Bard spotting on Bluesky 16 January 2025

Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):

As a g*mer who was accused of cheating back in the day because my best friend and I just kept figuring out all the exploits I find this particularly amusing

JayyRodd (@jayyrodd.bsky.social):

The gaming streamers are all over his butt, calling him out with obvious, well articulated evidence that he's a fraud a gaming and paying someone to advance his account on certain games.

It's a better takedown than tech media has done in the last decade.

Musk is pulling check marks on Twitter. 🤣

Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):

Baldur's Gate Online: no one realized a gnome mage/cleric/rogue was ridiculously over powered, something OG d&d players knew

Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):

Civ 2 Online: the founding city's first few turns can be optimized, by shifting city resources

Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):

Guild Wars 2: no one realized the Necromancer's potential

Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):

Shadowbane: broke the war start timer to turn it into a permanent force field and figured out everyone could hide inside a dwarf

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

That is a deep cut

Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):

I am one of the online world's primordial beings