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Jim Dagg @vagentzero.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you see this we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

May you feel this joy today: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/cute/s/fzD...

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Jim Dagg @vagentzero.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"How did you get into ttrpgs" I wanted to figure out how to play Rainbow Six on a half-inch battle grid.

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Zeurel @zeurel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Make stuff. For the love of all that there is, please just keep making stuff! Doesn't matter if it's bad, good etc. Just *keep* making stuff.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 02/10/2026

This. And a lot of the "Is college even worth it?" conversations would have a very different answer if a college education was reasonably priced. Becoming a heart surgeon in the USA can cost you $550,000+ in US private school tuition🤯, but under $3,000 in public universities in the Philippines.🤷🏿‍♂️

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.

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bullboy Ganymede Amore @bullboyganymede.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is me but turning 40.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.

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kill ghost @willjobst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a universal feature of the game designer working on a long project is that their next game wells up inside of them until it is physically painful

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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/09/2026

Note: It's not actually clear to me if the DOEd can unilaterally do the thing they claim they just did, but it doesn't entirely matter; if the goal is to produce instances of anti-LGBT discrimination, you just have to create an air of uncertainty, and someone will get excited and do a discrimination

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Robert Turk @robertturk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am teaming up with @nerdburgercraig.bsky.social to celebrate 10 years of making awesome indie games! Check out our online convention Wicked Burger Con at discord.gg/bcJqxRMBv Sign up to play in our games, tune in to the GM worshop or podcast interviews, donate to charity, and grab some swag!

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't know that anyone who needs to hear this will, but if you ever find yourself thinking "I know that every kids-these-days take in history has been terrible, forever, but THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT" then please, please, please do ANYTHING other than record yourself.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

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OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 22/09/2026

Microsoft just did this with Id, too. Game's done, critically lauded, celebrations happening WELP EVERYONE'S FIRED BEFORE IT EVEN HITS STORES.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/09/2026

Honestly I think like 50% of the Teams 101 course is just me saying this in 30 different ways with 15 different methods of making sure everybody on your team understands that decisions are made to be executed on, not argued about further, that's the whole-ass point of it being a decision.

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Ryan Da Fun @animationmerc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dirty secret of AAA gamedev: they don't take 5-10 years because of graphics. They take 5-10 years because people don't make up their fucking minds.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/09/2026

incredibly so. "yes" doesn't exist when "no" has professional or financial consequences.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/09/2026

Everything about genAI is the opposite of consent, man. Like EVERY. SINGLE. PART. OF. IT. It's all built on the idea that consent is for lesser fools.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Jim Dagg @vagentzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"fairness in women's sports" is literally just "ethics in games journalism" like this is the same thing this is part of the same playbook dawg

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authorblues @authorblu.es · 07/09/2026

I don't want to optimize for an algorithm. I don't want to capture an audience. I don't want to do a trend. I want to make things so specific and niche that even I might not understand them.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Since I coordinate a program and see some stuff from "on high": * 0% of the students leave or complain about a course because it is "too ideological." * Most leave courses because (a) instructors demand too much writing/reading, (b) the instructor uses AI somehow, or (c) scheduling.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Sarah Doom @scorchadoom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I update my list, but I'd love to hear from the female game designers here! What names are missing from my list? Is it you? www.patreon.com/sarahdoom/po...

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Who Gets to be Named, Part 1 | sarahdoom

So I'm curious after reading Sen-Foong Lim's interview about the importance of naming designers. You can read it here: https://www.ttrpginsi

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Jim Dagg @vagentzero.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

dunk on D&D set aside, this was a big step in teaching me how to write rules text for games: if you aren't approaching the game in good faith and wanting to have fun with each other, no amount of rules or advice I can write will help.

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Chirs but sexier @chrisnsfw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

sex sells! until the storefront bans you and the subscription sites ban you and the payment processors ban you and the social media sites ban you and your webhost bans you and your bank bans you and your state legislature bans you and the supreme court bans you and all you were trying to do was draw

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

*sigh* time to tap the sign again...

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ScoutPilgrim @scoutpilgrim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yesterday, I posted a statement to Facebook about IFPA Pinball’s decision to ban @kailaria.bsky.social, a friend of mine and an advocate of queer existence in pinball, from the upcoming PAPA 23 event. Here it is in it’s entirety. scoutsscoop.home.blog/2026/09/02/m...

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My Statement on PAPA 23’s Ban of Kayla

Yesterday, I posted a statement to Facebook about IFPA Pinball’s decision to ban Kayla/Kailaria, a friend of mine and an advocate of queer existence in pinball, from the upcoming PAPA 23 even…

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Kailaria @kailaria.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So, the IFPA pinball issue continues. I was banned from a tournament I registered for, and then ended up writing this blog piece with over 12k words kailaria.bearblog.dev/the-post-obx....

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The Post-OBX IFPA Saga continues: Banned from PAPA 23

Hey folks, I want to get my entire side of this IFPA saga out. Even if you know a fair number of the story bits from various victims' tellings and the han...

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Jim Dagg @vagentzero.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So-called AAA has gotten so big and monolithic, its budgets so gargantuan, that games must sell millions to break even, and even then the team gets laid off. Games with interesting things to say, by their nature, are going to have smaller audiences, and require pipelines sized to fit that.

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Jim Dagg @vagentzero.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This right here. You don't have to be Matt Mercer. Make your game work for you, not vice versa.

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trump signs decrees that can't be implemented. The DOD is paying posters. Newspapers are publishing pieces based on the tweets of internet nobodies. The economy is powered by tech that doesn’t actually exist Has anyone written a thing about how US elites mainly play pretend rather than DO stuff?

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Spooky Poltergeist Ghouls 🎃 @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey if you're nonbinary and "Good girl" and "Good boy" don't work for you can you lemme know what takes their place so I can make a Dungeon That Tops You for you, thanks xxx

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John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"If The Odyssey made you want to play a game, it's probably Agon that's gonna scratch that itch." -- Judd Karlman. Couldn't ask for a better endorsement! Jump in to mythic adventures with a game all about epic deeds. Grab the book from the Evil Hat website, or the PDF here: johnharper.itch.io/agon

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AGON by John Harper

Heroic action in the mythic age

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/01/2026

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

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