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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 01/10/2026

Do you like games that let you solve levels using Wile E. Coyote solutions? Now you can do that with a friend! We just released an update for our physics game There's Nothing Underground: co-op, new modes and a ton of improvements. And it's 2.33€ right now! store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 22/09/2026

He's like a comedy writer and leftist millennial mythbuster of sorts.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 22/09/2026

Also, just noticed THAT guy. I don't want to be the one who says "I always felt he was sketchy". But I always felt he was sketchy. The kind of man who really wants you to know he is thinking the right things and saying the right things. Those guys are always walking red flags.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 22/09/2026

Sometimes people should be told to maybe stop being SO weird. Like, a bit weird is fine. Even quite a lot of weird is fine. They're being way too weird. (may or may not related to the fact their philosophy is antisocial and rotten to the core)

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint

If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/08/2026

"You were riding in the morning, or at night, or on a quiet road, or a main road. The only time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely that you are both everywhere and nowhere." buff.ly/bSa1Wm5

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You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault

You were riding during rush hour Why were you riding then? There are way too many cars on the road. If you were commuting, you should have contacted your bos...

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 18/08/2026

So we sort of had a look at There's Nothing Underground and maybe some new stuff will be coming soon?

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 13/08/2026

Honestly, amazing book. As good for a terminal Nintendo fan like me as it is for someone just vaguely aware that videogames exist

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 18/07/2026

We are part of Games Made in Sweden sale. You can get our experimental puzzle-roguelike for around 3€. Aaand, if you like the the soundtrack, you can get it for free on bandcamp sanbeizaa.bandcamp.com/album/theres... store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

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Save 60% on There's Nothing Underground on Steam

There's Nothing Underground is a roguelike puzzle adventure where you use random tools to solve levels in endless ways. Unlock and combine tools to tackle 100+ levels, each with unique challenges. Fin...

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 27/06/2026

Yesterday night a Tesla parked under my apartment had its alarm blast at ungodly volume every ten minutes. Of course Swedish Police "couldn't do anything" (and scolded me for calling). Every time someone's shitty car becomes my problem I get a bit more radicalized. Fuck all cars.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 07/06/2026

I am a terrible coder and noticed that too. The best possible use for me is at a single method level, when I need some CS algo that probably exists but I don't know it because I am self taught. All in all, maybe a 20% efficiency gain. Far from the promised magic wand people claim it to be.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 06/06/2026

A tiny, cheap, e-ink portable console inspired by game and watch with a few pre installed games and an easy to develop system. Like some sort of Nintendo PlayDate with integrated Game Builder Garage.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 06/06/2026

The new Ueda game was worth it all. (some other cool stuff too. But.. new Ueda game!)

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 04/06/2026

That feeling when, 7 months into working on a new game that you know it's a fresh new spin on an established genre, someone publishes a trailer of something based on the exact same concept. Gameplay is different but, at a glance, it will look like we copied them. 🥲

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Jackson O'Lantern-Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 27/05/2026

There is a beauty in Ikaruga's enemy patterns that I am not sure I can easily explain.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 26/05/2026

Today we launched a new, refreshed version of our first game, SphereCats. It is still the best suika on Steam. But now it also looks awesome. It's also 50% off at 1.99, so I think you really should buy it. store.steampowered.com/app/3091310/...

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Save 50% on SphereCats on Steam

A cozy merge puzzle game about spherical cats, with a twist. Play the classic suika experience or try new variations every day!

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Cameron “Inevitability Needs To Hurry” Suey @cameronsuey.com · 25/05/2026

when you first start being a parent, you wisely will realize that you should never judge any other parent ever again for whatever it takes to get through the day. It will pass, after a decade, at which point you will develop the finely honed skills of knowing who is just really fucking it up.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 23/05/2026

Played the first world of Yoshi and it seemslike a game fully committed to game feel. You can have a game that is all about exploring interactions. It's refreshing.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 22/05/2026

Touch and Go was brilliant. My favorite forum at the time got into a high score frenzy for weeks right after it came out.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 20/05/2026

I wonder why, as a player, I always end up getting weirdly obsessed with side challenge modes, especially in Capcom games. You know, like the shooting range in RE. Or the challenged in Pragmata. People are like "it's a brief 10 hours game". Is it, when I am trying to 3 stars everything?

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 18/05/2026

I made Italo Calvino in Tomodachi Life. I like to think he would have found it funny.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 11/05/2026

100% this, but also... Even if you just play games (don't: read a novel or go to a museum sometimes!), at the very least play many different games. I know some designers who essentially only played dota and CS or overwatch for thousands of hours and then maybe Dark Souls once. Not good.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 01/05/2026

Metroid Prime 4 is proof that if you mess up the end part of a game everything will feel retroactively worse. And also that you should not force an open world where it's not needed.

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Wii Shop Wednesday @wiiwednesday.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Update day! New Wii Titles!

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 29/04/2026

The reason I like film and literature is that I can get out of my fucking head and life and identity for an hour or two. This solipsistic garbage sounds like "what if you could make your excrement edible? Cool uh?"

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 25/04/2026

Today is the Italian Liberation Day from nazifascism. Always remember fascists are pieces of shit whether they wear a uniform or have CEO as their job title.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 24/04/2026

Spring in Stockholm almost makes up for the total lack of color, light, joy, life and meaning of the winter. It's like: remember colors? Remember the air not hurting your face? Glorious

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 01/04/2026

Exactly. We don't know. We have to trust a mysterious algorithm managed by a private company.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 01/04/2026

You're very close to the point that user reviews are not a good substitute for curation and critics.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 24/03/2026

Italian representation, finally

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 24/03/2026

Can I carve an exception for Counterstrike and Dota/LoL?

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 22/03/2026

Yo! There's Nothing Underground is on sale at its lowest price ever! 3,89€ for the best roguelike puzzle that gives you random tools to solve levels any way you want (it's a genre, I swear) since Mosa Lina! Buy it now! store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 21/03/2026

Randomly saw this on my feed and... I actually want to read this

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 17/03/2026

This game seems very cool and my very millennial hot take is that pen controls are much more interesting than touch controls. We lost a lot when we collectively decided the iPhone was a better game machine than a DS (I mean, we did not, but you know what I mean)

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 16/03/2026

Snap filters caused more damage than locusts

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 10/03/2026

A lot of the love for "new voices", from what I can see, really just means: horror games with a low-fi, grungy aesthetic and/or viral "dig a hole" type of games.

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 10/03/2026

Marathon *feels* like a single player/co-op roguelike to me, with its focus on missions and the NPC enemies being tough to fight. Also the fact that other squads will almost certainly be aggressive makes them into mini-bosses and (weirdly) ends up making the game less toxic. Also, weird insects.

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