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

1. Oh, you know the ones 2. Torment Nexus 3. Leopards eating peoples faces 4. Milkshake duck

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“People who are interested in games have too much of their identities bound up with their interest in games compared to almost anything else that I’ve encountered.” Ian Bogost talks about his approach to critiquing games AND how he has become more mindful of life's small pleasures.

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Gaming’s Toughest Critic Wants You to Live a Happier Life

Plus: An excerpt from The Small Stuff audio book

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It's Post Games' 1st Anniversary. To celebrate, I'm running a sale that I should NEVER DO AGAIN, because it's financially a BAD IDEA. New subscribers can get their first year of Post Games for $40. Ends Sunday at 11:59pm. No ads. Early access. Weekly bonus segments. Monthly bonus episodes.

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The Big Post Games Anniversary Sale! | Post Games

The Big Post Games Anniversary Sale! by Post Games on Patreon. Join Post Games's community for exclusive content and updates.

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FuzzWolf 🏳️‍🌈 @fuzzwolf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Centered text reads “The sky above
the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel”

Below are 3 versions of the same cityscape labeled 1985, 2005, 2025 with the background changing from grey static, to solid blue, to streaming service logos.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/04/2026

Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/

Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Honestly nice to to see I'm not the only one contending with this

The INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO WOLVES meme, reading "combat sports are inescapably problematic in ways that make them immoral to support and enjoy" and "LMAO KNOCK HIS FUCKING SOUL OUT"

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The inaugural "Mark Zuckerberg Awards for Most Expensive Boondoggle" goes to... MARK ZUCKERBERG for Meta Horizon Worlds ...guess it just didn't have legs. 🥁

The Mark Zuckerberg Award for Most Expensive Boondoggle goes to Mark Zuckerberg

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I am a sucker for the holidays, so Post Games is on sale till Sunday night. $1 gets you all episodes. Videos. Bonus content. No ads. Everything. (But for real, after this, I need to stop with the sales, because this is a terrible way to make money!) patreon.com/postgames

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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The Onion: ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

the website of "summergamesfest," a common typo of summer game fest, is not owned by geoff keighley and has, for the past five years, surprised hapless visitors with a mix of goofy bits and sincere activism. I finally figured out who's behind it

But what has the mysterious owner of the summergamesfest.com URL, who did not make the Polygon support page, been up to for the past year? That’s where things get a little weirder. When we last checked in on summergamesfest.com during June of 2024, it redirected to a donation page from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Based on a scant few Wayback Machine snapshots, it appears to have stayed this way for the whole summer.

Then, in September 2024, for at least a couple days, the summergamesfest.com URL began redirecting to a Bluesky post from Epic Games senior trust and safety investigations manager Bruce Knapik that reads “Bet you thought I was joking.” There is no further context for this comment; it follows a seemingly unrelated post about pro wrestling and precedes another about Bluesky informing Knapik that he was the platform’s 850,339th user. They are all days apart.

Aftermath reached out to Knapik to ask the obvious question: Are you the person who owns the URL?

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TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Sometimes in this fast-moving and complex modern world, it’s hard to know what’s right and what’s wrong. But here’s a handy rule of thumb: If you are ever on one side of an issue, and Sesame Street is on the other, YOU’RE the bad guy.

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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 01/04/2025

A message to our followers.

A white text on black background image, making an April Fool's Day joke about the game industry.

Text:

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the cancellation of the joke.

Our hope was to give our followers the highest quality joke possible, but unfortunately this is no longer aligned with our strategic priorities.

This was a tough decision, but we remain focused on delivering high-quality jokes to our followers as we bring our account back to profitability and growth. We believe that streamlining our posts will allow us to drive creativity and create new opportunities for jokes in the future.

To all of our followers who have supported the joke through development, thank you for your trust and passion. We’re sorry to have let you down.

Followers who preordered the joke will be refunded.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 20/02/2025

Why did NetEase layoff its Marvel Rivals support team in the US? What impact does the TikTok ban have on video games? How are Chinese video game companies adapting their strategies given US-China relations? Here is my write up: nikopartners.com/chinese-vide...