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Just your typical video game loving geek/Walmart employee who also happens to be a big MST3K fan. Aspiring game developer and 3D artist, Walmart employee https://www.tumblr.com/wolfgabe https://spoutible.com/Wolfgabe

This is an underrated part of our E3 collection! Carolyn Rauch's donation included annual reports from the IDSA about the state of the games business. This report comes from 1996, with input from Nintendo, 3DO, Disney, and more archive.gamehistory.org/item/a557101...

Stefan Visnjevac@stefanvisnjevac.bsky.social · 2h ago

Browsing through @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social's priceless E3 collection, and came across a 1996 “first-ever study of how…software industry impacts US economy” (30 years ago). Much of p.12, on issues facing the industry, could have been written today with different factors: bsky.app/profile/game...

Both things can be true at the same time with AES People are getting increasingly fed up with establishment Dems not doing more to push back against Trump Polls have become increasingly unreliable and are notoriously bad at accurately capturing voters on the ground especially in primaries

The problem with big tech again is that its become dominated by CEOs high off their own supply who are convinced they can make their sci fi fantasies into reality just by posting it not bother to do any of the research or planning necessary to make it actually work

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 6h ago

like, imagine everything you’d need for a city — power, water, waste, infrastructure — and then you get a clearer picture of just how staggeringly full of shit this is.

If you want Bluesky to take down Twitter, you should want Bluesky to become home for a wider variety of content. That doesn't mean they should allow Nazis on here, of course. But keeping this a safe echo chamber is way less valuable than breaking the hold of the Zuccs and Elons of the world.

Its not that the polling industry is dead, the problem is its become increasingly hard to gauge the outcome of races thanks to the increasing prevalence of bad quality polling that is often designed to push certain narratives and that is terrible at properly capturing people on the ground.

Schnorkles O'Bork@schnorkles.bsky.social · 13h ago

This gets said in almost every close election. Primary polls are notoriously messy and are often not done by anyone who can actually field a poll. You're basically using some El-sayed internals and a couple of low end polls to declare the entire industry dead.

🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters defeated a GOP bid to limit their ability to amend the state constitution. The measure was the GOP's attempt to diminish the power of voters who’ve used citizen initiatives to expand Medicaid and protect abortion access.

Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution

Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure,…

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