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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Who do I have to fuck to get a new Ground Control around here

Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's cool how AI along with ruining everything in all my more normal interests, my love of random alternate genre covers of classic songs is also constantly under threat. Thank god they all use dogshit cover images on YT Music so I know instantly before I enjoy it too much.

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Morrigan Melarkey @kyemelo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I got a film camera(Zenit-E) at the end of summer and finally got my scans from my first roll, some are a bit overexposed and hit with some some damage after having a struggle getting the camera to rewind. But otherwise I'm honestly happy with the results! heres some of my faves from the roll

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think I'd probably put Golden Sun 2 (with the assumed context of Golden Sun 1, obviously) up there with, like, anything. Gorgeous, well-written, massive, interesting, deep, probably a little too easy.

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

singing "I'll shoot myself in the head with a gunnnnn" under my breath for a full 24 hours and wondering why they look at me weird down the shop

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

very funny that WoW: Forever is posited on the back of having enjoyable conversations with other WoW players, and the only bad thing to come out of the WoW Forever beta is the state of the people who were excited to play it

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

if you're meant to like this Zelda character in the new season of Ted Lasso, and it doesn't end up being her buying the shares, it is the worst writing and accidental hachet job I've ever seen

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Oricalle @oricalle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

she theodora on my tobias til i Bonaventure

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

vaulted content will return in Destday this anything

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fascinating to think he gives a shit, I wonder who spooked him and when (maybe in the video, one for later)

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thinking tonight about how it’s been a full decade of living in complete and total hell. Charlie Brooker summed it up well on the first episode of HIGNFY after the 2016 US election youtu.be/mI5ogcx_8iE?...

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The best of Hignfy series 52

YouTube video by str1tsa

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

thinking about if you assume "governments should help their people" a lot of the current actions of various world governments stops making any sense

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

been watching Slow Horses, a show finally brave enough to ask: what if English people... were shit?

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

is the UK release time for Nintendo games 11pm or 12?

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

well Force Awakens didn't come out that long ago, how much could inflation have impacted since then? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

watching a Long War playthrough on Twitch while I work and this guy's face despawned without his hair, a sort've reverse-Breens situation

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

might actually feel like getting involved in local politics if the UK breaks up

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This might be the most confusing set of quotes I've seen on a new game announcement in my entire life kotaku.com/ex-far-cry-b...

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This Pokemon GhostGrey romhack has some strong, STRONG moods

an NPC saying "Not want remarry. Just want rock."

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

can't describe how much this Blizzcon format doesn't work with games announced 3-4 years ahead of time, but I can't prove it until we get 2-3 years down the road and everything's changed

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

skibidi toilet WoW crossover?!

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I burst out laughing at "2030" are you SERIOUS

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Discover and complete a Wolverine Moment to receive a Bub Token (BT). Bub Tokens can be spent when interacting with Logan's mirror to increase the strength and size of his claws.

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

gee whizz a Blizzcon I'm actually excited for, what a weird Friday

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dean of Doom ends in about 10 minutes. One of the best YouTube series of my adult life, and packed with a love for videogames (especially Doom, believe it or not) few can match. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGkU...

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Is every game not like this now? Me and a mate of mine call them Jiminies, after the character in Lies of P that would immediately pipe up every time you came across anything mysterious and go JEEZ PINNOCHIO, LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE DIED HERE. Dollman in DS2 was even worse.

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Crucible might be the best content they've added to FF14 in a long, long time, great googly moogly

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THE NORMAL VICTIM @nightmaremodego.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

These steam leaks are insane.

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

you can borrow this until the FF7 raid comes out in FF14, Zelda fans

the I fucking hate you and hope you die meme

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the main link adventuring theme is a fucking banger isn't it

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

that's not a chair it's a little guy

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Derek Jarman’s “Stu” @stuartgipp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jez Corden: Microsoft planning a "Follow-up" to Windows 11

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fantastic videogame but Mortal Shell 2’s Proxima might be the most obnoxious goonerslop of all time

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

don't worry guys we only used it in the games you weren't already excited for

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

idk if Phantom Liberty is worth the 100 hours to get to the point of being really good, but the ending is really good (or at least, mine was)

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

is Cyberpunk hurt or helped by the fact V is the lamest motherfucker on the entire planet

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I think I know who will be winning the Formula 1 2026 World Championship

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Credits on Zero Company. A very decent game. Hope they get to unfurlough and make a sequel where they don't have to build everything ground-up. Has the smell of something that had a lot of concepts and ideas shelved during dev, leaving a (very good) MVP.

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

there's a robot in Zero Company that walks like it has KILLER chub rub and it's good to be represented

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Marc Merrill saying "people will probably die on the grail quest!" referencing the MMO they're making at Riot, twenty minutes after shutting down their latest new game and laying off 100+ people because they spent 10 years too long making it. You couldn't fukcing make it up.

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Ben Barrett @chaossmurf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

if that new starcraft game is starcraft 3 I will be picking up my badge and gun like I'm going to war

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