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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

Counterpoint: Bring me your fatties, your weirdos, your radicals yearning to breathe free.

Liam Thomas @junkmail-lt.bsky.social · 22h

#deadlock new map takeaways: 1. walker arenas are way more open. I expect this mostly favors aggressors - expect to see more teamfighting on walkers, so keep those waves shoved out

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Liam Thomas @junkmail-lt.bsky.social · 23h

the deadlock update looks really fucking good

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Liam Thomas @junkmail-lt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sci-fi: tech companies convince people machines aren't human to sell digital slaves real life: tech companies convince people machines are human to sell digital slaves

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 28/09/2026

warning: do not go to the cinema and spend your hard earned money on the new avengers endgame screenings because you will have to watch avengers endgame for three hours

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)

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Liam Thomas @junkmail-lt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

congrats to AI slop for having all forms of it - webpage, text, image gen, sound - roll off of my brain in the same revolting way

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The mark of a true AA video game is big, very detailed hub areas that don't have a lot of stuff in it because they didn't have enough time and money to add them.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 23/09/2026

Romance in games is extremely hard to do well, takes up a pretty substantial amount of narrative scope to do at all, and comes with some nonnegotiable demands for narrative-design affordances. The industry is overly gun-shy about it but it's not for *no* reason...

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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Bundist|Reconstruction 2|UltraDavid @ultradavid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Green Text Anon: In my post I invented the Verification Can as a cautionary tale. Microsoft: At long last, we have created the Verification from classic green text post Don't Create The Verification Can.

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In retrospect, Obsidian getting Pentiment out there into the world before Microsoft exploded really feels like they pulled off the weirdest heist in gaming history.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

this whole xbox thing feels like a true emperors no clothes moment. there is so obviously no plan, anything announced yesterday is overruled tomorrow, that even reporting the facts feels laughably insufficient.

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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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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Driving into pedestrians is the weaponization of isekai

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Liam Thomas @junkmail-lt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i think one of the core problems with game design discourse is that the majority of designers view genres which are not action games to be failed action games

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Dog with Glasses Plushie @dog.labeledrude.online · 19/09/2026

A new article from me: I've been around for decades of discourse about the GIMP, and it's high time to retire this conversation forever. I'll contribute my last word on it: aria.dog/barks/gnu-im...

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Let's stop debating the Gnu Imp Manipulation Program—Aria’s Barks

We had the same conversation for over 20 years.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Re: Rationalists. I think someone who says that they are able to perceive a God of everlasting cruelty and that you should also perceive this God lest you be punished should be met with extreme suspicion.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 19/09/2026

i'm so fucking tired of right wingers making lame things seem cool. "this is a project to destroy christianity and tear down the foundations of western civilization" no it fucking isn't. it's some mawkish greta gerwig thing

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Liam Thomas @junkmail-lt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

my life for a gamedev community that doesn't blow chunks

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Seeing shitty art way more inspiring than seeing good art. Why be demoralized by the prodigious talent of another when you can be buoyed by the feeling that you can outcompete abject mediocrity?

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Ettuardo "Ettu" Etui @ettuetui.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

MYSTERY HUNT SOLUTION: "Examining the foodstuffs,, it becomes quickly Apparent that they are all components of a meal that the Constructor had at the Plainview Taco Bell on 27/5/2009... " ME: I Am Glad I Spent $1000s Of Dollars To Fly Out For This

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Naidje the Elephant 💜🐘💜 PNGtuber @naidje.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel like absolute shit i just want her back

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026

"wwaaahhh i wont see all the stories" that's life buddy, make your choices and live with them, a story isn't a shopping list you need to check off

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Liam Thomas @junkmail-lt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i can track how many IGF judges have played my game and honestly it's weirdly validating

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Increasingly likely that I will click a game review, get 3 paragraphs in and think, "Wait, this is just listing features in a bland, chirpy style and seems to repeat or revisit points from sentence to sentence as not aware of what was just written... ah f*ck". Depressing as hell.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 31/03/2026

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Hid mistakes and made up data" used to be called by the cozy term "hallucination" up until it became vitally important for the IPO that AI is now evil

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026

if macklemore killed an ed sheeran tour is that a big enough contribution to music as an artform that he retroactively now deserves that grammy

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've said before, Americans overall have a vague sense that there should be less immigration but the immigrants they know are fine and should stay and immigrants should be made to go home but also they should be treated very kindly. Is that incoherent? Damn right it is. Welcome to politics.

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Mao Mao! @maotenno.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"It would be really cool and interesting if Nintendo did X!" You're right it would be very cool and interesting. That's why Nintendo is not going to.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yep, this Hacker News post has the right of it. They're pushing for a "great slowdown" because the gains have been incremental for, uh, a while. Like I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's nowhere near enough to get them to profitability, so they need an escape, and now. Or their valuation poofs.

Cracks are starting to appear. Open Ai and Anthropic are publicly asking for slowdown in AI research. Translation: We see this technology not being any more useful than what it is now, no AGI is coming, and the first one to accept this and slow down the dollar burn rate will incur the wrath of the market. So let's say this big boogey man technology will end all life on earth and we all slow down together. Bonus points if we can lobby for this to be included in the national security bucket. Then US govt can bail us out. Yay!

If Nvidia is the bank, they should be starting to sweat a bit. It's not often companies ask for a voluntary slowdown.

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

oh we should regulate the supplement industry out of existence. we’d knock out half of right wing podcasts in the process. bsky.app/profile/hamm...

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Liam Thomas @junkmail-lt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

we grew an ultrahot chili (death spiral) and it has utterly destroyed my mouth

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 13/09/2026

It is, as ever, the insistence on a politics without real ideology; leadership without real vision. It sucks, and it is doomed to fail.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 13/09/2026

That’s part of why this is so frustrating - liberals want the *credit* for being trans inclusive while saying and doing transphobic things because they have it in their head that they’re the “good guys” so any action they take is good.

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Liam Thomas @junkmail-lt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the question i ask to the stancils et. al. is if they would direct the same questions at members of racial minorities telling people not to vote for democratic candidates being openly racist

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

other thing about all this shit is if shitting on trans people to prove your bonafides to conservatives the winning play, isn't trans people being mad at you a good thing, making you look more authentic to the voters you're courting. why you looking for "shit on trans people but they smile for it"

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Liam Thomas @junkmail-lt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

we have an honest-to-god cancer vaccine and somehow this isn't the biggest news on every channel

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 12/09/2026

The real "alignment risk" at OAI/Anthropic is their PR depts slowly going mad with power as they realize that they can say any stupid nonsense and the media will print it

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm seeing a few people sharing this around and I feel that I should note for posterity that this is not a security disclosure. This is a PR website spun up for exactly this purpose by three people who work for "AI" thinktanks and who have been publishing a lot of very dramatic writeups lately.

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Lucky ✨ @lucky.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

the French titles for Pokemon Winds and Pokemon Waves are making me laugh like an idiot. me when i'm posting about my virtual critters but i'm a little toxic about it

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