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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · Oct 18

I guess I'm on here now as well, if only just to stake my claim.
Will I use this for actual posting?
Probably not, if I'm honest.

Still.
I'm here now too.
For given values of "here".

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 3h

as i'm digesting all the talks and presentations from this past week, i think one of the glass shattering moments for me was the realization of how much wealth after maaaaajor indie success does not feed back into the industry. thankful for funds like superhot presents and outersloth, but it's rare

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 32m

You need to drive these whiny little manbabies out of every space you're in, because all they do is spread misery, like hippos taking a dump

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1h

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 14h

holy shit kitsune tails is gonna be on gdq! :D

Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 17h

Our FIRST-EVER #GDQueer schedule is OUT NOW!! 🌈🎉

Congratulations to our amazing runners, and a tremendous "thank you" to anyone and everyone who submitted a run for this brand-new event!!

gamesdonequick.com/schedule/61

A graphic reading "Games Done Queer SCHEDULE IS LIVE!!" Our GDQueer mascot, Byte, is in the corner with some pink hearts surrounding them.

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 43m

... I can only see a bunny handpuppet/sock there, Rob.
Sorry.

Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 45m

It makes sense, really.
Sackbird, right? So the bird is a sack, and if there's a big sack, there's gonna be a penis involved.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 3h

There is going to be a multiple choice question on a history class quiz someday, and the right answer will be Frog

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14h

when I worked at Frye's, their metrics were based on how many Norton subs they sold. to the point they had us essentially giving them away. conning customers into adding Norton they didn't want to purchases that made us no money

anyway, time is a flat circle

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

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> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 14h

I feel like the thing I always find myself thinking when ppl are talking about "oh the gaming audience is awful" is that, like... i'm not sure i believe that so much as I believe that any unmoderated space will inevitably surface the most toxic people (who drive away more-reasonable ones)

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Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 14h

The game industry mistakes authority for leadership.

There's precious little actual leadership.

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Punchy @punchystream.bsky.social · 13h

at some point I really think there needs to be some sort of large scale pushback on Valve for their complete abdication of responsibility in moderating steam forums to every individual developer regardless of whether or not they asked for it, allowing this tumour to completely fester.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 21h

Classic Steam forums

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 12h

I guess "every holier-than-thou puritan accusation is an admission of guilt" strikes again, or something along those lines

Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 12h

Okay, I want it on the record that I hadn't even *seen* this damn preorder page infographic when I made the previous post, which I based purely on the video, but *of course* these are the deluxe edition skins they sell

*throws hands in the air*

Code Violet marketing material, featuring 7 pinup shots of skins they sell.

The Pre-Order bonuses feature "Retro American Bombshell Pinup Set" (1 military pinup outfit, 1 pinup swimsuit outfit, 1 pinup hair style)

The Digital deluxe edition features these 5 outfits: DinoMatrix, Star Shadow Siren, Ms Sassy Sinclair, Sugar and Spice, Big Sky Cowgirl.
Most of these (except Ms Sassy Sinclair, which is a Sexy Librarian/Teacher Deep V Tight Black Skirt One) are basically lingerie sets.

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 15h

Headline in January: "The Code Violet devs will not release a PC version because they don't want modders creating 'vulgar' versions of the main character."

*looks at this video featuring Asstitty McBabyface*
Because... that's what they did themselves, right?
Right?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zA4...

Code Violet - Extended Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games

YouTube video by PlayStation

www.youtube.com

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how much responsibility the anti-nuclear environmental criminals of Germany have for that EU coal reliance

Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 1d

"However, Ember says the headlines mask a mixed global picture.

Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation." 2/2
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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Luna’s Bayou Adventure @themoongal.bsky.social · 1d

"stealing from other artists is alright if the player can't see it"

Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly using Gen AI for backgrounds and textures seems like an obvious method for smaller teams to make bigger and better worlds. Making this some kind of litmus test is asking for 3D games to be more expensive to make, which in turn means more centralization at the likes of EA.

Gene Park @gene.meme · 1d

A programmer for Expedition 33 did indeed use generative AI art early as placeholder textures that they missed removing at launch.

This isn’t in my piece, as it wasn’t a good fit and isn’t new information. but it’s worth clarifying

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 15h

Same-same really.
All numbers bad, because monkeybrain try to make number biggerer!

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Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 1d

It’s genuinely a skill to make a game like Far Cry 5, a game that outwardly appears to be targeted at the ascendant Christofascist movement in America, and have it shrink away every chance it gets. But it’s the kind of skill that should make Ubisoft execs stare at the ceiling in shame every evening.

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〽️ax krieger does the damn thing @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 1d

much of the culture in AAA development and its indignities has been justified by a mandate of excellence; that _____ you had to suffer was the price of greatness, and maybe you just couldn't cut it.

stuff like this, combined w financial implosion from overleveraged scale, shatters that illusion

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 16h

Oh to have a warm, purring, weighted blanket

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Team Fastest Furs @fastestfurs.com · 2d

This weekend's Fall Fest 2025 marathon will feature 2 foreign language restreams by @furryrapide.bsky.social (French) and Japanese Restream! We hope these restreams will help more viewers enjoy our event!

Furry Rapide: www.twitch.tv/furryrapide
Japanese Restream: www.twitch.tv/japanese_res...

japanese_restream - Twitch

海外のRTAイベントを中心に日本語で楽しめる場所を作るためのチャンネルです。GDQ、RPGLB の許可を取って日本語配信を行っております。

www.twitch.tv

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Team Fastest Furs @fastestfurs.com · 18h

Ready... Set... GO!!! It's time to start our annual speedrun marathon for @translifeline.org once again!

Watch: twitch.tv/fastestfurs
Schedule: fastestfurs.com/schedule
Donate: fastestfurs.com/donate

Art by @elfreckles.bsky.social

PB the cheetah crouched at the starting line!

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 1d

i love how "there's polonium in cigarettes" sounds like a conspiracy but it's been known for years and is basically because radium in the soil and fertilizer that decays into radon, which sticks to sticky tobacco leaves as it decays into polonium-210

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue

The major tobacco manufacturers discovered that polonium was part of tobacco and tobacco smoke more than 40 years ago and attempted, but failed, to remove this radioactive substance from their product...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 1d

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 1d

Today I showed the designers that you can name cells in spreadsheets and use the names in formulas (i.e. "=PLAYER_LEVEL" instead of "=C12"). You can then use the Name Manager to track or rename them. I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess not, so sharing that tidbit here.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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