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Old Man Syms

@oldmansyms.bsky.social
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Elder Br in Tokyo. Plays too much videogames. I don't really like this site, but here to follow people I used to follow on Twitter. Not really posting anything, just reposting things I like, and replying when I can't help it.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 25/09/2026
At a certain point you just have to call it election interference from the US.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026
lol Ed Sheeran's band quit
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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jonny (leachate composite form) @jo.nny.rip · 05/09/2026
The day I believe "coding is solved" is the day they open source Claude code because they are proud of how excellently the AI has written it instead of accidentally leaking it and revealing how it is the largest dumpster fire I have ever seen
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dilma Rousseff is a left-wing icon who fought the dictatorship in the 70s, was arrested & tortured, then became our 1st female president and reached 79% approval rate, being re-elected before the 2016 right-wing coup. All Americans saw were false corruption charges. You're not immune to propaganda
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10/08/2026
Major Chinese tech companies recently shut down their popular AI companion services to comply with new regulations that ban the platforms from manipulating emotions or replacing social interactions. Some users are upset, uninstalling apps in protest or trying to train new ones.
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Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations
Li Linlin cried for days after losing her virtual boyfriend. She exchanged about 700,000 words with him over two years and never got to say goodbye when he was eliminated by ByteDance, the developer of TikTok.
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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Really sad to see that the main arguments of supposedly "reasonable" pro-ai people can be summed up as "fuck you, got mine". Very american.
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SaKo @sako.works · 04/08/2026
calibration process #pico8 #dailycarts
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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Today's working day is brought to you by this "No commentary Phantasy Star II" playlist on the second monitor. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Time to work while Rei saves the world.
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Phantasy Star II - YouTube
Playing through Phantasy Star II - my first RPG ver.
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Scroll of Taiwu is a great example of this... One of the most important "indie" games of the last decade, it changed what Steam meant as a market and created an entire new genre, selling 3.4M copies and spawning countless successors. Anglosphere media had nothing to say about it, zero curiosity.
Screenshot of Scroll of Taiwu's metacritic page, with zero reviews
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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
US government just approved the request of Californian tech bros to launch a giant mirror in space. An incredibly bad idea for all sorts of reasons, as the post below explains: mastodon.social/@sundogplane...
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Prof. Sam Lawler (@sundogplanets@mastodon.social)
Want some reminders of how fucking terrible this idea is? https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/true-cost-solar-power-night-reflect-orbital/ https://theconversation.com/a-us-startup-plans-to-del...
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 09/07/2026
Israel's genocide means joy cannot be allowed to exist in Gaza, and thus they surgically murder anyone who creates joy in the death camp that they made out of Gaza.
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm enjoying seeing people post their favorite physical games - I'm honestly jealous. Back then, those did not exist in Brazil unless you were VERY wealthy. We just had CD cases full of pirate discs. Super cheap, but no box, no manual... some were just regular CD-Rs... I have no attachment to them.
Photo of a CD case with 3 Final Fantasy VII CDs and a Resident Evil 3 CD, all pirate (photo not mine)
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Tiani Pixel @tianipixel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🥳 Mina the Hollower + UNSIGHTED 🥳 Looking for pixel art, top-down, Zelda-likes/Metroidvanias with challenging combat and puzzles? Look no further!! If you already have one of the games, this is a perfect opportunity to gift a friend and support the devs :) store.steampowered.com/bundle/76343...
Mina + Unsighted
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Panic @panic.com · 01/07/2026
🇪🇨 Good luck to Ecuador's soccer team in tonight's game against Mexico—a rivalry that happened before in 2002, as depicted in the game despelote (on sale on Steam right now.) ¡Sí se puede! ⚽️ despelote.game
Key art from the game: line drawing of everyday characters over a collage of a Quito street, with the words ¡VAMOS ECUADOR! over it
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Since we can now have 10 images per post, let me recommend 10 recent indie games! All from the past 3 years, no big obvious hits. No AI or genocide support either! Names & descriptions on Alt Text.
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker @shipbreakergame.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
To celebrate Shipbreaker’s 4th anniversary, we're giving away bundles of exclusive merch including custom Bunny D plushies (bones not included)! Follow us, reshare this post, and reply with your favorite Shipbreaker moment to enter. More details below 👇
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 19/05/2026
A "piece that was killed" is something we hear over and over again working with press promoting Dreams on a Pillow, not just now but across the years. In some cases the content had been fully written & was pulled right before or even after publishing. In others, it never was allowed past concept.
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Jack The Generalist @jackgutmann.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
If you found yourself reading about the oppressed people of Palestine and went "But... what am i gonna do!" Well, you can support this game and help lift the dehumanization campaign been put on these people (and Arabs generally) by helping the game production. Change starts from within. Thanks.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 21/04/2026
As a reminder, the US Military is the largest single polluter on Earth. Slashing its budget and not going to war every other week would be great for the world. www.sciencefocus.com/news/us-mili...
Published in the journal PLOS Climate, the research found that US Department of Defense (DoD) spending is tightly linked to energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing military expenditure, the authors argue, could yield dramatic benefits for the planet.

The US military is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases of any institution on Earth, generating an estimated 636 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent (a standardised measure of greenhouse gas emissions) between 2010 and 2019. 

If it were a country, this would make the US military rank 47th globally in emissions, ahead of nations like Sweden and Portugal.
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 26/03/2026
Yo so here’s the thing: Fuck JK Rowling. Have some self-respect and don’t watch the cynical money-grab. It directly supports transphobia and hate. Other books and shows exist.
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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
blitzball, Final Fantasy X
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/03/2026
I ask you to take 3 minutes out of your day to read this, as a reminder of what true evil looks like. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows
Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.
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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Caves of Qud
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 01/03/2026
This culminated in mass protests across the country calling for an end to the monarchy and US influence, which led to the Shah fleeing and the Embassy Hostage Crisis where evidence was found of the US trying to suppress the revolution. Eventually, the Islamic Republic was established in 1979
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 28/02/2026
The so called Peace President has directly bombed a total of 10 countries since he took office. He has vowed to conquer Greenland, to starve the people of Cuba, to enable genocide in Palestine, and destroy the Iranian population. The US has been at war for over 90% of its existence.
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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 28/02/2026
Last week, for the first time in 20 years, a man died from a treatable snake bite on my home island of Martinique. He had asked chatGPT what to do instead of going the hospital. He missed the 6 hours treatable window.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/02/2026
It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I wish I could properly explain this to my non-Brazilian followers, but we just built a mecha Lula lol
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Wallace @exalclaw.com · 09/02/2026
Relooted is not only a neat puzzle game with grand heists and a charming cast, but also a challenge to who owns and tells African history. Plus, it's one of the few games to capture Africa's diversity well, pulling artifacts from all across the continent. My review: www.avclub.com/relooted-gam...
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Relooted challenges who gets to own and tell African history
Relooted, a game about freeing African artifacts from Western museums and collections, interrogates history through sharply designed heists. Read our review.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.
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赤旗PR @akahata.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
日本共産党って? 企業献金ゼロ #TaxtheRich #しんぶん赤旗は日本共産党の新聞
日本共産党って?
企業献金ゼロ

#TaxtheRich

#しんぶん赤旗は日本共産党の新聞
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 24/01/2026
The original argument for banning TikTok was data privacy concerns. Yet US social media and video apps collected the exact some data, but they were never threatened with a ban. A real solution would have been to ban / regulate them all. But it was always about who controlled / monetized TikTok.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 17/12/2025
Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Interesting to play 7554, the Vietnamese FPS about the Indochina War. The intro is a historical recap of the Spanish, French, Japanese, British and French (again!) fucking them over, to the point you're desperate to help the Việt Minh once the game starts. No wonder the US army funds military FPS.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
i can hear this gif
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Hero's Adventure is 50% OFF: store.steampowered.com/app/1948980/... One of the best RPGs I ever played, got over 130 hours in it. It's an open-world martial arts RPG with unparallel levels of freedom - join or destroy any faction, siege / save towns, become emperor, hunt secret arts, marry, etc...
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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
In light of the Future Class news, may I suggest you watch and share the documentary "Blood on our Controllers -The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide" that fellow alumni @pyrofoux.bsky.social worked on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g748...
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The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide
YouTube video by Hippolyte 🪐
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 26/09/2025
It's wild to see the USA do a USA in the USA.
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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The article @robfahey.net and I wrote on Sanseito is finally out (open access). We describe the party’s conspiracy worldview and how it shapes its policies and organizational features. I may do a thread to include the work I have done since finalizing the draft. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Fighting the Cabal from the Diet: Sanseitō and the Role of Conspiracy as Political Ideology | Asia-Pacific Journal | Cambridge Core
Fighting the Cabal from the Diet: Sanseitō and the Role of Conspiracy as Political Ideology - Volume 23
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Dashi 🍜 @dashiart.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The game is set during the War of Canudos, when the Brazilian army massacred a community of poor farmers & former slaves, killing over 25,000 people. It's the kind of game you play and think how video games still have many settings, cultures and events to explore.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
RIP David Cope
classy pooh meme template with successive captions: 

* Generating art with an AI model

* Making art by hand

* Writing 30,000 lines of Lisp by hand to generate art
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umamusume do vontade de matar @peachperformance.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
if you have at least 1 brazilian in your team the entire country will support your game its a law its in the constitution.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10/08/2025
Mohamed Salah asking a cowardly UEFA to name a genocide a genocide.
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dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 04/08/2025
Every time.
Edited screenshot from Disco Elysium that reads:

RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] -- Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about video games. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about video games, the alpha and omega of video games questions, and that question is:

1. - (Whisper.) "Are games art?"
2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.
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zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
o/ 来週末の参加枠がまだいくつかございます!
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zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I'll be at #pixelartpark with @picopicocafe.bsky.social this Sunday (Aug 3rd) at Osanbashi Hall in Yokohama // pixelartpark.com/events/pap8/ We have zines, t-shirts, fantasy machines, and new Galaxy Club stamps. Drop by booth M-4 and say hi!
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Replaying Hero's Adventure to try the new DLC, I'll say it again - it's an all-time classic that all RPGs fans should try. It combines Taiwanese RPGs + Mount & Blade + Fallout to make THE most open-ended RPG around: 101 companions and 36+ endings, with many factions, reputations, romances & secrets
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