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Rob "Wear A Spooky Mask" Rich @robsteinone.bsky.social · 7h

I've played all of maybe 15 minutes of Echo Night 2 and I'm already smitten, lol

Rob "Wear A Spooky Mask" Rich @robsteinone.bsky.social · 7h

Well then... roll credits on Echo Night, I guess!
Like I said before, definitely a bit clunky, but even so, I think I kind of loved it? In any case, I'm legit looking forward to checking out the translated PS1 sequel, and then Echo Night: Beyond!

Screenshot of the reults screen for Echo Night on the PS1.
"Results
Player Rating
- Intelligence - 160
- Physical - 182
- Secrets - 128
Total Play Time 5:01:28"

Rob "Wear A Spooky Mask" Rich @robsteinone.bsky.social · 7h

Well then... roll credits on Echo Night, I guess!
Like I said before, definitely a bit clunky, but even so, I think I kind of loved it? In any case, I'm legit looking forward to checking out the translated PS1 sequel, and then Echo Night: Beyond!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 13h

I’m at the point where I am just not willing to spend time seriously discussing whether games are art. yes. obviously. I’ve written for Pathologic 2 & 3. come back with a warrant.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13h

Free 100% winning message for any Democratic presidential candidate:

“I will undo literally everything that asshole did, as quickly as possible, and prosecute the hell out of his accomplices. And him however and wherever we can.

Minute one: we bulldoze the old man’s stupid ballroom.”

WINNER.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 15h

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

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Ashley Heather Quills @voice-quills.com · 19h

I genuinely wonder when people are gonna start voting with their wallets and stop rewarding companies for using AI, Arc Raiders using it for genAI voices is frankly disgusting and it blows my mind that some people will defend it, and now Arc Raiders is sitting at 3rd top selling on Steam

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 23h

Two little devils have appeared!

Two black and white cats wearing small bat wings sit side by side, both licking their noses with their tongues out as they look at the camera.

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Caves of Qud @cavesofqud.com · 18h

PC Gamer just put out the 2025 edition of their Top 100 Games

#7 is... Caves of Qud!

www.pcgamer.com/games/the-to...

Caves of Qud is #7 on PC Gamer's Top 100 Games of 2025

248.20 score
-Quality: 8.4
-Importance: 7.5
-Freshness: 8.67 (1st)

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 16h

if the democrats can't make hay out of "he is literally demolishing the white house" then idk what anyone's even doing, that patriotic nonsense plays so well with normie libs

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 1d

There’s no deadline for becoming who you’re meant to be.

Growth takes the time it needs.

You’re allowed to bloom late.

You’re allowed to begin again.

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Keith Hamilton Putnam @timetravel.camp · 20h

The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.

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Rob "Wear A Spooky Mask" Rich @robsteinone.bsky.social · 18h

Gave up on Eternal Ring (for now, at least) and decided to stick with the oddly specific "early Fromsoft first-person games" genre. Starting with Echo Night on the PS1.
So far it's a little clunky, but also really interesting as a sort of spoopy first-person adventure game.

Rob "Wear A Spooky Mask" Rich @robsteinone.bsky.social · 4d

Oh no... I kinda strongly dislike Eternal Ring...

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 1d

Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20h

On Sunday, a DOJ whistleblower told 60 Minutes what the public has suspected for months now: The Trump administration told him to lie to a judge about Ábrego García. trib.al/TE5xu42

"What’s to stop them if they decide they don’t like you anymore? To say you’re a criminal, you’re a member of MS-13?"

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Sbug Games @sbug.games · 1d

3 and a half years of isopod rolling down big hills!
Isopod is finally coming out tomorrow!
store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...

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Zeboyd Digital Entertainment @zeboydgames.bsky.social · 1d

Here's your reminder that This Way Madness Lies does NOT use Amazon Web Services in any way and is NOT affected by the outage.

It is a magical girl RPG with a bunch of theater kids saving the worlds of Shakespeare from cosmic evil. Your choice is clear.

store.steampowered.com/app/1318970/...

Miranda: Then I could spend more time on the really important things. Manga, videogames, and arguing with people on the Internet!

From the turn-based RPG, This Way Madness Lies.

Our magical girl heroines face a horde of John Snowman. The menu lingers over an item called Cat Ears which can charm an enemy.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Is it good when even judges are saying you can’t trust the government anymore?

60 Minutes screenshot: "Trust that had been earned over generations has been lost in weeks."

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Sally Beaumont- Voice Actor & Game Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 1d

I get 100% more information about the performance you want from a crappy scratch track recorded by Jeff in the back office on his phone, than I get from the eerily dead-sounding stolen voice clone of a colleague.

Maxi Molina @maximjdev.bsky.social · 1d

"We're only using AI as placeholder dialogue, to get a sense for how it'd sound with voices"

Why?? Literally why??? You could grab the shittiest laptop microphone and DO that

Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 1d

"I think it's fine to use AI for concepting as long as it doesn't make it into the final game" is a statement that will never fail to set me off

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

men love to tell me "i don't think it's a good time for a feminist or transgender book, especially autobiographical, but you're extremely talented and we could perhaps talk when politics are different" like they LOVE telling me that

alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 5d

men love to tell women why their ideas won't work

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 23h

I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness

transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes

Ari Drennen, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:

transwrites.world

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Tomato-kun -> TFCon Chicago @cyborgprince.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #tfcon Chicago friends. Are you gay? Do you like small buttons? Wouldn't you like to know I've been making buttons for the last couple of weeks like a crazy person. 😂😭

For real though, I'll be walking around with my white ita bag selling to anyone who asks. They are $2 ea or 3 for $5.

Computron holding a progress pride button with an autobot insignia on it. He is making the 🫰 hand symbol.

Autobot pride buttons. They are holographic as well.

Extra Words for visibility: autobots, Transformers,

Decepticon pride buttons. They are also holographic.

Extra Words for visibility: decepticons, Transformers, maccadams

Megatronus, (The Fallen), holding a progress pride button with a decepticon insignia.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 1d

uh, AI *is* the enshittification trap?

Wired headline: Can AI avoid the enshittification Trap

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