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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 6h

Okay, maybe not *yelling*

Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 6h

Should we assume that if a very popular product isn’t included, it has safe levels of lead? Because I’m kinda shocked not to see Premier on this list; it’s available at literally every grocery and drug store within 10 minutes‘ drive from my house, including being one of the few options at Costco

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 6h

Genuinely shocked that they didn’t include it; it’s available at literally every grocery and drug store within 10 minutes‘ drive from my house

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 6h

I’ve only heard the first two eps but as someone in the industry I’m pretty pleased with this show so far. Both eps have approached their topics from smart and interesting angles, and both have surprised me with stuff I didn’t know.

99% Invisible @99pi.org · 9h

Before Fortnite and Call of Duty ruled the scene, the US Army quietly shaped the early 2000s with a wildly popular, free shooter designed to excite young people about enlisting.

Listen to Hidden Levels on the 99% Invisible and @wbur.org Endless Threads feeds 👉 https://bit.ly/46PkdkS

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 14h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 1d

I really hope everyone got to see Frelick clearly yelling “what the fuck just happened?”

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 1d

Anyone else having massive choppiness and dropping sound on the NLCS on HBO Max?

I mean, I probably shouldn’t complain, it was quite a feat for this scrappy upstart streaming platform (a family business apparently!) to land these games…

Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 1d

Is there a link to the voting board?

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 1d

Proud of my alma mater for once (cc @tom.medsky.social)

A screenshot of LibsOfTikTok’s post on X, the Everything App, which reads:

BREAKING: St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio is reportedly refusing to allow students to open up a TPUSA chapter.
You can contact the president at rguiao@ignatius.edu and the principal at afior@ignatius.edu.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 1d

Just as playable as the real thing HEYOOOOO

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 1d

Day #138: Dragon's Lair (1983)

A yellow metal lunchbox, with the image of a green dragon spraying fire at a man and woman huddled behind a sword and shield, surrounded by piles of gold, under the words "Dragon's Lair"

A yellow metal lunchbox with the image of a knight holding a sword, surrounded by fire and a host of hostile creatures such as skeletons, a snake, and a dragon

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 1d

New rev breaks saves

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 2d

Was altar boy, can relate

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 2d

That said, I‘ve now worked on like three consulting reports in a row which needed to include some variation of “this is good, but just so you know, chuds are gonna jump on this, this, and this element”

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 2d

Everyone’s so, so worried that their game might get bad PR from outrage farmers that they forget that normal people like things that say things and will celebrate them loudly. And at worst, most reasonable folks don’t mind that they say stuff, because they are functioning adults.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 3d

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 3d

As someone who came later to the game than most, the fact that a walkoff tiebreaker win can be by 1, 2, or 4, but never 3, is my favorite kind of baseball trivia that I kind of knew but never really thought about.

My second favorite is when there’s a crazy unlikely and obscure way it could be 3.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 4d

You know what Bose is great for? NPR. Sincerely, my mother-in-law.

(That clock radio-looking thing really does do voice well. It’s almost as if it spikes the mids at the expense of everything else.)

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Brad Linder @bradlinder.bsky.social · 4d

This week's episode of Block by Block features stories about queer and trans poets, how people can get involved in development in their neighborhoods, the pressure urban development puts on local wildlife habitats, and an artist highlighting immigrant stories. m.soundcloud.com/phillycam/oc...

October 8, 2025 - Block by Block

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 4d

*a take 🙄

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 4d

So I suggest looking into an option to include SOMEthing on the right, even if it’s just space. And if you wanna get crazy, maybe have width adjustable? (Skeets allows custom padding, which is nice, but that app has other issues IMO.)

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 4d

Posts get stretched out so long that it looks super-weird. Boost is not alone in this, to be clear! But I would kill for an iPad app that includes awtake on the righthand sidebar from the web view—or at least more white space (on both sides) to get post width in line with the width in portrait view.

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 4d

Nice! Clean and snappy, and the pricing of Premium (and what’s locked behind it) is totally reasonable. (A pay-once option would be nice too though!)

The one thing that’s keeping me in the (uggh so buggy) web app is the landscape view on iPad:

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Joe Rybicki @joerybicki.com · 4d

Ohh shiiiit it’s on to game 5 of the Scoops v. Skip Classic @andrewpfister.bsky.social