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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have a newish publication at @analoggamestudies.bsky.social ! I co-wrote a piece on what "gameplay" is in TCGs and whether or not deckbuilding is gameplay (I think so! Most people do! But the scholarship and a lot of general writing splits it off!) escholarship.org/uc/item/2gt8...

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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 29/09/2026

#Thread 🧵: Now that there's no more risk of it causing any harm to PAC and WWE is trying to exploit his death solely for the purposes of wrestling war bullshit, everyone needs to know the extent to which WWE ratfucked PAC in 2018-2019 to try to destroy his livelihood by fucking with his work visa.

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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We used to have movies with Michael Nyman scores

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scrubjay is still early, messy in some places (and not chasing seamless UI regardless) but I hope you'll enjoy playing with this very personal web gathering tool. everestpipkin.itch.io/scrubjay

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Scrubjay by Everest Pipkin

A drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Handcoded in HTML, CSS and Javascript and running locally, Scrubjay is usable for research, collection, game-building, website construction or simply to hold little fragments of digital things, in the same way that you hold a pebble in your palm on a walk.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a universal feature of the game designer working on a long project is that their next game wells up inside of them until it is physically painful

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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 28/09/2026

Getting to announce my good friend @superdillin.bsky.social as winning the William Dufris award for the tireless work he does championing Actual Play, and TTRPGs, and giving creators across the world a platform and a voice and a spotlight, was a distinct honor and a highlight of New Jersey Web Fest.

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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For obvious reasons, I haven't talked much about it on here, but my father died suddenly while cycling. Grateful to @sltrib.com for letting me eulogize him and write about the absolute moral necessity of making roads safer for pedestrians and bikers.

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Voices: Deaths like my father’s are not anomalies. They are the bloody cost of our car-obsessed world.

“We can, we must, take action now, before some new senseless death proves the need for change all over again,” Grace Benfell writes in an op-ed.

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lamps! Trees! Spiders! In the new SHELVED BY GENRE we continue to read THE SILMARILLION, learning so so so so so much about Elves while still engaging in our patented style of lighthearted but thoughtful engagement with the fundamental questions of a text. rangedtouch.com/2026/09/25/t...

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today is the one-year anniversary of the release of Unfair Flips!!! The game is not on sale today because I forgot. But also it's $1.99 anyways so a sale is mostly in the mind store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...

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Unfair Flips on Steam

A non-idle clicker game about flipping a coin that hates you. Starting with just a 20% chance of getting heads, can you get ten heads in a row?

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Rowan Mysel Zeoli @rowanzeoli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love to see more critical writing (and print media!!) in the TTRPG space, definitely support them if you have the means

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026

you're being sold the most stupid attempt to evade corporate responsibility we have ever seen

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026

the reporting on this stuff is a form of pareidolia. all this is explicable by a set of automatons stochastically exploring a state space and host environment with whatever predictive capacity an LLM affords them. absolutely no intent is required, they do not "know" what they are doing

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Tom the Anime Sicko 🔜 Hell @tomharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what I mean about how we have to become snobs. When a bitch says shit like this to you, the move is to immediately become very mean, and laugh at them, and say out loud that you don’t respect them, things of that nature, things Ezra Klein would never do

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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 23/09/2026

Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams says he has no need for GenAI, because his artists are bursting with cool, weird ideas like meat biomes and sphincter doors. "[Tolkien] didn’t have a sphincter door. I mean, I don’t think he did… Who knows what’s going on in, like, Minas Morgul though."

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27 Chaotic Minutes with Dwarf Fortress Creator Tarn Adams

Tarn Adams talks about Dwarf Fortress, his favourite bugs of the last 20 years, and why it's incredibly important to have a "meat biome"

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If Train Dreams ended in 2026 instead of 1968, it would close on a scene of Robert asking a custom AI agent for a multi-pillar structured analysis so he'd know which badass 3-leg Kalshi Combo parlay to bet on instead of all of that beautiful "connected to all of the world at once" airplane bullshit.

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Haunted Table @hauntedtable.games · 22/09/2026

THE HOUSE EDGE is coming to Kickstarter on October 20th. Beat the odds and break containment in this endless dungeon crawl through a paranormal vault hidden beneath an '80s casino! FIST ruleset with a Triangle Agency story, made by the creators of both games. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hau...

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ICYMI we played the *excellent* Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists last week. We attempted to rob a bank that was buried deep in the realm of nightmares AND we did a bunch of silly voices while doing it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIzx...

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It Has To Be Banzibar | Thousand Hells | Streamed 09/15/26

YouTube video by Friends at the Table

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Friends at the Table @friends-table.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Side Story will be out later tonight, but for now, here’s the archive of our Thousand Hells stream. Join Austin, Dre, Jack, Sylvi, Banzibar, Chaska, Elkan, and Shazi as they delve into a Boschian hell filled with demonic doors, monstrous auriforms, & a very, very evil bank youtu.be/VIzxWjpBrEs?...

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It Has To Be Banzibar | Thousand Hells | Streamed 09/15/26

YouTube video by Friends at the Table

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There's a section in our latest Outward episode where Jack and I just start talking about the new DD2 patch and the upcoming DLC, so I chopped in a bunch of post-patch footage I'd taken, including this incredible, perfect self-own.

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Creative Wronging @creativewronging.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Preview of my upcoming FREE/PWYW #Realis Faction zine, I present to you; The Board 🎲 Hoping to publish sometime this week! 🤞 #TTRPG 🎨: courtesy of the Kattapulka Patreon @pbbeta.bsky.social & @garin.bsky.social

Preview image of my upcoming PWYW Realis Faction zine. There is art by Kattapulka of a wealthy science-fantast figure wearing a cloak with fur shoulders, wide-brim hat decorated with triangles, holding a cane. Text reads:

"The Board

Corporatists, criminals, two sides of the same coin.

All takeovers are, by definition, hostile. Those who cannot be bought or bribed can be bullied, and those who cannot be bullied can be broken. The game is played one move at a time, and its best players are in a class all their own.

The Market is a predator, and all other social interactions its prey. It assumes, consumes, & subsumes until all that is left are an invisible hand, and the pocket it picks."

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning! Over at Vulture I wrote about the ending of Resident Evil, which is pretty divisive but I think it holds up to scrutiny www.vulture.com/article/resi...

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Resident Evil’s Ending Is the Right Kind of Cruel

In his first franchise outing, writer-director Zach Cregger eschews obvious sequel hooks for something more devious.

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

new spheres content. picking up where I left off some 8 months ago; storyline narrated by & centred on a lil lemur man (female) navigating human society

title page for 'a garden of spheres' ch 07.01. a blue-skinned elf girl holding a skull, the skull has an orchid on it.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Devonta Smith’ body control there….

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

that's my mother fucking quarterback

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

on some level, you have to accept that yes, people are reacting emotionally without doing detailed research but really you can’t blame them or stop them. this was some bullshit not a single one of us had to think about three years ago and now it’s making shit worse in like most daily interactions

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

is it possible to bait the "user was blocked for this post" account into posting whatever i want?

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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026

It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This whole thread makes me feel like my scalp is on fire. I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

YOUR FRIEND WHO LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK: Yeah I just saw Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever in 70mm,

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willow @fireatwillow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i cannot emphasize enough how bad you gotta play thousand hells. you gotta go to buy thousand hells and install it right now and then play it right now

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wrote it in here, but lol, here's the neon sign: I'm OPEN TO WORK. Anything involving writing or editing words, editing video, teaching (I've been teaching college since 2009), and hey, I'm an EMT and got my phlebotomy cert a couple years back. I'm versatile!

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Have some BIG NEWS, and it really is wild that today is also the anniversary of the Fanbyte Apocalypse. But my time at Game Developer is done, and hence, my time as a full-time game journalist has come to an end. 20 years in a career sure is something. www.tumblr.com/danielling/8...