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Arash Hackimi @hackimi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We are still alive. Day 53 of the #intetnet_shutdown in #Iran. Waiting for the #Islamabad_talks to get rid of the #Islamic_Republic.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/01/2026

Iran has killed all connections to the outside. But in the early morning the regular internet works briefly. In that time, @hackimi.bsky.social sent me a letter about what it's like being a developer without the internet as the government tries to squash everyone: insertcredit.com/feature/a-ga...

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A Game Developer Without Internet

Iran has been without internet for 9 days. Arash sent a letter as a developer without the internet, in the few moments when the great firewall faltered.

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Arash Hackimi @hackimi.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Hello World! connected! I don't know if I remain connected to post this. As I could realize some Iranians could connect today usind DSL via VPNs. All GSMs are off yet. SMS seems to be back also. Thank you all for your kind attention. Thank you @brandon.insertcredit.com at @necrosoftgames.com

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Arash Hackimi @hackimi.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

3- Most of the games included in the article are for the first time ever represented in a text in any language. We recorded a gameplay video for each of the 55 games to provide a citable reference for further investigations by other researchers and academics. This is why video game journalism sucks.

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Arash Hackimi @hackimi.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

2- And the result is not to be able to publish it. As English is not my mother tongue I used AI to edit the text, but the research is entirely original, and there is no other similar content in the whole history of human knowledge pointing to the things I gathered in the article.

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Arash Hackimi @hackimi.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The god damned AI pandemic- 1- Recently I sent my last research article which took 2 years to complete to GameDeveloper.com to get published if possible. Surprisingly they replied: this piece was authored in part using AI.

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