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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 11/09/2026

The number of game studios I interviewed at in the last 24 months that have had major layoffs or closed down since is astounding. It feels like dodging bullets like Neo in the Matrix, only to look down and see 3 shots to the gut from the places I did find work.

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 17/09/2026

Personal recession indicator: fantasizing about winning a lottery I never play so that I can hire a trainer to help teach my lab not to pee on my wife’s piano.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 17/09/2026

If you become a Ravenous paid subscriber today, you’ll get a chance to have a single-figure illustration (i.e. an avatar, portrait or similar) drawn by cartoonist, illustrator, and Friend of Ravenous @mattielubchansky.com. We’ll be selecting three subscribers to win. Here’s how to enter:

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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator

Sticker on a cooler at a convenience store advertising Arizona iced tea cans at $1.50 each.

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 16/09/2026

my kid does this exact thing to me and I never understood why til today

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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OPPORTUNITY Madhead, Senior Narrative Designer Not affiliated. Shares welcome careers.madheadgames.com/jobs/senior-...

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Senior Narrative Designer - Mad Head Games

Senior Narrative Designer at Mad Head Games

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Katie Schenkel, Person @katieschenkel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is why getting back into applying for jobs feels so GRIM

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 09/09/2026

So you are telling me that the amazing AI result was actually a regurgitation of stolen human creativity? I'm shocked.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026

After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...

the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california

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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our sweet Buster hopes you are having a wonderful day ☺️

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 07/09/2026

Organize your workplace. Happy Labor Day.

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lasha3D @lasha3d.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

commissions open, open for job.. RT if you can 🙏🙏🙏

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 04/09/2026

@hellojed.bsky.social they wouldn’t have canceled Project T if this was the truck..

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 03/09/2026

This was literally the first that this trailer has surfaced to my attention, proof again that my follows are pruned with the perfection of a bonsai.

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 28/08/2026

The hyperlink is malformed.

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 25/08/2026

All these food recalls remind me of a revelatory post from twitter in the "good ol' days." It was in a conversation around prepper culture and the male fantasy of stockpiling guns to protect their families. To paraphrase: If guys really want to keep their kids safe, they'd learn to wash the dishes.

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 24/08/2026

Depends on how long you will be there. State Fair starts August 27, is arguably the best in the country. Science Museum might be a little old for yours, but there is a lot of good tactical play there, really cool interactive exhibits. Plenty of decent parks, Como Park Zoo is cool, if aging.

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 21/08/2026

We’re running some load test alphas for DCKO (“Server Slam”) and as the social systems designer, I feel like this is probably the nicest result I could hope to see from a PvP playtest.

A screenshot of a leaderboard from DCKO. On the right is a ranked list of player names and scores. Rank 69 is highlighted; that’s me. On the left are portraits of DC super heroes Starfire and Constantine. The event ends in 1
minute, and that was my final rank. Nice.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 20/08/2026

Dan Hon had a good bit on this: bsky.app/profile/danh...

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 20/08/2026

Palmer Luckey called me names on facebook because I pointed out you could easily cost a political campaign more by hate clicking their social media ads then you are allowed to individually donate to a politician of your choice.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…

MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 18/08/2026

I keep hearing green day in the grocery stores. Is it targeting a particular generation, or are there just enough of my generation in upper management for these places and setting the playlists?

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 18/08/2026

I’m not sure the question, but in this year’s GDC survey I definitely wrote “I am afraid I will die from stress related complications before I can retire.”

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 14/08/2026

I watched it muted, there are lyrics?!??

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 14/08/2026

Remember to keep change in the house, once a $20 goes under that pillow there is no turning back (especially if siblings).

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 10/08/2026

got a few of those for my kids to take to camp this summer. perfect tech: 3 buttons, no networking.

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Today is August 7, which is my birthday. Please observe the feast by mindfully completing no fewer than one of the following rituals: • sleep in/take a nap • eat something delicious • draw something for fun • wear something that makes you feel beautiful

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I got to draw icons Emma Frost and Miss Piggy for this variant celebrating The Muppet Show's 50th anniversary! X-MEN UNITED #7, out September 30!

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 06/08/2026

We recognize this model is built on unceded data…

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 03/08/2026

Love to wake up a 5 am from the dream about a last minute all hands meeting getting added to my calendar!

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 31/07/2026

The food truck down the street is vibrating in sympathy.

A promotional image for a Curry Poutine offered by okamoto kitchen. A person wearing a food truck branded black tshirt is holding a basket of poutine made with Japanese curry.

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Bre Melvin (Animator Looking for Work) @89ravenwolf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Playing around with dragon rigs (ps I'm still looking for work)

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sooo...who around here does cartoon/hand-drawn character art for video games?

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 21/07/2026

The DCKO reactions have already moved this into second place for 'Game I've worked on that people make penis jokes about' within 24 hours of launch. Gonna be hard to top Second Life though.

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vijay @vijay.io · 21/07/2026

introducing rondocode.com, a live music coding platform. it's heavily inspired by strudel but has a lot more functionality around authoring the actual synth dsp graphs

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Harris Foster @harris.zone · 20/07/2026

Every negative response to this game’s title reveals just how little you people know about comics. DCKO is obviously named after famed comic artist Steve Dcko, inventor of Spider-Man (whose reveal I’m sure they’re saving for after Avengers Doomsday)

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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 17/07/2026

Are we sure this isn’t just “old people still have sex?”

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