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Spookage

@pookage.dev
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ENFP beardyboy, Luddite, and small tech enthusiast - living vicariously through y'all www.pookage.dev he / him || they / them

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Spookage @pookage.dev · 5h
Ahh, I'll be coming from the Index, so being able to relax and let go of the controller, and for them to stay attached to my hands is kinda baked-in to my muscle-memory at this point! haha. Great to know the headset is still comfy without the top-strap, though!
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 8h
Gah, commiserations - still: enjoy! Please share how you get on so that we can live vicariously though you!
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 9h
Were you able to get the ergo kit?
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 14h
The :has() selector has been a godsend
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 25/09/2026
@duckaislop.bsky.social One to report! Undisclosed AI for "Life in the Crater Lake" store.steampowered.com/app/4866720/... ChatGPT used for coding: www.reddit.com/r/thalassoph...
reddit.com
SkranksMateria's comment on "some of the sunken wrecks in my diving game"
Explore this conversation and more from the thalassophobia community
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 24/09/2026
Ooof, this one sucks! I've been a fan of theirs — no more, alas!
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 24/09/2026
Well, sounds to me like the Pacific Drive VR mod might need to be the game the device is christened with!
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 24/09/2026
I AM VICARIOUSLY TENSE AND EXCITED FOR YOU
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 24/09/2026
I made it 91% of the way through War and Peace but I'm finally tapping out; I can put up with Tolstoy getting distracted & repeating himself verbatim all the time (and even his tendency to dedicate entire chapters to arbitrary BS historical analysis), but this Epilogue...man...it's SO BAD! I can't!
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 23/09/2026
Woop! Hmu if your cosmetic issues are code-based; I'm (mostly) a web developer and happy to spend some free time helping artists whose work I dig 🙌
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 23/09/2026
These are great! I really like the red one!
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 23/09/2026
@soyasholm.bsky.social With Tapas going down and Webtoons being a hellsite, please could you consider giving SiaD it's own website to read on? 🙏
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 22/09/2026
oh no! tonal whiplash incoming!
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 18/09/2026
Good to know I'm average, at least — so many of those questions were either pure wank, propaganda, or random-ass pub-quiz questions! I only got a bunch of those history questions because of my own nerdy interests, not because of cultural osmosis!
Two graphs side-by-side:
Average score: 83.14%
Your score: 83%
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 18/09/2026
I'm sorry, what the hell?!
One of the questions on the Life in the UK test: "Which British sportsman won five consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games in the rowing category?"
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 17/09/2026
Wait, how do you get inspired by a rock to make a Narnia movie?
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 17/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Mary Poppins' Sarcastic Golf Clap
Alt: Mary poppins clapping halfheartedly
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 17/09/2026
I hope that's true! 😭 I feel like I've been following and waiting for this thing forever, and I haven't had my VR setup set up since I moved house last year! I'm itching to get back in!
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 17/09/2026
dangnabbit
A cropped screenshot of an email from Valve, reading:

"You are on the waitlist for Steam Frame 1TB Kit

When we did the one-time randomization of the list, your place in line ended up beyond the number of Steam Frames currently available for reservation.

As we work our way through the reservation queue, some customers may cancel their reservations. If that happens, you may be moved into the reservation queue, and you'll be notified via email that you have a reservation after all. "
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 17/09/2026
I'm excited to play Hades II on the Frame! Buuuut I'd be even MORE excited to hear y'all announce that you're working on a Transistor II 👀
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 17/09/2026
Put'em-up put'em uuup 🥊 🥊
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 17/09/2026
Oh no, I think you're right; orders close in 15mins and then we'll know within 24,hrs 😱 I'll join you in the F5-spamming
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 17/09/2026
Wait, I thought it was tomorrow?!
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Timothy Babulski, PhD @tokenintellect.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app is certainly correct. AI doomerism is interlinked with the present fascism. 20th century facism emerged from perception liberalism had failed. 21st century facism is rooted in nihilistic belief liberalism must fail + essentialism (biological, cultural, genetic/eugenics)
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the only threats "AI" poses to society are when people put it in charge of things that require thought, or crash the economy over it, or destroy the environment to power it. but it's people doing all of those things. AI poses zero threat by itself as it cannot do anything due to not existing
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
thebureauinvestigates.com
Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…
Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 14/09/2026
It's here! It's finally here 😭
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 14/09/2026
This reminds me of that poem, The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart, which makes a point out of these sorts of comparisons!
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inkle @inkle.co · 11/09/2026
🎙️ Call for voice actors! 🎭 We're looking for two lead voices for our next game. - One male and one female, vocal age 40 to 60 - Cornish / Welsh / South-West England accent If that's you, please send an acting sample to info@inklestudios.com, marked “casting call”. (Paid, ofc) <3 RTs!
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Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment
ALT: Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
TECH CEO: WE INVENTED GUN
DOG CAN USE

Crowd Cheers


Little guy wearing Yaoi hat: "OH MY GOD, WHY?"


Crowd: WOOO

Tech CEO: WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT BY 2027 10000% OF ECONOMY
WILL BE DOG GUN
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 10/09/2026
Heads-up: at 0:30 you incorrectly label "Against the Storm" as "Endless Legend 2" 🫣
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 10/09/2026
I just went through and ignored all the games and publishers etc, and now the event page is only showing all of the pyramid-scheme-esque onboarding video presentations: "How to make $11m in one week!" kinda thing 😂
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 10/09/2026
Phew! What a great event! I've now ignored every game, developer, and publisher who participated, and all that's left to show is all the event organiser's MLM onboarding videos!
The Steam page for the "AI Gaming Festival" event showing no games whatsoever, and, instead, only videos akin to Multi-Level Marketing / Pyramid-scheme onboarding presentations, with titles like: "Intro to vibe coding and how to make a game in 1 week", "Creating AAA-quality graphics for your game in under 1 month", and "Making a game ready for tiktok virality"
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 10/09/2026
Sweeeeet, handy to have a bunch of publishers all in one place who I can mark as "ignore"!
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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 08/09/2026
This exactly describes why I feel so immediately exhausted after reading or looking at something AI generated. You can’t extrapolate the thinking from something which has none. I think it’s why it’s easier to start from scratch than to fix an AI generated thing.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If the police & security services didn't see this coming, it was a massive intelligence failure. If they did, but still gave the impression of being caught on the hop, it's something worse.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 05/09/2026
A record El Niño brews in the Pacific. The world is feeling the first impacts
abc.net.au
Why this El Niño is different from all the others
The dark, red tongue spreading in the Pacific is growing at a rate not seen in living memory. The uncertainty over what is driving it has alarmed experts.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.
bloodinthemachine.com
Why office workers are turning against AI
Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.
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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 03/09/2026
Looking for someone who can do rigging and animation for a some ad-hoc work on Crescent County! If you are that person, or know of that person, please reply or DM me 🙏
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 02/09/2026
Platformers aren't my jam, but this one looks BEAUTIFUL! Holy hell!
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 01/09/2026
I'll never forget the time we nearly died stuck in a submersible, and confessed our love for each other as the oxygen slowly ran out 😭
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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
a new Section 28
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 01/09/2026
Starmer's out - @zackpolanski.bsky.social: you'd better throw the kitchen sink at this byelection; this election is what folks will point-to when they decide whether the @greenparty.org.uk are a viable alternative or a wasted vote! You got dis, but YOU GOTTA FIGHT TO GET DIS.
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 01/09/2026
This photo might be my new favourite thing
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 29/08/2026
I'm reading War and Peace for the first time and this happened to Tolstoy, too, except that, rather than just keep one version of the great idea, he would put them all in back to back! I've read scenes where someone has both left a room three times, and left the same witty remark each time 😂
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 29/08/2026
In the UK (or in London, at least), it's accepted / acceptable to SAY "yous", but it still feels weird to type — I suspect "y'all" might win out over here, too!
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Spookage @pookage.dev · 29/08/2026
This low-key sounds like you're trying to foist a cursed keyboard off onto someone, haha
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We Are Better Than This @better-than-this.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Governments around the world are protecting Big Tech’s interests instead of the people. It doesn’t have to be like this. Together we can shape a better future. Join us. www.wearebetterthanthis.co.uk
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