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Smudge
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Proud dad of two. Operations Manager. Oxford, UK. Video games, movies, TV shows, D&D, books, comic books, wrestling. 🎮: World of Warcraft, Lost Records, Arena, AC Valhalla, Blue Prince 📺: Stranger Things, West Wing, WWE 📖: The Well of Ascension
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 23d
Still fairly new here & looking to meet folks #PromoSky

I love:

⚔️ D&D
🎮 RPGs & story-driven games (Dragon Age, Baldur’s Gate, Witcher, Elder Scrolls, Final Fantasy)
📚 Sci-fi & fantasy books (reading Cosmere)
📺 TV: Andor, Stranger Things, West Wing
🤼 Wrestling
☕ Tea

Shares appreciated!
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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 8d
Almost 400 workers at Blizzard’s Platform and Technology department have voted to unionise.

They join several preceding unions, including Activision QA workers, Activision user research workers, as well as the World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo teams.
Blizzard’s Platform and Technology Workers Have Unionised
Almost 400 workers have voted to unionise under the Communication Workers of America, joining a long lineage of unions at Blizzard.
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Nikes | Alex @alexleedee.bsky.social · 8d
PC Gaming is dead, long live PC Gaming

www.techspot.com/news/109882-...
PC gaming boom: Steam sets new record with 41.6 million concurrent players
Steam has reached a new milestone that underscores the accelerating momentum behind global PC gaming. Data from SteamDB shows Valve's digital distribution platform recently surpassed 41.6 million...
www.techspot.com
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 10d
"Now, three great Houses fight for control of Dune." ⚔️

"Your Battle for Dune Begins... Now... "
A snap from DOS Dune II with the select your House panels with the logos and names: Atreides, Ordos, Harkonnen
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 11d
Oops - late reply. Cool! Any good?
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 14d
Nice! What are you watching?
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J @rabentanz.bsky.social · 15d
respectfully: mommy
work in progress of vaelus (critical role campaign 4)
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Thursday! What a concept! @thursaconcept.bsky.social · 16d
Thursday! What a concept!
Nadia from the Russian Doll series on Netflix remarking: Thursday! What a concept!
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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 16d
The studio behind Hyper Light Breaker is ending development on the game and has confirmed it will be laying off some staff as a result.

The game entered Steam Early Access in January.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/develop...
Development ends on Hyper Light Breaker as studio Heart Machine says it’s making layoffs | VGC
The Hyper Light Drifter prequel has had mixed reviews while in Early Access…
www.videogameschronicle.com
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 18d
we live in the clip farming economy for pvp games bc marketing elsewhere is dead. in games like apex legends, it has (in my experience) absolutely decimated any opportunity for thoughtful play. everyone wants to be the next Sweetdreams, nicewigg, etc and treats lobbies as harvesting grounds for that
wyrmfemme.bsky.social Girl Who Wishes She Had Wings @wyrmfemme.bsky.social · 18d
I don't wanna be pessimistic but it kinda feels like the direction its being pulled in feels ripe for slapping a bunch of GAAS revolving door purchases.

And also the prox-chat being to get publicity from twitch clips or whatever, like someone said in Nats' replies.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 18d
"This is terrible... I just can't look at that thing."

The lead designer for Urbz: Sims in the City @bangbangclick.bsky.social explains how the surreal Sims off-shoot came to be and why The Black Eyed Peas tried their best to get out of re-recording their music in Simlish. youtu.be/aMl5fUlDxEU
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Jonah Walker @ MCM London N-19 @galacticjonah.bsky.social · 21d
"I can still hear the falcon's cry. Do you?"

What a way to bring everyone together!! And boy does it feel kinda nostalgic to get lost in some fanart for a brand new episode...
#CriticalRoleSpoilers #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanart
Digital illustration by galacticjonah. The illustration shows Thjazi Fang on his death bed, covered in tributes by friends and family. Thjazi is an orc man with a greying beard and hair, dressed in a wine red shirt, lying in peaceful rest. Below the blankets covering him change into a banner that is catching flame. The banner shows a white falcon.
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 19d
"That's no moon."
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 20d
Played some Codenames last night. Still great, even with two people. We were...not in sync.
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 20d
Sounds great enjoy! Sort of the same for me - just with Aldi, Costa and Sainsbury's thrown in somewhere.
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 20d
Happy Birthday!
a little girl wearing sunglasses and a blue dress is running in a hallway .
ALT: a little girl wearing sunglasses and a blue dress is running in a hallway .
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Morgwyn Jötundóttir @jotundottir.bsky.social · 20d
Hi! It's my birthday and I'd really appreciate it if you share what I do!

I mostly do book reviews, I love fantasy, and I'm really lucky to beta read and read ARCs too! Here's my favourite review I wrote this year: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I also draw sometimes but I have mostly WIPs 😂
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 21d
Oh hi! 👋
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 21d
Wahoo! Happy weekend.
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Kotaku @kotakudotcom.bsky.social · 21d
Microsoft in 2023: "Game Pass prices will not increase as a result of the Merger"

https://kotaku.com/xbox-game-pass-price-lina-khan-ftc-microsoft-activision-merger-2000631611
Even The Ex-FTC Chair Is Slamming Microsoft's Game Pass Price Hikes
Lina Khan's FTC sued Microsoft to stop it from acquiring Call of Duty
kotaku.com
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 22d
Haha!

It was..fine? Friends and family members have been sending their ratings and rankings of individual songs. Neither required or requested 😅.
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 22d
Got the new Google Pixel 10 Pro XL and it is, as predicted, pretty much the same as my Google Pixel 8 Pro but with some more unnecessary AI stuff sprinkled in.
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 22d
Does anyone want this? Just let things end...
discussingfilm.net DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 22d
A ‘PEAKY BLINDERS’ sequel series is in the works at Netflix & BBC.

• Greenlit for 2 seasons with 6 episodes each

• Follows a new generation of Shelbys in 1953 during Birmingham’s reconstruction after World War 2

• Cillian Murphy will exec produce
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 22d
I have no clue what's going on with them.

And it sucks as a Playstation owner as it's likely Sony will only become more and more complacent while Microsoft do...whatever it is they're doing and shed whatever is left of their goodwill.
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 22d
Yeah I think because I had Mistborn as a comparison I could tell that Elantris was a little rougher, but it didn’t really hurt my enjoyment. I really liked the setup and the mystery around the city, and the ongoing wounds/pain was harrowing!

Definitely looking forward to reading more of his work.
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Smudge @smudgesocial.bsky.social · 23d
I really liked it. It kind of feels like one that will sit with me for a while and I'll like it more and more with each re-read.

Loved the setting and the world building. It was definitely a slow burn (which I don't mind) but then it did feel like it kind of rushed to an ending in the final third.
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