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Welcome To The Rat Parade @seolfyr.bsky.social · 18h

Xenoblade is a good game because sometimes you're minding your own business when suddenly you encounter Inconceivable Jimmy, a lizard who is slightly larger than average Inconceivable Jimmy proceeds to beat your ass while the best song in the world plays

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Chris Weed @chrisweedpiano.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

here's my steam sale recommendations: go play Big Walk with your friends. life-changing game.

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unangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

11vadu's so cool i wish they'd move here

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izzy curse-trel @iznaut.com · 06/05/2025

pokémon npcs before they challenge you to a fight:

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sweet kerry eleanor @kerryeleanor.blog · 03/10/2026

lmao i just learned that if you bring two ppl who hate a play to the theater to see it together they’ll still get a lot of support points because they’ll bond over being haters

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There’s gay and then there’s what Fabio and Dietrich got going on.

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Tiago! @tiagotime.bsky.social · 23h

I’d do it again

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 23h

hey do you love rattlesnakes and blackouts but hate pizza?? Try: San Diego

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Dave@Not-Convention Recovery @sasuraiger.bsky.social · 23h

you wanna talk "aesthetic", how about "80s tv drama with theme song by toshiki kadomatsu". aesthetic level through the roof

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chore doer @humidbeing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I enjoy a joke as much as the next humorless person

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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

fact of the matter is Mr Bean is acting like an absolute asshole in this hospital waiting room

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 03/10/2026

knowing how things work allows you to criticize and fight things way better than ignoring them because you dislike them does

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 22/02/2026

Literally

@tonyhawktruther

american: i can't afford the doctor

european: Ö you don't hjåve hjëalthcare for frëe? Very fjünny because here in EU we are riding trølley or mjötorbike to djöctor at no cjøst, in fact is considered rüde not to

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ADIOS RETURNS! At the lowest price it will ever go! That's right: it costs less than the price of an Arby's Reuben sandwich! store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/... If you like the game, please leave a review? We're only a COUPLE reviews away from OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE!

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 27/09/2026

playing Fortune's Weave after playing every route of Three Houses

Screenshot from Kowloon High-School Chronicle.
A girl wearing glasses and holding books is on screen. There is a dialogue prompt, with the two options being:
> I know the lore
> I don't know the lore

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 01/10/2026

it's hit me like a truck every single time

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Computers Liquidation Sale on Woot buff.ly/y0eYeEH #ad

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Eric @mokkograd.net · 01/10/2026

New Blogpost: Eswahr Eternal Devlog for September 2026 mokkograd.net/posts/2026-1...

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Blog Post

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The best time to boycott Microsoft was when BDS called for it, the next best time is now

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Yog-shi @yog-shi.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Chibiusa: ...Mom. how did you eventually grow out of being a horribly awkward teenager. I'd like to skip that. Usagi: 1st off, thorn in my side, this is the past. I am an awkward teenager. 2nd you are 8. You shouldn't have worries C: but you worry about everything U: Crying is a superpower I have

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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🎃 unskippable cutscene after dying/retrying the yunalesca fight @curiousquail.com · 30/09/2026

Hey so it's been two years since Eggbug went read-only. What are some lessons we learned about race demographics, moderation and financials? What's the current social media landscape like? Fun thing to be writing about the day I found out the head of trust and safety on bluesky has blocked me lmfao

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Two Years After Eggbug

On the anniversary of the final day of chosting - some thoughts about where we've been (and maybe what's next?)

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 01/10/2026

about:config browser.nova.enabled = false btw

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Peyton @gee-man.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On this week's episode, Sayonara Lara makes me crash out. As a bonus, I provide reading recommendations on the Mongol Empire.

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The GLORIO Blog @glorioblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The GLORIO Chat Episode 222: Summer 2026 Anime Wrap-Up We tear ourselves away from Fire Emblem for a couple of hours to talk about the very good Summer 2026 anime season.

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The GLORIO Chat Episode 222: Summer 2026 Anime Wrap-Up

We tear ourselves away from Fire Emblem for a couple of hours to talk about the very good Summer 2026 anime season.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I want to beam this into the brains of whoever is working on the next FF game. please

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unangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

>If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula Don't even think about saying that name around him unless you want problems

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 28/09/2026

I played Ace Combat 7 several years ago but I only played 3, 04, 5, and Zero a few months ago and it was definitely worth it obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

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The Operatic Geopolitics of Ace Combat's Holy Trinity (04, 5, Zero)

There are many reasons even older Ace Combat games remain compelling. Here are some of them.

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Arma Bellum @armabellum.quenmorr.eu · 29/09/2026

Also when most people say "videogames are art" they mean "many videogames contain good expressions of higher forms of art in them and thus my enjoyment of them is not puerile", not "gamedev is an artform"

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Updated Autopsy Report @aceattorney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You're in for a SCARE of a good time with our latest podcast episode! (Disclaimer: episode isn't scary at all)

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even a terrible translation needs that human touch to be memorable.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Owl Attacking a Bat, by Horaku, early to mid-19th century

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Radmad is Unplugging his PAX @radmad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A lot of people consider allowing media to facilitate the emotions it tells you it wants to make you feel "losing" to the art.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

digging into my twitter archive for my favourite "you can tell the designer calculated this all in a spreadsheet" skill point system example

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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Osmose @osmose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

was talking about how DNS is centralized to a coworker

Cloud Strife standing in front of Shinra HQ; Shinra is labeled as "ICANN" and Cloud us labeled "Me after 5 buzzballz"

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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can’t even comprehend how important Eien ni Hen’s work is to the fan translation community. Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Glory of Heracles, Dragon Force II, Dark Half, Beyond Oasis, Psi-O-Blade, Arabian Nights, and so much more. What a loss. Rest in peace.

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On F:NV it was a lot of fun writing failure replies for threshold checks. The rules were 1) picking the failure option should be entertaining 2) picking the failure option should never put you in a worse position than you were already in.

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Magical Angel Jao @jaooooo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What a line

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