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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 3h

every line of this story keeps getting better

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 6h

once you despise them and those who run them, you will be truly naturalized. give it time

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 1d

In the market for a new bowling ball and the AI buzz has even made it to that market where one of the candidates I'm looking at boasts an "AI core", whatever the hell that is meant to mean lmao

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 1d

this has absolutely sent me to the moon. I really do hope someone made this earnestly and wasn't just trolling

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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RPG Site @rpgsite.net · 1d

While Square Enix is supporting the Switch & Switch 2 with many games, the inconsistency with which games offer upgrades & save transfer is disappointing. We take a look at the publisher's current & upcoming cross generation releases & what features are supported: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1865...

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 1d

waiting for evo riyadh myself

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 1d

jokes aside probably my favourite thing across those two games is how if you fuck up an encounter at the start of 7 Ethan can /re-attach/ his severed hand and this is the only clue that he is infected himself until way way later in the story lol

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 1d

are we out of the summer of gemini yet or is that forever

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 2d

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 2d

First Young Tory: “You should be allowed to have sex with your sister”

Second Young Tory: “Babies are grown in looms”

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 2d

seen a lot of these lads at preview events tbf

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 2d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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RPG Site @rpgsite.net · 2d

We've put together a new feature comparing Final Fantasy Tactics, The War of the Lions, and The Ivalice Chronicles covering the incredible RPG across platforms going over differences, visuals, load times, and more to help find the best version for you: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1859...

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 2d

very funny that this series went from battering the pope inside the vatican to whatever this reaction is lol

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 4d

well well well if it isn't the blowjob brothers

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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foxgirls - It's evil MILF Monday @foxgirlyuri.yuri.agency · 4d

notice how the mother leaves, but then returns. is this hinting at the return of the "Mother" series? nintendo you sly dogs

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 4d

Close to You – Nintendo www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuf...

Nintendo drops animated video

explains nothing

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 4d

I'm astonished by how well they sold this in Remake just from the perspective of before they released it I thought it'd be impossible to sell Midgar due to the scale issue, but somehow they do it

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 4d

lmao. It's fine, like. I got an email and I said "sure, I'd love to!" And unpaid. I think it's quite a lovely little thing I put up, too. I am distant enough from it all that I'm just sort of watching, bemused. I feel for Bitmap but does seem like a no-comms-knowledge panic

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 4d

woof.

(I wrote the foreword for the book in question and have been watching the burning wreck an all-time grimace)

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 5d

More elderly musings from me about the greatest demo of all time (which isn't really a demo, yes, but shush) www.eurogamer.net/a-love-lette...

A love letter to Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, one of the best demos of all time (even if it isn't really a demo)

15 years on, this is the other half of the Dead Rising narrative still worth exploring.

www.eurogamer.net

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 5d

Although how he would've held up in a film without the utterly ridiculously good Diana Rigg to work off is another question I suppose

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 5d

Lazenby is great tbf and the way the filmmakers revised history to act like they binned him when in fact they offered him another film but he turned it down cos he wanted to be a hippy doing loads of stuff the 'manly' Bond contract wouldn't allow is bs

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