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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

might have finally gotten traction on being able to publish my zig code and contribute to deps (I have a pile of changes for zgui, and a multi-context patch for sokol_imgui) 🥳

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace

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Del @del.art · 20/09/2026

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

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Kazuma Hashimoto @kazuma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

with the help of my friends, I think my Emre Overwatch cosplay really popped off.

A photograph of an Emre Overwatch cosplay.

A photograph of an Emre cosplay from behind.

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Finally I can say it! We're working on Diablo V 😈

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'll be at BlizzCon working the diablo demo Sunday morning, and also in hall B doing meet and greet right after the opening ceremony tomorrow Gonna be a good con, I think

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

fucking around with my emacs config on labor day, because tweaking your init.el is probably the most anti-productivity thing you can do

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Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Please read this whole thread. It’s a very good depiction of how community care looks right now. Please be ready to show the same care.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 07/09/2026

you don't get to wash away your guilt over Black families in Memphis poisoned by Anthropic and xAI DCs by saying, well, everyone else is doing it.

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty AAA Engine dev: *heavy sigh* Yes we can send fill_percent and viscosity params to vfx and audio, but no I suspect animation does not have budget for a new "drinking out of cups" animset. Talk to their producer if you really need that.

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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Mysteries for Modern Times

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I do not want to download your app. I just want lunch. I do not want to create an account. I just want lunch. I do not want to setup 2FA. I just want lunch. I do not want to 'earn points'. I just want lunch. I do not want to add to my order. I just want lunch. I JUST WANT LUNCH!

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Long-shot: I will pay $500 for a recording or transcript, with slides visible, of the 2017 CEDEC “Field Level Design” Breath of the Wild talk by Hidemaro Fujibayashi and Makoto Yunezu, if you’re ok with me sharing it.

A screenshot of Breath of the Wild, with Link standing on a hill looking out at a wide vista. Overlaid on the screenshot are a bunch of highlighted triangular shapes, part of BOTW’s visual design language.

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

it used to be that a nice looking website or thorough readme for a code lib was a reasonable broad phase indicator of some baseline quality now it's mostly just a sign that they used an LLM to make docs. maybe it still is a good lib, but you can't quickly filter out mid ones, we've lost information

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This affects open source contributions as well There are some projects I'd like to have contributed to in the past, but didn't want to burden said project with copyright assignment issues later on

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Beatdown City Survivors is STILL 25% off for a few more days! We've been getting so much love, and I want to thank everyone who's playing the game! If you own it, PLEASE leave a review! We're at 67 reviews & it would be amazing to hit 100! You can play the demo here: beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

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Save 25% on Beatdown City Survivors on Steam

Eradicate hordes of monsters in this survivors style roguelite set in a rotting, destructible city that hates you. Start fires, blow stuff up, electrify water, you name it. Upgrade & craft an arse...

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

wondering when zig leadership will learn to stop diet-linus-posting

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Case in point: the staff of Blizzard Entertainment were told today that they won't hear how the reorganization impacts them until "further communications"

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Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Katie joined Avowed and immediately started writing some of the funniest stuff in the game. If you liked Yatzli, Tira Nui Hajime, "The Wasteland Courier" quest—you liked Katie's work.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

FWIW I think it's a little strange that "Arkane's Blade is late and over budget" is becoming a lingering news story when the total number of big video games that were *not* late and over budget could be counted on one hand

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Jay Turner @silopolis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Proud to announce our HARDSHIP FUND: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun... If you've been recently laid off and need support, we got you.

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Still employed for now I guess? I guess technically end of day is the safety line. BLT giving us zero info Anyway, Unions Are Cool ✊️

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

playin Skald, everything is fucked up with overwrought descriptions and anxiety-inducing swingy combat rolls and a sense that you're gonna be constantly hanging on by a thread it's got that good gnarly crpg juice

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

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Snipehunter @snipehunter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Mel Brooks is 100 today. Drop a gif of your favorite of his films to celebrate. [I fucking love Young Frankenstein. My girlfriend wanted to watch the new Del Toro Frankenstein so I suggested we do a double feature: Del Toro, then Brooks. It was a great way to spend a Saturday.]

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Igor's Smile in Young Frankenstein

Alt: Igor's Smile in Young Frankenstein

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/06/2026

herculean levels of passive voice here for what has been a butchering of thousands of livelihoods over the course of years at the hands of incompetent executives. no shade to whatever poor community manager had to write this image lol

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

didn't realize so many traders were hoping to buy a console-priced steam machine

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Alex Tardif @longbool.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The Cost of AI alextardif.com/AI.html

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Alex Tardif: Graphics Programmer

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Hello! Are you a game developer who has been impacted by restrictive or confusing contract clauses that essentially prevent you from working on side projects in your own time? If so, I'd love to chat with you (anonymously or otherwise) for a report I'm working on for @gamedeveloper.bsky.social!

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This governor primary has the most hilarious candidate statements. People who just link to websites that throw 403 errors, or people whose statement seems like big SEO soup ("Rent Freeze! Free utilities/gasoline, but save environment.") What a shitshow

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If you were a video game character, what would your health pickup be?

A photo of those salty dried seaweed square snacks from Costco

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

everquest II, promotional screenshot, official website (2002) web.archive.org/web/20021211...

a fucked up 3d janky computer skeleton from your nightmares, grainning and walking on stone slabs.

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 19/05/2026

Wow it's crazy how this happens literally every single time, almost seems like none of these financers who fund these new studios have any fucking clue how much game development costs even after being told and shit their pants when asked for full development costs

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Adrian Dawnwalker 🧛🏾‍♂️ 🦇 @adrianswalker.blacksky.app · 16/05/2026

In an era where spellcheck no longer works there is a very strong case for an Edit button.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 15/05/2026

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Just incredible things from the VLC folks
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Robert Evans (the Only Rober... • 1d after days of grifters and con men at
CES we stumbled upon the booth for
VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them l'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said
"keep doing that"

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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