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Martin Caine @martincaine.com · 23h

Red and Black looking good. Please share!

Play my game @positrongame.com on Steam now: steam.positrongame.com/red

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 4d

Help Doctor Who friends!

I am in need of a 9th doctor Tardis, the one for the figures? I have an almost complete collection, but cannot find one last 9th Doctor Tardis for love nor money (just got the last one I could find on Ebay!)
Anyone got one they don't need?

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 5d

I'd rather have them both complete. Particularly that in the Tenth Planet leading up to the Regeneration.

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 5d

The Tenth Planet and Web of Fear for me.

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 5d

This, above all, is just The Stupidest scene in the entire movie.

Yes, lets have a PRIVATE starship lift off, right next to one of the most populated cities in the world. Nothing could ever go wrong, could it?

Quite apart from the sonic boom shattering every window in Manhattan.

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 5d

I just don’t get the problem? Clearly there is a very large 7 on that shirt?
And kudos to you for raising your child The Right Way.
We can’t get t-shirts like that out here, or I’d have done the same thing.

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Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

gofund.me

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 7d

Needs more potions.

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Martin Caine @martincaine.com · 8d

Get 33% off my game Positron right now in the Steam Autumn Sale. Check out SNAKE mode, for a modern take on the classic! #GameDev #IndieDev #Snake #Nokia3310 #Arcade #IndieGame #SteamAutumnSale #Steam #EarlyAccess @positrongame.com

steam.positrongame.com/autumnsale

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 9d

And it's c) that is concerning, because that's normally where the overflow of people from the original team who aren't needed for maintenance should be going. And they aren't.
Which means Funcom they didn't make *enough* from Dune to pay back original dev costs AND pay for a new product.

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 9d

The profit already made went back to pay for initial development, so what comes in going forward has to support the team to maintain the product.
The issue is that there isn't enough $ made to a) pay for original development, b)create new content for Dune AND c) pay for development of a new product.

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 9d

I think it's all a lot more complicated than that.
The team to initially *build* a project is generally a lot larger than a team needed to *maintain* a project. While Funcom *is* supporting Dune with DLC, IAP etc, the number of people needed to do that is about 30% what a full team is.

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 9d

Reposted, and also backed. I bought your huge compendium too, but as a completionist, I want this too. Plus, it's just good - and appropriate - stuff.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 9d

friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow

Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

www.kickstarter.com

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 9d

Wooooo! We hit 30,000 wishlists for Forbidden Solitaire.

This is like nothing that's ever happened to us in 20 years of making indie games. Huge thanks everyone!

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 9d

One of the best of us. What a loss.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 9d

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

More on her life and legacy here: bit.ly/46SkOkF

Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 12d

I’m so jealous of people who are wildly into their sports teams. They dress up in sports cosplay and order food and watch the games on TV and yell and banter with friends.
I just don’t seem to care at all. So not for me, and I’ve no clue why.
I feel very left out, but by choice. It’s confusing.

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 12d

This is an incredible image and more than a little bit terrifying, where you totally get what cybermen really are. They are you and I, just with all the goodness taken out. Like the borg, but with no way back.

Cyber-Leader @cyber-leader.bsky.social · 12d

"My long awaited face reveal!" #Doctorwho #Cybermen

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 12d

A very correct and smart response, frankly.

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 13d

Also, by the way @godotengine.org - the forcing of a default theme at the project settings level? Broken. I can assign a default theme as much as I like, it never gets applied to either existing controls, nor new controls.
Kinda missing the point entirely, I would say.

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 13d

Can you show me on the dolly where The End of Time touched you?

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 14d

Project Hail Mary.

That's going to be the one with the weirdest stuff, and what I'm most looking forward to.

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 14d

The pinball game we couldn't port was the Duke IP game. Don't have the rights to that, from what I understand.

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Jake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 14d

We did the ports of the pinball games from the very old Atari Balls Of Steel pinball games and also rebuilt all the recharged games, since the original
Unity based games won’t build for this platform.

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