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joannes
@playthroughline.com
· Sep 19
🌐 NEUROCRACY 🌐
An episodic sci-fi hypertext game
✅ Fall into a wiki hole from the future
✅ Solve a murder across article edits
✅ Your investigation affects the outcome [citation needed]
⭐ "Ambitious" - The Guardian
⭐ "Brilliant" - Eurogamer
▶️ Dive in: omnipedia.app
▶️ More info: neurocracy.site
An episodic sci-fi hypertext game
✅ Fall into a wiki hole from the future
✅ Solve a murder across article edits
✅ Your investigation affects the outcome [citation needed]
⭐ "Ambitious" - The Guardian
⭐ "Brilliant" - Eurogamer
▶️ Dive in: omnipedia.app
▶️ More info: neurocracy.site
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BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES
February 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES
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Now you guys understand why I've been pushing for PS2 graphics.
Basically every GPU maker has close ties to the far right so that means graphics are fascist.
February 11, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Now you guys understand why I've been pushing for PS2 graphics.
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UK leftists! Please please please fill out the UK govt survey on Earned Settlement *today* and rail as hard as you can against any changes to this system. We cannot let them spend billions on more surveillance and fascist bureaucracy of our communities ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
February 10, 2026 at 2:37 PM
UK leftists! Please please please fill out the UK govt survey on Earned Settlement *today* and rail as hard as you can against any changes to this system. We cannot let them spend billions on more surveillance and fascist bureaucracy of our communities ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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What's going to happen is private healthcare companies starting to offer human-only procedures for exorbitant amounts of money
No, I don’t want technology that hallucinates anywhere near my body thank you very much
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
February 10, 2026 at 8:44 AM
What's going to happen is private healthcare companies starting to offer human-only procedures for exorbitant amounts of money
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I’m annoyed by the delay too but Valve has allowed for games with AI-generated content on its storefront, at some point we can’t just sit there & say “grrr AI tech bros bad I can’t get a Steam Machine yet” without noting that the call is coming from inside the house. Valve is enabling the problem
February 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I’m annoyed by the delay too but Valve has allowed for games with AI-generated content on its storefront, at some point we can’t just sit there & say “grrr AI tech bros bad I can’t get a Steam Machine yet” without noting that the call is coming from inside the house. Valve is enabling the problem
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"Teen-by-Default" is such a hilariously grim way to talk about your userbase like, usually companies aren't this up-front about how they think we're all dumb children.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
discord.com/press-releas...
discord.com/press-releas...
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
"Teen-by-Default" is such a hilariously grim way to talk about your userbase like, usually companies aren't this up-front about how they think we're all dumb children.
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It's just statistics repackaged from long ago and it's not useful in this form except for furthering fascism
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 6:12 AM
It's just statistics repackaged from long ago and it's not useful in this form except for furthering fascism
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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
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I'm still looking for full-time or contract work – I'm a narrative design generalist with credits on multiple shipped titles. I focus on taming the complexity of narrative systems, writing prose, and leading narrative teams.
brunodias.dev/bio
brunodias.dev/bio
Bio
Bruno Dias is a game designer and writer. Previous credits include Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, Neo Cab, and Pathologic 2.
brunodias.dev
February 6, 2026 at 1:30 AM
I'm still looking for full-time or contract work – I'm a narrative design generalist with credits on multiple shipped titles. I focus on taming the complexity of narrative systems, writing prose, and leading narrative teams.
brunodias.dev/bio
brunodias.dev/bio
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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
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?
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This months Archetype is here, and we have the brilliant @konstantinosd.bsky.social examining Skyboxes through the lens of Half-Life 2.
Enjoy diving into this one.
Enjoy diving into this one.
How the grey, heavy skies of Half-Life 2 set the scene for a dystopian sci-fi tale: @konstantinosd.bsky.social pays homage to the work of Viktor Antonov in our first article on Skyboxes.
www.eteogames.com/skyboxes-des...
www.eteogames.com/skyboxes-des...
Designing Oppression in the Skies of Half-Life 2
How Half-Life 2 art director Viktor Antonov created skies that were vast, heavy, and deeply moving.
www.eteogames.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM
This months Archetype is here, and we have the brilliant @konstantinosd.bsky.social examining Skyboxes through the lens of Half-Life 2.
Enjoy diving into this one.
Enjoy diving into this one.
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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it's never too late to grab some free clip studio brushes ko-fi.com/s/1909d49cfc
Clip Studio Brush Set - alice duke's Ko-fi Shop
A set of 3 brushes for Clip Studio Paint with a texture matched eraser. The set includes:
- one multi-purpose chisel paint brush with a textured tape...
ko-fi.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
it's never too late to grab some free clip studio brushes ko-fi.com/s/1909d49cfc
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bad people can and often do make good art. attacking the art as retroactively subpar to free yourself of moral dilemma and give yourself permission to not care means you're innately equating quality of art as representative of moral virtue (it's not) which is how you get purity culture
February 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
bad people can and often do make good art. attacking the art as retroactively subpar to free yourself of moral dilemma and give yourself permission to not care means you're innately equating quality of art as representative of moral virtue (it's not) which is how you get purity culture
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I was thinking after the music biopic chat yesterday about how the underlying assumption of tech and capital seems to be that culture has stopped, it’s a solved problem. Every innovation has been made, every style invented and trope named, and the old will always provide higher returns than the new
We already have a visual medium that can de-age actors and keep characters eternally young - comics. But we also know from decades of comics doing it that it tends to stagnation. Make up some new stuff eh?
February 3, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I was thinking after the music biopic chat yesterday about how the underlying assumption of tech and capital seems to be that culture has stopped, it’s a solved problem. Every innovation has been made, every style invented and trope named, and the old will always provide higher returns than the new
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When I open a can of cat food and some gets on my hand
February 3, 2026 at 10:18 AM
When I open a can of cat food and some gets on my hand
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I'm looking to speak to voice actors/voice directors for a feature I'm working on. If you're an actor/director interested in chatting about your work, or a PR with an opportunity to talk to some actors, get in touch at [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.
February 3, 2026 at 1:36 PM
I'm looking to speak to voice actors/voice directors for a feature I'm working on. If you're an actor/director interested in chatting about your work, or a PR with an opportunity to talk to some actors, get in touch at [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.
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Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist.
Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.
Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.
February 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist.
Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.
Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.
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"support indies" has become an annoying catchphrase that ignores a lot of material factors but i also understand why it's caught on among the normie youtuber game playing crowd, because this is the alternative presented by what's left of the mainstream.
Loaded up this week's Critical Distance and was immediately hit with this oof
February 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
"support indies" has become an annoying catchphrase that ignores a lot of material factors but i also understand why it's caught on among the normie youtuber game playing crowd, because this is the alternative presented by what's left of the mainstream.
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I'll be speaking alongside Milly Gunn, Maddalena Grattarola and @kurainisei.bsky.social at the Goldsmiths Game Library Night on February 20th, 6-8pm! The topic is games preservation, tickets are free, get them here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/losing-gam...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/losing-gam...
February 2, 2026 at 1:36 PM
I'll be speaking alongside Milly Gunn, Maddalena Grattarola and @kurainisei.bsky.social at the Goldsmiths Game Library Night on February 20th, 6-8pm! The topic is games preservation, tickets are free, get them here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/losing-gam...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/losing-gam...
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we excel when we use game design as meaningful abstraction, not by trying to literally render inferior 'interactive' films where you click through your chores so you can see more lore. low poly low res UI-driven games are a form of resistance now
February 2, 2026 at 10:09 AM
we excel when we use game design as meaningful abstraction, not by trying to literally render inferior 'interactive' films where you click through your chores so you can see more lore. low poly low res UI-driven games are a form of resistance now
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What if there was a website that regularly covered indie computer games outside of Steam, including experimental works and interactive fiction
virtualmoose.org/2026/02/01/i...
virtualmoose.org/2026/02/01/i...
February 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
What if there was a website that regularly covered indie computer games outside of Steam, including experimental works and interactive fiction
virtualmoose.org/2026/02/01/i...
virtualmoose.org/2026/02/01/i...
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#DERELIKT will release this year - a narrative retro FPS inspired by Alien Resurrection, Doom 3 and System Shock 2. 🪐 #screenshotsaturday #ps1 #psx #hauntedps1
February 1, 2026 at 1:06 PM
#DERELIKT will release this year - a narrative retro FPS inspired by Alien Resurrection, Doom 3 and System Shock 2. 🪐 #screenshotsaturday #ps1 #psx #hauntedps1
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This month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, @nictringali.bsky.social and I talk with @meredithgran.com about her new game Perfect Tides: Station to Station, as well as making comics, satisfying endings, and the power of time and place.
sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...
sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...
February 1, 2026 at 1:26 PM
This month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, @nictringali.bsky.social and I talk with @meredithgran.com about her new game Perfect Tides: Station to Station, as well as making comics, satisfying endings, and the power of time and place.
sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...
sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...
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£500 given out to a working class writer every month.
Details in link.
Please share :)
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Please share :)
The Creatives Grant
let's make art less middle class
thewhitepube.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 10:57 AM
£500 given out to a working class writer every month.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)