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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 1h

Less than two months!!

Vlambeer @vlambeer.com · Sep 1

Nuclear Throne update 100 is launching for free on Steam on December 5th, bringing you:
- C-skins for all 13 characters.
- Custom difficulty mode.
- Localization, 60+ fps support & many more quality of life features.

Nuclear Throne Update 100 is launching on December 5th 2025!

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 6h

Big update coming December 5th with new skins for the characters, a custom difficulty mode, 120fps support and a whole bunch of other stuff!

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 2d

Yessss! 🦷🦷🦷🦷

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 2d

Vignettes of Horror

21 visions of creepy worlds

out now on all platforms

🦇🎶

jukiokallio.bandcamp.com/album/vignet...

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✧𓂃𓈒*｡ﾟ Ne ｡ﾟ*𓂃𓈒 ✧ @artofne.bsky.social · 3d

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sink @sinksadventure.bsky.social · Sep 10

My next game is a Tetris style word game called Writer's Block
Spell words one block at a time and set up combos by sandwiching words between each other
Aiming to release early 2026!

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Tom van den Boogaart @tom.sokpop.co · 6d

Exactly 1 year ago I released my normal gardening game ‘Grunn’

A big thanks to all of you who played it and supported me! I have received so many nice reactions since release.. it has far exceeded my expectations 🙏

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 3d

ToMoRrOw ⚰️

jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 9d

A creepy ambient album, 'Vignettes of Horror', coming out 9th October 🦇

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pre-order on bandcamp: jukiokallio.bandcamp.com/album/vignet...
pre-save on spotify: open.spotify.com/prerelease/4...

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sink @sinksadventure.bsky.social · 3d

My new open world precision "batformer" Vampire's Best Friend is out now on Steam and itch with a 10% launch discount!

Vampire hunters are after a mischievous vampire girl, and it's up to her pet bat to save the day!

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brice puls! @bricepuls.com · 3d

Now for the bittersweet part of any launch day as a freelance worker, with the game out, I'm out looking for work again. So, need a UI/gameplay programmer, a top-notch senior/lead QA Analyst, a technical or educational game designer?

I'm open to freelance and full-time positions, hit me up! Please!

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 4d

Jeff Bezos

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 4d

(running out of money after users generate 1000000000 videos of goofy selling crypto) maybe we can get disney on board

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Ted Martens @tedmartens.bsky.social · 5d

Flail Slime
#pixelart #ドット絵

Four different pixel art sprites of a slime monster with a spike ball inside of it, one has the spike completely inside, one has it floating on top like a wave, one is reaching, and the last one is about to swing the spike ball like a flail.

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red 🍂 @prettypinkpansy.bsky.social · 6d

if anyone has any concerns about the gore in disc room I want you to know it has one of the funniest and best accessibility features: a toggle where, instead of shattering into bloody giblets if you die, you just collapse with a gentle explosion of confetti. I wish every violent game had this

Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 6d

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Disc Room $2,50
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

store.steampowered.com/app/1229580/...

Save 85% on Disc Room on Steam

Are you ready to get sliced in half? The year is 2089 and a giant disc has appeared in orbit of Jupiter. Step into the oversized space suit of a brave scientist and explore this sprawling intergalacti...

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Kara Ling @metacrab.org · 6d

The game in which the premise is "the odds are real but gamers struggle to conceptualize or even believe them" has negative reviews from gamers who don't believe the odds are real (game: Unfair Flips)

A 'Not Recommended' Steam review with 4 hours played

Review text reads: It's a decent idea for a game where you flip a coin and depending on your percentage chances you get heads or tails. However the odds are a lie. You will flip tails 100 percent more than you will heads no matter what your percentage is. Even when you get it up to 60% you will still flip tails way more often then you will heads.

The Dev can try to defend it, but when I flip the coin 2500 times and only hit heads a third of the time even when at 60% then the odds are broken or a lie. I've also watched gameplay and seen fellow players have the same flips so I know it isn't just me having bad luck.

Still not bad for $2, but I'm saying no because the game is coded against you instead of it being fully on chance and luck.

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 6d

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Disc Room $2,50
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

store.steampowered.com/app/1229580/...

Save 85% on Disc Room on Steam

Are you ready to get sliced in half? The year is 2089 and a giant disc has appeared in orbit of Jupiter. Step into the oversized space suit of a brave scientist and explore this sprawling intergalacti...

store.steampowered.com