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Zephrily❀

@zephrily.bsky.social

I was commissioned to make this fun remix of Burning Town from Shantae!

Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/5sT5vH3HihA

#Shantae #vgm #remix

December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM

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Zephrily❀

@zephrily.bsky.social

My friend Tora is going through a super rough patch right now and is doing emergency art comms over on VGen. She also has a Ko-fi. Please consider helping her out! 🙏🏽

ToraTenshi 🐯🌠 @shirotoratenshi.bsky.social · 1d

So my finances are currently cooking me rn.. so I'm going to be taking emergency comms on vgen if you could like a small drawing. If you would like to support without receiving art, feel free to check my Ko-fi below. 💙🐯 Attached is an example of my art. I am new to digital!

vgen.co/shirotoraten...

December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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Kite Line

@kiteline.bsky.social

SOUP ROOMS is a collaborative minimalist art-game featuring over 100 ROOMS created by cool and talented indie devs from around the world.

Admission is free of charge, and you can even make your own ROOMS and SOUP-like games to share with others!

We hope you enjoy your stay.

LINKS BELOW!

↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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Nathan Grayson

@nathangrayson.bsky.social

this week indie studio santa ragione announced that it's on the verge of closure after steam blocked the release of its upcoming provocative art game, horses. valve, despite all of its algorithms and purposefully vague policyspeak, is once again telling us exactly where it stands

Steam is a relentlessly well-oiled machine optimized for the purpose of pushing products – games that adhere to well-worn themes, structures, and strictures. It recommends games along genre lines; it tries to algorithmically match you with games similar to what you last played at every turn. It is deeply traditional – conservative, even – in its construction. Sometimes art that seeks to provoke or unsettle gets through, but this is closer to a happy accident than the purpose of Steam’s design. Valve has built a machine that cannot challenge the status quo, where rare human decisions must reinforce that ethos to avoid upsetting the immensely profitable apple cart.

This should no longer surprise us; Valve drew its line in the sand years ago. But it’s important to remember where the company and the people running it stand – and to recognize that their decisions reverberate through the industry, deciding what does and does not constitute commercially viable art. Such a lofty position necessarily confers responsibility, but Valve refuses to accept it, and I do not imagine it will change its mind anytime soon. This is not to say the larger game development community should take pressure off Valve, but it’s also time to consider alternatives, to build spaces for and unabashedly by human beings. I know it’s far easier said than done, especially when you’ve still got to put food on the table, but what other choice is there?

November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM

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mae

@maedotmkv.com

Divine Hammer, the m. sisters debut film premieres 12/15/25 @ Northwest Film Forum in association with Scarecrow Video in Seattle, WA.

Let’s usher in a new era death together.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dbV...

Divine Hammer - Trailer

YouTube video by hzl

www.youtube.com

November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM

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Santa Ragione

@santaragione.com

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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Sera

@serageranium.bsky.social

@patstaresat.bsky.social on ＡＩ doomerism

November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM

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megan farokhmanesh

@megannicolett.bsky.social

I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...

New Save Collective plans to continue holding future events and organizing gamers. The fight for these communities online is far from over. “Gaming wasn't kind of a random genre that we chose,” says Siggelkow. “We've been tracking anti-immigrant myths and disinformation digitally for years. We really grounded this campaign in a lot of data and research. This really is a space that is critical for immigration narrative.”

November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱

@susankayequinn.bsky.social

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

ABI Bouhmaida
@forgoodcode
Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al
PC with Copilot at the center of
it all.
Here's how to get rid of Copilot
completely from your computer
(1/3)

ABI Bouhmaida
@forgoodcode
1/ Settings App
> Personalization
> Taskbar
> Other System Tray Icons
> Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off
This hides Copilot from your
taskbar

$(9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value$ @forgoodcode
3/
> Name the value
"TurnOffWindowsCopilot’
> Double-click the name of the value
> Set the "Value Data" to 1
> Restart your computer
Congrats! Copilot is now completely
gone from your computer.
Hope this helps

@forgoodcode
3/
> Name the value
"TurnOffWindowsCopilot’
> Double-click the name of the value
> Set the "Value Data" to 1
> Restart your computer
Congrats! Copilot is now completely
gone from your computer.
Hope this helps

November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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Zephrily❀

@zephrily.bsky.social

I had the opportunity to make a theme for @communani.bsky.social's OC, Reina! Thank you for commissioning me ^^

Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/idxz2nFtios

#oc #ocmusic #bgm

November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM

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Zephrily❀

@zephrily.bsky.social

Gonna be obnoxious about this for the next 30 days sorry not sorry lmao

Zephrily❀ @zephrily.bsky.social · 21d

MULTI-LINE CASTING Vol. 2 is OUT NOW! Please enjoy the second installment of my Trails Eurobeat project. ☺️

YouTube: youtu.be/m3XBxsuXIM4
Bandcamp: zephrily.bandcamp.com/album/multi-...

Cover Art: @rainevelt.bsky.social
Chibis: @ergwahhhh.bsky.social

#Trails #Kiseki #Eurobeat #VGM

November 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM

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JoJo LaRow

@jojolarow.bsky.social

Happy birthday to my cat who always happens to look a little angry 🧡

Kai, JoJo’s cat, half twisted around to look at the viewer. A little crown floats above his head, and the words beside him say “Happy Birthday, Kai” with a heart.

November 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM

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Zephrily❀

@zephrily.bsky.social

Just want to say thank you to everyone who has supported the release on Bandcamp! I never expect anything back for this kind of stuff, so it really means a lot to me 😭💜💜💜

Zephrily❀ @zephrily.bsky.social · 21d

MULTI-LINE CASTING Vol. 2 is OUT NOW! Please enjoy the second installment of my Trails Eurobeat project. ☺️

YouTube: youtu.be/m3XBxsuXIM4
Bandcamp: zephrily.bandcamp.com/album/multi-...

Cover Art: @rainevelt.bsky.social
Chibis: @ergwahhhh.bsky.social

#Trails #Kiseki #Eurobeat #VGM

November 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM

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Torr 🧵

@torrleonard.bsky.social

"Two data center projects in Santa Clara, CA, may sit empty for years due to the local utility's inability to supply electricity.

Access to electricity is emerging as the biggest constraint due to aging power infrastructure and regulatory hurdles."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Data Centers in Nvidia’s Hometown Stand Empty Awaiting Power

The fate of two facilities in Santa Clara, California, highlights a major challenge for the US tech sector and indeed the wider economy.

www.bloomberg.com

November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM

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Chris DeLeon Ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev community

@chrisdeleon.bsky.social

one reason minimum wage needs to be raised is currently walmart pays people so little they can't even afford food without assistance (saves Walmart money) and the assistance gets spent at Walmart (gives Walmart money) just pouring our tax money into Walmart's profits

also why Walmart will fight it

November 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM

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Chris Morran

@themorrancave.bsky.social

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?

This.

This is what you get.

X Post by Michael Adams, Kentucky Secretary of State:

"We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM

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southpaw

@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 29d

seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Screenshot text from the Atlantic

Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)

In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed.

Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM

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PoloBlue

@therealpoloblue.bsky.social

Some redraws as part of a trend on the (regrettably) former bird app
#SuperMarioBros #8bit #nes #PixelArt #FanArt

November 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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Ariel Slamet Ries

@arielries.bsky.social

you know what it's been long enough. let's post the whole #bowuigi zine to the public

#bowser #luigi

illustrated book cover that reads "bowser + luigi are in love, so just try and stop me, n*intendo". bowser grips a swooning luigi in his meaty paw.

an illustration of bowser in shock that the princess peach he kidnapped is, in fact, a luigi in disguise with clever use of a face mask.

October 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM

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Matt Zoller Seitz

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Oct 23

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

www.npr.org

October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Channing @ Designercon booth TE4

@littleguys3d.bsky.social

Introducing Skellybean!
Much like the skelly cats, skellybean has a glow in the dark skeleton inside their translucent body. Unlike skelly cats, their face is a removable mask, revealing a spooky skull underneath. I’ll have a limited number of these guys in my shop this Friday!

October 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM

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Rain👽☔️ [👻Limbo Arc]

@rainydayalien.bsky.social

Trying to capture something, but my understanding of it is still evolving…
#SpecularSketch 💧

Concept art of Rain with ghost motifs- both rough drafts, not final designs.

October 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM

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Stealth40k

@stealth40k.bsky.social

Legendary Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uematsu says he’s never used generative AI, and never will.

"I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself."

automaton-media.com/en/news/fina...

October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM

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MAGFest - The Music and Gaming Festival

@magfest.org

Charge your Busters and prepare your E-Tanks, @themegas.bsky.social are teleporting into Super MAGFest 2026!

These VGM powerhouses can’t wait to return to the MAGFest stage, bringing their ever evolving stage presence to songs new and old! Get your badges at super.magfest.org/registration 💙

September 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM

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