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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also the checkpoints are ridiculous

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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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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love so much about Marble it Up, extremely high quality vibe game for me and I enjoy chipping away at the medals n shit... ... I fucking wish they made Gold time a survival timer instead; went for MB's structure overall. In general I'm starting to get radicalized against stage select style games.

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My guy, I also grew up in europe and it's a bit asinine to compare america to a place in the world that started outlawing the mere concept of arcades. It's a lot easier to make these things work when liberalism doesn't rear its ugly head first.

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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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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fellas, it's a Recomp. Not a Decomp.

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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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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can fellate something with words for days, if none of it is represented in the language that actually matters (design), then it might as well not be seen as "in the text".

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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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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you said this to the people who made that game, do you somehow expect them not to go "The thing I put in the game had the intended effect? Thanks!" ?

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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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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wanna tell this person that they're both completely right and I empathize with them in tons of ways, but we need to take this frustration and use it as a driving force to find ways in which we can help NeuroDivs avoid barriers, instead of expecting them to walk through em as if they aren't there.

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If it helps, you'll probably run through it with a clear a lot quicker than most of them. Seems like a decent "vacation" STG to cool off from heavy 1cc practice lol

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're all just so blinded by quality, we don't know what bad games are anymore and if we JUST played way more mediocre to dogshit games, we'd be more qualified to bitch about Videogames.

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My favorite is when I see this pseudo-intellectualism, how consuming tons of 6/10 games is a symbol of being more cultured. Apparently that's the primary reason why gamers suck and the industry is getting worse. Were all apparently getting worse tastes because we play too many good games.

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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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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I remember when people heard Rare's own staff mention they're not interested in making games for their old IP's, followed by aggressive begging for corpos to take those IP's from them. "They can't be trusted" Games aren't seen as art and Scrimblo Nostalgia consumer cattle are complicit in it. Yuck.

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apple @applegreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I grew up in germany. I didn't have arcade games, they're most of the games I playnow. My nostalgia isn't represented in my tastes. I play mostly old things these past few years. Things were better back then. I mostly support itch gamedevs. I will continue saying "modernized" game design is trash.

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

The signal to noise ratio HEAVILY leans towards the former, especially if you remove vapid "speedrunner" mechanics (no dynamics, "Player Expression", "Make your own fun") driven nonsense. And even there it's clearly leaning into 64's toy appeal, over dynamics.

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

90% of them are basically Mario 64 style, leaning more into euro platformer (collectathon) design. How many games have come out that specifically ape Crash 1, Sonic Adventure 2 or Maximo?

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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

A century of shortcut solutions have caused long term damage, only undone by something as simple as visiting your local library every week. Take that energy and multiply it across things you have AGENCY over NOW. It will take an agonizing amount of time, but art can and will change the world.

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

It's more important than ever to remember how many people around us share our frustrations and desires to make things better. Art is a human superpower that manages to defy language barrier and conveys things words can't describe. You don't have to make it to continue the conversation.

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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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