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Kayin @kayin.moe · 09/10/2026

Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse

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written about this before but whatever.

Videogames as an artform have a problem with nostalgia. Not that people shouldn’t have nostalgia. Or that games shouldn’t draw from the past. But instead the weight we give to nostalgia.

When people go back to enjoy old games, we assume it’s a nostalgia thing. Do people assume that with books? Or movies? Or music? People certainly do go back in time with those mediums for nostalgia! It happens! I know when my sister is listening to certain cheesy old boyband pop or punk she’s often having a musical nostalgia trip! That’s cool! But we still don’t ASSUME, CONSTANTLY thats why people go back to stuff.

People like old stuff because it’s cool and interesting. It’s historic. People go watch Metropolis still, but how many people alive could even be nostalgic for a movie like that?

I almost want to see the word Nostalgia excised from discussions about video games – not because nostalgia is bad but because we over use it to the point where it’s actually harmful I think.

I mean I made IWBTG and am making an NES style game right now and even for me, the obsession with ‘nostalgia’ seems crazy.

Old stuff is cool. I know this because I see a lot of you kids on my tumblr feed talking about games I know you didn’t grow up with. It’s like finding your parents record or CD collection. Thinking the primary greatness of old games is bringing back memories of eating cereal and playing games on a saturday morning is a great injustice, even if those memories for some are perfectly worthwhile things.

#this post is 11 years old and still holds true

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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters

The poster for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s been edited to include And Knuckles at the end of the title, and Knuckles has been edited into the photo of the cast

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey you know how when Tucker Carlson or Nick Fuentes toss out some nominally left wing position, and everyone immediately recognizes it as an attempt to rehabilitate their image and infiltrate new audiences? Maybe stop praising the Pope just because he hates AI, like everyone else does.

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 30/09/2026

"This separatist movement is a guerrilla faction of the global far right which is attacking open societies across the world." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: We must call Alberta separation what it is

It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work

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Sanjha @sanjha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lukewarm potentially cold take amongst Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z: Getting a job shouldn't be treated as a fucking privilege. If so much of our life depends on HAVING a job, then I shouldn't have to grovel for the "opportunity to apply" for a position that is, quite frankly, under my skill level.

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 ☽⛤☾ ℌ𝔬𝔴𝔩 𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔢 @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So this game called "Dverghold" came across my Steam homepage. Interesting retro vibes, apparently collabing with a dungeon synth artist for the OST. The art was kinda tickling my AI-dar though, so I scrolled down to look for any disclaimers.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

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Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Let’s not forget what Ursula K. Le Guin had to say about JKR and Harry Potter.

Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin savaged J.K. Rowling in a 2004 Guardian interview?

“I have no great opinion of [JK Rowling’s writing style]. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a ‘school novel’, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.”

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 06/05/2026

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in: 1. Do not do age verification. 2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2026

‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I love that this is how I found out Starmer stepped down as an MP

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 27/08/2026

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

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Brütal Legend | The Tainted Coil shall rule forever! by Double Fine Productions

A sale by Double Fine Productions, 100% off Brütal Legend

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I will never, EVER get over the fact that Aaron Swartz died because he allegedly trespassed while trying to access works that were mostly IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, but open plagiarism and theft is acceptable now because it's suddenly in capital's interest for it to be.

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 21/08/2026

long-ish, but in my unhumble opinion very worth it, read about surveillance tech, hollywood, cheap labor and weird israeli guys

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Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Important question...

Bum spiders - spiders with bums? or... spiders in your bum?

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you say “woke 1” to me, I’m gonna slap you in the mouth

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

this is a dead kennedys album cover

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Cameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

All my homies hate Tim Hortons

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Xizor Argus @xizorargus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I sincerely hope that none of these movies get made, because the only one of these that could be any good is Missile Command, and only if it's the perfect combination of War Games and Come And See

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Only InfoWars can teach you how: theonion.info

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

“(Researchers) found surface temperatures increased by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit after a data center started operations…Strikingly, the impacts weren’t limited to a data center’s immediate surroundings; temperature increases affected areas up to 6.2 miles away.”

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I am not made for Capitalism. Every relationship I have feels cheapened and dehumanized by the exchange of money. Everything becomes a hollow experience because it is meted out by an arbitrary quantification of worth. It makes me feel as if the only true emotion or relational value is exploitation

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"Deep Space Nine refutes the utopianism of The Next Generation because it displays the moral compromises captains need to make" no, Deep Space Nine refutes the utopianism of The Next Generation because every time some existentially horrifying shit happens to O'Brien he still has to show up for work.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

For @aftermath.site, the Steam Machine costs too much money because of greedy freaks. But a community has formed around optimizing a low budget alternative made from failed PlayStation 5's that got turned into crypto mining cards and then resold as garbage. aftermath.site/bc250-steam-...

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Bless The BC250, The Budget E-waste Steam Machine Alternative

The Steam Machine is expensive due to evil freaks. Let's make a miracle computer out of garbage.

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Logan // Seraph Six @seraphsix.com · 26/06/2026

PSA: Don't click links you cannot vet. Be smart. Phishing is the most common form of compromise.

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Logan // Seraph Six @seraphsix.com · 25/06/2026

Listen folks. You have to stop clicking random links DM'd to you on Discord. Legitimately.

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Pew Pew Bang! @pewpewbang.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Our girl Haley providing insight on this Unreal Engine 6 situation:

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

for sale: concentration camps never used

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StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Did you know you can limit searches on YouTube to only before a certain year? bring me to life before:2008 Copy and paste that to see all surviving AMV’s with that song that were uploaded in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Literal time capsules! This is what YouTube used to be!

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 08/06/2026

How useful are all those vibe-coded apps at the end of the day? “The marked increase in mobile app releases over the past year has not been accompanied by any increase in downloads — most of the new apps fail to capture even a modest audience.” www.ft.com/content/8e9a...

Agentic AI spurred a boom in mobile app releases, but there is no sign of these apps gaining traction

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 07/06/2026

My hot take is that only Tumblr has figured out how to build a social network with an enduring culture and none of the other social medias are trying to copy it, and that's a mistake that will cost them.

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Mikko Rautalahti @mikkihel.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Sometimes you write a tiny little thing in a couple of minutes and it’s just one task among others during a very very busy day but you find out it lands just right. Anyway, yeah, I came up with that and yes, this was 100% my intent.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/06/2026

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

NO WAR WITH IRAN!
The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West.
You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together
& we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you
& your government is much bigger than the difference
between you & me.
And the difference between me
& my government is much bigger
than the difference
between me & you.
And our governments are very much the same...
—Marjane Satrapi

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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 04/06/2026

I'm seeing wall-to-wall marketing for He-Man using the 4 Non Blondes meme and I don't think Slackcircus (who CREATED THE MEME) is seeing a penny of it. Once again, internet creativity is treated as something to be stolen.

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Here's voice actor David Wald sharing how at the height of lockdown during a pandemic, Crunchyroll banned remote recording in an effort to union bust and also made it nearly impossible for him to work due to refusing to offer medical accommodations in studio.

David Wald tweets:

Lots of talk about the death of remote recording lately so here’s my 2 cents. I worked for a big dubbing co (IYKYK) for almost 20 years. At the height of lockdown, that co banned remote recording. If you couldn’t come into their studio, you were not cast in new projects. (1/8)

I’ve had type 1 diabetes since age 9. That’s an auto-immune disease. This makes me very vulnerable to all kinds of illnesses. A recording booth is an enclosed space full of someone else’s fresh spit with zero ventilation. (2/8)

So when there’s a new, not yet understood respiratory disease floating around as there was back then, any doctor will tell you to avoid exposure as much as possible, as mine did. So I stayed home. (3/8)

Over the course of the following 2 years, I wrote 20 or so emails to the HR dept and the producers at that co, BEGGING for a medical accommodation. I did not receive a single reply. Then they removed me from the audition list. (4/8)

After 2 years, broke and desperate, I had no choice but to return to in-person recording. Shortly after, I got the Dreaded Illness and had to stay home. They tried to bully me into coming in while I was still sick. (5/8)

It should be noted that my roommate at the time also had The Illness and was bullied into coming in anyway. Someone they KNEW was sick, and forced to come to the studio, as they tried to do with me. (6/8)

It should also be noted that when you walk into this studio, the booth schedule is on monitors all over the place, and there were remote sessions all over it every time I went in. Yet, AFAIK, not a single person ever received a medical accommodation. (7/8)

So what’s the lesson? If you really want in to the dubbing business, bypass the non-union stuff. Join the union and only do union work. Have someone in your corner, fighting for your most basic human rights, or you might get crunched like I did.

A user named Jodie asks:

So not only did they make a conscious decision to ban remote sessions (when they were allowed before?), they actively restarted them 2 years later but continued to deny you, and potentially others, on medical grounds? One of the main reasons to accommodate remote working? 💀

David Wald replies:

IMHO, the ban was purely a veiled effort at union-busting. You’ll notice the ban came after some very public unionization talk from out-of-state VAs who were making some very excellent points about the need for unionization. Shut them right down. Coincidence? 🤷‍♂️

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Cariad Heather @cariad.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If you are Canadian, please sign this.

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Xizor Argus @xizorargus.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Rolled credits on Satisfactory, probably gonna go for 100% achievements. Feels more like a puzzle game than a resource management sim, at times. Recommended.

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Sophie @sophiebaybey.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

no more mass appeal

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 06/05/2026

“Hours before I was informed that I was barred, I received an email, apparently sent to all attendees, prohibiting any form of recording or photography inside the event. “Clearly, there was something the organizers really didn’t want the public to see.” @readtheorchard.org reports. #abpoli

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I Was Barred from Smith’s Christian Summit. I’m Still Reporting on It | The Tyee

The pricey pay-for-access event featured religious and right-wing stars behind closed doors.

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