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I know I don't often talk politics here, but with so much focus on talarico in texas, I missed that the texas governor seat is also up for grabs too. Folks in texas have a chance to kick out greg abbot this year. His challenger is Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 30/09/2026

I'm just saying.. but the thumbnail for the dragon game reminds me of the "keep your secrets" frodo meme They're both making the same face

Frodo Baggins making a cheeky little face with the text "All right, then. keep your secrets" on the bottom.

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 17/09/2026

Has been a few occasions people asked me if there was a way they or I could add their own custom heads to my cackle factor mod, and I have some wonderful news. There's a modding editor coming out! \o/ steamcommunity.com/games/427410...

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Steam :: Abiotic Factor :: Entropic Break Development Update

A Look at Year Two

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SULLY - POLYPAINT out now! 🎨 @artofsully.com · 15/09/2026

N64 and PSX artists rejoice - my vertex/normal painter tool POLYPAINT is now (finally) live on the Unity Asset Store!! 🎊 Grab it 30% off for the launch week - I can't wait to see what you all do with it! assetstore.unity.com/packages/slu...

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Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · 15/09/2026

Accessibility is so much more than just a simple difficulty selection. Read our accessibility options blog post to get the full breakdown of all the accessibility options in CONTROL Resonant: controlgame.com/en/blog/how-we-buil… #CONTROLResonant

Accesibility options blog post promo image. Image of Dylan swinging the Aberrant in hammer form while lasers are firing at him. The text "Accessibility Options" is written on the image.

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corona688.bsky.social @corona688.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I do a lot of these mini tutorials on the #blender3d discord, maybe I should post them here too? A simple method for constructing a coat or cloak.

a series of images on constructing a coat in blender 3d

a low poly coat modeled in blender 3d with subdivision surface

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Dead Man's Online @spadetheskeleton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Heads up windows 11 users, microsoft now has this setting enabled by default. Be sure to disable it :]

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 30/08/2026

What kind of music do you think DJ Doctor Jammin Coomer plays?

Doctor Coomer, from hit video game Half-life, bustin it down sexual style inside of a tram that's been converted into a DJ booth with bright lights flashing all around.

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Purpzie 🐦 @purpzie.com · 19/08/2026

Attention creators: Gumroad now requires all digital products to be refundable within 7 days of buying it, regardless of your settings. Now anyone can simply grab something and immediately refund it. Ugh

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ЯΣI🎮ReiTuki Noel @reigaming.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

awwww so cute mod for Caacklin!!! caacklin >> marketplace.secondlife.com/p/PH-Caackli... mods >> marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/238002 #secondlife

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 17/08/2026

I been having such a vibe this past week on SL with my caacklin avatar

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 12/08/2026

I mostly tolerated em, but it really was such a night & day difference when a website had one or two banner ads, & then others where getting choked out with ads The invasive pop up ads were already bad enough, then the auto playing audio & video ads started to pop up in the mix too.

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 12/08/2026

So anyway, you can find the toggle to turn off twitch's forced consent ai toggle at the bottom of account settings in the Security and Privacy section and turn it off there. www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

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Worms & Bones @homemadehorrors.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is what peak yeen performance looks like... apparently. #art #artdoll #canfurence ##hyena

A hyena art doll laying on a table. grinning. They have a ribbon on that says no. 1 hyena.

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Kim KittyBot @kitty.kim · 02/07/2026

if you wanted to test out linux but there is so many distros to choose from, this funny lil distro fighter can be fun way to choose something for your use case. distrofighter.com

distrofighter.com

Distro Fighter — find your Linux distro & desktop

A retro arcade quiz where 32 Linux distros and 16 desktops brawl to find the one that fits you — plus a terminal campaign mode.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I socialized in person with a single adult today and had to tell her that Taco Bell didn’t do this. I don’t want this to get known as the Taco Bell Diarrhea Plague. Someone mentioned calling this thing “MAHA blast” and I say we make this name catch

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 17/07/2026

Fun game for you and your friends

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HyenaQuest @hyenaquest.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Quality of life update 3.0.0 is out! With support for custom accessories and performance improvements :D Try the game at store.steampowered.com/app/3376480/... It's free! #indiedev #gamedev #steam #coop #freegame #indiegame

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Delivery &amp; Beyond - UPDATE V3.0.0 - Steam News

Quality of Life + Performance improvements + NEWS

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toriten🍩 @toriten20.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

動くよハイエナさん

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Soft @soft5b.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

scribble scribble

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 15/06/2026

I wish this roblox game (Pordier at War) was a standalone game so I could mod hyenas into it.

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 10/06/2026

There's this account I follow that just takes pictures of this same singular tower on a hill top day in and day out.

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Working on my “cave art” style

A collection of ice age animals arranged in a circle around a handprint

A coyote and river otter arranged in a circle

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 01/06/2025

hyenas just do that sometimes

A pair of hyenas making out sloppy style. They're just going to town with each others mouth. The drool is everywhere.

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 28/05/2026

I just realized something about the way those magic circles in Witch Atelier works. It's coding. The size of the circle, the size of the symbols inside, even the angle of them. It makes me think of how coding works if you had to draw it.

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🎃Yagamimi🎃 @luigiyagami.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This year is Zelda's 40th anniversary and Twilight Princess's 20th, so here's a TP-style Zelda 1 Link #tloz #zelda #link

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 25/05/2026

I can breathe cleeeeearly nooow the snot, is, gooonne~♪ I can feeeel aahll passaGes in, my, luuungs~♪

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Finished VR broom physics + effects. 🐧🧹💨 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 16/05/2026

new blog post incoming

Type out the code

Back in the day I read one of Zed Shaw's "Learn X the hard way" courses (I think it was his C++ course) and he began the course with a disclaimer that said something like "do not copy and paste the examples; type them out" because he believed strongly that doing so improved your comprehension of the material.

These days he recommends something even stronger:

> The best way to do this is when you complete an exercise delete what you did and do it again, but try to use your memory. If you get stuck then look at the exercise for clues, but try your best to recreate what you just did from memory. At first you'll be constantly referring to the exercise and the code, but eventually you'll get to where you can do it on your own. This will also improve your ability to remember more code, your ability to summarize how something works, and generally improve your skills faster than if you did it once and moved on.

This is known as the generation effect in cognitive psychology: the active generation of new content improves comprehension compared to passive consumption of the same material. Or as Richard Feynman put it: "What I cannot create, I do not understand".

I'm not a researcher, but I would still like to add my own spin as a lay programmer on why I believe this phenomenon matters for improving programming ability, even in the age of agentic coding. In fact, I think it's even more important now than ever for people to reacquaint themselves with this "ancient wisdom" because otherwise we'll end up with an entire generation of programmers wondering how anyone ever programmed without the help of a coding agent.

In this post I will lay out the case for why you should do the drudgery of occasionally typing out the code, character-by-character, as best as possible from memory. That doesn't mean that you should never use developer tools of any sort to accelerate the coding process, but you also need to occasionally do the boring parts by hand and by memory

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 16/05/2026

This video from a old probably now long since closed space ship battling mmo has been haunting the back of my memory for years along with the song playing over it that I could remember all the melodies & tunes & even how the lyrics were sung, but not the actual words nor name youtu.be/-kHArpN5VsU

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Space Cowboys Online Nation Battle

YouTube video by Flipz610

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averyyeen @averyyeen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

the squad

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Bat Galactic @batgalactic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

After waiting years for a new Star Fox, I got impatient and started making my own game. Years later, there's another Star Fox 64 remake and I'm still working on my game

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 02/05/2026

Yarr Harr is just the pirate version of Yeehaw Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 19/04/2026

Decided to finally dabble in putting up some assets for sale instead of another vrchat avatar Behold, tents! 🏕 darnhyena.itch.io/rustic-tents For a mere five bucks, you too can have some tents!

darnhyena.itch.io

Rustic Tent Set by Painted Hyaenas

Tent buildkit for that nomadic flair

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 19/04/2026

Decided to finally dabble in putting up some assets for sale instead of another vrchat avatar Behold, tents! 🏕 darnhyena.itch.io/rustic-tents For a mere five bucks, you too can have some tents!

darnhyena.itch.io

Rustic Tent Set by Painted Hyaenas

Tent buildkit for that nomadic flair

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 11/04/2026

I call it the melting pot. I was trying to see if I could make something bone shaped in Kiln, but then the clay kind of collapsed on me and turned into this pile of mush, so I just went with it.

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Alien Fruit Games @alienfruit.games · 24/03/2026

⚔️THE BODEGA IS OPEN⚔️ I am so excited to announce my first mostly-solo project since being laid off, Dungeon Bodega Simulator, is now out on Steam! Go grow some crops, brew potions, forge weapons, and solve puzzles! Thank ya'll all so much for the support <3 store.steampowered.com/app/3458180/...

Screenshot of Dungeon Bodega Simulator with the text "The Bodega is Open!"

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/03/2026

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 17/03/2026

It's a bit of an old sketch, but I've used my 3d skills from time to time to make my own references too. It's especially very handy to me for backgrounds and environments since I've often struggled with distance and perspective when I try to freehand it.

Screenshot of models posed around within a game engine with a sketch layered ontop

Same picture as before, but the 3d models are removed and now you see only the sketch of a small medieval village with a river passing through the middle with a sturdy stone bridge going across, and a dense layer of trees in the background.

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Reference vs Art I like to post this occasionally as part of my "you can learn 3D really really badly and it can still be useful for your process" agenda

An extremely primitive 3D model reference for the following image; it looks like something from 1992

MTG Rat token, a rat on a table full of food runs with a berry in its mouth

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dey Caackles @darnhyena.itch.io · 17/03/2026

You know what kind of toy story discourse I don't think I ever saw? Where you an Andy or a Sid to your toys?

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