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I enjoy some video games.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 6h
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 7h
In Super Mario 64, tiny slivers of exposed out-of-bounds areas will cause Mario to bonk if he collides with them. However, the exact same scenario in Super Mario Sunshine is much more cruel to Mario. Here, instead of merely bonking, Mario will break his spine.
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Rivven @rivven.bsky.social · 8h
Huh. That is fascinating. I wonder how effective they really are...
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Rivven @rivven.bsky.social · 8h
What are talky buttons?
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 23h
every time you see a company like google boasting about its AI users, remember they're counting people like me, who simply has the same google storage add-on ive had for 15 years, only they changed its name to add "AI"
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 22h
Hi! Aftermath is a video games website where the writers own the company. We're almost entirely funded by readers, so if you'd like to join the thousands of subscribers already supporting independent games media, you can learn more/sign up below! aftermath.site/aftermath-subs...
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 21h
even if you sign up for free (there's a free tier!) you're still helping us out
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 14/10/2026
Xbox announces XBOX LABS, seemingly inspired by a bunch of vibe coded nonsense. aftermath.site/xbox-labs-vibe...
the splash page for Xbox Labs, which just shows a place to input your email and really nothing else aside from footage put through an annoying filter
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 13/10/2026
got to hang out with this enormous gentleman on monday
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
got interviewed by KCRW, an NPR member station, about blizzard workers' recent union contract win and what that means for the video game industry. listen here: www.kcrw.com/shows/kcrw-r...
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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Little One (real name Hellboy, but we never call him that) is always making us ask “why are you dusty?!” He never answers, he just looks at us like this:
A black cat with dust on his head
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
👩‍⚕️👨‍🏭🤝💰
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
🤙📞🐽🙅‍♀️
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
George W. Bush got away with unimaginable crimes and American culture largely let him so I am really not in the mood for a lecture about the power or lack thereof of art.
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
For people who like good video game books! www.twitch.tv/nyugamecenter
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 12/10/2026
Once again I did not win a Zohran Mamdani scavenger hunt aftermath.site/mamdani-scaven...
NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani, with subtitles reading "and come see New York through the eyes of the people who built it"
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If Darth Vader is going to use the infinity gauntlet in a game it should be hand crafted by an Austrian Sonic The Hedgehog Modder that has a vision, not done with AI.
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Pudim 🪑 o 👇 (sentando o dedo) @bombompudim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A REVOLUÇÃO É GOSTOSA E TEM GOMINHOS
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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
hey why did my less-than-two-years-old oven break in the same way again less than four months since I allegedly paid to get it fixed
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When I’m president:
Forcing Pro VFX Artists to use ONLY FREE Software!
Corridor Crew • 367K views • 9 hours ago
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🌌👨‍🚀☄️🚀
fake screenshot from the game star Fox 64 with the character Katt saying "cis men should have no say regarding women's spaces"
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Experimental post: The Duality of Whacka In the Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Whacka can finally be fought, and has a suspiciously specific 108 HP. The game both offers a ridiculously simplistic explanation for this as well as a complex one steeped in Dharmic symbolism.
In Paper Mario, the original version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Super Paper Mario, Whacka was just a harmless whack-a-mole creature that could be abused to get Whacka Bumps, extremely valuable healing items. After being hit enough times, the Whacka goes extinct, teaching the players the consequences of their actions. However, in the Switch version of Paper Mario: TTYD, he instead moves to the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials and becomes an optional superboss with 108 HP.
He is fought at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials and has to be hit 8 times in order for the fight to activate.
but also
The number 108 is considered sacred by the Dharmic religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
Whacka symbolizes karma for killing him in past games
ring the bell 108 times, per Japanese tradition? The ringing of the bell represents the 108 bonno-defilements of man..
Buddhism holds the view that there are precisely 108 temptations on the path to Nirvana.
Therefore, in order to reach Nirvana, every Buddhist must resist 108 earthly temptations.
With a combination of any of the elements of the above four factors, there are 108 ways with which the karmas can be attracted to the soul.
the earthly temptation to get those Whacka Bumps
There are 108 qualities of praiseworthy souls
Some people think that the human spirit travels through 108 stages, while others believe that enlightenment is attainable with just 108 breaths each day while in Intense meditation,
108 beads to awaken your inner light
Meditators count mantra repetitions with mala beads of 108, (100 counted for self, 8 for mistakes and for those who have not the opportunity to meditate in mantra)
108 breaths to return to your truth
108 mantras to dissolve ego into dever
108 steps from the self to the soul
The Sacred Meaning of 108 Temple Steps
the journey to Whacka is a journey of enlightenment
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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
OMG
A black cat on Alyssa’s back
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Rivven @rivven.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
That was the initial intention of photography, right?
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 11/10/2026
incredible things happening on threads, the very normal app for everyday people
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
At the deli with my friend Amber who is a lesbian and also a dragon’s dogma pawn “this draught might be of use to us, Arisen” she says and tosses me a white monster energy
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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The bodega cat claimed me
A cat on Alyssa’s back
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The people yearn for more $50-$60 AA games.
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Rivven @rivven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It seems all the pacifism was for nothing in the end. So true.
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It is possible to beat Donkey Kong Country 2 completely pacifist using a combination of secrets and glitches, allowing no enemy or boss to be harmed. Ironically, getting the true ending destroys Crocodile Isle, killing everyone on it anyway.
How to beat Donkey Kong Country 2 the pacifist way
Most enemies in the game can be spared via damage boosting through them or skipped via team-up throws or Dixie's twirl. However, some bonus rooms require all enemies inside to be defeated. These can be avoided by using the secret that gives 75 Kremkoins*, allowing all bonus rooms to be skipped.
*In the first level, enter the cabin, exit immediately. Collect the first banana bunch but not anything else. Return to the cabin, collect the balloon, Exit, collect the bunch again, but nothing else. Return, and it will contain a coin that gives you 75 Kremkoins.
To skip bosses, get a glitch called "Bonus Storage" by pausing and exiting while failing a bonus. After this, use "Funky Skip" (get near the boss, hold L+Select, then tap Right, Left, Up, Down, Right, Left. Hold Up, press B, let go of Up and B, and press Down) which will put you on the world map. Reenter the world, then visit any NPC, and if done correctly, you will be put on the world map again but with the next world unlocked without fighting the boss.
After beating all the Lost World levels (requires only getting to the beginning of K. Rool's Keep and the 75 Kremkoins) the final battle is unlocked. In this battle, the player needs to enter it, then die, and finally do another Funky Skip to enter the True Ending credits instantly, without harming K. Rool.
In an exquisite case of irony, the True Ending cutscene shows Crocodile Isle being blown up and sinking into the sea, presumably killing everyone on it (save for K. Rool, who escapes on a boat).
It seems all the pacifism was for nothing in the end.
Source: YouTube user @kfin45, youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEmOV78AqBIFpzVdz8N6SU7UEllnn1FBR
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Random people have been jumping my ass for the last 24 hours for saying I like Galactic Racer and I’m kinda sick of it. I’m not saying it’s the second coming im saying I liked it a lot. Leave me alone.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I like that there's a big space cat in Galactic Racer and they give you the pet prompt and Shade is like "no I got shit to do"
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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I-
Tiktok comment on my video from a guy with a French bulldog PFP: No other reason needed to not support this game

Me: Why do you reply to all my vids if you don't like them my guy

Him: Because you're hot
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Galactic Racer is my favorite racing game in ages, a game that scratches the same arcade itch as Wipeout, Burnout, and F-Zero GX. It is an antidote to the antiseptic, licensed car collection simulators we have grown accustomed to.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 09/10/2026
i have had to stop playing before bedtime i get too JACKED UP
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
its feels like a mass psychosis where tech leaders continue to insist you can be cruel, mean, and hurt the feelings of lines of code
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 10/10/2026
fucking loser shit, everyone involved looks like the dumbest pissbaby on earth. who should be shoved into the locker first, the slop enthusiast thinking a machine can understand abuse, or the tech weirdos thinking it cares?
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The lack of any introspection in basically any post-9/11 dramatic narrative about what we did in retaliation has always struck me as a core cowardice. Just a yawning pit of evil and the only movie we got was The Card Counter.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 10/10/2026
🐱♥️🧺
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 10/10/2026
when you're 46 and wake up at 8am after having 2 beers the night before
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Photo of the back cover of Do You Have Any Chips? True Stories of Alien Intrusions. Synopsis copy reads:

 ALIEN INTRUSION
Chilling tales of aliens chilling in homes uninvited are rampant across America. Those subjected to intrusions have been mocked, but the inconveniences they experience are real. These are their stories:

"One night I found an alien in my kitchen listening to psytrance off his phone. He waved at me, then took what I can only assume was 'alien molly' and began geeking out. He kept hugging the fridge and talking about peace and eugenics. It was horrible."

"My living room reeked of weed at 3:00 AM when I noticed an alien on my couch watching TV. He made me sit down and watch this infomercial for a new basketball that has an AM/FM radio inside. He kept falling asleep, but every time I reached for the remote, he'd say, 'hold on, I'm watching this, when his almond-shaped eyes were clearly closed. It's stupid, right? The radio inside the basketball would definitely break after dribbling the ball too much. He made me late for work the next day."

"An alien made fun of my apartment because it didn't have any good snacks inside of it. I had to dress him up in a disguise, then I drove him to three different convenience stores before he found a bag of shrimp chips that made him sick. He rolled around on the ground moaning in pain for six hours before he slowly disappeared over the course of an additional hour. While he was disappearing, his moaning had a reverb effect which made it worse. It absolutely sucked."

DO YOU HAVE ANY CHIPS:
TRUE STORIES OF ALIEN INTRUSIONS
A PAPERBACK PARADISE BOOK
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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Last night my boyfriend jokingly yelled “Leeroy Jenkins” before accidentally Lancer charging straight into a Locust emergence hole and failing the mission for us
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🛑🛣📍🗺(redo)
fake screenshot of Vivian from paper mario saying "privilege means not having to use a map to see which state is safe for you to exist in"
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 09/10/2026
Our merch shop is officially OPEN! mothership-tzk-shop.fourthwall.com
mothership-tzk-shop.fourthwall.com
Mothership's Merch Shop
The official merch shop of Mothership.blog.
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🛶🙅‍♀️🤵👍
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Rivven @rivven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As an American living in Brazil, I'm feeling extremely unpleasant de ja vu of the 2016 US election.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So uh, American people. You ok? Can we talk in private
an orange cat is sitting with his arms folded under his load body. his face looks concerned and a bit discomfited
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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ABOLISH ICE KICK THEM TF OUT OF NYC
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 08/10/2026
lotta jokes in galactic racer, but the best one is prob telling the player to fuck off for trying to pet the cat
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m glad that we all agree that Consort Radahn just sucks ass. Like with other FromSoft stuff you’ll have a rehabilitation arc but with that fight it’s like man fuck that dude.
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