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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 10h

Polygamy isn't legal because otherwise all the poly people would form gangs, and even if you caught one of them, you couldn't compell em to testify against each other because they'd all be married

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NGL between the election cycle, the global economy hurtling toward disaster, and the burning garbage heap that is the games industry, lately coming online can feel a bit like "let's see what's going on at the bad news factory. Ah,

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Starling Ronan @starling-ronan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the metric of what a “dark souls” type game is shouldn’t be having a dodge roll or whatever else, it should just be if the door opens from this side

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of my favorite things about having friends in the service industry is that every once and a while, I hear stories about a celebrity visiting their bar, and I learn how well they tip.

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Poly 💞 Armory 🔫 @polyarmorygame.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Generative AI is a tool of the cloud people used to dull your brain and make you want to marry mindless, uncreative robots. That's why we at Scope Creeps are proudly Anti-Generative AI and pro-gun smoochin' in the safety of your bunker.

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"I don't happen to have a flat surface nearby, so I'm gonna make the integrated AI bot do the work for me while I play beatsaber" Chat what are we doing

A man wearing a vr headset/glasses hybrid on stage for a live demo, sitting less than a foot away from a perfectly flat table

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

would be weird to be macklemore and see everyone be like "Fuck yeah dude, finally, man of the people. Real dog shit artist tho. A living icon, a hero of our age. Truly awful body of work"

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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You know, I can think of one idea that might make things 30% better for indies, in case you want suggestions

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 23/09/2026

if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient.

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Starling Ronan @starling-ronan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

different take on the archetypes but we literally made this game

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I tell you we are COOKING over there 👀

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Interestingly, Bulkhead's Glassdoor reviews paint a VERY CLEAR picture of what their crunch, overtime, and '4 day workweek' actually looked like in practice. How has this *repeated pattern* of abuse in reviews spanning years not made it into ANY of the news articles so far?

Screenshot of a Glassdoor review

Cons

- Intimidation and fear culture. I don't think I've ever quite seen such a toxic environment run on fear, people being made to push to get everything done or fear losing their jobs, or get pressured into agreeing with certain ideas because challenging the decisions of people above you puts you at risk of judgement, it's ridiculous.
-The 4 day work week is a tremendous lie. every now and again the whole company would be working 5 days to meet 'milestone goals' and even when it wasn't that occasion you often times just had to compensate because tasks were often overscoped thanks to extremely poor management, resulting in doing so much unpaid overtime I'd often be going home at 7PM and continuing to work from home till midnight.
- Blatant nepotism. If you're in a junior position, your opinion is irrelevant. What actually matters is how much the higher-ups and CEO Joe personally like you, not whether what you're saying is actually good.
- Low pay. I was barely earning enough to get by, I genuinely think working in retail for the same hours will net me more earnings, especially cause they have the decency to pay you for overtime there at the very least
- The lad culture is cringe and childish

Advice to Management

Start treating your staff like human beings and stop planning around the prospect of mandatory overtime.

Screenshot of a glassdoor review:

- Clear signs of nepotism and favouritism within management.

- The four-day work week isn't great, with some staff putting in far more hours than they would on a regular five-day working week, and other disciplines not pulling their weight - not every employee was entitled to this benefit.

- Socials are filled with extremely unprofessional "lad-like" activities and humiliation.

- Bonuses and pay rises are very rare, with some staff earning well below industry standards.

- There’s a lot of talk about “responsibility” and “ownership”, but this is often just a way for management to shift the blame for their own poor decisions and lack of useful feedback onto the developers.

- A lot of senior level staff do not have the experience for the role - made clear by my last point where middle management do not own decisions out of fear from upper management.

- Poor amount of holidays - absolute minimum given, with the company requiring you to use almost a quarter of this on Christmas shutdown.

Advice to Management

- Stop telling whole teams that they are expendable, and they can just be replaced with outsource. Not great on staff morale...

- Start to respect your staff and other studios, stop fostering toxic attitudes towards the rest of our industry.

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Stupendium Softworks @stupendiumsoftwork.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All our eyes are upon you...

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great news! It turns out you actually *can* have more hours in the day if you wake up a few hours before you were supposed to. Unfortunately, this also means you don't get as much sleep, which I'm told cuts down on your lifespan. So perhaps theres just a finite amount of 'awake' someone can have.

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Resident Evil FUCKS. Zach Cregger is three for three now, he's got the sauce.

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Beat Saber seems singularly brilliant because very, very few VR experiences actually make proper use of the hardware. 'Lets try and simulate real life as much as possible' and 'lets try to bring X genre/game into VR' are two VR design approaches that did a lot of harm to the overall perception.

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If someone is trying to convince you not to vote, that's a psyop. Folks keep falling for the same op that resurfaces every couple of years - politician doesnt pass the purity test, therefore they 'don't get my vote'. You're being tricked into disenfranchising yourself. Vote, then complain. Loudly.

static.klipy.com

Wake up, another psyop

ALT: Wake up, another psyop

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Weirdly enough, making a game free is a great way to get most folks to completely ignore it - since they assume there's weird microtransactions or its a bitcoin miner or something.

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It must be a horrible time to be someone named Carol that also has schizophrenia

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I feel like I need to be watching more prepper YouTube videos

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My favorite mug just broke 😭 Please respect my privacy during this difficult time

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Rolled credits on Zero Company. The only major complaint I have: I wish there was more. Beyond frustrated that so many from the team are gone now, not working on DLC for this fantastic game. 💔

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Really enjoy how deep GN is going in on how fucked up the Quest is for privacy. I’ve been really disappointed that a lot of places don’t interrogate this stuff more. youtu.be/vcerOYY_K1g

youtu.be

Valve Steam Frame VR Review vs. Meta Quest 3 | Privacy, Latency, & Benchmarks

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Don't use the phrase "muggles" mate

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Jason @envinyon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally, a game for centrists

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Harris Foster @harris.zone · 08/09/2026

Those “never connect your tv to the internet” psychos don’t sound so crazy now huh

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I Me Mine-lo @hawgle.bird.gay · 08/09/2026

idk why people are ripping on the new style i think it looks great

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Saw Coyote vs Acme today- it was as good as yall have been saying. I have more thoughts but don't want to spoil it until it's out of theaters. Go see it, it's worth it!

static.klipy.com

Acme Vs Coyote Acme Sucks

Alt: Acme Vs Coyote scene, Coyote holds up a sign saying 'Acme Sucks' while in the courtroom. His lawyer sees it and smacks the sign trying to take it down.

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Penny Parker @snapcube.gay · 04/09/2026

one sentence horror: there are still games being released in 2026 that save graphics settings to the steam cloud save

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There's nothing quite like getting a positive review on your game, and noticing it's the first review they ever left on Steam

static.klipy.com

Baby Deku Appreciates You This Much!

ALT: Baby Deku Appreciates You This Much!

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Calculated review count of thirty thousand, six hundred and four point two six four... repeating, of course.

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The early bird gets the worm, but the later bird can eat the seeds or fruit and isn't stuck eating a worm, which is preferable to some.

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Starling Ronan @starling-ronan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

new crop of anti-ai slop stickers ✨💅🏼

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Me, running into someone that knew me back when I was heavily masking

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Starling Ronan @starling-ronan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

okay so you’re telling me that the extremely culturally pervasive myth that celery has “negative calories” originates from fucking FABLE????? 🫪 thats absolutely batshit and somehow also makes complete sense with where we’re at

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Me: I wish my friends would try the game I made. The middle finger on the monkey's paw curls slowly downward with incredible effort, then pops back up, flipping me off

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm glad Zero Company is spicing up the Star Wars universe, but man, these are some Glup-Shitto-ass names.

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I absolutely love Blender, but I swear, 3d folks seem allergic to it. In my entire life and 15+ years in gamedev, I have literally only met two skilled professionals that used Blender. Everyone else is, apparently, paying adobe tons of money for the privilege to not use it. So weird.

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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"game devs are way too inspired by other games these days" No, this isn't actually the problem. The issue is that (some) game devs either don't know how to improve on what has come before or don't want to. Many developers don't actually know what "good" is & we see it everyday on Reddit/YouTube

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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you ever feel bad about botching your indie game release, remember that you'll never be as bad as Ubisoft. They literally forgot to upload the actual game.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

not to be rude but this is the stupidest thing i've ever read in my life. Roko's Bureaucracy

hailey @hailey.at
Joined Aug '23
bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:
future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result
3:14 PM • Aug 25, 2026
O Everybody can reply

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's a minor complaint, but it kind of bugs me when games have gigantic monstrous humanoids that speak and sound exactly like humans. Slap a filter on the voice, make it really reverberate through that four foot tall neck.

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A twitch streamer saying The fit is... there. Yes. Yeah. It's there. about one of my character designs is the compliment I needed today

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm pretty sure the whole 'gold card' thing was caused by Trump thinking immigrants were given a government funded credit card upon entering the country. Because they were granted a visa.

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Artemis ✨️🔧 @artemisronan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Man... Fuck Reggie Watts. This is horrifying, and deserves a full read through, if you can stomach it. Burn your idols. cw: suicide, drug abuse, SA www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

rollingstone.com

Reggie Watts Is a Prominent Ketamine Advocate. Was It His Ex's 'Undoing'?

Comedian and musican Reggie Watts is a prominent ketamine advocate. Was it his ex-girlfriend's "undoing"?

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