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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 19m

GRANDIA HD Collection is $19.99 on US PSN buff.ly/zvhiOCe

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jr 🌱 @zantetsukenn.bsky.social · 42m

will you bet your life?

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⭐️CrystalSugarStars @crystalsugarstars.bsky.social · 33m

Buntober Day 12 • Ramona Flowers

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Jean-Karlo @ventcard.bsky.social · 2h

Some serious Cruelty Squad "YOU ARE A FLESH AUTOMATON ANIMATED BY NEUROTRANSMITERS" vibes

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 2h

This quote has been living, untarnished, in my brain for thirty years now.

I am convinced it is one of the most perfect things written in any video game.

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Apr 5

total carnage, screenshot, snes (1993) www.mobygames.com/game/15506/t...

almost top down view of a bare chested buff soldier, wearing a green head band, carrying a large blue weapon with an orange tip. red barrels are scattered about and there is a grey concrete structure not far away.
overlaid white caps text on screen:
you are the weasel man! you shall absorb total pain!

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Keith "Mr. Frame Rates Matter" Mitchell 🔜CES 2026 @shadowhaxor.bsky.social · 2h

I went back to one of the Targets today, as I had to get something from the local Lowes and noticed that there were a bunch of digital game cards, some controllers, along with the game pass and gift cards. I asked if there would be any physical games to be put out and was told, not likely.

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 3h

Some adults get insulted when things are presented simply with colorful, easy to understand and remember graphics.

Something to keep in mind, however, is that even if you're forty, you're not necessarily forty in terms of your knowledge of a subject. You might really benefit from the simplification

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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.bsky.social · 4h

awesome AWESOME thread

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

Autobiography of an Androgyne by Jennie June

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S ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏 @sarenstone.com · 3h

What happens if a machine made to be terrifying, rack up a body count, and fuck, exclusively, is given just a scrap of kindness and treated like a person?

Just thinkin' bout them a lot today

S ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏 @sarenstone.com · 6d

Felt like drawing a soft little kiss...

An illustration of Adra (they/them) giving Criticality (he/him) a little kiss on his jaw.

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 3h

Went to a Target. Lots of PS5 hardware, zero Series X hardware in stock. A billion different colored controllers for both, though. Also I didn't realize Sony was getting behind Astro Bot with toys and stuff. They had like four different Astro Bot figures and a big $50 plush Astro Bot. Kinda neat!

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Jett Barker @jettbarker.bsky.social · 3h

My very treasured pal, fellow Friend of the Game Jam Waiver, and creator of my favorite vampiric Danish ex-husband is on the front frickin' page of Polygon.

I'm so bloody proud of you, @princerosalium.bsky.social 🥳

Polygon @polygon.com · 9h

Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution

As Steam cracks down on adult games, one dev urges taking back control

Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution

www.polygon.com

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spooky birthday madds ⚰️🎃🖤 @hyakushiki0087.bsky.social · 5h

Why does anyone take Peter Thiel seriously. I have always seen him as a pretty delusional person like so many tech workers, but holy shit he's more of a moron than I thought because he can't read.

Also this is the most heretical shit I've ever read good fucking lord.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 6h

Live now!

Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 5d

This week I’m going to raise money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social to help Palestinians in need.

On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh.

Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!

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hirachill @hirachil.bsky.social · 10h

霊夢さん
#東方Project

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 8h

This has been *confirmed*: so not only did this make it through dozens of levels of decisions where no one spoke up to say "this is unethical and looks like shit", it's also so bad it was instantly spotted by thousands of people like me who in a split second said "hey that looks like shit".

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 19h

Someone tell me Disney didn't just use a bunch of fucking AI slop for the new Wonder Man show

Wonder Man screenshot featuring merchandise which appears to be decorated with AI slop.

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 3h

Once I submit my thesis, I’ll come back to four articles 🍯 that are waiting to be finalized:

2 on AI and porn from my fellowships

1 on French "anime avatars" (pp manga)

1 on the NoFap movement in relationship to hentai and how I tie this to the hatred for the netorare (cheating) genre

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 10d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 23h

socialist sopranos memes
@gabagoolmarx
It's called emotional labor, T. It used to mean you had
to smile at work or something but now a bunch a online
weirdos say it means you don't gotta be a good friend
to someone no more

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 3h

If you weren't there, you will never understand 2010s discourse that treated one of the biggest and wealthiest corporations on earth as a smol bean and individual artists like Scorsese as the mean Scrooges who were trying to take everybody toys away.

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 3h

Oh come on, it's not like Disney would have anyone on hand who could paint and design old school lunch box logos, they're just a mom n' pop outfit operating out of a storefront on a dream and a lot of gumption. Do better.

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Nanda - Commissions Open @saotomenanda.bsky.social · 4h

[PATREON SEPTEMBER]
❤️Mylene - Macross 7 [1994]
🍀Commissions Open! - [email protected]

#Macross7
#AnimeGirl
#RetroAnime
#Fanart
#Anime

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𓆩MissDandy𓆪 👽 @missandydandy.bsky.social · 1d

𝕌𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝔾𝕠𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℂ𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕
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🟥⬛️🟨

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Nyx The Bat @nyxthebat.vtubers.social · 1d

"kill them with kindness" wrong. bat attack
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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 14h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 1d

YOU HEARD THEM

Meme image of Shinji from Evangelion leaning forward in a folding chair with his heads in his hands. Text around him reads "GET IN THE FUCKING FROG" and there are two depictions of someone in inflatable frog suits

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 20h

He's is the living embodiment of that creepy, gross ass dude from Dazed and Confused who says "I keep getting older and they keep gettin' younger"

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