Ryan Bloom @blazehedgehog.bltn.net · 1hLove it when my grocery delivery doesn't include the one thing that I was going to eat on for dinner for three days out of the next week. 160
Reposted by Ryan BloomFight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 09/09/2026We maintain that there's no way to implement age verification without compromising sensitive data. Those who choose to opt out of this get a censored experience. A reminder: the leaders pushing for age verification broadly aren't doing so for child safety. Their aim is information control. 1399138
Reposted by Ryan BloomFight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 09/09/2026Despite major outrage from users when they initially rolled out age verification systems, Discord plans to make all accounts teen by default GLOBALLY & you have to scan your face or upload an ID to prove you aren't one. www.gadgetreview.com/discord-is-b...gadgetreview.comDiscord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of UsersDiscord age verification now locks stage channels, DMs, and adult content behind four ID methods — each with different privacy trade-offs worth knowing. 34520471
Reposted by Ryan BloomKris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 22hcorrect, you should not attempt to launch a game like deadlock in 2026 without all of those things. 245272
Reposted by Ryan BloomImran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 7hI don't feel like you need a particularly experienced nose to sniff out PR puff pieces, but, like If you can't tell somehow, I do feel like that you need to work on whatever muscle is preventing you from recognizing it. 316931
Reposted by Ryan BloomAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 22hFrom: Grimm's Fairy Tales - The Golden Bird (1987), dir. Toshio Hirata, Toei Doga/Madhouse 41123357
Reposted by Ryan BloomNathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 1hif you are a PR person who’s heard about or worked somewhere that uses AI this way—or a journo who’s been on the receiving end—my DMs are open, I’m nathangrayson.666 on signal, and my protonmail is aftermathdotsite@proton.me 312637
Reposted by Ryan BloomRyan Bloom @blazehedgehog.bltn.net · 20hTonight's Entertainment: Oculus letterboxd.com/blazehedgeho...letterboxd.comA ★★★★★ review of Oculus (2013)I feel like there's a process to filmmaking, in the sense that either you are making a movie that is totally new and showing the audience something they've never seen before, or you have to retread so... 031
Ryan Bloom @blazehedgehog.bltn.net · 20hTonight's Entertainment: Oculus letterboxd.com/blazehedgeho...letterboxd.comA ★★★★★ review of Oculus (2013)I feel like there's a process to filmmaking, in the sense that either you are making a movie that is totally new and showing the audience something they've never seen before, or you have to retread so... 031
Reposted by Ryan BloomRyan Bloom @blazehedgehog.bltn.net · 29/09/2026Tonight's Entertainment: A Field in England letterboxd.com/blazehedgeho...letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of A Field in England (2013)This is just, like, 10 or 15% too experimental art film for my tastes. I can't deny that there's something captivating here, but it's one of those movies that almost doesn't want you to understand it.... 001
Reposted by Ryan BloomMatt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A SPEEDY CERVICHE PLUSH IN 2026 69910
Reposted by Ryan BloomJiikae @jiikae.com · 29/09/2026I find it funny when people talk about how games are this art form that can make you feel emotions, but then you bring up something like wanting more games to have timers & people will say its bad design "because it makes me anxious" So emotions only allowed through story, not gameplay. Got it lol. 50714149
Reposted by Ryan BloomEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026Free newsletter: When will the AI bubble burst? When the money runs out. Raising debt for AI data centers is becoming untenable, infrastructure break-even points keep getting further away, and many of VC's AI investments look like dead money. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/wheresyoured.athttps://www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links: $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month. In return you get a weekly premium… 17545126
Ryan Bloom @blazehedgehog.bltn.net · 29/09/2026Used to know a guy who only used the internet through his Dreamcast. Didn't have a computer until, like, early 2010s. Anything is possible. 0183
Reposted by Ryan BloomRobin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The film is written, directed, and co-stars Hitoshi Ozawa, a legendary Yakuza actor who is a villain in Yakuza 0, who got his fellow legends involved. This was his passion project inspired by one of his best friends, a trans woman, and he worked with the community for representative casting. 3269902684
Reposted by Ryan Bloom🖤 Ina! ❤️ @ina-strangeworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this is a random ass room you'd find in the shinra building in og FFVII and checking a specific one of these would have you find a potion 31076248
Reposted by Ryan BloomAlfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 24/09/2026Pet project: 1) Advanced PS1/N64 game extraction (+all animations). 2) Website where you can browse and compare models, textures, animations, FMVs, for preservation. Already have FF7, Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 and MediEvil fully ripped. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame #N64 20854290
Reposted by Ryan BloomAlice Lia Maro @slimelia.uk · 29/09/2026when women cheat on their husbands we're always so quick to denounce them, but sometimes it's more complicated than that. maybe they have good reasons for doing so, like they really reallyyyyy wanted to, or they were bored. Don't be so quick to judge. #BeKind 02110
Reposted by Ryan BloomEllie Dawn 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥺😏💜 @awkward.gay · 29/09/2026The pay me in shoiks 214381933
Ryan Bloom @blazehedgehog.bltn.net · 29/09/2026Anonymous asked: Have you seen Obsession yet? blazehedgehog.tumblr.com/post/8290236...blazehedgehog.tumblr.comThe Hotdog LaserhouseAnonymous said: Have you seen Obsession yet? Answer: Not yet. You’re the second person to ask! There’s a few horror movies out right now I want to see, but it’s getting on Hallostream season so I’m... 010
Ryan Bloom @blazehedgehog.bltn.net · 29/09/2026Tonight's Entertainment: A Field in England letterboxd.com/blazehedgeho...letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of A Field in England (2013)This is just, like, 10 or 15% too experimental art film for my tastes. I can't deny that there's something captivating here, but it's one of those movies that almost doesn't want you to understand it.... 001
Reposted by Ryan BloomLorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart 8641771549
Reposted by Ryan BloomJosh @geekcritique.org · 29/09/2026The lesser-known Tower of Power stand. 26011
Reposted by Ryan BloomBrandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 28/09/2026Proboards just updated their terms of service for their forum software, essentially saying "you give us the right to use anything you post to train LLMs, and we can also disclose and sell your personal information, fuck you." One of the worst of these I've ever seen. www.proboards.com/tos 612563
Reposted by Ryan BloomJill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then... 12708372
Ryan Bloom @blazehedgehog.bltn.net · 28/09/2026Tired of going to the dentist. This is my 7th? 8th? Visit in 5 or 6 months. 140
Ryan Bloom @blazehedgehog.bltn.net · 28/09/2026By the way, VOD for last night's stream youtu.be/meTX5sLBs4Eyoutu.beSonic: Project Reignition (Stream Archive)YouTube video by Blaze's Game Dump 031
Reposted by Ryan BloomJacob @snoozyrests.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Isn't it convenient how one of the companies involved in the big money circlejerk ramped up its 'rogue AI' narrative and another company in the circlejerk almost immediately has a solution for it 🤔🤔 34015
Reposted by Ryan BloomStrayCatalyst @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With Kotick in the news, from www.justice.gov/epstein 04710
Reposted by Ryan BloomFieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Secret Ingredient - Gator Days 48110792640
Reposted by Ryan BloomCollie Cariad @colliecariad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Seeing the ease and beauty of farm to table game development behind the bars of my industrial Jira hell. 2778105
Reposted by Ryan Bloomcaroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nancy 9/28/26 … “Sluggo’s Terrible New Hat” Part 1 672395309
Reposted by Ryan BloomJ. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026god wants you to back my kickstarter 💦 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun 1459441053
Reposted by Ryan BloomIan Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social gave me the go ahead to share the forbidden alternative James Sunderland. Timelapse in reply below 531114290
Reposted by Ryan Bloomheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 28/09/2026literally the banger of bangers. jarvis turn that shit upyoutube.comBloody Tears - Perfect Selection Dracula BattleYouTube video by Castlevania Music 1566
Reposted by Ryan Bloommikestalikesbirds.bsky.social @mikestalikesbirds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In other news, a lot of more progressive gamer outrage looks a lot like gamergate outrage these days. It's all "they don't make them like they used to/retvrn" shit 042
Reposted by Ryan BloomCasey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I love Army of Darkness because it really shows how versatile an actor he is; he can play Bruce Campbell AND Bruce Campbell. What range! 11705107
Reposted by Ryan Bloomdiva of dispair!! 🍉 @morrikyu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026CHAT I MADE AN INSANE DISCOVERY THE GUY WHO WROTE SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS ALSO WROTE THE SONG PLAYED IN THE DARKSTALKERS OVA ENDING 151280488
Reposted by Ryan Bloomchess!! @videochess.world · 28/09/2026[thinking about mario 64] i think it's really good that mario is a little difficult to control, but once you get the hang of him you can really make him sing. that's depth... that's what's lacking in galaxy and other games where mario is sticky like a little bug 91498
Reposted by Ryan BloomAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026 2256231382
Reposted by Ryan BloomTrash @trashxdiscourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hey man, if you're out there, if your mom wrote this letter to Abigail Shrier about you, please drop a gofundme and we will get you the fuck out of there. 71772518