i’m just ken

@shepardcdr

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i’m just ken@shepardcdr· 29d

i just think...

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· 29d

New rule: never trust how you feel about your life past 9pm

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 13

waking up before your alarm goes off

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 12

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 12

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 10

Oh so fuck this game, actually.

The real kicker was when a representative walked up to me while filming the game’s community, all lined up on the street and chittering away happily despite the bitter cold, and asked me if I could avoid showcasing any men in my coverage. I was confused, for a brief moment, until they elaborated further and told me it was to avoid fostering this perception that the game embraces gay relationships.

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 10

can do

Everyone please join me in bullying Moises

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 9

Dark Souls text: Mental Health Restored

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 9

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 9

no bitclips?

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 7

day 4 of nightly fireworks in my backyard

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 6

Xbox and Sony would not show up to defend you if you were on trial, and would not know or care if you died tomorrow. If you truly wish to advocate for the impact video games have had on your life or the lives of others, you do not need to be going to bat for faceless corporations or trying to personify them by revering CEOs who don’t even make the games you love in the first place. Asha Sharma isn’t going to “save” Xbox, because the Xbox you knew and loved died a long time ago. Now, under her lead, Microsoft is dragging its flailing corpse and pantomiming Halo and Gears of War in hopes that it will distract from the real damage the company has done. PlayStation massacred its first-party output chasing live-service trends that haven’t worked out, and still hasn’t learned anything from all this carnage.

What are we defending here other than some distorted, rose-colored image we’ve made in our heads of friends we’ve never had? You don’t, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them.

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 5

christmas in july

fruit and cheese arranged to look like a Christmas tree

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 5

poll for the room would this work on you?

Sorry to lead with this, but have we hooked up before?

Ohhh my bad, my watch must be ahead

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 3

new gym shirt just dropped

A shirt with Shadow the Hedgehog holding an iPod playing Linkin Park’s Papercut with the lyrics “I feel the light betray me” below

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 2

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 2

ok next person who responds to this trying to tell me this is okay as if i’m not obviously a big homo just hates gay people.

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 2

Do not cite the deep magic to me, Witch

I was there when it was written

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 2

went viral for objectifying a man and now strangers are trying to tell me it’s fine to objectify men because equality as if half my career wasn’t built on doing so

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 2

?????

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 2

hey so what the fuck, marvel rivals?

captain america beach skin and he has a massive bulge

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jul 1

looks like my pride month... ...is over

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jun 29

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jun 29

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jun 29

interviewed YOASOBI about writing a song for Overwatch. very surreal. story tomorrow on Kotaku.

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jun 29

my "not on xbox game pass this year" ad copy raising questions answered by my ad copy

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jun 29

so @aftermath.site still doesn’t sell tank tops and i’ve wanted this shirt for months so i said “fine, i’ll do it myself”

me in the aftermath “destroy ai” shirt with the sleeves cut off

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jun 28

y’all are running out of shit to say about this video game i’m crying

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jun 26

me gaining sentience while sitting across from someone who i would have never met if i didn’t move up here with my jaws freshly broken because i no longer live in the wilderness

i’m just ken@shepardcdr· Jun 25

doing my part to get us a green arrow movie