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are you sure about that babygirl

dietrich fire emblem getting a level up and increasing every stat except strength and luck

Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 2h

Scary movie season! Any recommendations this year? Already watched Backrooms and Obsession. Looking at Hokum, Camp Miasma, Ready or Not 2, Buddy…

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 3h

Highly recommend both of these games! (though do be aware Seance of Blake Manor has a central mechanic that runs contrary to most games of this type, where you can actually lose if you pick the "wrong" things to investigate)

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 8h

PSA: Gears of War E-Day is out *today.* Anybody with $100 can buy it and play it. It is simply not accurate to say it won't be released until October 6 - that's just the day it's available for $70, without a bunch of extra stuff bundled in. So very tired of this BS.

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 7h

Ok this is maybe relevant to no one here but I have been long annoyed by Visual Studio putting "random" additional using lines at the top of my C# files and I finally tracked it down to this setting. Hallelujah!

VS setting dialog for "show items from unimported namespaces"

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

CONIMG SOON

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

time to go to this job interview! i hope they like my biiiiig bowl of chili

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel like "iced coffee interview" is the "black and blue dress" question of our times...

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is no low too low for this partisan, lawless Supreme Court majority. Using the underhanded emergency docket to give Trump a power the Constitution does not allow, a fat thumb on the scale of elections. Disgraceful, six people who would be better on the Russian Supreme Court than in a democracy

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Man, very disappointing to see a little strategy game I liked turn to using LLMs to do translations. I kind of get it, it's a one man show and plausibly there'd be no translations otherwise, but still... :(

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So if Fetterman had showed some party unity, this would have passed? :(

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is so goddamn funny. The "IT'S GOOD FOR EXCEL" types just getting rinsed over and over by the guys literally in charge of the product saying "IT IS FOR STUPID PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW THEIR ADDRESS"

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the Iraq war (2003 ed) left people in the USA with a maladaptive idea of what terminating a war looks like. The USA can leave Hormuz when Iran allows it to leave, or it can suffer a strategic defeat unlike any in its history

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Postmedia delenda est @olenargy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ok it’s not happening but what if it did

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you're wondering why polls always have the GOP better on security it's because the media won't run "TRUMP SHIPS STEALTH TECH VIA UPS" but they would have stories and follows and entire expert panels discussing this shit for weeks if it was a Dem in office.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 23/09/2026

Writing code that compiles and nominally functions at first glance is the very first hurdle, literally the easiest thing that exists in software development. And we're supposed to take all human intervention out of the equation based on that alone? Are you fucking mad?

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 23/09/2026

It only ever wants to do one thing: write a story about the little guy that it's been trained to write a story about. That guy says a bunch of things that look like the kind of things that someone trying to pursue the assigned goal would say. That is distinct from pursuing the goal.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The random civilian who illegally stole everyone's data & dismantled large chunks of the federal government, in an end run around Article I of the Constitution, should be jailed for life & not have large govt contracts, the ability to contribute to political campaigns, or stakes in large media orgs.

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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And the regression here is also super tight... but it predicts a 2026 House popular vote of D +1. Either both of these predictions will be pretty wrong, or one will be very, very wrong. This illustrates how correlations in politics can fall apart, even if you have beautiful r-squared values.

Regression with 9 data points and R2 of 0.96

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hm, it's two days until Control Resonant releases and Amazon is still "estimating" an unspecified delivery date for my physical copy. I'm thinking my odds are not great here.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 22/09/2026

In primaries this year, Democratic turnout utterly dwarfed Republican turnout. But does it mean anything for November? It turns out the answer is very much yes. A new analysis from @donnermaps.bsky.social suggests that Dems are on track for a 13-point blowout in the House vote. Here's why.

the-downballot.com

Massive primary turnout points to biggest year for Democrats since Watergate

There’s a remarkably close correlation between the primary vote and the House popular vote

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, do I really think we will see a D+14 environment on Nov 4? Probably not, but I am daring to hope…

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rolled credits on Wolverine. There were some late game missions I enjoyed but the whole thing had some real pacing & repetition issues that Spider-Man (and Ratchet) avoided much better. There’s definitely an amazing X-Men game that could be made here as a sequel if they get a chance.

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I could probably make just as much of an argument for Starflight, or Ultima IV, or some early Grigsby games, but this is the one that sticks out to me as the earliest.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i think it’s incredible how people claim that if you say “llms don’t think” you are a “physicalist” or, even worse, a secret dualist it’s a basic manipulative trick, you know extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and they don’t have any there’s NO evidence for llms being conscious

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Wout @thehashtagonist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Me 1 hour into Fire Emblem

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's honestly incredibly funny how a 3 page long word document that outlines the rules for a HOI4 RP session is better at conveying Hirohito's culpability than multi-hundred page long scholarly monographs about Hirohito's life

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

cynical take - 1mil at 70USD is 70 mil. chop off 30% for platform fees, now we're 49mil. Assume the publisher is 100% recoup, that's 9 mil. Then the split after... let's be GENEROUS and say 50/50. Final income for 1mil sales is: * $4.5mil for studio * $44.5mil for pub * $21mil for platform holders

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Flu and COVID-19 vaccinations done! Local Wal-mart, in and out no problem. Very glad the era of having to argue for eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine appears to have ended.... lets hope it stays that way.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

heartbreaking to find a new restaurant and be impressed when you order delivery, then you do a pickup the next time and when you trot over you discover a menu full of AI FOOD PHOTOS. buckaroo your food was good i was about to be a long time customer and now im not coming back

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 17/09/2026

Trying to go see the new Resident Evil movie but apparently before I can enter the auditorium I have to have the spade key to unlock the door? And I only have the hearts key, which unlocks the route to the concession stand. Anyone know where to go next? A bit stuck

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Strange Jigsaws turned me into an instant @flebpuzzles.bsky.social superfan so very excited about this! Also, it's free?

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Halloween II is so bad, AI could never. AI would be like "I'm sorry, I cannot complete your request. The character Michael Myers from the 1978 film Halloween does not talk or hallucinate unicorns." Only a real human could come up with something as magnificently annoying as Halloween II

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is dope

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 15/09/2026

I love this so much. "Play the game exactly how you need to." I have often had to tap out of an action/RPG narrative game and read the rest of the plot online because I couldn't get past some of the encounters. So being able to experience the entire story in-game is always amazing.

From Remedy's page about Accessibility Settings in CONTROL Resonant.

The Intended Experience.

We talk a lot internally about designer intent. We do have a meticulously crafted, intended experience for CONTROL Resonant. It's balanced to be tense, demanding, and rewarding.

However, our philosophy is straightforward: if you run into a wall and the friction becomes too much, we would much rather you tweak the rules to overcome it than put the controller down and stop playing. Your time is valuable, and there’s no single right way to experience the game. Because of that, we absolutely do not gate any trophies or achievements behind these settings. Play the game exactly how you need to.

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m a few hours in on Wolverine and it’s pretty fun! It’s maybe not as good as Spider Man just because that game is so insanely good, but this is delivering on exactly what I’d expect out of a very polished Wolverine cinematic action game.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Others have said this but it’s truly insane that Brett Kavanaugh, lover of the major questions doctrine, thinks there’s a good chance USPS can use a vague grant of authority over mail processing to radically alter absentee voting procedures in all 50 states without congressional approval. Come on.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Breaking Good News

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Rob "Xemu" Fermier @xemu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've read the battle.net store page for WoW Forever and have absolutely no idea what that game is. Graphics update for WoW classic? A survival crafting game with WoW paint? A WoW "do-over" MMO? Maybe I'm just dense but this seems like it has absolutely no clear positioning.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

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Steam Hype

Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 13/09/2026

If anyone has contacts at Valve who can help expedite this, we certainly wouldn't say no to the help. In the meantime, I'll be here swimming in cortisol.

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