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@plaidphantom.bsky.social

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A clip from "Play it Again, Charlie Brown", wherein Snoopy and Linus start dancing, which Lucy declares "disgraceful".
An end-of-run summary from the game Raccoin. Best Score: 1.8e1581 Highest Round: 106 Duration: 17:29:45 Cons Inserted: 38417 Tickets Earned: 519312 Cons Scored: 299098 Seed: 639119713556139419
Sluggo sitting slouched on a curb, stating, "I'm bored--I think I'll become a Beatnik"
Popuko and Pipimi from Pop Team Epic in relaxed poses below the words "COOL TIME"
A screenshot from Trails into Reverie, as the party is reviewing findings on a malevolent artificial intelligence. Juna, the plucky military school student, exclaims, "Right! We're not letting some AI decide our future for us!"
A cup of "Pumpkin Pie" flavored Nissin Cup Noodles.
A screenshot of a comment by the user "Upside_of_down" that says: The thing with the video game industry is that the hypernormalization dissonance associated with "slow collapse limbo" has already mostly run its course. The industry has significantly -- if incompletely -- made the shift to a decentralized model from a model that used to be very centralized around huge studios, huge media outlets, and hugely consequential hardware releases. This new, more decentralized industry is in fact right here, right now: an increasingly lovely and diverse garden of outstanding new worker owned/operated journalistic outlets; who report, discuss, critique and celebrate typically smaller and indy developers with some great ideas (and short runways); and a gaming culture that has shifted from big corporate tentpole stuff to many sub-cultures of smaller but much more actively engaged fans.