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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 3h

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 4h

I've said this about writing and art -- the goal was not to replace writers and artists with AI, the result was either:

a) *threaten* to replace them with AI, and use that as leverage to be able to pay them less

b) replace them unsuccessfully and pay them less to fix the shit the AI barfed out

tante @tante.cc · 11h

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.

_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

Screenshot of an article headline "AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay" with "at lower pay" being highlighted

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Emma Kidwell | Looking for work ✨ @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 16d

Hi #Portfolioday l! I'm Emma Kidwell, an award nominated writer and designer experienced in indie and AAA. I've worked in all stages of game development from polish to pitching. I'm adaptable, quick to learn, and available for full time and contact work ✍️

✨ emmkid.info

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 9h

Been dirt poor or in hard debt all my life. The stars aligned this one paycheck and I get to be kind to the local kids.

This Halloween we are THAT house.

A collection of full sized chocolate bars and other sweets piled high.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 1d

We’re in a scenario where anyone who’s had their finger vaguely held up to the winds of gaming have more games than they will ever play. Be it PS+ freebies, game pass, endless humble bundles, Prime Gaming or Epic freebies.

It has muddied the waters to the point that nobody can know what they have.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 1d

Extremely cold take but I still feel that the proliferation of bundles, free deals and sales has absolutely destroyed the concept of owning a thing on digital platforms more than the fact you can’t hold it in your hands.

I can name every PSX game I’ve ever owned. I can’t name my whole Steam lib.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

why, that's a *steal* for the smart piss ball, and I can't wait to find out how much the monthly subscription for the piss-sniffing service costs, and it'll be so useful, and I won't mind the occasional leaking of data on my leaks until the inevitable shutdown day, when my piss ball is sadly bricked

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Withings’ urine scanning health tracker is now available for $350

Replacement cartridges that can last up to three months with semiweekly testing start at $100.

buff.ly

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📺 SoftwareAngel 💾 @softwareangel.neocities.org · 2d

SUCCESS!!! WOW!!

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Sara @sportsandsuffering.bsky.social · 1d

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282)

a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 1d

Two humorous social media posts about cats believing their owners can control nature, like rain and sunlight.

Transcribed Text:

Feline_Tales

My cats have this meow that means “please come with me to fix this” after which they’ll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or ‘empty’) food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the ‘problem’, they look back at me, clear message.

What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my ‘power.’ I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. “Please fix this” they say. “Please get rid of the wet”

“Silly kitty,” I say, “I can’t control the rain.” I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.

purrfect_logic

I hope this is a universal cat owner experience. Every single night he begs me to turn the sun back on so he can watch birds on the balcony. I tell him no, I cannot do that.

But I can turn lights on and off in the house and he’s fairly certain I’m just not applying myself properly here.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 1d

sesame street characters ernie and bert are standing next to each other in a room .

ALT: sesame street characters ernie and bert are standing next to each other in a room .

media.tenor.com

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 2d

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP

As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why:

The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's.

The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere.

Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong.

Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their
product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google).

The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam

It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well.

At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available

We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either.

Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 1d

He really is the best.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 2d

Listening to music.
Watching the invisible person run the obstacle course alongside.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 3d

Please don’t take this as anything more than friendly additions. It’s your thing!!

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 3d

Additional if you’ll take it while it’s fresh in my head: If you succeed with the triple bonus it fills your clip AND ALSO reduces the available extra bullets to 1.

So you have chance to reload again with the same effect but if you miss you have one shot.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 3d

Suggestion for extra spice: If the number of bullets available is less than a full reload, have a third tiny point to hit. If you manage it, you not only get the power up, but the reload fills the clip.

Whether you make it so that you can reload chain is your call 🤔

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 3d

I’m eager to see where this is going. Having flashbacks to 2008 when my E6600/6600GT was struggling badly to even get a steady 20fps on low.

For me it signified the true start of the Poor PC Port era of that gen, not that any in the previous couple years were particularly great.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 3d

UPDATE: @pengarr.postes.club FOUND WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR

GOD BLESS

www.graceguts.com/poems-by-oth...

I have a spelling checker,

It came with my PC.

It plane lee marks four my revue

Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,

Your sure reel glad two no.

Its vary polished in it’s weigh.

My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,

It freeze yew lodes of thyme.

It helps me right awl stiles two reed,

And aides me when eye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen

Eye trussed too bee a joule.

The checker pours o’er every word

To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checker’s

Hour spelling mite decline,

And if we’re lacks oar have a laps,

We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling

Is checked with such grate flare,

Their are know fault’s with in my cite,

Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,

It does knot bring a tier.

My pay purrs awl due glad den

With wrapped word’s fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet

Of witch won should bee proud,

And wee mussed dew the best wee can,

Sew flaw’s are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays

Such soft wear four pea seas,

And why eye brake in two averse

Buy righting want too pleas.

The original verse that inspired the preceding poem is as follows, written by Mark Eckman in 1991: +

Mistakes I Cannot Sea

I ran this poem thru it

I’m sure your pleased to no

Its letter perfect in it’s weigh

My checker tolled me sew.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 5d

The EA in house GPT being shite shouldn't surprise anyone but the idiots who put it there in the first place, to be honest.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 6d

You shouldn't buy either this new thing nor the MCC while both are under BDS boycott, of course, but Halo: CE is an unbelievably easy game to get a hold of and play on modern hardware in 2025. The MCC is basically a capstone on one of the All Time FPS Trilogies and nothing more needed to be said.

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Jean-Luc Seipke @jeanluc.bsky.social · 6d

I got to play a preview of the Halo Remake and my big take is I think the visuals are very uninspired and dull. Its what you'd get if you typed "Realistic Halo in Unreal Engine 5" as an AI Prompt.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrOT...

Halo: Campaign Evolved Hands-On Impressions

YouTube video by GameSpot

www.youtube.com

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 6d

Probably some shit set on Reach to test city tech for anything they bring after.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 7d

Please buy my game so I can afford rent thank u 😔

Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 9d

MidBoss is 67% off ($5) through sunday for the 2025 roguelike celebration. defeat enemies, possess their bodies and take their abilities for your own in this turn-based roguelike: store.steampowered.com/app/561740/M...

or check out all the games in the sale: store.steampowered.com/curator/4122...

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Danielle Partis @daniellepartis.bsky.social · 6d

Did a big ol' interview with the Halo team about rebuilding an absolute legend. Can't wait 🙏🏻

Xbox Wire @wire.xbox.com · 6d

Halo: Campaign Evolved is a full remake of the Combat Evolved campaign, coming to Xbox Series X|S in 2026. We asked Halo Studios the big questions, and uncovered how 25 years of community feedback and technology have shaped this ambitious project: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/1...

Halo: Campaign Evolved - Answering the Big Questions About This Ambitious Remake - Xbox Wire

Halo Campaign Evolved is a full remake of the Halo: Combat Evolved campaign, coming to Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and PlayStation 5.

news.xbox.com

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