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cindy

@bloomedwings.bsky.social
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they/them, migratory bird, secretary bird lover, love movies (especially horror) and games (especially... no true definition) I also have writings and stuff at bloomedwings.com

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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 6m
Bad sign to come on this site and see this. Sigh.
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Wallace @exalclaw.com · 24m
I interviewed @brlka.com about bringing psychological horror to a punishing platformer w/ Love Eternal, in addition to being uncompromising in art, how difficulty factors into their games, difficulty discourse, and more! Full interview on YT, but here's a nice excerpt: exalclaw.com/love-eternal...
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How Love Eternal Dev Toby Alden Approaches The Infinite Spectrum Of Difficulty
"I'm going to make the game I want to make in an uncompromised form because it's what I'm into, which did end up alienating a lot of players. But I also would say, I think that for anyone trying to g...
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Razorblade Apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 2h
I think they just call this "having boundaries" lol I just re-invented the concept of "having healthy boundaries with other people"
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 2h
Please don't go watch this This is the result of using AI to do your entire video AI picks the games AI writes the script AI generates a fake version of quest 64 for the attention image And yet this person has ten of thousands of subscribers and views Stop letting these people exist and thrive
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 5h
hey so i'll be writing news for RPS for a bit :)
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After 12 years, Ultra Street Fighter IV gets not one, but two connection-stabilising rollback netcode mods aaaand they're both made using Claude
Two new mods adding connection-stabilising rollback netcode to Ultra Street Fighter IV appear, but both are made with generative AI.
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Triple-Q @triple-q.bsky.social · 15h
Whoever chooses to willingly moderate this server might actually be some of the strongest and bravest human beings of all time
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Video Essay Bot @videoessaybot.bsky.social · 14h
Stop Making Games About Patriarchy.
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Cadence @ciirulean.bsky.social · 16h
after pronoun palace's success I can finally designate 6 years of my life to working on my dream game, Swordbare, a medieval fantasy metroidvania where you can find a double jump upgrade and then backtrack to a platform that was really high up
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D.J. Tuskmor @tuskmor.com · 20h
This book is mean and vicious in all the right ways. You won't want to miss it.
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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 17h
What if a game engine was being built that would let you make games for this more easily and let you take advantage of the hardware better? That would be pretty neat.
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Breana Navickas @breanimator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Everyone is saying they want Coven Academy but Black. It Already exists. If you want Witches, Vampires, love triangles, teen melodrama, adult melodrama on the side but make it all more black and queer and by a queer black creator check out The Three Tomes on YouTube. Support indie animation 🔗⬇️
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(GDHitless) PT @pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app · 16h
you heard Gaby. Soul Train Tuesday. Hispanic Heritage for the weekend vibes. Be there or be a lopsided rectangle
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 17h
I keep saying this! We peaked with the Wii!
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 17h
I'm sharing this as a mea culpa, because it turns out this game was coded with Claude, a fact that is reasonably difficult to track down for a piece that was intended as nothing more than a quick, fun "hey look at this" kind of thing.
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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social · 19h
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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 23h
I'm pulling back the curtain a bit in what I hope is read as understandable terms, I do want to say hey man I'm tired and also I kinda do wish there'd been less Posting.
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Puke is already a Halloween Name @puke.bsky.social · 23h
Right around the time that one guy joined Bluesky
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Jessica Mumford @jessicamumford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"ah come on Michael, I thought you were cool"
2D Jax next in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, next to Michael who looks like he wants to die
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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I decided this year to spend no more than my monthly column budget on games I’ll be covering in that column meaning I make $0 from my roundup columns twice a year. I do it to broaden coverage + I like writing reviews. But if there’s no way for me to request a key I often can’t cover your thing.
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
me, age 20: Oh, Mrs. Bennett, your 'nerves'. Sooo annoying. 🙄 me, age 48, in perimenopause: This woman has 5 DAUGHTERS and NO MONEY and a husband WHO WON'T WORK and spends all his time SMIRKING IN A LAY-Z BOY, staring at PIG BALLS and at any moment the whole family will be HOMELESS.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nancy 10/5/26 “Sluggo’s Terrible New Hat” Part 7
Nancy shudders, reflecting on her past week of Sluggo Hat Trauma… this week, the nightmare continues….
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paradox @cha0sparadox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
pomni..
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ito @1t0s.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
我慢できず万紫で(今のところ)一番好きな女をらくがき… 四方八方美女だらけで今作は描いてみたい女が多すぎる
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Video Essay Bot @videoessaybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
On Depression In Gaming
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artemis, scary boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 05/10/2026
Thank you @jank.cool for highlighting @mads.haus’s Sonic essay for Stop Caring 😎
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The other valid crit that like hey maybe will actually be a reveal or something in the full game but if not kinda sucks is Sypha just being gone and dead or something but... I dunno, Castlevania not handling its women and moms perfectly? Never.
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
God the slime monster ep definitely did a number on me
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(GDHitless) PT @pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
And I dislike the posturing of "I'm just giving a criticism" because a lot of times y'all aren't. You're making a bullet list of reasons that Game B isn't like Game A Enough and correct! Accurate! They are in fact not the same thing! And shouldn't (always) be!
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(GDHitless) PT @pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
I have never seen a thread so coded for me in my life. A genre close to my heart, as someone who NEVER played SotN, with history, detail, and a loud proclamation that once again: many gamers aren't here for the love of the game, but the hopes and pursuits of an algorithm that doesn't know you.
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Adult Acerola. We need it.
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's little tease in ZA that the Aether Foundation is involved and like yeah Legends Ultra would be sick.
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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
sorry but we really need to step up our vigilance around cute animal images/videos. i've seen 2 different cute animal posts get shared widely today that were both AI. i know cute animal videos make us feel good, i know we all crave anything that makes us feel good in these dark times, but be careful
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Boiling some broccoli with my ramen pack. If feeling extra frisky, 3-5 frozen shrimp.
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Eh!
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Eh... eh... ... ... ...
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh god glad it's not just me I don't know why they're all Julie
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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Winemaker
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When you hit the second light switch in the bathroom or kitchen you don’t normally use: where the fuck am I
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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
BORAT VOICE MY WIFE!!!!
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Video Essay Bot @videoessaybot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mario Party And Typing of the Dead Have One Thing In Common: Worldbuilding
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madeline! @mads.haus · 04/10/2026
light gun games are a big peak of game design for me. pick up a peripheral, get taken on a kinetic journey. built on bombast and quick reactions - totally over the top by design. you can’t “lose”; you can only run out of credits. plus, they’re perfect date games!
HOTD overkillTarget Terror
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 02/10/2026
tall girls are all talk tbh
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 04/10/2026
As I watched the movie, I couldn’t help but dwell on the gross hypocrisy of the show To Catch a Predator itself which I of course watched with the same enthrallment as everyone else. At a time when children, including myself, were ruthlessly made into sexual objects, the pedophile acted as a kind of tulpa or totem for what was, in reality, a societal sin. I was fourteen when the movie’s central travesty happened, when the district attorney shot himself. Where I went to school, if you didn’t dress revealingly (tight t-shirt, low-rise jeans, push up bra) you were relentlessly bullied for being a dyke. If you did dress that way you -- a thirteen year old girl -- were called a slut instead.

If you were fat, you were a pariah, fair game for ritual humiliation. If you were 80 lbs you were fat. Everyone suspected everyone else of being “a fag.” When you went to the nurses’ office at lunch to take your pills everyone called you retarded because someone found out you had ADHD. Your peers worked overtime to find some way to humiliate you, some way to make a spectacle out of you and of themselves at the same moment. Everyone behaved as though they were on TV, because TV was just as juvenile as real life. Girls went on MTV to have their bodies rated. They went on contrived and embarrassing dating shows. This was a time when peers and adults alike would talk about how your tits were too big for your age and about how they couldn't wait for you to turn 18.
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Could be wrong, but I think that's Aparna Nancherla voicing Baba Deadlock...
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Maybe it's just that I'm a good Fire Emblem player now, but the fact that I kind of unthinkingly just do all the checkboxes and then have not struggled at all despite being on Hard feels off. Especially when half this feels like it wants to be SMT.
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm doing Leda's and it asks me to Perform which does mean exploring the world map but I also can't help but think how much more interesting this would be if I like... had to actually be sacrificing other things to do this. Have some form of hard choice. But it wants me to have it all.
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Zombies. The undead. You know, ghouls. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What do we do with Jacob Geller? I have some ideas.
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I haven't even triggered any paralogues lol But yeah the timing stuff just doesn't feel good.
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of this is how many hard walls exist. I can get people to build class, but you only get a tiny amount of licenses to change classes. I can have a strong army but can only bring 6 units per battle. Only so many sidequests to build Renown.
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cindy @bloomedwings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Really at this point feels like if I just played Fortune's Weave by turning auto-activities on and not engaging with any of the downtime stuff I would be fine. And hey, maybe I actually am benefiting more invisibly and that's good. But I just keep feeling like "why? Why did I even spend that time?"
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