Peter V. Baikun
pvbaikun.com
Peter V. Baikun
@pvbaikun.com
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Not great at writing a good description of himself. Potential game designer and/or writer perhaps? VashNL. #TeamHooman #Thumper Moderator At #HyperRPG on Twitch and Discord. He/Him. Anti-Fascist.
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I've been thinking about making this thread for a bit now, ever since I was added to a game creator Starter Pack by @aceottorney.bsky.social, which has led to some people following me.

Bear with me though.

I appreciate the follows, but I have to admit I feel slightly conflicted at this point.
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Kickstarter staff have been on strike for 21 days, in a bid to protect their working week and win a minimum salary.

These are small, reasonable asks for an outstanding team that have helped to bring countless new pieces of independent art into the world.

How you can support: kickstarterunited.org
Kickstarter United
kickstarterunited.org
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Gorgeous art, I love it.❤️
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Along with the character/vehicle work, a few environment explorations for my Tron project
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So if you're getting baited by the latest rage inducing post from people that recently showed up here to bait with rage inducing posts, may I suggest instead of quote posting that rage...
Welcome to Bluesky 💙🦋
This deserves to be a massive panel in their stores around the world. So awesome!
That is awesome! Congratulations!
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Steam's new Steam Deck Verified landing pages look great and this is also a great time to buy Dustborn — whether you play on the Deck or not — because there's a week long deal on Steam! It's ridiculously cheap so go ahead and grab it now and let me know what you think.
Dustborn is Steam Deck Verified
Dustborn is Steam Deck Verified
store.steampowered.com
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Reminder that za/um is made up of businesspeople that stole disco elysium from the creators, kicked them out of the company, are currently suing them, and are making a mobile game of disco elysium

Do not pay money for DE, and do not give za/um a cent otherwise

www.newsweek.com/entertainmen...
"But the sun, it burns us!"
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“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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I saw this "quote" pop-up elsewhere and I had my doubts. Then I learned about where it came from, and suffice to say that I wasn't phased. I stopped following stealth months ago.

Sorry that you had to learn who that is though.
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I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
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This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate.
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
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Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
I likened it wit a brick breaker such as Breakout or Arkanoid as well.

I've put over 40 hours in it by now. And yes, it definitely has that, "I should really have another run because I want to get the next upgrade" feeling. 😄
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Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it.

Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go.

bsky.app/profile/eva....
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
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The shorter games with worse graphics made by less people discourse is starting again and the nuance lost in this conversation is: we absolutely CAN make big, hyper-realistic games, sustainably. The problem -- and the money drain -- is executive pay, leadership overreach, mismanagement, and whims.
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.