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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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

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Actions speak louder than words, personally I was in talks with Epic to get all my game assets on their Fab.com marketplace (for free) but cancelled the deal immediately. If they want slop, let them have slop.

Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

fuck's sake

Mike Vorkunov@mikevorkunov.bsky.social

The NBA has reached deals with Kalshi and Polymarket to make them the league's preferred prediction markets partners. The companies can now use NBA IP on their platforms, while the NBA gets right of approval on markets that they offer. That and more: www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

This whole story breaks my fucking heart so goddamn hard. This poor talented kid excelled at something and was browbeaten into thinking that was a bad thing by people I cannot even find words to describe accurately. Awful, awful fucking shit.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

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Eddie Johnson is DA REALEST that USSF has ever had. Shoutout to him for nurturing this young man and his talent. I won’t comment on i9 and those parents because it would violate ToS of this app.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

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NEW: A federal judge has now ruled that former SDNY prosecutor, Maurene Comey, was UNLAWFULLY fired by the Trump DOJ. He orders her retroactive reinstatement and back pay. Comey alleged in her lawsuit that she was fired for politically motivated reasons. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

cnbc.comTrump DOJ unlawfully fired Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, judge rulesThe judge ordered that Comey, the daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, be retroactively reinstated to her job as an assistant United States attorney.