Jose Martini Costa

Jose Martini Costa

@joseaugustomc.bsky.social

PhD student @UofT Researching energy development. Esports enthusiast. Freelancer Admin and Player Manager. Have worked with: BLAST, ESL, FACEIT, and Esports Engine.

154 Followers 282 Following 6 Posts Joined Nov 2024
6 months ago
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Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.

Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.

This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Fortitude
Christopher Walker
2008

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The gaming/esports community is so resistant to moving from there 😔

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Emotional Support Cats. I know you need them.

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Bluesky 1.99. Improvements: Videos are now up to 3 minutes long! A DMs "inbox" to approve or reject new direct messages. You can now mute accounts from a post's "..." menu. An improved moderation reporting flow. Better tablet-size layouts on Web. Better error reporting during signup.

📢 App Version 1.99 is rolling out now (1/5)

With every update, we’re aiming to make the Internet less toxic, more fun, and more in your control.

• 3 minute videos!
• A separate request inbox for DMs from unknown users
• Mute accounts more quickly

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Commission your friends for art. Give them dollars (this makes them happy) in exchange for drawing you like (this makes you happy). This is symbiosis. This is a healthy ecosystem.

Support your friends. Support art. Support your friends' art.

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only packing the essentials

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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

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How does this even happen?

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The Sims Turned Players Into Gods. And Farmers. And Vampires. And Landlords. As the virtual dollhouse turns 25, the game designer Will Wright explains how The Sims was a sandbox for the American dream.

The Sims Turned Players Into Gods. And Farmers. And Vampires. And Landlords. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/a...

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a romantic holiday where everyone stops talking and we give each other quiet as a gift

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A gray tabby cat with green eyes sits upright, wearing a blue collar with a small tag. The background features semi-transparent white curtains with a black floral pattern, and the cat is perched on a cardboard cat bed with a lemon design along the edge.

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats”

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Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. It’s incredible! Tomorrow I’m writing for 7 years.

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We’re officially in full airport mode all the time now: everything is crazy expensive, sweatpants are acceptable at all times, nobody’s judging anyone for drinking more than they usually do, and we’re all just out here buying books and coffee to deal with the stress

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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

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Even physical games are bricked without PSN access if you need to pair a disc drive. This is why real physical media and disc drive access is vital.

Welcome to the future - nobody owns anything, and all art and entertainment is disposable, temporary, and lost forever.

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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

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Hands up everyone who zooms in on every picture posted with a bookshelf in the background to check out the books

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Blue sky is awesome because a bunch of people who like to make jokes and a bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke are forced to share space

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Just going to reiterate -

We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications

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The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

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Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

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Just a reminder that your local library has more than books! Many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, internet hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and so much more! Maybe it's time for a visit! ❤️📚

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With the growing number of users, I wish Bluesky had a bookmark/save button.

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It's that time of year where I post this one

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These Brazilian caramel-colored stray dogs were long overlooked. Now, they're having a major moment For decades, lanky stray dogs have scrounged for food on Brazilian streets, abandoned and overlooked

These Brazilian caramel-colored stray dogs were long overlooked. Now, they're having a major moment

#politics #brazil
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Ten Global Affairs Reads of 2024 Nonresident Fellow Paul Poast shares his top 10 book recommendations of 2024.

IR Books of the YEAR!

Thanks to the Chicago Council for featuring my "10 Best Global Affairs" books of 2024. Each one was published this year and featured as an "IR Book of the Week" during 2024.

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Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 8 Steam codes for Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered (courtesy of @aspyr.com). Giveaway ends December 15th, 6 PM PT.

Game is available now on Steam and consoles store.steampowered.com/app/2521380/...

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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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