Ripley The Fairy
@ripleynyx.bsky.social
Hi, I'm Ripley! she/her.
Metroid, Castlevania & SMT fan, tarotist, Balatro sicko, and former Destructoid mod. Learning drawing & Procreate. 🚫AI.
Might ask for your name. Will probably keep it.
Avatar & banner art by @madyaxx.bsky.social
Metroid, Castlevania & SMT fan, tarotist, Balatro sicko, and former Destructoid mod. Learning drawing & Procreate. 🚫AI.
Might ask for your name. Will probably keep it.
Avatar & banner art by @madyaxx.bsky.social
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Ripley The Fairy
@ripleynyx.bsky.social
· Mar 22
Got a commission of Pixie done by @madyaxx.bsky.social
She did an amazing job with it!
Really have just spent the last hour and a half smitten with it!
#blutoid
She did an amazing job with it!
Really have just spent the last hour and a half smitten with it!
#blutoid
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if you did this 200 years ago they’d drown you in a lake
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
if you did this 200 years ago they’d drown you in a lake
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Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue
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btw if you saw my Jinx print at a Con in Belfast today it was NOT authorized, it's just been stolen 🙃
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
btw if you saw my Jinx print at a Con in Belfast today it was NOT authorized, it's just been stolen 🙃
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I saw some chat about Arc Raiders' use of AI voice actors recently - I'm probably not going to rerecord the talk I gave at EXAG but I thought I'd drop in a few slides about the idea that you can make generative AI ethical by getting people to sign a piece of paper to say you can use their data.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I saw some chat about Arc Raiders' use of AI voice actors recently - I'm probably not going to rerecord the talk I gave at EXAG but I thought I'd drop in a few slides about the idea that you can make generative AI ethical by getting people to sign a piece of paper to say you can use their data.
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IGN is paying attention to censorship again. Use their momentum, call visa and mastercard, tell them you read the article, ask them why they're censoring legal stuff
reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie
reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN
Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
IGN is paying attention to censorship again. Use their momentum, call visa and mastercard, tell them you read the article, ask them why they're censoring legal stuff
reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie
reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie
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I've also been designing merch for novels through The Merch Guild! I've done a few, but here's a cute one I drew for Legends & Lattes
themerchguild.com/collections/...
themerchguild.com/collections/...
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I've also been designing merch for novels through The Merch Guild! I've done a few, but here's a cute one I drew for Legends & Lattes
themerchguild.com/collections/...
themerchguild.com/collections/...
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Everyone should go check out Stan’s latest game
hi everyone. while the industry's still hellbent on calling anyone who makes /weird/ games "not a real dev" @baftagames.bsky.social decided that maybe people making things with three quid and a piece of string know what they're talking about, actually
i'm part of bafta breakthrough 2025
i'm part of bafta breakthrough 2025
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Everyone should go check out Stan’s latest game
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Every trans person who says they'd rather not be socially murdered is an "activist."
Every blood-mouthed ghoul demanding our eradication is a "concerned citizen just asking questions."
Every blood-mouthed ghoul demanding our eradication is a "concerned citizen just asking questions."
God I'm so sick of how "Activist" is used to un-person trans people.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Every trans person who says they'd rather not be socially murdered is an "activist."
Every blood-mouthed ghoul demanding our eradication is a "concerned citizen just asking questions."
Every blood-mouthed ghoul demanding our eradication is a "concerned citizen just asking questions."
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"Activist" is being purposely used by Sky News here to obscure the fact that Linehan had a violent outburst with a teenager.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"Activist" is being purposely used by Sky News here to obscure the fact that Linehan had a violent outburst with a teenager.
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Thank you so much to everyone for the support, it means the world to me ❤️
There are so many amazing devs out of a job right now, and I want to take this opportunity to invite you to post your portfolio in the comments if you are looking for work! I hope my reach can help even just one person.
There are so many amazing devs out of a job right now, and I want to take this opportunity to invite you to post your portfolio in the comments if you are looking for work! I hope my reach can help even just one person.
I am SO beyond excited to announce:
My next adventure will be at Sunset Visitor, the studio behind the amazing 1000xRESIST!
I can't wait to get started and see what we can cook up together ❤️✨
My next adventure will be at Sunset Visitor, the studio behind the amazing 1000xRESIST!
I can't wait to get started and see what we can cook up together ❤️✨
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Thank you so much to everyone for the support, it means the world to me ❤️
There are so many amazing devs out of a job right now, and I want to take this opportunity to invite you to post your portfolio in the comments if you are looking for work! I hope my reach can help even just one person.
There are so many amazing devs out of a job right now, and I want to take this opportunity to invite you to post your portfolio in the comments if you are looking for work! I hope my reach can help even just one person.
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Reminder that these processors have not yet backed down AT ALL on mass / arbitrary censorship of legal art / expression / transactions
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Reminder that these processors have not yet backed down AT ALL on mass / arbitrary censorship of legal art / expression / transactions
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One thing that stands out in the responses i got was that genAI takes away the very thing that makes making a game so fun. It's fun and worthwhile to do BECAUSE it is hard, because the contraints force creative thinking, and that is in that tension point beauty is found.
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
One thing that stands out in the responses i got was that genAI takes away the very thing that makes making a game so fun. It's fun and worthwhile to do BECAUSE it is hard, because the contraints force creative thinking, and that is in that tension point beauty is found.
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gamergate was over 10 years ago and companies are still falling for the same fucking tactics and not going the mile to protect the people that make the games
the dudes @ing your PR account to complain about a woman aren't going to buy your game. it was never and will never be about the game.
the dudes @ing your PR account to complain about a woman aren't going to buy your game. it was never and will never be about the game.
For @aftermath.site, I spoke to @imodrew.bsky.social, the Sucker Punch dev fired after making a Charlie Kirk joke.
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
Two Months After Firing Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Ghost Of Yotei Dev Blames Harassment Campaign, Not ‘Bad Joke’
"I really don’t want this to happen to anyone else, because I feel like with the state of everything, it will absolutely happen to other people," says Drew Harrison
aftermath.site
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
gamergate was over 10 years ago and companies are still falling for the same fucking tactics and not going the mile to protect the people that make the games
the dudes @ing your PR account to complain about a woman aren't going to buy your game. it was never and will never be about the game.
the dudes @ing your PR account to complain about a woman aren't going to buy your game. it was never and will never be about the game.
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
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My Star Wars hot take is that Andor was worth the money spent for saving the franchise's reputation. www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
Disney Spent More On ‘Andor’ Than Any Of Its ‘Star Wars’ Movies
Disney has revealed it spent $60.5 million on Star Wars streaming series Andor in 2024, giving the show a total cost of $705.5 million - far higher than the spending on any of the movies in the saga.
www.forbes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My Star Wars hot take is that Andor was worth the money spent for saving the franchise's reputation. www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
Banandium, Chiralium, Magicite, Charizardite, Eridium.
Video games will eventually have their own periodic table.
Video games will eventually have their own periodic table.
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Banandium, Chiralium, Magicite, Charizardite, Eridium.
Video games will eventually have their own periodic table.
Video games will eventually have their own periodic table.
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And once you're on these people's radars, you don't leave it.
Either they keep tabs on you, or their fans do it for them, and any chance they can use your name for content (money) they do it.
Stand up for your employees.
Either they keep tabs on you, or their fans do it for them, and any chance they can use your name for content (money) they do it.
Stand up for your employees.
Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke'
aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...
aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
And once you're on these people's radars, you don't leave it.
Either they keep tabs on you, or their fans do it for them, and any chance they can use your name for content (money) they do it.
Stand up for your employees.
Either they keep tabs on you, or their fans do it for them, and any chance they can use your name for content (money) they do it.
Stand up for your employees.
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This has been bothering me a lot lately, but on a broader scope. People are afraid to be original. Critiques are all the same, jokes are copy/pasted, opinions use a handful of buzzwords that don't actually describe anything. It's like drowning in a sea of masks that all wear the same face.
One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This has been bothering me a lot lately, but on a broader scope. People are afraid to be original. Critiques are all the same, jokes are copy/pasted, opinions use a handful of buzzwords that don't actually describe anything. It's like drowning in a sea of masks that all wear the same face.
Uninstalled Fortnite from everything, finally. If It wasn’t for the incoming Potterslop, it would have beem from the burnout of increased numbers of bots.
That thing was a beast of an install on PC. Got like 130GB back.
This also means EGS exists solely to give me free games again.
#blutoid
That thing was a beast of an install on PC. Got like 130GB back.
This also means EGS exists solely to give me free games again.
#blutoid
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Uninstalled Fortnite from everything, finally. If It wasn’t for the incoming Potterslop, it would have beem from the burnout of increased numbers of bots.
That thing was a beast of an install on PC. Got like 130GB back.
This also means EGS exists solely to give me free games again.
#blutoid
That thing was a beast of an install on PC. Got like 130GB back.
This also means EGS exists solely to give me free games again.
#blutoid
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I wanted to draw three characters together, so I decided to draw the Darkstalkers characters that I've drawn a lot before. 🥸
#capcom #Darkstalkers
#capcom #Darkstalkers
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I wanted to draw three characters together, so I decided to draw the Darkstalkers characters that I've drawn a lot before. 🥸
#capcom #Darkstalkers
#capcom #Darkstalkers
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T-minus 4 hours until the Extra-Life event I am running, and we will be raffling off a Nintendo Switch 2. Check out the link here for the Extra Life Page. Will be live here, Twitch, and YouTube! Hope to see you there:
www.extra-life.org/participants...
#extralife #4thekids #blutoid
www.extra-life.org/participants...
#extralife #4thekids #blutoid
Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.
www.extra-life.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
T-minus 4 hours until the Extra-Life event I am running, and we will be raffling off a Nintendo Switch 2. Check out the link here for the Extra Life Page. Will be live here, Twitch, and YouTube! Hope to see you there:
www.extra-life.org/participants...
#extralife #4thekids #blutoid
www.extra-life.org/participants...
#extralife #4thekids #blutoid
Been reobtaining Silent Hill games lately and it's hilarious to me how folks decried Shattered Memories but now it's like the most expensive one in the used market.
Like, copies of old Pokemon games get up there, but not like this
Shattered Memories had a great OST, too.
#blutoid
Like, copies of old Pokemon games get up there, but not like this
Shattered Memories had a great OST, too.
#blutoid
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Been reobtaining Silent Hill games lately and it's hilarious to me how folks decried Shattered Memories but now it's like the most expensive one in the used market.
Like, copies of old Pokemon games get up there, but not like this
Shattered Memories had a great OST, too.
#blutoid
Like, copies of old Pokemon games get up there, but not like this
Shattered Memories had a great OST, too.
#blutoid