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House House @househouse.com · 7h

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Did you see this? bsky.app/profile/taur...

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

a shadowy cabal WAS taking over our industry! it was billionaires, and now all you get is AI slop IP generators and exploitable remakes and rereleases. nobody who cares has a job anymore. colleagues and friends privately judged me as hysterical at the time. i hope they enjoy this world now

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

the stupid thing was: the consumer games press DID have unethical marketing mouthpiece relationships with the industry. the e3 / spike tv / actiblizz / doritogate conglomerate and the payola-dominated masculine corporate culture had a stranglehold on what got made and how it could be discussed --

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

One of my favorite things is when a fandom wiki reaches critical mass and it's starts functioning like a general Wiki that's just insane about a few things

From the assassins creed wiki: Horses are a species of hoofed quadruped mammals, which have been used as a means of transport throughout most of recorded human history.

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Mysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND) @mysteriousz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Cartoon Network leak revealed that the team actually wrote fake interviews for the Powerpuff Girls in-house so that the writers could understand them better and honestly this is incredibly useful for learning how to characterize your characters holy shit

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Soya🌼 @hbkk988o.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hello everyone, a seal rescue needs help and idk how much visibility this post will get, but they rlly need our support, please repost !! 🦭🙏 Sign the petition here steun.zeehondencentrum.nl/red-het-zeeh... You can also donate here, their GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/red-zeehon...

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maddie raspberry ★ @othatsraspberry.com · 14/10/2026

everyone needs to drive a vehicle, even the very frog

drawing of frog driving a car from mother 3

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

happy yeag day regardless

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

digging out the actual caves of qud

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passionate butt client @miama.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

latam RPers are awesome. what do you mean the spanish for half-elf is "semielfo"

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

shen, in the corner, rubbing his hands & giggling

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Genuinely thought this was an @theonion.com headline

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

as someone currently watching 5:00 AM desperation TV with an overstimulated unbathed 2 year old: correct, not bad at all

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

'Mary' Zarbos was a podracing mechanic of significant renown during the Old Republic era. Her vehicle repair skills were so well-known that it became common parlance amongst racers to call her in advance of any particularly daring moves they might make. 'Hailing Mary' subsequently became shorthand f

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

hats off: there's really no way to goof on this that's funnier than the base post

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“Dawn of the Ted” 🧟‍♂️ DiNola📍MIGW @esdin.net · 10/10/2026

“When we speak about the LLM business being built around theft, we should speak about the appropriation of this societal product, not [just] of stealing individual works.”

Who profits?

The game development environment you participate in, itself, has value that has been worked tor by our community

The business model of LLMs aims to capture this social product and to sell it

When we speak about the LM business being built around theft, we should speak about the appropriation of this societal product, not of stealing individual works.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 09/10/2026

this article is really good with a lot of well researched interviews and perspectives and context as to what was going on in the studio. but sometimes. sometimes there's really only one sentence that speaks louder than all the others

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ben Affleck used AI to make parts of ANIMALS, which tracks, since the whole film plays like nobody cared enough to make anything feel real. My review of a movie so slapdash and halfhearted that not even Gillian Anderson gives a good performance (!) is at @thewrap.com.

thewrap.com

‘Animals’ Review: Ben Affleck’s Netflix Thriller Has Zero Highs, Many Lows

Kerry Washington and Gillian Anderson co-star in a suspenseless kidnapping yarn that’s so derivative, it’s kind of embarrassing.

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marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

yall giving millions of views to a man who raped me

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

yeah, usually the answer is some flavor of 'grift'

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4

gofund.me

Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

got into it with this guy myself

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Crystal is so good for him, amazing

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

sorry about this, y'all -- I was braindead & in heaven at about the same time and I convinced Jesus this would be a funny prank to play

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Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 05/10/2026

Holy shit, in all this Jacob Geller discourse I forgot that I LITERALLY MADE A VIDEO called "Processing Problematic People" as a way to help people untangle that Person You Like/d from that Thing They Did. And I made it as a way to cope with That Thing That Happened to Me. youtu.be/oFMTNZIK1sI

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Processing Problematic People

YouTube video by Kav P

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@curiousquail.com apropos of nothing at all, but I just really saw your display name and it triggered goddamn war flashbacks

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

posts from the better timeline

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

there is no privacy in the panopticon; if you do not participate you are simply a lacuna that remains exactly you shaped.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 07/10/2026

Hi! It's me, the "Corporate media is hostile to you and your way of life" guy, here to say: corporate media is hostile to you and your way of life. It must be left behind. All of it.

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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 06/10/2026

Warhammer 40k is more important to the British economy than cod.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm sharing this as a mea culpa, because it turns out this game was coded with Claude, a fact that is reasonably difficult to track down for a piece that was intended as nothing more than a quick, fun "hey look at this" kind of thing.

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Jarenth @jarenth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That sound you just heard is a hundred million Star Wars fans running to Wookiepedia to invent and subsequently canonize 'ronin' as a term that totally makes sense with the setting

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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People don’t realize how serious the situation is.

A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Asked the man at reception and he didn't know. This is going to annoy me for the rest of my life. How can I possibly just go on like normal.

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Hold Me Closer, Giant Dancers @giantdancers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Capcom isn't replacing real people with ai, they are only replacing QA engineers with AI" fuck you, fuck Capcom, and Fuck AI.

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tipHAGgard @tiphaggard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@bransonreese.bsky.social trying to be funny in the family group chat, I accidentally sent a noel text

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