Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I like games made by people 2082796
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This from @ethanmarcotte.com is very good, and hammers on an important point I've been making for years: "personalization" is just something desperate execs push because they have no other ideas, so they translate advertising logic into product features. "Here's more of the same" is a shit pitch.ethanmarcotte.comAll watched over by algorithms of loving grace. — Ethan MarcotteIf you liked that, have you considered you might enjoy: more of that 49126
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The only way any actual discovery can penetrate the algorithmic wall is through external factors, at which point the algo scrambles. "Wow we had no idea he liked THAT, give him more!" A good discovery algo would be able to both anticipate that & seamlessly integrate new stuff with existing tastes. 1143
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialJooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff 6668572177
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialLewis Muirhead @bringthenoise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Ruin a book by adding a word: The B.F.G. 9000 0173
malgayne.bsky.social @malgayne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Did you guys know that Bill Wurtz is still making heartbreakingly beautiful music? Did you know the lyrics still sound like they were written by an improv actor who is on minute ten of a “Make up a song about anything and if you stop singing you’re out” game? music.youtube.com/watch?v=dwut...music.youtube.comoff the mapYouTube video by Bill Wurtz - Topic 020
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 09/10/2026well, look at that, if companies can steal individuals’ IP with/for AI, turnabout petapixel.com/2026/10/07/s...petapixel.comSomeone Rebuilt Free, Open-Source Versions of Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom Using AIPeople are excited for open-source Adobe alternatives. 53710
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialkate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I just think the Malfoid shit stinks and the worst people are of course involved. If you’re totally fine with catering to them, then fuck you too. 231032133
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialMaple Syrup 🔞 @maplesyrupart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026one of the worst and most terrifying pieces of information that ive learned is that in order to make friends you kind of have to be annoying to people. and if they like it thenn you can be friends. friendship is just when you both like when the other one is annoying 102057665
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world. 573346885
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialyourwitcher.bsky.social @yourwitcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026People see factory work as poor underpaid and dirty Perhaps if the minimum wage was high enough and ai was effectively banned there would be more incentives for that kind of work 142
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk all agree that we have to slow down - and now - something serious clearly happened with a frontier AI model. Journalists should be digging in to this. We aren’t getting the whole story here. 47982312682
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 11/09/2026Part of the problem is that these motherfuckers need to listen to different pollsters. better pollsters. (I am so fucking angry) 1686
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026look, the fact is, a lot of swing voters looooove torturing the omelas kid. they want to put more kids in the hole, actually, yeah. but not YOUR kid--oh, okay. well. still, big picture, thinking about the electoral map-- 112192330
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialNight of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths. 3945591520
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026ez mode solidarity opportunity you might not have been aware of. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract. 231009260
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialSpookychop, Horror Podcast Host @badchop.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Played a round of the Free Stars combat demo and yeah, play it, it's rad. That said, the Druuge ship on the easiest difficulty is some kind of expert sniper/artilleryman or I picked the WORST matchups against it (just as likely the latter, lol) Been a minute since I rolled out a Chenjesu ship! 093
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 08/09/2026arstechnica.comThe official sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters releases its free demo todayBlast your opponents in 1v1 arcade space battles like it's 1992 all over again. 23710
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialdeaconobvious.bsky.social @deaconobvious.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Do you want to see our *surprising* *toys*? No! Do not! 0134
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.social✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 08/09/2026"ahhhh im such a useless lesbian women are so scary;;,,,,,,," do her scared. 1233852
malgayne.bsky.social @malgayne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I know this isn't really important right now, but it drives me crazy that when an artist releases multiple different mixes or remasters of a song, that you have to find them and operate them in your library as though they're separate songs. 100
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialPistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 07/09/2026Melnorme... Trader? Meet Chupp Clipper. They have a bargain for you. They take your stuff in exchange for your life. No? Wrong choice! Play these ships and 36 more in the Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo, releasing on GOG and Steam TOMORROW! 2277
malgayne.bsky.social @malgayne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I feel like it’s time for the muppet show to come back. Like the whole pitch was that it was supposed to be adult humor with puppets, and the world wasn’t ready for that back then. But we crossed that bridge like 30 years ago. 100
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury. 5058482036
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026He's cheating by being likable and popular. How can centrist Democrats compete with that??? 716940
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialBut Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Wait so does he spend taxpayer dollars funding them or not, NYT? Hand-wringing over potentially attracting paying gigs like it's somehow different from working an internship for job experience. 🙄 1165
malgayne.bsky.social @malgayne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026static.klipy.comRanma Shampoo: Cute Anime Girl in BikiniAlt: Shampoo from Ranma 1/2 smiling at the camera in a red swimsuit. An animation shows her making a catlike gesture. 000
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I think if you're gonna joke about Dolly's boobs your joke needs to be at least as good as one of her jokes about her boobs. And her jokes were really good!!! 1133232
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself: 633083985
malgayne.bsky.social @malgayne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026How far back do you think you would have to go to get called an alarmist for wondering what might happen if the cute dog robots were to fall into the hands of a fascist police state 010
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialOccupy Wall Street @occupywallstnyc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026🚨RAPID RESPONSE NEEDED NOW! ICE ON MORNINGSTAR & WALKER, STATEN ISLAND🚨 S: 3 vehicles A: Chasing neighbors, 1 already detained L: Morningstar & Walker U: ICE T: NOW 8/28 6:45 pm E: Confirmed vehicles: 195
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton 7165552897
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026i believe our problems are fixable. we did manage to create a period of time when people could work a job, buy a house, and retire. i don't think this is some crazy unattainable thing, and i do believe essentially all of our big economic problems are fundamentally due to runaway wealth inequality 673190563
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialCitizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 19/08/2026your country needs you to post horny on main horny jail moratorium now in effect 311
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialJe Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE @naptime.theolive.garden · 15/08/2026defund the police was an explicit demand by local organizers in minneapolis who had spent the prior two budget runs with a divest/invest campaign 07212
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/08/2026the current social media landscape is awful - shouldntneed.com let's me to write what i need to write without getting banned by the people who run bluesky or x or threads 13811
malgayne.bsky.social @malgayne.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This isn’t just game dev either, it’s endemic in tech. Experienced it at three different Fortune 100 companies in the last 5 years.  110
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We do not have to watch the wizard bigot show. We do not have to write about the wizard bigot show. We can simply point out that the people making it chose to endorse bigotry. And not reward it with coverage or eyeballs. 0535157
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The modern conservative hates winning more than losing. There are no games journalists left, all the devs have been fired and everyone in a position of influence is terrified of offending reactionaries. They got what they asked for, and they still hate it! Because a woman said a thing! 343292640
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Also: Deleted my RT on this one. Cornyn is saying that there's nothing the Senate can do *about Trump wanting it* but that they have killed the slush fund. He's not claiming weakness at all here. (He may be wrong about killing it! We'll see! But he's saying they did kill it, not that they can't.) 2215
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 593159690
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialZoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 04/08/2026love it when I finish my tasks but my little rat brain doesn't get the memo and keeps the "oh shit gotta get xyz done" anxiety furnaces stoked instead of giving me those delicious reward neurotransmitters I am rightfully owned. I love* getting negged by my own brain. 821716
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas? 10895442183
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialWorm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 02/08/2026There's a type of parasocial attachment that doesn't get talked about where people latch on to a game (Star Citizen and Zomboid are two great examples) and hook up their dopamine system to whether they feel the devs are or are not making the game specifically for them. Bethesda gets it a lot, too. 57711
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.socialPistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 31/07/2026The secret to testing multiplayer is having help from another set of appendages. Thumbs not necessary. 1417
Reposted by @malgayne.bsky.social💠 Evdog 💠 @evdogmusic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I thought that, as I got older, I'd find the future pop music to be too loud, too complicated, too noisy but instead, I find it ...too boring? 141
