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Sven "Notes" Michel |🎵🗒️ @svensational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Game finished: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (Cloak and Dagger/Wadget Eye Games, 2022), 7.5/10 A fun and suspenseful point-and-click adventure game that is truly artistically polished but leaves you just unsatisfied enough to be frustrated. Still a fun, spooky time if you're in the mood.

The title card for "The Excavation of Hob's Barrow", by Cloak and Dagger Games, published via Wadget Eye Games. Released 2022.

The protagonist, Thomasina Bateman, is sitting in a train car, writing in a booklet with a lantern opposite her as she looks out over scenic English countryside. While she looks bored and stern, her reflection in the train's window is one of horrific awe. Far in the distance is the titular "Hob's Barrow", shedding an otherworldly purple-pink glow from its entrance.

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Sven "Notes" Michel |🎵🗒️ @svensational.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Courage The Cowardly Dog S01E07a: King Ramses' Curse. Self-explanatory.

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⚧️Cinder (18+) @ashenveingate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our strongest moments are those where our glory can live side by side with our grief.

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🦁 FunkyLion 'Yuyake' 🦁 @funkylion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Getting tired of untested vibecoded ports that are just buggy and because no experienced coders are around, they can't fix it? Never fear, as I have listed decomps and recomps done by actual people and it will continue expanding! If you know any, lemme know!

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 30/09/2026

When we talk about what we've lost in the gutting of the media, it's this. Allowing Matthew Ball to "tutor" you is just getting fed company propaganda that you're expected to parrot. This is so gross in every regard.

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 30/09/2026

That wasn't "tutoring." It was access re the company's stance and how it was ensuring its independence. They emphasized rank & file employees as a source of strength. 1) LOL. It sure ain't that Ubisoft anymore. 2) I asked HARD questions. I knew the story. I was getting untold perspective from them

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 30/09/2026

"Tutored" What are we doing here?? This is why we need a vibrant, empowered press. The only thing I can liken this to was Ubisoft requesting a meeting with me to have an E3 convo with a non-forward facing financial exec during the Vivendi hostile takeover attempt.

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Kuro "Leigh" Ronin @kuroronin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Noel [from GigaBoots] 🏳️‍⚧️ @gigaboots.com · 21/09/2026

GB's 16th Anniversary! THE X6 vs DMC2 Race Begins!!!

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Jace Pento @jace-pento.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy 16th Gigaversary! Thank you @gigaboots.com and @gigabob.bsky.social for another great year!

A collage of memorable moments and characters from the past year of Gigaboots streams.

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Sven "Notes" Michel |🎵🗒️ @svensational.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Major game review publishers giving Wolverine - a highly marketed AAA action game - 6s and 7s is the closest equivalent to them spamming the LowTierGod meme in Sony's general direction

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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

made this edit in a fit of rage

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Devour🌱 @devoureroftime.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gamescom AI Slop Thread. Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.

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Sven "Notes" Michel |🎵🗒️ @svensational.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you enjoy fanfic, perhaps you'd enjoy @ashenveingate.bsky.social 's remix of Pathfinder's Wrath of the Righteous? It's really good! She's woven already a lot of delectable tension around some very fun characters (one of which I played)! NSFW Warning. archiveofourown.org/works/582915...

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Under the Tapestry of Night: A Wrath of the Righteous Reimagining - Chapter 1 - Ashenvein_Gate - Pathfinder (Roleplaying Game) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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⚧️Cinder (18+) @ashenveingate.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There!!! After over a *year* trying to get my feet under me to rewrite this chapter and chuck it out there, it's finally finished! Battle rages, a hero falls, companions are pushed to their breaking points, and a terrible foe finds his new obsession. #writing #nsfw #pathfinder #transwriter

archiveofourown.org

Under the Tapestry of Night: A Wrath of the Righteous Adaptation - Chapter 6 - Ashenvein_Gate - Pathfinder (Roleplaying Game) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Sven "Notes" Michel |🎵🗒️ @svensational.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Cut off their limbs." Who says Halloween can't come early? I got my costume ready! #ffxiv #gpose

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Noel [from GigaBoots] 🏳️‍⚧️ @gigaboots.com · 03/08/2026

Today marks the beginning of Gamers Go to the Movies' journey through the "They have no idea what to do with the RE film franchise and will make you aware of that in the opening of every movie from here on out" arc. ENJOY! Gamers Go to the Movies #25: Resident Evil Extinction youtu.be/4DkuEhgcP0o

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⚧️Cinder (18+) @ashenveingate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today's Ashley! Got my first proper date with @svensational.bsky.social now that we're formally girlfriend & boyfriend--gonna drag the boy through Doom 3!~

A shoulders-up photo of Ashley, dark brown hair pinned back by a hair ribbon with a big lock flung forward over each ear, and a necklace of stainless steel platelets. She sports a short-sleeved black dress and a full suite of black makeup--shadow, liner, and lipstick--on a corpse-glow foundation

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Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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Dr. Aggro @draggro.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 16/01/2025

Sony in 2020: We're making 12 service games canceled canceled canceled canceled canceled helldivers 2 canceled canceled concord canceled canceled fairgames$

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Code 🎮🐾 Retro & Indie Catgirl Vtuber @codechannel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This has been my go-to controller for the last like 5months and it's been an absolute banger -- I'd highly recommend it for anyone gaming on a budget like me, or anyone who's got that grip™ that turns controllers into dust every 10-12mos (like me) 🫠💦 Everything you need for a great retro controller.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/06/2026

During big moments I like to try and give myself some scale. Anyway five years ago I had 1847 subscribers and today I have 105,193 subscribers. I was told nobody would read long form and that I could not do this without legacy media experience a hundred times. Never stop posting

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Substack’s mobile experience sucks so getting exactly a year was a pain in the ass. It was likely lower! Probably like 1500

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Sven "Notes" Michel |🎵🗒️ @svensational.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Well I've managed to catch up on patch 7.5 MSQ and it was a close competition but I would like to congratulate the Final Fantasy XIV community on being the least literate fandom

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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

A chef insisting that his cake made with diarrhea is perfectly fine to consume.

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Jace Pento @jace-pento.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

They're not just keeping up with the Commodore, they're gonna catch that son bitch too!

Noel, Bob, Aggro and Kris chasing down a Commodore 64

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The bigger challenge is we have a handful of sociopaths who can circumvent and undermine democracy. We have no bigger challenge.

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⚧️Cinder (18+) @ashenveingate.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

When I began writing it, UTN killed my parents and sold my sister into indentured servitude. Read it so that'll happen to your family too. Alternatively, read it so that *won't* happen to your family if you like your family There are tits in it #nsfw #writing #transwriter #pathfinder

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Under the Tapestry of Night: A Wrath of the Righteous Remix - Chapter 1 - Ashenvein_Gate - Pathfinder (Roleplaying Game) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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⚧️Cinder (18+) @ashenveingate.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Sven and I have been using these two PCs to feel each other up--OUT, I-I m-mean, I mean to feel each other *out*, by proxy since way back during the campaign So, y'know. If it helps spark your interest that much of UTN's writing process was and is an anxious trans fem courting a boy she likes

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Sven "Notes" Michel |🎵🗒️ @svensational.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The campaign this is based on is very near and dear to my heart for many, many, many reasons and I think about it way more than I don't. Also I play the heroine's dramatic foil, a reserved half-elven spellblade samurai whose problems are mirror and contrast both! It's a fun time.

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⚧️Cinder (18+) @ashenveingate.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Re: Kickstarter banning adult content One thing I notice, every time they put out these fascist fucking rules, is that they are *so desperate* to try and tell you nothing's *really* changing, they're *still* a market for *your* thing. That tells me they're scared, so don't give up

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Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 10/05/2026

“White people can’t handle spicy food” only partially correct. There are two kinds of white people when it comes to spicy food, ones that can’t handle ketchup and ones that put hot sauce called like “insanity joe’s devilfucking sauce” on everything.

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Sven "Notes" Michel |🎵🗒️ @svensational.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Game beaten: Slay The Princess (Black Tabby Games, 2023). 9/10. Played this one with @ashenveingate.bsky.social . A beautiful game that doesn't shy away from abuse, power dynamics, the ugliest sides of love, and all the horror those things can bring.

The key art for Slay The Princess: The Pristine Cut (Black Tabby Games, 2023). In the key art, the titular Princess is smiling gently with an upturned gaze, eyes focused. In various glass-like shards around her, we see various horrifying manifestations.

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Sven "Notes" Michel |🎵🗒️ @svensational.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Game beaten: The Witcher 3 (CD PROJEKT RED, 2015). 9/10 I sunk over 450 hours in this game once upon a time long long ago and on a revisit it's not hard to see why. An open world game before open world games became stale, with still just a hint of the freshness it was bottled with.

The key visual art for The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt (CD Project Red, 2015). In the key art visual, the main protagonist, Geralt of Rivia, is drawing his silver blade with a stern expression, while his steel blade remains sheathed on his back. The background is a foggy, craggy expanse, and fire creeps into the image from the foreground, lighting Geralt's blade.

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rick "sanchez" dias @cumgyattler-v.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Super Nagano Wars. #mecha #art

A reimagining of the RX-78-2 based off Mamoru Nagano’s mecha designs for Zeta and ZZ Gundam.

Shin Getter-1 drawn as a Mortar Headd from Five Star Stories/GothicMade. The Getter Tomahawk is drawn to be more of a poleaxe.

Great Mazinger as a "Metal Head" from Heavy Metal L-Gaim. There is a holster with a lance as a stand-in for Great Mazinger’s sword.

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Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

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Spadoinkle! @spadoinkle.net · 04/04/2026

I will be providing no context for Joe Biden Peppy. Thank you and good day.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

do i contradict myself? very well, i contradict myself. i do not contain multitudes; i am just fucking with you.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/03/2026

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

OpenAI is planning to discontinue the app for its Sora video platform, a product it released to great fanfare last year that has since fallen from public view, according to the company.

The move is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year.

CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models. In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI is also discontinuing a version of Sora for developers and won’t support video functionality inside ChatGPT, either.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has relinquished direct oversight of the company’s safety and security teams so he can focus on raising capital, supply chains and “building datacenters at unprecedented scale,” he told staff on Tuesday.

At the same time, he said the company had completed the initial development of its next major AI model, codenamed Spud, and would wind down the Sora AI video mobile app, which employees had complained was a drag on the company’s computing resources during a time of heightened competition with foes such as Anthropic and Google.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Easily one of the root causes of all the dumb shit we're dealing with is how guys like this lie, just straight-up make up the dumbest most "everyone is 12" brained bullshit they can possibly imagine, and everyone reporting on it just runs with that as their headline uncritically

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

From the article:
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 09/03/2026

As others have said, releasing this info publicly is rare. And those numbers are VERY good. Everything past break-even means only a 15% publisher cut! May the house that Sus built stand for many years.

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 09/03/2026

edit of tweet about feeding cats to coyotes but changed to be about billionaires feeding game studios to shareholders

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Sven "Notes" Michel |🎵🗒️ @svensational.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If we lived in a just world ruled by a kind and loving deity no being would ever have to write code in Javascript

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Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

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