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The worst poster on this site, third coolest Subterraneans podcast https://pod.link/rWW0L Harsh noise https://subterpod.bandcamp.com/

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martin @trustworthym.bsky.social · Oct 23

Subterraneans is the story of hidden places and forgotten things beneath London. It's about history, and monsters, and revolutions, and dirt. Season 8 will be out before the end of the year. Catch up now: pod.link/rWW0L

Subterraneans Podcast

A podcast about the underground history of London. Hidden places and forgotten stories beneath the City.

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martin @trustworthym.bsky.social · 4h

friends fear its bedtime and he'll finish it on thursday maybe

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friends fear he's creating rumbling droney atmospheric soundscapes

martin @trustworthym.bsky.social · 6h

friends fear he has recorded the vocals for S9E1

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 8h

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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samantha @goblinsorcerer.bsky.social · 22h

hard to please

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 21h

been having the music/games 'industry' parallel on the mind all the way through games week, and that always leads back to me thinking about steve albini being essentially my standard for the kind of person i want to be in a scene/community. heres a little something from a reddit ama he did ages ago

Connections don't mean shit. I've never had any connections that weren't a natural outgrowth of doing things I was doing anyway. Additionally, the people you might make connections with who work in the industry and value connections themselves, all those people are clueless assholes with no clout anyhow. You can tell because they think they can get somewhere with connections and spend their energy trying to make connections rather than being good at things, and being good at things is the only thing that earns you clout or connections.

It's a myth that you can get anywhere in music through connections. The guy on the other end of the connection has to be into what you're doing, and if you're doing it publicly and he's receptive, he probably hears about it on his own.

Don't worry about anything but making music you like. Everything else is bullshit.

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martin @trustworthym.bsky.social · 17h

they're calling him the Games Unc

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · Sep 7

the arrowheads

Panel 1: a cowboy with arrows in his back says "Boys...what's something that's common knowledge in your field but shocks...ah...outsiders"
Panel 2: the narrator says "each step of his horse kertwanged the arrows deeper. the hot agony threw him into a poster's delirium"
Panel 3: the cowboy (looking worse): "Let's - ah - r-ruin a title by adding the word ... naked. I'll go first."
Panel 4: two other cowboys in the posse

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

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r/UKPersonalFinance
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I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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martin @trustworthym.bsky.social · 1d

if you went back in time to like 1100 and did the robot dance at someone then would they have any idea what was happening. would they think it was cool or what

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 1d

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nikki morgen / ducknuk @duknuk.bsky.social · 6d

Wild West

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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · May 25

What if Breaking Bad was in Mulholland Drive? Well I think it might go a little something like this :)

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 2d

good afternoon

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martin @trustworthym.bsky.social · 2d

found a room about my timeline in the occult exhibit

room entrance sign reading “DOLLS & FETISHES”

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 3d

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 3d

you can sort all crafts into ones where you do the craft and ones where your hobby is now knife sharpening

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 3d

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Completely agree with this - there is a lot of terrible policymaking where you can see the direct echo of “this guy played a lot of Civ as a child and teen”.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 3d

Genuinely think the concept of the tech tree has done a lot of damage.

Tech-Based Teaching @edutecheditor.bsky.social · 3d

“Since 1991, the video game Civilization, now in its seventh installment, has become one of the most successful game franchises ever. That means millions of kids have grown up with Civ as one of their formative ways of thinking about history.” (via @jstor.bsky.social) #AcademicSky

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Jelly🪼 @huskapet.bsky.social · 13d

smart guy in an rpg: hmm..
party member: what's wrong?
smart guy: it's nothing.
(20 hours later)
smart guy: so it's true... i knew it.

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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 4d

This the kinda shit people say to me in the smoking zone outside the gay bar

Baroque screenshot of a floating green skirt girl in a dark dungeon telling you "You were extracted from our soul. We are insane. It's your fault we became insane."

Same girl as before but now she is saying "You want to cut me? That's fine. You probably want to kill me, right? Then kill me. If you killed me, I think I'd be glad."

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martin @trustworthym.bsky.social · 4d

pet subreddits are a nightmare, i just signed up to see cute animal pics but yet 50% of posts are always "my pet just died / got badly injured", even the fact that a solid 30% on top of that are "why is my animal doing this [picture of horniest creature on god's green earth]" its not worth it

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Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 4d

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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