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Ripperley
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Born in Yorkshire, England 🌹
Based in Aberdeen, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿


My brain is completely poisoned by too much internet and too many bad video games.
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Ripperley @ripperley.bsky.social · Oct 20
If, for some reason or another, you want to hear more of what I think about various different video games, I write little reviews up for just about everything I play these days over on Backloggd:
www.backloggd.com/u/Ripperley/...

Fair warning that I have very questionable taste and opinions.
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headfallsoff.com
feminist icon
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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headfallsoff.com
ff17 has to have a cool woman with a gun as the protagonist again its been too long. for like a decade if you bought a final fantasy game there was a 50% chance it starred a cool woman with a gun. but square abandoned the true path
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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killjamesbond.bsky.social
Transgender awareness week is over, you are unaware that you are transgender
Owen in I saw the tv glow
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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emiliusdraws.bsky.social
#3157 A helpful tutorial
A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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tietuesday.bsky.social
A major antagonist dies in the guilty gear pachinko machine and is never mentioned again

The machine has a built in ash tray
prokopetz.bsky.social David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 3d
After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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prokopetz.bsky.social
After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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edzitron.com
Monday Premium: The 12.7k word Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: how it makes money, how millions of GPUs are likely sitting uninstalled, and how its entire future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.

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NVIDIA's Future Success Is Predicated On The Ability For Everybody To Keep Feeding It Tens Of Billions Of Dollars Every Quarter, Requiring Endless Debt, Space, and Actual AI Demand To Exist Here are some thoughts I have had: A 25MW data center takes about $1 billion, with $600 million of that being GPUs - 200 GB200 racks, to be specific. It needs about 20 acres - 100,000 square feet for the data center, roughly. NVIDIA sells about $50 billion of GPUs and associated hardware in a quarter, so let's say that $40 billion of that is just the GPUs and $10 billion is the hardware, so around 13,333 GB200 racks. I realize that NVIDIA sells far more than that (GB300 racks, singular GPUs, and so on). Deep-pocketed hyperscalers like Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon representing 41.32% of NVIDIA's revenue in the middle of 2025, funneling free cash flow directly into Jensen Huang's pockets... ...for now. Amazon ($15 billion), Google ($25 billion), Meta ($30 billion) and Oracle ($18 billion) have all had to raise massive amounts of debt to continue to fund AI-focused capital expenditures, with more than half of that (per Rubenstein) spent on GPUs. Otherwise, basically anybody buying GPUs at any scale has to fund doing so with either venture capital (money raised in exchange for part of the company) or debt. NVIDIA, at this point, around 8% of the value of the S&P 500 (the 500 leading (meaning they meet certain criteria of size, liquidity (cash availability) and profitability) companies on the US stock market). Its continued health - and representative value as a stock, which is not necessarily based on its actual numbers or health, but in this case kind of is? - has led the stock market to remarkable gains. It is not enough for NVIDIA to simply be a profitable company. It must continue beating the last quarter's revenue, again and again and again and again, forever. If that sounds dramatic, I assure you it is the truth. NVIDIA's continued success - and ability to continue delivering outsized beats of Wall Street's revenue estimates - depends on: The willingness of a few very large, cash-rich companies (Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google) to continue buying successive generations of NVIDIA GPUs. The ability of said companies to continue buying successive generations of GPUs. The ability of other, less-cash-rich companies like Oracle to continue being able to raise debt to buy massive amounts of GPUs - such as the $40 billion of GPUs that Oracle is buying for Stargate Abilene. This is becoming a problem. The ability of unprofitable, debt-ridden companies like CoreWeave, AI "neoclouds" that use the GPUs they purchase from NVIDIA as collateral for loans to buy more GPUs, to to continue raising that debt to buy more GPUs. The ability of anybody who buys these GPUs to actually install them and use them, which requires massive amounts of construction...and more power than is currently available, even to the most well-funded and conspicuous projects. In simple terms, for the debt markets to continue propping up its revenues, because there is not really enough free cash in the world to continue pumping it into NVIDIA at this rate. And after all of this, Large Language Models, the only way to make any money on any of these GPUs, must prove they can actually produce a profit. Per my article from September, I can find no compelling evidence (outside of boosters speciously claiming otherwise) that it's profitable to sell access to GPUs. Based on my calculations, there's likely little more than $61 billion of actual AI revenue in 2025 across every single AI company and hyperscaler. Note that I said "revenue." Absolutely nobody is making a profit. The NVIDIA situation is one of the most insane things I've seen in my life. The single-largest, single-most-valuable, single-most-profitable company on the stock market has got there through selling ultra-expensive hardware that takes hundreds of millio…
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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hairic.bsky.social
game design 101
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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birdrespecter.bsky.social
Shot + chaser
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
reposting w/ alt text
A screenshot of the image in the quoted post that reads: irritatingly, the list of Al settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one): • browser.ml.enable • browser.ml.chat.enabled • browser.ml.chat.menu • browser.ml.chat.page • browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge • browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge • browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled • browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled • browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled • browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled • extensions.ml.enabled • browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate in addition to nuking Al, it'll also speed up your browsing
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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transparency.bsky.social
STOP IT!
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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robdenbleyker.com
All Landlords Are Bad
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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caseymongillo.bsky.social
*crumbles to dust gayly*
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 3d
Xbox 360 is now 20 years old (November 22, 2005)
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
In a world of genitally-obsessed bigots and hateful parents, be a DeNiro
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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linguica.bsky.social
Soulja Boy makes fun of Braid on September 16, 2008. Awareness of indie gaming begins growing at an exponential rate
Arnie in T2 giving monologue
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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etpc.bsky.social
if we're going to be out here saying the 360 is twenty years old then we need to confront the fact that the last time anyone had any new ideas in the AAA space was 2008
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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sirocyl.bsky.social
having a normal one right now
A normal 1, as an UV texture.
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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louceph.com
earthbound lookin ass
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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seizethememez.bsky.social
ableism is a natural byproduct of capitalism. if you set up a society with no safety net where your worth is determined by your ability to do labor then those who cant will be thrown aside and seen as a burden
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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voidburger.com
Insane achievement!! I've always thought Arcade Pit was ahead of its time stream-gimmick-wise and generally underappreciated, and I was so pleased to bring it to GB and expose more people to it! Everyone who loves games should be aware of this thing imo. The grit needed to do it for 10 years is nuts
smight.bsky.social Smight @smight.bsky.social · 2d
Celebrating TEN years of Arcade Pit in a row, on December 7th. We never missed a single week, a 10 year streak. Also tons of bonus shows and goofy one-off projects.

Sign-ups for a 10-game marathon of Arcade Pit are now open! We need 40 players! arcadep.it

See you at MAGFest too; panel confirmed!
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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thegranitegays.bsky.social
Want to join the Granite Gays Discord Server?

Shoot us a DM!
Ripley at the Granite Gays stall at the Activist Fair
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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thegranitegays.bsky.social
The Granite Gays is at the Activist Fair! Come say hi!

We're in Dunbar Hall in Old Aberdeen!

Join us!
Table covered with trans flag and various leaflets, a fancy hat, and a cricket ball
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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ndrew.bsky.social
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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chipcheezum.bsky.social
I think it should be required that all games have key art of their protagonist playing the video game
vghistory.bsky.social videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 8d
medievil, render, press kit material (1998) www.mobygames.com/game/4680/me...
render of the skeleton corpse knight protagonist from the game, holding a playstation controller, neon coloured playstation shapes in the air due to button mashing i guess.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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theonion.com
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’ https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’
November 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM