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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

class - d pri - 4 coords - nl-ad env prop - pipe in strange place ~as_designed +wontfix

literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The absolute shit-pocalypse happening in the games industry never sees a fucking twitch from the government. Really incredible stuff.

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A bad decision is better than no decision, because at least then you know what not to fuckin' do. And knowing when you shitcan a project and leave it shitcanned, rather than bring it back from the dead after 6 months with the exact same problems as before. Not that that's happening...

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The amount of 'heh planes didn't fall out of the sky you lying liars' that happens now (there /was/ some bullshit at the time with people trying to grift on it but long nights and hard work went into making this whole thing stay rolling. But now it's a punchline.

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As someone that knew engineers that worked on Y2K bug problems - yes. We could have predicted this.

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

tl;dr everyone's got good intentions until someone says 'ship it by this date, or you'll all fucked.'

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Twelve months before the launch of Sad Dad: Cowboys Edition they said 'okay, everyone back in the meat grinder' and then after it shipped went 'man, we can't do that again, let's change how we operate.' You'll never guess what happened 18 months before the release of Big Car Steal 6...

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Skeleton Shredded - Minecraft

ALT: Skeleton Shredded - Minecraft

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Twelve months before the launch of BCS5 they said 'okay, everyone back in the meat grinder' and then after it shipped went 'man, we can't do that again, let's change how we operate.'

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Twelve months before the launch of Finnish Noire Cop in Brazil 3 they said 'okay, everyone back in the meat grinder' and then after it shipped went 'man, we can't do that again, let's change how we operate.'

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They looked around and went 'man, we can't do that again, let's change how we operate.' Twelve months before the launch of Cowboy Open World 1 they said 'okay, everyone back in the meat grinder' and then after it shipped went 'man, we can't do that again, let's change how we operate.'

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm reminded of what happened with a certain DivaPlanet game studio working on Big Car Steal. When they did BCS4 they looked the crunch and said 'we can't do that again, that was impossible' and then a year before the release of Crime Game LA Edition they crunched again.

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@rystorm.com Hello Robin-Yann! I saw this youtu.be/kvRrN3CXj4s?... at Blizzcon this year and it's a great look at the tools that are used by Blizzard to make the environments in world of warcraft. You'll never guess! There's at least one whole Zoo :D

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BlizzCon 2026 | Legends Stage | Localization: Bringing Blizzard's Worlds Together

YouTube video by Blizzard Entertainment

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if this shit doesn't sell out that's a more powerful recession indicator than any amount of gas price rises tho

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

dolores stepping over a shopping mall with a sign reading FOR SALE - BIG ONES is a thing that happens in that show

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Why doesn't my camel look sick as fuck? we put a spoiler on it and everything..."

A picture of a camel that has had a car spoiler attached to it in a way that makes it harder to ride and only look better if you are divorced from the use case of the overall product

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"what if instead of a burger button we made it sick as fuck?"

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

holy moly I kickstarted this when it first rolled out and I am THRILLED to see it's still alive. Now to see if I can remember anything about the code for it :D

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Strange Scaffold @strangescaffold.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Thank God, we're the good guys." I Am Your Beast: "Quitting Time" is a story prequel DLC coming to Steam October 20th. 🌴 Fight the Patriotic Defense League in Southeast Asia 🐺 10 fully voiced levels 🛡️ Throw a riot shield so hard it makes a dude's head explode store.steampowered.com/app/4578110/

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

wow I cant believe the british museum would do something so problematic they have had such a spotless record until now

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I went to the show last year and Don Callas broke flow when someone screamed YER HEID LOOKS LIKE A BAWBIE

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Craigerson @craigerson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Jaw elevated, breasts revealed and be observant of the foot wear

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

i worked for a company where our CEO said we should do this - he said we'd be the steam for free to play games he didn't like it when we pointed out that steam already had free to play games on it we closed down like 5 months later

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Snark @snarkafterdark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

That pre-meeting speed piss feeling

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I mean... this /could/ be the cooked version of it. It might be so bad that this is the polished version.

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AraInfo @arainfo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

⚫ El eclipse solar sobre Zaragoza, en imágenes. La silueta de la basílica del Pilar y el Ebro dejaron algunas de las estampas más espectaculares de la tarde. 🔗 arainfo.org/todos-los-de... 📸 Fotos: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Until Clackton the only safe reform seat was the one on Question Time.

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I remember I got blocked by him on the bird site because he was chatting shit about a game releasing in a bad state and I said 'jesus, george, at least the fucking released something.'

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On the Shoulders of Giants @osgpod.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And also as mentioned on our weekly coverage, @literallyaghost.bsky.social ran an actual play based on a wrap of the Blade Runner ttrpg for us during the new year celebrations. it includes @irisjaycomics.bsky.social and incredible music by Psiren/rob from our Discord! osgpod.com/dis/Dispatch...

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DISPATCH - Stand Along Complex: An Actual Play

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diagnosed fatally weird and unrapturable @syzygy-city.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My submission for OSG's Locked in Jam is uploaded! This is a short story with a funky digital collage/visual aspect to it set in Heather Flowers' Extreme Meatpunks Forever universe. It concerns a very un-honorable duel between two fash families. borteez.itch.io/ill-be-an-an...

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I'LL BE AN ANIMAL: A Meatworld Story by borteez

A grisly short story and collage project based on Heather Flowers' EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER universe

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

He's doing a bunch of interviews at the moment and he's being handled with such gentle care. Galling.

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Nexus Point News @nexuspointnews.com · 23/07/2026

First look at Hunter Schafer in ‘BLADE RUNNER 2099’. Coming to Prime Video later this year. Source: ew.com/blade-runner...

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yeah, probably. Atari was an insane place to work - hot tubs in the office, mountains of drugs, games that defined what games could be made in weeks. If you can find interviews with Nolan Bushnell you'll get a sense for the wild ideas that were creeping around.

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You do it about the early days of Atari, the development of the game, and the deployment of it into bars. There's a good history movie in there.

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

BABY WHAT HAVE YOU DONE YOUVE CHANGED MY LIFE IS WHAT YOUVE DONE HELL YEAH

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On the Shoulders of Giants @osgpod.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

And finally we'll be covering, to Niko's chagrin, more Hideo Kojima peripherals with Zone of the Enders: 2167 Idolo! To lead up to this episode's release, Brian and scribe of the pod @literallyaghost.bsky.social are doing a Zone of the Enders LP! www.youtube.com/@osg_pod

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On the Shoulders of Giants

On the Shoulders of Giants is a giant robot power hour discussing mechs across media, their stories, and why we love them. Join friends and variously accredited mechsperts Alice, Brian, and Niko as th...

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Wow, that's a great catch! A lot of people wouldn't have noticed how many nanoangstrom's of my hundreds of millions of miles of circuitry had the word Hate carved into them, but you did!

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

That's certainly one possible reading of 'So when there was a debate on the code of practice in parliament a few weeks ago. Why did no Green MPs show up? It was the Lib Dem’s who came out in force on the side of Trans people.'

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I know, I know, how is this relevant to the point you're making, but when saying 'we are better than thee,' maybe don't have the one time you've had any real power be the time your party gave the green light to Osborn's cuts.

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sorry, is that the same lib dems that supported the conservatives through the start of austerity, or another lib dem party?

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What highlighted just how far off the boil Epic have gotten to me is Timbo Swimbo saying that it's the developers fault that the engine keeps stalling and stuttering. If it's such a common problem that it's become a meme about your terrible engine, maybe it's not a problem with the people using it.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 15/07/2026

I keep seeing arguments for games being expensive due to hyper realistic expectations for art, or simply lots of art. What I don’t see is the actual most costly reason: Indecision Iteration is good, but the yearly rebuilding of entire characters, storylines, and levels, is the most expensive thing

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literallyaghost.bsky.social @literallyaghost.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Wait you mean it didn't stop at trans people what no way oh my god if only someone had called it a fucking mile away

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