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surasshu @surasshu.com · Oct 3
it's bandcamp friday!!! my latest release is "PCB OST", the puzzle jam game soundtrack. the below video is one of the tracks so if you like what you hear or if you've been waiting for a good moment to buy it, now's the best time! ✨ surasshu.bandcamp.com/album/pcb-ost
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joewintergreen.com
"can we please make the game on the assumption that whoever is playing has decided to so" has always got me blank stares at work unforch
dirtydeeds.bsky.social DirtyDeeds @dirtydeeds.bsky.social · 2h
it's certainly been frustrating to see devs say more and more "sorry guys but we need to make our games shout out every thing and handhold every last point so that someone who doesn't give a fuck about it can sleepwalk through it"
like why pander to people who, essentially, do not like your work?
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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maxo.bsky.social
in my mind, appeasing this kind of audience is akin to dumbing down music for the express purpose of being a frictionless backdrop in a starbucks. it's just the same content-ification ray we loudly and rightfully condemn across other artforms. video games should not be an exception
elmore.zone Andrew Elmore, for Hire! 💽 @elmore.zone · 8h
"We need nag lines for players who are scrolling tiktok"

Those aren't players, they aren't playing your game. They're scrolling tiktok.

"They'll miss something and get confused"

How is that anyone's problem but their own? If they want to sleepwalk through life you're not gonna stop them.
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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mattwilsoncss.bsky.social
hey Bluesky why are you tagging innocuous queer art as “adult content”, are you in the middle of doing something incredibly stupid again?
simzart.bsky.social SimzArt @simzart.bsky.social · 14h
Love Hemisphere. 💞
Two girls sharing a tender moment surrounded by ghost cats.
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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spacecoyote.com
love me some hebi metal
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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adc-ax.itch.io
Like a Dragon Gaiden and Straftat coexist in the ConcreteFloors0058 multiverse
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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87sukiyaki.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
Hey, there's a fresh article on my site!

Sword and Fairy Inn is hypnotically stressful, utterly charming, enjoyably complex, and a lot of fun:

kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/14/s...
Sword and Fairy Inn: Intense customer service meets classic RPG fantasy
Sword and Fairy Inn is the unlikely culinary spinoff of Softstar’s epic PC RPG of a similar name. Less a “What if?” and more of a “Why not?”, this is a non-canonical a…
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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unburntwitch.com
hey remember how that one big tech ceo was on a panel in like 2021/22 where someone asked him about how remote work gave a lot more power to the workers and he chuckled and said “yeah well a little recession will take care of that”

I think about that often.
gilespink.bsky.social Harrison G. Pink - Open to work! @gilespink.bsky.social · 1d
Just fucking insane to see the absolute (intentional) collapse of full remote jobs available for AAA studios in so short a time. Why would I EVER move for a job again when I could be laid off weeks after moving my entire life across the globe??
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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welbot.com.au
Started playing through Influx Redux, and while it's not the kind of puzzle game I thought it was going to be, it ticks a lot of my puzzle game boxes. Plus it's pretty. The water on the beach at sunset, even in still pics looks nice, but in motion, it's quite unique and frankly stunning!
Screenshot from Influx Redux, showing a ball (your "character") sitting on some sand, looking out at the mountain scenery and sunset Screenshot from Influx Redux, showing a ball (your "character") sitting on some grass surrounded by mountains and a river Screenshot from Influx Redux, showing a ball (your "character") sitting on some sand, looking out at the ocean at sunset
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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katelynburns.com
So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig
A screenshot of a tweet from Ludwig saying: a couple weeks ago I found out one of my oldest viewers passed away she started following when i had 100 viewers she was super active in chat, funny, and helped turn my goofy dream of being a streamer into a full fledged career she was also trans, and my community was one of the few places she felt comfortable expressing that in so today in her memory im doing a charity stream for the Trevor project ty to anyone who tunes in or donates rip kanabana
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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ramiismail.com
The US straight up saying that fascism is a foundation of Western civilisation wasn't on my bingo card but OK
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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surasshu.com
none of the projects im a part of use AI or genAI. i cannot believe i have to say this. nobody else in the games industry with a shred of dignity uses that shit either
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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rajio.bsky.social
Trying to do this but have a chicken-and-egg problem. Need to estimate attendance.

March 7, time TBD, venue TBD (Toronto), cover maybe like $5. Somewhere you can buy food/drink most likely. Possibly presentations as a stretch goal if we get enough commitment/funds.

Who of you will want to attend?
rajio.bsky.social Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 22d
Who wants to join me for Game Developers & Cheeseburgers (GDC) in Toronto on Saturday, March 7, 2026?

Attendance costs the price of a cheeseburger, fries and a drink divided by the number of attendees who aren't me.

RSVP below so we can book an appropriately sized venue.
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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chaleurart.bsky.social
A 6 panel meme following the "open the gate" template: - They're reviving Vine - Open the gate - It's Jack Dorsey - Close the gate - He's banning AI content - Open the gate a little
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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parametricavocado.bsky.social
Oh wow The Tonight is a Night show keeps being a smorgasboard of every cool online person I think is cool.
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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tametick.bsky.social
Announcing my pagan trading game Prophet Margin
Wishlist now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/...

Sharing appreciated!
Prophet Margin on Steam
The Gods hunger for tribute! Build settlements and weave trade routes, feed temples and earn divine boons in this Eurogame-inspired strategy game.
store.steampowered.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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nezumiva.bsky.social
Was looking through my old video folder and had to reshare this classic warm-up recording @thelogicianvt.bsky.social did for me when I got him to voice G-Man for something.
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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kickstarterunited.org
WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
Graphic celebrating our strike ending. It reads: November 12, 2025 The Strike is Over! with a raised fist and the Kickstarter United logo in each corner After 7 months of bargaining, and 42 days of striking Kickstarter United has voted to end the strike Graphic with multiple picket signs that reads "[up arrow] Minimum Salary", "4 day Work Week", and a big cancel sign over "AI Replacing Jobs" and so much more. Go to kickstarterunited.org to see it all!
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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innes.bsky.social
genuinely heartened by the audience response. more and more the mainstream understanding of AI is "that annoying bullshit we hate"
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 17d
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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innes.bsky.social
"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II

www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
10. The baby announcement At the end of a meeting, a colleague asked their boss to stay on the line for a couple of minutes. The colleague then confidentially shared the great news that they were expecting a baby, and they and their boss talked about a few next steps to plan for parental leave. The AI notetaker then sent out notes to everyone who had attended the meeting with the headline, “Colleague Is Having a Baby.” 19. The equipment I recently saw a ~$50,000 piece of industrial equipment damaged and taken out of commission for about a month because Google AI search told a worker that the tightening torque of a screw was 50 ft*lb instead of 50 in*lb. This resulted in them over-tightening the screw by a factor of 12, which unfortunately didn’t strip the threaded hole (which would have been a smaller problem) but instead warped a bearing assembly that required a full rebuild at considerable difficulty and expense. The kicker is that the correct torque value was clearly printed in the service manual that is stored in the machine. 1. The fake initiative Our execs usually send out a hype email right before the annual employee morale survey, emphasizing wins from the past year, basically trying to put people in a positive frame of mind. Last year’s included the announcement of a major new program we knew employees really wanted. But it was a bit surprising, because it fell in an area my team was responsible for, and we were out of the loop, despite advocating strenuously for this over the years. So I went to the exec to a) convey enthusiasm for his newfound dedication to launching this program and b) ask what support he needed from my team/get us involved again. It turned out the program wasn’t launching at all; he had just asked AI to edit the email to make it sound more exciting and appealing, and it had done so by … launching my initiative. 16. The scam We work with a lot of small businesses just starting up, and as a result are asked to recommend professional services often. Knowing this, a client passed on a discreet warning about the bookkeeping firm we’d recommended to them. They had issues with their accounting software, Quickbooks, and called for help. It was right when Google started providing AI summaries for everything, and apparently their account rep pulled the phone number for Quickbooks’ support out of the AI summary, rather than off the website. You can probably guess where this is going. The number wasn’t legit, but instead put him in contact with a scammer who’d managed astroturf their way into the AI summary. The account rep gave the scammer full access to our client’s accounting software before he realized his error. Our client didn’t share a lot of details about the damages — I got the sense that they were saying very little because they were planning legal action — but they wanted to let us know so we wouldn’t recommend them again.
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash. I wish I were joking. In early October, I referenced the "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" lyric of "Folsom Prison Blues" in response to a terrible Wall Street Journal article saying that Johnny Cash was uncool. I quote-tweeted the article and everyone understood the reference. There was no outcry. I stand by my assessment that Johnny Cash is cool. I do not like being the subject of so much attention, especially when I cannot see the discussion. But the BlueSky admins are now claiming that I wrote a post saying, out of nowhere, "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die". They are not posting a screenshot of the actual tweet, which shows that I am quote-tweeting an article about Johnny Cash, and that my post is obviously not a threat but a play on "Folsom Prison Blues." BlueSky is lying and saying I posted this line on November 10. I did not. I posted it in early October, when the WS) article came out. You can see that they are lying about the date from this page showing my last BlueSky tweets: I was not given any explanation for my suspension the first two times l inquired. Later I was told it was for the "Folsom Prison Blues" reference, and I asked for clarification but did not receive it. I thought it might be a prank until a reporter reached out this morning and confirmed it. BlueSky's behavior is bizarre and unwarranted. I have lost access to friends and all my posts and photos. I am incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support here on Substack and also on BlueSky - though I cannot see it, because I am suspended. To quote another Johnny Cash song: "I ain't never done nothin' to nobody/ I ain't never got nothin from nobody, no time/ And until I get somethin' from somebody, sometime, I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time." As for BlueSky...
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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writnelson.bsky.social
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
surasshu.com
big fan!
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM