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S. Allise @blinkfraid.bsky.social · 3d

100% I started a lil garden this year and ignoring the whole space situation--it takes MONTHS to grow produce. Someone with a yard could solve for a fraction of their food needs...next year, at the earliest. And that's if you start now and not in an area that gets cold? Or have animals eating crops

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S. Allise @blinkfraid.bsky.social · 3d

It's also important to note that Linux systems, unlike all of Mac and Windows, are extremely flexible in the area of what you have in your OS. No, they can't run Windows programs, but if you don't want an app or feature...you just uninstall it. Period.

Linux is an opt in system.

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S. Allise @blinkfraid.bsky.social · 3d

As someone else said, one distro of Linux won't affect your experience elsewhere. The most Windows familiar distro is Mint and they aren't doin' any of that.

I'm sorry that all the art folks gotta learn about Linux this way, ontop of creating new art workflows. Be not afraid.

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des 🌲🐎 @zeroforest.bsky.social · 3d

Interrupting this program to let you know that there is *finally* a place to buy my comics online!
🔮 zeroforest.itch.io
Vespers, Ghost Year, and Home by Midnight are all available for download now, but more will be posted with time.

desolina 🌀 🐴

zeroforest.itch.io

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S. Allise @blinkfraid.bsky.social · 3d

Take-Two Interactive...I need you guys to not do this. Just continue to make award winning chill games. Do not feed into the Ai discourse this way. ffs

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 3d

Take-Two CEO predicts genAI will create jobs, not kill them

'The reason [AI] is so extraordinary right now is because what we have is a combination of metadata with a parlor trick; we're all going to get used to it.'

www.gamedeveloper.com

S. Allise @blinkfraid.bsky.social · 3d

If the reason all of these failures exists is cause there's not enough money to fix it, then the game was already too expensive. I want everyone to be paid, but I also want my games to be affordable AND run. If I buy an $80 dollar game and it doesn't run like silk--I'm crashing the fuck out.

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S. Allise @blinkfraid.bsky.social · 3d

If anything, the tech of 2025 should allow us--if necessary, which it's not--make beautiful games that run better than their predecessors, for LESS--not more! I want to know why Breath of the Wild was a beautiful cell shaded game on the Switch 1, but every other similar game ran terribly? WHY?

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S. Allise @blinkfraid.bsky.social · 3d

I also want these games to stop being so needlessly fucking graphically intensive. We shouldn't need to hit the ceiling with this every year. There's zero reason that in 2025, a Silent Hill release runs so poorly on console and PC. Why? Why aren't these games optimized either?

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S. Allise @blinkfraid.bsky.social · 3d

I agree with everything said here. My partner and I found out that Ass-Creed's recent release was ported to the Switch 2 at $80 and were beside ourselves.

Why are these games costing so fucking much when studios like SuperGiant and Team Cherry can give us far more of our money's worth for <$30??

Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 3d

I simply think that maybe we shouldn’t be making games that should be priced at 100 bucks bc no one who games can afford more than a couple of games at most a year At that price, and that’s not worth it when consoles are still a thing

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S. Allise @blinkfraid.bsky.social · 21d

🧵Bsky's business model and how being an adult still means something when you're just a 20 something making mistakes on the internet, publicly.

I'm reminded of all my crash outs in my 20s, they were a whole lot like Jay's, where I was trying to fix issues that I hadn't even come to terms with yet.

Missino @onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev · 22d

As someone very into the technical side I can get into it.

Bluesky the social network was never supposed to be the product. This was a prototype/proof of concept for the underlying tech (atproto). It blew up past their intentions and so they've been trying to stick the landing since.

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S. Allise @blinkfraid.bsky.social · 21d

Yo, I just woke up! To be knocked in the face with this.

Thank you for sharing...I'm gonna go water my plants and think on this AO3 wisdom.

InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 24d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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endeavorance 🕊️ @endeavorance.camp · 23d

Nobody tell the current administration that cars kill American citizens or they'll start bombing the ships bringing in imported vehicles claiming they're automotive terrorists or some shit

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anikeru.bsky.social @anikeru.bsky.social · 23d

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Marie Enger - PAX U /Forever Stoked 3809 @soengery.bsky.social · 24d

It's the spooky season! It's been 9 years since I drew NOSFERATU! - a graphic retelling of Nosferatu.

www.crwnstudios.com/collections/...

A drawing of Nosferatu! It's the cover for Marie Enger's Nosferatu!

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 23d

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · Sep 26

Book Cover Artists!

QRP with your book covers 📖

Lockjaw cover artwork, 4 kids on bikes on the outskirts of a dusty small town downtown with an ominous golden cloud hanging overhead

A teen boy looks over his shoulder in horror in front of an apartment building front door covered in roaches. Through the door's window can be seen a ghostly pale elderly figure staring ominously at the boy

Two young adults wearing wizardly looking robes run down a tower staircase holding hands, magic flames coming from their hands. One of them holds a ring of large antique keys. At the top of the tower is a skeletal figure standing in a doorway. A crow perched on a branch can be seen out a window in the tower

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Stephanie Williams @stephwilliams.bsky.social · 25d

My first creator-owned baby is out in the world today! Thank you to @pages-and-panels.com for the review!!!

Please consider picking up Roots of Madness #1 today at your local comic shop or heads straight to @ignitionpress.bsky.social

Roots of Madness #1 — Pages and Panels

[Critic Score: 9.5] Like a house of curiosity where each page lays one intriguing brick after another, Roots of Madness is another stellar debut for Ignition Press. This comic utilizes the topic o...

www.pages-and-panels.com

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Dr Artyom Trakhanov - THERE COMES FOR YOU A DAY is out now! @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 24d

FOURTEEN HOURS LEFT!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sharp-eye/sharp-eye-issue-1/

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Vesper Doom 🧡🤍🩷 @vesperdoom.com · 24d

I am tentatively looking for published authors who would be interested in being a part of a second space horror anthology, the sequel, so to speak, to Astrophobia.

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 24d

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️

As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike.

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

Kickstarter United is on strike!
We are not asking for a boycott! Creators & Allies: Please continue to support & use the platform
swipe for ways to show your solidarity

Why We're Striking
A codified 4-day work week.
We simply want to protect the way we've been working for over 3.5 years. The 4dww has proven benefits, such as increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction. It's part of what makes Kickstarter a special, innovative place to work.
Fair pay for our lowest-paid workers.
We're fighting for livable minimum salaries for roles that are undervalued by the market but crucial to keeping Kickstarter running. We believe none of our workers should struggle to make ends meet.

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Ben "Ben Pack" Pack @packbenpack.bsky.social · 25d

Circle K has what can only be described as “Saints Row Food”

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Chuckabilly Clay @chuckabilly.bsky.social · 25d

Hey me Book-os! I just finished “Spread Me” by Sarah Gailey on audio and trust me: you want this. It’s sexy, provocative, and gets under your skin in the best possible way. Thanks to #NetGalley and #SarahGailey and #MacMillanAudio for the advance. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Recommend. #SpreadMe

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 25d

⚠️ Spread Me is an instant USA TODAY BESTSELLER ⚠️

True freaks buy books!!! 😭💕😈

A screenshot from the USA Today Bestseller List, which rounds up the top 150 bestselling books in the US weekly. This shows that Spread Me is #132 on the list.

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BloodStarved Bailie @ MCM M-01 @bailierosenlund.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you Guillermo Del Toro Frankenstein Trailer I owe you my life youtu.be/8aulMPhE12g

Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

youtu.be

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Pillowfort.social @pillowfort.social · 25d

Just a reminder that Pillowfort is NSFW-friendly, anti-AI, 100% user-funded, and not owned by fascist billionaires! You can join for free today via our (short!) rolling waitlist:

pillowfort.social/waitlist

Pillowfort.social @pillowfort.social · Apr 20

Pillowfort is free to join via our automatic rolling waitlist!

pillowfort.social/waitlist

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S. Allise @blinkfraid.bsky.social · 25d

Love how capitalism never learns. Firing people to make your bottom line look good for a fiscal half year is wild and yet people keep doing it.

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 25d

Funcom, the Oslo-based studio behind the recently released Dune: Awakening, has announced it will be laying off staff.

www.gamesindustry.biz/dune-awakeni...

Dune: Awakening developer Funcom announces redundancies

The Tencent-owned studio says it needs to "restructure our teams and focus our resources"

www.gamesindustry.biz