How much do you like these tropes? Enemies to lovers: 8/10 Second chance: It depends/10 Fake dating: 5/10 Friends to lovers: 9/10 Age gap: 6/10 Found family: 10/10 Grumpy x sunshine: 11/10 Pregnancy: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯/10 Slow burn: YOU'RE TAKING TOO LONG/10 Love triangle: 2/10

star ⭐@gamingbricabrac.bsky.social · 17h ago

How much do you like these tropes? Enemies to lovers: 9/10 Second chance: 8/10 Fake dating: 2/10 Friends to lovers: 7/10 Age gap: 10/10 Found family: 10/10 Grumpy x sunshine: 8/10 Pregnancy: Go away/10 Slow burn: 100/10 Love triangle: 0/10

When industry-wide unionization finally gets established in the video game industry in the states, we need to be prepared to support a long strike that will delay some of your favorite games. Cuz' that's what it's going to take to make these companies start giving a shit about their workers.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · yesterday

There is no plan aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...

Made another Kingdom Hearts reaction image by accident 😆

Probably the best kind of story to help radicalize Wisconsinites to the Left, and I mean that unironically.

The NFL BANNED the Packers' Ownership Model. Here is Why

YouTube video by Prime Time Sports

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What a great idea! @drjohnwills.bsky.social it can be used in the classroom too.

Dr Florence Smith Nicholls@florencesn.bsky.social · 3d ago

I just released a new keepsake game- Bleed Map! You play alongside a video game of your choice, creating a map of the digital space. At the same time, you'll be prompted to record emotions and thoughts from your everyday life that bleed into the experience. florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/bleed-map

It's gonna be Wild Arms for me-it was the first time I played a game that showed you can tell serious, interesting stories. It started me down the road to where I am today, studying games as a scholar.

Rudy Roughknight Wild Arms

ALT: Rudy Roughknight Wild Arms

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Retro Blast 💫@retroblastpod.com · 5d ago

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?

Little behind, but back to it: Day 5: Desert level youtu.be/7KZaK5LJsow?...

MegaMan Legends 2 51 - Saul Kada- Kimotoma City

YouTube video by ClassicTyler

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Dr. Will Helmke@williamhelmke.com · 2w ago

Stealing from @professorfessor.bsky.social

If the industry switches to "SI" instead of "AI", We all agree we're gonna just call it "Stolen Intelligence," right?

Jake Lahut@jakelahut.bsky.social · 5d ago

Uhhh, interesting

QTP with 10 games to get to know you 🎮 #promosky #gamesky 🔹️ Chrono Trigger 🔹️ Wild Arms 🔹️ Mega Man Legends 🔹️ Xenosaga Episode I 🔹️ Final Fantasy IX 🔹️ Fallout: New Vegas 🔹️ Ratchet & Clank 2 🔹️ Dark Cloud 2 🔹️ Steambot Chronicles 🔹️ Journey

Holli@jealaxy.bsky.social · 6d ago

QTP with 10 games to get to know you 🎮 #promosky #gamesky 🔹️ Thousand Arms 🔹️ Final Fantasy XII 🔹️ The Last Story 🔹️ Legend of Zelda : A Link To The Past 🔹️ Divinity Original Sin 2 🔹️ Dishonored 🔹️ Stardew Valley 🔹️ Klonoa : Door to Phantomile 🔹️ Tales of Symphonia 🔹️ Babylon's Fall

Tech CEOs are existential risk to our societies and democracies.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

Don’t miss this moots! Time for another road trip 🤩🫶🏻

FINAL FANTASY XIV@en.finalfantasyxiv.com · last wk.

The FFXV collaboration event, A Nocturne for Heroes, returns to FFXIV on September 24! Don’t miss out on rewards like the Regalia Type-G 4-seater mount, the Lucian Prince costume set, Modern Aesthetics - Lucian Locks, orchestrion rolls, and more! 👑 sqex.to/M46s2

it's creepypasta for adults but somehow dumber.

Eniko Fox@enikofox.com · 2y ago

always just assumed roko's basilisk was a serious thought experiment of old, not some shitpost someone came up with on a forum 10 years ago "i must contribute to building the torment nexus in case the torment nexus becomes sentient and persecutes anyone who didn't help build it" fuck offfffffff

One of my continual frustrations of being a media and games scholar is that neither field can seem to come to a consensus on a unified citation style for their journals 🫠

Boy, this week has been hectic between work/teaching/writing/anime con running 😩

Happy 25 years to the Nintendo GameCube

Day 4: Dance-Off! (It's a bullet hell rhythm/dance fight, so I say it counts): www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeDI...

068. Death By Glamour (UNDERTALE Soundtrack) - Toby Fox

YouTube video by Toby Fox

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Dr. Will Helmke@williamhelmke.com · 2w ago

Stealing from @professorfessor.bsky.social

Day 3 Fighting Game www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeT6...

Super Smash Bros. Brawl; Tabuu Fight music

YouTube video by Bird Swamp

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Dr. Will Helmke@williamhelmke.com · 2w ago

Stealing from @professorfessor.bsky.social

UI-Con is recruiting volunteer staff for 2027! If you want to join us, fill out this form and we will be in touch: forms.gle/3jMvLw3BAmzQ...

They want you to think you have to buy it. You don't. It was already in your own heart all along. Support your friends. Support strangers. Support independent publishers. You do not need a corporation's permission to have fun.

HODAG RPG@hodagrpg.bsky.social · 2w ago

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE YOUR OWN VERSION YOU ARE ALLOWED TO MODIFY ANTHING YOU OWN TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS YOU ARE ALLOWED TO CREATE YOUR OWN WORLDS YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DO IT YOUR OWN WAY

Day 2: opening level

Opening Stage (1HR Looped) - Mega Man X Music

YouTube video by AlbirdVampPrinceMK2

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Dr. Will Helmke@williamhelmke.com · 2w ago

Stealing from @professorfessor.bsky.social

Yep. #AcademicSky

You don’t have to qualify to play a game. You don’t have to pay any dues to enjoy something. If you only play FFXVI and want to praise Final Fantasy, go for it. Just like things.

Take Meowt by Franz Ferdinyan@wendysnowradish.bsky.social · 2w ago

There’s something uniquely wrong with the brains of people who regularly use Twitter. Like years of being conditioned to regurgitate nothing but the same handful of catchphrases has stunted their critical thinking skills

I need to remind everyone, especially after their presentation today. Level-5 has been very openly using Generative AI in their game development and are proud of it. This includes their newly announced titles such as New World of Steam, Yo-Kai Watch 2 and Curious Village Remake.

Day 1: Title Theme

Chrono Trigger Title Screen (Bandicam Test)

YouTube video by PayneBear

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Dr. Will Helmke@williamhelmke.com · 2w ago

Stealing from @professorfessor.bsky.social

Stealing from @professorfessor.bsky.social

QTP with a gif of your first ever anime

Studio Ghibli: Nausicaä's Discovery

Alt: Nausicaä

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Holli@jealaxy.bsky.social · 2w ago

QTP with a gif of your first ever anime

Christopher Pike; such an affirming boss.

Captain Christopher Pike Says Hi

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Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name the Star Trek captain you'd want as a boss.