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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 1d

The CRT7 Demo has also been patched to get rid of the Fun Time Unity Security Vulnerability™. Now the only computer wot should be doing weird things is the one in the game (and also maybe the super secret post-demo one too shhh don't tell anyone)

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CRT7 on Steam

Decypher strange computers, unravel modified tape players, and unlock impossible doors. Point and click your way around a mysterious basement in this challenging escape room game! Can you uncover what...

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 1d

In totally unrelated news, this week I've started updating most of my games to patch out the Fun Time Unity Security Vulnerability™.

Upfall is patched, free, and only 7 reviews away from the coveted 'Very Position' boundary, if you'd like to help out ❤️🖤🤍

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Upfall on Steam

Upfall is a game about bouncing, dodging, and near death experiences. Burst bubbles to progress upwards, but be careful to dodge the hazards in the depths. How far will your upfall be? A free game for...

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 5h

Yikes, this is such a childish, edgelord, terminally online response from them. At best it makes me roll my eyes at them, at worst it makes me think they have zero chance of getting a game out the door if this is how they respond to even mild criticism.

Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 1d

The CRT7 Demo has also been patched to get rid of the Fun Time Unity Security Vulnerability™. Now the only computer wot should be doing weird things is the one in the game (and also maybe the super secret post-demo one too shhh don't tell anyone)

👉 store.steampowered.com/app/2096780/...

CRT7 on Steam

Decypher strange computers, unravel modified tape players, and unlock impossible doors. Point and click your way around a mysterious basement in this challenging escape room game! Can you uncover what...

store.steampowered.com

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 1d

In totally unrelated news, this week I've started updating most of my games to patch out the Fun Time Unity Security Vulnerability™.

Upfall is patched, free, and only 7 reviews away from the coveted 'Very Position' boundary, if you'd like to help out ❤️🖤🤍

👉 store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...

Upfall on Steam

Upfall is a game about bouncing, dodging, and near death experiences. Burst bubbles to progress upwards, but be careful to dodge the hazards in the depths. How far will your upfall be? A free game for...

store.steampowered.com

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 1d

How can anybody look at any large tech company right now and think "cool I trust them not to massively fuck this big thing and/or their users right up"

The tech industry is a total fuck up. It's your crap brother who isn't welcome at Christmas. It's the drunk on the train you move carriage to avoid

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 1d

Oh HEY! It's that thing that literally everyone with any knowledge of tech said for flipping years that would happen with the Online Safety Act because it was exceptionally fucking obviously going to happen...

Only, you know, even faster that usual wheeeeeee

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The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 2d

That sounds like an exceptionally and importantly petty thing to do, so I'm definitely in 😜

(That graph really pisses me off - absolutely ignoring playtesters etc)

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 6d

Solidarity to all the other devs who are looking at their emails and just sighing this weekend ✊

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 6d

It just made me sigh as now I have to patch a bunch of things 😢

Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 6d

Lol, well this has dated fantastically with the news that now EVERY GAME MADE IN UNITY FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS needs to be patched.

Truly Unity are nailing it 👌

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 7d

Man, The CW's budget really increased since I last watched anything from them 😜

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 7d

Rosemary roast potatoes was one of the toppings on the best pizza I ever had, so dang now I need to try this too 😮

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RayJ ☕️🍰☸️📿@ BLFC @theroguez.bsky.social · 8d

tofu dog

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 8d

I was trying to introduce students to Unity this week and it's so awful to demo. Every year it's getting noticeably shitter and more hostile. From Unity Hub trying to trick your project in the cloud for ad reasons, to opening in admin and then screaming at you, to template projects shipping broken.

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Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 9d

My indie puzzle game is going for 40% off in the Steam sale!

Sidequest Ninja | Buy Hexahedra on Steam! @sidequestninja.com · 9d

Hexahedra is in the Steam Autumn Sale!

If you're an efficiency nerd, you can now get a game all about efficiency at an efficient 40% off!

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Save 40% on Hexahedra on Steam

Hexahedra is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Design and optimize factories to build cubes, used galaxy-wide as crates, musical instruments, even chic coffins. Rewind and replay the action to hu...

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-clasticartistic- @clasticartistic.bsky.social · 13d

Scottish Wildcat Vector Study
#art #vectors #illustration #graphics #fediart #cat

A vector illustration of a Scottish Wildcat. -clasticartistic-

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 13d

And yes, one of them is fucking gross because wheeeee the UK.

Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 13d

Just a quick check in with Labour at their Party Conference...

Oh the five biggest petitions ever are all from since they took power

The Digital ID one is already the second biggest and hasn't slowed down. Four of them are from the last few months. Two are calling for an election

Going well then?

A screenshot of the UK petition website etc shows a search box and then an ordered list of petitions by number of signatures:

7,455 petitions

Call a General Election
3,084,718 signatures, now closed

Do not introduce Digital ID cards
2,025,010 signatures

Call an immediate general election
955,500 signatures

Repeal the Online Safety Act
543,016 signatures

Introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants
471,248 signatures

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Wrenfall @wrenfall.bsky.social · 26d

We just released the demo for our debut indie game PUZZLE PARASITE, a sci-fi puzzle adventure where you explore an alien world with physics-driven puzzles… and a cricket bat.

Can be played solo or in co-op.

Head over to to steam and play the demo:
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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 15d

It truly is a galaxy brain level chess move!

Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 15d

Cool so they don't know:
- What is going to be used for
- When is going to be implemented
- What it will contain
- How to avoid disadvantaging at risk groups

They've also (of course) fluffed the messaging today so apparently it'll be not be mandatory for all UK citizens but also it will be 🤦

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 15d

Imagine if some people already don't perform right to work checks and they'll just not do this check either? So many groups have already pointed out his laughable it is.

At least they've thought it through and it's not a kneejerk attempt to look less shit at their party conference

Fucking. Lol.

A screenshit from BBC news which reads (the last paragraph is highlighted in yellow):

We don't know:

The specifics of which services you'll be able to access via digital ID

When exactly the scheme will be introduced - the government says it will be mandatory "by the end of the Parliament"

Whether the card will include people's address - this will be considered in the government's consultation

What those without smartphones will use - the government says it's working on this element

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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈 @amicableanimal.bsky.social · 15d

It truly is incredible watching Labour flail around without any direction, leadership, or ideals. It's so nakedly pathetic and desperate.

Of fucking course digital IDs won't "fix immigration". It can, however, easily worsen the digital divide, put everyone's data at risk, and alienate more voters 🤦

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