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Leah✨

@myleah.bsky.social

My talk on fandom & game dev marketing is now available! I would love if you'd watch it and give me feedback! 💖

Key takeaways:
⭐ Build feedback loops early
🌱Cultivate a community space!
🤝🏾Incorporate feedback early where you can
🙌🏾Make your audience feel seen & heard

youtu.be/tQW7puDlFgY

build feedback loops early
Cultivate a community space with a Discord server!
Respond to fan content when you can
Incorporate feedback early where you can
Make your audience feel seen & heard
Example:
Someone draws art of your game’s protagonist. Instead of just a “like” leave a reply about why you like it, or a detail you appreciate! A creator “noticing” a fan is one of the highest compliments between fan and creator, but use this sparingly.

February 10, 2026 at 11:54 PM

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SwiftOnSecurity

@swiftonsecurity.com

Army Counterintelligence on Twitter post
It doesn't take a mathematician to figure out
"10 + 5 = honeytrap." Report suspicious
behavior.

February 13, 2026 at 7:32 PM

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵

@ocremix.org

HAPPY 27th BIRTHDAY to Final Fantasy VIII!

OC ReMix celebrated FF8 in 2023 with the (FREE) fan arrangement album, SeeDs of Pandora!

💿 ff8.ocremix.org
🎮🎧 5 1/2 hours, 80 tracks, 97 musicians!

Thanks to directors @darkflamewolf.bsky.social & @jorito.bsky.social!

February 11, 2026 at 7:51 PM

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MirruTatep

@mirrutatep.bsky.social

The reference and the pixelart

Pixel art rendition of the baby cow with a grassy background

February 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM

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SEAN DC

@sean-dc.bsky.social

«GLASS» #pixel_dailies #glass #mimes #pixelart @pixeldailies.bsky.social 32x32 Mime in a glass box- do not let out!!

32x32 pixel art piece depicting a mime in traditional mime attire leaning confidently on the wall of their “glass box” monochrome w/ accent red scarf

February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM

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🩷Prismcandies🩷

@maddiebova.bsky.social

Welcome! Thank you for taking the time to peek at my work🩷🩷🩷

November 7, 2024 at 2:46 AM

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BourBunBun

@bourbunbun.bsky.social

Darlene!! 🩷🩷🩷

Commissioned by @maddiebova.bsky.social

February 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM

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Brian M

@legendofnerd.bsky.social

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults.

Hey folks –

I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news.

I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.)

Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence.

Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details.

And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM

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Emmy™️

@babkastreisand.bsky.social

My Philadelphian sister in Boston tonight, wearing a Dawkins jersey at the function:

“The only thing I enjoy more than the patriots not making it to the superbowl is the patriots making it to the superbowl and losing”

February 9, 2026 at 3:25 AM

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disc horse bot

@horsedisc.bsky.social

some of y’all have internalized sexism against flawed SoundCloud rappers who look like they were cast in Steel Magnolias and it shows 🌚

February 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM

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Blaze Blitzcoxx 🔞

@jettswole.bsky.social

Bandcamp Friday reminding me in passing again that "Oh right...I have one of those!"

Been a while since I uploaded to it, but ya know, it's still there.

jettswole.bandcamp.com

Jett Swole

I make music and I fucking love it

jettswole.bandcamp.com

February 6, 2026 at 12:13 PM

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Myst-A

@myst-a.bsky.social

It's not for a project. I just enjoy designing new characters everyday.

February 5, 2026 at 5:46 PM

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Anna 🌿👁️ 🔜 GDC

@annacwebs.bsky.social

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

February 6, 2026 at 1:59 AM

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Cat Graffam

@catgraffam.bsky.social

I drew Ethel Cain in MacPaint from 1984 with a 25 year old mouse

image is of a program window within Mac OS 6 of MacPaint. The drawing within the program is a pixelated 1bit rendering of Ethel Cain on a black background with her looking over her shoulder, arm bent and hand resting on her head with her fair flowing toward the right of the composition.

February 5, 2026 at 11:10 PM

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Nanners (Pixel art commissions available)

@bananannertoast.bsky.social

Been working on some a tile commission for a rom hack.
The bamboo looks so good I almost wanna refund the client and keep it for my own use.
#pixelart

February 6, 2026 at 8:36 AM

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videogame history

@vghistory.bsky.social

barbie, magazine screenshot, commodore 64 (1985) archive.org/details/Comp...

black and white in game magazine screenshot of barbie, who is at the entrance of a clothing shop with various small dresses, pants, tops on either side in the windows.

February 6, 2026 at 11:54 AM

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

Attention Artists of Philadelphia!

The time has come to find an artist for our next Philly Biodiversity Mural!

This project will take place in April/May.
Pay = $20k

The form to apply is as short as I could possibly make it. Please tell your friends and apply!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A carpenter bee looks up at the camera on top of a passionflower. On top of the picture, the words "Call for artists! owrk on EKNA and Skype a Scientist's 2026 biodiversity Mural. Deadline to apply: Feb 14 Project Dates: Spring 2026

February 5, 2026 at 8:44 PM

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@coloradoweeks.io

voice lesson #3 and i'm getting gender euphoria from learning how to resonate

February 6, 2026 at 2:14 AM

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Adam Kellogg (he/him)

@adambuckled.bsky.social

Dear CIA, check your DMs, thx.

February 4, 2026 at 8:21 PM

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videogame history

@vghistory.bsky.social

design your own home, magazine screenshot, macintosh (1997) archive.org/details/MacA...

a 3d entertainment room, coloured brick walls, a pool table, a large fish tank on a stand, an entrance to the kitchen can be seen on the back wall. the floor is a sortof reddy brown. menus and user interface up top and user interface on the left hand side.

January 27, 2026 at 5:46 AM

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Darkflamewolf

@darkflamewolf.bsky.social

The four ships detected are closer now. They've been identified as Arwings! We've decoded a message hidden in their radio broadcasts and have decrypted it into an image. It appears to be a track list! What gift are they flying in for us?! Stay Tuned!
@ocremix.org #StarFox #MusicAlbum

February 2, 2026 at 5:44 AM

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CRT Soundsystem

@crtsoundsystem.bsky.social

Grammy posting for the Grammys?! Congrats to Austin Wintory on the win for the absolutely stunning Sword of the Sea soundtrack (I called it) and we had @larryoji.bsky.social join us to talk about the nominations among other things so come listen!