for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!

i've played (and even written about) a lot of hacking games down the years and i tell you what, i really appreciate when a hacking game doesn't just look like a bunch of regular computer terminals and three fake IM messengers

Finji@finjico.bsky.social · 2d ago

868-BACK is part of Steam's Cyberpunk Fest! 👾 Save 10% until August 10th! 💻 Your mission: dismantle capitalism one server at a time in this computer-hacking strategy roguelike game! store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

LRT: it is wildly under-discussed and underreported how fucking high the fascists are on drugs at literally all times authoritarianism pretends to be puritanical but these people are so tweaked they can’t think straight

At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.

Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4w ago

This from the guy who has to hire people to play his video games for him.

Due to popular request... the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 2.0 (Kiwi edition)

May May the Nard@maymaythenard.bsky.social · yesterday

Please please please.. we need the Kiwi

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

smoking guy is my favorite person in the game

Disco Elysium Quotes@discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 9h ago

Are you... are you part of the *homo-sexual underground*?

(nodding) so true. I actually quit my substack for political reasons and not at all whatsoever for any reason due to executive dysfunction. disgusted and ashamed by anyone who has not done the same!!!!!

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 2d ago

getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years

valis iii / mega drive shin-nihon laser soft / renovation game, 1991

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - And when you fall we will come to raise you up, bud from you, banner-like, blossom from you and carry you apart in a sky funeral. In honour of your passing. (But not me, because I am just a leaf eater.)

my ideal relationship little house on the prairie, 2026

I have now compiled, uploaded, and scheduled all of the Space Quest LPs from me and @shirokumahi.me! Please look forward to a new one every Monday at 9AM throughout August! Come see how it all started with the first one here: youtu.be/-ugzWvCEPqw

Let's Play Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter (1986)

YouTube video by Dia Lacina

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As of this morning, the itch bundle officially broke 100k. This is a lifeline to our fellow workers and proof that solidarity extends beyond borders, both literal and figurative. Never let anyone tell you that things cannot change.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 3d ago

You’ve helped us raise over 80k for laid off gamedevs in need so far, and we still have plenty of time left in the bundle’s drive. Everyone who organized this effort was doing so on their own time for the benefit of others. If these companies wanted to, they would. They don’t. We do. Join us. ✊

mmmm yes.... obtaining a new and cute little notebook will cure me of my mental illness and turn me into a shark eyed type a productivity megafucker... the last several cute new notebooks didn't, but this one will be different, surely.

Is time to send the babies back to school #SnackSociety Consider making a donation to do some good $InvitationAMEZ venmo.com/u/solomon-MI... giv.li/y9kwut

shocked,

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

august existential horror

You'll likely know @tomhumberstone.com from various things (his comic on the Luddites went large), but he's got a new one on the Gig Economy, couriers, the history of all that, specifics of exploitations and the fight against that. Read it, and spread it around. Strong. tomhumberstone.com/just-work

Just Work | Tom Humberstone

Just Work

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I'll get a #ScanlineSunday entry in with some nighttime city views bathed in cathode glow. 💜 One of the PC-98 game artwork images converted to Mega Drive palette and resolution and running on one of our own via a compilation rom file. 📺: Bush 14" VCR combi, composite.

This may sound radical but "games are shit" is actually the median opinion of every Gamer.

hey I'm looking for wargames made by women, I know there's the work of cavegirl that's got some interesting stuff but I'd like more names other myself, so if you've written a game in that space and you're a girl or you know someone who fits pleaaaaase reply

Duke Nukem is gay now and I’m reporting it with primary sources.

incredible discovery here: the 1762 original of the ha ha ha yes sicko cartoon courtesy of thomas waters new book “Magic”

we long for the friction and patience of real human learning

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美@halfrobot.com · last mo.

God bless the weird mod trend that I keep seeing called "immersive masochism." Yes, of course it's a good idea to simulate the process of troweling on mortar and placing one brick at a time instead of a cubical "brick block"

ok sure. you know what, do whatever you want. But I’m not recycling anymore

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d ago

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

dopamine. we need dopamine. ths life is normal. give dopamine. again dopamine. cant focus need dopamine. we all need another dopamine go again

Mathew Kumar@mathewkumar.com · last wk.

Unlocked! Belatedly, I look at Vampire Survivors, and lament that everything is gambling now, even when the only thing you're wasting is your time:

Really excellent write-up on one of the biggest mistakes our industry keeps making again and again.

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 6d ago

If knowledge if power, why are game companies setting it alight?

gamers were a mistake

Thew@amazingthew.bsky.social · last wk.

I think about King's Quest a lot. Distinct childhood memory of overhearing a middle-aged woman at church telling my mom about how much she loved kings quest. This was like circa 1995? games used to be for everyone until nintendo/sega marketers turned them into Action Toys For 12 Year Old Boys

I absolutely love summer so why does it trigger every chronic illness symptom ughhhhh

I’m doing like 10 hours of training a week and bathing in ice and falling asleep most nights on the level 4 acupressure mat listening to murders. clearly my nervous system is very normal and I am good at coping