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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Happens so much in gaming now. Yes, video games have always adopted new tech, and AI like machine learning has been a part of that. Hell, Rogue used generative algorithms in the 80s. But the use of GenAI in gaming is new, and quite different. Although companies using it love to say it isn't.

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Summer (MMO Fallout) 🏳️‍⚧️ @mmofallout.com · 14/05/2025

mmofallout.com/2025/05/14/p... PSA: Actually the Steam Database Wasn't Leaked

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PSA: Actually The Steam Database Wasn’t Leaked

It wasn’t.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

A picture of Vladimir Putin holding his phone

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Not happy about it, but I called it: the Wisconsin guy whose wife got scooped by ICE on their honeymoon still doesn't regret voting for Trump. MAGA is a cult and what we know is the worse it gets, the more cult members double down. www.salon.com/2025/03/21/i...

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"I don't regret the vote": Why most Trump voters stand by him, even as he ruins their live

It's not totally hopeless: Some swing voters who backed Trump may learn their lesson

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Senator Jeff Merkley on the backlash against Chuck Schumer for capitulating on the CR: "I think they will be hugely upset, and well-justified. You don't stop the bully by handing over your lunch money, and you don't stop an authoritarian president by giving him more power."

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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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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Stephen A. Smith's call for the Democratic Party to clean house seems relevant today: "The Democratic Party is in a bad state right now. The whole damn thing needs to be purged. I'm dead serious. They need to go. Those strategists fire every damn one of them. Get rid of them."

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SirViolentDeath @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

@b0tster.yeag.gay Question: Did Valve reach out to you or did you reach out to Valve to mark the reviews as off topic?

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 28/02/2025

whats stopping you from just adding more worms into ur hunters 🤔

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Laurentide @laurentide.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I just did the same and there are 37 game keys they owe me. Where's my copy of Darksiders 3, Humble? You're selling Steam keys for it right now in your store but somehow haven't been able to give me the one I paid for in over 4 years? This company is a scam.

A list of 37 games that Humble owes me keys for, purchased between 2020 and 2024.

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duen / niko / miles @riolu.gay · 17/02/2025

humble's business model is now - when we sell you a game, we might not actually have keys available for it - if you wait a few weeks, we might send you an email saying we have keys again. better be fast, though! - if this process takes too long, we have no obligation to give you the key you bought

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Chris "Cadaver" Glass @thechrisglass.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Given how Humble Bundle lost out on charity bundles to other places, and was literally just recycling bundles this month, they're toast. I can't imagine how much the servers take to host it all, but download your library now and save your keys elsewhere. The site is officially on borrowed time.

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duen / niko / miles @riolu.gay · 14/01/2025

it’s so weird that humble has yet to get in trouble for selling keys they dont have . some past Humble Choice months ive been waiting on keys for 3+ months. noita (purchased from the store!) took over three weeks. it took about a week to get keys for the current programming bundle.

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ᴆᴀᴎᴉᴋᴀᴢᴇ @danikaze.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Well, I didn't know humble bundle keys could expire or downloads become offline... If you are like me and only redeem the keys that you are actually going to play, you might have lost several (old) titles now... Better do something about it

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Weasel ⛳🏌️ @wildweasel486.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Well I decided today was the day I would clean out my unactivated Humble Bundle keys because I *definitely* have some in there that are older than 3 years... ...thwarted by the system.

"Activate a Product on Steam
There have been too many recent activation attempts from this account or Internet address. Please wait and try your product code again later."

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Humble Bundle changed its terms of service back in December. Unused game codes now expire after 3 years and in cases where the retailer is out of stock and alternate keys are "not available", Humble says that it is "not obligated to provide them." Seems bad: www.reviews.org/au/games/hum...

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Humble Bundle is getting worse (and everybody knows it)

Ever wonder what happened to all those games you picked up over the years through Humble Bundle? You might not like the answer.

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SirViolentDeath @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Multiple Paradox Interactive games have been review bombed: Hearts_of_Iron_IV Europa_Universalis_IV Crusader_Kings_III Victoria_3 Imperator_Rome Stellaris It appears that some Chinese players are upset with Paradox Interactive over Hearts of Iron IV's depiction of historical Chinese territory.

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actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 13/02/2025

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

'Dragon Quest III HD-2D' has exceeded Square Enix expectations. www.eurogamer.net/dragon-quest...

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Here’s Nancy Pelosi limping out of Congress following her hip replacement due to a fall sustained BECAUSE SHE’S 84

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

People joke that the senate is a retirement home but it’s really more like hospice care

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SirViolentDeath @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

$6 a week, for my own files to be ad free honestly I would like to charge the devs $6 per week just for them being able to use the front door to their house without a random person popping out and screaming "Your door is sponsored by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!"

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Faithfully Fabulous @denny149.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Welp, just found out that the music playing app (Muzio) I purchased a "lifetime" subscription to 4 years ago now wants $5.99 PER WEEK to not inundate me with ads. Keep in mind, this isn't even a streaming app, it plays music I downloaded that I ALREADY PAID FOR. Fucking insanity.

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SirViolentDeath @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'm just sick and tired of these live service games because it feels like they are trying to constantly syphon money out of my wallet with FOMO or skipping ridiculous grind. That being said, I don't think live services games are bad (conceptually), but it feels awful when everyone does it (AAAs)

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Folks in gaming have so internalized the idea that the huge live service games are huge that they are rarely brought up as why new games struggle to find an audience. New games struggle (imo primarily) because there's no air for them to breathe. The biggest competitor to any new game is Fortnite.

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 29/01/2025

on my hands and knees begging developers to not put 'dailies' into your single player game as a general rule the answer to 'should this thing from a mobile or f2p game be in our game we charge money for' is 'no'

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/01/2025

I paid sixty dollars for No Man's Sky nine years ago and they refuse to stop making the video game. I've begged them to go home to their families but they won't stop adding new kinds of weird little guys and like, optimizing the gentle patter of rain on an alien ocean. Please let me pay for a DLC

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Summer (MMO Fallout) 🏳️‍⚧️ @mmofallout.com · 29/01/2025

Stuttering Craig and his gang of losers at the "Real Game Awards" have responded to allegations that they are all bigoted assholes by review bombing games and spewing bigoted shit about the developers. They are completely pathetic.

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Chad @cthompson36.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We really took the days where we only had to buy Microsoft Office once for granted huh? 🥲

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SirViolentDeath @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

As someone who tracks review bombs on Steam I believe that you could still manually flag it, if you wanted to. Though honestly you have a wonderful amount of support pouring in for you so it might not be necessary. But just keep it in mind for the future.

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SirViolentDeath @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

@b0tster.yeag.gay Do you think it would be better or worse if you marked the review bomb period as off topic?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

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SirViolentDeath @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

New Off Topic #ReviewBomb #Steam curations! 2 of Wolfire Games' titles get review bombed over their antitrust class action lawsuit to Valve Czech developer Karel Matejka's game BZZZT has gotten review bombed over a backlash surrounding lack of Chinese localization

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SirViolentDeath @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

found out who the UHC CEO shooter was:

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Summer (MMO Fallout) 🏳️‍⚧️ @mmofallout.com · 26/11/2024

True crime podcasts be like: "The lynchpin that ultimately tied Smith to the murder and proved his guilt came back to his phone whose location metrics put him at the scene of the crime when it happened, but you can avoid your location being tracked thanks to today's sponsor, Nord VPN."

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