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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Need to remember to at least cross-post my void-bound ramblings here more. First draft of a villanelle done for poetry class, inspired by Marathon and the almost comical treatment of Rooks. Players really need to be less aggro and occasionally make some deals so interactions are less one-note

Screenshot of a poem by the poster.

Sheep in Wolves' Clothing

Those slippery things you should not brook.
They want your life; they want your loot.
No matter what they say, never trust a Rook.

They'll take what's yours by hook or by crook.
If you see one nearby, give it the boot.
Those slippery things you should not brook.

If you hear one masking, you should be shook.
Those wily bastards are worse than any brute.
No matter what they say, never trust a Rook.

Revived by your allies, but your gun it took.
Look at it bargaining, trying to play cute.
That slippery thing you should not brook.

Its very humanity it long ago forsook,
And within your group it will instill dispute;
No matter what they say, never trust a Rook.

You see it nesting with claymores in a nook;
Do not hesitate, pull the trigger, just shoot!
That slippery thing you should not brook;
No matter what it says, never trust a Rook.

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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Take this sort of shit seriously. 99% of these guys are bitch made shit talkers, but that 1% are truly unhinged, dangerous men. If you ask my opinion, women today should be armed. All of you. And if it comes down to you or them, send flowers.

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The Indie Informer @theindieinformer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

At Fate's End thrusts players into a world of messy relationships, glorious visuals, intriguing gameplay, and heavy decisions. The next game from Thunder Lotus was an absolute joy to play at GDC.

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Game Of The Show GDC 2026: At Fate’s End

Families can be tough.

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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

the Unseen Alchemical Power of Video Games @jeremybjayne.bsky.social dives into the design of All Living Things and how games as an art form influence the elements of reality we are curious about. WATCH: youtu.be/En_cd1fq6fY

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the Unseen Alchemical Power of Video Games - Jeremy Jayne

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Glad I'm not a reviewer or anything or else I'd be getting an infinite amount of shit for saying that Slay the Spire 2 just doesn't measure up to most deckbuilders I've played in any way. And rarely cost as much

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Bungie's greatest mistake with Marathon is expecting players to read. Genuinely thing the only way they could've gotten a better reception is going full large gacha game with the tutorials. Assume players are going to pay attention to literally nothing

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 28/02/2026

Goddamn, the Cidadamata demo is so cool, even the store page screenshots are exciting. Add just a little bit of framing and prose to gameplay and you've got SAUCE.

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Solo! @bigbadwalf.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

yeah a lot of cis people don't realize trans women do in fact still get the shit bullied out of them before they even remotely *know* what their own deal is

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Big ditto here. Saying "Indies are the future, AAA doesn't matter" doesn't acknowledge the many ways indie can also be unsustainable/exploitative--and it doesn't respect the craft of AAA devs! So many cool people making incredibly cool things that couldn't exist otherwise!! Solidarity is important.

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Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"Letting go of Evo" I wrote about why I'm breaking my Evo attendance streak (every year since 2011; first Evo was 2003). It's sad, but I think this a good opportunity to celebrate the Evo moments that got me here before moving on. pattheflip.medium.com/letting-go-o...

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Letting go of Evo

I don’t know if there’s a whole lot to say about Evo that hasn’t already been said, but I figured I should write something about Evo’s…

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

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Jason @envinyon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I thought snowbunny was slang for like an inexperienced skier

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The left is going to end up with the CIA in the national divorce because educational polarization means knowing anything about China or Iran at all is woke coded, let alone leaning their language and history.

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 24/02/2026

yes our Ad AI machine made your character dab in front of the sonnenrad, no we will not take it down

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 24/02/2026

this story is fucking insane

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Strixx Rivera VA🏳️‍⚧️🐶 @puppybelmont.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Girlfriend and I are moving soon! If you’d like to help us fix up my car and ease the journey of 2 trans girls moving to a new state please consider supporting and/or signal boosting our gofundme!! gofund.me/0721c0070

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Donate to Help Queer Women Safely Move To A New State, organized by Strixx Rivera

After moving back into the United States and starting from zero, I've experi… Strixx Rivera needs your support for Help Queer Women Safely Move To A New State

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Valentine 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷🐇 @bunnybelmont.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

any help is super appreciated!!

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"Xbox, like a lot of businesses that aren’t the core AI business, is being sunsetted. They don’t say that, but that’s what’s happening. I expect that the new CEO, Asha Sharma, her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night." gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

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What an Xbox founder thinks of the new Xbox CEO | Seamus Blackley interview

Seamus Blackley was one of the renegades who got the Xbox started. We asked him what he thinks of the big executive changes at Xbox.

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

83% is a hopeful number I would've thrown out. Just need to trick more people into engaging with games as art

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Honestly, egg on my face for not seeing the signs.

Evangelion cover art of Shinji holding Rei.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed. You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A man with tourette's at the BAFTAs because his docu-film on tourette's and his experience with hostility stemming from it getting vilified for shouting the N-word has to be the strongest evidence for intelligent design so far. It's too on the nose; God(s)'s overplaying their hand

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A memory card manager from far beyond the stars. I appreciate that sci-fi adventure game Sentient has its own themed one, complete with the appropriate save icons and polygonal memory cards.

A crt TV screen photo of a box grid of memory card save contents against a backdrop of a red orange burning star in space, also a poly model. Saves on one card include R4, Parasite Eve 2, Alundra, and Vandal Hearts.

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This is how it usually goes, using extant bigotry or conspiracy to build up support or distract from something, e.g. GOP talking about DEI to get votes or "commentators" pushing PizzaGate for stochastic terrorism

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It's funny to see people say that /pol/ ruined 4chan as if it wasn't already full of that shit in the first place, aka why /pol/ was made. It was already a wretched hive of scum and villainy, moot just fucked up and created an incubator instead of banning it all from the site

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John Breen @breen.tech · 29/01/2026

Something that sticks with me from this training: if you’re forming a group/organization, it’s important to spend time together outside of “the work”. Share meals together, grab coffee, etc. You’re going to go through some shit together. This work is hard. Strong bonds help you navigate tough times

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Spoopy Foxhack / Dave Silva @foxhack.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The King of Fighters XI. I don't care if the PS2 version is basically a new game, that final boss is the single worst designed one in the entire series. Every other boss may be bullshit but they can be beaten, but this asshole spams projectiles in ways that can't be blocked or evaded.

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

So very happy to see the physical edition of Ex Novo 2nd ed. doing so well on Indie Press Revolution... www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Ex-Nov...

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Had my doubts on whether Helen Andrews was just a poor reader or intentional in her dogshit evidence, but she would have to have achieved a divine level of stupidity to miss Lord Lugard's racism. Thanks, CTRL+F. Every time I go into the rabbit hole of one of these people, it's just maddening

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I will never fail to be surprised whenever I see people riding Valve's dick as though it's an actually good company when CS cases and Steam Marketplace exist. It's done more to normalize digital "scarcity" and monetizing gambling/gacha bullshit in gaming than arguably any other company

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Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I'm disappointed paid items and loot boxes are coming to Fortnite. It's clear they're spooked by Roblox and worried they're losing younger players, so they're incorporating the worst parts of Roblox. I wrote about what parents can do for @crossplayblog.bsky.social www.crossplay.news/p/fortnite-i...

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What Parents Should Know About the Loot Box Changes Coming to Fortnite

For now, "Battle Royale" mode seems off limits. But within other "Island" experiences, you should be aware of what you can and cannot control for your children.

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

So... it was veterinarians shifting from being mostly male to mostly female that led to its corporatization? Women were just too risk averse to own their own practices? Kinda weird that Goldin stated that corporatization of veterinary practices was still in its infancy then

Andrews: Well, actually, Claudia Goldin, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, notes in her book that male veterinarians are more likely to own their own practices, whereas female veterinarians prefer not to because being an owner involves more financial risk and longer and less flexible hours.

So the shift from a male-dominated profession to a female-dominated profession in the area of veterinary medicine has led to corporatization, and we’ve gone from a world where most veterinarians own their own practices to one where most veterinary practices are owned by private equity, which has not been entirely without problems for the pets and farm animals of America.

But I am willing to state that, corporatization aside, the feminization of veterinary medicine has not led to the collapse of society, and is unlikely to do so. I think it’s basically fine, but ——

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Lillikoifish @lillikoifish.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Might be a little too cynical, but the badge idea almost seems like YouTube encouraging parasocial behavior. Assuming it wasn't just something a dev thought would be a fun little thing

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Chaos Zero Nightmare is another one of those great games trapped with gacha monetization. But the rates are better than MiHoYo, and so far, the worst characters still work just fine in endgame. Would do great as a $20/25 game, since it has a bit of Darkest Dungeon, HSR, Slay the Spire and anime boob

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists. They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Brain Lords Podcast @brainlordspod.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Jorge nearly makes an unforgivable slip up discussing the game OFF with @strucci.bsky.social in our Scariest Non-Horror Games episode. Listen to more here: open.spotify.com/episode/6ax9...

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I just heard one of his former campaign managers, I think, say that he would need to and likely would make affordability part of his rhetoric, but I don't think she meant that he'd just act like he made things affordable

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I feel like too many lefties and athiests think that the Satanic Panic and similar events were just tools for censorship and are unaware of just how much of the country believes demons are influencing our actions

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 07/11/2025

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Honestly can't believe that Destiny 2 copyright lawsuit hasn't lost steam. The lawsuit is basically "both of our works contain tropes common to the genres they work in, so they clearly plagiarized me." Claiming that cyclical life/death is evidence of plagiarism by Bungie of all companies

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I hope Zohran continues working with Jewish groups like @jfrejnyc.bsky.social that share his vision and empathy, and will continue ignoring hateful, Nazi-defending demagogues like Greenblatt who work to destroy the lives of all people who oppose genocide.

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 05/11/2025

In honor of the day, I turned this idea into an infographic. One of the ways I look at this: a Democrat is going to be called 'a radical leftie' no matter what their views are and Republicans will succeed in manipulating issue salience. In the upper right, you at least stop looking defensive.

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Walk in to hear a preacher or some such saying, "This administration will continue to push back against darkness." Feel like part of the reason this weird messianic support of Trump took off is Dems ceding Christianity to the GOP and rarely citing their faith as motive

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 05/11/2025

This movement that we are watching unfold - Zohran Mamdani, Prop 50 in CA, regular people everywhere who are taking power from those at the top - this movement doesn't build itself. Funding the work is essential. We power the party, not billionaires: wfpus.org/JoinUs

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Become a dues-paying WFP member today!

Will you join me in our fight for the many, not the few?

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"Both parties were equally responsible" Is "self-identified independents" just code for habitual fence sitting

Among those who self-identified as Democrats, a combined 68% said either Trump or Republicans were most responsible. Almost 56% of Republicans said Democrats were most responsible.

However, self-identified independents, who made up 35.8% of those polled, assigned blame to both parties: 34% of them said “all elected officials were equally responsible.” While 25.9% of independents held Democrats responsible for the shutdown, 17.8% blamed Trump and 17% blamed Republicans.

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Desmond T Bullard @kagenokaze.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Things might not change here as fast as they could

Asked who they think is “most responsible for the current government shutdown,” 22.8% of respondents answered the Republican Party, and an additional 18% answered the president — a combined 40.8%. Just under 5% said they didn’t know.

However, the minority party did not escape blame from poll respondents: 29.1% said they felt the Democratic Party was most responsible for the shutdown. And just over a quarter (25.2%) of those polled said “all elected officials are equally responsible.”

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