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Harold Kimball

@kimballharoldf.bsky.social
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Bethesda/Microsoft Alum. Doing union stuff in Austin.

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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have to see their internals.
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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 01/10/2026
hot take: software people are going to regret not unionizing when we could
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ok, honest review of the steam frame. 1/5 stars right now. Immediate issues: Will not respect refresh rate at all no matter the settings. Cannot play any game for more than 10 minutes because the audio cuts requiring a restart. Headset dongle required an hour of config to work, is not 100%
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This game makes stellar screenshots.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After my initial gripe at control resonant for opening up the way it did it is now my favorite game released this year.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Half Life Alyx is nuts on PCVR. Great fidelity and the motion controls just feel right.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026
America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why does everything have to be a souls like? I just wanted to play control resonant and have a normal time of things and its just why does every fucking game now have to have a souls boss at the very start. The boss does nothing. It's completely thrown me out of the FTUE and made me feel awful.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wait wait wait, the GTA 6 special edition is basically a kit for doing coke like you would in the 80's and no game?
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
youtu.be
Microsoft’s Terrifying New Patent | LG-Style ACR for Games & Software
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
IBM PS/2 on DOS. Great big loud piece of junk that was for running commander keen, shareware doom and old msdos word!
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone needs idris elba dropping a set at a house party.
youtu.be
IDRIS DJs a House Party | Black House Radio
YouTube video by Black House Radio
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you need the litmus test for the vibecession, this is it. It's the open corruption. The fact that a 12 pack of coke went from $4 to $12 in less than 10 years is absurd. The average non grifting American is watching this happen while they have their wages evaporated. Thats the vibes.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
like, the kind of corruption that not even john roberts could pretend isn’t real
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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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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026
other than call of duty and wow i genuinely think the smart move is to assume that any other xbox game thats more than a year away is never coming out. ‘mass layoffs and activision taking over halo’ just doesn’t describe how disastrous and destructive microsoft’s actions have been
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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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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
what the fuck do you mean "could"??? www.realitytea.com/2026/09/21/e...
realitytea.com
Elon Musk Could Face New Scrutiny if Democrats Take House
Journalist Maggie Haberman said Democrats have privately discussed subpoenaing Elon Musk over his DOGE work.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Really feels like Microsoft wants to dump Xbox. I can't think of more ways to disrespect their own workforce. Oh they made fallout games at different times, lets make them a mega-studio. Give me a break.
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone at Xbox - and everyone no longer at Xbox - all deserve better than whatever this is.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
YO WHAT Star Trek Voyager’s Tom Paris is running as a Democrat for a County Council Seat in Utah’s Wasatch County www.parkrecord.com/2026/09/11/w...
parkrecord.com
Wasatch County Council candidate Robert McNeill values transparency, accountability - Park Record
Heber City resident and hopeful political newcomer Robert Duncan McNeill is stepping in as the Democratic candidate for Wasatch County Council at-large Seat A.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Activision doing the next halo, you've gotta be kidding me.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nice. Steam Frame on the way here soon. Way easier than trying to get a 5080 at the start of last year.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 21/09/2026
damn if only there were 300-500 devs who could help with that
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 17/09/2026
"The rank bigotry and misogyny of Herrera and French are an exact portrait of the contemporary Texas GOP. The Texas Republicans are institutionally rotten, and that can be seen at the highest levels of politics." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-future-o...
The Future of the Republican Party After Trump Is in Texas

The white male supremacists of the Texas GOP embody what the national party has become.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
whoo, got in the reservation queue for the frame.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026
Commercial chatbot vendors should be held criminally liable for harms of chatbots, up to and including homicide charges. This should apply to engineers and to executives. There should be real legal culpability attached to the various deaths associated with chatGPT.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Guess im installing DOOM 2016 to try out this new VR mod for it. That will be fun.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bears almost have a 60 burger? That's gotta be scorigami territory.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think we need to push for national recall at this point. It's been too long for bad politicians to keep their seat for their whole term.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we don't need to get the adeptus mechanicus ball rolling.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yeah, I don't get it, the hyper detailed / uncanny valley link makes no sense.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Damn Zero Company is good.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
World's smartest final fantasy villain everyone! #FFResonance
Spoilers ahead. Spoilers Ahead. Spoilers Ahead for Final Fantasy Resonance. 

Dr. Lazarov says "Oh, thats rich coming from you lot! I know you use potions and pheonix downs and the like too!"
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We get an New F-Zero Game.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New documents reveal Ken Paxton is being funded by the Jaffe family, who tried to buy Epstein’s “Lolita Express” plane.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Zero Company installed. Time to give it a go tomorrow.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
you know who you want specifically not to be running your password manager, is anybody even slightly nazi-adjacent
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Neat, now that I did that little modding adventure for Mechwarrior 5, I get the love/hate relationship for blueprints in UE.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So we have a right to repair bill that doesn't actually have right to repair? What a joke. legiscan.com/TX/text/HB29...
legiscan.com
Texas HB2963 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature
Bill Text (2025-06-20) Relating to diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic equipment. [Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 1, 2026]
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If the average person was talking like this at work to their co-workers, they'd be committed.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Seriously, what in the world? Why even entertain this thought? Everything about space is incompatible with data centers.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Why is Crockett such a sore loser?
huffpost.com
Jasmine Crockett Is Breaking An Unwritten Rule In Texas Senate Race
After losing a heated primary to James Talarico, Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas is breaking an unwritten rule in party politics.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dog. :)
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Pflugerville killed their flock camreas after finding out about unauthorized access. For every 1 search their local PD made, outside agencies made ~300 against the data. www.reddit.com/r/Austin/com...
reddit.com
Needmorebeer69240's comment on "Pflugerville disables flock cameras after FOIA request identified unauthorized outside agencies accessing data"
Explore this conversation and more from the Austin community
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.
A photo of Dolly Parton sitting at a desk and talking on the phone in a scene from the movie 9 to 5.
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Anngelica Renea @anngelicarenea.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I desperately need non-games industry people to understand that your regular average game dev does not make millions of dollars off of these AAA/AA titles. istg comment sections make me want to poke out my eyeballs with a stick sometimes.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I think I'm makin it.
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