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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 3h

Oh, hopefully that's still something I'll enjoy 😬

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 28/09/2026

Love Housemarque, Super Stardust Ultra on PS4 also has a couple of nice PSVR modes. Resogun and Nex Machina are to Defender and Robotron as Super Stardust is to Asteroids. Some of my favourite games.

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 24/09/2026

This is fun because I've only just realised how much I love the franchise and its games since I heard about your book and talk. I only really like the first two movies but the games are fascinating. Some straight up classics across multiple genres, looking forward to it!

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 24/09/2026

I am hoping to pick up a copy in Brighton. Will you be signing too? 🤔

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Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am (obvs) going to keep surfacing this Alien game dev talk I am hosting in Brighton, on October 14. It's gonna be really interesting (I think!) to hear how working with licensed properties differs between the 90s and now; and to simply learn about adapting something so iconic. luma.com/p4pjgibd

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Aliens: The Video Games: In Conversation · Luma

Join author Mike Diver in conversation with Steve Collett (Alien 3, 1993) and Howard Rayner (Alien: Isolation, 2014), for an insightful chat about making Alien…

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 24/09/2026

I'm skipping the Last Ninja one, those games were pretty terrible at the time and I don't really have the IK nostalgia. I'm gonna get the James Pond one though. Aquatic Games is one of my favourite mega drive games, RIP my controllers though and I better not play it on the Super Pocket 🤣

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✨[redacted]✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

bahahahahahahahaha yeah, yeah they do man.

Organizer Eric Deters canceled Kentucky's Patriots Day Freedom Fest, featuring Kid Rock and Dog the Bounty Hunter, after selling just six of the 100 $1,000 VIP packages he needed to fund the free event.
• Deters vowed he was "never ever" holding the festival again and blamed the wealthy contacts he expected to support it, declaring, "Rich people, as a whole, suck."

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 23/09/2026

And let me play Mad Dog McCree, Who Shot Johnny Rock? and Thunder in Paradise with a joycon...

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Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Morning. We're having a little do in Brighton. If you are into game development, I hope it's something you'll be interested in. Making an Alien game in the 90s 'vs' making one in the 2010s. The challenges with each, and the solutions found. Also: games to play, drinks to enjoy, books to check out.

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 22/09/2026

This sounds interesting, I shall come along. Thanks!

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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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Paul [Atreides] Wood @retroid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

More than 13 years ago and still utterly correct.

Independant headline:

British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows
Research shows public opinion often deviates from facts on key social issues including crime, benefit fraud and immigration
Jonathan Paige
Tuesday 09 July 2013 15:16 BST

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stop, Microsoft. I don’t need more reasons to say fuck Microsoft! I have so many to choose from already!

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026

Nothing will ever be enough for these people.

Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 21/09/2026

Currently: Watching: Lanterns Reading: Monisha Rajesh - Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train Playing: Ridge Racer 2 - PS5 Listening to: The Vampire LeStat - The Failures

Promo image for the TV show, Lanterns. Shows a Green Lantern Power Ring resting in a puddle of water, with Hal Jordan and John Stewart standing in the background with their reflections either side of the ring.

Cover image for Monisha Rajesh's book, Moonlight Express.

Cover image for Ridge Racer 2 on PS5, shows a close up of two sports cars mid-race.

Cover image for the album, The Vampire LeStat - The Failures. A shirtless Sam Reid mid performance in his role as the titular vampire.

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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paranormal mattivity @windows98support.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A skate park does more to reduce knife crime than “more bobbies on the beat”, the only difference is middle class white people are scared of groups of kids at skate parks and they’re comforted by the presence of the police.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Sincerely, if you're not enjoying video games like you used to, maybe it's time to step away and enjoy another hobby. Go read a comic book. Or a novel. Or watch a TV show. Play a sport. Just go do something else for a couple months. If you want to play again, you'll come back eventually.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

There are a whole lot of "Why you can't enjoy games anymore" videos, and the ppl in these videos are like, half my age. I've been playing games for 40 years and I still adore them. If you're not enjoying it, then it's time to shift gears.

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 17/09/2026

You mean Black Sails wasn't a documentary? 😱

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imagine how much of a toxic nightmare bastard you would have to be to blockade and shut down a lifeboat station. Not only that, a lifeboat station run by *volunteers*. Some of the bravest and most selfless people this country has, hounded and intimidated by some of its most pathetic pricks.

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Ben Taels @bentaels.taels.net · 16/09/2026

Some folks online appear to be putting up videos to show how the Wolverine game is too easy and handholding. Some of these videos are, only after they have gone viral, being discovered to have been recorded on the easiest difficulty with (off by default) accessibility settings turned on.

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Unusual remark for an orange man

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Cally Beaton @callybeaton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone who has ever complained about London Underground, complain no more.

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RareAlone @rarealone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To those inappropriately and alarming hyped for the newly revealed Metroid title:

Top Panel: The grouchy, unhelpful, unsympathetic and outright mean bus driver from The Simpsons episode "Lost Our Lisa" (Season 9, Episode 24) – scoffingly saying, "Don't make me tap the sign."

Bottom Panel: An edit of a frame/stillshot from said Simpson episode of said bus driver pointing at/tapping a sign that (usually) reads "DO NOT TALK TO DRIVER" – the sign edited to instead display an article detailing the abusive and hostile working conditions of MercurySteam, from the site "Game Developer" (formerly known as Gamasutra), during the production of that company and Nintendo's Metroid Dread:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/report-metroid-dread-developer-mercurysteamworks-accused-of-retaliation-and-forced-crunch

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

it is messed up how much big tech and web advertising models have broken the internet to the extent that younger folk don't even know that it used to work. that AI chat bots could seem like a simplification rather than a massive overcomplication

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 09/09/2026

I marginally prefer the aesthetic of Demon's Tilt but they are both superb!

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 08/09/2026

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.

A Texas 99/4A home computer, with a CRT television.

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Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Me, @jake74.bsky.social and @liberaljoon.com got together and did an episode talking about handheld gaming as a follow on from our recent DS and PSP episodes. Give it a listen mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fvx46...

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 06/09/2026

That mario kart 8 upgrade is a real treat. I still love World for the knock out races but feel like playing them both regularly now

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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 06/09/2026

Bad Vibes Coding Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this

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Bad Vibes Coding

Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

everyone is going insane for this but it's a slop machine. the first character i rolled was a child who died in 5th century BCE Iran and the site generated me a picture of "his home" which had drainpipes and telephone wires. fuck this.

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 05/09/2026

We've enjoyed them so far, I found the second series slow to get going but Lestat is off to a good start. Think we're about 3 or 4 episodes in.

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 05/09/2026

I saw it when it came out but haven't seen it since, we're planning a rewatch for after we finish the Vampire Lestat too 👍🏻

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 05/09/2026

The games still have to copy to the hard drive, as the Blu-ray read speed isn't fast enough to play them from.

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 05/09/2026

Was sad to discover mine wasn't 🤣

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John • Gaming In The Wild @gaminginthewild.com · 03/09/2026

The director of Ori and No Rest For The Wicked is awful. He compared cancel culture—that is, social & professional consequences for abusers when the law fails—to the holocaust. His new anti-critic review platform will formalise racist, sexist review bombing as a feature, not a bug. Fuck this guy.

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No Rest For The Wicked Director Calls Game Critics 'Untrustworthy'

Pay attention, because his new site is 'the one source of truth for gamers'

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Boss evening with @liberaljoon.com and @chrissmith.bsky.social talking portable gaming for an upcoming @electroniceggs.bsky.social show

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Saving these Mr Beast book screenshots to a folder. So i can look at them whenever I start feeling author imposter syndrome.

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 30/08/2026

Is that the sequel to Boxing Helena?

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 29/08/2026

I didn't get into them on the Dreamcast at all. Played a lot of 2 on the GameCube and enjoyed it at the time, but that might also have been because I only had 3 games for the first few months 🤔

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KayJoon @liberaljoon.com · 29/08/2026

And I'm just sitting here playing the Evercade version 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

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