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I forget where I read it, but someone once said “what is cringe but untamed, undeterred earnestness,” and I swear to god, that has been something that’s been on my mind multiple times a day, every day, ever since

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It’s really annoying to not be able to quote post things, so I’m left with doing this, because @azurelore.bsky.social brings up a stellar point Red Earth was the most interesting fighting game concept Capcom ever had, and they have never again allowed such levels of imagination to spring forth

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The ol’ “shitty thing I grew up with is somehow less shitty than we remember it because I grew up with it and therefore it has enough charm to shed the shitty label” cycle is in full swing once again, without fail

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until next year, when government mandate will force agencies to call it “super-dee-dooper intelligence”

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I got $27.50 on “new SA charges boutta hit the news”

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Thomas Davis @cooltom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have made the decision to begin preparing to move, I’m leaving Vermont. Good friends and nice folks can’t counterbalance the distinct lack of opportunities this state fosters. If you’re not from here, and you didn’t grow up with an entire generation of people you know, you may as well not exist.

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“drop 6 characters in a season” “get an Obari trailer for each character” “release a demo” “drop the price to £20” buddy as long as Ronaldo’s still in the game nobody’s gonna bite

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that will 100% happen, because the street fighter movie is a cynical exercise in pressing the nostalgia button like a child trying to cross the street sooner

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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yep. You’re looking at someone who refused to buy either because a rapist was on the roster or a sex pest was a core part of the design team. I come across people who don’t know either fact quite often; I come across people who knew and didn’t care far more often. And that’s not a good sign.

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i think it's maybe not great that the role of mike z on the avatar fighting game team appears to have been completely skipped over by most people as just not mattering at all. idk man if you can not buy cotw then you can not buy avatar? maybe?

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remain pretty bummed out by the state of decompilations, ports, FPGA cores etc these days. The rise of GenAI has really flooded the whole scene with garbage and kinda poisoned the whole concept. Good piece from @pandamonium.bsky.social on it www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/24/c...

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Column: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos

The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of all SHIRO! Media Group contributors. The cost of modern day video game consoles and personal computers have skyrocketed…

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ace Combat 8 is so visually demanding because it forces raytracing to be on. There is no way to turn it off because the game’s entire lighting engine relies upon it. It also forces AI upscaling on PC by default. You get stutter & chop playing at 1080p+60Hz when AC7 didn’t running at 4K+144Hz.

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No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

y’all ace combat 8 might be a technically demanding shrew, but man, the gameplay absolutely fucking cooks

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yeah I think I’m done with modern vintage gamer now that this is what this dude is hawking, we can’t get a break from slop glazing

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Tech Honors @techhonors.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just manually added up how much Street Fighter 6 would cost if you purchased everything the game had to offer (mostly cosmetics), and it's between $2400-2500 lol

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Threads check

An AI picture of a woman in pajamas. Her ass is… not in the right place.
Caption: I'm not perfect, but at least I'm real!

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Tarkus Lee @tarkuslee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why the fuck is YouTube recommending me AI generated response comments to comments? Do they really think I would want a fuckin' robot to talk to people for me??? Nobody asked for this feature.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dear Janice Turner: I have been diagnosed ADHD since the age of six. I will celebrate my 44th birthday in less than two weeks. Both of my children exhibit the same neurological condition. We are all medicated. Both of my parents had symptoms and went untreated. Medication would have helped them.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.

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Thomas @thomas15.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes people want to become heroes so bad they’ll make anyone a villain.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m not sure whether I’m looking at Dr. Mario, Puyo Puyo, or Puzzle Fighter.

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𐇔 BeeVine𐇱𐇳 @succulentubus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In front of you are three HR people. One only hires people who bring coffee to an interview and always tells the truth. One only hires people who do not bring coffee to an interview and always tells lies. One doesn't notice whether or not you have coffee and has no idea what they're saying.

Two women and a man sitting across a table, looking at a man sitting across them in the foreground.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

overblown sense of importance and power food court mall cops 🤝 HR recruitment staff

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

people that make the claim that Nintendo is better than Sony or Microsoft because they don’t fire employees or shutter studios when a game doesn’t perform to expectations have obviously never heard of an oidashibeya before

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Fighting Game Anniversaries @fganniversaries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

23 years ago today, Soulcalibur II was released on the Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and PlayStation 2 in PAL. It was developed by Project Soul and published by Namco.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

that’ll tell you a lot about the budget

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This is not just relegated to programmers, despite this being absolutely true. Capitalism, by definition, seeks the greatest amount of profit, which is often generated by keeping prices the same while cutting manufacturing costs. The largest source of manufacturing costs? Skilled labor. Every time.

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the worst aspect of the internet is that it’s a place where the kind of people that need to feel “right” more than they want to *be* correct have a place to force others to play ultimately masturbatory semantics games in which they get their nut without caring about the other participant at all

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You quote my post on some bUtAkShUaLLy shit like this, and I’ll clown on you on principle. “Pay attention to politics” as of age verification, online surveillance, & the collapse of the socioeconomic structure of the U.S. isn’t all inherently tied to corrupt politicians and billionaire profiteering.

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I’m posting this before I block this person, because Jesus Christ Superstar, you can’t show up in the thread deepthroating a company’s decisions while intentionally misreading AND misrepresenting the not-very-fine print attached, then act shocked when people criticize you for sucking dick in public

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seems pretty goddamn pertinent, but what do I know

“Manage sponsored content” options in Discord. Sure, you can opt out of ads for “real money gaming,” also known as real money gambling, but there’s this little caveat at the end that says “Discord’s Ad Policy will control certain content you see regardless of these selections.”

Basically, pick whatever you want, but if they want you to see it, also known as “if an advertiser pays us enough to force you to see it,” then you’re gonna see it regardless of what you told them you don’t want to see.

So there’s no fucking point in even telling them what it is you don’t want to see, is there?

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Aaron Koss - "TOWST: The One Who Sees Things" @theonewhoponder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

James Hong is an absolute legend.

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"Fan duel? Is that a weird porn thing where only fans fans fight or something?" "Oh it is a betting site. That's worse."

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This is equally visible on PC. Your platform has little, if nothing to do with what advertisements they serve you, except when it’s platform specific. And online gambling is most certainly unconcerned with what device you’re on.

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did the 9 anime thing, too. same thing. this only scratches the surface. that said, I don’t watch a lot of anime anymore. hardly any at all, to be honest. I think it lost a lot of its charm for me. oh, and only watch the first season of Psycho-Pass. everything after season one is moron baby show.

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Pants Pants Revolution @pantsrevolution.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

did the 9 games thing. as if I could actually distill it down that far. my actual “what made me” list is likely ten times this size, at minimum.

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How SNK built Samurai Shodown out of rogue code and last-minute panic A newly translated retrospective interview with Yasushi Adachi and Tomoaki Fukui reveals the chaotic development behind SNK's iconic weapon fighter. #Retro #snk #neogeo #fightinggames #gamepreservation

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How SNK built Samurai Shodown out of rogue code and last-minute panic

A newly translated retrospective interview with Yasushi Adachi and Tomoaki Fukui reveals the chaotic development behind SNK's iconic weapon fighter.

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