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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 9h

Continuing to wonder if Mafia 3 is going to be the closest we'll ever get to a AAA game from an unapologetically black perspective.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10h

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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Ed "Gein" Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 11h

Pre orders on this close October 18th. My contribution is a 10,000-word essay book on suicide bombers, psychosis and nightmares.

Suriel Vazquez @suriel.bsky.social · 14h

Also in the Deluxe Edition: @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social on KILLER7, @orangeflavored.bsky.social on SHADOWS OF THE DAMNED, and @diegoarguello.bsky.social on NO MORE HEROES.

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amr al-aaser @siegarettes.bsky.social · 14h

CHICAGO!
If you've ever wanted to learn mold making, my partner will be teaching a class THIS WEEKEND at the Insect Asylum!

You can learn how to create and cast 3D molds from animal bones, including using neon pigments and glitter!

Oct. 11, 1-4pm at the INSECT ASYLUM.

Links and info below:

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 1d

it's not Battle Chess

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 1d

We Here For You

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 2d

At some point you just learn to live with the spiders

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 4d

Started watching Broadchurch:

BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly starting to think all bald men are evil.

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 4d

Saw this proposed “bell tower” at an Isamu Noguchi exhibit that he wanted to erect in Hiroshima as a memorial. Bells brought in from all over the world, hung off a seventy foot wooden structure. Might be from playing too much Silksong, but I’m reminded of Silksong!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 5d

Happy birthday!!

Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 6d

And better!! 🧥☕️🚬

Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 6d

One Battle After Another (2025)

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 6d

This feels new. Normally network heads have to hide their ugly political views. Weiss is getting hired *because* of hers. Feels like an abandonment of the old faux objectivity of major news sites. The fringe has overtaken our institutions.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 6d

The past few hours have only reinforced this point, unfortunately. They really are petty, spiteful, childish ideologues who hate their users. And that makes them utterly incompetent in their charge as stewards of anything, let alone a social network in a time of cultural tension and upheaval.

Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 6d

Increasingly convinced every person of power on this platform is a tremendously disingenuous git actively contemptuous of the fact that the ended up reigning over "lefty twitter" and not their jerkoff technobro decentralized utopia they had convinced themselves they were building.

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 7d

There's the substance of the signal issue, and then there's the pattern of behavior that jay was responding to -- the constant, _constant_ off topic responses that make this tedious.

On the substance, it's really just that the guy didn't violate the ToS. I'm sorry, that's just it

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 6d

ALERT! ALERT! We're in the last days of being able to preorder my book EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED: ON ASSASSIN'S CREED, which is a book about the Assassin's Creed franchise and how games reflect and impact the real world! Click this link and use the code MN93450 for 30% off! z.umn.edu/14943

Everything Is Permitted

An entertaining deep dive into the world, gameplay, and evolution of the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video game franchiseA hooded figure stands i...

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 6d

Getting AI to do all your work for you so you can... well, not go outside, we're ensuring that that won't be a possibility. Fester in your apocalypse bunker? Swipe right on VR singles from the safety of your capsule apartment strapped to a life raft? Whats the plan here, exactly...

Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 6d

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

capitalandmain.com

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 7d

Folks who create videos about games on the internet: I have questions for you if you'd be so kind. I'm trying to determine the relationship between traditional media and those who create videos about games and have never worked for the games press. Sharing is appreciated!

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Games influencer press relationship query

I'm trying to determine to what extend people who create videos about games engage with "traditional" press as a source for what games to cover. Please only answer these questions if you are someone w...

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 7d

New episode in our Splinter Cell series, Small Nasty World, is up now. @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social, @reidmccarter.bsky.social, and @youmeyou.bsky.social on Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. www.patreon.com/posts/small-...

Small Nasty World - Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow | Bullet Points

Get more from Bullet Points on Patreon

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 7d

tried to dig into OTGW in this messy essay last year. it grasps beneath the contemporary signs for good and bad with a long history of American folklore, drawing on images of colonization, plantation, suburbanization, at a moment when all the rhetorical shorthands for evil have been discarded.

The Loveliest Lies of All - Unwinnable

Not what, but where is over the garden wall?

unwinnable.com

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 7d

funny that indie games swerved to avoid the silksong apocalypse and now we find ourselves with multiple potential GOTYs coming out within a few weeks from each other that i have zero time to play.

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 7d

I'm still accepting testimonials from folks canceling Game Pass or trading in their Xbox over the BDS Boycott:

[email protected]
ethangach on Discord
DMs open

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 8d

I make breakfast. I power up my PC to log on on to write video games. The president says he wants to unleash the military to kill U.S. citizens on American soil. I respond to a few emails. Gotta take inventory of what still needs signoff before script lock on Friday.

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 8d

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 8d

You don’t have to read between the lines. Trump is literally saying, publicly and out loud, that he is at war — actual, military-involved war — with Americans and American cities he personally dislikes. That impeachment is politically off the table is a national scandal.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

Trump: You know, our inner cities, which we'll be talking about because it's a big part of war now, a big part of war.

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