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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1d

Q: is it weird if a man owns a rabbit
Is it gay

A: yes. Rabbits are gay animals

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Sep 25

If Window 11 is making you think about Linux, you're in luck. It is easier than ever to linux your computer.

Getting linux into your computer *used* to involve ritual human sacrifice. Now, it merely involves solving a lethal puzzle maze.

First, you will need to find the correct sewer entrance.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 5h

Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry.

cwa-union.org/news/release...

United Videogame Workers-CWA Statement on Proposed Electronic Arts Buyout
October 15, 2025
NATIONWIDE — The following statement is from United Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433.

The recently proposed acquisition of Electronic Arts (EA) by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and private equity firms, including Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, will further concentrate power and wealth into the hands of a few gatekeepers while doing nothing to address the concerns of players and workers.

EA is not a struggling company. With annual revenues reaching $7.5 billion and $1 billion in profit each year, EA is one of the largest video game developers and publishers in the world. EA’s success has been entirely driven by tens of thousands of EA workers whose creativity, skill, and innovation made EA worth buying in the first place. Yet we, the very people who will be jeopardized as a result of this deal, were not represented at all when this buyout was negotiated or discussed.

We are particularly worried about the future of our studios that are arbitrarily deemed ‘less profitable’ but whose contributions to the video game industry define EA’s reputation. Since 2022, an estimated 40,000 video game workers have already lost their jobs due to mass layoffs at AAA and indie studios alike. As reported in Game Developer, this deal will result in EA having to finance nearly $20 billion in debt—who will be spared, which corners will executives cut, and what studios will be sacrificed in order for that to happen?

If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors’ pockets—not to strengthen the company.

Every time private equity or billionaire investors take a studio private, workers lose visibility, transparency, and power. Decisions that shape our jobs, our art, and our futures are made behind closed doors by executives who have never written a line of code, built worlds, or supported live services. We are…

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DjEAR @djear.bsky.social · 21h

What flavor is your fursona?

Boston cream pie

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Siactro @siactro.bsky.social · 1d

I have been a guest on the Super Switch Headz podcast this week. Talking about the very obvious inspirations and connections between a certain hedgehog and toree! 🦔🐤

Super Switch Headz @switchheadz.bsky.social · 1d

Do you miss the games of yore? Indies got you covered. @siactro.bsky.social and @lithiumproject.bsky.social join us to talk about the role of indie devs making spiritual successors to their favorite games. Listen wherever you get podcasts or watch the video version on YouTube: youtu.be/VGaLL7Fv-IA

Indie "Spiritual Successors" & Wearing Influence on Your Sleeve - #326

YouTube video by Super Switch Headz

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Triple-Q @triple-q.bsky.social · 2d

Today's the day...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVGa...

Huepow and Klonoa cling on for dear life as the Windows 10 EoL threatens to split them apart.

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VC @vc-wolffe.bsky.social · 4d

While the monsters howling for blood at the moon, a breeze crosses the swamps, rustling through the reeds and making the cattails dance.

The soft crackle of a fire, the smell of warm food, and the heat building on the cheeks of your face....

🎨 @corzh77.bsky.social

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 4d

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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DjEAR @djear.bsky.social · 4d

"gourmet"

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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DjEAR @djear.bsky.social · 4d

@debiscomusic.com The only Dominator I care about:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4cf...

Human Resource - Dominator (Brisk & Ham Remix)

YouTube video by TrueRedDevil91

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DjEAR @djear.bsky.social · 5d

lets. fucking. go.

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Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 6d

Hey everyone, we have some big news to share!

LACKADAISY - Last Call

A preview of Lackadaisy Season One - the Speakeasy is in its prime as Mitzi and the band regale the crowd with an original musical number, Last Call. This seemed like the ideal way to announce that Lackadaisy is now officially a ‪Glitch‬ Production!!

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DjEAR @djear.bsky.social · 6d

12-hour day, disengage.
*flops*

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 7d

In Super Smash Bros., the skeletons visible when characters are hurt by electric attacks are not tied to specific animations, and instead are a form that can be toggled on and off at any time, including in cutscenes. Below are excerpts of the game's intro, with skeletons.

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DjEAR @djear.bsky.social · 7d

Current Drip:
90s Jazz Dixie Cup Swish.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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DjEAR @djear.bsky.social · 8d

#bestmetroid

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DjEAR @djear.bsky.social · 9d

METAL CRISIS feat. on @shmupsbr.bsky.social as their first big find of the month alongside tons of awesome games out now or in development.

🧡 youtu.be/DFozw5uPWns

🌎 #Shmup #STG #indiegame 🌙

Shmup Drops: August / September 2025

YouTube video by Pixel Pilots

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DjEAR @djear.bsky.social · 9d

METAL CRISIS feat. on @shmupsbr.bsky.social as their first big find of the month alongside tons of awesome games out now or in development.

🧡 youtu.be/DFozw5uPWns

🌎 #Shmup #STG #indiegame 🌙

Shmup Drops: August / September 2025

YouTube video by Pixel Pilots

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DrBossKey @drbosskey.bsky.social · 9d

Pixel Pilots shmup round up news drop is out, yay we had a spot and @djear.bsky.social game too! The shmup-o-sphere is alive and well friends!

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#IS1 #Shmup #indiegame #ModernRetro #videogames🌟🎮