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Jack Nicholls

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Rocking. Writer, Youtuber, Journalism Grad. He/Him. www.youtube.com/@PowerPakGames

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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In happy news I started Ace Combat 7 (never got around to it) and I saw the dog~~~
A photo of a cutscene in Ace Combat. There is a cutout png of a real life dog standing next to high fidelity character models of a woman and a young girl.
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have been very burned out since making the last video and I'm only recently finding some kind of normal again. Partially because it took a lot to make, but also really struggled to relax afterwards due to other circumstances.
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On Jacob Geller
I'm aware of the rape allegations against Jacob Geller, as well as the fact that his name is on a court-ordered list of UNC students disciplined for sexual violence. I've hesitated on whether to post anything about it, because the victim hasn’t been identified and I don’t want to participate in a retraumatizing conversation against their wishes. At the same time, as someone who has collaborated with Jacob Geller, I do not want my silence to be taken as endorsement.

For my part, I did not know about this and I wish I had. What justice and repair look like in cases like these are for the victim to decide, and I do not know their wishes or what accountability processes, if any, took place. However, strictly on a personal level, I’m uncomfortable having collaborated with someone who has presented himself as a nonthreatening feminist without ever disclosing his history of sexual violence to me or any other colleagues I’ve spoken to. I have no intention of ever working with Geller again. Beyond that, the person this happened to ought to be the ultimate authority on what happens next, and how they wish to tell their story if at all.
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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The fact someone can commit sexual assault and be punished in a discrete manner so as not to “ruin their life” and then years later become a popular entity in media, causing even more trauma when the assault is revealed? If the initial punishment didn’t favor the assaulter, this’d be less common.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 01/10/2026
Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax. He won't be on content moving forward and we won't be publicly airing this week's episode of The MinnMax Show. We're in shock and deeply hurt. Thank you for your patience during this sensitive time.
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maria @eurothug4000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#ad NEW VIDEO! I played SILENT HILL: Townfall and it got... quite close to home. The details of the in-game world are something that made the experience for me, so I wanted to make a lil essay focused on that <3 Thank you to KONAMI UK for sponsoring the vid! youtu.be/55mgRMzLcRw
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Was searching for an old advert when I see that even 13 year old videos on Playstation's channel are not safe from the no-disc backlash lol youtu.be/qOk4jSsSl-Q
A picture from a Bioshock Infinite TV Commercial on Playstation's YouTube channel. It is 13 years old. A comment has been highlighted saying "LOOK THAT'S... A DISC? ON PS? WHAT AN ANTIQUE FROM THE PAST".
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Glad this gets to live on in book form and will be looking out for the project when it's done!
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Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story @scummdoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let's make it official: The SCUMM documentary is on pause (indefinitely), but I'm working on a book version of our concept. It'll be based on dozens of new interviews with the people behind the LucasArts and Humongous adventures you loved, plus in-depth research. New site: scummbook.com
SCUMM Book Announcement

A message from writer/director Richard Moss:

It was a point of pride in the SCUMM adventures--both by LucasArts and Humongous Entertainment--that there were no dead ends and your character could never die, and this adventure won't be any different. The Passport to Adventure documentary has entered an indefinite hiatus, but the SCUMM story will still be told.

I'm now working on a book based on our concept.I'll be taking over the @scummdoc social media feeds from here on out, and I've created a new website/mailing list at scummbook.com--where you can follow my progress and help shape my vision for the book.

Thank you from all of us at CREATORVC for your interest and support of this project: we hope to pick back up on a SCUMM documentary at some point in the future, but for now the best path forward is through this book--which I'll be publishing independently of CREATORVC.I hope you'll join me in celebrating these wonderful games, and the people who made them, as I work through this new adventure at scummbook.com.

I'll have more to share about my plans soon, but for now I'll note only that I'm excited about the potential for a book about SCUMM's history and I'm determined to put the changed circumstances to good use by attempting to interview as close to *everyone* who worked on the games as is possible.

- Richard Moss, author: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story
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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. @ghmofficial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We've gone independent. NO GAME NO LIFE.
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Cara Cadaver <3 @dirtlord77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am excited to say that 100 numbered copies of VILE: Exhumed will be available for sale October 9th at 9am PST / 12pm EST at vileisbanned.com There will also be a very limited amount of non-numbered copies available as well! They will be $9.99 USD (+tax & shipping)🖤
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SUDA51 @sssuda51.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEXT FUCKING ADVENTURE.
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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"
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VOID 🔞ART CATCH UP. @v0idm0nster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Burnout's no joke kids
A cat on a space and sky background that says "sorry i havent finished a project in months, i have been at war with myself"
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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy to announce that Chop Goblins, Squirrel Stapler, and The Pony Factory are now available on GOG! www.gog.com/en/game/chop... www.gog.com/en/game/squi... www.gog.com/en/game/the_...
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Images passed around online eventually get jpeg'd into becoming a blurry mess of artefacts. They'd get cropped or screenshotted on phones as well. Now they also get poorly AI upscaled into soup with all detail scrubbed out. I don't have a point, I just didn't expect entropy to have innovations.
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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressedSponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressedManage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
breaking news: todays special at local chippy is "chips". more on this developing story at dinnertime.
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lyssa ✨ @lyssahh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
happy bi visibility day!!!
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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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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I know so many people who hate themselves and are waiting to love themselves but the trick really is to choose it even though you don't feel worthy of it & to keep doing it despite the reflexive instincts & habits you've accumulated.
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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OH GOD I DIDN'T CONSIDER THEY'D HAVE TO BUILD ANOTHER HOUSE AFTER
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have discovered the only thing worse than your neighbours suddenly starting noisy building work, when my neighbour suddenly started DEMOLISHING THEIR HOUSE BRICK BY BRICK what the FUCK and why are they starting at 7:30AM EVERY DAY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Visually, the series should feel cinematic…” That’s their problem right there. The best British tv is when it was shot without permission in the back of a factory after hours.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
stringinamaze.net
Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Finally got around to playing the full release of MOLE and man, that was great. I was not expecting it to keep evolving the way it did but also to tie all of its mechanics together so effectively in order to put the fear and anxiety in me. Fantastic game. store.steampowered.com/app/4064510/...
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Save 20% on MOLE on Steam
Pilot the MOLE, a monstrous post-war drilling machine built to descend deep below the Slavic soil. Fix failing systems, follow voices of the dead, and pray you can survive whatever is sharing your cof...
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh...
Panel 1

Field is reading a book and talking about it.

Field: This autism memoir is fascinating. A lot of it is surprisingly relatable.

Panel 2

Field: It's funny that I've had similar experiences, thoughts, and habits. It's like reading about myself.

Panel 3

Field stares into the distance. They are suddenly evaluating everything about their life.

Panel 4

Field watches a sunset. As if watching an old world vanish into darkness before a new one comes into the light.
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Cillian Murphy's Awkward Laugh
Alt: Cillian Murphy awkwardly laughs and looks around sheepishly
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER BEFORE 4: DEMONS FROM THE PORTAL TO HELL I OPENED ARE STILL IN THE FAVELA AND NOW I HAVE TO SAVE MAMADAS FROM RONALDO is $4.49 on Steam (10% off launch discount) buff.ly/93492zs
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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"I am not complicit" I love it I'm putting it on a shirt
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Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yes, much as I hate to turn down possible buyers, if you acquire Nighthawks specifically for the sexy, you will swiftly be disappointed that it consists of a couple of butts and some largely comedic romance sequences with conveniently placed hands or scenery.
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Patrick Brennan @patbren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thinking about how I got stuck in Medal of Honour Underground and was helped by a forum post posted exactly when the first plane hit the tower
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Brain feeling like this lately
A still from The Simpsons. A man is trying to push many little toys through a door but they are getting stuck in the entryway.
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
After Nintendo lightened the mood by showing videogames can be made, Sony had to step in and shoot the dog to remind everyone nothing good is allowed to happen in this industry
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 08/09/2026
you hate the breaking benjamin guy for vibe coding a bad fallout 4 mod and complaining about it at a concert (lol), i hate the breaking benjamin guy for how he fired his bandmembers and then sued them for, as charitably as possible, not cc'ing him in an email
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My timeline was unprepared for the sheer amount of "NINTENDO HIRED THAT MAN" posts from the Zelda Direct.
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Eyepatch Wolf @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
i don't think the ocarina remake is ai, but it does that thing i hate with ai where it just crams detail into every surface and everything just turns into shiny visual mush
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How weird to discover there was a friend out of frame this whole time, and it was Elizabeth Holmes.
Nathan Fielder laughing with friends out of frame
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Mandalore @lordmandalore.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
New video is on BioShock. The spiritual follow-up to System Shock 2 with an extremely questionable remaster and quirked up eccentrics fist fighting over slug superpower juice at the bottom of the ocean. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKWZ...
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BioShock Review
YouTube video by MandaloreGaming
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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just want to take a moment to thank everyone who has shared this and said such lovely things about it. I was a little anxious with this one and it's so gratifying so many folks think I stuck the landing.
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ChloeCade @chloecade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
60 years without him today... I can't believe it 💔
Pigmon from episode 8 of the original Ultraman series.
Text reads:
"September 4, 1966, Pigmon, who was popular among the girls, died."
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Highly recommend this video. A fascinating look into this woman's life I guarantee you won't regret watching all the way through.
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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In 1990, an elementary school teacher won $16,500 on a game show, and used her winnings to publish a board game about the Exxon Valdez oil spill. This is her story. youtu.be/r1g7C0o9Oqc
youtu.be
Tracia Newman's Board Game: Oil Spill & Amateur Art
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I love that this is how I found out Starmer stepped down as an MP
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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Please. I am begging you. Read another book.
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