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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 5h

Everybody Dance Now! *fires gun into the air*

lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · Oct 29

cnc music factory

gonna make you sweat whether you like it or not

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 7h

incredibly bloated software from the minds that brought us stack overflow

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 8h

even the shit has been enshitified

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h

Remember that viral tweet that was like "I feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content?" Now the content isn't even good. It stinks!

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 8h

cool idea but also extremely expensive to go to it's like $400 a person

an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 8h

no one is reading the article because it's paywalled, but the concept is that the owner of the restaurant is stepping down and deciding who takes it over, and you're there as a Top Chef kind of thing

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 9h

people are making fun of this but a theater show where your food is a part of the story sounds more fun than actually watching The Bear

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 9h

This 'The Bear'-esque dining experience puts you in the center of the kitchen chaos

At Speakeasy Society's 'Family Meal,' curse words are thrown, recipes are slandered and it all makes for fun, irresistible drama.

www.latimes.com

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 9h

maybe read the whole, largely positive review

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 10h

meta-progression isn't inherent to roguelikes, and the great ones that do let you get more powerful between runs also make sure to not let you get too powerful too fast. I haven't played this one but I think this is a reasonable thing to bring up in a review

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 10h

the argument is "this game's meta-progression makes the game too easy too quickly, and instead the game throws in tricks like this instead of providing a more interesting challenge" which is fine and not bad faith

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 11h

Not sure what you're going on about, the review isn't making the argument you're accusing it of making

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 12h

is it weird that I find this extremely charming

TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 14h

Spoilers for Absolum, but you actually might want to spoil yourself on this, because this is some of the worst meta-progression bait I've ever heard of

(Also a great review overall, one that's for once made from the perspective who gave beat 'em ups a deeper shot)

If you don’t believe that Absolum prioritizes the grind above all else, then I’ll have to pull out my trump card and talk about the last boss of the game. Don’t read the next paragraph if you don’t want that spoiled. Or do, honestly, because I recommend knowing this ahead of time so you don’t make the same mistake I did.

Once you complete the game once, you find out that actually you need to beat the game again to fight the real final boss. Kind of obnoxious already, but sure. I immediately started another run, but died early due to the game introducing a new extra-hard challenge that I wanted to try out. No problem, I had unlocked one extra from the progression system. I decided to carry on and actually ended up all the way at the end to fight the final boss.

Just before the fight, a merchant warned me that the boss had a fatal scream and recommended that I purchase an absurdly expensive extra life. I kind of figured that merchant was referring to some difficult to dodge attack and braced myself for it. No such luck - the final boss seemingly just instantly and unavoidably kills you at the start of the fight, so my run where I was otherwise super powerful and at full health ended right there. This more or less killed my interest in playing further.

The goal of this decision seems clear enough: the developers didn’t want you beating Absolum too fast and this insta-kill gimmick was a good way to keep you in the hamster wheel. Wouldn’t you know it, my very next permanent upgrade gave me another extra life on top of the two I had, so my next run would have definitely been the run! If I were the kind of person who got addicted to the progression system, I could easily see myself getting sucked by this bait, hook line and sinker. Sadly for Absolum, I am not that kind of person. I don’t have an addictive personality. Most of the psychological tricks that modern video games employ don’t work on me – I don’t need things to be addicted to, I want things that enrich my life or give me some personal satisfaction.

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 1d

YOU HAVE UNO but it's for every game

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 1d

turning "it's on game pass" to "which game pass is it on" is quite a choice

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

Coming to Xbox Game Pass news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/1...

Ultimate:
-Ball x Pit (10/15)
-Keeper (10/17)
-Ninja Gaiden 4 (10/21)

Premium:
-Supermarket Simulator (today)
-The Casting of Frank Stone (10/14)
-The Grinch: Christmas Adventures (10/15)
-Eternal Strands (10/15)
-He Is Coming (10/15 - PC)

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 2d

purchasing Jerry cause I want to see Fire Walk With Me and I might as well watch it with Jerry

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 2d

my preferred solution would be a romance with some sports in the background, but the creative staff clearly doesn't have my vision AND THATS FINE

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 2d

I can't imagine being true to the mix of sports and romance that the series was going for in the space of a movie. it was going to be insanely rushed, and I can't imagine that working for Sayo Yamamoto

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think this is even about homophobia, and more that the show has never known how to make sports romance work at the scale it's at. for comparison, Chihyafuru has a similar mix of romance and sports and takes 4x as long to get anything done

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 2d

Yuri on Ice clearly had creative conflicts going on during the series itself, as it goes from feeling like a full fledged romance to becoming a more standard sports anime with maybe 5 minutes of gay. not shocking the people involved just fucked off afterwards

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 2d

While it remains a mystery why the pro-LGBT skating anime Yuri on Ice was cancelled, a producer recently gave a hint as to what happened.
www.endlessmode.com/anime/yuri-o...

Yuri On Ice Sequel Cancelled Due To “Creative Reasons” Instead of Business Ones, According To Producer

While it remains a mystery why the pro-LGBT skating anime Yuri on Ice was cancelled, a producer recently gave a hint as to what happened.

www.endlessmode.com

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 2d

the airsoft gun that's never commented on is too powerful for bsky

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 2d

be fast Mina..........

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 3d

Mina the Hollower has been delayed from its Oct 31st release. "This isn’t a major delay, it’s just a stretch of time to apply some final polish and balancing to make the game truly shine."

www.yachtclubgames.com/blog/delay-e...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

elder millennial news director ending his big speech with "now lets go do the heckin newserino"

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 4d

This website is either over or just beginning

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 4d

there's a bunch of child actors that people just expect me to know that I don't cause I just stuck to cartoons

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an actual dog @devtesla.bsky.social · 4d

there really isn't that much difference between roko's basilisk and slenderman, they're both catchy horror ideas from forum culture. the difference is that billions of silicon valley money is being spent over roko's basilisk

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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 4d

this is literally roko's basilisk. she believes the machine is inevitable, and that it will punish those who don't work to summon it, hence the hypothetical future machine must be appeased now. that's literally it, she 100% read roko's basilisk and decided "makes total sense, I'll live like that."

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s fucking go we better respect the robots before “they use us“

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