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Living the atomic half-life | Design Lead and Writer on @thelongdark.bsky.social |@hinterland.bsky.social | Game systems | The end of the world | My opinions only | More horror than you think

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the brothers

05.03.2026 09:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a military uniform stands on a boat looking at the camera ALT: a man in a military uniform stands on a boat looking at the camera

US submarine warfare in the Indian Ocean this week.

Wild, horrific stuff.

05.03.2026 07:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the gods are skeptical of us.

05.03.2026 07:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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never saw snow on the ground this winter.

We’re in the Highlander 2 timeline

05.03.2026 06:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

still looks the future (one I never saw back then with a lot of this tech)

05.03.2026 03:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Would you do the job if this was the commute?

05.03.2026 03:07 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

same. I’ve avoided downloading the demos but tempted now!

05.03.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

check it

04.03.2026 09:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Brigador Soundtrack - Vol. I (Makeup and Vanity Set)
Brigador Soundtrack - Vol. I (Makeup and Vanity Set) YouTube video by Stellar Jockeys

Over the next few weeks we're putting up all the music albums from Brigador: Up-Armored Edition by @makeupandvanityset.bsky.social. Vol. I is up already.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vk8...

04.03.2026 09:06 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

hard to wind down these days.

04.03.2026 08:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: Defense executives plan to meet at White House as strikes on Iran diminish stockpiles Companies including Lockheed Martin and Raytheon parent RTX have been invited.

the ironmongers

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

04.03.2026 07:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what rad art. One of these years I will play this.

04.03.2026 03:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

apropos

04.03.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what is dead may never die

04.03.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

there’s a Metal Gear joke in Dan Crenshaw losing his re-election but honestly he doesn’t deserve it.

04.03.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

science fiction

03.03.2026 04:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this is remarkable and worth watching in full. And yes, for any creative person, β€œit is encouraging.”

02.03.2026 08:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New generative AI statement for @hinterland.bsky.social's games, being added first to the Episode Five build launching at the end of March.

(Needs some formatting tweaks for widescreens apparently...πŸ˜…)

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March 1st Welcome back readers. Thanks for the shout-out, Edwin : ) And a huge thanks as well to our community at large. Over the last few days you have rallied and helped to put us back into the black. If t…

This week: A staggering 30 articles, encompassing queer theory, spectrum games, communities of play, fangames, and a whole lot more. The Game Boy Color comes up more than once:

critical-distance.com/2026/03/01/m...

02.03.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 8

lots in the world and life making me reconsider a great many things.

02.03.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon

01.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 388 πŸ” 291 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5

this sounds like Unity but I suppose it’s also a universal experience.

02.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A vibrant, impressionistic painting depicts a long, thin spacecraft traveling through a colorful nebula toward a bright, glowing star or galaxy.

A vibrant, impressionistic painting depicts a long, thin spacecraft traveling through a colorful nebula toward a bright, glowing star or galaxy.

The Black Hole (1979): USS Cygnus, art by Peter Ellenshaw

01.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 563 πŸ” 125 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8
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What an Xbox founder thinks of the new Xbox CEO | Seamus Blackley interview Seamus Blackley was one of the renegades who got the Xbox started. We asked him what he thinks of the big executive changes at Xbox.

Hey! If you’re pissed about the words media misquotes put in my mouth about Xbox, read the article!

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

01.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

they all want to be seen as indispensable and part of the firmament.

Government contracts did that, but also at a cost to their β€œhip, cyber wizard” branding.

Who wants to be a boring subcontractor to the DoD? Pushing pencils, paperclip budgets and deadly drone strikes?

01.03.2026 11:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

whelp.

Maybe the big PR push from LLM corpos the last month was about more than bubble distraction (although that too).

They saw this coming and how their work plays a role in it.

All the ads, Ezra Klein podcast appearances, and editorials led to this moment.

Their tech is battlefield deployed.

01.03.2026 11:19 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

for younger folks who only read about it in school, if you want to know what it felt like in 2002-03 when the war drums beat and it all seemed like lies and madness, this is it again.

And we know how that turned out. 20 years of chaos and death and the spot we’re sitting in now.

01.03.2026 10:51 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

well said, especially in light of the themes their picture SINNERS actually confronts. Which I won’t dig into because you should just see the movie if you haven’t already.

01.03.2026 09:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
man in a  warehouse working on a giant fan blade

man in a warehouse working on a giant fan blade

Altitude Wind Tunnel Drive Fan being Assembled, 1941

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Monochrome art of three dark horses in a snowy field behind a barbed wire fence

Monochrome art of three dark horses in a snowy field behind a barbed wire fence

February β€” Grant Wood, 1940
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