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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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"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
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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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
"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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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
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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hey Bluesky why are you tagging innocuous queer art as “adult content”, are you in the middle of doing something incredibly stupid again?
Love Hemisphere. 💞
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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love me some hebi metal
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Like a Dragon Gaiden and Straftat coexist in the ConcreteFloors0058 multiverse
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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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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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.
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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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!
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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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
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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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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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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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?
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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November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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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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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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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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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!
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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genuinely heartened by the audience response. more and more the mainstream understanding of AI is "that annoying bullshit we hate"
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II

www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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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
big fan!
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM