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Game publisher run by game designer Steve Dee. Sydney, Australia. Social media is the problem but I need promotional streams to get games to people.

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Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Instead of "X person is a great game designer" there was a lot of ✨Black Excellence✨ talk. Which meant that sometimes the connections you made were not because *you* were good at what you did, but because someone needed to fill their Infinity PoC gauntlet with a palatable Black person. Palatable.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Hey nerdy nerds and gamers. The Steve's brainmeats are now for sale as a service. Sign up to my Patreon and you get - weekly blogs - game design school - a digital game every month - behind the scenes access and playtest versions www.patreon.com/c/tinstargames
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Some folks call it blended colours, others call it smoky shading, but you know - sfumayto, smufato
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
A lot of people are trying to justify their own desire to surrender to Trump early in the year
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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 30/12/2025
"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live." Sarah Kendzior
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Did the X-Men ever try to get around mutant registration laws by simply declaring mutant powers to be arms, and thus not to be infringed?
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it. Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.
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Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Butterfly meme. The guy (labelled game designrs) is looking at "literally anything" and saying "is this a resolution mechanic"
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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Jadzia Snax
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
on account of my bad mood I would like to announce that until further notice, everything sucks
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Miles O'Fryin
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
How I'm walking out of 2025
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a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the word kepler is on the bottom right
Alt: Cassian Andor smuggling Mon Mothma out of the Senate building on Coruscant, saying, "Welcome to the Rebellion"
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Craig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
For Hayley Williams' birthday, twenty Buffy RPG plots from her album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party thewatchhouserpg.blogspot.com/2025/12/20-b...
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20 Buffy plots from Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Happy birthday to Hayley Williams! Her new album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party (content note: swears) contains several tracks that I wo...
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
In the meantime...https://www.tinstargames.com/relics/
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
it is v iconic
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
He lies, he blames the reader, then he blames bsky for not banning the "trolls", then feels righteous because people are yelling at him.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Stupidity this enormous and this toxic deforms the world around it and makes everything harder.
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[redacted] by cop @billydale.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
in lots of contexts they have the same meaning, but in this specific context where the whole point is to distinguish private charity from a socialist mutual aid group it clearly has utility. Going “nuh uh” I refuse to use your vocab so we’ll just talk in circles for days is not very fruitful
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quothe1.bsky.social @quothe1.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
There you go, I hope you understand the difference now, and that you look up what "privatization" actually is, since Will doesn't know but is happy to use the word to demonize good things.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Socialist government is a public library Mutual aid is a street library Charity is a book drive
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Agreed, but then Will went too far and said insane shit.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
As others said in the replies, this happens in marketing-speak, and occasionally I see artists and creators internalise marketing so hard they think it is real. Do I think straight white dudes are suffering? No. Have I wanted to punch someone who told me to "write my disability"? Fuck yes.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
You’re almost never going to outcompete a dishwasher in efficiency — it reuses water, does a better job at cleaning, saves time. One of the biggest W’s in the history of technology.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The interesting thing about this argument that "if you give things to voters to vote for you, a billionaire will just out spend you to get elected" is that no billionaire has ever actually done this. They deal in pork, of course, but nobody has ever given everyone in Chicago a house.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Ludic literacy is not "I have played more games than Monopoly/D&D so I know why it sucks" Ludic literacy is "I understand why I like the thinks I like and how games produce that so I can navigate the artistic field to best serve MY needs"
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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation
jeremy strong in springsteen: deliver me from nowhere in a yellow turtleneck and glasses
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
A good solid point: the question should be less about "does it or doesn't it" but building literacy about how it does and how it doesn't. You CAN play Chess by hitting the pieces with the board and running the bases. Why don't you?
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
They don't have to be good. They just have to produce a billion products a second until one of them is just good enough to find the weakpoint that kills you.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
In the comic Transmetropolitan, senitent viruses study the laws of The City, and identify miniscule moments where loopholes exist, where for a split second in one location it is legal to do a thing, like release mind-control gas to make you buy products. This is how Machine Learnign products work-
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
If you make something easily confused for a better mousetrap, but breaks most of the time, the world will be enslaved to beat a path to your door anyway.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
You are all welcome, the community here is not great and this place is a goddamn nightmare exactly like the house you fled. Ignore the discourse. Try not to go mad. Leave often.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I'll go you one better: just lift other people up. You don't have to make friends or like people. You just support them. Every success I've ever had in this industry I can lay at the feet of giving a fucking damn about others.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
If I were trying to get people to agree with me, I might say something like "I love Kat, and I hope this works attract and engage and do good. There are good reasons why campaign finance is so tracked however, so this is risky and not every campaign can do it, or do it in a useful way - be careful!"
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handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 27/12/2025
The answer to your rhetorical question is, "Authoritarian Fascist systems of political, economic, and thought control, portrayed in attentive n engaging stories of cutting-edge conceptualization to imagine what is possible."
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 27/12/2025
Carrie Fisher left us 9 years ago today, and we miss her terribly. ❤️
Carrie Fisher and friends
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
that too yeah
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
this is just to say I have loosed  the blood-dimmed tide that you were probably saving for the ceremony of innocence forgive me the best lack all conviction while the worst are so passionate and so intense
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
There's a larger point though: animals go to other animals for help too. It's not that they think we're special. Or not especially kind. Or especially clever.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
oh did it have in-ap purchases? ew.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I was like "oh this is just a series of loot crates with some math to hide that...RUN AWAY" But we seem to be outvoted here.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
now I gotta play it again, dammit...but I HATED it...
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
- but there is not enough context you can put on social media. It's not designed for that. It's built for combat. We need to stop blaming the people in the Death Arena for trying to kill each other.
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