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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Looking forward to what you guys have been cooking!

AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Same (did League, Predecessor and a bit of smite) but honestly Deadlock's hero designs and movement do a lot to keep games from feeling hopeless or repetitive.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don't resist... give in... 1000 hours of fun awaits you!

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

without spoilers, there's some den banter and main plot developments I'm seeing in later cycles that kinda smells like they're cooking a little more with her, but I'm not confident.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Let ZCOM wash over you and show you a good time, Barrett. You've earned it.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Whose grandparents were even born yet 100 years ago?

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Is that Briana Middleton in the shades?!!!

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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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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Like leaning into Jim Carrey Grinch, where the world is sold well and convincing but just a bit off kilter and unsettling, i think that aesthetic kind of works for what Luffy and the gang experience much of the time in that world.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Yeah I'm looking forward to watching it and seeing how deep into being monstrous it is. But honestly a lot of one piece and it's humor dips into monstrous and uncanny, it just gets away with it because it's a cartoon. So I think leaning into the uncanny valley may be a legitimate adaptive choice.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I agree with this, idk what the tail on the series is. But it's fun enough to get people excited and love the characters, which is the biggest sell for the rest of the story. Perhaps it can help build investment for the new WIT adaptation or turn people into current anime watchers/manga readers.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

And you have to sit through a LOT of the anime to get to where the artstyle begins to improve. It's really not until around end of skypeia/water 7.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I dont have as much of an issue with chopper as others seem to. He's not like super cute, but it isn't bothersome to me. I do truly think the core human cast is going to continue to do a lot of heavy lifting there regardless, and people who don't know the original story are not going to care as much

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

My main counterpoint to this is my wife hates the art style of One Piece and is very endeared to the live action depictions of the characters. And I know multiple people who refuse to engage with One Piece because of the art style. Also, Sanji.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The rocket summer is so good. Dope concert shot!

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Woah woah woah slow your roll with the puyo puyo slander.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Sabrina Carpenter took notes out of the ninja sex party book for that track for sure

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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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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Once you establish camera, get some nice curves on the arm poses going its gon be cooking 🔥

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

HIM, HIM, HER, HER, HER, HIM

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Didn't Moses identify with his people of birth rather than the family he was raised in, thus turning against the home he grew up in to deliver the chosen people he was a part of? I feel like that's pretty different from what Supes experiences.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

People who care enough to engage with actual games media probably understand this. The vast majority of gamers who will eventually see and use the term are not those people, there is an inevitable unironic use of deeming these games "slop" that will come from the popularization of this term

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This conversation ends with the Podcaster and developer jumping over the table at the CEO lmao

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Bro I watch you to figure that out.

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Grant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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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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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

YOU are moving the goalposts because nobody fucking said "working class parents cause bad ideology". They said parents being too overworked to raise their sons leads to the internet raising them and creating worse men. You made a bunch of other shit up to argue a point around that idea instead.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I haven't cited anything other than your own words equating blaming parents being overworked to blaming women being in the workforce. All this evidence stuff is you falling back to a defensible position, one that's easily satisfied if you cared that strongly about the issue. This is trolling now.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

journals.lww.com/ijsp/fulltex... Several cited articles related to working parents raising their kids and developmental effects as well as negative consequences related to lack of parenting. But honestly, this is common sense shit. "lack of parenting leads to undisciplined children" isn't trolling

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Working Parents and Child Screen Media Use: A Tightrope Walk : Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry

en media use is associated with poor physical and mental health. COVID-19 lockdowns, school closure, and online classes have increased media exposure to children. The prevailing risky situation has pr...

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I would argue that saying "parents are too exhausted/busy working to raise their kids well and contributes to boys being like this" is not a glib leveling of blame, but to take that statement and say "well let's not blame this issue on WOMEN working" is actually a very glib deflection.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Avoiding calling out an issue because the potential responses are too close to an opposing faction's ideology is an excellent way to cede discourse on the topic entirely to that faction. It's the reason low info working class folks see Dems as spineless cowards who don't actually care abt shit.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This makes sense if you grew up in the 90-early 00ss when the internet was new and people didn't really know how it could be used. Parents of kids nowadays have been around for at least a decade and a half of the modern internet, it should be on them to be safeguards/gatekeepers for their children.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

??? I feel like you're responding to something I didn't say, but that's ok.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

That's my point. If we're talking about "low info voters" that kinda immediately implies a lack of strong positive influences.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Ok but at what previous time would "low information youth voters" ever have a positive influential figure?

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

How many leagues did you get outbid for this game in Bless

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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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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Man is barely even a game developer, let alone a persecuted one

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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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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Forgot about: Haste: Broken Worlds 33 Immortals To a T

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Keep Driving Demonschool The Bazaar Star of Providence Dark Deity II R.E.P.O.

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AK @akdot98.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Bro fishing for fantasy Critic picks

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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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