Raigan Burns
@raiganburns.bsky.social
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I make games (and music), and play games (and music). One half of
https://metanetsoftware.com
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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter)
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Eternal Skies
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Random person who plays indie games, you are the most important cog in an indie game's success. Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them. Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
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Emilia
about 16 hours ago
Executive in charge of the GDC salary report: "when we report how much less women and POC make than their white-male counterparts, be sure to use the Fortnite font so people know that the Festival of Gaming™ is all about the Gamers *dabs*"
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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS!
about 17 hours ago
I've been playing Q-UP, a brilliant and deeply weird incremental game with an esports theme. It starts with a simple coin flip and spirals into a fugue of emergent mechanics. I'll post some thoughts here as I idly play…
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
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Save 10% on Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/QUP/
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Randall Munroe
about 16 hours ago
Car Size
xkcd.com/3167/
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Dan Johnson (hire me)
about 15 hours ago
Make the game they don't want to tab out of.
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Max Nichols
about 16 hours ago
The "player felt a negative emotion for a moment in a playtest, that's now a Pri 1 problem" instinct in AAA prod is a huge tarpit for our industry
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Felipe Gaona
about 22 hours ago
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/blow-openai-germany-court-rules-151638208.html
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J.C. Rodriguez
about 20 hours ago
I don’t post much on here but this came out today & I’m very proud of it. Thanks RPS &
@edwinet.bsky.social
for letting me do this. Skating, videogames…both things have had a profound impact on how and why I write, so to be able to put this article out in the world means a lot to me.
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Zach Everson
1 day ago
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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No kings
about 18 hours ago
AAA out here doing everyone a solid. It's easier than ever to not spend your money
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Derek Silva
about 18 hours ago
Perhaps the wildest thing about this all is that AI is dumb af at all of these jobs.
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Louis
about 18 hours ago
"In America, poverty functions to provide a low-wage labor pool that is willing - or rather, unable to be unwilling - to perform dirty work at low cost." that specific phrase, "willing - or rather, unable to be unwilling" orbits continuously through my head
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Stephen Collins
2 days ago
Every ad now
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Mike Cook
about 18 hours ago
New Paper: Pixie: Code-Level Mechanic Generation for Game Designers. How do you connect automatic game design to real games? Pixie is a mechanic generation system for Unity games, as an example framework for how to build AGD systems into real game platforms. Read here:
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
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AR Hanlon
about 18 hours ago
Imagine a machine that stands about eye level, with a hole roughly where your mouth is, and a red button below that. Every time you press the button, it vomits on you. Would you keep pressing the button? Pressing the button is the equivalent of asking a White House surrogate an open-ended question.
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Eric Wickham
about 19 hours ago
Relentless rise in murder rate slightly dampens hopes for lower crime.
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Adam Serwer
about 24 hours ago
No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
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perfect angel
about 21 hours ago
there is a universe where the democrats didnt let republicans steal the election from this guy and the world isnt about to die
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David Noll
1 day ago
JP Morgan analysts calculated "AI products would have to create an additional $650 billion a year, indefinitely, to give investors a reasonable 10% annual return. That’s more than 150% of Apple’s yearly revenue, and a far cry from OpenAI’s current revenue of about $20 billion a year." (🎁)
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When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts
Record capital expenditures and data-center planning are running up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/when-ai-hype-meets-ai-reality-a-reckoning-in-6-charts-bf8043b4?st=onQGRN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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BeijingPalmer
about 21 hours ago
the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
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Stella Sacco
about 23 hours ago
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and
@abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com
actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
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Karl Bode
about 22 hours ago
what's wild is we're not even really seeing the impact of the complete and total evisceration of corporate oversight, consumer protection, and the social safety net yet our regulators genuinely no longer function and the press, politicians, and even policy people also haven't noticed yet
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imani
1 day ago
this made me so happy i went outside and began throwing rocks at people
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rob
1 day ago
petro is so beast
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Peter Labuza
1 day ago
Thinking about the impending US Bailout of AI Companies, it will be interesting to see how *anyone* defends it. 2008 was defended that it basically helped backstop job loss (to an extent). But success of AI *requires* job loss. My guess is that we'll see """national security""" thrown around.
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Lyndon Hood
1 day ago
Ah yes the American national mythology of nobody coming from overseas
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Melee Kalikimaka🎄🎁☃️♂
1 day ago
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Sara
1 day ago
Best extrapolation I've read yet. 10/10
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins
9 days ago
Thanks Silicon Valley. It's nice to be reminded that fundamentally this is all still the same bubble that started in 2015. It's just gotten too narrow a pile of shit to stay standing any longer.
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins
2 days ago
The Fed - "We're going to pivot from inflation to addressing a weakening job market." Trump Admin - "Uhh... You don't need to measure unemployment for that; do you?"
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October Jobs Report to Skip Unemployment Rate, Hassett Says
The October jobs report will be released without a reading of the unemployment rate, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser said Thursday.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/october-jobs-report-to-skip-unemployment-rate-hassett-says?srnd=homepage-americas
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Gillian Branstetter
2 days ago
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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Todd in the Shadows
2 days ago
people are focusing on the scary part ("AI-generated") but why, why on Earth, would I want content "from users"
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Ben Miller
2 days ago
one degree down, one degree to go. every little bit helps. doomerism is collaboration. only big social majorities can get it done.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️
2 days ago
Might I suggest that a newspaper that was far too cozy with the most famous pedophile in the world constantly concern trolling about gender affirming care mutilating children's bodies is, in fact, two sides of the same coin.
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Alex P. 👹
2 days ago
"humanoid robot" is one of those things, like — you are spending so much energy replicating what's a very energy-efficient locomotion scheme *for humans,* just so the people who buy it can convince themselves that their new dishwasher or their new j/o toy is actually a slave
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Joseph Cox
2 days ago
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/
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Justin Glawe
2 days ago
And you can do it on the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, which has accounted for $2 billion of the $5 billion the Trumps have made this year for their own cryptocurrency venture. Oh, and thanks to a pardon from Eric's dad, the founder of Binance won't have to serve time in prison.
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NY Times Pitchbot
2 days ago
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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m. r. sauter
2 days ago
sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate: ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-toys-danger
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Michael
2 days ago
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
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mtsw
3 days ago
Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
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Julian Sanchez
2 days ago
Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
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Tyler, from the Internet
2 days ago
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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Mr. Cait
3 days ago
A pedophile game show host and gang of third-tier comedians with podcasts helped the Nazis retroactively win WW2. You're not going crazy. This is what actually happened.
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L
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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Tim Onion
3 days ago
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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Pwnallthethings
3 days ago
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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Scott Horton
3 days ago
"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes, or rather extrajudicial executions, and believes the attacks are illegal"
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Why Britain may have stopped sharing some intelligence with America
And how America might respond
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/11/12/why-britain-may-have-stopped-sharing-some-intelligence-with-america
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