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Mom @milph.mom · 14/09/2026

I think it goes deeper than Smash into just consumption as a whole, where when a game comes out, fans of it immediately upon beating it go, “Can’t wait for the sequel that will add more to this.” When that’s not a given anymore from the heyday of the NES era.

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Justin Logan 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @justinlogan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why the hell would you post AI garbage “art” of Dolly when there are thousands of amazing real images of her? This one, for instance, is just perfection.

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Tama Hero @tamahero.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

So I posted that little clip of my teenage bedroom to Instagram and it got 100,000 views. The children are accusing me of creating the room in modern day and pretending it was my bedroom. The inability of Gen Z to believe that I simply am really that old.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/08/2026

GTA 6 feels less like a game and more some kind of totem for a certain kind of dying gamer identity, that cannot economically or culturally sustain itself anymore. it represents a million different things and seemingly the least important of them is that it is an open world mission based video game

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Bobsession @bobservo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

with how much manga absolutely DOMINATES comic sales these days, it’s hilarious to think that 30 years ago video game publishers sincerely thought “no American can see this extremely cool Japanese box art!”

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This is the key. When dermatologists say that machine learning helps them detect skin cancer early, or when astronomers say that AI allows them to analyze previously intractable telescope data, that’s the real deal. When an executive says AI can replace some other person’s job, that’s empty hype.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 31/01/2026

I think the valuable lesson we've all learned by now is that you should never, ever, ban hentai from the forums

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

wanna be them honestly (lovers' rest, 2024)

fanart of Tifa and Aerith from FF VII Remake
Aerith is taking a nap, resting her head between Tifa's legs (Tifa is sitting on some sort of metallic structure, while Aerith is sitting among plants)
Tifa watches her sleep in a tender way
glowing mako orbs (?) are floating around

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 25/09/2025

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 25/09/2025

Anyone who was around gaming message boards c. 2000 deeply recognizes this type of guy.

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Casval ☄️🏳️‍⚧️ @redcomets.net · 24/09/2025

yeah ok google I'll prove I'm an adult - I remember when you killed Google Reader - I remember when you introduced Chrome (it sucked so I kept using Firefox) - I remember when you used to say "don't be evil" and then you quietly dropped it oops - I remember when I switched to DuckDuckGo (~2011)

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 16/09/2025

I hate that all the legacy media brands I’ve admired for my whole life are collapsing at exactly the same moment I’ve finally built up enough experience to realistically write for them.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Since today's discourse is on how "not everyone grew up with Nintendo", I'll reshare this: medium.com/@felipepepe/... And reinforce that this is systemic - a consequence of US hegemony. It's NOT a personal attack on American journos, youtubers & gamers, but rather a reminder of our differences.

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The Gentrification of Video Game History

We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

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Joe Merrick @joemerrick.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The fact tomorrow is the start of September is messing with me. How are we two thirds through the year already? Pokémon Legends Z-A is only a month and a half away. Pokémon's 30th anniversary is just under 6 months away. That's nuts.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 25/08/2025

Being scared of everything has always been a part of conservatism—it’s the uniting ideology of all facets of the culture—but when did they just loudly and openly start admitting this unprompted at every opportunity?

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⚜️ Royal Blood ⚜️ @royalblood1.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A rainbow 🌈 over Lago di Garda 🇮🇹 as the day ends

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 20/08/2025

AI could have been successful if it had been treated as a science and developed with rigorous ethical standards focused on solving problems for humanity instead of being treated as a speed run on an exploitative capitalist growth tool focused on solving problems for trillion dollar corporations.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 20/08/2025

The dumbest motherfuckers on the planet: “I think this computer wants to blow me.”

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emily s. @emily.news · 07/08/2025

忄 is 心 but it's been radicalized by the far left

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 05/08/2025

One of our @funfactorpod.com listeners, flyingspacewhale, posted this on the Discord, and, uh.

A clip from a 2003 table of contents for a "Game Strategies" section of a gaming magazine. The tagline for the Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced strategy section is "It's N-tense, N-sane, and all the other N words you can think of."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/08/2025

There is nothing that gets my red flag meter going quite like men saying things like "it was hard meeting women because I was interested in (insert nerdy thing here)" when I have distinct memories of certain kinds of men in nerdy thing specifically and repeatedly excluding me from nerdy thing.

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Vivian ⚽ @vivianruhig.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

If everybody who’s able could post this every so often, it’d send a powerful message. Do not let the vtuber community become a nazi bar.

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Daily Dose of Classic Cartoons @ddofcartoons.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This short turns 89 today and is Tex Avery's oldest classic and a well-loved WB short. You have Owl Johnson singing the title song that easily sticks in your head, along with a sweet ending where his whole family dances along with him. Cartoon: "I Love To Singa" (1936, Tex Avery)

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Retro Blast 👻 @retroblastpod.com · 18/07/2025

I think for some people, it's hard for them to grasp why video games mean so much to many of us. They gave those of us who never won, a way to win. They gave those of us with no control in our lives, something that we COULD control. And that comfort saved me during a lonely and isolated childhood.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/07/2025

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

SGDQ currently has a black woman speedrunning Wolfenstein II with two black LGBTQ commentators as a chat of 45K people yells about stomping fascism and I just think that's neat. sometimes gaming is good

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 12/07/2025

Oh hey, anime fans, raise your hands if you've heard this IRL from some weirdo trying to justify genuinely creepy shit to you before. 🙋‍♀️

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Joe Merrick @joemerrick.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

As we go into Pokémon GO's 10th year, I can't help but think back to how wrong I was about it. Before it launched, I & the community was down on it and questioned it. Then, summer 2016 hit and it took off. It heralded in a new renaissance of Pokémon which hasn't calmed since.

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Not enough people discuss the icon that is Katarina from My Next Life as a Villainess.

A true bicon from My Next Life as a Villainess

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Let's normalize talking to our friends and working our issues out in private before we spur needless infighting and ostracization in our fringe communities.

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Tama Hero @tamahero.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It can be easy to get caught up in comparing yourself to other people. But remember there are advantages we all have or don't have that are totally invisible from the outside. You are doing your best with the life you have and your story is unique.

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Wootmaster @wootmaster.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Sometimes terrible people are able to make genuinely good pieces of media and progressives need to be able to reconcile with that instead of retroactively claiming something was never good in the first place.

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Eri Victoria | "The Fangirl Diaries" Author @scarlet-rhapsody.com · 06/06/2025

Ah yes, Tomoyo...the cousin who's the ultimate bestie! Source: Simpsons Bortposting

Tomoyo breaking into song because girlcrush reasons

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Imagine outsourcing all your thinking to a guy who still only has two Pokémon badges after 80 hours of gameplay.

@Dexerto:

After 80 hours of playtime, OpenAI's "smartest model to date" has obtained two Gym Badges in Pokemon Red

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Possum A-ko @kaiserbeamz.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I've never seen anyone disrespect Nintendo games quite like other Nintendo fans.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

WRITER: “I wrote this free essay on my website about blueberries in cereal. A simple pleasure.” RANDOM BLUESKY USER: “This is the fucking problem with society right now, that people write these wrong milquetoast takes when food journalism has fallen to a nadir in its quest for fascist acceptance.”

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Boycotting large chains is a privilege. Protesting is a privilege. Moving States or countries is a privilege. Prepping is a privilege. Growing your own food is a privilege. Stockpiling meds is a privilege. Far too many of the “solutions” to fascism are inaccessible to many disabled people.

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