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The hell with it all, I just can't think of a thing other than those words of his—HAPPINESS, FREE, FOR EVERYONE, AND LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN! * * * 🇵🇷 ⚧️ they/them 📍 redmond barrens 1/2 of @codexentries.com, talking way too much about dragon age

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jade @goblinmode.com · Sep 25

this is the type of shit i’m on. btw

wiki article for reedbeds. two images with the following captions:

A reedbed in summer

Reedbed in winter

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 4d

crabs

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jade @goblinmode.com · 9h

he's an innovator!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 9h

re: Jack’s formulation re: machine-reasons in the post I quoted: I was playing a party boy sim. he woke up hungry & I hit autosolve, which doesn’t always pick the most efficient resolution to the need (to the frustration of many players). however, this happened, which technically will fix hunger, so

a Sims 4 UI indicating that the hunger-resolving behavior this sim’s autonomy has chosen is to do cocaine, which technically will fix the hunger issue

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jade @goblinmode.com · 9h

cairn2e night ~ hopefully no one nearly dies in combat this time! hehe

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Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 13h

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jade @goblinmode.com · 10h

what’s great about the sims is that they can fuck. not that that’s the main draw (though for some it is). but them being able to fuck introduces so many different possibilities for how their relationships and personalities function outside of the fucking.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 10h

really good articulation. I’ve been spending time recently playing the Sims with a bunch of mods in order to experiment with surfacing these machine-reasons: I don’t want the weird little guys’ behavior to be more understandable, but I want to make it more *observable*, & that’s been very satisfying

Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 12h

a central principle—maybe THE central principle—in each of these is: sometimes you won't understand what the weird little guys do, and they'll do it for a machine-reason that you can only feel the edges of. but you will enjoy it when they do it

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jade @goblinmode.com · 10h

it can still be the year of the linux desktop. if you want it to be

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Wren @fauxwren.bsky.social · 11h

many of you

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jade @goblinmode.com · Sep 27

we’ve all existed on dying websites for so long that the traditional hallmarks of a dying website “what controversial opinion got you like”, “1 like = 1 song“, “quote with your five favorite games” etc etc are just normal parts of posting. and it stinks

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · Sep 7

the arrowheads

Panel 1: a cowboy with arrows in his back says "Boys...what's something that's common knowledge in your field but shocks...ah...outsiders"
Panel 2: the narrator says "each step of his horse kertwanged the arrows deeper. the hot agony threw him into a poster's delirium"
Panel 3: the cowboy (looking worse): "Let's - ah - r-ruin a title by adding the word ... naked. I'll go first."
Panel 4: two other cowboys in the posse

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 22d

it's the 11th Annual Nicky Flowers (let's-celebrate-the-end-of) Summer Single!!! every year since 2015, i've released a non-album single and here i am once again!

this time, i'm introducing my new Portastudio-based sound. let everyone know i've gone lo-fi nickyflowers.bandcamp.com/album/laugh-...

Laugh It Off / The Ballad of the Contemptible Loser, by Nicky Flowers

2 track album

nickyflowers.bandcamp.com

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Jul 6

ME: thanks to AI, more stepmothers are getting pregnant than ever before
ANCIENT MARINER REPLYING FROM THE DISCOVER TAB: Aye, and so me stepmother pregnant was
When at last we did set sail,
From out the bay and straight away
From verdant hill or dale!

For many nights the winds blew right,
But alas

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 11h

Stephen King invented future elf language wingdings

Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 17h

The saga of Roland and the Dark Tower is over, but that doesn't mean there's not more to be seen in Mid-World! 2012's A WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE has some stuff to say about werewolves, storms, matricidal forgiveness, little trains, and of course, Elf Language rangedtouch.com/2025/10/13/t...

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 17h

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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laura "laura” cavegift @cavegift.bsky.social · 12h

the book of the new sun is about how cool it is to lie about literally every single thing you can possibly get away with

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R/L Monroe @mortalityplays.bsky.social · 13h

My Painterly terrain sets for Dungeondraft are out!

Pick up the Megapack to get 792 terrain materials for just $18, all designed to a 22-hue palette with light, mid and dark shades for maximum flexibility.

mortalityplays.itch.io/painterly-me...

Painterly Megapack by Mortality Plays

Dungeondraft terrain

mortalityplays.itch.io

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 15h

I am saddened at his death, but perhaps it was necessary.

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Nora Blake (spooky nun mode) @skulldaughter.exportaud.io · 16h

After a lengthy delay, Journal Updated returns! Despite the universe's best efforts, Molly and I recorded a podcast.
www.abnormalmapping.com/journal-upda...

Journal Updated 62: Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy — Abnormal Mapping

Welcome back! This month on Journal Updated we talk about Silksong, Hades II, Nunholy, and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy! Meanwhile, in Diary Updated: suffering, coping, and beating Nora’s ass.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15h

conscience is the wound, and there’s naught to staunch it

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SmallBu Animation @smallbu.bsky.social · 1d

Though not shown here, SmallBu did the opening for the new season of Fionna and Cake! We hope you'll enjoy it when you see it! Have a great weekend! 🐰😺

Animation Magazine @animag.bsky.social · 1d

HBO Max and Cartoon Network Studios released the official trailer for the second season of the Max Original animated series Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake during a panel at New York Comic Con.
www.animationmagazine.net/2025/10/adve...

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 18h

also, book: topatoco.com/collections/...

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 2d

reading more fritz leiber... some of these fafhrd & the gray mouser stories are from like 1940; incredible stuff and totally altering my sense of the historical development of fantasy fiction!!!!

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Codex Entries @codexentries.com · 11d

Episode 12!! We are joined by @unormal.bsky.social and talk about Dragon Age 2, Caves of Qud, games as a literary form, Pool of Radiance, Star Control II, combat as a fidget toy, higher dimensions of morality, and more!

Codex Entries: Dragon Age II - Episode 12 - Interview with Brian Bucklew

In this episode we talk with about Dragon Age 2, Caves of Qud, and more! Check out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can support us on and gain access to our newsletter, bonus episodes, and more. You can also ...

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 20d

Submissions to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on! More info about the session and where to submit can be found on our NEW website here www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

Experimental Games Showcase

SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE

www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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