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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 3h

This is the same problem that has made Gen Z stop believing that Helen Keller was real.

mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 3h

AI has gotten to the point where the only way I know a video is AI is if it's too unbelievable and viral-worthy to be true.

This means is something actually unbelievable happens (which happens in the world all the time, tbh) we're all going to think it's fake.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 5h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

Ok ill post more later. Those were just the ones I knew and was already excited for, tbh. Maybe I'll make another thread for games that I only learned about through NextFest coverage.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

And of course, we're all super excited for @blakemanorgame.bsky.social, out later this month. I'm not even gonna play this demo cuz I'm 100% sold on this game. I love the Mignola-esque art style, the setting, the vibes.

The Séance of Blake Manor on Steam

The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

Listen, if you haven't played @postmodernadv.bsky.social 's other two games, do yourself a favor. Esp during spooky season. This third game seems even more ambitious and, while I've complained on Save Your Game about the ubiquity of lovecraftian horror, I'm nevertheless stoked for this.

The Dark Rites of Arkham on Steam

A macabre ritual murder puts Arkham PD detectives Jack Foster and Harvey Whitman to the test. As the investigation progresses, they will unveil a disturbing connection between the Salem witch trials o...

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

Unemployment Simulator looks utterly horrifying. I'm not even sure my brain and heart will be able to take playing this one, but I probably will and then collapse into a ball of anxiety at the end.

Unemployment Simulator 2018 Demo on Steam

Get a taste of US18, a social welfare survival game based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure while evading a literal death by boredom. Be the hero of your studio apartment—bat...

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

Not as eager as I am! (This is a competition now)

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

Marvel absolutely doesn't need my promotion, but I have a little baby brain and it is captivated by shiny superheroes fighting bad guys.

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion Demo on Steam

A cosmic battle awaits! Get a first glimpse of Cosmic Invasion through this demo, choosing between 9 Marvel heroes in this frenetic action beat ‘em up to fight against the deadly Annihilation Wave thr...

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

And holy shit, look at the cast, the animation, and the team behind Earth Must Die. If you've ever played Lair of the Clockwork God, you know Size Five Games are geniuses. This game is gonna rule.

Earth Must Die on Steam

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

Call of the Golden Valley seems fascinating! It's a first person mystery game that seems centered around investigation. I cant tell how deeply this game veers into the deduction part, but I am a huge sucker for deduction games...

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Call of the Golden Valley on Steam

Your friend is missing in the Australian outback and you must find her. Search the Internet for clues, solve mysterious puzzles and uncover the conspiracy of the vanishing hikers of Golden Valley.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, can't miss the new @rustylake.com game. Not even much to say about this one. It just looks great, like all the others.

Servant of the Lake Demo on Steam

Begin your new job as a servant at the mysterious Vanderboom estate. Solve puzzles, serve the family and uncover their dark alchemical secrets in Servant of the Lake, a new upcoming single-player poin...

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

This is one I've been waiting for for i think like a year or two? Can't remember but I'm always looking at it on my Steam wish list and goddamn does it beautiful! By @bluebackpack.bsky.social

The Berlin Apartment on Steam

One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

Kind of a departure from form for @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social. Its an... RPG visual novel about running a Vampire nightclub for monsters? Wild. Giving me Cabernet vibes, story-wise.

Nighthawks on Steam

The secret is out. Vampires have been exposed to the world… and you’re one of them. Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, ...

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

My very brilliant pal @meredithgran.com has her demo for PERFECT TIDES: STATION TO STATION out now in NextFest. I *have* played this one and I can't wait to play the full game in January. Such a promising follow-up to a total masterpiece.

Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam

A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex ...

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

Damn wish I had the time and energy to check out these nextfest demos. Looks like there's some rad ones.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump regime keeps responding to these SNL parodies as if they're both having just some kind of playful back-and-forth. It's portraying an actual totalitarian government as cute, funny, & harmless. Like Fallon messing up Trump's hair.

SNL needs to go WAY harder or just stop.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 3d

100%!! The way we have to do politics is so absurd on its face. Why does Donald Fucking Trump get to make decisions about a woman working at a linen factory in a town of 300 people in Indiana and the conversations she has with her doctor?? Different worlds!

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 3d

Oof sorry you're feeling sick. But that sounds like a damn good morning.

Speaking of scary, its about time to put on the Joe Moore Halloween album for its annual listen!

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 3d

Hey Joe! How's your morning?

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 3d

Its hard for a lot of ppl to hear "compromise" when the stakes are so high - like genocide, healthcare, climate crisis, racist police, concentration camps. We don't need to compromise OUR positions on that. But we can support politicians who don't further ALL of those goals, but further others.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 3d

Haha for sure! I didn't get that impression at all!

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 3d

Open to real debate/discussion. Not swarms of internet radicals circle-jerking about how no one understands anything but them.

Ugh. I gotta learn just to not engage that corrupted underden of social media.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 3d

Not gonna spend my morning engaging with troll-ass pseudo-leftists who can't stand the idea of their own ideas making progress. So many of these people would rather be smug underdogs on the internet than see real reform. Blocks engaged.

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