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Rob "Xemu" Fermier

@xemu.bsky.social

He/ Him. Making games since 1993. System Shock 1&2, Age of Mythology, Heretic Operative, Millennia, and lots of others. MIT grad, founder at Irrational Games & C Prompt Games. Next project: TBD!

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AMFV was so wildly ahead of its time.

06.03.2026 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think Starfleet Academy and Strange New Worlds both are getting more seasons (or at least might be?).

I sure do miss Lower Decks though.

06.03.2026 07:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tim Walz: β€œNoem should probably get used to spending more time in Minnesota.”

(And he doesn’t mean visiting. He means find a lawyer. Lesson to ALL of this regime!)

06.03.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 345    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

folks, you did not see my 9 games coming

05.03.2026 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4

BTW I absolutely love that this acct lets you filter out (via Bluesky's excellent tagging support) which games you want to filter out for spoilers.

06.03.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Slay the Spire 2's concurrent Steam players just hit 179,456, the highest ever for any roguelike.

When StS1 first launched back in 2017, it had 193 concurrent players.

That's a 92,982% increase, meaning StS3 is on track to hit 166,861,777 concurrent players by 2035. πŸ’ͺ

06.03.2026 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1573    πŸ” 328    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 23

This is why people get frustrated with the Democratic party, and by extension the US political project.

If no Democrats had joined the Republicans on this vote, it would have passed. But 4 did join them.

As Ken said, there's always just enough votes every time.

06.03.2026 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 167    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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a learned co-conspirator just perfectly phrased it thus: "the horrors of giving the angry vibrating crystals agency in an adversarial environment"

grith.ai/blog/clineje...

05.03.2026 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 9
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dont speak to me of the old magic

04.03.2026 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

The takeaway from the success of Iron Lung isn't to fund YouTubers making sci-fi movies about games.

The secret is that Markiplier is a creative person who made something that excited him.

This is also the secret sauce behind Sinners.

There is no repeatable trend. Fund creative people. The end

05.03.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 518    πŸ” 174    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It's obviously great on the merits that Noem is out.

But I think the fact that it is a tangible, high profile, piercing of Trump's already-tattered "aura of invincibility" is going to be even more important.

There's blood in the water, does Kash Patel actually start doing his job now, or nah?

05.03.2026 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I relate to Dark Souls a lot cause I’ve also hungout at a bonfire with a bunch of weirdos

05.03.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

It's so nice having Senators that are actually good.

05.03.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you do this near me I'm joining the phone call. And I'm going to pretend to be Kendall Roy

05.03.2026 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pleased to see more city builders like Citadelum making it to console… I quite enjoyed it on PC.

05.03.2026 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Politician: I wouldn’t classify this as a β€œwar.” It’s a shooty boom boom soldier fighty fight time

05.03.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Walking through Kamurochō. Guy in a suit so white it makes me angry bumps into me so i throw a punch. Miss. He breaks a bicycle over my head. Individual leaves of lettuce and a single dog collar explode from my body as I collapse

05.03.2026 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 314    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

At least if you constrain to a small scope, without a lot of emergent interactions... oh... hmmm.

05.03.2026 05:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks cool, I hope they do a digital version!

04.03.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So like, my choices for playing Magic in the past N months have been like "scifi" or three different versions of IP crossovers, two of which are literally modern day? :(

04.03.2026 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Slay the Spire is literally the only game that every single member of my family plays. Can't wait!

04.03.2026 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I told my parents about the state of the game industry like this: a game was announced in the prime spot of the game awards, then it came out and had 2 million players. so it was a collosal failure

04.03.2026 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 582    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1

tired: Blexas

wired: Blarkansas

04.03.2026 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They’re referencing a PC world article but … yeah

04.03.2026 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i haven't seen enough: Dallas County is Crockett's home district, is currently reporting 0% votes in, and Ken Paxton just said people waiting in line can go fuck off

04.03.2026 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The TX supreme court interfering in Dallas is just going to add so much noise to a close election.

04.03.2026 03:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

04.03.2026 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8102    πŸ” 2404    πŸ’¬ 261    πŸ“Œ 521

Are Democrats in the Colorado legislature ready to impeach Polis if he does this?

04.03.2026 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

Seriously, I respect MY favorite Final Fantasy game by constantly trying to collapse all of time and space, it's like the minimum bar.

03.03.2026 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

03.03.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 11118    πŸ” 3462    πŸ’¬ 610    πŸ“Œ 356