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La Dualista A2 XXIII Confección de dulces XXIII Confección de dulces

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La Dualista A2 XXII ¡Azúcar! XXII ¡Azúcar!

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La Dualista A2 XX Del ocio y otras mocedades XX Del ocio y otras mocedades.

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La Dualista A2 XIX Diálogo hipocrático (bis) A2 XIX Diálogo hipocrático (bis)

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La Dualista A2 XVIII El pájaro peludo VS. Las Brujas [Super (poderosas)] XVIII El pájaro peludo VS. Las Brujas [Super (poderosas)]

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La Dualista A2 XVI El ataque del pajarraco peludo A2 XVI El ataque del pajarraco peludo

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La Dualista A2 XV Sus deseos son órdenes. A veces. A2 XV Sus deseos son órdenes. A veces.

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I began to write again and I am doing great!

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@plante.bsky.social

Dearest Mr Plante

Back in the day you used to have a program called "The History of Fun" With Allegra and Ross. I downloaded every episode before it disappears from the bowels of the internet for safekeeping and reference.

Is that idea of a program ever coming back?

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Fuck about, that was quick

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Throughout it all, even when things went bad, Spencer clearly understood games as a medium, a profession, and a business. Having an Actual Game Guy at the top of a big gaming company is far rarer than it should be, and while there was a lot of facade to Spencer — particularly towards the end, when he used faux-candour and his gaming credentials to try to mask the godawful shitfest he had spawned — I imagine this is the aspect of him we will come to miss the most. Heartening though it is to at last see a woman in the big chair in this most historically blokey of industries, I do not see much in Asha Sharma’s track record to suggest things are about to get better. (And that’s before we get into all the birthrater stuff.)

So, yeah. Phil was a good bloke, and he did some good stuff. I believe his heart was in the right place right up until the end — but unfortunately for him, and the rest of us, Microsoft these days is no place for hearts. Let’s have a quick look at the three big moments where, to my mind, it all went wrong for Phil Spencer.

Throughout it all, even when things went bad, Spencer clearly understood games as a medium, a profession, and a business. Having an Actual Game Guy at the top of a big gaming company is far rarer than it should be, and while there was a lot of facade to Spencer — particularly towards the end, when he used faux-candour and his gaming credentials to try to mask the godawful shitfest he had spawned — I imagine this is the aspect of him we will come to miss the most. Heartening though it is to at last see a woman in the big chair in this most historically blokey of industries, I do not see much in Asha Sharma’s track record to suggest things are about to get better. (And that’s before we get into all the birthrater stuff.) So, yeah. Phil was a good bloke, and he did some good stuff. I believe his heart was in the right place right up until the end — but unfortunately for him, and the rest of us, Microsoft these days is no place for hearts. Let’s have a quick look at the three big moments where, to my mind, it all went wrong for Phil Spencer.

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With new blockbusters taking longer and costing more than ever to make, and nostalgia never a more powerful currency, shuttering a proven specialist in remakes and remasters is frankly insane. Casting out a team of such deep technical expertise and, more crucially, such broad institutional knowledge — Bluepoint doesn’t just know its own tools and technology, but also those of the studios whose games it has modernised, from Sony Santa Monica to Naughty Dog, Team Ico to FromSoftware — is simply inexplicable. Pretending there’s nothing for Bluepoint to work on, when the market for remakes has never been bigger and the long-rumoured, widely coveted Bloodborne remake has reached Shenmue 3 levels of mythicism, is unbelievable. Everything about this decision, from top to bottom and viewed from any and every angle, is ridiculous, baffling, an affront.

With new blockbusters taking longer and costing more than ever to make, and nostalgia never a more powerful currency, shuttering a proven specialist in remakes and remasters is frankly insane. Casting out a team of such deep technical expertise and, more crucially, such broad institutional knowledge — Bluepoint doesn’t just know its own tools and technology, but also those of the studios whose games it has modernised, from Sony Santa Monica to Naughty Dog, Team Ico to FromSoftware — is simply inexplicable. Pretending there’s nothing for Bluepoint to work on, when the market for remakes has never been bigger and the long-rumoured, widely coveted Bloodborne remake has reached Shenmue 3 levels of mythicism, is unbelievable. Everything about this decision, from top to bottom and viewed from any and every angle, is ridiculous, baffling, an affront.

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2 months ago 111 34 5 4

i just think our launch video is really cool. you should watch it, if you haven't seen it yet. and also, there are only 12 days left in our pre-launch sale! 15% off your subscription for LIFE!!! mothership.blog 4 eva

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Credits for Brent Porter (3D art lead) and Catherine Menabde (2D art lead) are shown here. There's a lengthy description of what they did, with a  pastiche of various Demonschool characters underneath, messing around with a computer.

Credits for Brent Porter (3D art lead) and Catherine Menabde (2D art lead) are shown here. There's a lengthy description of what they did, with a pastiche of various Demonschool characters underneath, messing around with a computer.

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

4 months ago 6277 1896 119 158

Amazing!!!
Already preordered! I am looking forward to both relive and read everything here

I promise once it gets here to Colombia, I will find a nice spot and take a picture of the book with a Caribbean background just for publicity!

7 months ago 2 0 1 0

get better soon! We will be here!

8 months ago 0 0 0 0

@mackeza.bsky.social

miss, are you no longer writing pushing buttons?

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#319: Midnight caller Early thoughts on Switch 2 and a surprise start to not-E3.

Wrote a free one. On Switch 2 being weirdly un-Nintendo (but good!), State Of Play being a bit performative (but good!) and all the rest of the week’s big stuff. People seem to like it! You should read it! newsletter.hitpoints.co/319-midnight...

10 months ago 20 11 0 1

I got the book on Amazon, after all. it just works.
Easily. No hassle. No hidden stuff.

To my chagrin. One Click. And now I am off to whatever fantasy land Mr Abercrombrie created. Good Day Sir!!

- A concerned customer.

11 months ago 0 0 0 0
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I want to become an author. But with publishers like you in the internet making things harder FOR EVERYONE, no wonder things are so dire.

Make it easily available everywhere and you will see your numbers flourish. Limit it and the Great Spirit of Francis Drake will own you forever.

11 months ago 0 0 1 0

I want you to take my stupid hard earned money. But it seems you don't want it. At all.

Why you want number go up but limit people from a different latitude to get it to you? The bank will give you the 14. CHARGE US the tax and conversion and you help an author reach further.

11 months ago 0 0 1 0

I can easily go the High Seas, get the damn book, and see how I manage to get the 14 dollars to the author. That would require ONE CLICK. 10 seconds. And worry later down the road.

Or I could go to Amazon and get it on Kindle with worst rates for the author.

11 months ago 0 0 1 0

@bookshop.org

See this is why people end up pirating everything.

I tried to buy Joe Abercrombies' newest book "The Devils" from Colombia with three different cards and all were declined BY YOU.

I have two options as it stands right now with your stupid limitations:

11 months ago 0 0 1 0

I do wonder if there is a way to see this for all countries in LATAM. Because mexico is dreadful with just Free to Play stuff.

11 months ago 1 0 0 0
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11 months ago 2546 402 57 33

Yo debería escribir un primer de

"Soy un desarrollador, me compré un Macbook con un M adentro (M1, M2, M3 M4)

Y ahora, ¿Qué más hago?"

Donde explico como configurar el ambiente como uno se acostumnbra, que instalar, los paquetes, los manejadores las diferencias del CPU...

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Sometimes, I run
Sometimes, I hide
Sometimes, I'm scared of you
But all I really want is to hold you tight
Treat you right
Compile day and night
Baby, All I need is time. (CPU TIME)

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The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex

1 year ago 8949 2078 126 171
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Today's paid newsletter is free to all! A monster edition covering all the week's big news, Ninja Gaiden II Black, and that massive VC presentation everyone's been going on about from which I learned exactly one thing: there is no singular 'game industry' newsletter.hitpoints.co/298-carve-it...

1 year ago 20 15 0 6

MIDNIGHT MESSIAH!

\m/ HAIL TRVE METVL!!!!

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

La nueva app de bancolombia esta bien hecha
Funciona
Es rapida
Pareciera nativa

Jamas pensé que escribiria esto:

Pero es la mejor app de bancos en Colombia que yo haya visto :O

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