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austin_walker
@austinwalker.bsky.social
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Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · Jan 23
REALIS IS LIVE

thecalcutec.itch.io/realis
Realis (Ashcan Edition) by Austin Walker
A TTRPG of moon-hopping adventure, arcane discovery, fatal conflict, & meditations on the changing nature of the self.
thecalcutec.itch.io
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2h
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 9h
New from @dropsitenews.com: David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

@ryangrim.bsky.social and @mazmhussain.bsky.social report on leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor

🔗 Read: www.dropsitenews.com/p/david-frum...
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 9h
the only thing people want to do on Sora, it seems, is generate images of copyrighted characters. now that they can't, they're crashing the fuck out www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...
People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails
OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h
Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 22h
the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 21h
oh this would rule, especially if they put servers up
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 21h
it's so good! i went back a few days after this to play some more side stories and let me tell you, they remain really cool
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 1d
I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play
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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 1d
"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."
Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'
Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.
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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d
Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d
LMAO, Keith does that because the MCP posts have like 60 images and Libsyn asked us to stop.
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alessandro fillari @afillari.bsky.social · 1d
This dude has always sucked.
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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d
Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d
Okay, there simply are *not* other layouts available directly with Libsyn unfortunately, and they don't have dynamic image resizing apparently! I reduced the sizes of the images somewhat but I suspect it's still not great. Gonna have to look for another solution longterm
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Keith J Carberry @keithjcarberry.contentburger.biz · 1d
Our Silent Hill f LP is officially started on the YouTube youtu.be/I8RYuq2Ggh4
We Used to Respect Foxes - Silent Hill f Part 1
YouTube video by Run Button
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah, those are just the older, libsyn 4.0 layouts, and we're now onto 5.0, so my options were all tied to those. I'll look later
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d
Hmm, not something we have a lot of direct control over because it's all just @libsyn.com templates. I'll take a look at settings later and see if there's something I can do
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d
New Side Story. The actual post on the website (linked) has very important visual information for a very tortured metaphor I was trying to make about Endless Legend 2's muddiness compared to the crispness of the first.
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Friends at the Table @friends-table.bsky.social · 1d
New Side Story! Austin, Dre, and Keith played Endless Legend 2, the follow up to one of the all time great fantasy 4X games. And then, after talking about that for almost a full episode length, they just keep talking.

sidestory.show/14-melanchol...
Side Story: 14: Melancholic Murder Bug
The ocean is draining. Where is it going? Is there a drain down there? Is someone drinking it? Wouldn't they be getting very thirsty? I guess there are lizardly astrologists and coral-covered automato...
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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 1d
Star Sword Nemesis is now available! Read about the most fashionable girl in a utopian collective of Trans-Neptunian Objects falling in love with her fencing instructor, the deadliest turncoat milf in all of space, feat. art by @mightyatom.bsky.social! loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 1d
seems bad!
But it’s not just the slop. It’s also the scams. “At its most innocuous, AI generated content without watermarking and metadata accelerates the enshittification of the internet and tricks people with inflammatory content,” Tobac said. “At its most malignant, AI generated content without watermarking and metadata could lead to every day people losing their savings in scams, becoming even more disenfranchised during election season, could tank a stock price within a few hours, could increase the tension between differing groups of people, and could inspire violence, terrorism, stampede or panic amongst everyday folks.” Tobac showed 404 Media a few horrifying videos to illustrate her point. In one, a child pleads with their parents for bail money. In another, a woman tells the local news she’s going home after trying to vote because her polling place was shut down. In a third, Sam Altman tells a room that he can no longer keep Open AI afloat because the copyright cases have become too much to handle. All of the videos looked real. None of them have a watermark.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 1d
It's laughably easy to remove the watermark from Sora 2 generated videos. 404 Media found dozens of websites and pieces of software that will do it.
Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web
Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.
www.404media.co
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Danika Harrod @danika.bsky.social · 1d
i am HERE!!!!
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Remap Radio @remapradio.bsky.social · 1d
Heading back into the world of Baby Steps with @patrickklepek.bsky.social, @cado.bsky.social, and the return of our old friend @danika.bsky.social! Baby steps + baby voice = ???

Twitch: www.twitch.tv/remapradio
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS4W...
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d
shoulda put this one on nickelodeon
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d
oh this rules
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d
have you read hakumei & mikochi?
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d
Built in a lab to appease billionaires
"I know that there are some people in this room who don't believe that my marriage should have been legal," Ms. Weiss told the Federalist Society, an influential conservative legal group, in 2023. "And that's OK. Because we're all Americans who want lower taxes."
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