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Rodrigo Alem FernánDeath 🎃 @rodf.bsky.social · 8h

Oh boy let me tell you about those colleges and other academic institutions too, who were already burnt by Unity a few years ago and were considering or actually moved to Unreal afterwards. Students literally waiting for Godot (sorry, sorry.. I'll show myself out)

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 9h

Today google turned on even more genAI features for businesses who pay for google suites, which means a lot more things to turn off. It automatically turned on reading all your email and docs for generative AI learning so that probably already happened. Turn it off in your admin panel here:

in admin.google.com the "gemini in workplace" tab is shown, and I have everything turned off, but there are fields for gemini basically reading anything you ever do with google.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 8h

Fifteen years ago, I was ranting about how “gamification” had very little to do with actual game design and how its development as a practice deliberately kept game designers out of the room in favor of marketers and phone games have been gamified to the point where the game has largely vanished

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h

oh dear. OH DEAR.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 10h

absolutely disgusting to shamelessly gloat about vibecoding your product as you're charging ahead to devalue an entire industry and several art forms with copious amounts of AI confetti hyperslop, depriving real artists and developers of oxygen

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tante @tante.cc · 9h

If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace.

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Mikko Rautalahti @mikkihel.bsky.social · 9h

Speaking of Trials HD, some kinda fun BTS: it originally shipped as an Xbox Live Arcade title, which back in those days meant that there was no real disk space included with that. The game shipped with a great track editor, but there was no for users to share tracks. You couldn't store them online!

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 11h

Actual Cancel Culture of a significant cultural figure [unlike where far right extremists engage in hate speech & are held accountable]. It’s extremism like this, & the disinterest of the current UK Labour govt in stopping the shift to the far right, that’s deeply worrying.

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 9h

It's great that Timmie Epic is supplying a very public and messy example of *exactly* what a pile of worthless dogshit "vibe coding" something *actually* ends up giving you for anyone that's being pressured by their own bosses to do more slop bullshit. Truly, a service to humanity.

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popagenda @popagenda.co · 10h

Reminder that there's a demo of The Marvelous Raincaster of Yell Holler out right now!! Go stretch your noggin with challenging narrative puzzles and wiggle your tailfeathers to some jaunty banjo 🐓🪕

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The Marvelous Raincaster of Yell Holler on Steam

A time-looping puzzle ballad of Ozark folk superstition. Reorder events in time to unravel the legend of a weather-making rooster.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It is very rare to hear videogame trailblazers mention that someone else most likely would have come up with the same idea eventually. So big props to Richard "Levelord" Gray here, discussing his work on HIPDM1 open space deathmatch map. RIP. From "FPS: First Person Shooter Documentary" (2023).

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A Spiced Pumpkin Sergal 🎃🍂 @adorablesergal.neocities.org · 9h

Programming is hard, but humans are harder, humans are amazing, in the geologic blink of an eye we went from caves to computers. This is the intellectual and cultural equivalent of ancient aliens shit, "How did those pyramids get made? Must've been ET, no way humans moved rocks that big."

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 9h

Same. Every time a publisher fucks up or shows their whole ass like this, everyone they signed is now unfortunately tained with the same stink for me, and will probably not see any of my money in the future. I'm sorry, but you lie with the dogs, you get the fleas.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every day I am reminded at how most of the marketing communications professionals in the games industry have either been laid off or effectively silenced. Every day I see something that makes it abundantly clear.

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botoggle @botoggle.bsky.social · 11h

We've reinvented making boot disks with customized config.sys and autoexec.bat files to run particular games from first principles. Just prepare an alternate boot option in GRUB with a Signed and Approved kernel to run this game. Make sure your TPM module and Secure Boot are enabled!

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botoggle @botoggle.bsky.social · 11h

Reading through the list of requirements for Epic's new Easy Anti-Cheat for Linux and thinking, damn, that's wild, I'm not doing any of that

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Ignota @papermartin.bsky.social · 11h

1 thing that worries me about the death of AAA is that it's gonna probably take away funding from a bunch of open source things that are also useful outside AAA spaces ie blender, and slow down progress on open standards like openUSD, openPBR, materialX Those getting a proper library ecosystem would

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 10h

yeeeep amazing job of communication there

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 11h

BDS WIN: NYC rejects Israel bonds! After over a year of growing pressure from the Break the Bonds NYC campaign, City Comptroller Mark Levine has finally backed down from his dangerous and irresponsible pledge to reinvest the city pension fund in Israel Bonds.

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 11h

"We're incompetent. Unreal Engine 6 is going to be great." Is an all timer bit of comms.

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 12h

For no reason at all, here is a good video about this weird cultural moment we're in of people really revelling in the narrative that they don't know what they're doing and haven't put in any effort into the things they produce. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydEx...

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This genre of guy is fascinating

YouTube video by gabi belle

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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · 15h

Since NaNoWriMo blew up a few years back, the Discord for Interactive Narrative has held its own event: DINowrimo. It starts November 1st, and I'm looking for prize donors! If you're interested, please let me know ⚡️

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine *paying* another company to do this benchmarking for you. Well, I guess, someone Knew someone, and that first someone also got paid.

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 11h

yeah that 0.06 second speedup is what you add to a boast graph when you have *absolutely nothing else* and your boss is insisting you find *something*

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 15h

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, of *course* I just saw the monopoly typo in the first one.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 13h

The question is not whether I should kick the puppy. The puppy is innevitably getting kicked. The question is whether I can kick the puppy in a sustainable, inclusive and empowered way. How can people be supported in kicking puppies for good? Let’s stop the puppy kick gatekeeping already.

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 12h

I especially like the absolute desperation dripping from the "A-ha! Steam restores to library from system tray in 0.42 seconds, but *we* do it in 0.36 seconds, which is 14% faster! Take that!" graph they made.

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Zus @zus.eurosky.social · 14h

Pour éviter un énième anglicisme, je propose l'emploi de "vibrocodeur".

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine, on top of that, being *proud* of the fact that you slopped that shit out, and announcing it to the world, when *everyone else* absolutely *hates* that shit. Truly, polished a turd with a layer of diarrhea. Golfclaps all round.

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 12h

Epic: "our new slopped up launcher starts up 5 seconds faster than Steam's, haha!!!" Imagine being so fucking braindead that you think *that's* the problem with your offering when compared to the rival that's had the monopoloy for more than a decade, and people will come flocking to your store now.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 16h

You can tell there is a new law in The Netherlands that companies are not allowed to call you out of nowhere, because suddenly every Dutch service I have ever had an account on is asking me via email if I could pretty please turn on the 'Yes, you may call me' button in my account settings. Nope!

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16h

This is somehow the funniest and most appropriate typo of my name I've ever seen

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 17h

One year ago, RedLynx was being praised by Digital Foundry for producing "the most impressive demonstration of Switch 2 technology we've yet seen." Now, the studio is being shut down by Ubisoft. I keep seeing the phrase 'do good work, get laid off anyway' and, yeah, I can see why.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 16h

"Your parents in the 70s stretched every penny and paid cash for everything!" Lady, my parents had 18 credit cards 😆 I do love our nostalgic look back at "how things were better" now includes the 70s. Gas crisis, smog, burning rivers, legal financial discrimination based on sex, Vietnam, Iran, etc

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 12/10/2026

It's fall sale 2: electric boogaloo and Kitsune Tails is 35% off! kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails Or help our queer studio survive by getting four games bundled for $17.99 on itch (itch.io/s/204320/kit...) or $18.75 on Steam (store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673...) Bundle contents in the reply 👇

A screenshot of the dance in kitsune tails, with kiri dipping a shocked looking yuzu. Above them is a pull quote:

"Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3" Austin Wood, GamesRadar+

On the right is an award icon for the Gayming Awards 2025 saying Best LGBTQ Indie Game Winner. On the left is an award icon for the Queer Games Festival 2024, saying Silver Award.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

microsoft winds up Slop Labs

Coding became the first major workload for agents because they can write, run, and test software. Games share many of those same properties,

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 15h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqiD... Ran across this, and thought back to friend Megan's threadlet. I wanna say it's basically... the same for code as well? Sure, the point is to end up with something, but *where* you end up is a *process*! And it might be different from what you set out to do!

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YouTube video by Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's irresponsible to send Astronauts from NASA into an unknown cave on the lunar surface. They simply aren't trained for what they might encounter. Needs a military team yeah? Probably Navy, since they're long-haul vessel oriented. We should launch a large quantity of seamen into the moon's hole.

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 14/10/2026

Ok, but this idea might just save us all. We all know the AI bubble bursting is going to cause something between bad and catastrophic global economic outcomes But what if we took the opportunity to juice the party economy? Just make Party Supplies and Services the hottest commodites on Earth

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

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