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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That is precisely the source of my gripe in the first place, yes. It's perfectly fine to be a tweenage Alex Jones on Discord, apparently, but the moment you try to meet that same tone with even the slightest equivalent amount of sarcasm, suddenly you're the awful asshole. It's bullshit.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And in a particularly murky topic I would agree with you. Don't get me wrong, free Palestine and fuck the genocide that's currently going on, but a person saying that a Minecraft launcher is associated with Mossad purely based on the country of incorporation is just unhinged.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Because that's how it is these days: People can shriek whatever unhinged shit they want without repercussions, and it's only when someone actually steps up to tell them that they're full of shit, well, THEN there's a problem. I swear to god, this didn't happen 20 years ago.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dude sounds like a tweenage version of Alex Jones. Sure, @curseforge.com was apparently incorporated in Israel, therefore it's some sort of nefarious plot by ZE JOOS. Good lord. Naturally, I met his energy with a similar level of sarcasm, and only THEN was there a problem with the moderators.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm over on this one Discord server for a PvP showdown in Minecraft bracketed based on who has what cape, and based solely on me saying that I was about to fire up CurseForge to get the game up, this one user starts shrieking at me about how CurseForge is associated with Mossad.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Asking in earnest here, does anyone else get the impression that the moderators and administrators of various online spaces are now in the age bracket where they grew up in a school system with that "zero tolerance" nonsense, so they're rather explicitly disinclined from actually finding a culprit?

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Props to you and Linker for actually treating the classic moogle pom-pom as headgear, which is technically canon (according to the FFX or FFX-2 artbook, I forget which), but which SquareEnix have done nothing with until the hybrid between a proper moogle and a WoW player's cum-sock in FF7: Rebirth.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Her colleague's point being that it doesn't really matter what gives you your jollies as long as you're not harming anyone, and I mean, when it comes to the community as a whole being more helpful than harmful, just, like, look at microbiology and STEM and shit. It's a vertical slice of society.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Used to be me, sure as hell isn't me anymore

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I still remember my mom's reaction circa 2010 to finding out I'm a furry, which was "I talked to a colleague at your former uni who explained it's a social venue for many folks, and wouldn't you want him doing that more than, say, drugs or car theft," and it's amazing how far society has backslid.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you really think about it, "High Commissioner" sounds more like a strain of bud targeted at the furry community, and not what it actually is - a brand of blended Scotch Whisky.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

@oxizn.bsky.social A friend (Jamie) sounded like I should add you as a friend here, so I'm doing that. Given that you were making history when I was still working on my Bachelor's, I don't think my usual "Hey, I've been a game developer for 20 years" line really works here...

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I mean we're only talking about a scammer creepily using the pleading-eyes emoji and calling themselves "auntie" hanging around for basically two whole days, on the Discord server of a game that's played by minors who don't have a fully-developed scam-radar. Nah, I'm sure Redmond has it handled.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

As it happened, it only took a couple days for the moderators to get in touch, and it was with a rather defensive "We're a bunch of volunteers," this was after another user reached out on his own volition to say that this same scammer had pinged him. But I'm sure it's just fine

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

@marc-irl.bsky.social Anything to say about this "shangxi888go_501" person who's been hanging out on the Minecraft Feedback Discord server for the past 3 days, phishing people, and the moderators are seemingly doing nothing? Is this what passes for community outreach these days?

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

On my way to train station after work today, on a crosswalk, some familiar-looking moustachioed person on a bike waved at me and said, "Hey, Ryan!" I gave a nod and a polite "Hey" back, but I can't place his face, and I feel like a colossal asshole. 😭

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Well, good news! I have literally no idea what in the hell Moob is. Since we're asking each other questions, what can you tell me about this community tip? "𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙏𝙞𝙥: 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 '𝙈𝙤𝙤𝙗 𝘼𝙥𝙥'"

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Emulator developer for a quarter-century, member of the furry community for equally as long. Four more years and I can say the same about my game-development career as well. It's just like Mr. Smashmouth Eat The Eggs once sang: The years start comin', and they don't stop comin'.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I'm with you, I really hope the team rethinks their decisions on April 2nd.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

WTF?! I've poured 25 years of my life into this project! Now they're going all AI-slop?! Where can I get a refund?! www.mamedev.org?p=562

mamedev.org

MAMEdev.org | Home of The MAME Project

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It still listed channels that were aligned with my interests - Alton Brown, Tasting History with Max Miller, Veritasium, music-related channels. Those remained, and those are still in my main feed. It's just those other channels that magically poofed away for 3 days. Now they're back.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

For this 3-day window, most of the usual suggested channels from across the political spectrum were conspicuously absent from my main page: Team Skeptic, Josh Prime (and Josh Prime 2), LegalEagle, Van Balion, The Daily Show, Atozy, Midwest Safety, Code Blue Cam.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

If your main page on YouTube seemed conspicuously *different* for the past 3 days, then mysteriously went back to normal today, I want to hear from you. I don't want to be all tinfoil-hat, but it's STRANGE how all politics-related channels exited my feed for 3 days starting March 28th.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Well, if you hadn't gotten out of bed, I wouldn't have ended up with a pretty cool person's messages sitting on my Bluesky feed. So there's that.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Yeah, exactly. Doesn't matter how long I sleep, the "Damn, wish I'd've gotten a couple more hours" doesn't stop. Sleep is ultimately just a useful tool to restore neurotransmitters when in a mood death-spiral, or a thing to do when I've got nowt else going on.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

"A reasonable sleep schedule" is akin to Sasquatch or Krampus - I've heard of it, people talk about it, would love to meet it some day and be best pals, but until that day comes I will continue to do whatever I'm laser-locked into doing until 3AM, get up at 7, and go into work, dead to the world.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I can't even begin to describe how relentlessly fucked things have gotten with Google these days. I've forgotten my account password - to their credit, I'm still logged in on my existing devices - but I just waited out the 6h delay on recovering my password, only to hit another 6h block. The fuck?

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This seems like a genuinely honest survey, though, I hope studios actually listen.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The "how much is acceptable" questions really tilted me. "None" across the board. AI is fine for something like rapid-prototyping, but when you're in production, fuck the clankers

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

If I hear one more time how I can just put my search in the address bar, I'm going to snap. I didn't spend my formative years from the mid 90's up to the aughts, where an address bar was just that, to be lectured on how it's no longer an address bar. Just let me be old as fuck, and get off my lawn.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Huh, sounds like I should hit it tomorrow, albeit with Wireshark.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I haven't spent the past 20 years of my life working on various games and the occasional bit of middlware, only to say that the ability to play games should be solely reserved to abled people. Yeah. Yeah, accessibility is important. It's my personal axe to grind in that regard. Right there with ya.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Something I hope the @hytale.bsky.social devs address: Gamma slider. A friend I play alongside can sail through most caves because he sees things I don't. It's not my eyes, it's my TV. Even in Monitor mode, it has a super-dark low-end. Photos don't work, because phone cams invert the gamma curve.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Never played Rimworld, although many friends have - I've heard the difficulty curve is a brick wall - and that sounds similar. IMO progression-gating should always be a thin stick with a massive carrot, something to incentivize engaging with mechanics beyond "you gotta". Hytale nails it.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

That @hytale.bsky.social has progression gated by tier upgrades on workbenches, with the upgrades requiring resources that require the specific tier you're about to unlock, to unlock, to encourage exploration, is so genius I'm not convinved Hypixel's designers aren't space aliens from the future.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

First customizable worldgen, now rabbits. Lowkey feels like Microsoft are trying to gradually erase the history of my involvement with Minecraft. If they could get rid of mutton, stained glass, wood-specific doors, craftable cracked stone brick, and block models as resource packs, I bet they would.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I hope to have a hand in it. I don't have to be unemployed for a year, so broke as to scrounge friends' couch cushions for enough coin to walk to the local Hannaford to buy a block of Ramen, then stare at it, pondering eating it today or saving it for tomorrow. That'd kinda suck. Let's skip that.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

As a fmr. Minecraft dev - dude who added mutton, stained glass, worldgen customization (RIP), & rabbits (upcoming new anims and models, RIP), the folks behind @hytale.bsky.social have made something really fucking special. I haven't felt like this since 2010, when I discovered Minecraft. Kick. Ass.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I have no idea what account it was even uploaded with, and it would have been 2-3 computers ago, so at the moment, probably not. I've saved the drives from my personal machines, and I'll eventually image them, but, easier to assume it's lost media for now. I'm not that notable.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Dude is REMARKABLY great at VA work. I'm just astonished that he'd want to distance himself from GTA at this point, after hooking up with Corridor Digital. I get it, it sucks to be typecast, but i'd rather be typecast as "that Minecraft rabbit dude" than any of the other more-negative ways.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Ultimately, there's a cheaper and easier paycheck in programing. Fuck it, I don't like it, but that's the trajectory that I've chosen for my adult life. Steve wants to be hand-wringy about his luck? Hey, buddy, feel trade places with me. You can write the code, and *I* can be the loud asshole.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Rumor is, Steve Ogg has regrets about being typecast as Trevor, from GTA V. My perspective? You can't make that call. We all have our sins that we'd prefer not to be typecast by. I'm an aspiring VA, every job I've ever hard, my colleagues ask if I've considered a VA role. Yeah. I fucking have.

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2o-... Merry shmup-mas. Boogie Wings is the most insane horizontal shmup to ever exist. The entire thing is like a fucking fever dream. A designer at Data East goes "You know what this level needs? A dog that chases the player and barks at them the whole time" OKAY, DO IT

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Boogie Wings Merry Christmas level - MAME arcade game - digituba

YouTube video by digituba

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

What the fuck, seriously, how do I even remotely repay him for this - holy shit, there's no universe where I fucking deserve something this nice, god damn it I'm in fucking shambles right now, it's the most thoughtful god damn thing, just, fucking, FUCK

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A friend, Sunday: "Getting over pneumonia, dropping your Christmas gift in the mailbox." Wednesday: "Checked your mail?" WHAT THE FUCK THIS DUDE He found someone in Czechia to custom laser-engrave my favorite moogle design for a custom box and whisky tumbler. Just Holy shit 😭

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I mean at the end of the day, for the past 20 years of working in gamedev I've always been a pretty unabashed furry weirdo, that's just my main go-to example where I had to sit back for a sec and go "Wow, the fash really *are* that shallow, huh"

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I want to be more charitable about it than I am, but it just kinda seems like a shockingly shallow equation: "Game I like is based" = "Well that's fine for it to be woke, because I like it" "Game I don't like is based" = "Literally all devs are blue-hairs working for Sweet Baby" Change my mind

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The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

TBH it was seeing the sheer number of people who genuinely do *not* get it when it comes to the rhetoric in Helldivers 2, so I felt like giving the hornet's nest a good ol' poke by turning the character-customization menu gender-agnostic. Somehow this completely failed to piss off most fascists.

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