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Cass (makes games) @cassmakesgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New Blog Post: Why I Love Unfair Traps in Arcade Games People usually dislike hard memo traps in arcade games, or at best think they're "not that bad". I love them, though, and I think arcade games would be worse without them. Here's why: duckberet.com/blog/i-like-... (game: Violent Storm)

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An iPlayer glitch watching an old episode of Dr Who gave me this oddly encouraging message:

An entirely black frame with the words "Things must stabilise soon" in small white letters.

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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xnopyt @xnopyt-aaajjj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shoutouts to @blf-fgc.bsky.social for a smashing Weekend Warrior today! USF4 good. KI good. Tetris TGM2 good. 3rd Strike is alright I suppose.

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026

THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.

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koda @nulloffset.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

dude telegram has sticker packs. fluxer is federated and self hosted. revolt is now stoat, stoat is just discord but with free nitro features. teamspeak. you can use matrix but it needs a client. bleepy has 10 alternate clients. plumdy is free. you can find me on poob. get on poob. get on poob.

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xnopyt @xnopyt-aaajjj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Automatic, unpausable update on my work laptop triggers and forces a restart with about 5 minutes notice while I'm in the middle of something, then has the audacity to tell me "keep your computer on". Motherfucker, only one of us is shutting things off at the wrong time and it isn't me!

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laney @saltmalk.in · 23/09/2026

every time I feel the need to make my art more palatable I channel my inner bjork

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this

special reward available for fanduel in discord, because what discord needed was ads for predatory online gambling, fuck discord and everyone that works in their company leadership

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm telling you guys, you gotta put killcodes in the games you make now and hold them hostage. Day 0 patch set to automatically apply and delete everything if you aren't there to manually pause it. Go full Pandora Tomorrow. Your bosses don't know anything about coding, they can't fix it!

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barleybap but she's dressed as a spooky skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Batman: TAS implies the existence of Batman: Any%.

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The Endless Narf of the Waves @narfnra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

chess but i gave black a predeployed infantry to counter first turn advantage as is the standard policy

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

DOOM '98 Imagined what if id Software released an additional entry in the Doom series in 1998, using a technological mix between id Tech 2 and GoldSrc engine. Going for the blend of fantastical and grounded, which would be in vein of Half-Life and System Shock 2.

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romulus - 🛸METROID RAVENOUS🍽️ @romulusofficial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

i didn't know they let you have LAN parties on the plane

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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This part is EXTREMELY clear to anyone using their search function. I can put in the literal word-for-word description of a thing I bought before and it won't bring it up in the first two pages of the search. Their search function has become completely useless to me.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the big AI danger is not companies suddenly inventing skynet - that's marketing rubbish, musk promising mars colonies by 2030 type stuff. the danger is companies claiming to have invented skynet and then putting what they actually have, a chatbot, in charge of stuff that's important

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 03/09/2026

hello I am modern aaa game designer. the shareholders told me to make the game longer. I do not wish to make the game longer. they told me to make the game longer or I lose job. I make the player collect 6 potatoes for 5% damage resistance. The shareholders are happy. I've been laid off.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 03/09/2026

the never-ending quest for literalism/simulationism is maybe the worst design tendency in the history of video games

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 01/09/2026

i particularly want video games made by people who are in the same job they were in last time they put out a video game

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"The touch screen on this juice dispenser can experience connection issues" is a pretty minor inconvenience all in all but it's an inconvenience that represents so much completely unnecessary engineering compared to just having buttons plugged into the machine

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❄︎ ☃︎ @moxiest.art · 15/08/2026

people get intimidated by the social belief of "supporting the arts" as like donating $5,000,000 for a new wing at a museum or hosting some gala it's not. 10% of our audience throwing us $1.00 a month would literally be *life-changing* money most artists are in the same boat.

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ivy sly @ivysly.com · 15/08/2026

felt like rngdle's ultralimited poetry composer was the only actually interesting part of the whole thing, so i spun it off into my own daily web "game". everyone gets the same 30-40 words each day to compose a prose poem with fridge magnet poetry tiles. fridgle.net #gamedev

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

tech ceos love to talk like it's impossible to know what the computer will do at any given time as if that's smart and powerful and amazing. the determinism was like, the best part of the computer though. removing the determinism is the opposite of smart. it's stupid

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.

Border collie, Clamp collie, Repeat collie, Mirror collie

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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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MaksonLima @maksonlima.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Juro que tem dias que eu acordo pensando nisso aqui:

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If AI disappeared tomorrow, the only change in my life would be that google search suddenly got better again.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

we need to teach console players that the thing they hate has a name and it's "DRM"

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Rikaku @beastmasterrika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.

An image showing the colorful transparent plastic of various pieces of technology of the 90's and early 2000s, that were easily the popular choice of the millennial age bracket. Some of the tech is an iMac, Nintendo 64, Sega DreMcast, a PlayStation 2, a Gameboy color and Advance, and CD player.

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 18/07/2026

Dear game visual designers: I would greatly appreciate it if I could see what was going on in your game at all times. The concepts are called "color" and "contrast." Thank you in advance.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Mom, Dad & their 19 babies drinking some water from a backyard pond. These are Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) in the Catalina Foothills of Arizona. Let's ask why they drink via the 'sip-and-tilt' method... (📷: Desert Critters of Arizona via YT)

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Steven Pumpkin Spice 🦇🎃 @silent0siris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Stoked to go see the Odyssey, can’t wait to hear Matt Damon’s rendition of “A Man of Constant Sorrow”

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"So, remember how instead of doing 'STAR WARS' as a movie once every few years they started doing TV shows of varying quality every few MONTHS and people kinda became indifferent to it like background noise? ...let's do that, but as a company that ISN'T a failure-proof global real-estate empire!"

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 11/07/2026

happy 25th birthday to one of the greatest rap videos of all time

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Roots Manuva - 'Witness (1 Hope)' Official Video

YouTube video by Big Dada

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

video game nostalgia is a constant battle between "you felt that way because you were twelve" and "the video game industry liked video games back then"

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

does Netflix think I am going to pirate content by taking one screenshot per millisecond and then sell tickets to the silent movie I've created using my digital flip book of four hundred thousand screenshots? I'm just trying to do memes and bits online with my pals. give back screenshotting.

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