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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 23h

AC8 credits rolled i have been with this series since 04. if i wasn't so excited for what comes next, i would say this is about as close as it gets to a complete realization of what this series is. nothing is perfect but this is the closest it has ever been no question, new #1

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 05/10/2026

POV: you are a Zabi sitting across from Char at a formal event

one of Ace Combat 8's fancy military uniform wearing big bads eyefucking you. he does this for basically the entire cutscene

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The Amityville Jordan (1979) @jackal27.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can’t even comprehend how important Eien ni Hen’s work is to the fan translation community. Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Glory of Heracles, Dragon Force II, Dark Half, Beyond Oasis, Psi-O-Blade, Arabian Nights, and so much more. What a loss. Rest in peace.

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 26/09/2026

"we shouldn't be held personally liable for the hack because our AI did it on its own" is exactly the same as "we shouldn't be held personally liable for refusing to cover life-saving treatment because it's in our policy" there is always a human hand at the wheel. refuse the fiction

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 16/09/2026

@1800westsmith.bsky.social after maybe the 200th conversation internally about overnight content at sakuracon where i quote your 2025 article, i realized i should tell you that it has been a hilariously effective catalyst to push towards improving overnight offerings ✨ the night will never die

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 10/09/2026

every time one of these breathless claims hits, look for the transcript. if they hide the system prompt or chunks of messages, assume that they are slammed wall to wall with 'here is exactly how to go fuck things up and produce the output my preordained conclusion needs' and hiding their liability

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atelier @arainydancer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm reading Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings and I feel like he's fucking with me. There's a lot of swordfighting techniques he mentions in this book and then he goes "I will not go into detail" or "I will teach you this in person." Then he dies. We'll never find out what that means

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Oh yeah, the headache that makes you wrong about Gundam

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 17/08/2026

while i can appreciate the people using this as a chance to dunk on LLMs, they're missing the much better opportunity to dunk on what is quite possibly the apex form of banal everyday villainy rendered as a bullshit profession: the expert witness

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 05/08/2026

all you're doing anymore when you pay a big company is paying an abuser to abuse people. you don't even get anything in exchange. you don't "get" the new halo. at any opportunity they'll deny you own it, having spent no money to let you run it for a while

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 05/08/2026

if it's layoffs on ship no matter what, never pay that company for anything. why would you. your money will never reach anyone who worked on what you bought, or respected those people. you'll not be investing in anything in any sense software is on the honour system and these people have no honour

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 28/07/2026

this strikes me as - perhaps unintentionally - much more telling about what SE corporate thinks a single-player title "should" be in terms of game-per-dollar rather than anything about development cycles or fidelity

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 26/07/2026

i have never been a big myst person and not for lack of trying when i was younger but if this was available now i would buy and play it because i GOTTA know why this dude is such a freak. his voicework is tremendous take note publishers

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leva+ @blueamaryllis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

two full hours into the game I heard him slur "messi is just waking up" into his cups while the entire rest of the establishment was cheering. brutal

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 16/07/2026

well it didn't take long for open league to feel like i'm living in the 'how many kindergarteners can you fight' dimension

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 01/07/2026

they'll tell you correlation isn't causation but let me tell you: nothing will make you more resilient to statistics-based discourse than reflexively comparing any geographical visualization to population density maps and any regionally separated bar chart to mean wealth/income per adult

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 30/06/2026

successfully subscribed to Cancer Gold™ satisfying result for starting 18 days ago, aside from the irreversible mental damage incurred

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DRAW PHASE @drawphase.org · 18/05/2026

gayseatinggarlicbreadinthepark.com see you there?

FLASH DEPLOYMENT NOTICE

some may say that card games and garlic bread are not a natural pairing.

your DRAW PHASE directorate disagrees. we believe that proper nourishment is critical to the comprehensive level of tactical thinking necessary for strategic development and competitive success — or at least for dealing with that friend who rolls up to the pod with their new Fire Lord Azula deck "but I swear it's only bracket 3" — and we posit that garlic bread may well be the ideal form factor through which to acquire it.

to put this theory to the test, we will be deploying to

GAYS EATING GARLIC BREAD IN THE PARK

Saturday, June 6
12am to 5pm

at Woodland Park
1000 N 50th St, Seattle WA

providing our customary host of learn to play experiences, local community volunteers eager to teach, and our Commander Loaner Library. come play a few games, learn something new, and meet some lovely people...

... maybe evne your future play group?

— with love, your draw phase directorate

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 04/05/2026

if you're out here posting 'the best writing in games can't hold up to the median low brow novel' in 2026 you should be strapped down and forced to actually read the median low brow novel you can't go accusing people of not reading when your awareness of the medium is so small

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Kaptajnen @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I choose to believe this is how most 90s arcade race tracks were initially conceived #gaming #retrogaming #arcade

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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

repairing a rear projection CRT arcade game and need literally any documentation at all about Toshiba rear projection CRTs from the late 1990s if anyone has any leads whatsoever

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 10/04/2026

"what could go wrong? it's just one extra attack" - at least one D&D designer in literally every edition about to make the mistake that echoes throughout eternity

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 23/03/2026

- Pixy, Ace Combat Zero - Primordial Malzeno, MH Sunbreak - Megalo Death, Vampire Survivors - Profound Darkness, PSO2 - Elandar & Argoniel, Tales of Maj'Eyal

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 14/03/2026

i quibble with the conflations and the invocation of moran here. those games are eminently beautiful works of art that could not be made without mastery of the discipline, and it's rarely if ever the structure or the layout that present the challenge an ugly Glitch would look like fucking Time Cube

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 13/03/2026

i both love this thread and feel an abject sickness at how such a seemingly self-evident concept has become functionally impossible in NA and i fear not just for the normal capitalist reasons, either - even if you had the ironclad funding for it, could it be done *culturally*?

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rj @rj.dcellgames.com · 21/02/2026

one sec let me do some quick math here

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 16/02/2026

ah, this one hurts... may there be no shortage of delicious curry wheresoever you may go. maybe with slightly fewer skeletons throwing it at you

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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 12/02/2026

Sam Darnold Frees the angry spirits www.thedrawplay.com/comic/sam-da...

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Rori 🦇 @sweetrori.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40. Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 11/02/2026

my mother nearly wound up with a restraining order against her after learning my 7th grade math teacher told me i "would never amount to anything" because i wouldn't do homework for her class (folks: you might be shocked to learn it was the undiagnosed ADHD)

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 07/02/2026

Brush Burial: Gutter World has a warning screen that goes hard

A pixelated screen that says:

!!! Read Before Playing !!!

This game features NO MIDLEVEL SAVES.

You are EXPECTED to FAIL UNTIL YOU LEARN.

I have UNCONDITIONAL PATIENCE for your mistakes, AND SO SHOULD YOU.

GO AHEAD AND DIE.

> i understand <

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 06/02/2026

i've been moderate on my opinion of the technology as a whole because there -are- some use cases esp for local models, it's just not aligned to what corpos want or are provisioning for after this post it now needs to removed by force from regular hands and forbidden like the garage nuclear reactor

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 30/01/2026

me: the feeling does not have to be rational to be a feeling that needs resolved me: sometimes you have to trust your instinct when it has a habit of doing the right thing me: worry about the things ahead and not the unchangeable past also me, silently second guessing a thing already done:

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a silly little quote bot @quixoticbot.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Do not seek forgiveness, for it will not ease the burden. It weighs as it should.

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Silence @franandneo.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

#FF14 #FFXIV #FF14SS #アウラ因为做很多张图片很麻烦所以把三种语言写在一起了……

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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

the CEO of larian just pulled the "i'm 12 years old on myspace and my internet girlfriend dumped me" move i'm not kidding

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 17/12/2025

so now we've got uhhhh. zero trustworthy browser cores? nice. i love the future

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Ash @escapingtotheoneplacethathasntbeencorruptedbycapitalism.space · 12/12/2025

its amazing that a game trailer can have so much going on and yet literally all of it is so nakedly lifted from something else that it has no identity you can see beyond that of its pieces

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