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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 1h

I'm going to need research to get done about short-form content and its correlation to dementia and mental degradation, because my father's mental well-being has basically crumbled ever since he's started to do nothing but look at TikToks, YT Shorts, and Reels on his phone.

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MaxPoetic @maxpoetic.online · 2h

hello i am live streaming limbus company canto 4 time which is apparently really good im told so im doing it now on twitch tv www.twitch.tv/maxpoetic

Yi Sang from Limbus Company, a tired and downtrodden looking man in a suit and grey overcoat

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columbo out of touch thursday @ootcolumbo.bsky.social · 2h

you know what day it is

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 3h

Sega is pulling TW: Shogun 2 from sale, just a couple days after launch. Why? Undisclosed AI use so obvious and atrocious that fans lit the Steam Discussions on fire. And vibe coding defenders have a new trophy on their slop mantle. Game is apparently crashing left and right. Brand immolation.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

I bought one of those flavored protein powders that's supposed to mix with water, and it tastes like a delicious lemonade. So I just drink that in the morning.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 12h

There's this thing I see once in a while about people trying to learn a second language, where they worry they'll never really understand the language fully. Hey. Let me give you something true and meaningful: You don't understand your native language fully either. It's fine. It's O-K.

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House House @househouse.com · 12h

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)

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Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 14h

Addiction by Design was published all the way back in 2012 and I think it’s the best (and absolutely devastating) book about the mechanics and economics of the predatory gaming industry It wasn’t even about video games, but you could map it to our sphere almost 1-to-1

Cover of Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schull

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 12h

If your native language is English, I promise you that you don't fully comprehend the English language. Like I promise there's grammar or vocabulary or particles or something that you just don't have.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 12h

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14h

So, like, haha- when's the next match? Yeah, cool, cool. Are you gonna be working around then? Maybe we can go watch it together?

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 17h

Getting roasted by my Court Jester while I'm getting roasted.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 19h

This man is literally trying to keep his skeleton from escaping his body live on-camera and no one is asking why he's allowed to decide things about other people's health.

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 19h

So, I'm back with my newsletter and it's different. I've been sitting on how to write this. So here's a pretty raw and unfiltered piece on Dawnwalker, the unique pain of losing a sibling, and the many complex ways my brother's death changed me an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/an-evening-a...

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An Evening At the Inn Issue 10 - Toward the Dawn

Hey there, it's been a while. Life, so often, never goes the way you want it to, and I would have preferred to be writing many more newsletters these last few months. But I'm back with something a lit...

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 19h

Posted this in the "Best Friends I've known for over 10 years who are all LGBTQ+" server, and no one said anything. We'll get 'em next time.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe it's a loc thing? Like a blind spot or something.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah I know it's based on a previous thing, but the way it's interpreted here is pretty bad all things considered.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 20h

Today's run! Pushed myself a little harder today to see if I could knock more time off. I did! Just need to keep testing my upper limit, little by little, and I'll get to that sub-30 time.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah that DLC for Time Stranger was whack. The first one was kinda neat, but then the second one was much of the same, and the third was just more of the same and also bad. And since you can buy them separately, a GOOD CHUNK of each one is retreading the same explanations of things. Not worth it.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 22h

Watched the Time Stranger expansion trailer. Hey that looks cool!

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Burnout Culture Podcast @burnoutculture.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

New Episode of Burnout Culture ‼️ GC and Cullen hold down the fort and do a little catch up on what we've been playing. Mainly, Fire Emblem. And some yummy hating. open.spotify.com/episode/7o1E...

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 22h

You don't want to make videos anymore, you want to make video games, you don't want to make videos anymore, you want to make video games, you don't want to make videos anymore, you want to make video games, you don't want to videos anymore, you want to make video games, you don't want to make video-

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah I thought it was gonna be more of a thing about that very real thing where internet memes does replace legit critique or reflection about stuff, but it's very...it's not good.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 23h

Ah...I read that article...eh...it's got a couple of good points to make but it's really mired in a lot of stuff I don't think is productive or really all that salient.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Also the fuckin- the over-population thing and racism thing are not opposing views to find a middle ground on what the fuck is even the contention between these two things? Like what exactly is this even getting at.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That was a lot to get out of a 45 minute DLC story, but I've seen Digimon and other stuff pull this before, and for whatever reason I finally had the words to articulate how this stuff makes me feel.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Like you can't be talkin' shit about both sides of an issue in your story, turn them into big extremes, completely miss the point of what the issue is, plant yourself in the middle as some kind of True Neutral hero, and then act like you're staying out of it. You're...not??? You're literally not.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

You don't get to discuss real issues in a big thing like this without being scrutinized for it without actually taking the time to learn about those issues- and you still might be criticized for your perspective anyway. That's what you sign up for when you decide to write about real issues.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The alternative? Actually learning what the real issues are, forming an opinion, and writing a story about that. Even if your opinion is a more moderate one, there are better ways to do it than...this. If the real answer is, "it's complicated though," well...yeah. That's what you signed up for.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

And that makes for one of two things: You either have a story that makes people who have even a little bit of understanding about what you're talking about realize you're full of shit. You completely lose them. OR, you end up further spreading ignorance to people listening to you.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Thankfully, base game Time Stranger isn't about this stuff in the slightest, but you see this style of posing "both sides" in games all the time. It's two absurd extremes most people don't vibe with, being pitted against by a writer who doesn't actually understand what's going on with the issue.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Like- see this? This is a big red flag. But you're seeing it out of context. The context is this is one of the perspectives being used as a "both sides have good points" thing. The other side being a very cartoonish depiction of...anti-racism, I guess? It's very ignorant and naive.

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Latinx In Gaming @latinxingaming.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

There’s 1 day left of Hispanic Heritage Month and there’s no better way to celebrate than to support Latine game developers. Indie studio, Vibe XP, is developing The Coldest Winter and their Kickstarter is live! 👉🏼 www.kickstarter.com/projects/the... #indiedev #hispanicheritagemonth

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Update 1: We’re a Kickstarter Project We Love! 💚❄️ · The Coldest Winter

Hi everyone,We have some exciting news: The Coldest Winter has been selected as a Kickstarter Project We Love! 💚❄️Thank you for backing us, sharing the campaign, and cheering us on. Every pledge, mess...

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Whether it's because they don't want to be on the wrong side of history, or they don't want to be wrong or make a mistake, or because they like pretending they're this outside observer to things directly impacting them and people around them, it all just has that air of being Too Good For It.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Unfortunately, a lot of people in games take on a so-called "apolitical" stance to things. What it really is, is someone who wants to talk about important things, without actually learning enough about those things to have an actual opinion about them. I find it very condescending.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This perspective is also wrapped in a story about a sickness that is ravaging a population, and then- yeah things start to add up in a very Not Good way.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The "you both make good points" thing they're doing in the 3rd DLC for Time Stranger is kinda nuts when you remember that the "Resource Crisis" thing is largely a myth pushed around by the very wealthy to justify the hoarding of said wealth and resources.

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 14/10/2026

*lays off a thousand programmers* Wow, programming is hard!

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"Programming is hard," says the programmers we all went to school with who played League of Legends on their laptops during lectures. "Programming is hard," says the guy who would spam the class group chat for help 3 hours before the assignment was due.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"Programming is hard," yeah, if you ate shit during all your lessons and got into the degree because they told you an MBA wouldn't be worth anything in 5 years. Is it still not cool to publicly call these people fucking losers? Like can we just stop being polite about this shit? I wanna curse.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Man it's kinda crazy how all these chuds threw around the ol' "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" mentality for years until something came along to free them of responsibility, huh? It's almost like they were entirely full of shit, huh?

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Friend group once had a guy who lied about his birthday on every account he made, because he was afraid he'd get his identity stolen. One day he forgot his password to something and got pissed he couldn't recover it, because he forgot the fake birthday he put in. Some people legit don't know.

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