe.bearblog.dev/resident-evi...

04.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, totally get weighing the choices and deciding making a complete (if truncated) version of the original plan is best. Sucks devs have to do that though, especially for a game that I did hold a lot of promise for that original three act pitch

04.03.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

update that sort of acts as a quicker payoff because of that fan growth feels a bit weird to me. I don't really love seeing stories change based on fan demand like *this* if that makes sense. Obviously i think the worry is fans wouldn't stick around so capitlize on attention now.

04.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So, real thoughts, i feel conflicted. I personally would actually prefer seeing the original vision and be happy to pay for all installments no matter how long it took. The yearning is the juice. While its nice to see a dev get a passionate audience for a great queer game, the pivot to a free...

04.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Real lesbian yearners would choose the three act slow burn that took a year plus to experience

04.03.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 162 - The G(irl Mode) Virus | Girl Mode

We talk about Marathon and the state of live-service titles in this one, and we could not have predicted Highguard would announce its shutdown between recording and release. Then it's to the Spencer Mansion for Willa and to Next Fest for Robin.

shows.acast.com/6393ec46b89a...

04.03.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Intended way to read this is to have the video open and listen to each entry in the ranked order as you read my blurbs.

04.03.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Resident Evil title calls RANKED As a reminder of what Capcom has kept from us, I ranked all the title calls from the Resident Evil franchise.

The DEFINITIVE RANKING of Resident Evil title calls. Because I have a lot of free time!

willarowe.bearblog.dev/resident-evi...

04.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Still not a peep on the things Mamdani can do for trans youth after hospital closures.

No activation of H+H to take patients. Trans patients are a rounding error for the $10B program.

No movement on human rights complaints.

No promise to restore care.

Rarely have I been so disappointed.

02.03.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 2016 πŸ” 640 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 48