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Iszac! @iszacstartown.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
From @barrykramer.bsky.social's Super Battle Golf Stream
Accurate game play from Super Battle Golf
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Fimal Famtasy!
Seeing the Distant Worlds: music from Final Fantasy concert!
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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com · 02/02/2026
Slay the Princess isn't the only game that's crossed a major sales threshold over the past month! Thrilled to also share that Scarlet Hollow has passed 100,00 units sold, just in time for Episode 5's release on the 13th!
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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com · 02/02/2026
Thrilled to announce that Slay the Princess has officially surpassed one million units sold! When we started work on it, we couldn't imagine a visual novel would be able to hit such a milestone let alone being backed by critical acclaim. And yet, here we are. We couldn't have done this without you.
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Time for a silly Paint RANDOMIZER! (I'm not an artist, but I'm gonna do my best) www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Paint Randomizer (I'm not an artist) with @barry @causeimdanjones @gamblord @nicholegoodnight @caitycoopscoops and @nuuclei
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Another KH1 Rando Multiworld, but now with 10 whole people; this is gonna be a lot www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Multiworld with @barry @causeimdanjones @gamblord @nicholegoodnight @bathinjan @caitycoopscoops @nuuclei @toddly_enough and @sweetratboy
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The CBP agent pushes a woman onto the ground and peppers sprays her, the man is trying to protect her from them and help her up, which they respond to by pepper spraying him, tackling him, and then shooting him from behind. It’s one of the most upsetting things I’ve ever seen happen in America
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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Back for more KH1 Rando, but this time a race vs. @causeimdanjones.bsky.social !!! www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Twitch is the world
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A little late, but here are all the games I played in 2025! Not that many games because it was an extremely busy year for me, but some of the favorites are in my top favorite games of all time!
A Spreadsheet of all the video games I played in 2025!

Played: Another Crab's Treasure
R.E.P.O.
Monster Hunter Wilds
Void Stranger
Blood Typers
Elden Ring: Nightrein
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Blasphemous 2
Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking
Guilty as Sock
Peak
Marvel Rivals
Hidden Folks
A Dance of Ice and Fire
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Dale & Dawson Stationary Supplies
Mage Arena
Hades 2
RV There Yet
Logic Bombs
Rhythm Doctor (1.0 release)

Favorites:
Another Crab's Treasure
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Logic Bombs
Rhythm Doctor (1.0 release)

Loved:
R.E.P.O.
Monster Hunter Wilds
Blood Typers
Elden Ring: Nightrein
Blasphemous 2
Guilty as Sock
Peak
Marvel Rivals
A Dance of Ice and Fire
Hades 2

Liked:
Void Stranger
Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking
Hidden Folks
RV There Yet
Mage Arena

Didn't Click with Me:
Dale & Dawson Stationary Supplies
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
While not nearly the most important thing going on, I wrote some jokes about why this year AI in video games is going to be the absolute most annoying debate. Even more annoying than it already is. Just deeply annoying.
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2026 Is Going To Be The Year AI in Gaming Gets Super Annoying
Gaming needs to be clear about how, and why, it's using AI
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I had a great time with KH1 Rando, so let's try it solo today to learn it some more! www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Twitch
Twitch is the world
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Breaking in the new year with my first KH1 Rando! Multiworld style with Barry, Bath , and Nichole! www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Twitch is the world
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Alex Kramer @shamshandwich.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Happy Yesterbirthday to my Brother in Time, @barrykramer.bsky.social!!! youtu.be/NqbrIb4BMHM?...
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Barr to the Future
YouTube video by Alex Kramer
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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Getting stuck causes players to explore the world. Dying causes players to think about what they're doing. An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible. We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Time for a Silksong Stream! Going to be going for the Speedrun trophy (beating the game in under 5 hours) www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Getting the Speedrun Trophy
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Been a hot sec, but let's try out Celeste Multiworld Rando with friends! www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Variety Streamer/Speedrunner, Loves Indie Games and Analyzing Video Game Mechanics
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/09/2025
I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
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Handel @handelgamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Just read through this massive interview about Slay the Princess and got floored multiple times through the whole thing. By god. int-magazine.com/interview/sl...
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Slay the Princess’s Tony Howard-Arias and Abby Howard: “I mean, that she loves you. She loves you unconditionally”
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED
But a still graver scandal of AI— like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency-is the technology's colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole—and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays.
Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.
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Rhythm Doctor @rd.7thbe.at · 25/09/2025
You hit the button. That's it. Rhythm Doctor is leaving Early Access on DECEMBER 6TH, 2025! Save patients with your rhythm mastery, all the way through the final Act and our big finale. 🎵 Trailer directed by @rj.dcellgames.com with VFX by thefinals
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I mean... minnesotareformer.com/briefs/haged...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2025
There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.
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We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life
Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
two memes. the first is someone pulling a waiter aside. top text: "um, excuse me, waiter?" bottom text: "why does my hyper-vigilance not bring me closer to safety, but even further away?"

second meme in reply is an image of two wolves playing. top text: "it's because y" bottom text: "it's because your constant alertness for threats keeps you in a state of always being threatened. you do not ward off any enemies - you only bring the battlefied with you wherever you go, danger be damned."
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Been a hot second, but I got bugs on the brain with Silksong coming soon, so let's have lil Hollow Knight Rando Race with @causeimdanjones.bsky.social www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Rando Race vs. @causeimdanjones !multi
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Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available September 4 on all platforms and day one on Xbox Game Pass! Watch the release trailer: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c
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Title: Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Trailer
YouTube video by Team Cherry
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Sid~💫💞🌿 Shops Open! @redundantz.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
✨🛸🐄👽👹👻🦀💕 [ dandadan ]
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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
#Sponsored I'm the host of the very first official Pokémon game show! They approved me! Against all odds! It's gonna be so much fun! Come through! pkmn.news/gameshow #PokemonGameShow
A promotional image for The Gotta Catch ‘Em All Game Show, with a headshot of a bearded, bespectacled man in the corner. The text reads “Hosted by Brian David Gilbert. Friday, June 27, 11am PT” followed by the Twitch logo and “/pokemon”
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
And you know what the talking heads seem to rarely use 'violent' to describe? The systemic destruction of families through ICE detentions and deportations. Breaking a window is framed *primarily* as violence, but taking a grandparent away from their kids or sending someone to a work camp isn't.
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Caity!! (comms CLOSED) @caitysecret.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
MY COMMISSHIES ARE OPEN 📣❣ hit up my ko-fi for pricing & feel free to ask me anything thru kofi dms (or thru discord ( UvU)b !!) Share if you can! ko-fi.com/caitysecret/...
A sheet of all types of commms i offer; Sketches start at 55, inkwash at 85, Painted at 140, and sketchpages at 175! Add ons are avail through ko-fi- the only place to order 'em.
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Here is the VOD for my Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth speedrun showcase from RPG Limit Break! I'm quite proud of how all of it went and I was happy to show it off for charity! youtu.be/a1r2uUY6kyc?...
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth by MechanalystTom - RPG Limit Break 2025
YouTube video by RPG Limit Break
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TJ Blakely @tjblakely.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
And I'll be remote commentating for this!
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Today's the day I showcase my Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth speedrun for #rpglb2025 ! I'll be on an interview segment after the current run at ~8:30pm EST and then my run will start at ~10:45EST!!! www.twitch.tv/rpglimitbrea...
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RPGLB2025 Benefiting NAMI - Final Fantasy XIV by MargaretAnn, @Netara, @dowolff, @leggystarscream, @neongrey, Isquen, @groundflier, Daffy
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I'll do a proper post later, but I am so proud of this new PB/WR in Infinite Wealth!
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I was gonna finish the speedrun from yesterday... but how bout instead we just do a WHOLE DANG RUN instead! Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth speedrun we go! www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Full Any% Speedrun
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Let's do another Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Speedrun! www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Any% Speedrun - New Route
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It's time for a full speedrun of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth! Time to show off all the improvements! www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Any% Speedrun - New Route
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Let's finish up the last of my routing/research so I can get to full speedruns of Infinite Wealth this weekend! www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Late-Game Speedrun Research for RPGLB2025
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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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EROCY @erocy.world · 07/05/2025
Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-
Highlighted text form THE NEW YORKER

The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write
anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.
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MechanalystTom @mechanalysttom.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It's been a busy past month, but I've put a lot of time into improving my Infinite Wealth Speedrun route, so let's run through the mid/late game to double check that everything works! www.twitch.tv/mechanalysttom
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Mid/Late-Game Speedrun Research for RPGLB2025
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Barry Kramer @barrykramer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
What is BK mode? Edited by @gamblord.bsky.social
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Eri la nutria 🦦 - te quiere mucho @erivlt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Pascal about JK Rowling and the anti trans law on UK: ‘I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist’
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