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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A follow-up on Control Resonant. I had two quests in a row bug out. I don't know if I'll be able to finish them. That's ROUGH, man. If it were anyone other than Remedy I would just try to refund the game.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

While I'm here, enjoy some cat pictures

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Speaking of the CW, this is all but guaranteed to be a good read.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm a ways into Control Resonant and I have some thoughts. What I like: Dylan, the Remedy Vibes, some of the art direction, the pace of combat. What I don't like: the map, some of the art direction, parts of the open world.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last night, I played Funnel Runners, a coop game about storm chasers. In this game, you ransack a neighborhood for van parts, and then you leave. The game isn't very fun, though it had some funny moments. But the whole thing is very gray and very loud, as you would expect.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you're not rich, real estate is gambling, NOT investment. It used to be, but it isn't any more. Not for at least like 20 years.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look at this list that doesn't have Community, Devs or HBO's Watchmen on it

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I followed Resident Evil with Weapons, which I hadn't seen. I'm still parsing it, but I really liked it. I've been fucking with Letterboxd lately as I try to watch more movies, if anyone wants to be letterbuddies: boxd.it/7lxvx

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 14/09/2026

IGN's ownership chooses busiest time for games media in years to lay a bunch of people off: aftermath.site/ign-layoffs-al...

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This! You can be impressed with how Valve treats customers while also keeping this in mind--they're still a company focused on profit. They're not doing this because they're cool. They're doing it because they have an ultra-dominant marketplace that spits out money by the millions.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If Aurebesh is the written language in Star Wars, how do things like X-Wing, T.I.E. Fighter and C-3PO make sense? I don't think about Star Wars very often these days, but when I do, it's this. And the weird morality around droid treatment.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The whole thing is unsustainable, and so much of it falls to the endless pursuit of photorealism at all costs, and to studios imitating Rockstar development practices without any reasonable chance of attaining Rockstar success.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My thumbs have been hurting again, so I've been watching movies instead of gaming. Mostly bad stuff: Normal, Green Lantern, John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, Halloween 3: Season of the Witch.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Also I keep having thoughts and dumb jokes and nowhere to put them so I'm gonna try irritating the three people who see my posts here with them

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Minnesota "nice driving" is the worst. People will hold up an entire lane of traffic to let you cross when they have a green light and that shit just confuses everyone involved. Just follow the traffic laws, you guys

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 31/12/2025

as a broke student, in 2001 a beer cost $2.20 at my local. the same beer is now $10+ wages did not increase by 5x might explain it!

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that cloud-based gaming will become the dominant way to game over the next decade or so. It's not because people don't want to own PCs or consoles, but rather because they simply cannot afford them. I don't think RAM prices will go down anytime soon.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

it's crazy that this dude spent his entire childhood inside a Barnes and Noble

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Banshee Lover's Rage @annlynzee.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Every once in a while, I check my son's Steam reviews.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It seems like no one I know is playing Ghost of Yotei. I have a lot of thoughts on it, especially in relation to Assassin's Creed Shadows. but at this current moment, I'm fighting Takezo the Unrivaled, who is based on Miyamoto Musashi.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I have issues with Silent Hill f, but by and large it's an EXCELLENT game. It feels authentically Silent Hill while doing its own thing. Hinako is an interesting protagonist, and the game tries to tangle with thoughts about gender and relationships through the lens of 1960s Japanese culture.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

and yet he'll keep right on going out of pure hatred and spite (and access to literally the best healthcare)

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 29/07/2025

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:

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Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them

New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I'm trying to finally finish House of Leaves. I stopped reading it because the narrator sucks real hard. The fiction about the house itself and the Navidson family is super compelling, but Johnny is just the far end opposite. And in between that, 200 pages of footnotes.

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ThirtyHelens @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The fact that itchio is looking into alternate payment options and talking about all this like an ongoing situation instead of being like "these are the new rules and always will be, fuck off" says a lot about how much they care about this. I know you want to yell at them but they're working hard

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/07/2025

Wanted to revisit this briefly and reemphasize this point - I agree in principle with the idea that you shouldn't sell your work for cut-rate, unsustainable pay, but that mostly assumes that alternatives exist

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

the research showing Google AI Overview is stopping people from clicking links is a huge huge huge problem not just for websites but for people's brains which are about to be absolutely mangled www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I bought a couch (My last one lasted 10 years).The bottom broke within 3 months. They tried to fix it, but failed. They replaced it. That one broke too. So I bought a totally different couch from a totally different retailer. Guess what happened. I just want to sit, you guys

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Lacy Baugher Milas @lacymb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

FYI, this is why every website you love is laying off writers or closing up entirely.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The entire 90s internet was like this. We had it so good. www.thick-coins.net

A hand holding two very thick nickels, called Thnickels, and which are superior to standard-thickness nickels.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Shrek's daughter is named Meechee CONFIRMED

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

they never miss

The Onion: Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16/03/2025

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

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The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring

404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I'm doing a good amount of reading about ray tracing lately for an upcoming piece of writing, and I went back to a piece I wrote about path and ray tracing a few years ago. While there are things I'd certainly change, I'm still really happy with it. www.gamespot.com/articles/nvi...

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Nvidia Says Real-Time Path Tracing Is On the Horizon, But What Is It?

Ray tracing arrived a few years ago, and now path tracing is almost within reach.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

NEW LUMINES GAME preparing myself for RSIs to come.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

good thing Chat GPT requests are so rich in nutrients and protein!!!

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

This gets worse and worse the further you read. Joss and his husband were repeatedly harassed. House burned down. Dog killed. Joss shot and killed after enduring homophobic slurs.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I wrote about Red Dead Redemption on its 15th anniversary, about how it embodied the Spaghetti Western/European Western genre of films in a way that sets it apart from Red Dead Redemption 2 and makes it its own special creation: www.gamespot.com/articles/red...

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Red Dead Redemption Turns 15: There Will Never Be Another Spaghetti Western Like It

Even in its own trilogy, there's nothing quite like Red Dead Redemption.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I would like it if my character could sit in Assassin's Creed Shadows, so that I don't feel like they're waiting for me while I watch fireflies bobbing around and moonlight filtering through summer trees. it makes me anxious.

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

They should make a documentary about Disney vs. Desantis and call it The Iger Sanction (I'm watching The Eiger Sanction)

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Eric Frederiksen @piratesyar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I never would've guessed this site's mascot would be an abstract mech named garland

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