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@akdot98.bsky.social
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Animator, Game Dev, Streamer | Bass/Vocals for The Old Ways | KFBF | Previously at Ubisoft SF

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 15/07/2026
the sheer amount of gamers genuinely believe the massive layoffs over the last few years are very cool and justified and karmic revenge on western AAA devs for making slop is crazy dude. this is simply not an audience worth sacrificing so much of yourself to please
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Blessing Adeoye Jr. @blessingjr.com · 23/10/2025
Fuck Ice
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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Nobody can convince me this bit from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's new campaign ad isn't a lift from Expedition 33's soundtrack.
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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We in the winners circle
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Grant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I've been researching allegations regarding the founder and leadership of AbleGamers. From alleged abuse and harassment, financial mismanagement, and failure of leadership to protect employees, sources recount a hostile environment. Read my latest @ign.com story here: www.ign.com/articles/for...
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Former Employees, Community Members Allege AbleGamers Founder Fostered Abuse Behind Closed Doors - IGN
Over 20 years, AbleGamers has become synonymous with the accessibility movement as its presence and influence grew across the industry. However, new reports from former employees and members of the ac...
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 03/04/2025
Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating
" On April 5th, a 54% tariff goes into effect on a wide range of goods imported from China. For those of us who create boardgames, this is not just a policy change. It's a seismic shift.
At Steve Jackson Games, we are actively assessing what this means for our products, our pricing, and our future plans. We do know that we can't absorb this kind of cost increase without raising prices. We've done our best over the past few years to shield players and retailers from the full brunt of rising freight costs and other increases, but this new tax changes the equation entirely.
Here are the numbers: A product we might have manufactured in China for $3.00 last year could now cost $4.62 before we even ship it across the ocean. Add freight, warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution margins, and that once-$25 game quickly becomes a $40 product. That's not a luxury upcharge; it's survival math.
Some people ask, "Why not manufacture in the U.S.?" I wish we could. But the infrastructure to support full-scale boardgame production – specialty dice making, die-cutting, custom plastic and wood components – doesn't meaningfully exist here yet. I've gotten quotes. I've talked to factories. Even when the willingness is there, the equipment, labor, and timelines simply aren't."
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Trans people exist and are, in my experience, pretty cool to hang out with.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 29/03/2025
hi again, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. context & guidance in the thread below. it doesn’t have to be hard; you can do it waiting for coffee. 13 days left, as of this post. please comment.
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belinda garcia-maguid @bgmaguid.com · 30/03/2025
✨🌙 eid mubarak, friends 🌙✨ this was my fourth time celebrating ramadan and it was by far the hardest. attempting to remain positive and reflective when so much pain and suffering occurs in our country and across the globe resulted in a heavier toll on the heart than before.
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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Clipped from the BIG awards stream is this amazing poem by James Lewis at Xbox - one of the REALEST ONES in the industry, who truly cares AND fights for folks like me to exist.
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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 19/03/2025
The Communications Workers of America union has announced a new industry-wide union which any developer in the US or Canada can join. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-new-i...
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A new industry-wide union has been launched for all American and Canadian developers | VGC
United Videogame Workers-CWA will launch at GDC this week…
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Seb Downie-Blackwell @downieseb.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
- The trouble in Little China is usually small and manageable. Popular media has overstated the issues you might face - the best form of transportation in SF is rolling down the hills - the Golden Gate Bridge is fake. Don't bother going. It's a skybox element only
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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We love bird person in this house!
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 18/02/2025
hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.
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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Marc is a budget guy with the CRFB 👇🏽 We know it’s hard to debunk Elon’s firehose of lies. But try.
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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is the one fr. Push this message as hard as possible and you might break through with folks.
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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Read this www.the-reframe.com/youve-persua...
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You've Persuaded Us Already
When it comes to the idea that conservatism has embraced fascism and supremacy, nobody is more persuasive than conservatives themselves. An essay on bullies and the margins of permission in the USA.
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Parris @vicious696.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
From 1619 to 1865, the US benefited from over 222 million hours of unpaid, dehumanizing, forced labor by enslaved black people per scholars. This labor- primarily the production of tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton- would be valued at over $97 trillion today. @coribush.bsky.social
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Greg Miller @gameovergreggy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I need Blue Sky to expand its video capabilities.
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Kaizen Creed @kaizencreed.com · 03/02/2025
Hey our demo is coming out Very soooon! This month in fact. Only ina few days! So be sure you look out for our updates!⭐️ We are also celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth so if you have a cool black created project share it down below 🙌🏿 #screenshotsaturday #fgc #fightinggame
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Evan Campbell @darthburrit0.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Whelp. It’s Sunday morning and the american people still don’t know if there are still corporate stooges in government buildings with unfettered access to their private information. Biggest security breach in US history. What are we doing here?
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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
looking for jobs as a game designer / academic as the federal government is dismantled piece by piece and i have to say the former fills me with less hope than the latter
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Dragon Age: The Veilguard was undeniably divisive, but to many who worked on it, it was a miraculous accomplishment to even ship a complete game after EA forced live-service into it, then reversed course. Now, their reward for the long hours and hard work is layoffs and transfers.
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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
TN public school teachers should start going rogue and telling their students that their families elected a government which is going to make their schools worse and that changes to school coming down the line are because their parents wanted this to happen.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🔥 @jeffyarbro.bsky.social lays waste to the ‘Hold Harmless’ lie many Republicans told themselves as they passed @GovBillLee’s voucher scam today🤥 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFeEUlr...
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Mar, werewolf ABD @marscardua.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I think that, after the awful initial shock of today passes, senior devs all over should start confabulating to create AAA Game Dev Cooperatives: made by devs, for devs. It'd be a doozy and so frustrating to navigate at first, but it would be literally the best thing for this industry right now.
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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
If you continue to remain silent on immigrant rights, this should be your sign (since you missed the other 1000) that this isn't going to stop at migrants. This isn't just an issue for undocumented people. I hate telling others to see value once it hits them, but that's what's happening here.
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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I am just so goddamn angry
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 27/01/2025
men would rather imagine fictional gunfight scenarios than go to therapy
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Roxi Wheels @roxiwheels.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Today and in the coming days, remember
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
media.tenor.com
a black and white photo of a woman jumping in the air .
ALT: a black and white photo of a woman jumping in the air .
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/01/2025
a) I guess we’ll see in pretty short order if the Supreme Court has any interest in the plain text of the document it pretends to represent, this is as blatantly unconstitutional as it gets b) a functional news org would point that out in the lede
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 16/01/2025
That Nintendo Switch 2 reveal video would have been so much better if it was set to Naruto Shippuden Opening 1 Hero’s Come Back.
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
It’s pretty much all mismanagement. Adopting new tech prematurely? Mismanagement. Changing creative direction in production? Mismanagement. Iterating on content 3+ times? Mismanagement. Adding major features in production? Mismanagement. Poor planning, failure to follow plans - all mismanagement.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
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Lifeboat Capitalism
Some burn, some drown, and some make money either way.
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Aaron Seaney @aaronseaney.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I interrupt your #KF10 stream to drop our first official teaser for “Gaming While Black” This is just the beginning. youtu.be/BTnCJ9Xllx0?...
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"Gaming While Black" Promo Trailer
YouTube video by Black Sparrow Media
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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Get in loser, I'm going to rant at you for 30 minutes about how the Kingdom Hearts series is actually an epic meta-narrative about social and religious indoctrination that positions the will and wisdom of the human spirit as key to revolution and institutional knowledge as a tool of subjugation.
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your local kh sicko 🏳️‍⚧️ @shibuyagato.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
A gag image with a timeline of "most important events in history" showing fire and the wheel on the "long ago" side, and Squaresoft creating Kingdom Hearts 1 in 2002.
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f4mi ‼️ @f4mi.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
control is free on epic games btw go grab it it's a nice game
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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I think I saw a bit about this in @dimension20.bsky.social's dystopian space opera series. We couldn't even get off-planet first...
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is absolutely backwards. Young people stayed home because Dems were too busy campaigning with Liz Cheney to fight for things like universal healthcare, student loan forgiveness and other “lefty” causes that most people actually want
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philtacular @philtacular.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
-shows up wearing ceasefire pin -talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs -denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms -takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives -doesnt name drop any celebs forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man
Swen Vincke, director of larian games, at The Game Awards, giving a speech before handing out the game of the year award
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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I cannot sleep. I'm just kinda over here buzzing about how fun today was. I know #thegameawards aren't anything special for folks who have been around, but as a first-time goer and newer developer, that energy and gathering of amazing people was truly revitalizing. I wish I could open Godot rn😂
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Blessing Adeoye Jr. @blessingjr.com · 13/12/2024
WHY WOULD YOU ANNOUNCE THIS WHEN I CAN'T PLAY IT RIGHT THE FUCK NOW
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