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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Station Master Mikan comes out to inspect the passengers.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I finally beat Suika Game 😂

A screenshot from the puzzle game Suika Game showing the titular Suika (watermelon) was attained

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Troubleshooting an issue at work. Look at the log file. See the event and see something weird going on. Look into the code to see what's happening. See that nobody thought that an important piece of information that could've pointed to a root cause in minutes should not be logged by default. 🤷‍♀️

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The awkward moment at work where someone knows your name but you’re not sure if you’ve worked with them before…

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 01/07/2026

Saying we should all go back to physical media I think misses the point. I actually *like* buying games and movies digitally for a bunch of reasons. What we need is better consumer protections so the things we do buy digitally are actually owned and companies cant delete/revoke access!

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Solaire 🔜 GATEway FATE 🐏 @solairelunaire.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

a great dissection of why a lot of fandom drama doesn't only boil down to "these people are thinking too much about [insert series here] and need to touch grass." there's another layer to the way folks get obsessed (for parasocial/self-important rewriting/clout reasons, etc) that gets glossed over

by asneakyfox on tumblr:

one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I picked up self-teaching how to play the guitar and I’m starting to believe it’s improving my skill at Gitadora (Konami’s Guitar Hero) whenever I play it at Round One 😂

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Are we at a point in video game history that the lack of a real time day-night cycle in games must be some sort of lore thing?

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I don’t know if it’s an actual term but I like that what I call “only doing the dailies in gacha games” as playing the game in “maintenance mode” gained a little traction elsewhere

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 02/06/2026

this is my kind of company motto right here

18 wheeler with one back door open splitting the company’s tagline into “if we can’t / we won’t“

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!1 🥳🎉 Paint.NET is now at paint.net! Well, it will be just as soon as I push all the buttons to migrate content and set up redirects from getpaint.net etc. For now it's just a "hey go here" redirect page.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I don't know how much of a hot take this is but I wanted to get this thought out. Certain game companies investing in AI to handle side aspects of their game doesn't just tell me they don't want to hire creatives. They also think that quantity >>>> quality.

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 21/05/2026

AKB48's "Teacher, Teacher" sold 2.5 million copies in 2018. Days later, bags of the CDs were found in the trash. Fans were buying in bulk to qualify for votes in the group's "general election," not to listen to the music.

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Galapagos Rock: Why It's So Hard for Foreign J-Pop Fans to Buy Concert Tickets in Japan

Some overseas fans of Japanese music say the hassle is proof that "Japan hates foreigners." The truth is more complicated.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A major problem I’m having with the live service (gacha) games I play is they want to tell a great story. The problem is they don’t respect my time telling it. I get discouraged if I have to sit through 30+ minute cutscenes that I have to commit to.

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samson @coeurlclaw.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

this weekend i collaged a poem of sorts based on some of the conversations i overheard around fanfest. each line was said by a different person at a different time. so... let's meet again!

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I can't believe they upgraded Katherine's cut scene sniping ability in #GenshinImpact. 😭

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Tyabann @tyabann.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

impossible to explain the appeal of The Primals if you don't play XIV a bunch of 50-something uncs get up on stage and play video game music and for that small period of time, it's the coolest thing in the world.

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Ixtera @volmise.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Seeing a lot of hate for Koji on the timeline right now. For anyone who didn't watch the panel: He was very open that he was forced into including AI by the SE president. Your hate should be directed at the suits, and not Koji himself.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Last night while I was leaving a concern, one of the stage lights was hitting the wall near the exit and it had that same effect as ray tracing "shimmering" or whatever it's called. More "proof" we're just in a simulation 🤪

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Going to see how much overlap of fans there are between GFL and Arknights there is at FFXIV Fanfest 🤪

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I remember Medal of Honor: Frontline had this bonus video where two of the devs are doing a gag radio talk show about programmer things. Being a developer, that skit is now 100x more hilarious.

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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 14/04/2026

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

As a kid I always saw NASA's ground control station with those big, boxy consoles. So that's the image I think of about them. It's weird seeing them today with basically a modern office desk setup.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

YouTuber pet peeve: When the person puts in literally anything but a description of the video in the Description section.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

> Playing Resident Evil Requiem > Walk into a room, see the auto save indicator > "Hm... I'm sure nothing's going to happen here 🤪" > Something happens in the room

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I was playing Endfield and noticed something peculiar. The smaller rocks on the ground don't actually exist.

Screen shot of Arknights: Endfield, showing rocks on the ground (that don't actually exist)

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Okay something's really not right here...

Gacha pull result from Nikke, showing 5 SSRs (highest rarity) obtained in one 10 pull

Gacha result from Zenless Zone Zero, showing two S-rank (highest rarity) characters obtained from a 10 pull

Gacha result from Girls Frontline 2, showing two Elite operators (highest rarity) obtained in a 10 pull

Gacha pull from Arknights, showing two 6-star (highest rarity) characters obtained from a 10 pull

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Pet peeve of the day: Why do manufacturers recess the receptacle for things (USB, power, whatever) thereby making it hard to find a replacement cable because it don't fit. It's like they begrudgingly accepted the standard by making it as "proprietary" as possible.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I NEVER GET THIS LUCKY

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I want to sit down with a level artist/designer who worked on a pretty extensive 3D game just to pick at their brain on the technical parts. There's assumptions I can make about why things are the way they are, but it'd be nice to actually know.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Doing something at work using one of our web page tools and the first attempt didn't work. So I did it again to see if it'll throw an error. It did! "[object object]" SIIIIIIIGH

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Ran into another comment section about how modern games use TAA to blur the snot out of everything and it looks fugly. I don't know, I find the shimmering more annoying.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Sometimes I let some of the apps that come with a computer do their thing, just to give it a shot. Maybe it's not as bad as... Why is this one constantly asking me to approve elevated privileges Okay I changed my mind, they're being nuked into deep space.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The next time a CEO of a company that makes a prominent game engine says it's the developer's fault for not making performant games, maybe they should lead by example and make a AAA game that looks like something top tier from 5 years ago but can run on a potato at 60 FPS.

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authorblues @authorblu.es · 18/08/2025

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I may enjoy the company of cats a lot, but it’s #InternationalDogDay so shout outs to these beautiful doggos I got a picture of

Screenshot of a phone picture gallery using its search to find dogs.

(It found two cats 😂)

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Was playing a game and saw a bin of graphics cards. Then I find out they're actual graphics cards. One's a Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT, another a GeForce FX 5500 without its heatsink, and the last one is up in the air.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I feel like if anything, relying on AI to write for you means you'll start to lose your skill in articulating your thoughts beyond a prompt that can be interpreted in a bajillion different ways.

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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/... The bit about a user modifying a setting and not realizing changing that setting caused issues amuses me more than it should

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Protecting Windows users from Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation - The Old New Thing

Granting an exception to a system policy.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

A horrible thought I'm thinking about with those scalpers during Pokemon events (or really, anything), is even if people don't ever actually buy from the scalpers, the scalpers are just going to see their stock to be disposed. So it'll be a massive waste of resources.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I feel like I made a joke in a game I like that has too many layers to unpack.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I'm convinced the worst UI anti/dark pattern is sticking a notification icon on everything. Bonus points if the thing that clears it is obtuse as heck to find.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This is why I don't want to use Linux as a daily driver. I've encountered too many instances where the solution was "this is going to be a weekend project."

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

But no one involved with git, the project, will ever make git usable, because they are of the "user experience is anathema to free software" flavor of FLOSS people who are smugly proud that unless your brain works exactly like theirs, you are gatekept out of the profession!

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

What I really miss from PC FPS games with a multiplayer component is the capability to play locally with bots. There are some games I'd love to play because they look fun, but being online-only is a deal breaker.

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Matt "Kupo" Roszak 🌻🍉 Wishlist Find Matt's Cats! @kupogames.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

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Shuffy @shuffy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Current nagging thought: On this computer forum I used to visit, and I forget what the user asked, but it led me down this rabbit hole of finding the location of where Windows keeps files for the recycling bin. A mod kept deleting my posts, saying it was "dangerous" to share this info. ???

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