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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 16h

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 13h

I am thrilled and proud beyond measure to support the amazing workers who create and design the games I and my loved ones have spent a lifetime playing. I implore everybody to sign the petition and signal boost the campaign as far and wide as we can!

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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monica callaghan @monica-callaghan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

good article, i think the biggest lesson of this contract is: ai protections, layoff protections (14 months of recall rights!!!! good lord!!), pay raises was won on *months* of worker mobilization alongside the bargaining. direct action gets the goods, as they say

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Some guy at Nintendo: what if we put Kirby in a Truman Show scenario?

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Also ppLLLEEASE PLAY METROID DREAD if you haven’t ITS SO GOOD

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/09/2026

One of the reasons people are viscerally mad about AI is that it is constantly publicly being used to violate millennia-old but today-largely-unspoken social taboos.

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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 08/09/2026

they made him linkedin

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Grim Grum @kenthouse.cloud · 08/09/2026

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Unironically would’ve been me if it was a thing when I was a kid. Even without that I bought an ocarina when I was younger to try and learn the songs

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ok hold up the audio input thing is so unnecessary and FUCKING RULES

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Okay wait seeing Castle Town like this is amazing

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Other than that though I actually really like what I’m seeing tbh

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I can’t get over Links face and that’s mainly because all the other faces look…good? Overall? But Links eyes look Dead

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For all the pain this season, Coby Mayo is a damn revelation for the orioles

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just watched S2 episode 8 of Andor again and god it hit even better the second time “Who are you?”

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We’re a game under .500 baby we’re gonna win the World Series I swear

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I live in MD and IIIII did not know this. But now I’m informed! And That’s so sad for the beavers :(

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🌌 you are going to buy so many copies of Star Wars Zero Company that every company spends the next ten years asking us all to make turn based strategy games 🌌

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Jacob Evans @vumpire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The prologue of every Stephen King novel published between 1975 and 1988: Under thy shadow by the piers I waited Only in darkness is thy shadow clear. The City’s fiery parcels all undone, Already snow submerges an iron year...--Hart Crane We've got the biggest balls of them all --AC/DC

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Jon Henshaw @henshaw.social · 10/08/2026

Screenshot of a presentation slide with a footnote highlighted in red that reads "All em-dashes in these slides were human-generated."

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Everyone should play Ledgerbound because 1. It’s really good and 2. Everyone must hear Ben Starr as a brooding demon man

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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

*need*

Maslow's hierarchy pyramid filled with "games where your mouse turns into a little gauntlet"

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Actual thoughts: it rules and I need to play more. Also I’m not married yet I just keep forgetting to say fiancée so I’m skipping to wife lol

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“Sam, what are your thoughts on big walk?” See image below.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The best TTRPG GMs *interpret* the characters as rich texts & agents in of themselves, and then offer NPCs, lore, and fraught situations that play on characters' core themes & traits. GMs are consantly reading both the characters-as-conceived and also the characters-as-played.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Okay actual thoughts: this is a “no baseball in 2027” trade and we got a lot of good prospects, but also we can’t develop prospects to save our lives so, you know, not great!

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m slow on the post cause I’m at OTAKON but GO BIRDS BABY

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

They’re not done, but I finally sat down and started painting my guys and I’m very proud of these given my extremely shaky hand

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Gazbang Goblin @gazbanggoblin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

That man's never been to Olive Garden in his LIFE

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“She is the Carrion Lady of the United Kingdom for whom a thousand prime ministers are sacrificed every day, so that she may never truly die.”

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yeah I don’t think football is coming home

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tokki @sarantuya.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

hunter...

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Something something Spanish Inquisition

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𝔬𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔞✧*:･ @maidmorphia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

no better meal than Rice With Some Bullshit

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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

Yesterday’s layoffs at Bethesda Games Studios were not a cut of “14 layers of management”. We lost dozens of programmers, artists, designers and testers. Many of whom worked at BGS for decades.

If Bethesda fans are worried this will harm the quality of our future games, like TES VI, let Microsoft know!

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Oh it gets so wild dude. My favorite thing though is the flipside where after 3 turns it’s just an all out brawl between broken squads/units and you’re rolling 5-8 dice just HOPING something makes it through

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Sam Smyth #OriolesMagic @solidsmyth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There’s nothing quite like combining rules that double your number of attacks, increases your strength and adds +1 to hits etc and then after you roll like 50 dice and your opponent rolls their saves it all ends with just 2 models leaving the table lol

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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 07/07/2026

My best advice for any game devs recently laid off is to keep in touch with your closest coworker friends, do a group call at least once a week, share job postings in the chat, hype each other up, and just generally look out for each other.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I just don’t believe video games as a medium are done forever, even if it looks bleak right now. I don’t know what that will look like, and right now I don’t entirely care—I mostly just want everyone to land on their feet as much as they’re able.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/06/2026

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

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