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Nathan C
@elprezau.bsky.social
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Former games critic of 10+ years. Previously PCPP, Hyper & others. Boardgamer. Mini painter. UX specialist. ElPrezAU over at Twitter (before I deleted my account :P).
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elprezau.bsky.social
There has been a massive problem with my factory rebuild. In extending the second set of refineries to match the first, those extra refineries are now built on solid ground so I can't just lift/drop inputs and outputs to those machines from the logistics floor.

😭😭😭
February 12, 2026 at 7:26 AM
elprezau.bsky.social
Back on my Satisfactory bullshit.

Redesigning my Aluminium factory. Had originally designed these cute little enclosures for the refineries but I had build them for aesthetics, using overclocked machines to minimise space use.
February 12, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
The fact that this man, whose work we all know, had to sell off valuables to pay for cancer treatments tells you how rigged this system is against us, and how fucked the average person is if we don't effect some change. May his memory be a blessing.
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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writnelson.bsky.social
Iron Lung, Life Eater, and a bunch of other dope games are in the Humble "Love You to Death" bundle!
www.humblebundle.com/games/love-y...
Love You to Death Bundle
Catch feelings for the dark and horrific with the Love You to Death Bundle of heart-pumping games like Have A Nice Death!
www.humblebundle.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM
elprezau.bsky.social
Wait, how is it 7 am already???
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
elprezau.bsky.social
Van Der Beek won me over years ago when he released an ‘anniversary’ gif of himself recreating the crying Dawson meme along with a bunch of other reaction gifs so we’d have a Dawson for every occasion.

(Forgive the SEO’d in to nonsensicality article but the full collection is here)
James Van Der Beek's Van Der Memes
Get all the celebrity entertainment news, gossip, photos, videos and exclusives from Australia and around t...
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February 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Obviously the closing point about how gamification makes the divide between work and the rest of life slippery is the big important takeaway here, but also, lol, lmao, i simply love to read about the gamer's grotesque urge.
Though I was farming along at a decent clip, I cannot resist the gamer’s grotesque urge to ruin a nice bike ride by minmaxing. Farm for a long enough time and you will quickly realize that the longest part of any farming ride is the walk back to the previous station. If your goal is to maximize the number of points you collect, then reducing that return trip is the most efficient way to increase your points per hour. There are several ways to do this. You can run really, really fast, although this will tire you out very quickly. Alternatively, you can carry a return vehicle with you. Objectively the easiest one to carry with you is going to be a skateboard or electric longboard; it can snap on to the basket of a bike or fit easily into a backpack. Unfortunately, I have always sucked at skating and every attempt has ended with me eating pavement. The other option, which I should stress is extremely inadvisable, is an electric folding scooter. I found a guy selling an extremely busted Ninebot ES2 on Facebook Marketplace for next to nothing, took it apart and got it working with some solder shrink and a replacement part. I then found the cheapest shoulder sling I could find on AliExpress, allowing me to carry it over my shoulder like a guitar. The workflow was fairly simple: find a cluster, scoot to it, collapse the scooter, ride, uncollapse scooter, ride to the previous dock, rinse and repeat. Because the trips are more frequent, I could fit more in before the point values recalibrated. And when the farming cluster finally did dry up, I would simply ride home.
February 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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adashtra.bsky.social
that's better
February 11, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
Oh fuck. What a good dude he was. I got to spend three days with him on the set of RULES OF ATTRACTION & he was an absolute prince. He noticed some kids sneak on set & said "We should go over and say hi before security gets them." Just a really kind, funny, charming man. Heartbroken for his family.
people.com People Magazine @people.com · 15h
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James Van Der Beek has died. The actor, best known for his roles in Dawson's Creek and Varsity Blues, died after a journey with stage 3 colorectal cancer.

📷: Getty
February 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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johndubois.bsky.social
Today’s the 89th anniversary of the end of the Flint Sit-Down Strike, which led to GM recognizing the @uaw.org for the first time.

I remembered to wear my shirt with images from the strike and plug my game about it, Striking Flint, on the actual date this year.

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A man wearing a homemade casual shirt with images from the Flint Sit Down Strike as a pattern. The pocket is black with the words “Striking Flint” and the Hollandspiele logo embroidered in white, and the buttons are plastic gears. A set of four cards depicting a map of factories and streets in the board game Striking Flint. Red, gray, yellow, and blue Meeples are placed on spaces on the cards, as are tokens representing police, money, and violent thugs opposing the striking Meeples.
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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ocremix.org
HAPPY 27th BIRTHDAY to Final Fantasy VIII!

OC ReMix celebrated FF8 in 2023 with the (FREE) fan arrangement album, SeeDs of Pandora!

💿 ff8.ocremix.org
🎮🎧 5 1/2 hours, 80 tracks, 97 musicians!

Thanks to directors @darkflamewolf.bsky.social & @jorito.bsky.social!
Cover art for free video game music fan arrangement album Final Fantasy VIII: SeeDs of Pandora (https://ff8.ocremix.org), directed by Darkflamewolf
February 11, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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rockpapershotgun.bsky.social
1200 Ubisoft staff go on strike against Assassin's Creed company's massive cutbacks
At least 1,200 Ubisoft developers have gone on strike across Paris and Milan in response to the company’s recent massive cutbacks and RTO policy.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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theoscargoff.bsky.social
“Runaway train, never coming back”
Okay, we have our metaphor.

“Wrong way down a one-way track”
Boy, that certainly is a problem.

“Seems like I should be getting somewhere”
STOP. That is the EXACT OPPOSITE PROBLEM of being on a runaway train.
prdolan.bsky.social 🌒 West 🌒 @prdolan.bsky.social · 16h
Worst 90s Lyrical Metaphor?

The world is a vampire - smashing pumpkins

Life is a highway - Tom Cohrane

Love is blindness - U2
February 11, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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fahad-s-ali.bsky.social
I am deeply concerned about the potential impact of NSW Police actions on vulnerable youth. Images that show Muslims in peaceful prayer being pulled and thrown without warning can be leveraged to radicalise and recruit disaffected young people. This is extremely dangerous and counterproductive.
February 11, 2026 at 2:15 AM
elprezau.bsky.social
Well done.
February 11, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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andycraig.bsky.social
There is absolutely no legitimate reason to have included that.
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d
I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.
Occupy Democrats post: "BREAKING: Kash Patel was just busted LYING TO CONGRESS in order to protect pedophiles! Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna have successfully been able to view a slew of unredacted Epstein files, and they discovered that Trump’s disgraced and wildly incompetent FBI Director Kash Patel has been lying to Congess, under oath, in order to protect the other rich and powerful men who played major roles in the Epstein sex-trafficking ring. Thanks to pressure from Massie and Khanna, the DOJ reluctantly unredacted an FBI report naming Jewish billionaire Les Wexner, owner of Victoria’s Secret and notorious Epstein associate, as one of the co-conspirators in the sex-trafficking ring. “This is significant because Kash Patel testified to Congress that FBI had no evidence of other sex traffickers. This is FBI’s own 2019 document listing Wexner as a coconspirator in child sex trafficking. It wasn’t unredacted until tonight,” said Khanna’s partner-in-justice, Rep. Thomas Massie, on Twitter on February 10th. The two spent two hours on February 9th examining unredacted Epstein files and were shocked at what they saw. “Most of the unredacted files were redacted—70 to 80 percent. Massie and I saw that there were six men who were co‑conspirators and were being protected. Those names need to be made public. " "There’s no excuse for releasing survivors’ names while protecting these six men. There are probably more. In just two hours, we saw that these six men were being protected.” Kash Patel’s FBI is actively engaged in a cover-up on behalf of serial pedophiles and must be fired immediately — and held accountable for his own role in protecting pedophiles."
February 11, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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weemadando.bsky.social
And then, in a wonderful bit of environmental storytelling there is another piece on the other side of the city "have you had that tab yet Adrian".
February 11, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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weemadando.bsky.social
It is, without question, my favourite bit of local graffiti.
The concrete side of an office building with various tags and the words "GO ON ADRIAN, HAVE SOME ACID" sprayed.
February 11, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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docseuss.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social
No more protesting thanks, that's it wrap it up it's not cohesive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon
Police charged at people who could not flee due to being kettled. As always police say that is not what happened
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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benmckenzie.com.au
My first academic publication came out today in Education Sciences!

Our paper presents a card game I designed as an example of how bespoke boardgames can provide an authentic learning experience.

Huge thanks to lead and co-authors @melissainau.bsky.social and @elisabone.bsky.social.
www.mdpi.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:10 AM
elprezau.bsky.social
Adorable. :)
chrisfredericks.bsky.social Chris Fredericks @chrisfredericks.bsky.social · 1d
This reminds me so much of Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, who when quizzed about why he took a story in a certain direction usually answers along the lines of, “Because I wanted to draw [insert thing he wanted to draw].”
DARK HORSE: Are you at all surprised at how welcomed and popular Hellboy has become, or did you have confidence when you started creating that the character was someone people would connect with? MIKE MIGNOLA: I am still very surprised and did not expect this. I just wanted to draw monsters. DH: Hellboy deals with all kinds of paranormal events; have you ever experienced a paranormal phenomenon? And if so, did you use your experience as a way to help you create? MM: I've never had a paranormal experience. DH: What is it about fear that makes such an interesting plot device? MM: I don't know ... I just like to draw monsters. DH: As a writer, do you believe characters should develop based on their internal systems or based on situations and their environment? MM: Mostly, I just want to do stories about monsters.
February 11, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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browne90.bsky.social
Australia drops out of top 10 countries in @anticorruption.bsky.social Corruption Perceptions Index.

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Australia dips in Corruption Perceptions Index
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February 11, 2026 at 1:47 AM