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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 11h

sick shirt

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 1d

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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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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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 1d

And @kransekage.bsky.social just brought up a connection to the Vietnam War (the way it was so televised and reported on; contrast how the movie begins with radio reports of grisly crimes) that I missed and would have really enhanced my take on encroaching globalism! This is why we need guests!

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of those eps where I easily could have kept talking about the movie for another three hours. It really feels like the deeper you go, the more it unfolds. Also, shout outs the T-rex

Trylove, A Movie Podcast @trylovepodca.st · 1d

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒.

Our spooky season kicks off with THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974) in all its gory glory of American rural decline!

(links in 🧵)

#filmsky #Halloween2025 #spookyseason #horrormovies

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Videogame Workshop @videogameworkshop.com · 1d

The last thing any designer wants is for a player to reach a state in the game that’s unbeatable. So, what do you do? Lock it!

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #GameDesign

Directing Players with Keys

The last thing any designer wants is for a player to reach a state in the game that’s unbeatable. So, what do you do? Lock it!

videogameworkshop.substack.com

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 1d

Like four separate friends have sent me the "visualizing the man I want to become" meme image with Sensei from OBAA and I've honestly never felt so complimented

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 10d

a few small beers

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 3d

Charlie and Dennis really crush this discussion. I want a (turn-based?) Superman savior simulator and a Kaiju disaster photography game so bad. Be sure to watch (seriously, look at Charlie's editing) and subscribe to their channel, there's really great stuff coming soon

Videogame Workshop @videogameworkshop.com · 6d

Did you see the new Superman movie? There should be a game! There used to be way more games based on movies!

This episode we discuss games based on movies and our experience making games for an established IP.

#gamedev #indiegamedev #podcast

Games Based on Movies - Videogame Workshop Podcast

YouTube video by Videogame Workshop

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 4d

They said a Minneapolis boy would never love da Mets @metallicaisrad.bsky.social

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry to hear about your COVID but BM goes crazy huh? It's gotta feel like you're reading the necronomicon rn

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 5d

Oh word?????

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Videogame Workshop @videogameworkshop.com · 5d

Spoiler from our Games Based on Movies podcast episode youtu.be/jAucKD4gpA0

#indiegamedev #podcast #godzilla #papersplease

A screenshot of the game Papers Please edited so Godzilla is in the game at the immigration counter.

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 6d

No movie has ever gone as hard as THE EXORCIST before or since

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 6d

Phantom Pain replay is talking to me like the Green Goblin mask tho

Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 6d

I won't scatter your takes to the heartless soundcloud...

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 7d

:)

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 7d

Just a few

Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 7d

I've had like twelve modelos since seeing ONE BATTLE. Movies have the power to change da world

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 8d

Oh rad! you know, you're very likely the one who got me into them in the first place lol

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 8d

He's still in the trenches... respect

Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 8d

I've only played Cold Steel but when you get there I wanna hear all about it

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 8d

I liked THE KEEP considerably more than any of my co-hosts and was frustrated with my inability to more completely articulate why. If you're interested in hearing me try and fail to describe how something makes me feel, boy do I have a podcast for you (though really, listen to any ep)

Trylove, A Movie Podcast @trylovepodca.st · 8d

𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕨𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕦𝕥.

No ghosts here — just special guest Tony Wagner! Back to help us dissect another movie compromised by studio meddling: Michael Mann’s very weird THE KEEP (1983)!

Is it a Mannsterpiece of vibecraft or a cult clunker?

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#filmsky #podcast #80svibes #cinema

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Mack the Knife @punishedtake.bsky.social · 9d

this fucking killed me lol

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