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Ash @fishyash.com · 06/10/2026

Walking past an elegant mansion in the heart of the city of Baghdad, Nasrudin heard a party in progress inside. Enticed by the spell of roast goat, he slipped past the guards into the house, and took his place at the table. After the feast his host called for silence.

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A lot of expensive proprietary software is gonna get decompiled and get free versions. You're gonna get free adobe suite, free turbotax/quickbooks, free microsoft office, free CAD, free logic/cubase. And they're not gonna be alternatives, they're going to try and function like the original

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Ash @fishyash.com · 06/10/2026

Looks like AI-based decomps are coming out more and more. Haven't really cared for it in gaming because it usually is done to make slop port or some vapid shit like "what if mario was in skyrim" but it's not just about games Someone did one for photoshop lol so now there's basically free photoshop

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'storytelling medium' is a normative term that reduces any art form to a mere vector for implicit true art of writing a good plot

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The Dizzy news about it being Gen AI is kinda revealing a pattern... a lot of older devs were working with cutting edge technology in their heydey, they were essentially pioneers. And Gen AI is basically letting them relive that experience, they get to be pioneers again

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I quoted a Nasrudin story I shared with a fairly pithy comment but even though I thought it was funny I kinda just want people to read them and take their own interpretation, or none ofc Maybe if it feels relevant I'll go into it. The one I just shared about the wrestler spoke to me viscerally lmao

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かめりあ (Camellia) @cametek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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I made a song for Taiko no Tatsujin 25th anniversary! 「Don-doko🥁 Don-doko🥁 Don-doko🥁 Don-doko🥁 Dontastic!!! - Camellia feat. Ume Hanami (From Gakuen iDOLM@STER)」! www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Ot...

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been thinking about starting a blog... I was thinking of youtube originally cause I wanna make videos but I might start by setting up a wordpress site first cause I think that'd encourage writing more. Also it'd be a great place for me to explain each term in that pinned thread lmao

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Cass (makes games) @cassmakesgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

you know what, the 9 albums thing is quite cool I'm gonna share mine as I don't think I've done one of those (done the 9 games one like a billion times)

9 albums arranged in a 3x3 format

Songs in the key of life by Stevie Wonder, A night at the Opera by Queen, Emergency on Planet Earth by Jamiroquai, Thousand Knives by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Solid State Survivor by Yellow Magic Orchestra, Discovery by Daft Punk, Time by Louis Cole, Thrill of the Arts by Vulfpeck, Choose your Weapon by Hiatus Kaiyote

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New Blog Post: Why I Love Unfair Traps in Arcade Games People usually dislike hard memo traps in arcade games, or at best think they're "not that bad". I love them, though, and I think arcade games would be worse without them. Here's why: duckberet.com/blog/i-like-... (game: Violent Storm)

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Nasrudin was summoned by the king to advise him on medical matters. "Tell me," he asked, "at what hour is it wisest to dine?"

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I've been thinking about the luddites a fair bit for a good few years now, are there any good books on it? like pop sci, pop history is well out of any of my reading habits whether in the past or today lol

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Berry 🍇 @nyamukoneko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"artisanal" as a derogatory term is absurd lmao please, we need more slop! we gotta make more slop! faster! faster!!!!!!

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the bunny can now KICK

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I got this huge collection of Nasruddin stories and it's good stuff. A whole slew of folk tales I have minimal to no knowledge of. Might post any that speak out to me that are short enough to fit in a bsky post

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𝙑𝙀𝙀𝙏𝙍𝙄 : Blast Processed 🥑 @parametricavocado.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

LRP my first thought where this also applies is video games because the negative effects of it are Fairly Obvious to me though I think there's a caveat, where if you are simulating another game, accuracy should be the biggest priority. A racing sim is basically a port of IRL racing

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Across so many different fields, the promise that meticulous simulation inherently yields effective art is a recurring source of despair and misguidance among the uninspired and of hollow, fleeting satisfaction to the uncritical.

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I played through Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans Honestly a super interesting game. I can see why it wasn't released but also like damn it would've kinda ruled in its own way lol Puzzles were on the easy side though... their lack of adventure game design experience was pretty apparent

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TCRF has been going through this as well, and worse still is that the attempts to stop it are being retaliated against in the form of DDOS tantrums

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Here's me somehow no missing stage 4 on a run despite never getting it in while practicing, it was on stream so there's running commentary lol

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Mushi stream went really well! Made a ton of progress as well. I think I can just continue doing clear attempts and it'll come. I think I'll stream it tomorrow afternoon maybe the clear will happen then

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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I want to stream something, but I also may want to play more mushihimesama... oh wait

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i miss the 7th gen, you'd play a cover-based third person shooter as a gritty guy who is like "look out! grunkers!" and then he'd shoot a baddie and say "grunker down! now to plug that grunk hole!" and then you'd run up and tap A to rapidly push over a cabinet

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Eh, decided to delete my post from yesterday, my thoughts on it have changed slightly and will probably change more in the future

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SnowyAria (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧🏳️‍⚧️ @snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games · 02/10/2026

Is it finally time for me to hop on resident evil? For spooky month

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The tower calls out to the sinners of Neverland. It's time to repent. It's time to climb. Spectral Tower - English patch, out now!! Translation - Quade Hacking - Tasos500 Graphics - NicheTopic FMV Translations - SnowyAria (No AI was used for this patch) github.com/Yoshimanix/s...

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Holly Green @winnersusedrugs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"What to do about Jacob Geller" I dunno, move on? A single person's work is not so integral and sacred that we need to wring our hands about what to do with it. There are a lot of people whose work you could be reading or listening to. Stop making icons out of random dudes. is that so hard

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

is there anything more humiliating than realizing you were stuck on a puzzle in an adventure game for an hour because you immediately jumped to a complex conclusion rather than just trying the most obvious thing that came to mind

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Was kinda tired but decided to practice mushihimesama anyway cause I haven't played it for a few days... got down to 1 miss on stage 3, and the miss was a pretty dumb one too I could've definitely gotten a no miss on that attempt. definitely gets easier when you memorize everything

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Because one person demanded it! A bsky exclusive video! As far as I can tell, Alice in Flagland is the first hip-hop song in video games. Here's the song in its entirety! youtu.be/06WdayRfqjE

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The First Hip-Hop in Video Games?

YouTube video by RndStranger

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It blows my mind that the sugar industry conspiring to make people eat more carbohydrates than they need through propaganda is in living memory, yet we are seeing the exact same fucking thing with the beef and dairy industry through the protein/fat craze and the is falling for it AGAIN

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Today I discovered the Master System outsold the Gamecube, SNES and Game Boy Color in the UK

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while I enjoy cheesing (because cheesing is usually fun) I do think there's another side to it I'm also a big fan of applying house rules if you've correctly identified a critical flaw that makes the game less fun for you

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