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Jenna Stoeber
@thejenna.bsky.social
12K followers 660 following 2.9K posts
Expert in horror and video games
Making video essays and livestreaming
Master's Degree in Media and Culture
business inquiries: jenna.stoeber (at) gmail (dot) com
pronounced stee-bur, she/her
www.JennaStoeber.com
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Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · Aug 10
Fell in love with prestige horror and not sure what to watch next?
Want to improve your media literacy?
Love to talk about movies and horror?
You're in luck! I am launching a monthly HORROR FILM CLUB on my Patreon! Click through to learn all the details!
www.patreon.com/thejenna/pos...
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tyleraking.com
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
www.orlandosentinel.com
September 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
thejenna.bsky.social
NOW STREAMING:
psychological horror THE ALIGHIERI CIRCLE

twitch.tv/the_jenna
youtube.com/watch?v=CV5JIvqKmYQ
September 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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gameonysus.bsky.social
My best purchase this year was my baddie digital camera; I think my work speaks for itself. @kelslewin.bsky.social, @sarahpodz.bsky.social, @thejenna.bsky.social
Kelsey and Sarah outside salt and straw with really good lighting so their skin looks perfect. Jenna also with bomb lighting also looking perfect.
September 17, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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ripefly.bsky.social
I wanted to get as many of the food recalls and disease outbreaks in one place as I could. It's hard to keep track, so I'll try to keep this list updated weekly.
September 16, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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nicolefroio.bsky.social
We broke down how much $$ it takes to run a publication.

If you want to support feminist media, you can get a yearly subscription to The Flytrap at $39 today. That's a year of feminist analysis for less than $40!!

www.theflytrapmedia.com/no-slop
September 16, 2026 at 7:16 PM
thejenna.bsky.social
NOW STREAMING:
previewing the crafting sim DRESSMAKER!

twitch.tv/the_jenna
youtube.com/watch?v=Zz9uzz6Qhi8
September 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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danielleri.bsky.social
Have some BIG NEWS, and it really is wild that today is also the anniversary of the Fanbyte Apocalypse. But my time at Game Developer is done, and hence, my time as a full-time game journalist has come to an end. 20 years in a career sure is something. www.tumblr.com/danielling/8...
After 20+ years of writing professionally about games, including time at Polygon and Idle Thumbs, launching Waypoint, serving as editor in chief of Fanbyte and finally as EIC at Game Developer, my time is done. I'm officially out at Game Developer. Given the state of game journalism, this obviously means leaving the profession, at least as a full-timer. I'm out, with respect to my colleagues, and a lot of love for the site as it was. We've published work that I'm extremely proud of, particularly our reporting on labor and on how workers are finding things in a miserable, gutting moment in the game industry. I'm proud of the dev-authored features we had for so many years, the resources and knowledge and bits and pieces of know-how that I still use, to this day, in my own game design courses. What's next? Well, I'm not leaving games. I'll always be making and teaching and writing about games, it just can't be my full time gig anymore. I've actually been doing narrative design on a game since 2022, with a team I really believe in, and I can't wait until I can show that off properly. I am also OPEN TO WORK. Anything involving writing or editing words, editing video, teaching (I've been teaching college since 2009), and hey, I'm an EMT and got my phlebotomy cert a couple years back. I'm versatile! For full-time employment, I am eventually going to try my hand at medicine. I've served as an EMT here in NYC since 2016, and I've been taking science courses post-bac since January 2025, usually 2 or more at once concurrently with... the full time job, my part time adjunct job, and volunteering on said ambulance. Exhaustion set in years ago, lol, so I've settled into something beyond that at this point. I feel like I've been climbing a mountain, and trying to make many things work at once. I had a pretty good rhythm going, truth be told, despite all the burnout. I'm proud of myself for that. I'd really like to be a physician assistant one day, or potentially a nurse practitioner. It's a very, very long and hard road to either of those paths, but I'm going to make my way as best as I can. How do I feel? Again, devastated was years ago. We're pretty far past that at this point. What's happened to journalism in America is... a topic for a very depressing, very well-researched book. I hope someone writes that one day. What happened to game journalism... well, it's more of a niche, but I can say only that reporting honestly on layoff after layoff and corporate malfeasance writ large and executives gambling the whole industry down the drain was tough, but somebody had to do it. But it's not something one can do without editorial independence. It's dramatic, but I'm going to mourn this career. Twenty years of my life, at 42, is just about half of my days alive. I put a lot, and I do mean *a lot* of myself into this. I tried at all times to lead with empathy and care for the human beings around me and to be as honest and frankly honorable as possible in my work. I really, really tried to live my values in my work in this career, and the only way I can keep that reputation is the path ahead of me. So there it is. Expect to see me making games, making art, teaching game design, writing about games from time to time @VeeGeeBees. Expect to hear more about my adventures as an EMT, and hopefully, soon as a PA student, and eventually, as an advanced practitioner. I've kept telling myself, in the darkest and worst days of the last few years, that I'll fly again, somehow. It'll just look very different. To sign off, and pull an old favorite out of my pocket: be good, and be good at it.
September 15, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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jackpackard.bsky.social
In about an hour @thejenna.bsky.social and I will continue our way through a CO-OP Elden Ring.
(We got it working this time)

And yes, I am typing this while currently streaming...

Watch Here:
More Elden Ring Co-op w/ Jack and Jenna, aka, the Tarnished Twins
YouTube video by Second Wind
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September 15, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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brennancenter.org
Today is National Voter Registration Day. Everyone should check their voter registration status, especially if you've moved, changed your name, or haven't voted in a couple of cycles. And if you're a first-time voter, why not register? It takes two minutes.
September 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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doublefine.com
Clock in, drive the bus, get passengers to their stops...but SLAP anyone breaking the rules (or throw 'em out the back if they don't behave)! It's Crazy Taxi meets Papers, Please! Launching OCT 14~

Wishlist THANK YOU BUS DRIVER (now w/working link!):
doublefine.com/games/thank-you-bus-driver#buynow
Thank You Bus Driver
Take on the role of a town’s rules-driven (and reckless) bus driver in Thank You Bus Driver! Drive fast, slap faster, and toss any rulebreakers out of…
doublefine.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
thejenna.bsky.social
As a devoted Pluribys and Widows Bay fan, I am thriving in the wake of these Emmy wins. But as a St. Louisian, I am disgusted and outraged by DTF St Louis' win. We hate that show here. It wasn't even filmed in Missouri and it takes place in a fictional subrub in the county!! More like GTFO st louis.
September 15, 2026 at 3:47 AM
thejenna.bsky.social
Finally saw OBSESSION, and my verdict is: Inde Navarrette is a revelation, she's the only reason the movie works, can't wait to see what else she does. The movie is otherwise wildly misogynistic.
September 14, 2026 at 5:51 PM
thejenna.bsky.social
is anyone else's YouTube front page suddenly full of 15-20 year old videos that are 1-2 minutes long and have like a million+ views? I feel like they have Done Something to the algorithm but I'm not even sure what
September 13, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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aftermath.site
Former Game Awards Future Class members skeptical of Geoff Keighley's involvement with grant program for game devs
aftermath.site/future-class-n...
Geoff Keighley at the 2025 Game Awards
September 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
thejenna.bsky.social
As the summer wanes it is imperative that you acquire the most delicate and perishable seasonal fruit and have a delicious meal like a redwall mouse would eat. Fortify yourself for autumn.
Beautiful meal with slices of cheddar, heirloom tomatoes on a slab of sourdough, american persimmons and micro basil sprouts sprinkled over chunks of cantaloupe.
September 12, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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comicbookyeti.com
Real human excellence requires repeated abject failures. Remember to be kind to yourself and empathetic to others.
September 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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hmsnofun.bsky.social
hey why is no one talking about the licensing situation with this A24/SCP thing? are they releasing it under the same cc-by-sa license every SCP project is required to have? are they betting creative commons won't hold up in court?

seems like the kind of question a journalist should look into idk
SCP Foundation Movie Coming To Theaters In 2027 With A24 Distributing
An SCP Foundation movie is coming to theaters in 2027 via A24. Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios announced the project earlier this year.
deadline.com
September 11, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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hmsnofun.bsky.social
UPDATE: SCP Foundation have posted a statement saying they were not consulted or contacted about the A24 SCP project.

scp-wiki.wikidot.com/statement-on...
Statement On V/H/S SCP Foundation Film The staff and authors of the SCP Foundation Wiki (the real-life writing project behind the SCP Foundation universe and its official home) were not consulted or contacted regarding this film. We have been attempting to contact the filmmakers but haven't yet been successful. To be clear: we have not had any communication with the filmmakers, producers, or distributors for this project, despite our best efforts, and to the best of our knowledge they have not made any efforts to contact us. Furthermore, A24 does not and cannot have any exclusive rights to anything related to the SCP Foundation, including any films that Spooky Pictures or anyone else may choose to create.
September 12, 2026 at 3:29 AM
thejenna.bsky.social
what text software are folks using now that Google Drive is insecure? Scrivener? ProtonDocs? Any recs?
September 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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beyondbooleans.bsky.social
A couple of days left to grab my games at swanky discount prices! Spoooooooky x

store.steampowered.com/bundle/56554...
September 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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noclipvideo.bsky.social
this week on the noclip_2cast we discuss Polish vampire games, a new "Rim-like" and a game that reminds Danny of that weird Mortal Engines film.

Also with Frank away we invited @thejenna.bsky.social back to regale us with stories of PAX.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R4P...
The Blood of Dawnwalker, Dungeon Settlers, PAX - noclip_2cast 297
YouTube video by /noclip Podcasts
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September 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
thejenna.bsky.social
If you missed this at PAX, there is a great recent interview with the people running the exhibiton on the Video Game History Hour with @philsalv.bsky.social!
gamehistory.org/the-video-ga...
September 10, 2026 at 10:47 PM
thejenna.bsky.social
NOW STREAMING:
PAX recap and then the remake of the end of the greatest RPG of all time!

twitch.tv/the_jenna
youtube.com/watch?v=G3o0F4CTBYE
September 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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aftermath.site
After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams

aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california
September 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
thejenna.bsky.social
basically the only booth I visited at #PAXWest was the @konamina.bsky.social experience for Silent Hill: Townfall!

The pre-order floppy disc apparently has some bonus content/ARG style puzzle stuff, and I'm gunna save that for a livestream, so keep an eye out for that when the game releases.
September 8, 2026 at 11:28 PM