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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 9h

smiles smugly in text adventure (which you can't see [text adventure])

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 13h

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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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 13h

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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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 4d

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis

my brain: not u though

me: not me though

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turtle @turtle.labeledrude.online · 11h

checking back in on this, not entirely down with this world's definition of "funnier"

turtle @turtle.labeledrude.online · Jan 31

i may no longer believe a better world is possible, but i do believe a funnier world is possible, and for the time being that might be enough

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 12h

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 13h

After learning about László Krasznahorkai's Nobel prize win I've read some articles—this one was really great—and I was all ready to settle in to Seiobo There Below, but then I remembered that I wanted to rewatch John Wick Chapter 2, so I'm doing that instead because I'm trash

Krasznahorkai’s Pilgrimages — Music & Literature

A feature by Paul Kerschen László Krasznahorkai's 2014 Best Translated Book Award for Seiobo There Below —presented in Ottilie Mulzet's expert translation—serves to cement the Hungarian's status...

www.musicandliterature.org

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 20h

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 1d

what legal recourse do artists and museums have against international militaries stealing and using our work to commit warcrimes, since apparently that's a conversation we need to have now.

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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Wisdom of r/religion @reddit-religion.bsky.social · 1d

r/religion
Is the dead sea a result of soddom and gamorah
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SendThisVoidAway18 • 1d
Agnostic
No
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rinel521 OP • 1d
elaborate
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SendThisVoidAway18 • 1d
Agnostic
No

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 23h

GET IN, LOSER! We are sinking under the accumulated weight of centuries of misrule over Central Europe that has produced a mindset both cravenly supplicant and splenetically hostile.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 22h

(seeing Chewbacca on stage at the medal ceremony in A New Hope) hey what the fuck that's the guy who ripped my arms off when i won battle chess

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23h

people on here apparently need to learn a lesson most of us learn in elementary school, which is that it’s fucking rude to correct people on zero stakes things and doing so leads rightfully to social ostracism

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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 1d

Around this time of year, brits will wear ‘poppies’ out of deep respect for the international heroin trade

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 23h

i love you all but there isn't one of you i wouldn't turn on for this moby dick chess set

a moby dick themed chess set with the whaling characters up top, and moby dick and other animals down below

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 22h

rural roads were so bumpy that I was one of the homeroom-scribblers, the lowest of the low

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 6d

are you a BAD ENOUGH DUDE to approach the Mauritanian Daft Punk Domino's?

Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social · 7d

Domino's pizza; JHCW+55M, Kiffa, Mauritania https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=16.6204578%2C-11.404584&query_place_id=ChIJRdyoeQAfiw4RSKjx4AVMNuo

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 22h

Most white-collar jobs will occasionally require you to write (competently, not just pure bullshit and page-filler) under time pressure, and this is one of the main skills you acquire at college! I was lucky because my bizarre English teacher and weekly AD&D games meant I learned it early.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 22h

The ability to dash something off on short notice is so important that my 10th grade English teacher actually trained us how, by dropping surprise essays instead of pop quizzes—three pages on "The Yellow Wallpaper," you have (looks at wall clock) 42 minutes

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 22h

disappearing into my lab to invent the yonic banana

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

So excited for these cats’ groundbreaking French EDM album

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

important update: Adidas’ new Pet Collection

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Wintzards of the Coast @drilmagic.bsky.social · 1d

Ravenous Baboons: having to spell the word "lunch" instead of saying it so the boys don't get too excited

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

Editing and fixing bugs in the new game. Folks…it's a lot of work. But if you've somehow followed me without knowing I write text adventures, you can start with EMPYREAN—play the first four chapters for free!

Empyrean

Overthrow your father's regime with his own secret experimental fighter plane! Dogfight dieselpunk aeros to save your city and the iron jungle beneath it.

www.choiceofgames.com

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 1d

a bksy dev following the Heritage Foundation would be an unpleasant surprise if you didn't know this place was created by and for libertarian crypto bros, and all the good things about it are an unintended consequence they have been trying to "fix" for the last year

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Saga, sighs queen @saga.iam.bi · 2d

this too is yuri

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 2d

Cory booker doing a 14hr headstand but US election remain canceled. I see you complaining about it but you’re not doing a headstand,

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

putting down my bet: no 2026 midterms

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