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Jett Barker @jettbarker.bsky.social · 54m

My very treasured pal, fellow Friend of the Game Jam Waiver, and creator of my favorite vampiric Danish ex-husband is on the front frickin' page of Polygon.

I'm so bloody proud of you, @princerosalium.bsky.social 🥳

Polygon @polygon.com · 6h

Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution

As Steam cracks down on adult games, one dev urges taking back control

Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution

www.polygon.com

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spooky birthday madds ⚰️🎃🖤 @hyakushiki0087.bsky.social · 2h

Why does anyone take Peter Thiel seriously. I have always seen him as a pretty delusional person like so many tech workers, but holy shit he's more of a moron than I thought because he can't read.

Also this is the most heretical shit I've ever read good fucking lord.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 3h

Live now!

Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 5d

This week I’m going to raise money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social to help Palestinians in need.

On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh.

Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!

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hirachill @hirachil.bsky.social · 7h

霊夢さん
#東方Project

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 5h

This has been *confirmed*: so not only did this make it through dozens of levels of decisions where no one spoke up to say "this is unethical and looks like shit", it's also so bad it was instantly spotted by thousands of people like me who in a split second said "hey that looks like shit".

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 16h

Someone tell me Disney didn't just use a bunch of fucking AI slop for the new Wonder Man show

Wonder Man screenshot featuring merchandise which appears to be decorated with AI slop.

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 35m

Once I submit my thesis, I’ll come back to four articles 🍯 that are waiting to be finalized:

2 on AI and porn from my fellowships

1 on French "anime avatars" (pp manga)

1 on the NoFap movement in relationship to hentai and how I tie this to the hatred for the netorare (cheating) genre

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 10d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 20h

socialist sopranos memes
@gabagoolmarx
It's called emotional labor, T. It used to mean you had
to smile at work or something but now a bunch a online
weirdos say it means you don't gotta be a good friend
to someone no more

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 55m

If you weren't there, you will never understand 2010s discourse that treated one of the biggest and wealthiest corporations on earth as a smol bean and individual artists like Scorsese as the mean Scrooges who were trying to take everybody toys away.

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 57m

Oh come on, it's not like Disney would have anyone on hand who could paint and design old school lunch box logos, they're just a mom n' pop outfit operating out of a storefront on a dream and a lot of gumption. Do better.

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Nanda - Commissions Open @saotomenanda.bsky.social · 1h

[PATREON SEPTEMBER]
❤️Mylene - Macross 7 [1994]
🍀Commissions Open! - [email protected]

#Macross7
#AnimeGirl
#RetroAnime
#Fanart
#Anime

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𓆩MissDandy𓆪 👽 @missandydandy.bsky.social · 23h

𝕌𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝔾𝕠𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℂ𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕
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🟥⬛️🟨

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Nyx The Bat @nyxthebat.vtubers.social · 1d

"kill them with kindness" wrong. bat attack
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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 11h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 21h

YOU HEARD THEM

Meme image of Shinji from Evangelion leaning forward in a folding chair with his heads in his hands. Text around him reads "GET IN THE FUCKING FROG" and there are two depictions of someone in inflatable frog suits

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 17h

He's is the living embodiment of that creepy, gross ass dude from Dazed and Confused who says "I keep getting older and they keep gettin' younger"

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ii glocks ii heaven @leatherette.bsky.social · 16h

From someone on the ground STOP USING AI

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

Hey I tried to whip up a moral panic against you and now people are being mean to me. Can you please accept total responsibility for the behavior of a bunch of strangers and also admit it's your fault I'm being yelled at?

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Jean-Karlo @ventcard.bsky.social · 15h

What a cute photo ^_^

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spooky birthday madds ⚰️🎃🖤 @hyakushiki0087.bsky.social · 16h

My birthday tea party was a success!!!!

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Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social · 19h

That is one PLAY IT LOUD-ass @patstaresat.bsky.social...

#FizzVsGaming

Pat Boivin (@patstaresat.bsky.social)'s post-sub-goal-hairdye photo hastily edited to resemble a late 90s Nintendo Power magazine ad for the Game Boy Color with the meme tag line "ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?"

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 17h

Marketing: "Our reader-base appears to be 80% male, ages 13-24. How do we fix that?"
Editor: "Pedophilia jokes?"
Marketing: "BRILLIANT!"

What's really wild is how many of these articles went through approvals by editorial, then image rights approvals from publishers, and nobody said a fucking thing

self crit hulk @forpush.bsky.social · 19h

everyone who wrote for gaming magazines in the 90s should go to jail

a scan of a gaming magazine article about Street Fighter Alpha with the header "and finally, Sakura. Don't even think about it... it's illegal"

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Spy @spyhedg.bsky.social · 17h

[ #$ ] Velvet Crowe for @metalwavez.bsky.social

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21h

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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