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Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 8h

OMFG did a video just *autoplay* on the Bsky app?!? 🤬 @bsky.app I know y'all are having fun messing with us lately, but can we not, please?

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 11h

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.

we’ll all subscribe en masse

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Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 8h

I'm feeling pretty good about the state of the video games industry: it looks like I get to write off Microsoft *and* EA this year. I'm really looking forward to not giving money to either of them ever again.

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tom bloom (scrungled) @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 1d

extremely standout and cool CAIN homebrew release bottomless-sarcophagus.itch.io/glory-unto-t...

CAIN: Glory Unto Them by Bottomless Sarcophagus Studio

A fan expansion for Tom Bloom's CAIN full of art, introducing exorcist bonds, a riveting new difficulty mode, and more.

bottomless-sarcophagus.itch.io

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Proton @proton.me · 4d

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash

Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

futurism.com

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Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 2d

My friend @aguaspoints.bsky.social presents Shadow the Hedgehog in "The Doom that Came to Starbucks"

I'll be here all week. Tip your servers and tell @bsky.app to stop messing with our feeds and notifications.

Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 4d

"With Mickey Mouse gloves Shadow grabs the steaming drink from the tall frappe and sugary syrup stained counter: 'Thank you again. I know that I am the best – THE ULTIMATE LIFEFORM! Glad you see it too.'"
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/son...

In a Costume I am Cooler than You! — Gamers with Glasses

Luis Aguasvivas falls into Sonic X Shadow Generations, or maybe it’s Shadow that has come through to our reality. What’s Shadow doing in a Starbucks? Will Luis ever manage to actually play a game on h...

www.gamerswithglasses.com

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Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 3d

Great is the Devourer, endless is his Hunger. Great is his Wrath, the Eater of Worlds. Unknowable be his will, Unspeakable his tongue. Oh Metamato! Oh Starry One! Great Kirby, let me be eaten first!

Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 3d

This Halloween, we invite you to remember the horror that is...Kirby:
"Kirby is a shapeshifter, fueled by the essence of the living beings that he consumes...He shows up, he consumes all, and he leaves, with a trail of corpses in his wake."
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/kir...

Kirby is the Nightmare in Dreamland — Gamers with Glasses

For decades, Nintendo has tried to pass horrors beyond human comprehension as adorable cuties. Kirby may be cute while sleeping, but awake, he’s an irrepressible killer who wields the instruments of t...

www.gamerswithglasses.com

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Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 7d

Very cool to see @srtrzinski.bsky.social and @aguaspoints.bsky.social's costume pieces featured this week. We assure @quips.bsky.social that yes, the costume party is ongoing!

Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social · 8d

This week: 31 terrifying picks on haunted houses, costumes, Blue Prince, cozy games, friction, media literacy, and much, much more:

critical-distance.com/2025/10/26/o...

October 26th

Welcome back readers. We’ve got an absolutely stacked issue this week at 31 new-and-cool picks. If you like what we do here, please do check out the Patreon! I’m going to go lie down fo…

critical-distance.com

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 6d

kitsune tails is 30% off on steam and itch! get the gay fox girl jumping game on either platform via kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

A screenshot of the dance in kitsune tails, with kiri dipping a shocked looking yuzu. Above them is a pull quote:

"Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3" GamesRadar+

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Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 8d

Duncan's is an excellent NZ microbrewry. Their "Yum Yum Yuzu" dry lager is possibly the best lager I've ever had. Tasting it, all I can think is "I really don't like lager."

Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 9d

Costume party! "Leave your body and soul at the door"

Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 9d

We are throwing a party and you are invited.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/hal...

Presenting: Costume Party — Gamers with Glasses

Welcome to the GwG Costume Party! We’ve got custom skins, bleeding over from game worlds and real worlds. We’ve got dressing up for laughs and we have blank faces that can become anyone or anything. H...

www.gamerswithglasses.com

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Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah, I think that's it.

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Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 13d

What kind of undead was Brandon Lee's character in The Crow? I can totally see myself coming back from the dead on a focused, time-limited
mission of vengeance.

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 13d

If you're interested in Roguelike Celebration it is a near certainty you'd be interested in The Banished Vault. I even gave a talk on how space travel is carefully abstracted a few years ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJA...

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Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 13d

It's Basque!

Two Tiny Dice @twotinydice.com · 14d

😍 TWO TINY DICE GIVEAWAY 😇

Win a Steam key of Pyrene (aka the best roguelike ever).

❤️ Like & Follow our account
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Tag 2 friends
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Winner will be randomly selected on Friday 24th October. GL 🍀

#giveaway #tuesday #indiedev #indiegame #pyrene

Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 13d

@aetataureate.bsky.social @optional.bsky.social
It's Basque!

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Angelle Haney Gullett @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 15d

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 15d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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daniel s. @self.agency · 15d

yes, i stole the crown jewels but in my defense, i am using them to train an llm in jewelry design and therefore i am within my rights

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Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 14d

We're at it again! @mayorhere.bsky.social reviews Back to the Dawn by Metal Head Games, a game that uses anthropomorphism as a powerful estrangement tool through which to explore institutional power dynamics.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/back...

Back to the Dawn Review: Anthropomorphism as Social Commentary — Gamers with Glasses

Back to the Dawn  by Metal Head Games succeeds because it understands something that effective anthropomorphic storytelling has always known: non-human characters don't make serious themes less s...

www.gamerswithglasses.com

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alex is scary 🩸 @aldermancy.bsky.social · 20d

this is your favorite game designer's next favorite game and i told yanni he can quote me on that.

accidentally loved a game so much i somehow found myself as a stretch goal on it?? please check out ambition, it's so god damn beautiful

gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Ambition by The Press Betwixt - Gamefound

Ambition is a tales & tactics TTRPG for 2-4 Ambitious and a River by Yanni Panagiotopoulos. Reach for Heaven from underneath, Strive for whats beyond it, and Shape the continents into the image of you...

gamefound.com

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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 15d

It’s happening people! I’m finally in a position to start crowdfunding to recover some of the costs of taking legal action against my employer. Watch this space :)

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Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 15d

Seeing all these #OVER/UNDER posts and wondering what the hell it is? So was I! #OVER/UNDER is 1) completely insane and 2) this:
samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...

Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen

You can now join the Discord server and read the rules. Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding

samsorensen.blot.im

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 17d

honestly I'll call this forgivable given the explanation seems to be "grant morrison doesn't have a smartphone and hasn't read anything about AI and automatically assumed it was a daemon he should befriend"

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 17d

Grant Morrison is seemingly dropping the use of AI in their newsletter following a backlash to comments on the subject in a Reddit AMA.

Grant Morrison disavows AI after Reddit AMA discussion

The writer said they will reconsider using AI in their Xanaduum newsletter after a comment in a Reddit AMA sparked a widespread backlash.

www.comicsbeat.com

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Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 16d

They say the NES is 40 today. Read what that means for the man.

Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 28d

Featuring @aetataureate.bsky.social: "In a volunteer survey, we found almost no significant correlation between the zodiac sign and the favorite Mario items of respondents."
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/sup...

Super Midlife Brothers: Thoughts on Mario at Forty — Gamers with Glasses

It’s-a Mario’s birthday! Sort of. So here’s a Mario bonanza from your friends at Gamers with Glasses, which in typical fashion includes a scientific* study on Mario and the zodiac, elegiac expressions...

www.gamerswithglasses.com

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