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Drew M.M.

@drewmm.com

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Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · Aug 4

Really proud of the way this soundtrack came out! Give it a spin!

Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 4

The original soundtrack to Kaizen: A Factory Story, by me, Sam Kulchin, and @drewmm.com is out now on Bandcamp and coming to streaming services soon! coincidencegames.bandcamp.com/album/kaizen...

Kaizen: A Factory Story Original Soundtrack, by Matthew S. Burns, Sam Kulchin, Drew Messinger-Michaels

20 track album

coincidencegames.bandcamp.com

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 19d

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 2h

Pappapisshu indeed.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 3h

Baby Steps' Manbreaker is a challenge that you might be better off not doing. But I did. aftermath.site/baby-steps-man...

Nate in Baby Steps, he's climbing a rocky, evil path. There's a green spiral staircase in the distance, modeled (I believe) after a real one in China. Nate wears a hardhat.

Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 1d

Lots of welcome QoL stuff in the remaster, and it has some of Squeneix's least fugly remake fonts, but the upscaled graphics are a strict downgrade IMO.

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 2d

Final Fantasy Tactics // PlayStation // JVC AV-27D201 via component

A photograph of Final Fantasy Tactics on a CRT. Ramza, a blonde knight in blue, enjoys a waterfall ride with a wild yellow chocobo.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3d

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 4d

One of the earliest examples of bar jokes is
Sumerian (c. 4500-1900 BC), and it features a dog:
"A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one!" [1] The humor of it is probably related to the Sumer way of life and has been lost, but the words remain.

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Coincidence @coincidence.games · 5d

Kaizen: A Factory Story is now available on the itch.io store! In addition to getting DRM-free builds of the game for Windows, Mac, and Linux, you also get a Steam key!

astralogicalgames.itch.io/kaizen-a-fac...

Kaizen: A Factory Story by Astra Logical

Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan.

astralogicalgames.itch.io

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 6d

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️

As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike.

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

Kickstarter United is on strike!
We are not asking for a boycott! Creators & Allies: Please continue to support & use the platform
swipe for ways to show your solidarity

Why We're Striking
A codified 4-day work week.
We simply want to protect the way we've been working for over 3.5 years. The 4dww has proven benefits, such as increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction. It's part of what makes Kickstarter a special, innovative place to work.
Fair pay for our lowest-paid workers.
We're fighting for livable minimum salaries for roles that are undervalued by the market but crucial to keeping Kickstarter running. We believe none of our workers should struggle to make ends meet.

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Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 7d

The ImSim is alive, well, and full of cats.

suzanne @binarypartitioned.space · 8d

skin deep is on sale!! play our game about scrutinising warning labels and flushing your less-observant adversaries down the trash chute store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

Save 25% on Skin Deep on Steam

Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...

store.steampowered.com

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 8d

I missed this when it came out, but @ftb1979.bsky.social made an amazing deep dive video into the Takeru Vending Machines:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1_J...

These were ATM-like machines that would download & record games on disk in the 1980s/1990s. Really interesting piece of history!

The Story of the Takeru Vending Machine: Digital Delivery Decades Before Steam

YouTube video by F_T_B

www.youtube.com

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Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 10d

Wake up, @swamphearted.bsky.social, new heresy just dropped.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10d

lot to unpack here

Paula White-Cain took a somewhat different position when defending the Trump administration’s border separation policy and detention of immigrants. According to her, it’s true that Jesus was a refugee because he lived in Egypt for three and a half years. “But it was not illegal,” she insists. “If he had broken the law, then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah.

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Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 11d

Oh, I also got Heads on my very first flip. This means nothing, and profited me nothing, but it felt meaningful, and therefore I have LEARNED nothing.

Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 11d

My coin exploded after 1,231 flips. What does the reward system in my brain even do with that experience?

Rewire your brain and join the Era of the Coin.

Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 13d

TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. HEADS. TAILS.

Unfair Flips is OUT NOW! Flip the world's worst coin over and over as you try to get ten heads in a row!!

store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...

Unfair Flips on Steam

A non-idle clicker game about flipping a coin that hates you. Starting with just a 20% chance of getting heads, can you get ten heads in a row?

store.steampowered.com

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Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 15d

Fractal bonus content, with little difficulty spikes dancing around the room like points of light.

Coincidence @coincidence.games · 16d

Bonus Puzzle #10 - DESIGNER'S NOTEBOOK

... which is actually not a puzzle, but a set of 12 new puzzles, most of which require you to design a production line able to build one of two different products using conditional inputs and commands. It's challenging!

steamcommunity.com/games/227549...

Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 18d

Any other relevant genocides you feel like addressing while you're at it, @magaziner.house.gov?

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Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 22d

Yes, you as a lay person are perfectly capable of understanding the reasoning here, and yes, the reasoning here is as dumb as you think.

5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 22d

This week’s episode is Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, where the Court allowed ICE to do a little bit of racial discrimination as a treat.

Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo

Podcast Episode · 5-4 · 09/16/2025 · 57m

podcasts.apple.com

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Coincidence @coincidence.games · 23d

Bonus puzzle #9 - TOY CASH REGISTER

"Get kids started early on understanding the transactional nature of modern life! This toy cash register includes a light-up display and a working cash drawer. It's all about the Yukichis (Benjamins)!"

store.steampowered.com/app/2275490/...

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Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 23d

Lots of people still genuinely struggling with this, and/or pretending to struggle with it.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27d

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 24d

I *think* I was the one who put it over the top. Great cause!

Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 29d

*OK, definitely not all, because the DuJour songs are bad-on-purpose.

3 Small Words, though!

Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 29d

Fever Dog is better than most of the songs it's standing in for.

Falling Slowly slaps, though it's only supposed to be a hit in a very local way.

Most if not all of the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack?

Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 29d

Repeating earlier, easier sections fosters mastery of the game overall, but that's sort of in tension with the joy (or *a* joy, one especially dramatic joy) of challenging games: namely, barely squeaking by.

Squeaking by frequently means succeeding messily and without mastery. (3/2, with apologies)

Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 29d

Though this often comes out of a sincere & well-intentioned commitment to challenge, in effect it's not that different from a game asking me to do the same activity over and over for a random roll, say.

Show me something new! And then let me keep engaging with the new thing you're showing me! (2/2)

Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · 29d

I was thinking about this while playing Silksong.

I truly enjoy replaying a section I've failed at--but replaying a section I've already *succeeded* at, in order to get back to the one I've failed at, does often feel bad to me. (1/2)

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Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · Sep 3

This looks rather good.

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Sep 3

It's been a while.

Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.

store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

Australia Did It - Reveal Trailer

YouTube video by MysticForge

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Drew M.M. @drewmm.com · Sep 3

I'd enthusiastically recommend Blood in the Machine by @bcmerchant.bsky.social for lots more on the events in question, dick-related and otherwise.

Blood in the Machine

"The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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