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Nonbinary (they/them) Game dev, GM pfp from Tsurudraws picrew (picrew.me/ja/image_maker/2304839) mataramakesgames.carrd.co mataramg.itch.io — my games are free now because fuck it who cares

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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 11h
i find it helpful to occasionally experience a piece of media that's within my general range of preferences, but which sucks ferociously. sometimes think i have None Taste, as in i like just about everything i watch, read, or play. it's good to check that i can still discern Dogshit when i see it.
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Kabewski @kabewski.bsky.social · 14h
What the hell are they feeding heroshooter/moba redheads to have such YAMS
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 14h
Sherry if you're not afraid to eat the Hal laboratory Inc dog eggs
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Pink @pinkpalooka.hyper.wang · 14h
BABYMAN 👇
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 15h
a friend claiming to sometimes think this world is hell pissed me off so badly that after several paragraphs i came to the realization that i think the Gambler's Fallacy is the root cause of a significant portion of human misery (and, of course, the Protestant Work Ethic & sanctity of suffering).
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 21h
We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
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⚡matty⚡ @radicallymaxton.bsky.social · 17h
#residentevil
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 17h
when a new Nightmind video comes out abt something i haven't actually seen yet, it's always slightly intimidating and takes me a while to find time to watch it, because it means i am signing up not just for the NM video, but also for the playlist of this other series. 😂
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 18h
Final Fantasy XI's free trial was just expanded: FREE until level 75 NO time limit Join us in Vana'diel :) www.playonline.com/pcd2/topics/...
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 19h
they really, truly are just chatbots. the craft has hardly advanced since Eliza. this is literally just an AIM-bot or bonzi buddy reply to my tweet.
Screenshot of my bluesky tweet about something from a game I'm making, with a reply from an AI spambot account called "An Hourglass of Focus" which has clearly been set up to reply randomly to posts related to tabletop roleplaying games. 

It uses a handful of words & phrases I used in my post and throws them back at me, sandwiched between compliments.A screenshot of just the AI spambot's reply, it reads as follows:

"Giving the heroes' home its own character sheet — then threatening it — is delicious table craft. Hope the next attack makes them roll with real worry."
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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone has a Hussein
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
not sure why I made this but now you have to see it
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Queen's Domain⚔️ - DEMO OUT NOW @queensdomain.bsky.social · 20h
Queen’s Domain is launching OCT 30TH!! ⚔️ Excited to announce our retro-fantasy action RPG with brutal combat and traversal-focused exploration will be available soon for PC and Consoles. Coming to Steam, Switch 2, Xbox Series and PS5!
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三角鱿纵切脑片 @mushychord-hao.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚶‍♂️
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Monopoly Mermaid Monday @monopolymermaid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Vita Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 22h
These fools think people wanted isolated, hyper individual lives/experience when art (visual, textual, music, etc) is about connection and communication between people.
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D.P ✨ @dp-in-the-sky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NiGHTS iNTO DREAMCAST 🧡🤍 #NiGHTSintoDreams
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Kuro "Leigh" Ronin @kuroronin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it’s fun that all of the core id guys are now normal charming dorky dad types (Romero, Hall, Adrian Carmack) or ontologically evil freaks (John Carmack, Sandy) with American McGee, an ardent libertarian that now lives on a boat and makes plushies, somehow straddling the line.
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Spicymochi @spicymochi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I had to give her a friend
Illustration of two very round bears covered in snow
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Three Roads Gaming @threeroadsgaming.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is gonna sound like a shitpost but the next words here are completely genuine: reading Swan Boy as it comes out feels like it must’ve felt watching Golden Age Simpsons during its original airing.
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 30/09/2026
it's important to give the heroes a home. it's also important to give that home a character sheet, so that the players can build it up, make it cute, make it their own. and so that you can attack it. make them fret over it. make them roll dice about it.
Screenshot of a sheet in-progress for a fantasy adventure game called Aryse, showing the Nexus, the home of the characters in the game. The Nexus is an indistinct silhouette of an otherworldly tower surrounded by smaller outbuildings; sections of the structure are labeled, as the Apex, the Tower, the Memorium, the Gatehall, the Satellites, and the Undercroft.
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 30/09/2026
watched a couple of those avantris shorts that youtube is always pushing me and one of the guys is literally just doing 90s SNL bits. i mean, fair. the kids have no reason to know who Harry Caray is. Will Farrell bits still play i guess. 😂
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 30/09/2026
space king guys taking the "Dr. Pepper 10" route i see. lmao for some perspective: GW's trading statements say they made about $896,115,120.60 in FY 2025. that's about $8m every 3 days. just like. fyi.
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 29/09/2026
leafeon with the diarrhea lettuce parasite
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 29/09/2026
strangely, i'm actually fine with this, because it means we can start using "AI" to mean "that thing that makes the bad guys in video games do stuff" again. we all know what it is; only the cultists think it's a Sapient Supergod Here to Destroy Us All. they can call their fake shit w/e they want.
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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"Watchtower" Painting study
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Ringtail 🔞 @rllynotringtail.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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A Low Poly Robot @lowpolyrobot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
may have been messing with extracting PS1 files again just for funsies and anyway thinking about the Blooper Reel in Silent Hill now
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two heavyset fellas sit around an unusual, scrawny humanoid alien at a diner counter. One of the guys pushes a little basket of bread in front of the alien and says, “this here is corn bread.” Panel 2: the alien takes a small bite of the golden corn bread. The alien says, “con… bred.” Panel 3: the alien begins to hover, emitting an otherworldly light and causing gravity to shift around its immediate vicinity. A frightened waitress behind the bar shouts, “what’s happening?!”
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Joel Happyhil - read games!!!!! @joelhappyhil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You should buy my moba tabletop game even tho dragonkid didn't make a video about it, I promise it's just as good as the other games you guys buy from those videos. joel-happyhil.itch.io/full-metal-s...
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FULL-METAL SPIRITS: CONQUEST by Joel Happyhil
A vulgar tabletop MOBA
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mcnostril @mcnostril.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This request is not from the past past, but the recent past, when Darktide received toaster-based updates. (v3.0)
I'm in danger.
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 29/09/2026
one of my day jobs is as a data librarian for [Big Company's] media repositories (videos, adverts, internal docs, etc.). one of the content teams set up an automated pipeline for dumping in our archives w/ no QA, we weren't allowed to help them make, and were told testing at all was "out of scope".
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it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet
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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 28/09/2026
You catch that big video essay last night?
coworkers deviously luring you over to the water cooler
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Radmad is Unplugging his PAX @radmad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Guys who convert every emotional experience a game can provide into whinging get extremely upset at the idea of a game being stressful on purpose
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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Dreamboat Branny 🦢 @bransonreese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
swanboy.com/comic/double...
First panel of today's Swan Boy. Swan Boy and Cassie get ready for their double date with Crystal and Noel while they discuss killing a cowboy.
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 29/09/2026
okay we can all agree that the word "plebiscite" is disgusting, tho, right? let's put it to a vote.
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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It would still be inexcusable even if it got them a trifecta, but I have not seen even one election that was won this way. People keep saying that Democrats "have to" do this in marginal seats... based on what? Where has this actually worked?
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 28/09/2026
the appeal of being a sub (sexual sense) is exactly the same appeal i see when i think abt using someone else's game/SRD/whatever just writing stuff under the Draw Steel license, or the darrington press license thing, or Pathfinder/ORC, is literally "i want someone to make some choices for me" haha
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ash s. ➡️ Rose City ComicCon!!! @housegoblin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
rumination
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is decidedly different from "send mail instantly" or "movies in your home instantly" -- this is, "fingers crossed, you and your children will never know freedom from hunger and want." who can get up every day and suck dicks down at the factory with this as the vision being sold
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
as a guy who decided to go inside the system because being outside it struck me as rather personally perilous, it appears i did not factor in exactly how incompetent everyone making decisions inside the system would turn out to be
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Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Don't post" is best, but "Dont reply" is second best. The acknowledgement is really what detractors are looking for in the first place, because whatever they get can be then twisted into more ammunition against you. Say you what you mean well enough to let it stand, that has to be enough.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WE'RE MAKING A SHELVING SIM WHERE YOU USE THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM IN A LIBRARY THAT'S HAUNTED AS FUCK BECAUSE A BILLIONAIRE WAS STUFFING CORPSES IN THE WALLS TO GENTRIFY HIS CITY WISHLIST "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE LIBRARY" TODAY store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/...
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