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OrangeSky

@spacetalk.bsky.social
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I write about space, in several places. Used to write about other stuff? But now pretty much it's space. I also talk about gaming here, though. Also politics, sadly and mostly unwillingly, but I do try to damp it down a bit

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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 10h
Genuinely heartwarming that Gamers around the world are coming together and in one voice saying: "MAKE. HER. PLUMPER." Gonna lead to some absolutely unreal gacha designs in about oh 12 months
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 13h
A glimpse of Europe's future in low Earth orbit. We've selected two European industrial teams to study the feasibility of a future European-led orbital outpost, exploring how Europe could strengthen its role in low Earth orbit in the post-ISS

Artist's impression of a potential European-led orbital station
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 13h
Ran across this, and it's something I've thought a lot about. People get excited about GENERATING stuff, at least at first, but they have no time for the things that other people generate. I think that comes as a shock to a ton of people who think that this is going to make them rich. It won't.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 14h
"Man from the 1900s" hit me like a goddamn thunderbolt Half this website catching a stray the size of that big bullet guy from the start of Super Mario World, and if you know him guess what
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 14h
Again, sorry, but I really don't fucking care how many you times you post on Bluesky about DRUMPF BAD If you're getting deep into this LLM shit you're feeding every single dipshit who "did his own research" about how horse dewormer is a vaccine Kennedy is just straight-up stating that
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 18h
I didn't actually realize this was due to them switching to a kind of post-training that's faster to implement, but doesn't have humans in the loop to say "no fuck off just don't" Near as I can tell it's due to DeepSeek bullshitting about how they stole the weights and OAI being too dumb to realize
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 23h
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barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also, don't @ me if you're not calling this bad boy Tales of Eternia in the year of our lord 2026. There's a 24 year old game called Tales of Destiny 2 that's an actual sequel to Tales of Destiny, lads. Having one game called Tales of Destiny II and one called Tales of Destiny 2 is actual savagery.
The US release of Tales of Eternia for the PS1. The logo is edited to read Tales of Destiny II, as per the game's original English title.
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finished Robotics;Note, and it was the first of these "science adventure" VNs that felt, like, normal instead of a weird MC torture chamber Liked it more than Chaos;Head, less than Steins;Gate, mostly because the cast was good but not stellar like the labmems were in SG
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More and more I feel like it's that game design thing where you have to NOT give the player an iwin button, because they'll push it even if it'll fuck things up for them If you create any kind of art, reportage or commentary, you need that shit off your phone and preferably blocked in your browser
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredibly funny that they're all vibecession guys, it's the weirdest shit
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Safety my ass-tra, they knew that the thing was going to fall the fuck apart as soon as the non-glazers got their hands on it
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nicole✨ @renaryuugu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
we nearly lost VitaDB and Rinnegatamante's involvement to the scene altogether because of these guys. Which is significant because that guy is pretty much carrying the community on his back. They harassed him to the pointof shutting Down VitaDB when he restricted AI submissions.
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dang can you believe that the weird cultists would pull something shady like this
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morbius @jazzpomegranate.com · 28/09/2026
"don't dismiss llms, they're actually pretty good at that thing you're saying they're not good at" data centers are killing my cousins, fuck you.
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah I'm at the point where I absoluely will not buy a Square game on Switch, even though it's my favorite platform at this point, because they're being such HUGE dicks about the Switch 2 upgrades "50% off"? Cool but 0% of the savegames transfer so that's still a no-fuckin-go my dudes
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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From the Mark Ferrari Art Slideshow on Commodore Amiga: Dusk falls upon the waterfall haven.
A crt TV screen photo of a fantasy pixel art woodland forest waterfall with lamplit homes built into the side
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's still funny that there's a very specific kind of Bluesky crashout that you ONLY get with a high-follower bluecheck account They spend like six hours on tried and failed quote-dunks on everybody in their replies, doing "CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS PERSON" to readers just thinking "uh, actually yes"
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Note that pretty much every single government response to Meta is "we'll thwart this Zuck guy by making it legally mandatory to give away your personally identifying info" "And also ban VPNs because netflix asked us very nicely"
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, if you tune the difficulty and frequency right, many devs simply don't And if you don't, then whoops the players also quit entirely, and you really just chose one flavor of "fuck this I quit" over a different one where players actually have the agency to alleviate the problem
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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 28/09/2026
I try to hammer this home in the unfortunately many conversations I have with non-creative normies about the state of games, animation, etc. They have all been lead to think AI is replacing us, and it’s just not true. The money people have by and large just tossed us aside for a shiny new toy!
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the weird parts about this whole situation is how much of it relied on the total breakdown of American governance During the Obama or even Bush years they would have come down on Anthropic, OpenAI, and their weird thieving cultists like the fist of an angry God
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah this is an impact that I feel isn't being addressed enough. Because investors are chasing the (psychotic) dream of billion-dollar businesses with zero workers, they're pretty much only putting money into AI projects. That's why EVERYBODY is pretending they're AI-related, even if it's a lie.
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Last day to sign up for my email art blog newsletter before the next issue drops! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io I think this one's really fun. See if you can guess the theme based on this sneak peek. Artists: Johnny Bruck, Lee Gibbons, Fred Gambino, and Shusei Nagaoka.
Two astronauts look out of a spaceship cockpit at a colorful handful of planets in outer space.View from a spaceship cockpit depicting a second spaceship ship in a bluish outer space.View from a spaceship cockpit from behind the head and shoulders of a yellow-helmeted pilot looking at an orange asteroid in front of him.A blue spaceship cockpit with many buttons on many control panels, and a view of outer space past some radar dishes.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 28/09/2026
Oh my god, it looks like a Russian bot forgot to pay their Claude bill but was still configured to reply to posts about Putin
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God ain't speeding that thing for shit The scanning label got smudged or something so now it's just sitting in some Fedex facility in Chicago @valvesoftware.com I swear to God if you blame me for this, it was YOUR choice of shipper
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah the only good thing about this mess is that the idea guys finally got their chance And it turns out that, yes, the idea guys suck exactly as bad as everybody would have expected Loudmouths cobbling together the worst shit you ever saw then just abandoning it when the clout dries up
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Looked up some stuff on google involving a shipment and oh boy is it REALLY bad now The top five sites were really obvious slop that was just rewriting other unnamed and dubious sources...and the Google AI summary was very openly drawing on them exclusively It was an ouroboros of bullshit
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Seriously every single time I hear one of the LLM glazers on this site start witnessing the glory of claude or astra or whatever, im just reminded that their filthy cult has destroyed everything else Can't even buy a computer now and you're going off about the Singularity? Fuck you, sincerely
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The routes in Steins;Gate at least sorta made sense but Robotics;Note is just...what Like I GET it, sorta, but this is really making me appreciate the way that Uchikoshi handles this stuff
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UberGoose @ubergoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
...yeah I'd look that confused too
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authorblues @authorblu.es · 27/09/2026
The reason we have all these Claude-built recomp/decomp projects is because the AI dorks couldn't figure out how to shoehorn LLMs into games that were made 20 years ago so they all got together and had their agents do a little brainstorming and came up with a strategy to ruin yet another good thing.
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Notably the subjects of the story are making it extremely clear that they consider it blatant libel
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah sorry to everybody trying to walk that particular tightrope but those AI guys are screaming USA USA USA Your shit is irretrievably chud-coded just like crypto was Hell crypto at least has some actual use, sex workers get routinely debanked by the fash, this is just nft-level dogshit
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Still can't believe Nine Sols' devs decided "he should oneshot you and have a second phase" Like chill you literally haven't added the leveling mechanic yet I liked Demons' Souls too but that first slime boss was slow for a reason
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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Holy shit
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"You don't like older games just miss being younger" bud I'm playing Vita visual novels I'd never even heard of and am enthralled Sometimes old shit is actually good, sorry Especially when you can trace how it influences the things you like now, placing them in a larger artistic framework
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
JFC just give Stornoway to Lewis already, he isn't even in the House yet but even so
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 26/09/2026
Yes, the internet, foss, society, and the climate got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we didn't even create a lot of value for shareholders because AI was never actually profitable.
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah no shit, that whole Discourse was genuinely so psychopathic that it was an excellent reminder of why the women in this position might have anxiety to begin with Boomer-brained shit, modern version of "second hand smoke is a myth" and "I drive better after I've had a few"
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Again if this was shit people actually liked and wanted, none of this would be necessary They're treating it like RTO, the last thing they were able to successfully force through
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Still thinking about trying Frostpunk Remember seeing the premise and going "well it'd suck but if you had enough microreactors and geothermal sources you could tough it out until you got serious fission capacity online" Looked again, "oh it's Victorian England" "...oh they are FUCKED"
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This one is fun because the ratio is almost dead even between comments, likes, and quotes
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally RMA'd my poor little Deck, Godspeed you on your way little guy Though since it's FedEx ground, nobody is going to be speeding it very fast
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Until around a year ago "orbital datacenters" were just edge compute that didn't need to do the low-bandwidth round trip to Earth, and that's STILL the only real use case Like we're going to be going through a launch crunch for a while until everybody makes up for end of the Falcon, come on
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