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Arjan Terpstra

@ranja72

Video game writer. Wrote for Guerrilla and PUBG games. Author of PAC-MAN: Birth of an Icon and Sonic Art and Design books. See ranja72.com for details, projects, contact.

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If Donald asks Zelensky for anti drone systems, he better wear a suit, ask nicely and say thank you.

05.03.2026 08:36 πŸ‘ 1969 πŸ” 537 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 16
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Tokyo train features a striking PlayStation ad.

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03.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Het leuke van bluesky versus twitter is dat ik hier een dagtaak heb aan het blokken van vogelaars en insectenliefhebbers in mijn feed. Een goed probleem om te hebben lijkt mij.

03.03.2026 11:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why DS9 holds up so well.

02.03.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 187 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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01.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5
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All Will Rise on Steam The river is a god, and they killed her. It’s time for ordinary people to hold them to account. Manage your team. Mix with ecoterrorists and godmen. Build your deck, follow leads and find allies. Make...

Lots of games deserve attention at nextfest, I've been super charmed with All WIll Rise.

it is the type of protest game that should define our times. Not the brainrot.

store.steampowered.com/app/3165340/...

26.02.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Welkom op Unpause! - Unpause Unpause is een gamewebsite. Zo lastig als dat blijkt, zo simpel kan het zijn.

De gamejournalistiek dreigde uit Nederland te verdwijnen Daarom zijn we vandaag met Unpause begonnen.

Een gamesite die van onszelf is, zonder uitgever. Ons verdienmodel is simpel: onze lezers kunnen abonneren.

Kom lezen, en steun als je wil en kan!

www.unpause.nl/verhalen/nie...

23.02.2026 07:34 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 3

Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything."

And.

Yup.

17.02.2026 06:26 πŸ‘ 2789 πŸ” 720 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: β€œTHIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

11.02.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 3072 πŸ” 1418 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 320

The entire AI debate in a nutshell..

08.02.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 249 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Try β€˜measures of nuanced historical debate churned to inedible AI soup’ A soup so sour it burns straight through the iron bars of your selfconstraint mister

09.02.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New study uses Neanderthals to demonstrate gap between generative AI and scholarly knowledge Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, where information is just a tap away. Phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatche...

This is most certainly something that will rattle @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social 's cage phys.org/news/2026-02...

09.02.2026 10:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And here's how I suddenly went on a hunt for a black outline shoulder tattoo

02.02.2026 22:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This video from costume company Total Fabrication provides a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a Pac-Man costume that would be used by Namco in the late 1990s for events such as E3.

01.02.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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29.01.2026 03:06 πŸ‘ 413 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3
WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

14.07.2025 23:57 πŸ‘ 6946 πŸ” 3735 πŸ’¬ 213 πŸ“Œ 990
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20.01.2026 09:19 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Amen.

17.01.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Reading Agatha Christie's lesser work does show you how much of what counts as "fair play" in mysteries depends on the assumption of shared social context.

Just read a short story where the crucial clue was, as Miss Marple says, "Gardeners don't work on Whit Monday. Everybody knows that."

14.01.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 278 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6
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"Medusa" by Judith De Leeuw in Torrelavega, Spain for Alegra la Vista Urban Art Festival.

streetartutopia.com/2025/10/14/w...

13.01.2026 07:22 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ginger root or fossilized pokemon? In todays episode we will…

13.01.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#lectrr @lectrr.bsky.social

12.01.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump may be the beginning of the end for β€˜enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

10.01.2026 08:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legalrestraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legalrestraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.

29.06.2025 17:45 πŸ‘ 2281 πŸ” 870 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 51
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Late to the party by 52 years, but boy, Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama is one hell of a sci-fi people. Tense, well-structured, with Newtonian science propping up the fiction, the way the sci-fi writing gods intended. And there's three more Rama books! #hapyreading #scifi

29.12.2025 19:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

20.12.2025 12:38 πŸ‘ 1944 πŸ” 670 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 43

This thread is so true. GenAI as a tool has its advantages, but it’s just one of many. Inspiration isn’t always found online, AI has no grip on 98 percent of the human cultural experience and does not understand what your project needs, like: never.

19.12.2025 06:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.

A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

18.12.2025 09:24 πŸ‘ 1480 πŸ” 437 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 0
Interview with AAA Game Writer Arjan Terpstra
Interview with AAA Game Writer Arjan Terpstra YouTube video by Ξ£Ο…Ξ³Ξ³ΟΞ±Ο†ΞΉΞΊΟŒ Στέκι

Recently, fellow game writer and narrative designer Konstantine Paradias reached out for a chat on all things narrative. It's such an honor and a pleasure to sit with your peers and discuss the trade at length. Enjoy the video everyone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk2f...

14.12.2025 12:20 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Ok I laughed

09.12.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0