Gene Park ✓
@GenePark · Washington, DC · joined 12 Jun 2008
@washingtonpost digital culture critic | Low Power Mode co-host | Pacific Roots | East Coast Rock | @csuf Titan
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@GenePark The timing https://t.co/YztY9Sl8ca
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@GenePark I literally just started to play God of War 2 for the first time a moment go LMFAOOO https://t.co/8uNbwb7uzY
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@GenePark I appreciate u treating these absurd things like theyre absurd still. so many unreal things have been happening recently I read this and didnt bat an eye. nick shirley and hunter biden can also be on fortnite friday now fuck it whats real anymore
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@GenePark Still waiting for Matan & Geoff Keighley to squash the beef at a future TGA
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the guy who crashed the game awards during elden ring’s win by yelling about former US president bill clinton is interviewing hunter, the recovering addict son of former US president joe biden, as he holds a copy of destiny 3
i just needed to write that sentence for the record
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Kelly Hu, Hollywood’s first Lady Deathstrike, and I go way back! she has been very involved in activism and politics in Hawaii https://t.co/mQHx4cp8ve
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@GenePark Still sad Kelly Hu didn't play her but at least she still has a role in the game.
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@GenePark It’s so hard to judge insomniac cause they clearly want to carve out their own rendition of these worlds and characters and that’s valid but I can’t help but get a little ick with the direction they often take. Hard to balance being unbiased and loving the source materi
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@GenePark I admire you genuine love of gaming, rather than most people seemingly want to tear them down to hate on them.
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@GenePark I can’t believe people really thought she was Psylocke when they have shown her as Deathstrike in like 3 trailers lol
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Deathstrike has already been shown previously and has been confirmed to be in the game. I've beaten the game twice already. I can confirm that is surely Deathstrike.
and fwiw i like her design a lot
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I love what Black Panther writer and former games critic Evan Narcisse tells me about the tension of writing for games, how books can spend pages describing a location and how games can create similar impact.
"Words themselves can be the explosions."
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i'm early in Onimusha but i may actually end up writing about it. the battle mechanics is exactly what i've been hoping for. it's innovative and engaging and very unique.
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@GenePark @MrHooboMaster Both Not involved https://t.co/bTWhRIdA7s
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@GenePark they’re making a season 3 before we even get a part 3 😭😭😭
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@GenePark The S3 hatewatch is gonna go triple platinum in my house I'm afraid.
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Neil Druckmann has been focused on Intergalactic, and clarified to me that he and Naughty Dog are NOT involved in the creative direction of The Last of Us Season 3 on HBO.
This is in my piece dissecting why games writing is different from other media.
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There's a constant debate: Is video game writing good or bad? How does it compare to sentences in a book? In a film script?
I talked to writers of games and other disciplines like Neil Druckmann and Evan Narcisse to explain why games writing is unique.
https://t.co/DiqnunJl6N
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Against accounts of the same size
21 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views23 098this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %12.92%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.66%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 23 098 | 5 983 | 3.86× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 12.92% | 1.49% | 8.67× |
| Engagement rate | 1.66% | 0.93% | 1.79× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
96.3K3 Sep
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985.8K12 Sep
15.9K
30.4K
26.4K13 Sep
19.4M15 Sep
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121.9K16 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.22%3 Sep
1.44%
0.50%
0.60%
0.03%
2.25%
4.84%12 Sep
1.56%
1.99%
2.09%13 Sep
0.45%15 Sep
3.08%
3.96%
1.42%16 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes85.4%142 775 in total
Reposts4.8%8 104 in total
Replies0.7%1 127 in total
Quotes0.8%1 279 in total
Bookmarks8.3%13 860 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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