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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 26/09/2026

Greek food and Daniel Sloss tonight, coolio

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Tyler @brainrunnethout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's how it REALLY works

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

in a week that saw microsoft give activision the reins to halo and bungie pivot back to destiny, one thing has become abundantly clear: the people in charge do not have a long-term, overriding plan. they’re just reacting. the result, when times are bad, is chaos

"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."
This mirrors shifts in strategy that have come to dominate the still-new Sharma era, including others outlined Tuesday. Rare is joining Activision, Turn 10 and Playground are fusing, and—most gallingly, considering their history—Obsidian is being folded into Bethesda to work on Fallout instead of its own original series. As with the previous round of layoffs, details betray Microsoft's haphazard approach: A Halo developer got promoted and laid off in the same week. Gears of War: E-Day's story director is out of a job days after celebrating that the game had gone gold. Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, now without a buyer after a brief glimmer of hope, is once again on the chopping block.
All of this betrays a simplistic mindset that does not accurately reflect the reality of game development: People are disposable, studios are interchangeable, and series can be traded like sports teams. Nothing matters more than franchises and their money-printing prowess. Unless, evidently, you are Hideo Kojima, in which case Microsoft suddenly has money to burn.

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Doug Hanke Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla @dougmakingstuff.com · 21/09/2026

The fact that business folks/MBAs cannot look more than a fiscal quarter into the future is one of the reasons we can't have nice things. We need to stop listening to these people. You want churn? This is how you get churn.

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🎃 Out Of Context International Dubs 🎃 @outofcontxtdubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Show: The Simpsons Language: Japanese

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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 17/09/2026

and don't get me started on refined harsh vocals to express raw emotions, that's transcendental

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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 17/09/2026

rough harsh vocals to be cool: lame rough harsh vocals because they are the only way to express raw emotions: the most beautiful thing to hear

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's tour bus.

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Jesse Cox @jessecox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

TOMORROW. 9am pt/ 12pm est It's finally here. "Control and The Remedyverse for Beginners (spoiler free)". Expect the unexpected... @remedygames.com #ControlResonant

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That's gonna be an lol from me dawg.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

FOREVER AND ALWAYS MY DIRECTOR 🥳🥳🥳🥳 (Not my video.)

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"fairness in women's sports" is literally just "ethics in games journalism" like this is the same thing this is part of the same playbook dawg

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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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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 11/09/2026

After having blown up god damn libc on my private hobby server, I have now set it back up. We're back online baaabyyy

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ILLBRAD 🔞 @blasternation.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

CHANGE MY PIK UP SMACK MY BULB ORP

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 07/09/2026

everyone's like "you have to be a pervert to let yourself make art" and that's true but further than that you also have to let yourself be kind of pretentious

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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 07/09/2026

Today I learned that I share a birthday with your site! Thank you for the comics and the many laughs!

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Anton @antonhand.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The thing folks using AI on games don't understand is, they are expressing destructive hatred towards the medium. Congrats, you made the thing make -insert genre here-. You've destroyed its market. That genre is over now. I hope you enjoy recombinations of past ones, cuz, that's all their is now.

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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 06/09/2026

It'd probably help to have someone to bounce stuff off of and to get direction / limitations from, but I'm starting to think that isn't happening anymore

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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 06/09/2026

I think part of it is that I lack the skills to make some of the music I'd like to hear. The other part is that I have loads of easy setups for some kind of ambient floaty stuff, which makes it the quickest to get going, and seeing as I already struggle with getting started, that does not help ...

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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 06/09/2026

Ran headfirst into the difference of what I'd like my music to be and what comes out when I just go for it. Strange sensation afterwards, yay making music, but don't feel the end result. No clue what to do about it.

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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 04/09/2026

These people are very bad at any kind of media literacy, sooo ... yes It's funny, there's so many more crazy things in Warframe to be confused by, but no, they fail at the concept of "Pronouns"

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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 04/09/2026

Yep, that's them! Super cool character imo, but yeah, attracted some attention from that crowd unfortunately.

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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 04/09/2026

Would this happen to be about Flare?

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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · 01/09/2026

Reading threads like this, I suspect there are more of us than one would expect

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Of a Dying Mollusc @omullusc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For more writing on keeping-AI-out-of-coding, here's a great blog from @liasae.bsky.social lia-sae.net/articles/202...

lia-sae.net

Lia's blog - Code is a wedge and programmers are tools

Get the hammer.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.

brettcodes.com

I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

ICH HASSE DIE DEUTSCHE BAHN HOFFENTLICH VERRECKT DIESE DECKSLADEN UND ALLE SEINE AKTIONÄRE ENDLICH DIESER UNGEFICKTE PISSVEREIN

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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026

Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)

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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 28/08/2026

This fuckin thing rolling up to you on the battlefield

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Tactica Games Schweiz @tactica-games.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So viele neue narrative Helden für alle Fraktionen & coole Sammlermodelle für Conquest: TLAOK von @parabellumgames.bsky.social warten ab sofort auf unserem Neuheitentisch auf dich! Verstärke jetzt deine Armee. www.tacticagames.ch/shop/de/kate... #tabletop #conquest #miniatures #wargaming #parabellum

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Tactica Games Schweiz @tactica-games.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

„Grimdark Future“ ist eine Geschichte, in einer vom Krieg zerrütteten Science-Fiction-Zukunft, in der die Menschheit in einer neuen Galaxie ums Überleben kämpft. One Page Rules - jetzt mit ihrem ersten Tabletop Wargame bei uns! www.tacticagames.ch/shop/de/kate... #tabletop #onepagrule #grimdark

Regelbuch Grimdark Future von One Page Rules in englischer Sprache

Grosses Grundset mit vielen Minitaturen, Regelbuch und mehr für Grimdark Futures von One Page Rules

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

what time is it? why, it's time for my periodic brag about how much I love my husband and love being married to him to counteract the narrative that you should hate your partner!!!

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 21/08/2026

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

the good news is that, for at least the foreseeable future, these humanoid robots can be easily defeated by utilizing any number of foiling tactics demonstrated in your run-of-the-mill looney tunes cartoon.

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