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Canada must also close the re-export loophole that allows weapons to flow to Israel through the U.S. This is a matter of moral urgency and international law. 4/ #ArmsEmbargo #GazaUnderAttack @mark-carney.bsky.social

Awwww poor baby

VILE: Exhumed is a game about searching through an old computer, uncovering dark secrets, and experiencing the horrors of parasocial obsession and misogyny. There are references to sexual assault and violence against women, as well as depictions of gore – this was never a secret. This was the point. It was intended to be released for sale on July 22, 2025 on Steam – the largest video game storefront in the world. Instead, it was removed from Steam and banned for sale. VILE: Exhumed was not banned for its use of gore, or its intense themes – themes that are sensitive but many players related to – it was wrongfully banned for “sexual content with depictions of real people.” The game covers topics of assault, abuse, and entitlement, and uses a combination of FMV and practical effects to create images as horrifying as the themes. This was never a secret. There are a lot of intense visuals in VILE: Exhumed, but there is no uncensored nudity, no depictions of sex acts, and no pornography whatsoever – which is one of the justifications bad actors are using right now to censor games. What this actually results in is taking power and storytelling away from women, other marginalized artists, and ultimately, from everyone. This censorship of my work is a direct attack on creative expression and artistic freedom, and it will not stop with false accusations of sexual content. They will come for anything that speaks more loudly than they do. By giving the game away, for free, to whoever wants to play it, I am doing the same thing I set out to do when I started working on VILE: Exhumed, a game about sexual assault, male entitlement, and misogyny. Taking back my agency. No one is allowed to dictate what kind of horror is acceptable, or what stories are allowed to be told. VILE: Exhumed is now available to download for free as shareware under a CC BY-NC-ND license through a few different methods on this page. This felt like the best option to make the game available to …

VILE: Exhumed, which was banned very shortly before its scheduled Steam release, has been released for free online, including on Github and the Internet Archive. Cara's statement, per the IA page:

This is the problem I have on the shmups forum. Seems kinda universal in skill based game communities huh

This is unreasonably good actually?

Yeah, that seems like it was roughly the breaking point for them - they have a lot of stuff that didn’t ship around then, and they’ve only very slowly started clearing the backlog.

I need everyone I know to play Puppy Love Story for the Casio Loopy

Yeah, I think you did the right thing taking it down. A responsible choice!

Game history Wikipedia is absolutely *full* of stuff like this. IME some editors get very defensive if you try to clean it up too.

Yeah! I remember digging into those screens when they showed up on GIFs bot.

I kinda want to recommend Cyber Soldier Sharaku just if you want to see a game with animation that doesn't look like "CD-i animation", if that makes sense? Shockingly well-animated game. Gameplay-wise it's a mostly linear interactive movie but with some fun Myst-esque first person exploration.

Laser Lords is a weirdo western RPG thing that feels like it escaped off DOS. A bit adventure game-ish, genuinely really interesting conversation system, cute claymation art. Strange game but not in the way you expect a CD-i game to be strange. There's also an Alice in Wonderland game in the engine.

Screenshot of Wuzzo showing a bird character standing in his apartment while looking back at the screen.

My personal fave of all the kids storybook kinda games is Wuzzo Goes on Holiday. Charming and well-written, and *very* pretty. Also very British.

Nobelia for CD-i by TwBurn Zelda meets Bomberman in this CD-i homebrew game.

All right, well, I can recommend some stuff that's not in the German driving instruction quadrant at least!

Nobelia calls itself Zelda meets Bomberman, and that's pretty much accurate - it's single-screen puzzles in a Zelda 1-ish semi-open world with Bomberman bombing. twburn.itch.io/nobelia

Well, if you want to risk it, I’ve got suggestions

The last word: AI-based translation startups are booming, but at a human cost Translation helps the world understand itself. But AI does it faster, cheaper, and more consistently, creating a boom for startups and a crisis for humans who spent years mastering foreign languages.

Hi human translators! If you know a fab story or novel that fits our list (speculative / horror / weird / pulp / crime), and you can make it sound great in English, hit us up.

South Asian languages especially, but we're interested in SE Asian & African stuff too

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Wow bluesky broke in a *fascinating* way on this post

I know I'm only one episode in so far but I already feel like I need to try literally anything Anirban bakes #GABO

Wily, brown and black striped brindle dog with dark muzzle and pointy brown ears walking on the street

People on #PawBoost have spotted our #lostdog Wily. She was seen near 22nd and Rhode Island heading south. We’re calling into SFACC. Please if you’re in that general area look out for her. #sfdogs

I’m just so glad she’s out there and ok right now, and I can put the worst fears behind me for a bit.

I like that things have been gotten to the point that I can quote “in Wigan it's as good as gravy" out loud in a random group of friends and chances are good someone's going to know what the hell I'm talking about.

To whoever was responsible for making the DS Chrono Trigger multilingual while still locking out access to the Japanese script: why :(

Oh no.....

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Yeah, I feel like the scoped token rollout has been a real mess? The original docs wording when it was release implied the new scoped tokens would be fully replacing the “classic” ones soon and then that… never happened. Even for first-party features!

Save 10% on Complex 629 on Steam Narrative psychological horror in vivid colour. Explore a surreal Icelandic apartment block built by the Devil. Shovel through snow with your bare hands and Converse with other residents while navigat...

Complex 629 by @lillex.bsky.social which i wrote about the demo for in a recent blog post (ellaguro.blogspot.com/2025/06/i-pl...) just came out today:
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the demo is one of the strangest and most memorable things i've played in a long time - fully recommended

If you’d like, I can add you as a contact and send you an in-game kitten

Nice!! I’m enjoying it so far

It's genuinely beautiful. Great design.