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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Once again. This machine was juiced. I had to wait 10 minutes for my jackpot chance because there were 2 more winners immediately before me. Cool coin drop and video synchronization. I couldn't include the video part to avoid filming neighbors though. #jackpot

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Was a little apprehensive about starting a tonal language in my 40s but after my first lesson, ears pick up on it just fine.

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〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

i cannot express the power levels on display here. it is simply jawdropping. i know entire animation departments that couldn't do this. the power of a pervert whose heart is true cannot be matched

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My latest @roomescapeartist.bsky.social : This is a great example of the power of immersive formats. It takes "oh, I've heard about people having that experience" and turns it into "I remember how that felt". A fascinating game, only covered thanks to an email and a coincidental long layover.

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Today I wrote a section heading that I loved but ultimately decided it was too flippant for what I was writing. "A Little Trauma, as a Treat."

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Big Tech is organized crime. Most people won’t engage with that statement. They don’t want to confront what it means — how huge the problem is and how hard it will be to fix. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s true. Big Tech is organized crime.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Screenshot of the article's graphic, showing color swatches derived from the Earthcam archive, illustration the color of the reflecting pool calibrated against satellite imagery, from 8 June to 19 June 2026. I chose yesterday, 19 June, so it rendered the US American flag with a green hue instead of blue.

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Lindsey Wailes (looking for work!) @linwail.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Its just this meme over and over again. STOP BUYING STUDIOS TO CLOSE THEM

meme about feeding studios to shareholders

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

one of my favorite sketchbook comics, anime press conference

PANEL 1: A close-up drawing of Goku from Dragon Ball.
PANEL 2: A mayor is reading prepared remarks from a lectern to the press. MAYOR: "Goku is the Mickey Mouse of fighting"
PANEL 3: MAYOR: "Luffy is Goku but with long arms and--" REPORTER 1: "BOO!" MAYOR: "Let me finish--long arms and flip-flops."
PANEL 4: REPORTER 2: "Mr. Mayor, are you speaking in terms of official policy recommendations or as a private citizen?" The mayor dabs away sweat. MAYOR: "Please, Tom, there'll be time for questions at the end."
PANEL 5: REPORTER 3: "These are serious allegations--" MAYOR: "Every Gundam is worse than Voltron--" REPORTER 4: "Man, fuck this!"
PANEL 6: MAYOR (visibly sweating): "Please, I have to get through this: Every Gundam is worse than Volton because his hands are lion mouths." REPORTER 1: "BOOOOOOOOO"
PANEL 7: Security hoists up a reporter to eject him. SECURITY 1: "You're done, Fake News" REPORTER 1: "This is a democracy!"
PANEL 8: The mayor continues. MAYOR: "Pokemon was a dry run for QAnon." REPORTER 1: "The people have a right to a free press!"
PANEL 9: MAYOR: "Naruto is the Donald Duck of fighting."
PANEL 10: Another reporter stands up and interrupts the mayor. REPORTER 5: "How many more--" MAYOR: "Boruto--" REPORTER 5: "How many more of these--" MAYOR (insistent): "BORUTO is Naruto with worser hair."
PANEL 11: REPORTER 6: "How many more of these unfounded allegations are you going to--" MAYOR: "Questions at the end, Laura!"
PANEL 12: MAYOR: "Evangelion is suicidal ideation Tenchi Muyo."

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned

I can summarize that for you

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

And he said, "If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don't want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something."

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Today’s very art deco dinner and drink venue.

Art Deco artwork adorns the walls and ceiling of a bar. The ceiling has a stag motif and the wall a Greco-Roman mythological one. An ornate, similarly styled chandelier is present.

An ornately decorated bar is seen at a distance.

Stairs leading upwards labeled with “Parkview Square” in an art deco font.

The imposing art deco exterior of the Parkview Square building.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Hearing the head of the WHCA—who just days ago participated in a Paramount dinner “honoring” Trump— say tonight that the First Amendment is “fragile” because of a random shooter rather than because of the president sitting next to her on the podium is, I guess, exactly as pathetic as you’d expect.

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Erik Grove @erikgrove.com · 08/04/2026

This whiplash where the president terrifies the world for a few days with unhinged threats and then says “never mind” and then there’s this implication that anyone scared of his unhinged threats was overreacting is very domestic abuse but make it a country.

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Finally made it to the local aquarium.

A baby sea turtle swims against a grating.

The huge main tank at Churaumi aquarium, including a whale shark, rays, and many fishes. There is a crowd of people in front of the tank.

Sea turtles swim in a pool with some rocks.

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Sure, I took a swing at this. 9, of course, woefully insufficient. #9games

Cover art for the games X-COM: UFO Defense, Persona 4 Golden, Fallout, Xenosaga, X-Wing, System Shock 2, Sid Meier's Civilization, World of Warcraft, and Mechwarrior.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Close up of a Tufted Titmouse

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🦇Harper 🔜 ANE 🦇 @2manystripes.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I picked GBF up during the pandemic and still play. While it’s cool to see the game finally get official EN support beyond SEA, I’m not sure I can really recommend it in 2025. It’s a very old fashioned game at this point. Glorious art, writing, and VA work though.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

i stand by this statement every year

tweet reading: GAME TRAILER: “Enter a world beyond belief...”

ME: “Yes”

GAME TRAILER: “An adventure like never before...”

ME: “YES”

GAME TRAILER: “Join your friends online”

ME: “I’m out”

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Our grocery store has a Black Friday sale. Mostly on foods that are black or have black packaging. Yes, but also…no. Oh, Japan. 😂

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Now *this* is a call to action. 😂

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Wife: showing me pictures from yesterday sightseeing w/family while I was at work. Me: Wait a minute, you met @chiitan.love ?! Not fair! W: Oh, do you know who that is? We didn't, but they were cute. 😂

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Finally cracked the "Score 100,000,000 in a single hand" #balatro lock. In regulation no less! Disgusting run.

A round score of 2,264,973,577 is shown in Balatro using Triboulet, Brainstorm, Brainstorm, Photograph, and Chicot

The victory screen for Balatro, seed JB5AXI6S

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Liam @othemts.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

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Triple-Q @triple-q.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

- "Get me the original Simpsons theme in the game!" - "Licensing it is too expensive sir" - "Then get me a non-union equivalent!"

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/11/2025

I mentioned this stat from Alisa Wood of KKR in a talk I did a few weeks ago, but did you know: There are more private equity firms in the United States than there are McDonald's? (~19,000 vs. 14,000) In 1980, there were 24 PE firms *total* in the U.S. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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‘Crazy, Right?’: More PE Funds Than McDonald’s Signals Pressure

Private-market giants are pinning hopes that the next surge of growth will separate the best from the rest in an industry saturated by too many firms.

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Anthony John Agnello @ajohnagnello.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We should probably promote this show more, it’s true. You get it all when you back this show: talk about games no other podcast is going to cover—that glorious middle lane between AAA drudgery and indie obscurity that always gets lost in the internet drag—and Shatner-ian readings of old R&B songs.

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

This came into my feed and I realized that I could read it now. Nice little moment of language progress.

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Saw the new Running Man trailer. I’m in. Very on the book, which will make it a good story for our time. I imagine Stephen King is happy since he’s not a fan of the old movie, which is much more “inspired by” than “adaptation”. I have a soft spot for the schlocky old one though.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Ships taking shelter from Super Typhoon Ragasa in a bay near Hong Kong. Not pictured: Us on an improvised flight escaping Hong Kong before the airport shuts down for two whole days.

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Ooh, this has some real 428: Shibuya Scramble vibes.

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I prefer my games without PvP but I admit it is satisfying to see my umas win. (In the non-whale division)

Special Week, Mejiro McQueen, and Gold Ship from the game Umamusume: Pretty Derby are shown coming in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/08/2025

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are. Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com : softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Today's adventure in JP/EN dual use website forms: "The character ',' may not be used". It took me almost as long to prune out the commas as to fill out the form! After several tries, the last one was the comma in "2,000".😅

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Michael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

A particularly important review from @roomescapeartist.bsky.social, in that it showcases a very long list of things that you should never ever do. An escape room review should never include the line "I asked my team, 'did I look cool?' while I was set on fire.”

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Freaky Minds Horror Live Games - The Sculptor [Review] - Room Escape Artist

We do not recommend The Sculptor, an escape room at Freaky Minds Horror Live Games in Athens. They do not respect their players.

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We know shit is real when the town makes a second announcement in English. First time that's happened. (It will be tiny here, no concerns, they're just warning people to stay away from the water)

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Ryan Brady @doctoromni.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Today there was a strange thumping at our balcony door. We have a small lizard that dashed through the door one day and refuses to leave. It's good at hiding. The lizard was on the sliding doors and the thumping was a bird trying to eat it. Through the door. 😆

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/07/2025

Fix This Sign xkcd.com/3113/

Comic. [Person with ponytail using handheld device in front of a large sign with crooked, off-center header, with crooked QR code (with illegible URL) and crooked list beneath] Header: DOANATE TO FIX THIS SIGN! List: $10 Fix kerning [kerning around “rni” of kerning is difficult to read]; $20 Align Columns [out of alignment] $20 Fix text size [much smaller text size]; $50 Fix typo; $50 Fix centering; $100 fix rotation. PERSON: Grrr… [caption] My new company’s business model is based on extorting graphic designers.

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