Chris Franklin

Chris Franklin

@errant-signal.com

Failed Media Critic, Washed Up YouTuber, Formally Trained Self-Loather | Professional also-ran | Cringe Elemental | (he/him) | linktr.ee/campster

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is there like a shader toy somewhere i just want to write some code that directly makes pretty pixels without doing an entire renderer or hacking one together in a "real" game engine

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With the disclaimer that our travel was covered for the MinnMax Spotlight and MinnMax is thanked in the credits, I HIGHLY recommend playing Virtue and a Sledgehammer. Physical rage towards a digital world. Pretty wild for a game in development for years to perfectly meet the cultural moment.

Selkie Harbour@selkieharbour.com

VIRTUE AND A SLEDGEHAMMER 🔴 OUT NOW 🔴 I STILL LOVE YOU MORE THAN I HATE YOU 🔨 store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/... 🔨

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After 1.5 years of pouring my heart into my very first game, I'm so excited to finally announce that... Drawquarium is coming to Steam on November 13! 🥹 Draw your own fish, bring them to life, and create your little underwater world, even as a live wallpaper! Like+RT = ♥️ #IndieGames #Cozygames

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It's not enough for me to have the most successful live-service game in the world, I also need to save money by not paying my workers. It's not enough to have a technology that lets me not pay my workers, people have to keep liking me after I start using it. I'm the 837th richest person in the world

Like yeah, the guy’s an idiot for being a libertarian while recognizing our failing mental healthcare system but no one deserves to go through it like this.

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YO CASTLEVANIA PLAYERS LISTEN UP! YOU *CAN* FAST TRAVEL WITHIN A ZONE, THE GAME IS JUST RULL BAD AT TELLING YOU HOW

Kotaku@kotaku.com

Have fun storming (and traversing) the castle! https://kotaku.com/castlevania-belmonts-curse-psa-theres-an-easier-way-to-fast-travel-that-the-game-is-not-good-at-telling-you-about-2000749826

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Microsoft offering to buy out over one-in-four employees to cut costs is I mean I'm not an economics major but I feel like we have to be entering the endgame of circular financing and runaway capital expenditure soon-ish, right

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

CNBC: Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

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WE DID IT !! LOVE ETERNAL is officially Overwhelmingly Positive wow wow thank you everyone

Toby Alden@brlka.com

if you played LOVE ETERNAL and enjoyed it, please consider leaving a steam review! we're only 3 away from 500, and it makes a big difference in visibility. even just a few words is fine!

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Great chance for people to finally check Dark Messiah! store.steampowered.com/app/5016100/... It's a bit messy but it's Arkane setting the blueprint to a lot of what people love in Dishonored. Some battles and set pieces still feel cutting-edge, even 20 years later.

Sinnoware 🔶 232.778@sinnoware.bsky.social

Dark Messiah: Community Edition is now available for wishlist on Steam. - new game modes (NG+, co-op, trials) - new mechanics (sliding, relics, spells, weapons, transformations) - updated Source engine (Linux, Win64, CSM) - achievements, cloud saves, workshop, controller support

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pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

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None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

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Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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Replying to @lebassett.bsky.social

Here in Rio, people are out on their balconies screaming “it’s a coup” as Bolsonaro takes the lead in the count

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look, nothing is simple and i have no parsimonious explanation for anything here, but a student protest movement, focused on corruption & authoritarianism, just won a major european election. a big deal.

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A player found something very very very hidden

nardi@nardinardi.bsky.social

Penguin Colony 邸宅に入れた… 最後の浜辺にゲートのようなものがあって邸宅の前へ通じていた。 中には数体の影、たばこを吸う男、わんちゃん。 夜の地球儀、絵画には古のもの。 最後にペンギンは男の横に座っておわる。 絵画はジョン・ガストの「American Progress 」の女神が異形の者にかわったもの。 ヨーロッパ人が東から文明化して行き、徐々に明るい世界になる。 そして暗い西に逃げるパイソンや先住民が描かれてる。 追い立てられ植民地化されていった。 果たしてこの男は何者なのか? 徽章が微妙に見えるけど良く分からない。 そもそも人間なのかどうかもわからない。

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Replying to @nerdskull.bsky.social

Democrats will do nothing for two years and will act shocked when they lose across the board in 2028 because they delivered nothing and didn’t act as an opposition party. People expect them to obstruct the Republican and they won’t even do that.

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I am going to go out on a limb and say that if Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are speaker and majority leader, no matter how large their majorities are, no progress will be made. They will do nothing.

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

Finally went and looked up the nonpartisan super local candidates on my ballot (school board and such) and was surprised to find none of them are remotely as off-the-charts wild as last election. Which is a good sign, maybe? Like there's still losers here, but not the angry terminally online folks.

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Sigh… but yes. Tell me again how I should full theaters get down on my knees to support the democrats.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

I'm not sure I've ever seen horror comedy work great in games, but it's the season for a good jump scare and you know what? photomaly mostly sets out to just deliver that, and it does its job well

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Thinking about it, there's been a bunch of Souls-likes set in Blame-inspired megastructures recently. Bleak Faith: Forsaken, Dolls Nest, AI Limit - any others I'm missing?

Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com

Oh, wow, just tried the demo for Echoes Of Nothing. It's a hard sci-fi fusion of Descent and Souls-like, but that's still pretty reductive. This plays like nothing else. You start out as a small space pod, salvaging parts from wrecks and transferring into intact chassis, working up the food chain.

1. Made a post with a video 2. Post had a typo 3. Deleted post to fix typo, because that's the only way to do that 4. Tried to post the video in a new post with the typo removed 5. Bluesky poops the bed and can no longer upload the video, presumably because it thinks uploading the same vid is spam