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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp

@tshiif.bsky.social
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game writing | narrative design | literary theory Writer: Disco Elysium, Pentiment, Broken Alliance, Death & Taxes estonian perpetual motion machine

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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Almost every video I've made in the past year has been demonetised. YouTube is getting much worse, and it has now made it impossible for me (and most video essayists) to earn a living. Please share.
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YouTube just killed my channel.
YouTube video by Jack Saint
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
every time some 'race realist' prick brings up african IQs they're always talking about richard lynn's apartheid stats which were debunked at the time & debunked when the bell curve used them & have been debunked 100 times since. is there no limit on how many times that conversation needs to be held
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Great times, great vibes! This year I'll be talking some hard hitting nonsense as well. I enjoyed visiting AdventureX last year so much that I really wanted to say some *stuff* in front of a crowd.
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Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Soojin is a brilliant and adaptable artist. Did you love the look of Pentiment? They were responsible for a ton of it. Out of the many, many ways they left their mark on that game, though, my favorites have to be the Landsknecht playing cards and story-time with Brother Sebhat.
Landknecht playing cards from PentimentStory-time with Brother Sebhat
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Kick and start this great fun tabletop experience! I really enjoyed the experience even at this early stage! Plenty of killings to be had!
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I played some tabletop! I'm not used to tabletop. Good times were had, so I will heartily throw my support to this project.
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
People Make Games traveled to Michigan to meet Jerry Gretzinger, an 84-year-old man, who's spent most of his life working away on a single, giant map to an imaginary world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N...
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The Man Who's Spent a Lifetime Making One, Giant Map
YouTube video by People Make Games
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Dan Arrows @danarrows.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New vid: Kurzgesagt is Wrong About Germany youtu.be/UjmsfOXy5oM?...
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Kurzgesagt is Wrong About Germany
YouTube video by Three Arrows
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration
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hanna @happiestfunrock.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I am more bog than (almost) all of you. I am sphagnum-European (saturated) and proud to be it. You are wrong ecosystems. Efficient, productive, oxygen-rich. You are modern. This kind of environment is shame. Real bogs preserve dead things indefinitely. All the rest is a trash.
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Night Signal Entertainment @nightsignalentertainment.com · 30/04/2026
Forbidden Solitaire is OUT NOW!! Enter the 1995 dungeon horror CD-ROM you were never meant to play. 👁️ 🩸 💙 Buy on Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj 💜 Buy on GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j 🧡 Buy on Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m
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Allosaur @allosaur.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This didn’t happen
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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
ANNOUNCING: 500 FINGER FILLET 500 STABS. 30 MINUTES. A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand five hundred times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4602120/...
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500 FINGER FILLET - Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by HEATHER FLOWERS
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I'm in a controversial mood so here's a random hot take out of nowhere: modern pop artists would never. I dare you, Taylor Swift or whoever wants to claim the throne of pop, I dare you to do a video like this. Do it and see what happens. :D
A still image from Madonna's 1988 song Like A Prayer, featuring the artist dancing in front of a dark field of burning crosses. The video was controversial at the time, and to be honest, it's pretty damn wild even by 2026 standards.
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
An absolutely wonderful video, and it includes my favourite random topic to think and talk about - the satanic panic! When Qanon & pizzagate nonsense got going years ago, all I could think of was, oh the satanic panic is back. The frauds who have published various wild lies truly have done damage.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/04/2026
Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.” wow, i love the AI future!
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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Giada Zavarise ➡️ AdvX @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Like clockwork.
A picture of the Gamedev Discourse Calendar. The topic for April is "but are games art?"
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maria @eurothug4000.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
!NEW VIDEO! I made a new vid talking about games that steal a face :) features a few indies that use face mechanics in a cool way and is a good time I promise!! youtu.be/wsWVMYO3kwI any reposts and comments etc. are always a big help! ♥️
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Alongside part 6 of the /noclip documentary here is me talking for three and a half hours for some ungodly reason! It's generally a lot of the things I've said elsewhere, now collected into a single interview. Maybe it's time to get new thoughts! / My thanks to the 41st Precinct for the fun chat!
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
yeah that was a fun night
3 years ago

I, Hannah, Märten standing on the red carpet of BAFTA games
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Alongside part 6 of the /noclip documentary here is me talking for three and a half hours for some ungodly reason! It's generally a lot of the things I've said elsewhere, now collected into a single interview. Maybe it's time to get new thoughts! / My thanks to the 41st Precinct for the fun chat!
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is the end, my friend! I must congratulate Danny & the rest of the team for the series. This was a lot of work! Danny's 41st Precinct interview was also very enlightening.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing
photo showing the rescuers saving the dog, next to the statue commemorating themcloseup on the base of the statue, showing a dog and a man in a ball cap the top of the statue, where the person at the top of the slope has his hand outstretched so the viewer can "help" pull him up
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
hark! now for something completely different - a recent estonian minitext. sorry, all you lovely international followers have to use the Translate Page feature to see my random ramble www.sirp.ee/scriptor-lud... mjaa, harva lingin siia eestikeelseid asju, kohalikud followerid jäävad arvult alla :D
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Scriptor ludens - Sirp
Pikaaegse kirjandusteadlasena defineerin (arvuti)mängu ennekõike ebalineaarse reaktiivse multimodaalse kirjandusena. See määratlus on rõhutatult kirjanduskeskne, olgugi et ilmselt leidub rohkem mänge,...
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
hark! now for something completely different - a recent estonian minitext. sorry, all you lovely international followers have to use the Translate Page feature to see my random ramble www.sirp.ee/scriptor-lud... mjaa, harva lingin siia eestikeelseid asju, kohalikud followerid jäävad arvult alla :D
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Scriptor ludens - Sirp
Pikaaegse kirjandusteadlasena defineerin (arvuti)mängu ennekõike ebalineaarse reaktiivse multimodaalse kirjandusena. See määratlus on rõhutatult kirjanduskeskne, olgugi et ilmselt leidub rohkem mänge,...
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Excellent game, well worth it. I enjoyed the vibes immensely.
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Some say that making a smaller game or simpler game are ways to cut down on dev time. This is also true. But if you're making a game of any size that has any sort of consistent production methodology, a good way to make everything take longer is to change standards and pipelines in production.
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ey, some light summer reading arrived in the mail. Many-a name and wisdom has been captured in this tome. Grand work by @jon.inkle.co
a hand holds a book with a colourful front cover, the book is titled "The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope", which includes 100+ essays on the craft of game writing, collated by one Jon Ingold of some note. the kaleidoscopic cover is totally cool in its abstract yellow-blue-green visuals.
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Clang! Detectives arriving on the scene. Victim: Disco Elysium. Cause of death: unknown. Suspects: everyone. I get a quick ramble, which is fine. This bit in time I don't really care to think nor talk about too much, since it likely would involve saying things I don't want to say. Hence, vagueness!
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I think everyone should Ebb. Become the Cleric you were meant to be.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...
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I’m Tired Of These Useless Jackasses Making The Computer Expensive
RAM, flash memory, and HDDs are unaffordable because of a bunch of greedy idiots that do not love the computer.
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Erica Odd 🏳️‍⚧️ @ericaodd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
If y'all want to get your sci-fi groove on without having to buy into a streaming service... cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...
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Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube | Cord Cutters News
In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just...
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 05/02/2026
Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
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Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are
Transcript: Well, it happened again. I’m mentioned in the Epstein files. Again. You probably saw my first video on this topic and you came away thinking that I’ve spent the past decade being as awe…
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?
Lawrence M Krauss 'The War On Science' featuring numerous Epstein enthusiasts
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
outhere-music.com/en/albums/pr... absolutely spellbinding new release today. RIYL telling the trifling irritants of this material plane to just take a hike because you’re gonna lock eyes with the cosmos for a while
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Prophecy
With these works for accordion and orchestra, Ksenija Sidorova and Paavo Järvi pay tribute to the music of the Baltic countries: the Latvian and the Estonian, who have been collaborating for over 10 y...
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
this is some proper art chat. so much art that one's hand might fall off from all the art.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice
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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I made a long video about technocapitalism and AI music youtu.be/U8dcFhF0Dlk?...
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Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
YouTube video by Adam Neely
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The Game Bakers @thegamebakers.com · 29/01/2026
Time to climb! Cairn is available now. Mount Kami awaits, unconquered. This is what you trained for: fight for every meter of the climb and rise to the challenge.
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
NEW VIDEO Last year, Steam banned Vile: Exhumed, a twisted horror experience that pulls no punches, and one of my favourites of 2025. Here's why I loved the game, and why it was wrong of Steam to ban it (and other titles too...) youtu.be/c-qaFjqJuQ4
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Vile: Exhumed - The Intense Horror Game Steam (Wrongfully) Banned
YouTube video by Power Pak
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Babylon 5 is perhaps the most politically sophisticated science fiction series ever made (light years beyond Gene Roddenberry) and much of it speaks directly to the era we live in. I don’t know how @straczynski.bsky.social managed to be this prescient 30 years ago.
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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Hahaa, tiny oops has slipped in, I don't have a semiotics degree from University of Tartu, I have a literary and cultural theory degree. I just took the occasional semiotics lecture on the side. :D
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The third one, the writerly one has arrived! The one where I don't remember what I actually talked about. I bet it's going to be embarrassing, whatever I said. It's probably also the messiest one, in some ways, as the whole writing section of Disco Elysium is a gordian knot made of titanium.
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Laurence Bianchi-Phillips - Hardy Roach Games @hardyroachgames.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Hey folks! The prelaunch for my first solo kickstarter just went up here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/har... I've been working on this for years, so if you dig it or simply wish me well, please repost or share in discords. Mailing list here: hardyroachgames.co.uk/il-fantasma-...
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Coming soon: Il Fantasma del Giallo - An RPG of Violence and Identity
Your acting career is a ruin. You're out of options. Every path travelled, every bridge burnt. But there's always work in the Yellow...
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Twitter is the world’s largest generator of CSAM & non-consensual porn by a margin of about 8000%, and somehow… MSM isn’t even reporting on it. (also includes advice for reporting ‘deepfake harassment’ to police if it escalates to a point where restraining order is necessary) youtu.be/p71qQKmIGhQ
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I'm angry.
YouTube video by Charalanahzard
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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp @tshiif.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Just remember, whenever in these trying times you feel AaaAaaaaAA or EeeEeEeee or even a bit of ooOoOOooo, there's a perfect song for that. youtu.be/12eFq16CXSU?...
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LEPROUS - Alleviate (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
YouTube video by InsideOutMusicTV
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year to the haters, the losers, and the far left marxist transgender extremists, which I think covers everyone here.
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