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Harrison G. Pink @gilespink.bsky.social · 12h

OH MY GOD HUGO'S HOUSE OF HORRORS MENTIONED WE ARE SO BACK

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Harrison G. Pink @gilespink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Isn't this just the 40k Space Marine (human for scale) chart?

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Knock, knock" "Who's there?" "Deez" *rolling eyes, sighing* "Deez who?" "Deez are the voyages of the starship Enterprise"

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 30/09/2026

This year all the words are themed around the Myst books in honor of our upcoming Kickstarter, but you don't have to only create things related to the books! But in the meantime, have you made sure you've signed up to be notified when our Kickstarter launches?

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Coming soon: The Myst Trilogy - 'Guild of Writers' Deluxe Collection

The first three Myst novels together in a special deluxe physical collection.

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 30/09/2026

It's time again for MYSTober! We've given you a list of 31 prompts, one for each day in October, and you have free reign to draw, sketch, write, or any creative endeavor that relates to that day's word. Use the hashtag #MYSTober so we can see them!

MYSTober - 2026 Official Prompt List

1. Cleft
2. Inspire
3. Storm
4. Journal
5. Earthquake
6. Patience
7. Cloak
8. Reunion
9. King
10. Hope
11. Engraving
12. Philosopher
13. Tradition
14. Arch
15. Suspicion
16. Unseen
17. Maze
18. Lake
19. Mother
20. Inception
21. Descent
22. Stranger
23. Feast
24. Battery
25. Beast
26. Symbol
27. Explosion
28. Laughter
29. Plateau
30. Silence
31. Book

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today marks the public launch of the Ubisoft Workers of Montreal (UWM) campaign, with a first action: a petition to preserve hybrid work. Every Ubisoft Montreal employee is invited to sign the petition and every supporter encouraged to reach out to their network to encourage them to sign!

Poster from Ubisoft Workers of Montréal on a pole, with a link to a petition, and text reading "we made our mark from a distance - preserve hybrid work"

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Harrison G. Pink @gilespink.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Damn, we're doing Collector's Editions of movies now??

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 28/09/2026

Thank you for supporting the Starbucks Boycott, Representative Casar!

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS

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dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 01/05/2026

Still the funniest scene in Star Wars.

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Harrison G. Pink @gilespink.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My birthday was yesterday but it was Sunday and no one was online, but maybe for my birthday consider wishlisting this kickstarter and if you can afford it, pledge when it goes live? This is baby's first (partial) author credit and I really would appreciate it!

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purediablo.com @purediablo.com · 27/09/2026

We are back with the latest Diablo Podcast, and this week the team shares their thoughts after attending BlizzCon and also discusses Season 15. It's a long one, so settle in! www.purediablo.com/the-diablo-p... #diablo4 #diablo #blizzcon #thediablopodcast

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Back from BlizzCon and Season 15 Impressions - The Diablo Podcast Episode 109

We made it back in one piece! BlizzCon is over for another year and it gave us the opportunity to meet up and mingle with all the super Blizzard fans in attendance.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 26/09/2026

Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11

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🗑 @naapa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Limited Run Games @limitedrungames.com · 23/09/2026

Welcome to Myst! A starkly beautiful island tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and become part of your own surreal adventure. Now available in a Boxed Edition to add to your collection. Pre-order now through October 18 bit.ly/4y9gMk2

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You should assume to a first approximation that basically every AAA game franchise with a sufficiently large cast has a dating sim pitch sitting around that the designers were perfectly serious about but got laughed off by someone higher up

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

in a week that saw microsoft give activision the reins to halo and bungie pivot back to destiny, one thing has become abundantly clear: the people in charge do not have a long-term, overriding plan. they’re just reacting. the result, when times are bad, is chaos

"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."
This mirrors shifts in strategy that have come to dominate the still-new Sharma era, including others outlined Tuesday. Rare is joining Activision, Turn 10 and Playground are fusing, and—most gallingly, considering their history—Obsidian is being folded into Bethesda to work on Fallout instead of its own original series. As with the previous round of layoffs, details betray Microsoft's haphazard approach: A Halo developer got promoted and laid off in the same week. Gears of War: E-Day's story director is out of a job days after celebrating that the game had gone gold. Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, now without a buyer after a brief glimmer of hope, is once again on the chopping block.
All of this betrays a simplistic mindset that does not accurately reflect the reality of game development: People are disposable, studios are interchangeable, and series can be traded like sports teams. Nothing matters more than franchises and their money-printing prowess. Unless, evidently, you are Hideo Kojima, in which case Microsoft suddenly has money to burn.

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Rona Altana @ronaaltana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Discord finally confirmed for real when they're rolling out age verification service-wide (tomorrow) and I've not seen a single person make a peep about it

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Safer for Teens, Same Discord for Adults

We’re launching a revamped, privacy-focused age assurance solution including methods that won’t require an ID or selfie. Here’s how it works.

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Harrison G. Pink @gilespink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I can't figure out any other way to interpret this than MSFT converting Obsidian into a support studio for Bethesda. What a fucking bummer man.

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Juan Vaca @juancow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am part of this round of layoffs and am seeking new opportunities. If your team needs a narrative director / storyteller, please reach out.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

San Frans Opera demanded a 5-year wage freeze for its musicians while the General Director's salary jumped from $424k to $729k. 30 minutes before opening night, the orchestra packed up and walked out to join the picket line for the first strike in the opera’s 100 year history.

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RetroGamingExpo.com @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@grendell.bsky.social returns for the Nintendo Engineering Series on the technical side of console programming! Join him! Tickets at tinyurl.com/3a5hdpw4 #prge #prge2026 #retrogaming

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Ash @fishyash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2...

If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service. At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article. By melding together enough stabs at this task from high-level Duolingo users, the app can render a surprisingly accurate translation. Which is worth good money. So far, Duolingo has contracts with BuzzFeed and CNN to translate stories from English into languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. This service is already earning Duolingo hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but von Ahn predicts he will be adding a raft of new clients soon. “The language translations market is huge,” he says. “It’s a $30 billion per year market.”

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 21/09/2026

We’re so excited to share our BRAND NEW trailer for Young Suns and announce that we’re launching on Steam on November 3rd! 🚀 ✨ Wishlist now! hi.youngsuns.com/Steam

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Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Earlier versions of the game did acknowledge the creators of the original games at the start of each section, and I consider it unacceptable that this was removed at Jon’s direction. Stephen Totilo noticed this change and wrote a nuanced article here: www.gamefile.news/p/a-complica...

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A complicated game

Who gets credit for Order of the Sinking Star? Where should the names appear for the creators of its source material? And would you notice if a great game designer sat next to you?

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Filipe Acosta 🐐 B.O.D.E. 🐸 Devil's Drizzle @filipethoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

THE FINAL WEEK IS HERE! We're officially entering the final week of the B.O.D.E. Kickstarter campaign! Only 7 days left to join us, unlock more stretch goals, and help us make this crazy little game from Hell even bigger. www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz...

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B.O.D.E. - A Hellish Roguelite Where Every Shot Moves You

You can put your mark on Hell! Back B.O.D.E., a crazy roguelite shooter with chaotic movement mechanics, straight from Hell.

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.

An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 18/09/2026

Get your Linking Books ready, as the Myst and Riven Big Box Editions are now available to for pre-order from @limitedrungames.com! Each set will contain: 🎮 Standard Edition Game (PC Edition includes Digital Steam Code) 💿 CD Soundtrack 🖼️ 2-Sided Poster limitedrungames.com/collections/...

Myst Big Box edition - including standard edition game, two-sided poster, CD soundtrack, and the big box itself

Riven Big Box edition - including standard edition game, two-sided poster, CD soundtrack, and the big box itself

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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm gonna be real with you: I hate the trend of goofy movie popcorn buckets. Not taking feedback on this. Please stop.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 16/09/2026

We've got some exciting things to share this upcoming month, so make sure to sign up for our mailing list to get notified first thing about our upcoming Kickstarter, Big Box editions of Myst and Riven or any other news we have to share! cyan.com/mailing-list/

A mailbox and white picket fence in front of a farmhouse with a background of an alien planet

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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sometimes my feed is just: [amazing art] looking for work [goated resume] looking for work [great writing] looking for work [banger music] looking for work Dave Slutbutt, CEO of Game Dev, has laid off 9000 people to buy a 4th house in Bora Bora. [industry veteran] looking for work

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