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I just defeated the factory Resonant in Control 2 and man that was really sad. Some of the side stories in this game are really messed up.

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Biddy Blas @biddyblas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Eat my dust, loser! I'm Biddy Blas!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Star Wars Galactic Racer combines my two favourite elements of racing games: crashing into things and losing

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m glad time has vindicated Sebulba. Everyone was so cruel to him because he “tried to kill a child” during the Boonta Eve Classic even though he was literally Darth Vader

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

US labor laws are decades out of date. Really eye-opening about how difficult it is to even create a union in a game studio under these conditions.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Really fascinating stuff. I didn't know US labor laws were so antiquated that it makes Unionizing in a place like Doublefine that much harder. Really nuanced discussion.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This show will be interesting seeing a peaceful fire nation and air nomads still around. First time seeing all 4 nations in their prime.

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Chris Remo @chrisremo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was enormously fun to serve as lead writer on Star Wars: Galactic Racer alongside Duncan. It’s a very ambitious project and Fuse did an amazing job! (Fortunately, Sebulba returned and we got to help put him in a video game)

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

Piranesi says the world and the epistemic bubbles we actually live in are prisons and but also liberation, that the terrible limits on cognition imposed by [religion, science, devastating illness] are also protective freedoms, that amnesia is salvific but makes us brutally vulnerable to abuse.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh dang! Patti Harrison!

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

does anyone want to actually Do Anything anymore

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Conor @tiduslaughing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We told our American college flatmate that no electricity is used on St Brigid's Day and flipped the trip switch for added effect. When he noticed that other flats nearby seemed to have lights on, we said they must be Protestant.

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gears of War: E-Day is the latest game to become an unwilling participant in a culture war keeping people distracted and putting revenue in the pockets of rage baiters! The voluntary insomnia that these rage beaters display is one of the main ways this war persists.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also Astro Bot did wonders reintroducing it to modern players.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Interesting if true. I'll take a new Ape Escape any way I can get it.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Control Resonant has big Prototype/Infamous energy and I'm all for it.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the one I have and it works great

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Poets of the Fall (or Old Gods of Asgard as they're known in Remedy games) are fantastic even outside the Remedyverse.

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Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 05/10/2026

Cosmic beats to shred and consume moons to. Skate Story Vol 1. (Deluxe Edition) is out, nearly tripling the track count. More beats, more bops. More Blood Cultures. Stream today: pack.createmusic.fm/skatestoryde...

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POWERFUL CRAB FART🦀 @powerful.crabf.art · 25/07/2026

Had a webserver getting crushed by Claude for some reason. Dug in to the logs and someone made a shitty php hangman game back in 2008, the dipshit computers found it, and were “playing” it 1M+ times a day until I blocked it. The future sucks ass

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

This is every 3rd bathroom at the Federal Bureau of Control

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wish. We land at 11pm and the flight out is at 6am 😅

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah, I have a book and a bunch of podcasts to catch up on. Might try and sleep since the jet lag will already be setting in.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Who missed their connecting flight by 10 minutes and now gets to spend the night at JFK airport? ****This Guy****

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cartoon wolves used to be horny for human women. But now human women are horny for cartoon wolves. The reason? Woke.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The view from the top of the Knowth monument was beautiful. A great way to end our trip in Ireland.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Newgrange totally lived up to my expectations. Incredible experience.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The burger I got was really good tho! I think because beef in Ireland is in general better quality than most American beef.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We went to an American restaurant in Ireland. This place was the most stereotypical American chain restaurant I've seen. Really puts a mirror up to us.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The National Gallery of Ireland and the Irish History museum are both fantastic. And the buildings they're in are equally amazing.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Its a beat em up like the original. The animation is really good. They got all the original actors from the movie to some back to voice the characters.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Did you ever play the sequel, Scott Pilgrim ex? I got it but only played it a little bit. It was fun but doesn't have the same nostalgia hit the first does.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had no problem understanding people in Ireland and thought other Americans were stupid for struggling with the Irish accent...until I went to Northern Ireland. I had multiple people in shops and restaurants ask me a question and I genuinely didn't understand a single word.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I read Say Nothing. I know all about The Troubles so I'm well aware of the history of this place. It wears a lot of that history on its sleeve, but also it's still ongoing in alot of ways.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also stopped by Giants Causeway

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is it weird to say the thing I wanted to see most in the town of Derry was this mural?

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

if you give me an opportunity to talk about how good shadow generations is, you know I'm gonna take it

Sonic has toed an interesting line here, taking big (and oftentimes only partially successful) swings with 3D entries like Sonic Frontiers and, less recently, the reviled Sonic The Hedgehog (2006) while never straying too far from its 2D roots by releasing smaller games like Sonic Mania. Sonic X Shadow Generations recently pulled all these threads together, including both 3D and 2.5D levels and functioning as both a remaster of one game (Sonic Generations) and the debut of what is unequivocally the best Sonic game of modern times (Shadow Generations).

The road to arrive at this point has been bumpy, but if we keep getting games as good as Shadow Generations out of the deal, I say let Sonic Team cook. However, Iizuka doesn’t plan to leave fans of the classics entirely in the lurch.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He was obviously fluent in Irish Gaelic, as are most residents. So much incredible history and culture there. Sad to see it drying up. I hope it can make a comeback.

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Ben @bjk394.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seeing the islands was a bit bitter sweet. The economic state of them is not good. Alot of poor people, young kids leaving for better opportunities. The tour driver was a character, but very nice and honest about the current state of the islands.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think this is true in large part because humans going outside and spending uninterrupted time around each other—remembering that life can be so much better than this—is tech’s only real competition

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