Turfster
@turfster.bsky.social
Coder, pun perpetrator
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser
Don't put words in my mouth
It's not my fault you can't perceive tone and context
(TurfsterNTE off The Bird Site)
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser
Don't put words in my mouth
It's not my fault you can't perceive tone and context
(TurfsterNTE off The Bird Site)
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Turfster
@turfster.bsky.social
· Oct 18
I guess I'm on here now as well, if only just to stake my claim.
Will I use this for actual posting?
Probably not, if I'm honest.
Still.
I'm here now too.
For given values of "here".
Will I use this for actual posting?
Probably not, if I'm honest.
Still.
I'm here now too.
For given values of "here".
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this bandcamp friday, i want to give a special thank you to everyone that has supported my album EARTHBLADE ~ Across the Bounds of Fate
50% of all sales have gone towards Trans Lifeline, and to-date we have donated over $8,300 usd towards the charity with your support. Thank you so, so much 🤍
50% of all sales have gone towards Trans Lifeline, and to-date we have donated over $8,300 usd towards the charity with your support. Thank you so, so much 🤍
EARTHBLADE ~ Across the Bounds of Fate, by Lena Raine
9 track album
radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
this bandcamp friday, i want to give a special thank you to everyone that has supported my album EARTHBLADE ~ Across the Bounds of Fate
50% of all sales have gone towards Trans Lifeline, and to-date we have donated over $8,300 usd towards the charity with your support. Thank you so, so much 🤍
50% of all sales have gone towards Trans Lifeline, and to-date we have donated over $8,300 usd towards the charity with your support. Thank you so, so much 🤍
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this was such an uphill battle for us, too. it's not "the union" it is a YOU-nion. YOU are the union when you're in one. and the hard work of making the union effective is organizing and rallying people to your cause so that you can wield your collective power effectively.
"the union is a third party, let's resolve our issues directly" is a common management anti-union talking point, but I think pro-union folks also too often think of "the union" as a separate entity that can solve their problems for them, instead of a vehicle for members to create change themselves.
I think we need to change the way we talk about SAG-AFTRA. Not a dig at Jeff here (I too would like to see a SAG-AFTRA Amazon Agreement,) but we've got to stop referring to SAG-AFTRA as an organization that can just "step in" and do stuff.
December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
this was such an uphill battle for us, too. it's not "the union" it is a YOU-nion. YOU are the union when you're in one. and the hard work of making the union effective is organizing and rallying people to your cause so that you can wield your collective power effectively.
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remarkable how tech companies claim they are building AGI in their backyard but Google drive spell check still chokes on simple English inflected verbs like "sates" or "hid".
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
remarkable how tech companies claim they are building AGI in their backyard but Google drive spell check still chokes on simple English inflected verbs like "sates" or "hid".
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I wrote this joke article about Ian Bogost's idiotic takes on game narrative *eight years ago*, there's absolutely no point in relitigating this nonsense. He's just a stupid old man playing the same stupid old song.
medium.com/@NotBrunoAga...
medium.com/@NotBrunoAga...
Videogames Are Better Without Mechanics
A transcript I salvaged from a 1992 issue of PC Prospect magazine.
medium.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I wrote this joke article about Ian Bogost's idiotic takes on game narrative *eight years ago*, there's absolutely no point in relitigating this nonsense. He's just a stupid old man playing the same stupid old song.
medium.com/@NotBrunoAga...
medium.com/@NotBrunoAga...
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Staff turnover is definitive evidence of bad management. This simple fact gets lost when wall street rewards C-suite for juicing quarterly reports with hiring/firing cycles.
I spoke to @fortune.com about my upcoming book Super Nintendo and the secret(s) to Nintendo's enduring success - a large part of which is cultivating and caring for developers instead of hiring and firing everyone in yearly cycles.
(Book deets: linktr.ee/super_nintendo)
fortune.com/2025/11/28/s...
(Book deets: linktr.ee/super_nintendo)
fortune.com/2025/11/28/s...
Nintendo’s secret to becoming a design powerhouse? Developers who have stayed at the company for decades | Fortune
“The people who first made Nintendo’s hits are still working at the company,” says Keza MacDonald, author of a forthcoming book about Nintendo.
fortune.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Staff turnover is definitive evidence of bad management. This simple fact gets lost when wall street rewards C-suite for juicing quarterly reports with hiring/firing cycles.
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"Can video games tell stories better than books" idk man, is a cream puff more numinous than a pair of jorts? Does the sky have more of the Buddha-nature than a rubbermaid container full of loose hdmi cables? Try an argument that's even remotely a thing.
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"Can video games tell stories better than books" idk man, is a cream puff more numinous than a pair of jorts? Does the sky have more of the Buddha-nature than a rubbermaid container full of loose hdmi cables? Try an argument that's even remotely a thing.
something something more like boo!ghost because you never expect these takes to suddenly pop up on your timeline and they're always a jumpscare?
idk, I'm tired.
idk, I'm tired.
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
something something more like boo!ghost because you never expect these takes to suddenly pop up on your timeline and they're always a jumpscare?
idk, I'm tired.
idk, I'm tired.
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i am begging game developers and musicians who are not putting your soundtracks on bandcamp/ampwall to just... do that... please... i will not be streaming your music off A Music Service. let me actually give you money.
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
i am begging game developers and musicians who are not putting your soundtracks on bandcamp/ampwall to just... do that... please... i will not be streaming your music off A Music Service. let me actually give you money.
Can't wait for all of us to have to sign up to NetBros to watch WarFlix.
Love our dogshit future.
Love our dogshit future.
December 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Can't wait for all of us to have to sign up to NetBros to watch WarFlix.
Love our dogshit future.
Love our dogshit future.
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The specific example he gives in here is so funny. Like, couldn't have picked a more self defeating example than photoshop, the piece of software where its users are extremely vocal about literally preferring the version from a decade ago lmao
December 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The specific example he gives in here is so funny. Like, couldn't have picked a more self defeating example than photoshop, the piece of software where its users are extremely vocal about literally preferring the version from a decade ago lmao
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Games are such a funny medium to generalize about because like, games is an absurdly broad umbrella that we've decided is one medium even though you can easily come up with two examples of a "video game" that are more unlike each other than any two movies or novels
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Games are such a funny medium to generalize about because like, games is an absurdly broad umbrella that we've decided is one medium even though you can easily come up with two examples of a "video game" that are more unlike each other than any two movies or novels
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I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here
www.vice.com/en/article/s...
www.vice.com/en/article/s...
Stories in Games Aren't Problems, They're Solutions
Lots of video games have terrible stories, but that's no reason to give up telling them.
www.vice.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here
www.vice.com/en/article/s...
www.vice.com/en/article/s...
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
Why the fuck does confluence have a new "race mode", atlassian?
How about you make your dogshit "productivity" cloud bullshit *actually work as advertised* first, and *then* do nauseatingly cutesy garbage?
How about you make your dogshit "productivity" cloud bullshit *actually work as advertised* first, and *then* do nauseatingly cutesy garbage?
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Why the fuck does confluence have a new "race mode", atlassian?
How about you make your dogshit "productivity" cloud bullshit *actually work as advertised* first, and *then* do nauseatingly cutesy garbage?
How about you make your dogshit "productivity" cloud bullshit *actually work as advertised* first, and *then* do nauseatingly cutesy garbage?
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Cannot stress enough that this is an OBJECT with BUTTONS that DO THINGS
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Cannot stress enough that this is an OBJECT with BUTTONS that DO THINGS
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Chris Person takes a look at Horses, "the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form" (quoted from the article blurb).
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Chris Person takes a look at Horses, "the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form" (quoted from the article blurb).
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
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There's only a little over 8 hours left to pick up this bundle of all our games: itch.io/s/169922/kit...
Pick up all our titles for the regular price of Kitsune Tails! Everything's 33% off on itch but the 4 game bundle's only $19.99 itch.io/s/169922/kit...
Includes gay foxgirl platformer Kitsune Tails, turnbased possess em up MidBoss, adorable puzzler Ultra Hat, and Kitsune Tails' prequel Kitsune Zero
Includes gay foxgirl platformer Kitsune Tails, turnbased possess em up MidBoss, adorable puzzler Ultra Hat, and Kitsune Tails' prequel Kitsune Zero
December 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
There's only a little over 8 hours left to pick up this bundle of all our games: itch.io/s/169922/kit...
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"Meta plans to shift spending from the metaverse to artificial-intelligence wearables"
i can't believe anyone who sees that doesn't immediately see it as an excellent reason never to invest in AI
i can't believe anyone who sees that doesn't immediately see it as an excellent reason never to invest in AI
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"Meta plans to shift spending from the metaverse to artificial-intelligence wearables"
i can't believe anyone who sees that doesn't immediately see it as an excellent reason never to invest in AI
i can't believe anyone who sees that doesn't immediately see it as an excellent reason never to invest in AI
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“Notepad++ is eating our lunch! What should we do to counter it?”
“We could... become good?”
“No. No, I don’t think so. Let’s try, actually, going the other way on that.”
“We could... become good?”
“No. No, I don’t think so. Let’s try, actually, going the other way on that.”
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“Notepad++ is eating our lunch! What should we do to counter it?”
“We could... become good?”
“No. No, I don’t think so. Let’s try, actually, going the other way on that.”
“We could... become good?”
“No. No, I don’t think so. Let’s try, actually, going the other way on that.”
The Final Fatality 😿
(anyway it's kinda annoying that his *vast* body of work usually gets contracted to "MK guy". Yes, Gaming Site and all that in this case, but still, there's a bunch of other news sites that do the same thing.)
(anyway it's kinda annoying that his *vast* body of work usually gets contracted to "MK guy". Yes, Gaming Site and all that in this case, but still, there's a bunch of other news sites that do the same thing.)
Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who played Shang Tsung in the original Mortal Kombat movie as well as video game Mortal Kombat 11, has died aged 75. https://bit.ly/3XCtBD4
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The Final Fatality 😿
(anyway it's kinda annoying that his *vast* body of work usually gets contracted to "MK guy". Yes, Gaming Site and all that in this case, but still, there's a bunch of other news sites that do the same thing.)
(anyway it's kinda annoying that his *vast* body of work usually gets contracted to "MK guy". Yes, Gaming Site and all that in this case, but still, there's a bunch of other news sites that do the same thing.)
The eternal battle between Rigid Corporatisation and Prescriptive Formalisation vs Meeting The Users' Desire Path
December 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The eternal battle between Rigid Corporatisation and Prescriptive Formalisation vs Meeting The Users' Desire Path
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I reckon if you're going to do a sports series based on a person, the game should age up alongside that person so if you're still at it twenty years later it has a backpain meter or something.
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I reckon if you're going to do a sports series based on a person, the game should age up alongside that person so if you're still at it twenty years later it has a backpain meter or something.
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a side effect of any company buying another is the company got bought specifically because of something it was doing better than the buying company but before long the buying company ruins it by slowly then rapidly making it work like the buying company did, which couldn't do what the bought one did
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
a side effect of any company buying another is the company got bought specifically because of something it was doing better than the buying company but before long the buying company ruins it by slowly then rapidly making it work like the buying company did, which couldn't do what the bought one did
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People need to boycott this show and not just half ass. Shame everyone who plans on watching it. This isn't about Eurovision, it's about Israel getting away with committing genocide because THERE ARE NEVER ANY CONSEQUENCES. They should be untouchable by now. Everybody needs to walk the fucking walk.
Eurovision has allowed Israel to compete in 2026.
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition following the decision.
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition following the decision.
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
People need to boycott this show and not just half ass. Shame everyone who plans on watching it. This isn't about Eurovision, it's about Israel getting away with committing genocide because THERE ARE NEVER ANY CONSEQUENCES. They should be untouchable by now. Everybody needs to walk the fucking walk.
Not just feeling VERY BAD, feeling SUPER VERY BAD!
Which, you know, mood
Which, you know, mood
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Not just feeling VERY BAD, feeling SUPER VERY BAD!
Which, you know, mood
Which, you know, mood