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Hope Corrigan @hopecorr.bsky.social · 15h

Hitting up #migw and #paxaus? Wanna buy a bag or a mug? I'll do you a deal. Mugs cost me ~ $15 and bags are around $25. Pay more than that and it's yours. But I need to know so I can bring it in. For everyone else, come find me for a free sticker

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 19h

EA FC has a lot of issues but the fact they couldn’t push for 60fps on switch 2 makes it utterly useless.

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Leda’s performance, and particular the animation on the lead guitarist, is jaw dropping. The fingering technique and placement of the notes on each fret is perfect. Just stunning.

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the animation in fire emblem’s cutscenes is second to none. simply stunning.

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

its so quiet in our apartment now. this was boyo's little world. he didn't go outside because he got easily spooked, so this was his space and we tried to make it as big for him as we could. I cannot believe he died in my arms. it keeps playing over in my mind. what a horrible, horrible thing.

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m absolutely shattered. Both of my cats gone in 9 months. 10 and 7. They both deserved to grow old. Just awful.

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a fucking garbage day. Just horrendous.

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

thank you friends. we are beyond devastated. he was bouncing around like an idiot this morning. just the sweetest little boy you’ve ever met. I genuinely cannot believe he was in my arms one moment and then gone the next. He was only 7 for gods sake.

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My most perfect beautiful boy is gone. No!

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eugene just had a seizure in my arms and died. I cannot believe this is happening again. My boy is gone.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026

Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

me watching the city's 115 case unfold

ichiban from yakuza like a dragon sucking on a smoke and staring wildly at his phone

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean what the fucking fuck is this? these people need to be sent to prison

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

lmao I literally just had this thought

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had to turn the voice acting off because I just don't vibe with the performances pushed for in those types of games, but I really quite like the new fire emblem.

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

please excuse the fire emblem post but fabio could really do with a joint, a vinyl copy of dark side of the moon and a good stereo

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

sniper dan is a very silly good time

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's cool. I'm sure all the BitReactor devs that were furloughed weeks before launch are gonna see some of that $50 million... right? Residuals are standard in other creative industries. If the people who actually made the game got their share of the profits, we wouldn't be in this mess.

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Michael Irving @mikeirvo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well, my redundancy has been finalised today. Not really sure what to do with myself now, but posting about it again feels vaguely productive.

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Microslop shitting the bed again. It’s unbelievable how they’ve fucked this arm of their business.

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James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sounds like new fire emblem is good?

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Michael Irving @mikeirvo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's looking increasingly likely that my time at ScienceAlert is coming to an end. So I guess I have to join the chorus of people asking if anybody knows of any outlet that might be in need of an experienced writer, editor and/or fact checker, in science, tech, games or pop culture.

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 14/09/2026

Between this, AI lobbyists telling the EU that we can have AI or hit our climate targets in the midst of historic heatwaves, and the extreme increases in carbon footprint over the last few years of the mag7, we kinda have to accept that AI enthusiasm is a form climate denial

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