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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 18h

In the year Earth Century 225, in the middle of this conflict, are two women: Eris, an airheaded true believer in love and harmony, and Comet Halley, a jaded ex-revolutionary now forced to work for her enemies. Will idealism prevail, or will humanity's future in space be decided by betrayal?

Star Sword Nemesis by Love Conquers All Games

mecha betrayal girls love in distant space

loveconquersallgames.itch.io

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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 2h

considering the tier of GPU they put in these arm devices yeah this is genuinely impressive

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 10h

IMO this has always been a choice gamedevs have had to make - fidelity vs scale. it's just that the common wisdom tilts heavily towards fidelity these days.

chrono cross on ps1 made a choice when it decided to have 50+ playable party members and what it sacrificed was unique per-char dialogue

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 11h

I think choice is becoming a victim of technological advances and player expectations. If you choose whether Bob or Jim live in a SNES RPG, you’ve got a different set of pixels and text boxes. Now you‘ve got a new set of voice lines, Hollywood tier animations, etc.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

Thinking about it, the original Deus Ex may be the king of choice in a game with a story, because your choices are significant, linked to gameplay and unforced. From the very start, for instance, whether you use or avoid lethal force against the “terrorists” determines something about you.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 16h

not only are they definitely not clicking on a story or review for your indie game but after they play the one that blows up from northenlion's stream they will post "every indie game is just balatro but x slop now" at anything vaguely similar. and thats if you're lucky enough not to get harassed

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 16h

it is not polite to say so but no discussion of the state of the games industry/press can really avoid the reality that the audience is just. really really bad.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 5h

There is going to be a multiple choice question on a history class quiz someday, and the right answer will be Frog

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 2h

i've only seen complaints about the ending, so the negativity all started when 1.0 came out

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3h

This shit feels very astroturfed because if you sort the top posts of all time in the subreddit they're either from the last month or 6 years ago and almost nothing in between.

a bunch of screenshots of the top submissions from r/lifestreamfails sorted by top views of all time, with them either showing they're from at most 1 month ago or 6 years ago. subsequent screenshots show similar things.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 12h

One cool feature of Steam is they provide a Harassment Zone for each game you announce. It's a place for people who hate progress to come and crap all over games they haven't even played. No, they won't help you moderate it, but hey, at least you can't delete it!

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 23h

Classic Steam forums

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 15h

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 21h

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 15h

>looking for a new action game
>ask if the action game is meter management or cooldowns
>she doesnt understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is meter management and what is cooldowns
>she laughs and says “it’s a good game sir”
>buy the game
>its cooldowns

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Ysbryd Games | Demonschool Nov 19th! @ysbryd.net · 3d

Demonschool, the turn-based tactic RPG from @necrosoftgames.com launches on everything, November 19th!

Wishlist it here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 18h

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 16h

Really hammer your reps about how catastrophic this is and how bad these laws are for peoples online safety

404 Media @404media.co · 18h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ 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...

www.404media.co

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

every fucking time

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 21h

Realism was always a crime but sadly it turns out that even semi-abstracted low-poly was an accessory. To actual war crimes

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

the latest effort to try to find the switch to turn off liberalism (also these people hate the idea of a free society)

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 22h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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