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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 5h

Sorry it literally burns an entire generation of game developers to ash to make one (1) game like Baldurs Gate 3, and then the whole industry passes into the west like the elves.

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But will there be an ailurophobia mode that lets you change all the cats into spiders youtu.be/VA2q1uN0DgY?...

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Another Satisfactory Announcement

YouTube video by Coffee Stain Studios

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/712... It was a different age

Nine games:

X-COM: UFO Defense
King's Quest
Atari Adventure
Starflight
Ultima VI
Final Fantasy Tactics
Dwarf Fortress
Minecraft
LEGO Universe

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We used to discuss reasons why each generation latched onto whichever fantasy. Unicorns and dragons in the greed-obsessed eighties, vampires in the subculture nineties, angels after 9/11, etc. Nothing in the 2020s makes a fantasy of decrepit old men hoarding world-altering power feel thrilling.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

do you ever think social media is kind of like laser pointer cat toys for humans. like it feels productive but is also extremely frustrating because you cant kill the laser dot

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Don't know whether to be sad at the loss of a uniquely preserved ecosystem or happy at the victory of the unstoppable rat over mankind's hubris

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've been reading through the responses for the last couple days, and nobody has mentioned my favorite niche: No matter how principled or responsible, no matter the incentives or consequences, there's always a 10% chance a human will do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to, just because

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 27/06/2024

clowns to the left of me. jokers to the right. jesters as far as the eye can see ahead; tricksters lined up behind. taking a little relief in the fact that underneath me is simply the fresh soil of the sweet earth that birthed us all, but then i look up, and oh no: buffoons

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just learned that we lost one of my design heroes, Jonas Springborg, to cancer this week. One our first and greatest illustrators on Ninjago and Chima, he went on to found the amazing MOOD Visuals design studio and then MOOD Publishing for board games. www.moodvisuals.com/lego

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Lego — MOOD Visuals

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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's so hard to get back to a normal perception of what is possible to achieve in a time period when your attitude is ' all or nothing/every waking moment is for work' , like life ruiningly so. One of the things I've had to painfully re-learn is the idea that small things can build up/ matter

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

rick rolling was so wholesome. you guys! you tricked me into listening to this nice song i cant believe it

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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ecta foole @ectafoole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(Caves of Qud voice) Voices of the Void

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lucy taught me how to do this and I wore it around like a necklace and gruff old men would constantly go "a monkey's fish!" and harrumph a note of approval, so if you love approval form gruff old men and Lucy Bellwood(I do), you should get in on this.

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The realtor put together a mockup of what could be done with the house, and we're here like damn why didn't we do any of these things

A mock-up design of how to utilize what's just a completely ridiculous floor plan. Copyright Maverick Realty CT.

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redwyrm @redwyrm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Conversations with the 9yo DM: Me: The desert hag tells you her name is Ham. 9yo DM: What kind of hag is named Ham?! That is ridiculous. Me: What? Who doesn’t like a Ham Sand Witch?

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 11/09/2026

not to do the 'repost stuff from other sites' thing but a friend sent this to me like YES we need uncosiness in games

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's become hugely dispiriting how frequently I'm having to contact other tabletop news sites asking that they -please- cite BoardGameWire as the source of the story they've just directly lifted, slightly reworded or run through ChatGPT before slapping it on their site without attribution.

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Chess battle royale: every turn, the board shrinks to the minimum size necessary for the pieces remaining. If an edge row or column is empty, it's removed

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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Anyway, what the styles-as-superpowers misses for me is the hyperemotional component of Fist of the North Star. What is hyperemotion? Glad you asked. Short answer: emotional arcs culminating into explosive action. Long answer is here: www.thoughtcrimegames.net/blog/hyperem...

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Hyperemotion — Thoughtcrime Games

The Action of Feeling Missiles danced through the black of space. Drawing arcs through the void, they veered and tipped drunkenly in violent arcs, nearing but never touching the giant robot pir...

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Manda: You were breathing in a lot of paint thinner back then Me: That wasn't on purpose Manda: I'm just saying you're not beating the allegations

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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

It’s the spooky month so here’s some old spooky art

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Kos, that kobold you know @draekos.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Wacom doing planned obsolescence with a "Thank you for your support" on their staggeringly overpriced products wasn't on my bingo card but I am UNSURPRISED. If you too are in this position, allow me to draw your attention to what's probably your best solution: opentabletdriver.net

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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

even now, she's still teaching us

screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

People doing this "favorite movie when you were 20" thing and I looked at the list of movies from that year and they're almost universally awful. Also I was living out of my car and sleeping in graveyards that year, so no TV, no movies. But I do remember having one of the Burger King toys.

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Always funny when I'm working from a bunch of old reference and it takes me a week to recognize them as assets I myself created the last time I was working at LEGO Good work, previous me

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

a huge early shift in my work as a designer and publisher came when I stopped writing words and started writing for the page, treating the physical page as a discrete unit; it shifted again when I started writing for the spread - with each overleaf as a cut-off

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Now that we live in hedgehog country, thinking about the hedgehog diet. Slugs have got to be like the chicken mcnuggets of the animal world. No bones, no shells, no fighting or chasing, just juicy meat lumps self-delivered in their own sauce. Like you're a deadly predator but also cozy

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

SteamDB just announced that "the internet we once loved is gone," and I've been coming to terms with that this year - trying and failing to explain to the new kids what it was like when every site and scrap of data was somebody's labor of love instead of this relentless grind and grift

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

it's been a unique treat for me personally to see this because i remember reviewing and liking the hell outta these guys' first game. the glow up is real

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Time to layout the rulebook for Dragon Pizza

OUR HISTORY
Once the great dragons reigned over the earth, delighting in cruelty and avarice. Many nations tried to break them; each was broken in turn. But these pieces were brought together, and a great coalition at last scattered the great houses, beginning the Age of the Free Lands.

The dragons did not return until they had been forgotten. The memories of men are short, and what are a few centuries to the patience of a dragon? In that time, they reflected on their crimes, and what their vices had cost them. They will not make such mistakes again. This is not a time for banners and bloodshed; this is a time for mascots and synergies.

They will not rule as great houses. They will be brands.
COMPONENTS (pictured): 2 Dragons, 2 Heroes, and 6 Discs in each color; 4 Cows, 4 Wood, 4 Stone (one for each player); The Pig of Time

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Maurice Noble was THE cartoon background designer. I love how much he was able to fuck around around and get so abstractly graphic, yet no one in the audience ever batted an eye because his designs lent so much personality and energy to the cartoons they were used in.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

SCOOP: A few weeks before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company, most of the developers at its studio were furloughed The studio says they hope to secure funds to restore their pay. Some are skeptical it'll happen I learned about this via a bitter lawsuit: www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...

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‘Most’ of Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor was furloughed ahead of launch

The details emerged amid a legal dispute between company founders. The lawsuit also provides an unexpected look into a studio behind one of the best-reviewed Star Wars games in years

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 30/08/2026

Why young people hate AI even more?

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We love our little place in Denmark, but it occurs to me that our ridiculous house back in the US had at minimum six rooms that were each bigger than this entire apartment

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koby @ocellifera.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

orla and the stars 🌌

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Daily 188, study

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Caught by the cctv.. "Eat up, little buddy. Don't be shy." 😹🐍💛 #cat #plushdoll #besties

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Every time I find an old Prismacolor from back before they got enshittificated, it's a transcendent experience. Like if butter could hold a sharp point and pure pigments. I would not be the artist I am now if I'd grown up with the abominable shit prismas of the past few decades.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Great fact: Walter Percy Day, who did the matte paintings in Black Narcissus, was the stepfather of Peter Ellenshaw, who did the matte paintings in Mary Poppins. Peter’s son Harrison Ellenshaw did the matte paintings for Star Wars.

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Noa 🪻 @noahbogart.com · 25/08/2026

i am once again begging you to support rascal; good people writing on important topics. the ttrpg industry deserves so much better in journalism and critical analysis than "here's how to optimize your build in 5e" listicles or "new splatbook ports Avatar to dnd".

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When the wind is right, the LEGO design office is within hearing distance of one of the LEGOLAND roller coasters. But the ride has been shut down for a little while, until today apparently, so I forgot that sometimes you exit the building to the sound of dozens of people screaming in terror

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

dolly parton was many things, but what i think resonates so deeply is that she was kind. ACTIVELY kind. when i talk about proving love, this is what i mean. ACTIVE kindness. ACTIVE love. it can be easy to dismiss kindness, but i think the reaction to her passing shows it is not at all a placeholder

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I guess I'll add that Dolly Parton is up there with Fred Rogers in terms of truly achieving what I think a Christian living their faith in public life should be like.

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