Rick Desolate 🪦 | The D-Pad

Rick Desolate 🪦 | The D-Pad

@ricdesi.dpad.fm

Writer, actor, director, editor, wannabe voice dude, the guy behind The D-Pad and occasional web dev, doing my best to make these hard times the happiest days of your life — he/him — http://dpad.fm & @dpad.fm

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Trump II as very specifically an effort to erase JFK seems like an underdiscussed angle. Bulldozed Jackie's rose garden, threatening to bulldoze the Kennedy Center, stripped the Kennedy blue off Air Force One, shuttered USAID, put JFK's animal torturing nephew in charge of reviving polio, now this

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social

President Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch. If completed, it will cast shadows on many graves and monuments in nearby Arlington National Cemetery, the @washingtonpost.com's 3-D analysis found. On some days, Trump's arch would even shade the grave and eternal flame of JFK.

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anthropic's exploding lol it went public, we find out the company's debts are like $650 billion dollars. It's valuation was based on like a ton of IOUs. a week ago those IOU holders were selling them off. in china right now, the bubble is very much popping and $450 billion vanished overnight. hm

WHEW! Got the fated Sonic Episode: Mastered achievement, moving onto Shadow on Thursday! Big ups to @zackshack.bsky.social and @iceehedgie.bsky.social for the raids, passed it over to @protonjon.bsky.social to keep the train rolling!

Alright, we got half of Sonic's stages S-Ranked last time, let's clear him out and make our way into Shadow's, it's time for more SONIC '06 100% COMPLETION, BABY!

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Simple sprite practice with Globule from #DeclinesDrops This character is my new hyperfixation. Game’s pretty neat, y’all should play it.

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Someone ran a poll on X, asking players if they would prefer "all games on Steam made by humans" or "all games on Epic made by AI". 139,568 people voted, with just 1.6% voting for AI and Epic. Faith in humanity restored!

Wait until this worm food walking finds out where the near totality of the foundations of math come from.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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rabbits are so fucking cool

JenWave1995@jenwave1995.bsky.social

When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

If you missed the original SPOOKYWEEN last year, you can check out what we took on back in 2025 right here: www.youtube.com/show/VLPLUtR...

SPOOKYWEEN IS BACK, BABY! And this time, we're kicking things off with a game that released just barely too late for us to include it in last year's Cursed Casino: FORBIDDEN SOLITAIRE!

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I'm one of those in the group at risk. If anyone is on the lookout for someone with decades of experience in production and release management, please reach out.

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I have this talk on average four times a week (each time with a new person) so I figure if I screencap it I can just give people the screencap and so can you.

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Replying to @enikofox.com

it's also incredibly funny to upload this the day anthropic files their IPO. get fucked, anthropic

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we've created a no AI notice to reassure people seeing our trailers and games with hand drawn lettering and a relaxing cute fox, and it's also up on itch in multiple formats* for anyone to use: eniko.itch.io/cute-fox-no-... *with/without fox, transparent/opaque, in 4k, 2160p, 1440p, 1080p, and 720p

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China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

cartoonbrew.comChina’s First AI Feature Flops At The Chinese Box OfficeBona Film Group’s AI experiment struggled to attract attention, months after the humble 'Niu Lai’ turned online ridicule into almost $10 million in sales.

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Wildwood is a movie completely unfettered, in every single regard. It shoots for the stars and becomes them. A story that leaves no leaf of itself unturned and yet leaves a world that could launch 1000 stories. I will be watching this movie the rest of my life to appreciate every little bit I can!

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Slay the Princess is at an all time high discount of ~60% off~ Get one of the best reviewed games of 2023 for just $7.19! 💯 90 metacritic 🗡️ 96% positive on Steam 🗣️ Get yelled at by Jonathan Sims 👁️ Watch Jonathan Sims also get yelled at by Jonathan Sims 😓 Question every choice you make

I'm randomly seeing huge blank spaces at the top of my timeline or other views, this vibecoded shit is just embarrassing.

Sigma Posting@sigmaposting.bsky.social

Is Bluesky melting for anyone else today? On my feed if I try to click on the share link arrow it pages me up to the top of my feed and sometimes shows me the share options for the very top option of my feed, but most of the time not.

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Sad to say that I was part of these layoffs. Taking some time to rest right now but will be on the job search soon. If anybody here has open positions for software developers please reach out!

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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My family set up a GoFundMe in order to afford all the costs and complicated legal processes that we now have to go through due to my father's passing. If you could either donate or share this around, we would very much appreciate it. 💜 gofund.me/523de974b

gofund.meDonate to Support for the Mullins Family to Honor Scott, organized by Lily MullinsOn October 15th, Robert Scott Mullins, aged 53, unexpectedly passed away.… Lily Mullins needs your support for Support for the Mullins Family to Honor Scott