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Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · Jun 29

If you haven't seen my Black History Month Black Game Devs thread, please see below.

With the Steam Summer Sale going on, I'd like to do a "Juneteenth 2025" update.

What? It's still June ain't it?

I'll be updating this through the day.

#Blackskygamers
#gamerskyclub
#gaming
🎮

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · Feb 7

For Black History Month 2025, I wanted to create an as-comprehensive-as-possible evergreen directory for Black Game Dev projects that could be referenced in the future.

(Yes, even and especially during [Steam] sales, lol)

We're 7 days into BHM '25, so I'll start with 7 devs.

#blackskygamers

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Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 16m

Sapkowski references a line in The Last Wish, however, Bonnart, as far as Baptism of Fire, is described as wearing a wolf, cat, and a griffin witcher medallions.

So this is an instance of an author who cannot even remember his own stuff, unfortunately.

Witcher schools are canon.

IGN @ign.com · 4d

Andrezj Sapkowski, the creator of The Witcher, has said he regrets including a throwaway reference to "Witcher schools" in one of his books, which CD Projekt's The Witcher video games have since massively expanded on.

The Witcher Creator Says It Was 'Completely Unnecessary' for 'Video Game People' to Expand the One Sentence About Witcher Schools He Wished He Never Wrote

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Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 20m

Unless CDPR hires like Netflix, I wouldn't even bother with an app.

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 35m

Eyyy, blacksky.community got whitelisted at work!

NICE!!! Couldn't even login before!

Blacksky

Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

blacksky.community

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 1h

"Let's kill off the character leading the underclass to revolution because despite Comstock creating a theocratic white supremacist state, this Black person has to die because 'she is just as bad as her oppressors'" or some neoliberal BS.

Levine tried to "fix" his mistake in the DLC.

FAIL!

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 2h

Amazing!!!

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jun 25

This is Zoran Mamdami’s wife’s portfolio site and she is very good

HOME | Rama Duwaji

Rama Duwaji is a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NYC.

www.ramaduwaji.com

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Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 2h

😂😂😂😭😭😭

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 3h

Hangar 13 dared to run a Black man (biracial but we know how that goes) as the protag/villain in Mafia 3 and "fans" were livid.

So they went back to generic Italians.

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 3h

GOOD!

After Ken Levine's cowardly character assasination/Magical Negro BS with Daisy Fitzroy in Bioshock: Infinite, I don't trust AAA companies with that subject.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 5h

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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Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 3h

😏😏😏

#blackskygamers

Slandered @slandered.bsky.social · 5h

Mafia 3 sold 7 million copies and had the highest sales in the entire series. For comparison, Mafia: The Old Country sold 800K in it's first week while Mafia 3 sold 4.5 million.

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 6h

I wasn't aware either. I'm lucky to have yet to experience this myself. I've just been attending everyone else's funeral arrangements. And burials on occasion. Repass all the time of course

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 7h

One of my in-laws died recently. They cremated her and are doing a celebration of life instead.

I am increasingly leaning in that direction to not create a burden on my kids.

I'm getting a new body anyway, where I'm going.

Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 12h

Why do funerals COST SO DAMN MUCH?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?

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Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 7h

Great response

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 8h

🤭🤭🤭

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 8h

I need more of this

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 14h

She was still teaching at MSU when I was in the dept of English there.

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 17h

Shout out to the unproblematic short Kings, LOL

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Fellow Short Kings, we good with AOC again

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 17h

I just hope our friends abroad in Europe and other countries watching in the US have considered what happens once they consolidate power here.

Annexing Canada will no longer be a joke when there's no one left here to resist.

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 17h

They never respond when we remind them

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 19h

But they still won't endorse him!

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 20h

So what are yall gonna do about it if you know it's coming?

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Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 20h

BLACK FOLKS TOLD YALL TO DEFUND THE POLICE

But NAH, YALL WANTED THIS

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 20h

Thanks! I didn't even know this myself!

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 20h

Gonna start spamming this to the folks still talking about peaceful protests.

They out there shooting pastors in the dome.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 21h

If only CEOs didn't make "FU" money so that they could actually experience humility.

Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.app · 23h

It's not working for Palestinians in Gaza.