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🦆 Eliza Herndon! 🦆 @ducktwacy.bsky.social · 14h

Everyone's rightfully posting the "gay sophisticate" Daffy comic panel, but I personally think this one takes the cake

A comic panel of Daffy Duck bugging a visibly annoyed Bugs Bunny.

Daffy: Teach me how to be a gay irresponsible rabbit like you... will ya, huh? Will ya?

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#witchtober2026 #inktober Prompt 13: Space/Stars “Angine de Poitrine? Never heard of them. ✋🔺🤚”

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Apogee Entertainment @apogeeent.com · 13/10/2026

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Richard “Levelord” Gray. From his legendary work on Duke Nukem 3D to the countless players and developers he inspired, Richard leaves behind a lasting legacy. Rest in peace, Levelord.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The first one is so absurd but I have seen being thrown around as the reason for why xyz ps2 game didn't make it during their PS4 BC attempts. Why make it a requirement to games that didn't have it when it needs a non-zero amount of effort and testing without adding much?

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development. "No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows." Full scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers to Use More AI

The company told the team behind the upcoming shooter that it will now be an ‘AI first’ production

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#witchtober2026 #inktober Prompt 12: Venus Flytrap “Each individual has different tastes, you know. It‘s hard to live like this.”

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No mention of PC which means it was still peak (ignore the shift post-Half Life being solidified, the start of the "consolization" of PC games and 2004 being a shit year for first per-).

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Iron Joe @ironjoebro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

tough part of getting good at Slay the Spire is realizing that sometimes you really do have to pick the first one

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pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 10/10/2026

while I'm still working through my elevator action hardest 1-all, I decided to take a look back at this particular oddity. in 2007, a small taito affiliate released a low-budget Wii fps that ostensibly was meant to be an elevator action game... it wears out its welcome, but it's cute! link below:

first paragraph: The premise of this strange title from a group of Taito-affiliate developers is a spiritual successor to Elevator Action that didn’t quite make the cut; after developing a slew of DS Taito sequels in the years prior, Spy Games: Elevator Mission got published by shovelware purveyors UFO Interactive.1 However, the outcome is focused from back-to-front thanks to a limited, setpiece-less structure. It’s a rare post-fifth generation first-person shooter in the Metroid Prime / Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D mold: hybrid tank controls with a strafe button, back-turns, and infrared aiming. Turning while moving is smooth, and much like the original Elevator Action, bullets are dodgeable thanks to a relatively slow shot speed. Each hallway forms a small light-gun challenge thanks to random spawns from doors on either side, featuring enemies in the classic standing/crouching positions. Compared to progressing in a 2D plane, where slow bullets still command an uncomfortable amount of real estate on screen, the ease of juking bullets here makes this title less of a grand reinvention of the elder arcade ideals and more a cute, unseasoned experience for tank controls enjoyers. The two-hour time commitment for a run solidifies its spot in the latter camp.

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you're serious about game development or design, PLAY OLD GAMES I can't overstate how many good ideas are sitting there waiting to be discovered. Sometimes it's not even stuff that was there at the time, it's only there now looking from a modern perspective.

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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i found an archived version of the website on the top right and holyy i hit gold

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#witchtober2026 #inktober Prompt 7: Grimoire “The elder god took the phrase “Grant us visions in our feeble minds” a bit too literally, but oh well, I still can work with that.”

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Imagine how fucking rotted a person's brain has to be to submit a 50,000 line pull request and not perceive that what you are doing is *incredibly* embarrassing and antisocial. A vibecoder can no longer notice they're greeting people by spraying hot dogshit all over the place.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People are focusing on what Cena said and he was always a company man but most wrestlers, no matter their moral compass or way of living, always praise Vince no matter if he did things they are personally against Crazy cult of personality he has considering his "mentorship" always sounds deranged.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The hold Vince McMahon has on wrestlers years after they stopped working for him needs to be studied.

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James GHOULizio 👻 @theswweet.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

TIL that PCGamingWiki has a whole system for labeling whether games or mods have AI in them, and to what extent: www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/PCGamin...

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Cass (makes games) @cassmakesgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New Blog Post: Why I Love Unfair Traps in Arcade Games People usually dislike hard memo traps in arcade games, or at best think they're "not that bad". I love them, though, and I think arcade games would be worse without them. Here's why: duckberet.com/blog/i-like-... (game: Violent Storm)

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 03/10/2026

"Hey, did you know? Mechs look super cool when they're in the rain! 🎶" Armored Core: 4 & For Answer Rayleonard Aaliyah cosplay via: fixupx.com/11Vadu/statu...

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And even things like Trepang2 which has the presentation of a 7th gen game based its design more on stuff like first FEAR and Crysis than it did COD, putting into question if creators even care for the design tropes of that era.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There have been attempts at making more 7th gen-y experiences but I think the production realities of such effort means there's barely any indie proving grounds to show if enough people actually care for that era's tropes or not.

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 02/10/2026

lakespirit.love/posts/2026-1... NEW ARTICLE!! STREETS OF RAGE 2, FINAL FIGHT, THE FLOOR, THE CEILING LETS TALK BEAT EM UP FUNDAMENTALS i establish a basis thru the latter, and get into the nuances thru the former. its a long one!! intended to inspire curiosity

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#witchtober2026 #inktober Prompt 3: Tea “Good for your physical health, not so for the mental health.”

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 02/10/2026

Objectively just incredibly funny

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

store.steampowered.com/app/2109060/... I'm gonna be an annoying fuck again because it's the Steam sales season babyyyyyyyyyyy For the action gamers seeking extreme capital C Challenge: buy it, play it, you won't regret it.

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Save 50% on Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest on Steam

Magenta Horizon is a fast-paced 2D action platformer with challenging spectacle fighter inspired combat. Playing as a Reaper of the twisted purgatorial afterlife, push your skills to the limit to dest...

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Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 02/10/2024

now that it's october im legally allowed to post this

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Connor Makar @connormakar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I spoke to several sources working hard at The Coalition, who have experienced increased anxiety around layoffs and promised Metacritic bonuses since Xbox's Reset. The sudden cut of story director Juan Vaca only fueled these fears. Read it below!

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Queen's Domain⚔️ - DEMO OUT NOW @queensdomain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Queen’s Domain is launching OCT 30TH!! ⚔️ Excited to announce our retro-fantasy action RPG with brutal combat and traversal-focused exploration will be available soon for PC and Consoles. Coming to Steam, Switch 2, Xbox Series and PS5!

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remain pretty bummed out by the state of decompilations, ports, FPGA cores etc these days. The rise of GenAI has really flooded the whole scene with garbage and kinda poisoned the whole concept. Good piece from @pandamonium.bsky.social on it www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/24/c...

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Column: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos

The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of all SHIRO! Media Group contributors. The cost of modern day video game consoles and personal computers have skyrocketed…

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 29/09/2026

a late one for you tonight... monkey ball is one of the most elegantly designed precision arcade games ever made, a game that takes a design staff primed on racers and lets them create economic geometry puzzles, only building towards alien grandeur in their structures at the end. link below!

first few paragraphs: Sega was the master of exaggerated, nuanced physics engines, and Monkey Ball fits that mold to a T. There’s three stylistic inaccuracies that sew Monkey Ball’s unique physics together:

Friction is present as a constant inhibiting force, but in a sense this helps hold the monkey on downward slopes. This gives Monkey Ball a “sticky” quality.

Collisions can and often do pop the monkey up in the air, where speed is uncapped. This, and the fact that the collisions seem relatively elastic,1 make collisions actually a boon for gaining speed rather than a total obstacle.

It’s a common misconception that Monkey Ball has the player control the tilt of the stage, letting the monkey freely roll throughout it. Instead, the player is actually controlling the direction of gravity, offering very similar effects to stage-tilting while also providing essential air control to the monkey.

The three of these combined make Monkey Ball an intuitive, forgiving engine that encourages aggressive play.2 Speed gains are always at the player’s fingertips and rely heavily on environmental awareness. With that intrinsic concentration in the engine, the stage design can then follow suit. Monkey Ball’s stages are focused and brief; many stages have a max time limit of only 30 seconds, intend for you to beat them in less than half of that, and have a theoretical lower bound of only a couple seconds. While the stages are static and encourage memorization, the short length and nuanced physics put the micro-movements front-and-center in comparison to broader routing, and this creates its own form of complexity-oriented dynamism for those who can’t memorize frame-perfect input strings.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There's a hard mode of the climb that's basically doing the entire thing 1CC but I'll leave that to the true freaks for now.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I thought it was going to be all climbing scenarios but there was a good amount of combat scenarios that really pushed encounter design in interesting ways, Verse 2's encounters especially were as creative as they were brutal.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After 4-ish days of grinding (took a break midway to do the other post-launch areas) the Great Climb is done. Can go back to finishing the main game now lol

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The anxiety that causes and the results it provides, be it your fears becoming true, holding on to your loot for a little longer or give in to the temptation of ruining someone's day and possibly regretting it later is what creates memories.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The fear of losing everything and the social interactions that will bring, be it players working together for survival, stabbing people in the back or specifically target weaker player to grief, etc

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Marathon is a good example cause you can see a repeat of UO where there's a lot of people complaining about losing the stuff they spent so much time getting even tho that's the appeal of extraction shooters.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So sadly it wasn't a type of MMO that managed to be explored (outside of a few outliers like EVE online) cause it was already seen as hostile and hard to get into for a lot of players It's funny SP/co-op centric games like Project Zomboid seem to follow in Ultima Online's footsteps rather than MMOs

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ever Quest was already an experience that valued authored content over world reactivity and even added the obvious things that players that didn't get what Ultima Online was going for wanted to be added to that game (like disabling player killing)

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's funny how much earlier than WoW that shift happened, even if it was that game that made every single MMO afterwards follow in its footsteps.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This type of emergent interactions is something most MMOs could only ever dream of but never be able to do and it's all thanks to its sandbox design and complex simulation allowing for players to abuse it and for other players to find ways to counter it. MMO evolved backwards.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The game allowing players to get a house and place it in every flat surface resulted in people building theirs close to each other. Streets became Towns and then became huge Cities that could rival premade ones with their own democracy, customs, culture, alliances and way to solve problems.

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Slowly going through this behemoth of a video and every time I get impressed by how much the game encourages complex social interactions through its freeform simulation based design and world design www.youtube.com/watch?v=35SK...

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Ultima Online Retrospective | The Last Hurrah

YouTube video by Majuular

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gold @golden.yuri.cool · 26/09/2026

ask and you shall receive

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

one aspect regarding retro gaming scenes that genAI has been blazingly efficient at is in trust erosion whether it’s fan TLs, FPGA cores, or recomp scenes, within the past year so much optimism and excitement regarding new projects has been swiftly replaced with doubt and suspicion thank you genAI

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Isaka @suirenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SNK boss design is good cause they put you in the mindset you need to succeed in actual matches. Find the cheapest strat you can find and abuse that until it no longer works.

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