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Out of Touch Thursdays Deluxe!!

@ootthursday1.bsky.social

Merry Christmas Thursday!!!!

December 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM

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Boze the Library Owl

@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM

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ken

@pocketdile.bsky.social

My family has arranged a gofundme for my brother Kyle. If you can't donate anything, sharing it will mean the world to me. We do not have the funds on hand for his burial and funeral. He did not have any life insurance for us to help in paying.
gofund.me/e80bf622e

Donate to Assist Baker Family in Honoring Their Loved One, organized by Amanda Baker

Hi- My brother in law, Kyle, passed away unexpectedly on 10/31/25. We ar… Amanda Baker needs your support for Assist Baker Family in Honoring Their Loved One

gofund.me

November 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM

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Nightdive Studios

@nightdivestudios.bsky.social

Not even the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 are safe from SHODAN, with the critically acclaimed System Shock remake COMING SOON to both platforms! 🤖

October 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM

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shaun

@shaunvids.bsky.social

like if i have to spend a bunch of my time teaching it to not be wrong, it's not really a tool helping me, is it. i'm a tool helping it

October 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM

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∂ire

@dire.bsky.social

so it's been like 5 years since max gold and el dorado, are we ready to admit that the gold rares are some of the best rarities konami has ever made yet or are we still pretending to hate them because like 3 youtubers didn't like them?

October 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM

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Truegreen7

@truegreen7.bsky.social

Quick! Take this!

October 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM

Mantrador

@mantrador.bsky.social

If you see this, repost with a game that was released the year you were born.

September 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Gianmarco Soresi

@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

Politics is not comedy

September 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM

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Wario64

@wario64.bsky.social

Nioh 3 release confirmed Feb 6

September 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM

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🎃 DETTAN ☛ COMMS CLOSED

@dettanarts.bsky.social

Artists, quote a silly

This is to commemorate tomorrow's release of #hades2

September 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM

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Lupine 🥀

@lupinesheep.bsky.social

i had to dig this up again to honor one of the greats

September 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM

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sanzuniur

@sanzuniur.bsky.social

NO, I'M NOT A HUMAN. I'M A. . .

#noimnotahuman

September 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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Luke Plunkett

@lukeplunkett.com

probably the realest thing ive ever seen posted on that website

Happy Friday everybody! I don't know why, but I feel like spilling the tea this morning, so here are some hard truths about the game industry.

A lot of people who got into the industry early were terrible game developers. This shouldn't surprise people, but we used to look at numbers in the early 00's like half of all people rolling out of the game industry in the first three years as though all of those people were qualified.

Hiring in this industry has almost always been untrained amateurs looking for people they like and who remind them of people they know. Most interviewers decide in the first five minutes whether they think you're worth hiring. Even the people who get training in how to interview almost never get coaching on how they do it, or real feedback on the success of their techniques.

As a result, a lot of people walked in the door unqualified to do the job they were hired to do. Some of them survived for multiple cycles. Some of those were even promoted to leadership positions. There was a lot of nepotism involved - if you were friends with / had worked with the head of studio, department director, etc., then you were a known quantity and better than having to go out and find someone.

Combine this with the prestige halo that comes from branding, and you have real problems. People tend to ascribe god-like powers to successful game studios - EA back in its heyday, Blizzard, BioWare. People who worked on hit games at big / known studios carried a ton of prestige - regardless of what they actually did.

It's easy to say "I worked at Blizzard", and what that meant was not that you were part and parcel of the magic that made those games awesome, but simply that you were employed there; it takes hundreds, if not thousands, of people to make AAA games, and I promise you that inside every large, successful studio, there is a cadre of fuck-ups that no one has the heart, willpower, or political pull to get rid of.

I've fired people with over a decade of expe…

September 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM

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dooms-dave.bsky.social

@dooms-dave.bsky.social

September 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM

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Alan Cerny

@alancerny.bsky.social

I don’t think people appreciate the whiplash I suffer from in regards to TRON: ARES.

“New TRON!” - “Fuck yeah, I love TRON!”

“Starring Jared Leto” - “Fuck no! I hate him!”

“NIN soundtrack!” - “Fuck yeah! Love Raznor!”

“Mr Beast is in it too” - “Dear God fuck no”

September 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM

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Aura

@aurahack.ca

If you're Canadian, please sign this! You'll have to confirm your signature via email but for good reason--this is a petition sponsored by an actual member of parliament. These petitions can lead to actual meaningful action here. Doesn't take very long, please add your support!!

Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · Sep 3

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

September 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM