David Amador

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@djlink

Indie game developer (like that movie). Maker of Quest of Dungeons, Vizati and other weird games.  📍 Interwebs in Portugal

📰 Blog: https://www.david-amador.com
💾 Indie Studio: https://www.upfallstudios.com
🎮 Itch.io: https://dj_link.itch.io

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2026-07-13 14:37:29 UTC

Tom Cruise doing a silly/satire/dark humor movie is a nice chance of pace after all of the action ones (not that I disliked them), and immediately reminded me that I hope he also goes "Les Grossman" on this one.
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2026-06-12 09:59:54 UTC

RPG Maker forums are being shutdown, no plans for even keeping them in read-only, priceless information/help that has been accumulating over years will be gone. "Want it? just make a backup".
forums are still one of the best tech knowledge sources.
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/forums/important-announcements-forum-closure.199/
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2026-06-06 08:31:01 UTC

Miss that time when popular game franchises went like “here’s our pinball game”
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2026-05-04 12:25:21 UTC

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I never left, just been cross-posting to the other place as well xD

2026-04-13 20:07:00 UTC

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2026-04-13 10:50:51 UTC

ah, mix tapes, burning cds, so what is the modern equivalent of this? people sending spotify/youtube playlists?
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2026-03-14 13:42:44 UTC

Win11 went from good with some UI/UX annoyances to highly unstable to work with so far it’s crazy.
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2026-03-10 06:40:53 UTC

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I started another one on Switch 2 now, I’m amazed this even boots lol

2026-03-08 15:01:56 UTC

Finished Resident Evil Requiem. Not skeptical anymore they can pull off a RE1 Remake, Grace sections have all the signs and easily the strong point in the game, really well crafted. First 2/3 of the game for both characters and the switching is strong but goes "more RE" later. One of the best games.

2026-02-25 21:03:09 UTC

l’m not sure this is very well known fact but early Playstation 1 console models had more issues with color banding that later ones, they HW patched in the later PS1 revisions so some games would look different depending on where you played it.
https://www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=222685
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2026-02-25 12:48:19 UTC

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2026-02-17 13:41:04 UTC

This is insane. At this rate we’ll be left with “dumb” terminals with only online capabilities so that we can rent from the cloud”, movies, music, stream games, cloud storage, “knowledge”.
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2026-02-06 17:25:00 UTC

TIL that SSDs can lose data if left unplugged for long periods of time (only required to hold data up to 1 year), unlike HDDs which as long as the material holds it can take years.
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2026-02-06 07:32:32 UTC

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I have a big RE games collection but never dived into CEs or figures due to price so this will probably be a must for me

2026-02-05 17:17:44 UTC

👀 Resident Evil amiibo!!!
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2026-02-03 09:02:41 UTC

In case you missed yesterday, Notepad++ auto-update mechanism was hacked and was delivering backdoored versions for a couple months. Tons of devs use this, uninstall completely what you have, search for the sus files mentioned in article and only download from official site https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/notepad-updater-was-compromised-for-6-months-in-supply-chain-attack/

2026-01-16 11:14:17 UTC

Facebook is a cancer in our society https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/115903514200685122

2026-01-07 15:26:03 UTC

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RIP notifications :)
A lot are asking "ok which alternatives?". Indeed there's nothing quite exactly like Discord and that's the scary part of them going public, they convinced tons of companies to ditch blogs/forums in favor of them. But because there's no exact replacement doesn't mean we should wait and see. Investigate! (some are in comments suggesting stuff) Remember Twitter and others stuff we had to leave when it was too late to slowly build momentum elsewhere. That's what I'm getting at.

2026-01-07 10:33:38 UTC

Start considering moving your communities out of Discord now. Don’t wait for the enshittiffication to arrive, the clock is ticking. No one will listen to me, but let’s talk again later. https://www.reuters.com/business/chat-platform-discord-confidentially-file-us-ipo-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-01-06/
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2025-12-23 19:00:29 UTC

Not sure if everyone who played Goldeneye is aware but buried in settings is an option to use 2 N64 controllers as “dual stick”, left for movement right for aiming, and you can still use the Z trigger underneath for shooting
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2025-12-15 19:50:54 UTC

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oof, definitely thr last half decade at least

2025-12-15 19:49:14 UTC

Is it just me or this has been a very stressful year

2025-12-07 08:07:45 UTC

these end of year recap suggestions are getting ridiculous. The spotify ones a couple years back were interesting and all, but like .... why xD
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2025-11-30 13:30:03 UTC

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oh, so I’m potentially breaking something story wise here? I’ll check it thanks

2025-11-29 16:00:12 UTC

I never played any Dragon Quest until now, but grabbed DQ1 remake and it’s genuinely fun to play. I guess it would be considered a simpler RPG by today’s standards of features, but surprisingly it’s what’s making it so captivating to me, easy to pick and play for a bit of time.
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2025-11-21 16:27:57 UTC

What is the games equivalent to movies “it’s all CGI, they don’t do practical stunts/effects anymore, so it doesn’t age as well”?

2025-11-02 16:58:45 UTC

It may not sound much but it’s a good milestone to celebrate, Linux usage for games/Steam has been steadily climbing since 2018. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark/

2025-10-31 06:59:22 UTC

in a period of time where every logo goes minimalist/text only, gotta hand it to Pepsi/Pepsico for recently redesigning towards "shapes and colors"
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2025-10-25 20:34:14 UTC

Yoshi's Island (SNES/1995) is 30 years old. Still one of the most gorgeous 2D games ever made, running on a SNES with 3.58 Mhz CPU and 128KB RAM with the help of the SuperFX chip (+21Mhz processing power)
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2025-10-19 18:54:09 UTC

Software development is in danger because nothing is given the proper time. https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse
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2025-10-18 07:49:46 UTC

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I’m curious, in which sense does that barrier shows up, End users having to check GitHub for using something that could be on a “normal” website?

2025-10-16 09:31:04 UTC

CASIO is releasing a limited edition Back to the Future inspired watch and it looks pretty good https://hypebeast.com/2025/10/back-to-the-future-casio-ca-500webf-calculator-watch-collaboration-release-info
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2025-10-15 06:55:29 UTC

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it's "never" a bubble until it is and then it was obvious all along

2025-10-11 14:38:37 UTC

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whennnnnn

2025-10-06 19:49:55 UTC

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it’s not in great shape as it used to but ok trying to keep it as safe as possible. Cardboard isn’t easy to keep around

2025-10-06 16:25:32 UTC

I'm so happy Broken Sword 2 is getting a Reforged edition. This was my first game for PC, I played hours and hours of this after school. I still have the original PC game https://store.steampowered.com/app/3335460/Broken_Sword__The_Smoking_Mirror_Reforged/
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2025-10-01 08:27:26 UTC

love to read this stuff how Metal Slug achieved that amazing art by using 3 pillars, shapes, coloring and shading https://6th-divisions-den.com/ms_tutorial.html
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2025-09-16 08:39:43 UTC

This new feature in Godot 4.5 script editor is brilliant, you can color pick directly in code. No more alt-tab to fetch a specific color values :godot: #godot
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2025-08-31 06:28:20 UTC

had no idea about the whole Broadcom and VMware acquisition having a cascade effect in the industry. Easy to understand as just takes one bad player with a monopoly but it’s insane still. https://fastcode.io/2025/08/30/the-69-billion-domino-effect-how-vmwares-debt-fueled-acquisition-is-killing-open-source-one-repository-at-a-time/

2025-08-19 07:05:44 UTC

Kids these days are on a whole new level.
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2025-07-21 13:39:54 UTC

btw for those interested there is an open-source project to turn a raspberry-pi into a MT-32 https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi
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2025-07-14 13:19:46 UTC

if you feel windows 11 is getting slower with each update, it might just be more and more native code getting replaced by Javascript in React (made by facebook). JS might be good for web but doing Operative System code in this is a bad decision. I hear even the start menu is using this now. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/react-native/rnw-settings-win11/

2025-06-26 09:52:11 UTC

Millions of books were destroyed in the process of scanning them to feed “AI” databases. You have no idea how upset this makes me. I love books, they kept me company during my childhood/teen years while figuring out myself (although still am) https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/
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2025-06-24 17:26:04 UTC

What the heck I didn’t know this was a thing!! https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06/physical-collectors-should-plug-in-switch-3ds-and-vita-game-cards-every-5-10-years-to-avoid-data-loss
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2025-06-20 13:17:36 UTC

This technical analysis of how Celeste lightning works in a 2D environment from @npub1k3h…4srz is really interesting. This gif shows the initial mesh based approach. https://noelberry.ca/posts/celeste_lighting/ #gamedev
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2025-06-20 12:15:22 UTC

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this remind me the story of how The Wachowski used most of the budget to make The Matrix intro section and go back to the studio to convince them on the initial full budget they needed.

2025-06-20 11:48:09 UTC

Sadly I think this might happen more often now. A lot of past kickstarter games had miscalculations or only asked a portion/final stretch and had to eventually get extra funding elsewhere/publishers. In current state of industry it’s very hard to get funding so if a KS goal isn’t enough that’s it.
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2025-05-14 20:05:26 UTC

I agree, the problem is that now there’s so many layers on top of layers that just optimizing one you have control makes the whole task almost impossible. And a lot of times the wrong tools are used for the project in hands, there’s rarely a one solution fits all.
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2025-04-19 21:10:54 UTC

nice, really happy for them, well deserved. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/dwarf-fortress-sells-1-million-copies-on-steam-so-now-bay-12-games-can-afford-that-little-party-it-planned/
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2025-04-16 13:41:11 UTC

"David what software do you use to keep track of stuff"
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2025-04-16 06:00:04 UTC

8-9 years ago during a live round-table, I said that game devs had a social responsibility especially towards children, to not put gambling-money-related spending incentive in videogames; and it was dismissed. I was right, this kind of stuff isn't good.
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/almost-19-of-japanese-people-in-their-20s-have-spent-so-much-money-on-gacha-they-struggled-with-covering-living-expenses-survey-reveals/
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2025-04-10 20:58:30 UTC

Considering a big variable for the price of devices/gadgets, smartphones, smartwatches etc is the storage you pick, it should be mandatory to say how much the pre-installed OS consumes of that storage in the box. For example a 32GB device with an OS using 8GB means 25% is gone.

2025-04-02 13:58:35 UTC

Nintendo rly went like "let's do bloodborne 2" exclusive huh?
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2025-04-02 13:06:44 UTC

so yeah Mario Kart World is a Switch 2 launch title
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2025-04-01 07:09:56 UTC

Games turning 30 in 2025
Chrono Trigger
Super Mario Yoshi's Island
Warcraft 2
Rayman
Donkey Kong Country 2
Tekken 2
Destruction Derby
Wipeout
Battle Arena Toshinden
Bust-a-Move
Front Mission
Panzer Dragoon
Mortal Kombat 3
Full Throttle
Comix Zone
Command & Conquer
Terranigma
Worms
Suikoden

2025-03-28 07:31:53 UTC

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I think it just needs one time, I guess on the moving process

2025-03-27 14:29:51 UTC

So Nintendo is introducing Virtual Game Cards, where you can buy a game and lend it to someone else for 14 days, kinda like a physical card.
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2025-03-16 20:11:25 UTC

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yeah I had a 3DS but but I prefer the new 2DS comfort despite not having 3D

2025-03-16 19:42:27 UTC

Captain Toad running on 3DS is impressive, and it plays really well too. Especially considering it’s rendering the game on both screens constantly. Nintendo was pulling magic tricks in this hardware
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2025-03-11 09:51:22 UTC

It’s my birthday!! Still in the middle of the snow, but brought a beer that I can freeze on the go.
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2025-02-28 17:09:12 UTC

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git blame someone_else

2025-02-28 17:01:55 UTC

Ever looked into a piece of code and thought "oh wow this is dumb" only to then realize you're the one who wrote it, not even a month ago?

2025-02-15 20:07:50 UTC

I really like these two shots from The Matrix and The Matrix Resurrections.
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2025-02-14 11:20:05 UTC

I vote for if a gdscript line ends with "and" "or" condition it would automatically assume that it's ending as a \ which allows multiline. #godotengine
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2025-02-11 07:34:40 UTC

Games have tutorials in-game these days but we do miss some cool stuff from the manuals era.
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2025-02-02 12:06:26 UTC

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2025-01-27 22:02:54 UTC

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Could be worse I guess
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2025-01-27 17:55:27 UTC

oh, just catching up on the news that the AI-bubble-stock-GPUs-overpriced-might-have-burst
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2025-01-22 12:04:56 UTC

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luckily working fine here. right into my inbox

2025-01-20 07:44:46 UTC

I like to pause code in TV shows, noticed this Youtube ID on Gilfoyle's computer in Silicon Valley, and yeah I don't know what I was expecting
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2025-01-16 13:44:01 UTC

I honestly was expecting a “nintendo twist”

2024-12-14 08:07:43 UTC

not as well know as Moore's Law, but Wirth's law states software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster. We might get new devices millions time faster than a decade ago but things are just as fast but using more resources and power. browsers always end up using all RAM.
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2024-12-12 15:06:00 UTC

Soul Reaver is 25 years old, such a good blend of just enough detail and polygons to have our brains fill the gaps, also that PS1 art-style, I think it aged really well; especially considering the limited hardware capabilities. Right is the new Remastered version.
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2024-12-10 09:41:13 UTC

wow 28 Years Later is happening? There's a trailer too. Apparently in order to maintain the lo-fi aesthetic of OG movie they shot the entire movie on an iPhone 15. For those who don't know, there's already a movie called 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later.
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2024-12-10 06:26:57 UTC

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The itch thing keeps getting weirder, Funko reached to itch.io admin mom about the “accusatory statements on social media”, they are likely not happy with the bad publicity, but that’s on them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371481
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2024-12-09 09:17:07 UTC

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more info on ycombinator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364033
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2024-12-09 09:15:21 UTC

so hum... Funko has caused itch.io to be taken down, wth
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2024-12-06 10:48:46 UTC

26 years ago, running on a PS1 at 320x240 resolution, with a 33mhz processor with 2MB RAM + 1MB GPU; Resident Evil 2 was one of the scariest and most immersive games you could play.
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2024-12-05 18:09:10 UTC

finally downloading Godot to see if I can learn how this works. But I decided to do the whole Godot+GDScript package, as I don't feel like dealing with C# here. Let's see if I'll regret it or not xD

2024-11-24 18:33:47 UTC

Switch is great but I still think the 3DS is a cozier console to play, wish we’d get another dual screen handheld down the road.
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2024-11-18 07:51:57 UTC

NormalPainter is a normal map editor that can be used with a controller as input, also it's open-source #gamedev https://green-frisbee.itch.io/normalpainter
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2024-11-16 14:13:07 UTC

Half-Life 2 is free to get until 18 November, was updated to fix a variety of things & plays on Steam Deck too. If you never played now’s the chance to see one of the best FPS ever made. I recommend starting by HL1 if you haven’t though for story, it’s current on sale < $1
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2024-11-14 11:59:20 UTC

Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free to download and play and archived on Internet Archive https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/classic-shooters-unreal-and-unreal-tournament-are-now-free-and-preserved-on-the-internet-archive
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2024-11-14 11:11:22 UTC

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followed :)

2024-11-14 09:37:23 UTC

Regardless of your new social network platform, create yourself a blog too, for your work, studio or random stuff. You control it and will last longer than any other app. Don’t forget the RSS feed. If you have a gamedev blog post it below so I can add to my feeds.

2024-11-13 20:05:51 UTC

Warcraft 1 and 2 are getting a remaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryZ2jiW95qo
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2024-11-12 15:23:16 UTC

What you think What Zelda
Zelda looked like looked like
22 years ago 22 years ago
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2024-11-09 11:19:15 UTC

Post a random game in your collection
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2024-11-08 14:36:34 UTC

if you're migrating from SDL2 to 3, notice that SDL_Init() now returns a bool, before == 0 would be success and now it's a failure. Didn't caught this right away because obviously David hasn't fully read the documentation xD https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/SDL_Init
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2024-10-30 11:46:37 UTC

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2024-10-20 12:26:01 UTC

Photograph of the same place in the Artic 100 years apart. And new picture is already from 2003.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/arctic-century-photos/
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2024-10-09 11:46:53 UTC

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2024-09-26 18:42:45 UTC

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2024-09-26 18:38:28 UTC

Discord reallllyyy wants you to press that Shop button, they keep changing colors and highlights to make it standout.
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2024-09-25 11:46:49 UTC

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2024-09-18 10:54:31 UTC

UFO50 seems like my type of game, a bunch of quick mini-games with tons of charm & personality https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/
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2024-09-18 10:42:19 UTC

"have you heard about the new tech?"
EA: it's our core business!
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2024-09-11 11:46:54 UTC

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2024-09-04 11:46:57 UTC

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2024-09-01 10:52:09 UTC

I saw this post and thought TeamSpeak was exaggerating, but yeah Discord got 995M in funding in several rounds and has ~900 employees. TS has ~45.
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