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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 10h

Other way around for me, mobile app tells me I no longer exist, browser is completely fine. Very normal server things I assume.

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Vincent Heidelberg ↙️↙️↙️ @astrovicnet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

C'est 9 fois et demi la durée de l'emprisonnement de Sarko pour avoir négocié avec des terroristes pour financer sa campagne, et c'est 6 mois de plus que Marine Le Pen, qui a détourné 4 millions d'euros.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I fear Paralives might take over my weekend and be another game making me contemplate living in a tiny house in a tiny remote village (I can't drive).

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Delicious Terrine 🍉 @langoustine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love how AI is so powerful and world-changing that we constantly need to be convinced to use it

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I started playing Dordogne on the Steam Deck, and so far it's been a delight, the controls translate really well, and it's a great game for a cozy afternoon on the couch with a blanket and a hot chocolate. Also very surprised by how well Elden Ring is running on it.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

All the Pikachus and some lovely hits and the Moltres I was secretly hoping for, goodness the hit rates on this set are really good (I usually never get anything WHAT)

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can't afford a house but I can afford to open Pokemon cards with my roommate (at retail) (scalpers can eat rocks)

The Elite Trainer Box from the Pokemon 30th Anniversary set. It is a white box with yellow border wrapping around the bottom right corner, and a yellow outlined Pikachu with the number 30 in lieu of its red cheeks.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Looking forward to whatever @lunacystudios.bsky.social 's next project will be - this game was a bite-sized delight of storytelling magic, and I know I'm going to miss talking to the scholars at the House and petting my owl friend.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Especially Mu'alima Fatima's library. I mean, look at this place. 10/10 would fly around the whole place again and read all the books, please. And the character designs may just be among my favourites in any games.

A screenshot of Ismail al-Jazari in the game House of Hikmah. He notably wears losange-shaped glasses, and his left arm is a mechanical one, gold and red.

Fatima al-Fihri, in the game House of Hikmah, wearing beautiful royal blue and gold garments with sun and stars symbolism.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just finished House of Hikmah, what a gorgeous, gorgeous game. The puzzles were so fun (that satisfying lightbulb moment never got old once), the level design and environments were magical, the voice acting was top notch, the story and the world building made me not want to leave ever.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What on earth did the me from 10 years ago do.

The dvd of Hugo, inside the dvd case of Prisoners.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I live in Woolwich, and the difference between the original normal neighbourhood near the market and the newly ultra gentrified Arsenal development is *wild* (and the two are only separated by a road, but it feels like two different cities entirely)

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Games UXR is 50% "players don't read instructions" and 50% "and here is why they don't read *your* instructions specifically (they probably don't even notice them)"

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The whole PlayStation ditching physical games debacle still has not convinced me to get a PS5, but it has convinced me to finally buy a dvd player (and go through my collection + the second hand ones I got this weekend).

A computer screen playing The Grudge. A dvd player is connected to the computer.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(But then you should still test anyway to make sure the torture experience is as intended)

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"I feel like I'm being tortured" - my slightly dramatic playtester today after I asked them to show me how they performed an action they found particularly difficult. (And this, game devs, is why you should always test your games)

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty UX researcher: What makes you say that? (bonus follow up: how does that make you feel?)

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Starting the weekend on a good note with my copy of @furtiveshambles.bsky.social 's Ryne getting to my mailbox 🌸 might spend the day browsing through it with infinite supplies of tea and cake. Congrats to the team, I'll miss receiving the email updates!

A copy of the rulebook of Ryne, a TTRPG.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

When your job is all about research but it's time to brush up on the design side of things.

The book "User experience design: an introduction to creating interactive digital spaces" by Mark Wells.

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Steve Jackson Games @sjgames.com · 10/08/2026

Come join the SJ Games team as our new Document Accessibility Specialist! We are seeking a detail-oriented person to ensure our digital documents are fully accessible and compliant with legal standards. bit.ly/sjgdaspdfjob

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This game made me cry a little and also very hungry and you really really should play it.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

All of this applies to games too, btw :)

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Watch The Odyssey --> introduce mom to the other odyssey adaptation O'Brother --> introduce mom to video game music by having her listen to Where the Water Tastes Like Wine soundtrack pipeline completed.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Also for a much better portrayal of Circe (very much wasted in that movie) I cannot recommend Circe by Madeleine Miller enough.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Matt Damon was absolutely stellar, the female characters were just what you'd expect from a Nolan movie, and the fall of Troy + return to Ithaca were as haunting and epic as the journey to get there felt very... hollow. Such a strange and uneven film with some brilliant moments and some not so much.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just went to see The Odyssey, I am now convinced that Nolan should have just done a remake of Troy instead, and that maybe this is what he really wanted to do deep down, considering how little depth and attention the odyssey part of the movie got in comparison to the trauma of Troy.

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𝔅𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔒'𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔥𝔞𝔫 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This has been studied quite a bit, the solar panels create a sort of greenhouse effect for the plants underneath them while also generating energy which feels like it should be cheating but is real and literally only has upsides.

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

One of the best, actually ACCESSIBLE games conferences there is.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My mom hates the smell of cheese, so me and my camembert have been banished to the garden :(

A picture of me, sitting at a garden table, eating cheese all on my lonesome.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If I had a nickel every time I see someone on LinkedIn go "maybe this is what the next generation of AI tools needs to address" to solve simple problems like "we suck at putting all documentation in the same place so they are easy to access for everyone", I probably wouldn't be working anymore.

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IGN @ign.com · 30/07/2026

EA’s CEO got an $8 million raise thanks to how well Battlefield 6 performed — four months after the devs responsible for making the game got laid off. bit.ly/4yOMvb5

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Why do I suck at gift-giving in games too.

A screenshot of a Steam achievement in My Time at Sandrock. The achievement is titled "got the receipt?" and is granted when played give a hated gift to another character. 11% of player have that achievement.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

375,000 people evacuated, major cities under threat, and tourists turned away. France has never had a fire fierce enough to generate a pyrocumulonimbus before. The largest devastation of land since WWII. But net zero is very expensive www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Pedro Sánchez says Spain is suffering effects of climate crisis as firefighters battle wildfires in France

Blazes near Madrid coming under control but efforts to contain huge fire near Bordeaux hampered by windy conditions

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I’m hard pressed to come up with any single thing that has been studied as much as vaccines & autism (vaxx safety in general), or as debunked as a link between vaccines & autism. But even more striking is how these people clearly think autism is worse than your child getting a disease or even dying

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Steve Muñoz @thewizardofmewnoz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Looking for an animator to help us out for 2 weeks of guaranteed work. Possible to extend to 1 month. Must be proficient in Maya. Unity experience is a plus. Reach out if anyone is interested. Must be local to the LA area. Position is hybrid.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I mean if you ignore the dying plant, I kinda like my upgraded games and tcg corner (not pictured: a tea tray on the side with all my art stuff).

A picture of shelves with dvds, handheld consoles, and tcg card binders.

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Are you a developer who has put a fishing minigame inside your non-fishing video game? Or are you considered a connoisseur of fishing minigames? OR do you have knowledge of how real-life fishing works and how it might translate to games? I would love to speak to you for a story please!

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Always remember that loudly calling something shit and evil and bad still has power, however diminished in this era of shamelessness.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

First Tennocon, first Tennoconcert, and Lullaby of the Manifold and This Is What You Are hit me just as hard as I expected.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Travelled from London to London for Tennocon and the jetlag cannot take away from me how cool everything is (and as if I didn't have enough with pokemon and one piece they gave trading cards, those are getting sleeved and going on my desk at work and in my gaming shelf).

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Weather forecast was wrong, London (Ontario) weather is more London weather than current London (UK) weather.

A photo of dark skies and the raim trickling down the window of a bus.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Gutted I can't make it to Develop this year but this looks awesome and you should go.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"One Billion Players a Day" isn't a business declaration, it's a bullet loaded into a gun aimed at everyone you *didn't* lay off today. It is setting an unattainable standard to justify further missed expectations.

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Grant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm seeing direct confirmation that members of the Xbox accessibility team were also impacted today. If you would like to speak about your experience, please send me a message or email. I'll be happy to give you my signal, as well

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

One week before Tennocon and I'm finally caught up with the story, and after finishing the Old Peace, I'm joining the general consensus: one can never hate Ballas enough.

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Charline Foch @chafoch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Going to London, Ontario, in a few days for work, and very disappointed to see that the weather will in fact be the same as in London, UK. Dangit.

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