Adam McVay
@adamnator.com
Video & Film Editor | BFA in Motion Pictures | Video Game Analyst | Writer | Artist | Voice Actor | Lead at ADAMNATOR, http://youtube.com/adamnator | EDITOR of Award-Winning Short Film “Stowaway” (dir. Benjamin Hollinger)
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Sif - watercolour and acryla gouache
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Sif - watercolour and acryla gouache
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THE STEAM MACHINE CAN HAVE WOODGRAIN. THIS CHANGE'S EVERYTHING.
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
THE STEAM MACHINE CAN HAVE WOODGRAIN. THIS CHANGE'S EVERYTHING.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
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1802: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
2025: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
2025: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
1802: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
2025: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
2025: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine
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hes blue for an amazing.... wait what time did you say it was
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
hes blue for an amazing.... wait what time did you say it was
God I’m so stoked, this fucks so immensely
Wanted a non-intrusive living room PC solution for a longggg time, what a fun product to look forward to if I can remotely afford it at some point next year LOL
Steam Frame is exciting too, very interested as the Index was the gold standard for a while
Wanted a non-intrusive living room PC solution for a longggg time, what a fun product to look forward to if I can remotely afford it at some point next year LOL
Steam Frame is exciting too, very interested as the Index was the gold standard for a while
Steam Frame, Steam Controller, Steam Machine announcement is expected soon, here's a first look!
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
God I’m so stoked, this fucks so immensely
Wanted a non-intrusive living room PC solution for a longggg time, what a fun product to look forward to if I can remotely afford it at some point next year LOL
Steam Frame is exciting too, very interested as the Index was the gold standard for a while
Wanted a non-intrusive living room PC solution for a longggg time, what a fun product to look forward to if I can remotely afford it at some point next year LOL
Steam Frame is exciting too, very interested as the Index was the gold standard for a while
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See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
YEP, this stuff’s crazy to think about, especially how I can somehow actually remember the VHS I obsessively watched on repeat as a kid looking much closer to the 35mm
Pixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same.
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
YEP, this stuff’s crazy to think about, especially how I can somehow actually remember the VHS I obsessively watched on repeat as a kid looking much closer to the 35mm
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“Content” is a corpo-brain term, makes me cringe when I hear it in the wild.
You don’t make “content”, you make ART! You write STORIES. Its your WORK (and often play too)!
“Content” is the noise you flick through when trying to find a SHOW you like, don’t cheapen your work comparing it to SLOP. 😤
You don’t make “content”, you make ART! You write STORIES. Its your WORK (and often play too)!
“Content” is the noise you flick through when trying to find a SHOW you like, don’t cheapen your work comparing it to SLOP. 😤
"Content" is a blatantly misleading term to use for fanworks. Fanworks are the antithesis of content; content is produced for individual gain and consuming, whereas fanworks are created out of inspiration and the communal experience.
start using "fanworks" again instead of "content" let's go people
September 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“Content” is a corpo-brain term, makes me cringe when I hear it in the wild.
You don’t make “content”, you make ART! You write STORIES. Its your WORK (and often play too)!
“Content” is the noise you flick through when trying to find a SHOW you like, don’t cheapen your work comparing it to SLOP. 😤
You don’t make “content”, you make ART! You write STORIES. Its your WORK (and often play too)!
“Content” is the noise you flick through when trying to find a SHOW you like, don’t cheapen your work comparing it to SLOP. 😤
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Content.
Consumer.
These are words that lack the artistic soul and strip away the human element in how we enjoy things.
Consumer.
These are words that lack the artistic soul and strip away the human element in how we enjoy things.
"Content" is a blatantly misleading term to use for fanworks. Fanworks are the antithesis of content; content is produced for individual gain and consuming, whereas fanworks are created out of inspiration and the communal experience.
start using "fanworks" again instead of "content" let's go people
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Content.
Consumer.
These are words that lack the artistic soul and strip away the human element in how we enjoy things.
Consumer.
These are words that lack the artistic soul and strip away the human element in how we enjoy things.
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Worth pointing out for those excusing the use of ai in arc raiders.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Worth pointing out for those excusing the use of ai in arc raiders.
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Okay sorry I just want to say that it's a pretty clear sign both of how devastated the media landscape is and how hard it has especially hit women that we are not INUNDATED with cool writing at every single outlet about Silksong and WOMEN
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Okay sorry I just want to say that it's a pretty clear sign both of how devastated the media landscape is and how hard it has especially hit women that we are not INUNDATED with cool writing at every single outlet about Silksong and WOMEN
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Oh for SURE it's not widely held, but stuff like this is getting more common. Maybe more silly people are speaking up now, but like... even how people talked about and handled parts of Silksong is telling for me. Too much friction getting seen as a design mistake and not an act of communication.
I mean is "the soft gating around the catacombs early in DS1 is bad design" really a widely held view though. It feels like maybe this is just one clown with a youtube channel.
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Oh for SURE it's not widely held, but stuff like this is getting more common. Maybe more silly people are speaking up now, but like... even how people talked about and handled parts of Silksong is telling for me. Too much friction getting seen as a design mistake and not an act of communication.
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Love Tara rightfully boiling over this lol. It's so funny that this was something people brought up constantly when the game came out as GOOD design, but as years go on, games train people more and more to NOT actively engage with and respond to what they're experiencing.
I'm watching a vid on Silksong and they're saying Dark Souls 1 had a 'bad' opening section (firelink) because, while there are multiple paths, there's only one you can fully pursue. Thus the others are 'fake' and it's a 'guess' as to whether you have a 'good' or 'awful' time...
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Love Tara rightfully boiling over this lol. It's so funny that this was something people brought up constantly when the game came out as GOOD design, but as years go on, games train people more and more to NOT actively engage with and respond to what they're experiencing.
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen
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This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.
BREAKING: Senators have reached a deal to end the government shutdown.
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.
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This is the future leftists want
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is the future leftists want
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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A Dem senator had one (1) flight canceled and decided to give into Republican demands and re-open the government. That's exactly what happened.
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A Dem senator had one (1) flight canceled and decided to give into Republican demands and re-open the government. That's exactly what happened.
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Ro Khanna calls for Schumer‘ ouster
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Ro Khanna calls for Schumer‘ ouster