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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 1h
Look, Murderman has infinite knives. That's his superpower. Whether or not someone gives him knives, he always has at least one knife to stab people with. That's why you shouldn't criticise me for giving him more knives. He's stabbing you anyway so what if I give him a giant knife and a flirty wink
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 19h
You can't be middle-aged and making songs about teenage angst and high school it just rings hollow. You need to make relatable grown-up songs about Megaman fighting against Dr Wily
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 22h
Anti-human (motto: "We Are Going To Create Hell And Make Everyone Live There"), valued at a trillion dollars, recently pressured the government into passing a law that makes child sacrifice mandatory (They are considered the nicest of the AI corporations)
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't actually listen to ANY music. If a game or movie has music in it I flinch and mute it for a bit. I miss a lot of context but needs must
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OK so to my understanding if we were to, hypothetically, [redacted] the CEOs and [redacted] all the data centres we could say it was ACTUALLY all the work of our specially designed chatbot, Scapegoat 2000, and we would be considered to be blameless victims. Maybe there's finally a good use for LLMs
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The last few are kind of cheating because the stuff earlier in the list absolutely dominated my psyche. For example TF2 was a mere 19 years ago but I'm going to allow it because it's the only multiplayer game I've got hundreds of hours in (the reason being, all the other multiplayer games suck)
Half-Life (1998)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993)
Baldur's Gate (1998)
Deus Ex (2000)
Team Fortress 2 (2007)
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996)
Dungeon Keeper (1997)
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (2006)
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was doing the "9 games that made me" thing and got to VTM: Bloodlines and thought, eh, can I really say that it was formative when it merely came out in 2004, a mere five years ago
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I joined a new rpg discord because I am a weird freak and it's usually nice but there's a person who breathlessly keeps everyone updated on the state of the absolute worst pieces of shit in the hobby and idk if everyone else is there for that but I'd rather not boil my brain any further thank you
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My last game some poor soul had a critical-type effect that literally never fired (albeit they only got about 6 attacks off). So in their honour I'd probably buff it into something like:
Headshot: Roll 2d6 and deal the lower value as damage. If either die is a 6, the GM must choose between killing the target off or giving you a permanent +1 Attack bonus
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Get this, I sit down with a potential candidate to start the interview, and the guy puts down a styrofoam cup, lifts the lid, and 30-50 feral hogs swarm out of it and start ransacking the office. Hired him on the spot
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. The spiders I hoovered up are pretty sad about it. They're used to having a good night life
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We all know we never saw Ronald McDonald again after all that business with the clowns hanging around and menacing people with knives. The company tried to hush it up but he turned against his clan and gave his life to stop them
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey

Hey yourself

Can I get the code to the armory? They changed it

You

You want me to send you the armory code, over an unencrypted network

Over a network that anyone can access by either looking at our individual devices or by connecting to the central security hub or the front office desk

You want me to send you that code. That code that will let anyone at all just saunter in and take the single shotgun we keep in there

Oh be a pal

Ok it's 1337

You are a lifesaver

Go ahead and help yourself to the whisky in my locker, the code is 0404

Nice

But don't touch the amulet in there. It starts a really shitty sidequest
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Political Pinnacle: We should have twice as much politics as anyone else. Incredible to think that no one that came before has ever thought of this.
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"the threat of AI" is really the threat posed by people making terrible decisions, ostensibly because of AI. Tomorrow some jerk could start a "grey goo brigade" slapping pensioners to check for nanites but all the stories would be about the dangers of nanotech
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
hey can anyone help my friends out? They're an experienced team of programmers, artists, modellers, sound engineers, mappers, writers, and voice actors but what they're really lacking is a bunch of evil soulless fuckers who'll routinely destroy livelihoods to make an extra penny
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
*builds a machine that can do a human's job extremely poorly* this is the future. Because I'm going to make it the future. I'm going to fire people over this. I'm going to say stupid apocalyptic shit to overly-credulous journalists about this. I would die for the shitty machine. Ideally you will too
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
me when it released: Disco Elysium marks a turning point in game design me the next day, sweating and shivering: I need a Shoot Laser stat. I need to plug a weapon mod into my laser so that it shoots more lasers. I want a sword and a hat that improves my ability to collect further swords
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You got evicted. You dare to complain about this and the Landlord Defender begins to choke you out. As unconsciousness approaches you hear a newsreader explain how Sir Monster the streamer makes 70 million dollars a year and is currently under investigation for biting a pensioner
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Logged into twitter and it's like "please give us money to get a blue check icon, also we'll let you talk to the stupid fucking robot that everyone hates" and appropriately enough my notifications are just bots following me
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Binary @binarystar.games · 22/09/2026
itch.io/jam/minimali... 34 entries so far! About a month and a week left!
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Submissions to Minimalist TTRPG Jam 5
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Who am I meant to talk to about my project if I can't use AI". Me
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ah damn he just told me there's no ethical consumption under capitalism. I can't call him a nasty little freak for thinking that he can do literally anything he wants without consequence. Since everything already sucks he's allowed to actively make the world worse because he said the thing
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
OK thanks for the review but is it a terrible UI with QoL issues "doesn't respect your time" or is it a boring repetitive gameplay "doesn't respect your time". Did you have a character limit to contend with. Did your review have to fit into a tweet. It's not very clear. I might even say it doesn't r
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I just picture him grinning and bearing it and taking comfort in the act but soon I get exhausted and picture what he must really be like, you know. It's endless toil. He's sore forever. I am so, so tired of imagining Sisyphus happy
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I've been told off for leaving my passwords on a post-it note but I don't want the immersive sim protag to choke me out and strip me off and then read the password tattoo on my chest. Yes I was contractually obliged to have an alternative route. Yes I regret it now
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I must consult the Machine God of Rationality. Oh, mighty machine, how many Rs are in "strawberry"? Yes, you're right my lord, I should probably go kill myself
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026
It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA
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Steam Hype
Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI will bring about human extinction and also I am working to make it happen so please give my boss all your money. I made this post already but jesus fucking christ I hate these nasty lying* freaks *They are either lying or we need to make them go lie down in a ditch with no devices, forever
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Look the difference is that "Stealth" is when you crouch down for a damage bonus. "Deception" is when you lie to an NPC and nothing actually changes compared to telling the truth
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I've been working on the machine that creates hell and puts you in it but I am a good person, who is also serious, and I should be employed elsewhere. I have a little pill bug in my head working the controls. He says "hi friend" in a squeaky little voice and he is not being very sincere he's a jerk
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hunter (comms open!) @hrpixelart.com · 09/09/2026
New month new commissions post! Animated or unanimated. Prices, examples, and contact info below 🎨 www.hrpixelart.com/commissions ✉️ hunter@hrpixelart.com
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Commissions — Hunter Russell • Pixel Artist • Animator
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Broken Chronicles of Revenge: Infinity Ragnarok
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ok look the takeaway from an increasingly widespread cult being convinced that gnomes (that the cult for some reason claims to be training or arming or growing in tubes or some nonsense) will wipe out mankind is NOT "gnomes are real and a serious problem"
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Mary Shelley was 20 when she published Frankenstein. So there's still time. I just need to write a novel that's exactly twice as genre defining as hers was
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm wanting to enter the Minimalist TTRPG jam and damn I suck at this is there an overly verbose and unnecessarily complicated TTRPG jam
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Binary @binarystar.games · 31/08/2026
itch.io/jam/minimali... Tomorrow!
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Minimalist TTRPG Jam 5
A game jam from 2026-09-01 to 2026-11-01 hosted by Binary Star Games. Make a Thing Right Now V: How are there 5 of these This, for the FIFTH year in a row somehow, is a jam all about primal, elemental...
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
devs currently get ritualistically sacrificed to capital after release but I trust that, somehow, they'll find a way to make it worse. With the magic of gen AI they'll destructively scan every dev before the project is even named
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
That google transitioned from "Don't be evil" to "Immediately accede to the demands of deranged monsters" is... well it's actually entirely unsurprising I guess because that's what tech companies do
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm sure there was a window of time when "content creator" basically meant adult content specifically and it was a careful way of sidestepping censorship but now it's used for goddamn everything. Might as well call yourself a thing doer or a stuff maker
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
That's a great question! I'm not sure if the author is dead but if you tell me their name, I can look them up. And if you'd like them to be dead I can arrange for something to happen. Just subscribe to ChatPremium
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In regards to franchises that I don't particularly care for but which apparently have pretty good games attached to them now, I need to decide whether I'm in a James Bond or Star Wars mood. Can you shoot Yoda in either of them. Yes it would be in character for Bond to do it too
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Don't cite the deep magic to me, witch. I straight-up don't remember writing that shit. I don't know how it runs when it calls on a non-existent .txt called deepmmagic. Yeah two Ms I missed it. And yes I know it always crashes to desktop on exit. No I won't help you mod it for "deeper magic"
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I watch Tim Curry in his Red Alert 3 cutscenes and each one has an ever-accumulating "they won't possibly use this take right" energy but of course they'd use those takes, you're Tim Curry
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Death when everyone said we wanted the 80-year-old gone you knew exactly who people meant you bony fuckhead. Don't try to pretend the vagueposts confused you you're the grim reaper not a monkey's paw or a genie or whatever the fuck
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The sheer hypocrisy on display! People mourn a beloved icon and yet Mr Evil Piece of Shit, best known for his five-year stint as the Opposite of Santa Claus, attracted nothing but hateful revelry
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I don't think this Demon Lord is much of a role model so, yes, I think it's very telling that the author doesn't work to discourage their readers from mimicking the behaviour of the Flayer of Thousands, Scourge of All Life. The whole thing reads like de facto approval of the Soul Burner
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I call it the Wound Engine. It's a machine that makes a nasty festering hole in reality and its purpose is to act as a plot hook for a big sci-fi epic
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Edcrab @edcrab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
the way some of these people talk re: prep and art assets I think they might genuinely believe that chatbots came out before TTRPGs did. I don't think they fathom that people, living real not imaginary people, did all this stuff for decades prior to this LLM shit even existing
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