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ADIOS. HARDSPACE. PARATOPIC. Narrative Designer. Creative Director. Game design consultant. http://patreon.com/docgames http://medium.com/@docseuss http://paypal.me/stompsite

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · Aug 30

If you like my essays on docseuss.medium.com and think my life should suck a little less, while paypal.me/stompsite or ko-fi.com/stompsite are the best ways to help, there's also my amazon wishlist

my birthday's coming up at the end of the month

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Read writing from Doc Burford on Medium. I do some freelance work, game design consulting, and I’ve worked on games Hardspace: Shipbreakers and created games like Adios and Paratopic.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7h

Whenever you hear a tech CEO spinning out *absolute fucking nonsense* using star trek language, some of what you're hearing is a screeching positive feedback loop between him and the crackpots he's spending all of his time listening to.

Some of whom he literally created.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7h

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Retired engineers, people who left careers that were science adjacent and suddenly have lots of free time, for generations these were the guys who end up having grand unified theories they gibber about.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jan 1

The physics crackpot video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=11lP...

physics crackpots: a 'theory'

YouTube video by Angela Collier

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 12m

I used to get so many emails. And letters. The letters crammed with absolutely frothing content, in tiny hand on multiple pages, both sides. And then added to in all four margins. And then added to on the envelope in a halo around the address. In green ink.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1m

I think a lot about how sexless and unromantic most games are, particularly in the AAA space. I think there's a ton of room to grow there

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 5h

Midtown Madness (1999)

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kelsey irene @holographic.pink · 4h

squall leonheart-lookin' ass disaster lesbian

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 14m

I'm sorry it's two weeks late. I'm barely getting by. The muscle spasms are bad and have fucked my sleep badly. I need to rest, I need to rest so fucking bad, but I can't. So I'm sorry it's taken so long but I'm gonna try to finish it today or tomorrow

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 19m

you'll never believe what I'm doing (writing an essay. for you)

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SUPER jules 'n ghosts @bonesnotncluded.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 27m

Nutrition is a force multiplier.

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 1h

do not forget to feed your troops

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 21m

still the best one

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 28m

Serious Sam 2 - 20th Anniversary Update www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUQr...

Update notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/204...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1h

people really think like this huh

Ed
@ed3d.net
Follow
accounts with tens of thousands of followers do not get to "vent" or make shit up to panic their followers. there is no "but" after this sentence.
I do not have tens of thousands of followers but explicitly refuse to sow panic; these people can do likewise
October 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 6h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 15h

I succeeded in making flash work, so have some... SOUP!!

#artpost #animation

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 16h

"they killed literal evil incarnate and one of his Dark Spores went into ken's brain stem and made him evil."

it's literally all because of The Single Greatest Digimon Ever

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 16h

did any of your neurons fire the way mine did when we saw this scene in adventure 02 about why ken became evil?

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 16h

I need him.

He is mine.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 6h

Unless it's Matty matheson, then it's probably true

a man wearing a purple beanie and a white shirt says i 'm a genius

Alt: a man wearing a purple beanie and a white shirt says i 'm a genius

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🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · 1d

its a twin peaks clerks or silent bob and jay mashup meme the top panel shows too kids trying to buy drugs and it reads "twin peaks fans" they ask "Yeah you guys holding?" below the boys respond as David Lynch and Mark Frost "Shit, everything but coke heroin and closure" memes

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 6h

The advantage of growing up near Yoder lol

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 6h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 6h

Just to be clear I have machinedramon already, just trying to change his personality

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 6h

Oh okay. I was on the grid but it was moving very slowly. How does training set a work

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 6h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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