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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 13/10/2026

it's very funny to me that "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" is something people hork around like it's some kind of pearl of ancient wisdom and, no, it's just another fucking unsourceable 2014-vintage Tumblr meme

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neutral @neutral.zone · 13/09/2026

Twelve people repeatedly annoying one another while 30,000 bystanders reconstruct the argument from subtweets was already a reasonably good model of human civilization, I guess, so this isn't really new.

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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

bad news oomf. they just announced a new remake of you at the latest game conference. yeah you got that unreal engine 5 sheen and everything. they changed your entire voice direction and its flat and quirky now. they updated your mechanics. theyre gonna kill you if it doesnt sell one billion copies

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 12/08/2026

While we're talking about social media stats, can we just take a moment to reflect on how weird it is that we've convinced ourselves there can be only One Website and if your website is not on its way to being the only One Website, you're failing?

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When franchising becomes about remakes it's actually just about whether the player or the character is Roland, because you've already baked in the time loop thing

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

a literal car dealer trying to sanction another country for wildfire smoke really gets at the essence of climate politics

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Popularism and populism both derive from the same essential impulse, which is to construct a synthetic version of The People that will cure democracy of the need to adjudicate between competing claims.

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

thinking about it more I think this correlation is so poor the inverse is probably more true, eras of gen-on-gen stagnation have consolidated and centralized wealth much more rapidly than uplift, i.e. NVIDIA in 2022-now

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

paypal came to be in the slowest quartile (1999-2006) which makes the theory even worse

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

the uplift from 1986-2006 is probably 5x greater and didn't do any of this

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"Purposeful" does the heavy lifting here imo. Mechanics don't end up maligned because of the exemplary but rather in rote reproduction without the same intentionality

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 11/05/2026

The Mixtape discourse makes me feel like we have arrived at a place where criticism is almost untenable because it will be flanderized and stripped down to whatever parts become useful for social media cohorts driven by algorithms towards reactionary or extreme ends rather than engagement w/ media.

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"Adobe invented a water powered car in their garage but big HTML assassinated them because it was too good" level posting about a borderline unmaintained plugin that could RCE from hovering over a banner ad

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

playing turtles in time and yearning for detective vision

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

ripping the LaserDisc for Beastmaster II and it contains one of my favorite bits of distracting dubbing in history

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barleybap but she's dressed as a skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

"Dreamcast", a haiku Each day he rises. Asks me, "Is it still launch day?" "Yes," I lie. "Always."

My Dreamcast asking me to set the date, and showing the Japanese launch date of 27th of November 1998.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I was just thinking the other day about how for the past twenty years video game companies have been terrified of even the slightest bit of friction in player experiences. Not just stuff like "don't make them wander looking for a button that blends into the background", but any game play tension.

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I think this is a great illustration of why the ephemerality of social media favors grifters over anyone who actually wants to build or do anything. They get the reach to talk about every moment to an audience (and occupy the minds of their adversaries) without holding any beliefs.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

star wars and star trek fans are weak "boohoo our franchise isn't good anymore". there's never been a good tron movie and it rules

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

icon of sin slowly climbing the terrible FPS boss power rankings by simply being a wall you shoot and then the game ends

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

3D sonic definitely occupies that genre space where a game actually achieving its potential feels somehow damning to everything else

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Games That Weren't @gamesthatwerent.com · 17/12/2025

Our first big Christmas update is with an amazing recovery of the final build of Resident Evil on Gameboy Color. Hotgen's impressive conversion that got canned. This is much closer to completion, and seems completable too. Lots to discover! www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/12/resi...

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This website has the critical mass of people that get mad at any reminder that the written word isn't the nexus of all thought and culture because believing posting can solve problems is how they cope with things

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I won't deny it's often misguided but if the baseline is that all fiction is interactive and that is part of the appeal then wanting to make it "more" interactive is merely an extension of that

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This is all true but what really strikes me is we're coming up on the 7th anniversary of Epic Games Store and it hasn't even budged the discourse on games storefronts an inch. This could actually just be a tweet from 2018

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The real pattern that emerges if you examine the last 20 years of output is just an astounding lack of confidence in Metroid (especially in the sense that Prime had) that usually leads them to places like this.

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Imagining "user friendly" without defining an intended user eventually means creating systems that attempt to (often wrongly) intuit user intentions to the point that it overrides the basic intuitive functionality

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This is not to say that an arbitrary price ceiling of $60 makes "sense," more that fixing the imagined price at any point ignores that distribution flexibility has decoupled games from unit costs and allowed indies to become more viable, flops to make their money back with sales, etc.

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

People often frame this purely as an entitlement issue but the per unit costs of distributing games are inconceivably low compared to what they used to be. Studios were happy to sell CDs for less than cartridges because they were paying Sony way less than Nintendo up front for manufacturing.

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executive beauty dream shooter @romdocitizen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

one of the most famous characters in literature pulls a straightforward no foolin "he-went-thataway" on one of the other most famous characters in literature and it fucking works

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Dino Crisis 3 being one of the first games I ever bought with my own money really hammered home what a room temperature TV dinner of a game it was

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 01/10/2025

NEW ATB!!!!! Dragon Quest 2 is a weird sequel, with some revelatory evolutions and some very frustrating choices. we wonder when does making a better game make a worse adventure: alltimebangers.com/dragon-quest...

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

All organization seems futile if your main concern is enumerating the people you can't persuade

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I just mentally file it in the same place as the Blackwater Kinect game which is "curiosities that feel too incriminating to own"

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It's very surreal getting deep into a conversation about something like this and realizing the other person's signpost for meaning/respected time is a bar filling or something. I love to fill a bar and make a number go up but it's just a reflection of how little value I can place on my own time.

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This article envisions Silksong as the bellwether in this scenario but I think the fact that an article about criticism dying will probably outperform any impressions or critique indicates that criticism is already as dead as it will ever be and Silksong is just another marker

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I'm a millenial and understand the despair but the fact that people are in their 30s and 40s and imagine themselves as passive viewers (essentially consumers) of the world feels way more damning on this issue compared to whether or not the "techno-optimist euphoria" switch is on or off

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"Ambient" and "pervasive" being qualities they think they should signal in external messaging really speaks to how much big tech either can't or doesn't care to perform even basic salesmanship to their captive audience

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Humanities vs STEM is just console wars for the professional-managerial class; a bored, distinctly middle class kind of desolation

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I think the net effect of this idea and a few others permeating thought has mostly been disengagement no matter how correct they are, because what it amounts to is permission to shift ethical concern into some abstract future

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

not a huge fan of the narrative that people were simply tricked by capital into centralizing the web into 5 websites in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it was definitely a choice made around convenience and comfort that capital positioned itself to exploit, this will repeat until you acknowledge it

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Nintendo Switch Announcer (gravely): What is the true origin of man's inhumanity to man? What fate awaits our souls in the next life? Death and oblivion await all of us, this September. <fade to black, slight pause> Nintendo Switch Announcer: Who's up for ice cream? That's right - Hello Kitty!

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Fun Enjoyer @funenjoyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It's nonsense but "This NPC behavior having logic is actually AI" really has been a marketing mainstay in the games business for basically half a century now, so it really slots in perfectly into AI hype

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