Andrés Ortiz Suárez 🏳️🌈
@andresmakesgames.com
Lead programmer at Deck Nine Games.
He/him. Mexican-American. Artist, Designer, Programmer. I help teams tell incredible stories.
BLM + Trans Rights ❤️
He/him. Mexican-American. Artist, Designer, Programmer. I help teams tell incredible stories.
BLM + Trans Rights ❤️
Yeah, no, I did an honest review of AI tools and practices and found none of what it produced was any more valuable than tools and work we could make or do ourselves - in most cases substantially worse, and in all cases dramatically more morally dubious.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
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“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST
In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.
automaton-media.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Yeah, no, I did an honest review of AI tools and practices and found none of what it produced was any more valuable than tools and work we could make or do ourselves - in most cases substantially worse, and in all cases dramatically more morally dubious.
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We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST
In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.
automaton-media.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
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The new episode of Philosophy Tube is about birth rates, ageing populations, and moral panics. Check it out! 👶
youtu.be/AIDnr646tLA?...
youtu.be/AIDnr646tLA?...
You're Wrong About Birth Rates & Aging Populations
YouTube video by Philosophy Tube
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November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The new episode of Philosophy Tube is about birth rates, ageing populations, and moral panics. Check it out! 👶
youtu.be/AIDnr646tLA?...
youtu.be/AIDnr646tLA?...
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
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SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average.
This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.
Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.
Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average.
This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.
Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.
Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I'm looking for animation work!
-15 years working experience
-9 years in game development
-Helped ship three games, most recently as 2D animation lead on The Plucky Squire
I'd love to animate for your game.
-15 years working experience
-9 years in game development
-Helped ship three games, most recently as 2D animation lead on The Plucky Squire
I'd love to animate for your game.
September 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm looking for animation work!
-15 years working experience
-9 years in game development
-Helped ship three games, most recently as 2D animation lead on The Plucky Squire
I'd love to animate for your game.
-15 years working experience
-9 years in game development
-Helped ship three games, most recently as 2D animation lead on The Plucky Squire
I'd love to animate for your game.
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EA is an ill omen for the American game industry and AAA in general for a number of reasons but #3 is one I've been thinking about a lot when commentators talk about indies picking up the pieces. Indies fundamentally can't provide enough jobs to sustain a professional game industry of scale.
before you say “well losing EA is no big loss”
1. shut the fuck up
2. people have families to feed
3. games such as hades only exist because the studio cofounders met while they were at EA. studios that make games you don’t like are still enormous institutions of gamedev experience and knowledge
1. shut the fuck up
2. people have families to feed
3. games such as hades only exist because the studio cofounders met while they were at EA. studios that make games you don’t like are still enormous institutions of gamedev experience and knowledge
September 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
EA is an ill omen for the American game industry and AAA in general for a number of reasons but #3 is one I've been thinking about a lot when commentators talk about indies picking up the pieces. Indies fundamentally can't provide enough jobs to sustain a professional game industry of scale.
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skin deep is on sale!! play our game about scrutinising warning labels and flushing your less-observant adversaries down the trash chute store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
Save 25% on Skin Deep on Steam
Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
skin deep is on sale!! play our game about scrutinising warning labels and flushing your less-observant adversaries down the trash chute store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
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Do NOT believe the misinfo going around
There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates
Most notably:
1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon
2) No "dangerous" kink
3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational"
So what can we DO about it?
#SaveSpeech
1/🧵
There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates
Most notably:
1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon
2) No "dangerous" kink
3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational"
So what can we DO about it?
#SaveSpeech
1/🧵
September 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Do NOT believe the misinfo going around
There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates
Most notably:
1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon
2) No "dangerous" kink
3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational"
So what can we DO about it?
#SaveSpeech
1/🧵
There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates
Most notably:
1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon
2) No "dangerous" kink
3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational"
So what can we DO about it?
#SaveSpeech
1/🧵
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proud to eat like an imperial concubine
September 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
proud to eat like an imperial concubine
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Sony confirmed to Kotaku that a Sucker Punch employee is no longer with the company following pressure from a right wing harassment campaign.
Yotei has been making headlines in alt-right gaming culture warrior circles ever since it reveals the protagonist was a woman.
Yotei has been making headlines in alt-right gaming culture warrior circles ever since it reveals the protagonist was a woman.
Ghost Of Yotei Dev Fired Over Charlie Kirk Joke After Pressure Campaign
Gamergate 2.0 is looking to cancel people in the wake of the assassination
kotaku.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Sony confirmed to Kotaku that a Sucker Punch employee is no longer with the company following pressure from a right wing harassment campaign.
Yotei has been making headlines in alt-right gaming culture warrior circles ever since it reveals the protagonist was a woman.
Yotei has been making headlines in alt-right gaming culture warrior circles ever since it reveals the protagonist was a woman.
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Time to break out the chart
September 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Time to break out the chart
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Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
August 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
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Have governments instead considered the revolutionary idea of employing a large number of subject matter experts who never hallucinate fake facts and are trained to brief Ministers whenever needed? They could be politically neutral and permanent. We could call it a civil service or something
AI Minister Evan Solomon says he used an AI tool to get briefed up on the Liberals’ last AI bill. We tried it and, well … if a human briefer briefed a minister like this, I don’t think they’d get a second call up.
https://thelogic.co/news/evan-solomon-ai-podcast
https://thelogic.co/news/evan-solomon-ai-podcast
We tried the AI tool Evan Solomon used to summarize an AI bill. It didn't go well - The Logic
Canada's AI minister used a Google tool to learn about an unpassed bill on privacy and AI. When The Logic did the same, the results were far from perfect.
thelogic.co
August 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Have governments instead considered the revolutionary idea of employing a large number of subject matter experts who never hallucinate fake facts and are trained to brief Ministers whenever needed? They could be politically neutral and permanent. We could call it a civil service or something
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any halfway decent journalist should ask Newsom "why is 19 too young to receive lifesaving medical treatment but not too young to date you"
August 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
any halfway decent journalist should ask Newsom "why is 19 too young to receive lifesaving medical treatment but not too young to date you"
This is sadly true, which is also why I fight to make it as easy as possible to get it into the game as quickly as possible, and make regular playtesting an obligatory thing
an adjacent tragedy is how when you're writing a video game in a team with possibly dozens of people who COULD read it, no one outside narrative will read a single thing you write until it's actually in the game. it just won't happen
one of the great tragedies of making a book is that the time you are most excited about it (when you are in the middle of making the damn thing) is, necessarily, the time when no one else is reading it
August 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is sadly true, which is also why I fight to make it as easy as possible to get it into the game as quickly as possible, and make regular playtesting an obligatory thing
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Good to see this getting the attention it deserves.
Your users are watching @bsky.app. Time is yours to step up or flop on this front.
Your users are watching @bsky.app. Time is yours to step up or flop on this front.
20 Aug 25 -- Bluesky has suspended multiple trans users for anti-J.K. Rowling posts even when they didn't mention threats or violence. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
www.advocate.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Good to see this getting the attention it deserves.
Your users are watching @bsky.app. Time is yours to step up or flop on this front.
Your users are watching @bsky.app. Time is yours to step up or flop on this front.
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Just think - if one million people turned off their wifi for one hour it would save enough electricity to run one ChatGPT data center for ten seconds
August 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Just think - if one million people turned off their wifi for one hour it would save enough electricity to run one ChatGPT data center for ten seconds
One of the things I’ve always found shockingly easy was visualizing branching paths and cause and effect in my head. I can tell just by looking at variables and state data how different player choices can break systems in a number of edge cases.
I feel like this is rarer than I realized.
I feel like this is rarer than I realized.
August 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
One of the things I’ve always found shockingly easy was visualizing branching paths and cause and effect in my head. I can tell just by looking at variables and state data how different player choices can break systems in a number of edge cases.
I feel like this is rarer than I realized.
I feel like this is rarer than I realized.
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Look, the rules are that you can only wish ill on three people. You can’t wish for more wishes of ill, and a wish of ill in no way guarantees an ill outcome. I, the genie of this not very effective but apparently legally actionable lamp, make no promises about ill will causality.
August 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Look, the rules are that you can only wish ill on three people. You can’t wish for more wishes of ill, and a wish of ill in no way guarantees an ill outcome. I, the genie of this not very effective but apparently legally actionable lamp, make no promises about ill will causality.
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How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
bookriot.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
I, too, wish horrible things on J.K Rowling, a horrible woman that is *actively campaigning for and funding the destruction of trans people’s lives.*
What the hell are you doing, @bsky.app.
Reinstate Jessie Gender.
What the hell are you doing, @bsky.app.
Reinstate Jessie Gender.
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
August 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I, too, wish horrible things on J.K Rowling, a horrible woman that is *actively campaigning for and funding the destruction of trans people’s lives.*
What the hell are you doing, @bsky.app.
Reinstate Jessie Gender.
What the hell are you doing, @bsky.app.
Reinstate Jessie Gender.
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The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.
Wikipedia has lost a High Court challenge against the UK Government over verification requirements in the Online Safety Act
Wikipedia loses Online Safety Act legal challenge
www.thenational.scot
August 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.