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Charlotte Reber
@charlottereber.com
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she/her | Writer, gamer, confused keyboard presser

Author of DRAGON AGE II from Boss Fight Books

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Charlotte Reber @charlottereber.com · Jul 22
Maker's breath, it's real! I wrote a book about one of my favorite video games of all time, Dragon Age II!
bossfightbooks.com Boss Fight Books @bossfightbooks.com · Jul 22
We're publishing @charlottereber.com's book on the making of DRAGON AGE II!

Based largely on new interviews with writers @davidgaider.bsky.social, @jbhepler.bsky.social, & Lukas Kristjanson, and editor @karinww.bsky.social

Now funding on Kickstarter.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gab...
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darksidedetective.bsky.social
So, we have news... Season 3 is in the works. We have been working very hard on it. Wishlist it now!

#indigames #gamedev #adventuregames

store.steampowered.com/app/3990360/...
The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon on Steam
You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as s...
store.steampowered.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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edzitron.com
This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
And I fundamentally believe the generative AI era is one where the tech industry has gone too far. Regular people are furious about AI - they hate it, it upsets them, it’s revolting, in part because of what it does, in part because it’s being forced upon them everywhere. It feels like the final insult from a tech industry that fundamentally turned on the customer, the ugliest form of the Rot Economy that defied consumers’ wants and needs in favor of what would inspire a market disconnected from any real value creation. They’ve watched the tech industry spend 10 years making its products worse as a means of expressing growth, and then crested that era by adding the world’s least-reliable, most-annoying software in ways that have become all but unavoidable. Technology is no longer synonymous with progress, but with a kind of parasitic gaslighting that tells us that if we don’t pray at the feet of whoever “the geniuses” are at any given time that we’re morons, that we’ll get replaced, that we’ll be poor, jobless, ignorant or unworthy of having any part of the future. The products being made by the tech industry no longer feel like they’re made for any living human being, but the abstraction of a person created in the mind of a product manager in Palo Alto or a venture capitalist that hasn’t set foot in a city in a decade. These people believe that the best products at the ones that must be forced upon users, who in turn will adapt to how the product works versus making products that solve a problem that a customer already has. Silicon Valley no longer leads us - it attacks us with ideas until we either give in or are tricked into engaging with Copilot on Word or Gemini on Google Docs or accidentally brush an AI button or because our bosses tell us “you need to be AI-first” without knowing what the fuck that means. The tech industry is well-known for finding ways to keep people on platforms, but has never had to face an era where it had to get people to come bac…
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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kotaku.com
Dragon Age Day Comes And Goes In Complete Silence Just One Year After Veilguard https://kotaku.com/dragon-age-the-veilguard-day-bioware-layoffs-december-4-2000650888
Dragon Age Day Came And Went Without A Word From BioWare
This comes after a ton of internal strife before, during, and after Dragon Age: The Veilguard
kotaku.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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gregpak.net
No one can do everything; don't worry about fixing the whole world by yourself. This will take all of us, each working in our own areas of expertise, with our own communities.

Just pick your lane. Find your organizing home. Join with your neighbors. And do SOMETHING.
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
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November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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floppyguy.bsky.social
trans rights are human rights 💾🏳️‍⚧️✊ #floppydiskart #transgender
3.5" floppy disks arranged in a manner to resemble the Transgender Pride Flag
October 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
charlottereber.com
My Bluesky dash being a 50/50 mix of gaming and political news is making it really hard to keep track of which "MTG" people are yelling about at any given moment
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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dumplingmenace.bsky.social
don’t make me learn about any more opinion columnists. no more! ive had enough columnists and their opinions!
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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jongraywb.bsky.social
Stop sharing AI slop.

It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays.

But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
charlottereber.com
If you see this QTP with a female anime character you love
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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nathangrayson.bsky.social
ok fine, just a little more libbing out, as a treat
Under FTC chair Lina Khan, nominated by Biden in 2021, the regulatory body fought to ban non-compete clauses, launched a lawsuit against Amazon, sued healthcare companies engaging in sketchy behavior, and blocked a record number of mergers in an attempt to stem the tide of monopoly power in the United States.
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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kylevito.bsky.social
This is why you can't succumb to nihilism. I know it's SO fucking hard, but that's what the fash want: for us to give up. Fuck them, it's not over
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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andrewihla.bsky.social
[in a way I haven't truly meant it all year] nice
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Nov 5
ALL RIGHT AP JUST CALLED IT WITH 69% OF THE VOTE HA HA HA HA
Screen grab from the NYT saying WINNER Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat, wins the New York City mayoral race. Race called by The Associated Press Latest results from 1m ago 69% of votes in
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
What we know so far, 8:30pm

—Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—Also means Dems take VA trifecta.
—Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov.
—Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia.
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati.
—Last GOPer in Orlando council gone.
—PA: Dem justices up big so far.
November 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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noethematt.bsky.social
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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tomlevenson.bsky.social
LinkedIn/privacy news you can use.
proton.me Proton @proton.me · Oct 31
Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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mitchyd.bsky.social
If only everyone could have predicted this

www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...
EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes
A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.
www.thegamer.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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martin-nunez.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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edzitron.com
Like I’m appearing in these guys’ mirror the moment the first data center deal goes under. They’re going to open the fridge and I am going to roll out of the crisper with 30 pages of printed out headlines
October 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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lauraehall.bsky.social
Still the greatest endorsement of all time
A sign reading "I have not read this Katamari book, and also I don't remember 100% what I told to L.E. Hall in the interviews. But I would recommend this book irresponsibly." -Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy The cover of Katamari Damacy by L.E. Hall, from Boss Fight Books. It shows a penguin being menaced by a giant sticky ball of tape
October 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
This AWS Outage is proving it may not be the best idea for us to rely on a few tech monopolies and their billionaire founders to control the core infrastructure of the internet.

While it’s top of mind, cancel your Amazon Prime. Let’s kick em’ while they’re down, literally.
Amazon DNS outage breaks much of the internet | TechCrunch
The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom and Amazon's own products, including Ring.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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vsapiro.bsky.social
A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.
October 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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rincewind.run
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM