pale blue pixel
@palebluepixel.bsky.social
games are art, exhibit A: “I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee." exhibit B: "You have died of dysentery."
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I mostly post about:
🎮 video games
🎲 board games
📉 game industry
personal likes/opinions:
🕹️ platformers
🧙🏼♂️ fantasy rpgs
😎 indie games
👾 classic games
🧩 puzzle-based games
🐘 ark nova - like games
unpopular opinion:
❌ shooters are like IPAs - overhyped, and there are way too many.
🎮 video games
🎲 board games
📉 game industry
personal likes/opinions:
🕹️ platformers
🧙🏼♂️ fantasy rpgs
😎 indie games
👾 classic games
🧩 puzzle-based games
🐘 ark nova - like games
unpopular opinion:
❌ shooters are like IPAs - overhyped, and there are way too many.
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Valve is making a console. The Steam Machine, a sleek box with the guts of a mid-range PC that runs SteamOS, will arrive in early 2026. Prices TBD, but unlike the failed Steam Machine initiative from a decade ago, this is Valve's own device. Big news www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Valve Announces Steam Machine, a New Video-Game Console
The US gaming company behind the popular, handheld Steam Deck is making a living-room device for PC games
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Valve is making a console. The Steam Machine, a sleek box with the guts of a mid-range PC that runs SteamOS, will arrive in early 2026. Prices TBD, but unlike the failed Steam Machine initiative from a decade ago, this is Valve's own device. Big news www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
People often compare Netflix and Game Pass but they’re fundamentally different. Netflix doesn’t usually sell shows as a stand alone purchases, but Xbox does that with their games. Netflix puts their service everywhere, while Xbox only sells their games everywhere and Game Pass is exclusive.
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
People often compare Netflix and Game Pass but they’re fundamentally different. Netflix doesn’t usually sell shows as a stand alone purchases, but Xbox does that with their games. Netflix puts their service everywhere, while Xbox only sells their games everywhere and Game Pass is exclusive.
Prediction: At some point in the near future Xbox Series X|S will receive an update enabling the Xbox Full Screen experience with access to 3rd party storefronts to unify with PC and their future hardware. Partially explains console hardware price hikes (to offset loss of 30% cut).
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Prediction: At some point in the near future Xbox Series X|S will receive an update enabling the Xbox Full Screen experience with access to 3rd party storefronts to unify with PC and their future hardware. Partially explains console hardware price hikes (to offset loss of 30% cut).
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.
Sweet Farts
Sweet Farts
change one letter. ruin a candy.
sharties
sharties
change one letter. ruin a candy.
cockets
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cockets
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October 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.
Sweet Farts
Sweet Farts
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks up on the next Xbox, and other takeaways about its future gaming business strategy.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is "looking forward," to the next Xbox — "We want to do innovative work on the system side, on both console and PC."
In a new interview, Microsoft CEO offered some rare comments on Xbox's gaming strategy, talking up the new console and musing on the death of the Xbox exclusive.
www.windowscentral.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks up on the next Xbox, and other takeaways about its future gaming business strategy.
buff.ly/LBijHoB
buff.ly/LBijHoB
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Fans have spent the last two years wondering why Xbox is closing studios, canceling games, raising prices, cutting jobs, and releasing its games on rival PlayStation and Nintendo platforms.
This ambitious 30% profit margin target helps explain many of those moves. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This ambitious 30% profit margin target helps explain many of those moves. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Fans have spent the last two years wondering why Xbox is closing studios, canceling games, raising prices, cutting jobs, and releasing its games on rival PlayStation and Nintendo platforms.
This ambitious 30% profit margin target helps explain many of those moves. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This ambitious 30% profit margin target helps explain many of those moves. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Xbox deserves a lot of recent criticism but one thing I will celebrate is giving Ninja Theory, Compulsion Games and Double Fine the creative freedom to make Hellblade 2, South of Midnight and Keeper
I want more of these expressions of art and storytelling
I want more of these expressions of art and storytelling
October 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Xbox deserves a lot of recent criticism but one thing I will celebrate is giving Ninja Theory, Compulsion Games and Double Fine the creative freedom to make Hellblade 2, South of Midnight and Keeper
I want more of these expressions of art and storytelling
I want more of these expressions of art and storytelling
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🎉 KEEPER HAS AWAKENED 🎉
Watch this brand new launch trailer full of otherworldly eye candy, and then get ready for a reality-bending experience full of surprise, absurdity and delight!
** OUT NOW on Xbox and Steam**
@xbox.com / @steampowered.com
doublefine.com/games/keeper
Watch this brand new launch trailer full of otherworldly eye candy, and then get ready for a reality-bending experience full of surprise, absurdity and delight!
** OUT NOW on Xbox and Steam**
@xbox.com / @steampowered.com
doublefine.com/games/keeper
October 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🎉 KEEPER HAS AWAKENED 🎉
Watch this brand new launch trailer full of otherworldly eye candy, and then get ready for a reality-bending experience full of surprise, absurdity and delight!
** OUT NOW on Xbox and Steam**
@xbox.com / @steampowered.com
doublefine.com/games/keeper
Watch this brand new launch trailer full of otherworldly eye candy, and then get ready for a reality-bending experience full of surprise, absurdity and delight!
** OUT NOW on Xbox and Steam**
@xbox.com / @steampowered.com
doublefine.com/games/keeper
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The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.
Want to know why?
Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.
Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
Want to know why?
Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.
Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
October 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.
Want to know why?
Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.
Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
Want to know why?
Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.
Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
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“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
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I still can't get over the surreal experience of watching Trump effectively telling all our generals he is going to order them to kill American citizens in my city in a speech that he also stopped midway through to spend 5 minutes explaining how he is so smart for walks down stairs slowly.
Trump: "I'm very careful when I walk down stairs, like I'm on stairs, I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall because it doesn't work out well."
October 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I still can't get over the surreal experience of watching Trump effectively telling all our generals he is going to order them to kill American citizens in my city in a speech that he also stopped midway through to spend 5 minutes explaining how he is so smart for walks down stairs slowly.
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When are all the terrified people who know this is wrong but think they can just wait out the next three years going to wake up and take their heads out of the sand?
September 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
When are all the terrified people who know this is wrong but think they can just wait out the next three years going to wake up and take their heads out of the sand?
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Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
September 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
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Microsoft’s new Xbox mode on Windows has leaked for any handheld. Windows enthusiasts have found a way to get the new Xbox full-screen experience running on Windows 11. Guide here: www.theverge.com/news/780388/...
September 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Microsoft’s new Xbox mode on Windows has leaked for any handheld. Windows enthusiasts have found a way to get the new Xbox full-screen experience running on Windows 11. Guide here: www.theverge.com/news/780388/...
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Nintendo has announced an impressive-looking Pokémon life simulation spin-off, Pokémon Pokopia.
Pokémon Pokopia is a Brand New Spin-off That Looks a Lot Like Animal Crossing
bit.ly
September 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Nintendo has announced an impressive-looking Pokémon life simulation spin-off, Pokémon Pokopia.
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if you're on Xbox Game Pass and trying to get Silksong, head to the website and remote install it to your Xbox 👍 www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...
September 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
if you're on Xbox Game Pass and trying to get Silksong, head to the website and remote install it to your Xbox 👍 www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...
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Silk Song's "speed completion" achievement challenges players to 100% the game in under 30 hours
For comparison, Hollow Knight's version of that achievement was 100% in under 20
First game also had speedrun targets of 5 and 10 hours; this one has a 5-hour one
For comparison, Hollow Knight's version of that achievement was 100% in under 20
First game also had speedrun targets of 5 and 10 hours; this one has a 5-hour one
September 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Silk Song's "speed completion" achievement challenges players to 100% the game in under 30 hours
For comparison, Hollow Knight's version of that achievement was 100% in under 20
First game also had speedrun targets of 5 and 10 hours; this one has a 5-hour one
For comparison, Hollow Knight's version of that achievement was 100% in under 20
First game also had speedrun targets of 5 and 10 hours; this one has a 5-hour one
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Hollow Knight: Silksong officially arrives September 4!
If you're looking to beat the first one before then, check out IGN's essential Hollow Knight guides for help with bosses, collectibles, and more!
If you're looking to beat the first one before then, check out IGN's essential Hollow Knight guides for help with bosses, collectibles, and more!
Essential Hollow Knight Guides
bit.ly
August 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Hollow Knight: Silksong officially arrives September 4!
If you're looking to beat the first one before then, check out IGN's essential Hollow Knight guides for help with bosses, collectibles, and more!
If you're looking to beat the first one before then, check out IGN's essential Hollow Knight guides for help with bosses, collectibles, and more!
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Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox Series X and S next month in a shock announcement that sees Sony publish a game on PlayStation's rival consoles. https://bit.ly/3GuN03J
July 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox Series X and S next month in a shock announcement that sees Sony publish a game on PlayStation's rival consoles. https://bit.ly/3GuN03J
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I do not care about borders.
I do not care about nations.
I care about human beings.
I do not care about nations.
I care about human beings.
June 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I do not care about borders.
I do not care about nations.
I care about human beings.
I do not care about nations.
I care about human beings.
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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
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It would be great if this new focus on creating a unified, universal Xbox ecosystem included features like accessing our Xbox 360 and One digital libraries on PC, or an upgraded achievement system with new functionality—such as the ability to remove games from the list.
June 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It would be great if this new focus on creating a unified, universal Xbox ecosystem included features like accessing our Xbox 360 and One digital libraries on PC, or an upgraded achievement system with new functionality—such as the ability to remove games from the list.
For those looking for a Switch 2, go in person to Costco. I walked in and bought one with no line. Good luck!
June 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For those looking for a Switch 2, go in person to Costco. I walked in and bought one with no line. Good luck!
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