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Pogo

@pogofury.bsky.social

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Small-time animator, hobbyist streamer. Lapsed cartoonist. Enjoys indie games (especially puzzles) and does demo roundups and a few rants. Designed a minigame in 2006 that isn't playable anymore, so I'm kind of a big deal. This is not my beautiful house.

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Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · Jul 11

Figured I'd make a pinned post that covers both the fact that I am an artist and that I'm very interested in indies and puzzle games.

I also have a Steam curator page (which I should update more), in case anybody has overlapping interests
store.steampowered.com/curator/2700...

The color wheel meme, filled with drawings of eight different puzzle games: Stephen's Sausage Roll (Red), Portal (Orange), A Monster's Expedition (Yellow), Superliminal (Green), Manifold Garden (Cyan) Snakebird (Blue), Escape Goat (Purple), and The Witness (Magenta)

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

stealing paintings from museums will soon be considered just another tool in the artist's toolbelt

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Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · 1d

Well it's a feature being met with plenty of disgust from the moment of announcement, which means when it launches it will certainly be switched on by default

Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · 1d

Splatoon should have been called Squidmarks

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Cami @cafiffle.bsky.social · Jul 9

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

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Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the times to use the phrase "sounded the alarm" to describe somebody complaining, I would not have used it to describe somebody complaining about inadequate security at a high-profile museum in a story where thieves successfully got away with the jewels

Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · 4d

setting up a number spoofer robocaller to send them lots of customer feedback that conveniently has a lot of requested items in common

Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · 6d

Neat. How do their payment processors feel about this?

The Verge @theverge.com · 6d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 6d

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Kendra, scary version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 7d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · 8d

if you haven't already done UFO 50, it has some great strategy entries. Most of the games in the collection are short-session-friendly, and anything especially long will have checkpoints if you need to fully quit out instead of pausing.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 9d

With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 9d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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KHAN 可汗 🔜 TwitchCon 2025 @yungkhan.bsky.social · 16d

Today is my birthday!

If ya wanna buy me a coffee or grab a cheap comm to fund my trip to Twitchcon you can do that here ko-fi.com/yungkhan

If not just think about adopting a senior dog, or help someone today.

I’ll be streaming more Silent Hill f later tonight.

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Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · 16d

i'm obligated to share this when i see people learn about the SBTB revival

A portion of an advertisement for the 2020 revival of "Saved By the Bell", with an added highlight around the tagline "get so excited", a reference to the infamous 1990 episode "Jessie's Song" in which Jessie becomes a substance addict while trying to handle the combined burden of her schoolwork and preparation for her upcoming performance of the Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited" (the script was written to include an amphetamine addiction, but it was changed to caffeine pills to appease the network, leading to decades of mockery about the depiction of the effects of caffeine).

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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FrogCass 🦾🐸 Holographic Smuggler Vtuber @frogcass.holofrog.gay · 18d

Hey streamer pals, go to viewer rewards on your creator dashboard and turn off this stupid AI company collaboration

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Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · 21d

Every time I see this shopkeeper I think of @evandahm.bsky.social and 3rd Voice

One of the shopkeepers from the game Campanella 2: A purple-faced space alien with bulging but squinted eyes

Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · 22d

Also thought I had it with Shadow of the Colossus, but another miss

Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · 22d

first thought was hollow knight, then parasite eve, but going track by track says no

the last time this happened to me, it got in through a huge playlist of game remixes that included games i never played

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Pogo @pogofury.bsky.social · 22d

Cmon Dave Matthews Band 🤞🤞

aaron adair @aaroninchicago.bsky.social · 23d

ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.?

#Chicago