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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 51m

kinda feel like it should be a bigger news story that ceo of xbox is talking openly about how her chief strategist (and snow crash fanfic writer), matthew ball, has been grooming select journalists to control the media narrative around xbox

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StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 49m

I think you mean no one’s buying them

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Lexx @portpatrol.bsky.social · 1h

If you haven’t played the PS1 port of Doom 1+2 please please please please please play it it’s SO fucking good

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Addie / EposVox @demodisc.zone · 29/09/2026

Recomps and Decomps have taken over retro gaming... ...but I, for one, do NOT think that's a good thing!! youtu.be/Uw9pqZtotGY

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Recomps and Decomps have taken over retro gaming...

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 3h

That...explains a lot.

Sharma gave her personal cellphone number to journalists and influencers. Her new chief strategy officer tutored reporters on the company’s economic challenges. She skillfully dodged questions about her predecessor’s strategic blunders.

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Addie / EposVox @demodisc.zone · 7h

In this video essay, I’ll draw the line that connects the Batman cartoons’ handling of repeat domestic terrorists with “well what can you do?” to our current political landscape where criminal politicians have no consequences for anything. Part 1: Joker, old pal!

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Addie / EposVox @demodisc.zone · 7h

Top of the morning to ya

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Video Essay Bot @videoessaybot.bsky.social · 8h

A Case For Atheism: A Deus Ex Review

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social · 8h

Mario Kart Tour wasn't my favourite game, but it did make me wish Nintendo had ditched mobile and given us a live service Mario Kart on Switch / Switch 2 instead. This game ended with 276 characters, 340 karts, 238 gliders and 546 courses. Imagine that in 'proper' Mario Kart.

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Zack Zwiezen @zackzwiezen.com · 18h

That's clearly a bird...wait...oh no...

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zøë wolfe @glitchwolfe.studio · 18h

this is in general an important life skill to build up and your capacity for joy will be greater for it

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 18h

I was just trying to prank him ok

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

incidentally, this might be the first ever use of bisexual lighting to backdrop bisexuals in history, even tho its unintentional

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Addie / EposVox @demodisc.zone · 21h

Fortnite really rotted brains hard

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Fives @fivedollardare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"These are projects made by people who don't play games, for people who don't play games, with zero respect for the important processes and the work that normally goes into what happens here." couldn't have said it better myself. these assholes are really wrecking the scene!

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

and i also know we are all passing around the same $5 or fewer dollars but uplifting also means paying for their work. Either with hard cash or with the inconveniences of shitty ad experiences or less than great headlines.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i know because i've curated my feed quite well that i may be preaching to the choir, but i hope in your rush to condemn the decline of femmes in the games journalism space you also take a moment to uplift the work of the femmes still here.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22h

it's outttt!!!!

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Addie / EposVox @demodisc.zone · 22h

Also make sure you’re *not* buying any digital PlayStation games and *are* buying physical ones - because that matters way more than any social media noise could ever hope to accomplish lol

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23h

Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23h

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Addie / EposVox @demodisc.zone · 29/09/2026

yet we can't control what brands are ads on our content what a crock of shit glad i left when i did

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PsyQuest @psyquestx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So even if you opt out of having your streams run through AI for "training purposes" they still run your streams through AI anyway? 🙃 So glad I haven't returned to streaming with this shit show of a platform.

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Addie / EposVox @demodisc.zone · 29/09/2026

Recomps and Decomps have taken over retro gaming... ...but I, for one, do NOT think that's a good thing!! youtu.be/Uw9pqZtotGY

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Recomps and Decomps have taken over retro gaming...

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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 29/09/2026

The web now consists mostly of Cloudflare verification pages and maybe occasionally actual web

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

when considering whether or not I want to have a child it's fun to take into account exciting questions like "will sending them to school get them shot or just melt their brain into a paste?"

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026

Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...

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New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN

A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...

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Xe @xeiaso.net · 29/09/2026

I am a: - [ ] man - [ ] woman - [x] load-bearing seam looking for a: - [ ] man - [ ] woman - [x] way off this wild ride

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Addie / EposVox @demodisc.zone · 29/09/2026

@kbabz.bsky.social can you pls send me that “not vibe coded“ recomps list again

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charlie deeds done kirk cheap @gizmouse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(misreading) thats right!! put engineers back in video games!!

Kohran Li from Sakura Wars, art by @Tedbob84

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Addie / EposVox @demodisc.zone · 28/09/2026

I really felt a bit of creator FOMO by not having covered the recent recomps, but it’s starting to be clear most of them need steered away from. Really big bummer as I keep trying to wrap my head around Ayn Thor coverage but most of the dual screen projects are slopped :/

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Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People *still* talk about how they don't think I engaged well with an absolute rage-bait comment that a Running With Scissors dev left on a video of mine twelve years ago. Everything you say in your defense will be scrutinized for tone, texture, and then misinterpreted in the worst ways.

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Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Don't engage" is such a hard lesson and it took me a lot of years to learn it. Im still tempted! Sometimes people say the most frustrating shit in the world and it just feels like being unacceptably passive to just let it go, but thats the trap. You're immediately judged harsher by replying at all.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The below is burned into my brain and it's about as appealing a pitch as if video games involved getting shot with an actual gun.

"The year is 2030. It's a rainy Saturday afternoon. You've just finished mining 30 obsidian ore playing Crypto Crush Saga, a match-3 mobile game.
You open up The Elder Chains Online and feel a rush of excitement. Your school buddy has spent years becoming a Master Blacksmith, and he has agreed to turn 10 obsidian into an Obsidian Battlestaff, a HUGE upgrade over the Mithril Mace you’ve been wielding for the last months.
It’ll take him an hour or so. In the meantime, you log into Clash of Guilds, and use the remaining obsidian to upgrade your town hall to the next level.
That should keep your village safe for now.
You wish you could fast forward time to tonight. Your Guild has plans to go for a deep run into the wilderness in Old School Rune Chains, and your prospects of a successful run (and great loot) have never been better.
All guild members have been spending the past 2 weeks grinding for better weapons, and you’ve agreed (through a vote) to use the Guild treasury to buy everyone a new full set of Red Dragonhide Armor.
Tonight’s objective is to kill the level 128 Frost Giant hiding in the Cave of Sorrow. He has a 5% chance of dropping an Immaculate Orb of Brilliance, of which there are currently only 4 in existence.
The Orb can be used as a power source in an upcoming space exploration game, and should give your guild a great advantage in reaching distant galaxies first. A 5% drop rate is low, but you’re feeling optimistic.
In the distance, you hear a faint 'BloCkChAIn doEsNT bRiNg AnYtHiNg nEW tO gAmES'. You shrug, and join your friends in the Discord voice channel.

Life is good."

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Addie / EposVox @demodisc.zone · 28/09/2026

Games media gives publishers way too much power over coverage.

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Solar Flair @playsolarflair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Enter The Cosmos with Solar Flair's Main Theme. ☀️🔥 Crafted by @rob-of-ages.bsky.social in The Digital Basement. Take a listen! 🎶 youtu.be/gsxOqIwFoT4

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Enter the Cosmos/First Light ~ Solar Flair Main Theme by Robert Chapman

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The cluelessness of this reminds me a lot of the NFT grift. The thing about NFTs was that it was mainly something finance bros were into, and when they were trying to worm their way into gaming, their pitches were an abyssal trench of bad ideas because they couldn't grasp why people played games.

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is why I wish games had more post-launch op-eds. Reviews are precious about spoiling anything, so I learn almost nothing. If it’s too interesting to spoil today, why is that where the conversation tends to stop?

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 28/09/2026

"nearly half did x" is one of the most misleading phrases in the human language, because that also means "most didn't" but that sounds way different

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Addie / EposVox @demodisc.zone · 27/09/2026

At this point if someone says they don’t listen to Bjork’s “Army of Me” on a daily basis, it says more about the listener than Bjork.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Imagine being so wrapped up in your tiny corner of the world that when you learn there are people who don’t live in that corner, your first thought is that they must be posturing.

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Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes it’s faster, time is money, etc, but is the damage done to academic and heritage credibility with visible AI use worth it? The Bodleian has an exhibit up right now that opens with an AI generated video, and it’s ruining the rest of the show for visitors

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Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s one thing to be aware of how the public is using it and how the disinformation it breeds can be countered in a respectful reference exchange, but it’s entirely different to use a tool that is ACTIVELY HARMING OUR FIELD in a public-facing way

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Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the second time in a few days I’ve heard someone explicitly state or imply “AI is here now, we should learn how to use it!” Says who? Nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you use the plagiarism machine!

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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