Advice for making good video game trailers

I left little critiques on lots of game trailers so here's a thread with the most common issues (and additional reading) 🧵 1. Don't put logos at the start. It's just dead air that could be gameplay, which is 100000000X more interesting. www.derek-lieu.com/blog/2021/3/...

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— Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor (@derek-lieu.com) August 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM

4. If you play a cute animal in your game, make sure that cute animal is on the first frame of your trailer. Learn from @littlekittybigcity.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=REJy...

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— Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor (@derek-lieu.com) August 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM

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Vivid illustration of weird gym bros (art roundup)

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wait this thumbnail is about piano man that’s so fucking funny pic.twitter.com/rmBwJlB2Im

— lilliana (low key manic era) (@LillianaFuture) July 14, 2025

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hey who wants to see the worlds most sinister hotel sink

— Kate Compton (@galaxykate.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM

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— Kate Compton (@galaxykate.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM

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the microphone is sending me😭 pic.twitter.com/ZtDja7gjQ0

— َ (@pascalonfilm) July 10, 2025

Minigolf on the beach

@paigeeee1218 And every single one came up thinking he’d be the one to get it in 2 shots😂😂 #ocmd #beach ♬ original sound - 🧍🏾‍♀️🧍🏾‍♀️

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@adeleon17 Don’t let the @Atlanta Braves jersey fool you, he’s forever a #Dodgers fan. @Los Angeles Dodgers @Mookie Betts @MLB #FreddieFreeman #shoheiohtani #BrooklynDodgers ♬ Put It On Da Floor Again (feat. Cardi B) - Latto

@tarangopaloma Mookie Betts’s son running away before the first pitch 😂 #dodgers #dodger #dodgersbaseball #baseball #mlb #dodgerbaseball #mlbtiktok #baseballszn #mookiebetts ♬ The Benny Hill Show - The Edwin Davids Jazz Band

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laughed pretty hard at this boat

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— metal dot txt (@metaltxt.bsky.social) April 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM

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🎤 IT’S NOT JUST A PHASE. IT’S EMO AXOLOTL.
Our angsty axolotl just dropped an emo anthem, and trust us—it’s way too real. Featuring vocals by comedian and parody artist Kyle Gordon 💔

This is a limited drop. Once he’s gone, he’s gone—just like your old BearSpace profile.… pic.twitter.com/6M7lqSV3Ci

— buildabear (@buildabear) April 1, 2025

We tried to play you for a fool…
Don’t get all emotional on us, though. We might not actually be building a band, but we’ve built an Emo Axo that’s his own frontman, and it’s not a phase! Get your little paws on this limited edition April Fool’s furry friend before it disappears… pic.twitter.com/ys8MVwZoLG

— buildabear (@buildabear) April 1, 2025

Silent Hill 2 White Pillow up for order at Official Konami Shop ($49.99) https://t.co/qLgfSvlriU pic.twitter.com/Q5NV1ydEzl

— Wario64 (@Wario64) April 1, 2025

The LA Times posted some advice articles for people who lost their homes to the fires

Ah. The California state bird marking its territory 😌 pic.twitter.com/hXxKYSEXgg

— LA Scanner (@LAScanner) January 14, 2025

He lost everything in a wildfire. Here’s one city councilman’s practical advice:

don’t wait to find temporary housing. “As soon as you get stabilized somewhere,” he advised, “start calling apartments.” And if it’s unfurnished, make do with used or donated items. 

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He was glad he purchased his new home from a “mass builder” — a developer that goes through the permitting and legal process, then offers buyers a range of floor plans and options — rather than going it alone with an individual architect and builder.

I was forced to evacuate my home. Do I still need to pay my mortgage, rent, utility bills?

Cory Doctorow talks about his cancer diagnosis and navigating Kaiser's treatment

(Prognosis is very good) He describes in detail how he had to advocate for the treatment he needed:

this is a complex, multi-stage process. It began with a physician appointment, then a radiologist, then a pathology report, then surgery, then another pathology report, then an oncologist, then a scan, then another radiologist, and finally, the oncologist again.

It's increasingly common in Los Angeles to ask friends if they have a general practitioner they like and be told the doctor's great, but switching to concierge service.

Great story by the current Jets head coach explaining when he knew he wanted to be a coach

New interim #Jets HC Jeff Ulbrich fell in love with coaching thanks to @PatrickWillis52!

This is such an awesome story! #49ers pic.twitter.com/5a5LxOuI9c

— 49ers & NFL News 24/7 (@49ersSportsTalk) October 14, 2024

Related, I recently stumbled on this 2019 article about Taysom Hill's college career:

By his junior season at BYU, Hill was a Heisman Trophy candidate with the likes of Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston – both are now starting NFL quarterbacks. That season, however, was cut short due to an injury. That was all too familiar for Hill as four of his five seasons at BYU ended in injuries -- a knee injury, a broken fibula, a foot fracture and an elbow strain.

What got Hill through all those injuries?

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Hill would go back to advice he received from [Jim] Harbaugh, who he stayed in contact with after the recruiting process.

"He shared with me an experience that he had when he was playing at Michigan where he had just broken his arm his junior year and wasn't able to play and compete," Hill said.

Harbaugh told Hill that the best way to fill the void of not being able to play football was to compete in something else.

"I went and competed in the classroom," Hill said. "That filled the void mentally and emotionally of where I was feeling like I was like still contributing to Taysom Hill the person

Incredible quotes by Jim Harbaugh discussing the leadership Justin Herbert showed when some Chargers got stuck in an elevator without air conditioning

It's one fabulous quote after another, but this is my favorite:

Harbaugh said every person who came off the elevator was sweating, except for Herbert, and some of the players had removed their shirts.

“Justin Herbert, his hair was a little wet, but his shirt was completely dry,” Harbaugh said. “That was another thing that blew me away. The guy is just a beast.”

Inspiring thread explaining how those Olympic chocolate muffins came to be sold in New York

Key statement: "i've never done anything like this before." Also, "i make my first 3way call. i feel like adam sandler in uncut gems."

A moving essay about living with Parkinson's

Anne Carson for the London Review of Books:

Looking ahead you see a black doorway. You begin to notice the black doorway is always there, at the edge, whether you look at it or not. Most moments contain it, most moments have a sort of sediment of black doorway at the bottom of the glass. You wonder if other people are seeing it too.

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Neurologists now seem to believe that the brain is plastic and that certain activities can rewire it, by generating new neurons to replace lost ones or by exciting neurons that have gone idle or slow. Boxing is recommended. I go to a boxing class three times a week. Everyone in the class has Parkinson’s, various degrees of damage. At a certain point in each class (after stretching, shadow-boxing, drills, strength training) the instructor yells: ‘Gloves on!’ We rush to the lockers for our boxing gloves. Putting on your first glove is easy. To don the second glove you have to get help. ‘Don’t use your teeth!’ the instructor calls out. Interesting fact: it is impossible to conjure the black doorway while someone else is putting a boxing glove on you.

The USWNT coach wants the players to excavate their personal pain caves

Henry Bushnell for Yahoo discussing Emma Hayes's current practice of barely using substitutes even when the players are visibly exhausted:

In the video, [an ultramarathoner] talked about constructing “pain caves” in her mind. It’s a concept she has detailed repeatedly over the years en route to the top of ultrarunning. It’s “that point where you physically can’t keep going,” she said in one interview — a point Hayes knew the USWNT would reach Tuesday, whether winning, losing or tied.

“That’s when your mind takes over,” [the ultramarathoner] said. “And you dig in with your brain to help your body keep going. My goal is to get to the pain cave and go in and make it bigger, with hopes that every time I make it bigger, I can reach a little farther into myself next time.”

Also, Girma reminds me of the antagonists in Qntm's "There is No Antimemetics Division"--makes putting out fires look so easy you forget there was ever a potential danger.

This checks out. https://t.co/NFrBtTufHF pic.twitter.com/oqgs2yLBuC

— BreakingT (@BreakingT) August 7, 2024

"As a red-blooded American I refuse to just suffer when I can pay for a solution"

twitter found my tiktok lmao https://t.co/Uv7sm1iY7u

— swamp hag 🐰☕️✨ (@potatoslav) July 21, 2024

since everyone’s here for my AC - it reminded us to clean the filter today. now i’m even cooler. God Bless America. pic.twitter.com/CIXUQtXiP6

— swamp hag 🐰☕️✨ (@potatoslav) July 21, 2024

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This is not exactly a relaxing view. pic.twitter.com/Hx293dm7RP

— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) July 4, 2024

When the Exit Poll was released on Sky News they just came out with noises. pic.twitter.com/rHM4sFih1i

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) July 4, 2024

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nba needs a jeans night https://t.co/RwbiFn5sfq

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bill walton talks about nikola jokic exactly how you’d think, via @NickKosmider https://t.co/QXqYCgY2iN pic.twitter.com/AucVFUkJiz

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Here's Bill Walton making a sound effect for every XFL team during a promo at the urging of @DavePasch and slipping in that Trojans joke pic.twitter.com/ZY4XK5UZ9E

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Bill Walton just talked about playing Wheel of Fortune against Dick Butkus. Here's Bill winning a car after Phil Esposito blew it and Dick Butkus loses his mind pic.twitter.com/Mnr5TAdz4h

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Bill Walton apologizes in behalf of " the entire human race" for LiAngelo Ball and his teammates stealing sunglasses in China pic.twitter.com/O7VluvbRsU

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