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      My friend released his latest game on Steam today! Roguelike pinball. What’s not to love?!
      
      To celebrate, I’m giving away five free copies. If you’re a mutual and interested in playing, either reply on the thread, or shoot me a DM

      KennyMakesGames

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      And we are LIVE! Cult of PiN v1.0.0 is officially out now on Steam and @itch.io ! After 2 years, my weird roguelike pinball project is now available to buy - with a 15% discount ;) 
      
      store.steampowered.com/app/3144340/Cult_of_PiN/
      
      #indiedev #gamedev #pinball #roguelike
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    14. Sara Joy ☠️

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      Haha! Serves you right.
      bbc.com/news/uk screenshot:

Image of Nigel Farage trying his hardest to look stately, giving a "victory speech" to "Faragefest" attendees last night.

Headline:
LIVE Parliamentary investigation resumes into Farage hours after he wins Clacton by-election

The Reform UK leader won the contest, which was boycotted by major political parties, but didn't attend the declaration.

Image of Farage in front of Union Jack flag saying something vehemently, one hand up, frogmouth wide open.

Sub headline:
Farage's by-election victory won't stop questions about finances
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      not sure how many years of my life this interaction took off 😆
      
      to be clear, if you bully _anyone_, whether a maintainer or a user, in a repo I maintain, you will be banned from interacting with all orgs I administer on github.
      
      and if you see bullying behaviour anywhere, please report it 🙏
      [danielroe]

so, just to be clear, you won't bully maintainers in future, but will provide genuine reproductions when you open issues?

I don't want you to leave with the idea that bullying will work. it won't.

[screenshot of previous post from user]

no they also closed it because in nuxt is a bottleneck as they said 

is very comfortable to omit principal part

I remember how in mikro-orm i found bug. I write to b4nan, he began to cry like now people cry, after many bullying from me to him he found that is a bug in node as i remember and wrote to node maintainers. Node
maintainer confirmed bug and pached... That is how here all work

[response from user, name obfuscated]

Only if devs will stop create buggy soft and write every where use our soft it is the best 🙂

Bullying is when someone repeatedly and on purpose uses words or actions to hurt, scare, or control another person who has less power.

You think I have more power than author of some lib. Stop they are bulling me and I don't known!

Please say to all to stop bulling me and make things to just work
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      Three down, two to go! 
      
      Any takers?

      Andrew James

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      My friend released his latest game on Steam today! Roguelike pinball. What’s not to love?!
      
      To celebrate, I’m giving away five free copies. If you’re a mutual and interested in playing, either reply on the thread, or shoot me a DM
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    29. Laurie

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      A large number of my colleagues in Netflix games were layed off yesterday.
      
      If you know of open roles please let me know, I’d love to connect some great people.
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    33. Gergely Orosz

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      It's now the second blog post in a day sent over by an early-stage VC-startup I tried to read, but could NOT, after a few sentences.
      
      Verbose, weird... AI-generated.
      
      These companies think they made "content" more efficient. No: it's lower quality, slop +I no longer care about the startup
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    37. laura

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      i distinctly remember the first one feeling a bit dated for 2016 in a cute way but wow it’s been a forever glowdown since

      laura

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      im gonna get mugged next time somebody sees me paying with a green horsey card and like what can you even do like no i clearly deserve this you need this more than me
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