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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21h

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Transparency @transparency.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Throwback to that time Nintendo dropped a Splatoon trailer where they sing: "P U S S Y! Pussy, pussy, suck my fucking pussy! Pussy, get pussy, lick my fucking pussy!"

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We already have what he's describing. It's called gaming. While he was out partying we studied the blade.

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🌸Petal Crash 2 is OUT NOW!!🌸 @petalcrash.com · 29/09/2026

🌸Petal Crash 2 is OUT NOW!!🎉🌸 The freshest in arcade puzzle action blossoms again! The Early Access release has lots to enjoy, including a single-player Arcade Mode, local multiplayer, and a built-in puzzle editor! Check out the game on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2697670/...

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I rly like precision platformers conceptually but I really wish more were structured like arcade games rather than single stage challenges, Monkey Ball style. The latter sorta reduces them into compulsive but kinda forgettable micro challenges

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Darío @dariosamo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still see a lot of confusion about what decompilation, recompilation and ports are and what level of effort is involved in each type of project. It's important that people understand the difference, as recompilation took a drastically different meaning that when it was originally introduced.

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Darío @dariosamo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just a warning for everyone, since Video Game Slopterica keeps being the most irresponsible YouTube Channel to exist these days. The Banjo-Tooie Recompilation is NOT associated with us. It is entirely AI-generated. Both Zelda: Recompiled and Banjo: Recompiled have very clear No AI stances.

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"cozy games are fascist-coded because they don't emotionally challenge you" <- guy who thinks every videogame on Earth needs 20,000 difficulty settings so you can always play at your exact comfort level

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you disable the voices in Muchi Pork you're anti art btw

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

"are games art?" asinine question "are games treated as art culturally?" not even a little bit, not even by the vast majority of people who care about proving that games are art

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Celestio @celestiox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nothing sucks the absolute fucking life out of an arcade clear grind than the game being too fucking easy until stage 3 or 4 please god make these games better earlier for my own sanity at least

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Many such cases in my own circles as of late lol

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GuileWinQuote @guilewinquote.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To be a hardcore retro video game collector you must have a fuckton of money and also no taste in decor at all. In fact your taste begins with lightstrips and ends with a giant backlit box that says GAMECUBE on it

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Jiikae @jiikae.com · 29/09/2026

I find it funny when people talk about how games are this art form that can make you feel emotions, but then you bring up something like wanting more games to have timers & people will say its bad design "because it makes me anxious" So emotions only allowed through story, not gameplay. Got it lol.

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, I feel this as well. I'm already a game designer when I work on my own games, I don't want to be a game designer when I play someone else's game, too. And some of my favorite moments in games have involved trying to adapt to a system I didn't initially understand, so... 🤷

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Pod @poddraws.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I understand the sentiment. But I -really- appreciate as an indecisive ADHD player of games when there is only one difficulty level. What doesn't make sense to -me- is that -I- should somehow know, without even having made the game, which difficulty level would give me the best play experience.

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Twilight just straight up IS Daicon IV to me now. I can't hear it without picturing the whole thing in my head. Time is an incredible album of course, but Daicon IV is one of those few things I watch occasionally to remind myself of what hope feels like. Long live Studio Gonzo, Khara and Trigger!

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have read the full quote but the headline makes it sound like he's going "You think kids are stupid as shit? I don't even know where I /live/." And then you see the full quote and it turns out, yeah, that's basically what he's saying.

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Tolerate 80% of the work being crap for the 20% that's good" has become a disturbingly common take. If a work overwhelmingly consists of bad shit then the work is bad. The 20% isn't worth it and is never even that good - just play/watch/read something that's fully good.

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animal jayson ⭐️👁️ @animaljayson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

when your "intellectual curiosity" near-universally leads you to praising things, reassessing widely derided corpo slop as Good Actually, and immediately assuming your first, most charitable reading must be the correct one, you're not "intellectually curious." you're an unpaid marketing intern.

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animal jayson ⭐️👁️ @animaljayson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

gotten a handful of people disagreeing with me about ocarina of time now and like. it's hard to explain without just making people read a bunch of literary theory/criticism that there is no such thing as an "intellectually curious social media post about the new nintendo product." that's not real.

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Ash @fishyash.com · 21/09/2026

Genuinely, the only suggestion I've seen in recent years that I think would make an unambiguous positive impact on the fighting game scene if implemented would be this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl2d...

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RATTTZCON 2026 KEYNOTE - Improving User Engagement on Steam

YouTube video by Ratttz Nest

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your occasional reminder that a dismissive opinion of Star Fox Zero is most likely a litmus test of how little that person plays and understands railshooters. Doubly so if they ever uttered "SF64 is 10/10, Perfect game". ESPECIALLY if this statement follows pulled punches on the remake.

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't know if I'll ever find the right words to get the point across, but please visit and support your local music/art venues. There's compassion and culture all around us and when all goes to shit, that's where you'll find it. Find them, experience something real and help it find others.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Look, my intention is not to rub it in here, but I've been interested in electric cars for a very long time because I have been blessed with a memory longer than that of a goldfish. My flavor of Midwestern cheap is about stability in costs, not just what's cheap today.

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

CAVE fans are the Radiohead fans of shmups, but also if I hear you talk shit about TKOL we're gonna have a fucking problem.

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It would be so awesome if Thom Yorke stopped being a fucking moronic fence sitter now that some pretty undeniable evidence is coming out how little "both sides" there is to the genocide. Please man I fucking love In Rainbows, TKOL and The Smile, I don't wanna have to think about this shit anymore.

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Cass (makes games) @cassmakesgames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New blog post: How I Design Original Arcade-Style Games Arcade players kept telling me that Hyper Bun Buster's game mechanics felt arcade-like, despite it not playing like any existing arcade games. Here are some tips if you want to design arcade-like games too. duckberet.com/blog/how-i-d...

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How I Design Original Arcade-Style Games - DUCK_BERET

How I designed the original arcade-style game mechanics in my game Hyper Bun Buster: Rocket Hammer Action

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👻BOO'by2X4👻 @tobytwobyfour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

alot of people bemoaning the optics of this, perhaps consider that forcing republicans to defend American militarism during what is perhaps the least popular war in our history is in fact good strategy, and in fact educating the electorate that republicans are basically terrorists is good and true

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sometimes I worry about how bitter the whole "Arcade Bro" thing looks to most people and then Sepi uploads.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026

When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music

Depressed kermit the frog costume guy sitting hunched over on a park bench

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Cass (makes games) @cassmakesgames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New blog post: How to 1 Credit Clear (1CC) Arcade Games I get asked about this from time to time so I thought I'd write a post about it. There's nothing groundbreaking here, but hopefully it helps make arcade games feel a little less intimidating. They're just games! duckberet.com/blog/how-to-...

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How to 1 Credit Clear (1CC) Arcade Games - DUCK_BERET

Arcade games are fun! Here's how to learn to clear one of them without using any continues.

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Calvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am

A scene parodying the Neon Genesis Evangelion scene of Asuka and her Eva unit getting pierced by the spear of longinus. In this scene, Linguini and Remy from Pixar's Ratatouille take the place of the EVA unit and Asuka respectively. Linguinis eye is pierced by a fork version of the spear and Remy is depicted in an inset where he is grabbing his eye and screaming like the anime. There are anime subtitles at the bottom that say "AHHHHHHHHH!"

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Sonic The Wereblog @sonichedgeblog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

'HEX POP - Witchy Matching Action!' by Linatic Pop blocks, cast hexes, save the world! sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase…

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Ninja-Jordan...but Spooky @ninjaxjordan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey #gamesky and #indiesky. Did you know about Dominoid? It's legit one of the best indie falling-block puzzle games you'll play and its about to get a HUGE update including online multiplayer. Spread it as far as you can!

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DOMINOID by DingDongVG

An arcade-styled falling block puzzle game. Stack DOMINIDS, form RINGS, build COMBOS, & earn EXP to LEVEL UP!

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

most commercial art is so obviously directionless that if you can point to (possible) intent then it is seen as automatically vindicating regardless of how well that (possible) intention is realized. This vaguepost is about literally at least a hundred things.

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pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 13/09/2026

been a while since my clear so I went back and re-familiarized myself with the original puzzle bobble! it's arguably the most influential true arcade puzzler of all time (tetris and puyo were pc games!) and stunningly unique on every level. link to my review below!

It’s hard to imagine that Puzzle Bobble arose from nowhere in particular, but none of the post-Tetris random-piece puzzle games that came prior resemble it: it’s match-three, but the board is designed by-hand and drops from the ceiling, crumbling only as the player shoots bubbles into it. One might surmise that, in an alternate universe, a continuous lineage from Breakout and Arkanoid to Puzzle Bobble exists, with some intermediary game that blends the real-time paddle of the former with the match-three of the latter, yet none exists. The key genetic trait retained here are the ricochets, a dollop of the basic kinetics from the block-breakers injected into the more modern puzzle concepts. Puzzle Bobble combines this with a hexagonal grid to create craggy playfields where one can sneak bubbles into crevices.

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DingDongVG @dingdongvg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Newest Patreon post is live! SILVER and GOLD patrons can play the latest version of DOMINOID right now! Solve over 90 puzzles or make your own. The new versus mode offers the option to play against CPU opponents or to go against friends online (featuring lobbies, replay saving, and spectating).

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DOMINOID : Version 1.0.2 | WAN! WAN!

DOMINOID : Version 1.0.2 by WAN! WAN! on Patreon. Join WAN! WAN!'s community for exclusive content and updates.

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

People who talk about games need to hop onto the concept of scenes and start thinking of games through that lense instead of communities, fandoms, genres or individuals...or worst of all companies and IPs

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low res rodent @ratttz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm very pleased to announce that Intergalactic Puzzle Touchdown will be launching on Steam soon, on October 28th! It's a match 3 PVP puzzler, where swaps represents one of your four downs, trying to score enough to get first down while your opponent blocks! store.steampowered.com/app/4648890/...

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animal jayson ⭐️👁️ @animaljayson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

if you want to believe hard enough, you can convince yourself the thing you and everyone else saw, right in front of you, with your eyes, was actually something else.

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animal jayson ⭐️👁️ @animaljayson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

take notice of how quickly people jumped onto various cope explanations for why the new zelda looks like that, meant to intellectualize it by tying it to theater or some historical art movement because they want to buy it. they always wanted to buy it. they just want to not feel stupid about it.

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There was a bsky post saying "we must wage a war on balance in singleplayer games" that's been living in my head rent free because it's the perfect encapsulation of this mentality. You definitively won, and you're still not happy because ur subjected to contrary opinions

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Saw someone publicly admit that they haevn't tried the Hyper Bun Buster demo & haven't wishlisted it yet and was frankly shocked & disgusted that such fucking....people still exist and walk among us

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ColonelPanic @colonelpanic00.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

FIREWALL — a Yoshi's Cookie-style puzzler where you clear viruses off a network. New homebrew for the Super Nintendo. Originally a high school Unity project. colpanic.itch.io/firewall-snes #SNES #homebrew #gamedev #retrogaming #SNESdev

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