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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 5h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 1d

I think I need a fighting game that's nothing but combo trials.

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 1d

Gentle reminder: I've been working full-time on VGDensetsu for years, and although I've chosen to make my site freely accessible to everyone, I'm currently unable to make a living from it. So if you would like me to continue my work, please feel free to support me if you can.
vgdensetsu.net/support/

Support me – VGDensetsu

vgdensetsu.net

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Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 1d

Lol. People might think the service was downgraded by removing the plus sign.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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Tom @darthinternous.bsky.social · 1d

Fun story from #NYCC. During Matt Stover's first signing we had a massive line. A reader brought with him 14 Stover books to get signed.

This reader knew he would take awhile so he asked if he could be LAST in line so as not to delay his fellow readers in meeting Matt. (1/3)

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 1d

We’re just normal men

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Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 1d

Deadlines exist for a reason.

Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 2d

Happy Thanksgiving

Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 2d

Are there any articles/videos with interviews of the devs who worked on those Kemco RPGs, where there was like a new one every week?

Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 2d

The amount of betting ads (including non-sports) is insane. I get them all the time on Twitch and YouTube.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d

Am I just being a Puritan?

I think it’s bad enough that the MLB allows betting advertising in between innings, but putting up an ad with the betting line or whatever in a graphic on screen during play?

Given the prevalence of problem gambling it’s IMO inexcusable.

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☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆ @idolismj.yase.world · 3d

That green base wasn't the only color that ended up looking washed out in the final design

Fighting-Games Daily @fgcdaily.bsky.social · 3d

🎨Bayonetta's character designer, Mari Shimazaki made Miary Zo's Costume 03!

“The combination of a green base with red accents was inspired by the Madagascar flag, and from an early stage onwards, a white inner layer was incorporated to highlight Miariz's dark skin.”

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 2d

Great work as always. Evo France was amazing!

Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 2d

I'm seeing black lines at the bottom of my monitor.

I hope my graphics card isn't dying.....

Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 2d

Been wanting an Avatar fighting game for a while. Great to see one is being made! Hope it turns out good.

Please add Avatar Kiyoshi.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2d

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game (working title) announced (Summer 2026 - from Gameplay Group International) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBG...

store.steampowered.com/app/2424420/...

-12 players at launch
-Single player campaign
-"Best in Class Net Code and Cross Play"

PC/PS4/PS5/Xbox/Switch 2

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Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 2d

Quick search shows that people have been asking about this game as recently as 2 years ago. Apparently there was a handful of players still playing the game (less than 50 players).

Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 2d

Nice to see one of my favourite PS3 games on there (Warhawk).

I wonder how active it is, though?

Standard Issue Cell Computing @standardissuecomputing.blog · 2d

holy shit

From the PS3 community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the PS3 community

www.reddit.com

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Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 2d

@newvgadvisor.bsky.social

Screenshot from FInal Fantasy Tactics. A unit says "What is love? Mayhap it is when you care more about someone else than you do yourself."

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Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 2d

Insane reads by Kobayan, damn.

Mike Murray @mikeadmurray.blacksky.app · 3d

So Miary Zo is basically good Ogre

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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SimplyAJ @simplyaj.bsky.social · 5d

Fellow YouTubers, go to your Settings > Uploading Defaults > Advanced Settings and turn off "Automatic Dubbing" to prevent YouTube from using AI to steal your voice and poorly translate it into other languages.

I've already turned mine off before and YouTube turned it BACK ON again.

A picture of my settings on YouTube showing that they're re-opted me into their awful "Automatic Dubbing" system

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