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Joe Köller

@joekllr.bsky.social
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He/him - Ex-critic, reformed poster, recidivist gamer.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 10/10/2026
yeah I mean that does seem like the realistic outcome of this; the practical uses of AI aren’t getting exponentially better in software, but it is getting drastically more expensive. Chinese companies are offering 95% of the thing for 10% of the cost.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 08/10/2026
very droll to be railing against american social media companies putting their finger on the scale of the global informational environment only to be immediately censored by an american social media company
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Das ist The Onion.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Feels like in a functioning society you should get laughed out of the room for even suggesting something like "I will buy your company with money I don't have, and which you will then have to pay back."
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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026
Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”
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ASCII Dracula @robotparking.kvlt.rip · 24/09/2026
this game has truly gone off the rails (as I'd hoped)
a screenshot of Subterfuge. You can see the overlapping sentry ranges across the upper-left corner. At the top of the screenshot is Serenity, held by Olive (Joe). It has 355 subs on it. Directly south of it is El-Farolito, occupied by Beige (Nick motherfucking Capozzoli) who is streaming a maddening series of attacks, 6 subs at a time, almost precisely 10 minutes apart.

And, as a delightful bit of whimsy in this unhinged tableau, we have a single driller departing Serenity to another outpost. It has been renamed by Joe to have the laughing while crying emoji as its moniker, which appears below it in the game. 

It feels as though perhaps, in this hellish intertwining of undersea violence, one soul has found freedom, peace, and perhaps a little joy (at least until it dies upon the shields of Nautilus).
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New owners have restored the feature.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It got worse:
The messiest Subterfuge map you've ever seen. There's emoji flying around and just so many submarines everywhere.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Update:
An even more convoluted Subterfuge map, submarines launching every which way between Navy, Beige and Olive.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rookie numbers, I've been through the cycle of reactivating traumatized assets many times (sending invites to a new round).
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Feels like a Hershel Wilkes line to me. Maybe Melita.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
After all the apps providing things your mom used to do for you, the tech industry finally graduates to just straight-up selling you a mom.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Me: Subterfuge isn't that complicated. Average Subterfuge game:
Subterfuge map looking like a red string conspiracy pinboard, just an absolute spider's web of submarines launches crisscrossing between Pink and Sky.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Subterfuge is your friend. Nothing bad could ever happen there.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Strange, I remember you not being in that game.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The way this game went down for me is a clue as to why I only made anonymous lobbies for a while.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Something very cool and normal about corporate law is that even a written record of you saying "I am aware we are commiting a crime here" won't land you in prison.
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Michael Seemann @mspr0.de · 17/09/2026
wir kommen aus diesem semantischen chaos nicht mehr raus, wenn wir nicht klar machen, dass es zwei konkurrierende antisemitismusbegriffe gibt, die nichts miteinander zu tun haben. einen traditionellen mit den üblichen vorurteilen und verschwörungstheorien und einen, um israelkritik zu delegitimieren
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026
It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA
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Steam Hype
Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.
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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yukari from Persona 3 announcing "Here's our chance for an All-Out Attack!"
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ich bin 12 von 10 gehyped!
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Der Stimmungsbarometer zu GTA 6 low key sehr gut Digga.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have never been more hypertargeted by a podcast than when @austinwalker.bsky.social describes the elvish perception of time as "some Sapir-Whorf bullshit".
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ceci n'est pas une vid.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I still want them to make an actual XCOM 3. However, when they do, I will be like "the second one was better".
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 24/08/2026
The future is humanoid robots with exploding asses.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
There is interesting design space in limiting player actions. Slower, gentler games that give you idle time to observe the consequences or your occasional nudges. Drop a pebble in the water and watch the ripples. This is clearly not where the genre is headed. Maximum juice for minimum squeeze.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
1) This is correct. 2) Videogames can handle hater takes. Important part of the ecosystem. 3) Even if you disagree with the take, massive loser energy to whine about it on social media. Go ahead and write "In defense of the self-playing game." 1,500 words minimum. Put up or shut up.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reminds me a lot of some of the claims that @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social has been making about what the real use of AI is -- deferment of responsibility and the broad filibustering of the basic functions of civil society.
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
All information being forcibly degraded into chatbot summaries collides with our ongoing literacy crisis to deliver an unimaginable lack of understanding, new frontiers in talking past each other. A reverse Tower of Babel where we speak the same language but unattach all shared meaning from it.
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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 11/08/2026
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature - I think that’s the @70sbachchan.bsky.social line…
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
electrocute that little freak
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
whoaaaa we did a shelved by genre bonus episode "halfway through tolkien" q&a session!!! michael did not make a video promo because he got food poisoning but if this gets one hundred reposts he will post a picture of the bloody eye he got from throwing up so much www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...
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Shelved By Genre BONUSODE: Lord of the Year Halfway Q+A by Ranged Touch on Patreon. Join Ranged Touch's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
One thing I love about Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is that they're not afraid to slap a big "funded by taxpayer money" sticker on indie games about the concept of loss (finding an apartment in Berlin)
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Vor allem wenn die Anbieter hier so offensichtlich versuchen, sich gegenseitig zu übertrumpfen. "Wir haben eine Seite gehackt." "Ach ja? Wir haben gleich drei Seiten gehackt!" Könnte man schonmal hinterfragen statt deren Marketing abzudrucken.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
More like Cameron Lutzida
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Die Zettel sind äußerst sympathisch.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Lord Remo returning to his ancestral lands. Congrats!
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Thinking about a game I had a borderline religious experience playing that does not get talked about enough these days.
The cover to Freespace 2
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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Too many people in this space ultimately only care about their ability to play games. Their entire ideology is based on the premise that games are some right accorded to them. When that's your most core belief, nothing serious can be built on top of it.
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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 18/07/2026
The number of quote tweets crowing and cheering about this is nauseating. Workers lost their jobs! The bosses are still there! Why does that make you happy? Capital counts on you to be petty and small-minded and vindictive towards strangers instead of having a scrap of solidarity for the worker.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Passt! Hoffentlich drehen sie den Modus nicht zu schnell wieder ab.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Schaust du für Vaultbreaker wieder bei Marathon rein? Wenn ja, füg mich hinzu.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The show about types of literature and the worlds they imagine?
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
listen to shelved by genre
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.
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Good Faces Bot @goodfacesbot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Very interesting to get so many fresh sets of eyes on this series. Knowing the shape of the game so well makes it harder to appreciate those moments of surprise over its more abrasive aspects. I hope they keep playing.
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