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Bentok @bencope.land · 14/09/2026

@finjico.bsky.social My daughter (12yo) (I introduced her to finji early) discovered that one of her favorite games, Overland, doesn't seem to be on the Apple App Store any longer. Is this an intentional scenario?

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Bentok @bencope.land · 17/08/2026

Here’s a a post I did relating to #fsharp, arguing that languages with algebraic type systems capable of rich domain modeling can guard business rules in code generation with compiler enforcement in a way that also reads like natural language. blog.bencope.land/where-the-co...

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Bentok @bencope.land · 10/08/2026

Last night I made a chicken katsu set meal

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Bentok @bencope.land · 22/07/2026

bonsai tray fills on a humid summer eve - a wasp comes for a drink #haiku

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shmuplations.com @shmuplations.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today we have something special: a newly translated interview from July 1996 between Shigeru Miyamoto and Kenji Eno! Conducted just weeks after the launch of Mario 64, Eno takes Miyamoto to task (in a friendly way) with several fascinating critiques of its design. shmuplations.com/miyamotoxeno/

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Shigeru Miyamoto x Kenji Eno (1996) - shmuplations.com

In July 1996, Kenji Eno visited Nintendo HQ to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto as the first of his "cross-talk" series.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 04/07/2026

Happy 250th anniversary of no kings.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 10/06/2026

I was just explaining to my daughter how when I was in 7th grade, my pre-ordered gold cartridge Ocarina of Time was such a magical experience I spent all day at school thinking about it every day. Then I realized, she will be in 7th grade when the remake comes out. 🥹

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Bentok @bencope.land · 29/05/2026

The Resident Evil remakes are amazing, top-tier modern games, but the original Resident Evil 2 is a survival horror masterpiece that no remake can ever reproduce. I’m amazed at what they accomplished with the technology. It feels like they achieved more than many modern games do today.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Mandalorian and Grogu is what I want from Star Wars movies outside the main series. “Hey, wanna pay ¥2,000 to spend a few hours watching some Star Wars characters do some Star Wars character shit that doesn’t have major implications for the overarching franchise?” Me:

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Dale Doback Says Yup! (Step Brothers)

ALT: Dale Doback Says Yup! (Step Brothers)

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Bentok @bencope.land · 21/05/2026

Kudos to Dave Filoni and whoever else at Disney who needs credit for putting Steve Blum in an AAA film. Typically even a fully established animated character with a legendary voice actor would get recast with a Chris Pratt type Hollywood actor to do the voice.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 07/05/2026

I couldn’t be more happy with this piece! Thanks @necosuke.bsky.social, you are legendary.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 04/05/2026

Summer 2026 was just rewritten. Yesterday I bought Vampire Crawlers, and today I discovered that Hades II was released on PS5. After getting platinum in RE9, I was planning on circling back to finish the plat on RE4 and RE8. They will have to wait, as well as cracking open Ghost of Yotei.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 21/04/2026

Super amazing value edition

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eStarland @estarland.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

All the Special N64 Cartridge Colors! 🎨

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Bentok @bencope.land · 14/04/2026

I think if you go back and play MGS, it’s all there. DS2, in a lot of ways, is a consummation of threads he’s been pulling for a few decades. I’m definitely not into Kojima worship, as if he has no flaws. I have real indignation toward his treatment of voice actors. Still, he’s an auteur.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 14/04/2026

Trump posts image of him as Jesus. Evangelicals suddenly think he’s crossed a line. Trump says he thought it was him as a Red Cross worker. Evangelicals are satisfied, going back to thinking the guy whose excuse also reveals a complete ignorance if Christian imagery is “a good Christian guy.”

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mcc @dryad.technology · 08/04/2026

*rubbing eyes* This thread is my best effort to put solid cites on the contents of the Iranian "10 point proposal", which various news articles over the last couple days have referenced, and which versions of are currently floating around Bluesky. (This is attempt 2, for me. I deleted attempt 1.)

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Bentok @bencope.land · 01/04/2026

Sonic still holds the trophy for the best video game movie series for me. By a long shot.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 01/04/2026

The first Mario movie was such a disappointment that I think I went into this one with low enough expectations to kind of enjoy it. But every time I hear Mario talk (thankfully less in this movie), my disgust for the casting is renewed.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 18/03/2026

Doing bonsai is making me think about establishing a leader shoot in the split ends in my beard.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 18/03/2026

When shit gets so crazy that, because they briefly exhibit a tiny bit of ethical separation from the fascist, populist rightwing and you are like, ok maybe Rand Paul and Thomas Massey are actually free moral agents.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 15/03/2026

Marathon is the first shooter in a long time that’s really drawn me in. I’m really digging it. Feels like classic Bungie to me.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Episode-style presentation and full voice acting from the cast? DOS PC-playing TNG fans ate well in '95. 📺: Star Trek: A Final Unity, Spectrum Holobyte, 1995.

A gameplay snap showing the SVGA rendition of the Enterprise D's bridge and command crew with a captain's log being spoken and spelled out in text below. An episode title card is authentically show. "A Final Unity."

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Bentok @bencope.land · 12/03/2026

Yesterday I went down a rabbit hole of personal reflection (no pun intended) of meta programming and how the approach to an agentic system I took with MOTHER, written in #fsharp, actually aligns nicely with F#’s lineage in the programming language world. blog.bencope.land/mother-metap...

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MOTHER, Metaprogramming, and the Meta Language

I've written about MOTHER's philosophy and its mechanics. This post is about what I realized after I had some time to step back and reflect on the system once it was in place. MOTHER is a metaprogram...

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 04/11/2024

this cures what ails me every time

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

RIP Hideki Sato. Former Sega President (2001-2003) and father of Sega's consoles, including my favourite one, the Mega Drive, has passed at the age of 75. The legacy he leaves behind is immense and cherished. 💜

A photo of our Mega Drive Mk I witj a pair of headphones connected to the headphone port plugged in, and a three button pad.

A vntage photograph of Hediki at a desk with a Japanese mega drive, pads, disk drive, and a CRT TV partly in shot. He's smiling as he looks at the sleek black wonder.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 10/02/2026

Massie and Khanna are a picture of how very opposing politics can at least respectfully converge on basic issues.

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Chris Remo @chrisremo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Today is the tenth anniversary of Firewatch's release. It remains the thing I'm most proud to have worked on. There's more of me inside of Firewatch than in any other game—and I have no doubt there are others on the team who would say the same about themselves. Thanks to everyone who ever played it.

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Bachelor Soft @bachelorsoft.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I did get forced out of my home. I currently have shelter but it ain’t gonna last forever. Have received a lotta help but lemme tell ya I could always use more. So just bumping this, thanks.

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Austin Lee Matthews 🐭 @amtrax.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Maybe don’t attack peoples’ appearance, even if the person is morally and ethically bankrupt. You can call a Nazi a Nazi without resorting to ableism. Making fun of horrible people for being fat or having some physical deformity just affirms that you see all your fat/disabled friends as ugly.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 30/01/2026

I don’t think society realizes how this is just the tip of the iceberg of a long, bad era. No society on earth is ready for this level of misinformation. The people using AI do not even realize that it’s misinformation.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 28/01/2026

It is depressing to think that Obama really did start all of this, & that Trump’s admin will probably not even hit the numbers that Obama’s did. Much of what we have right now has been worked towards by both left and right.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 28/01/2026

Alright @idolismj.yase.world, I've been seen all of these awesome baby YouTube thumbnails you're reposting and it finally broke me (as much as I suck at image manipulation software).

A sensational YouTube clickbait thumbnail of a baby. "Are cloth diapers really environmentally friendly? The truth will shock you."

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 26/01/2026

✨ WEBSITE UPDATED!! ✨ i finally updated my website for the first time in 7 months; this is an archive of ALL my comics!! latest additions: • MGS3 +7 • MGS4 +1 • RE9 +6 • Silent Hill f +6 • Death Stranding 2 +11 • FF7 +8 • ETC (Remedy, Hades) +9 • official work +1 www.othatsraspberry.com

screenshot of the final fantasy vii page of my website, displaying many silly comics

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Bentok @bencope.land · 19/01/2026

Parents who spank should be open to receive a physical blow from another adult during a disagreement with no retaliation. It should be on their drivers license so that they lose the right to self-defense in a single-slap/punch disagreement, and so that you can verify before swinging.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 14/01/2026

post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

A video game screens of a dog standing on grass

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Bentok @bencope.land · 13/01/2026

This was one of the few of these things that I carried all the way to the end. Here’s my 30 days of video games.

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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I think we need to evolve an etiquette around LLM-generated fixes. Kind of like ”don’t fart at the table”. I don’t mind merging PRs where a human has done the due diligence to review the patch. But it bothers me when I get blind fixes that are clearly wrong.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The Sega-Sony partnership and joint console that might have been. Sega, honest to a fault during their negotiations, showed Sony the complete technical specs of the Saturn while both it and the PlayStation were in development. From a translated interview with Hideki Sato in Beep21.

Sato: Isao Okawa, the chairman of Sega’s parent company CSK, knew Sony’s chairman Norio Ogha very well, and through that there were various exchanges between engineers at Sega and Sony. The companies were physically near each other in Tokyo, with Sega in Otori and Sony in Shinagawa. Each company’s target was Nintendo, so our goals lined up, and there was talk along the lines of, “Why don’t we try to do something together?” With each company’s chairman being top class, negotiations were started with the intention of trying to find some way to work together. From Sega’s perspective, we were trying to figure out what would happen if we teamed up with Sony. Each company had its own philosophy, and we were trying to see if we could come to some agreement. And, honest to a fault, we ended up showing our complete technical specs to Sony.

-The specs for the in-development Saturn?

Sato: Right, the Saturn specs. However, in the end, we couldn’t reach an agreement.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 30/12/2025

Tonight my (geeky) family of 4 was out at a restaurant, and as we were talking a kid’s drawing fell off of a nearby table and onto the floor next to us. Wife: Neither one of our kids would ever draw that. Me: [looking at it] A Pokémon gym? Wife: …a basketball court.

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Bentok @bencope.land · 27/12/2025

There’s a lot of Metroid Prime 4 hate right now, but the only thing I hate about it is you can’t invert Y on the stupid slow motion shot. Why the hell does it ignore your Y axis settings?

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