shanodin (Ali Rees)

@shanodin.bsky.social

❤️ they/them 🌈 queer & disabled 💻 Award winning games journalist 🌞 Words at startmenu, Brig Newspaper, QuickPlay, Empoword Journalism, The National, The Mourning Paper, Pillow Talk Scotland 💻 Email: alireesjournalist@gmail.com 🎮 quickplay.substack.com

why have they changed YouTube :( you can now no longer view comments while in cinema mode, and they have also made the sidebars different widths so the video is not centred on the screen. I've been keeping it together recently but my autism brain cannot accept this 😭

Do I have moots in games or games journalism who would want to help out with a charity stream and feel like they could "teach" something? Can be things like "how to design a character" or even like "how to speedbuild in Minecraft." The options are endless. Please DM me! Signal boost!

On Thursday evening Valnet issued new contracts to writers at TheGamer instituting a minimum article viewership threshold for payment. Most writers already have pay tied to article performance, but this new system would mean that if a piece didn't get X number of clicks you wouldn't be paid for it.

[LIVE NOW 🟢] hiiii this weekend I'm fundraising for the Starlight Children's Foundation!! Today (rn) I'm streaming Elden Ring and tomorrow I'll be streaming Infinity Nikki! ❤️ We have a few goals and a giveaway, so come hang out and donate if you're able!! ❤️ twitch.tv/watermeg

poster for "Stream for Starlight", from the cosmic hearts stream team. There is a selfie of me, and the text reads "Hard & soft weekend, Elden Ring + Infinity Nikki, 20th and 21st September 3pm BST, twitch.tv/watermeg"

Silksong is a hard game! I'm definitely dying a lot. However because I played over 1000 hours of Hollow Knight randomiser and rotted my brain, I have no idea what a normal experience with that game looks like so have no basis for comparison! Is it harder? I couldn't possibly say.

Announcing "10 years of this shit" This September marks 10 years since I started streaming. These last 10 years have been unimaginably wonderful and have honestly saved me. To celebrate, we'll be doing two special streams. There will be cake. There will be giveaways. There will be fun.

A graphic titled "10 years of this shit" a paragraph reads "To celebrate 10 years of streaming, I have a couple of special celebration streams in September. We have games to giveaway provided by Guillotine, Kepler and Future Friends, plus a limited edition mouse provided by Logitech G to give away." Below are two boxes, one for each stream. The first reads "September 14th 7pm CEST. The raddest party in town. Join for party games, karaoke and giveaways!" The second reads "September 28th 7pm CEST. I'm decorating a special Shrek themed cake and you're invited to watch (oi oi). If we hit 500 subs during September, I'll decorate the cake in a Shrek outfit. If we hit 1000 subs, I'll wear the full costume (mask and giant latex hands)"