@kingtentacle.bsky.social
Co-owner of music promotion company Red Tentacle, but I mostly talk about stuff like video games, F1 and Super Sentai.
One of the strangest things to type out, but the Sonic the Hedgehog detective noir radio theatre style podcast is really fun and good. open.spotify.com/episode/2edd...
Chaotix Are on the Case!
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January 27, 2026 at 11:31 AM
One of the strangest things to type out, but the Sonic the Hedgehog detective noir radio theatre style podcast is really fun and good. open.spotify.com/episode/2edd...
We must be reaching the point where people no longer have space for these sorts of expensive collabs that are not intended to actually be used, given how many of them has happened in recent years. So the sales for these items will soon being to flop right? www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/ar...
Want to wear LEGO bricks on your feet? Toy company and Crocs announce partnership
If you ever wanted to wear LEGO pieces on your feet, you’re living in the right timeline. That’s because the collaboration you never knew was needed has come to fruition: Crocs and LEGO have partnered...
www.ctvnews.ca
January 26, 2026 at 2:36 PM
We must be reaching the point where people no longer have space for these sorts of expensive collabs that are not intended to actually be used, given how many of them has happened in recent years. So the sales for these items will soon being to flop right? www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/ar...
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Starfleet academy is so unnecessarily noisy in so many ways I cannot understand how anyone allowed this. The lighting, sets, alien and ship designs all of it needs to be toned down.
January 16, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Starfleet academy is so unnecessarily noisy in so many ways I cannot understand how anyone allowed this. The lighting, sets, alien and ship designs all of it needs to be toned down.
I need someone at Google to explain to me how they think this looks like the sun.
January 15, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I need someone at Google to explain to me how they think this looks like the sun.
New year new podcast episodes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu1r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu1r...
504 - 2026 Predictions
YouTube video by Everything is Fine Nothing is Ruined
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January 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
New year new podcast episodes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu1r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu1r...
I cannot believe Dandadan just name dropped an actual Canadian minister of defense.
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I cannot believe Dandadan just name dropped an actual Canadian minister of defense.
The game awards is successful and popular because it gives a wide audience what it wants. If it catered to the small % of people who truly care about the artistry of games it would be a small show few watch. DICE and GDC awards have existed for years with the public showing no interest for them.
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The game awards is successful and popular because it gives a wide audience what it wants. If it catered to the small % of people who truly care about the artistry of games it would be a small show few watch. DICE and GDC awards have existed for years with the public showing no interest for them.
This does a good job of touching on a feeling I have had for awhile:
For all the complaints people have about the game awards not being more artistically inclined, I think the people who complain about this are largely hypocritical because if they wanted better it is out there.
For all the complaints people have about the game awards not being more artistically inclined, I think the people who complain about this are largely hypocritical because if they wanted better it is out there.
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This does a good job of touching on a feeling I have had for awhile:
For all the complaints people have about the game awards not being more artistically inclined, I think the people who complain about this are largely hypocritical because if they wanted better it is out there.
For all the complaints people have about the game awards not being more artistically inclined, I think the people who complain about this are largely hypocritical because if they wanted better it is out there.
Embarrassing.
We obviously need better frameworks to allow use of copyright materials and to reduce the current doctrines around "canon" and "official" artistic works. But watering down your works like this is terrible idea.
We obviously need better frameworks to allow use of copyright materials and to reduce the current doctrines around "canon" and "official" artistic works. But watering down your works like this is terrible idea.
Disney to invest $1bn in OpenAI, allowing use of characters in video generation tool
Disney to invest $1bn in OpenAI, allowing use of characters in video generation tool
Agreement comes amid anxiety in Hollywood over impact of AI on the industry, expression and rights of creators
Walt Disney has announced a $1bn equity investment in OpenAI, enabling the AI start-up’s Sora video generation tool to use its characters.
Users of Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that draw on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters as part of a three-year licensing agreement between OpenAI and the entertainment giant. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Embarrassing.
We obviously need better frameworks to allow use of copyright materials and to reduce the current doctrines around "canon" and "official" artistic works. But watering down your works like this is terrible idea.
We obviously need better frameworks to allow use of copyright materials and to reduce the current doctrines around "canon" and "official" artistic works. But watering down your works like this is terrible idea.
Latest chapter of Chainsawman having Denji say "my high school educated genius brain" is a perfect example of the actual genius of the series writing.
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Latest chapter of Chainsawman having Denji say "my high school educated genius brain" is a perfect example of the actual genius of the series writing.
Okay maybe AI is actually good.
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Okay maybe AI is actually good.
Yeah is crazy how the mantra used to be "Games journalism is a young persons game and not for people who want a family" and now the opposite is true and there is no room for young people to get in anymore.
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Yeah is crazy how the mantra used to be "Games journalism is a young persons game and not for people who want a family" and now the opposite is true and there is no room for young people to get in anymore.
Obviously there are younger people who get in, & as they say streamers are definitely young, but it feels like the media who really shape coverage/conversations are an older group so you get skewed coverage toward classic games and a lack of opinions from people with no attachment to older consoles.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Obviously there are younger people who get in, & as they say streamers are definitely young, but it feels like the media who really shape coverage/conversations are an older group so you get skewed coverage toward classic games and a lack of opinions from people with no attachment to older consoles.
Nice to hear people talk about the lack of new blood in games media. Definitely feels like wider games coverage is lacking perspective from people who did not grow up playing games in the 90s.
In today's edition of The Game Business, we dive into the launch of Call of Duty, and the shooter battle between COD, Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders. On the Show, we're even joined by @skillup.bsky.social to discuss all the big stories
www.thegamebusiness.com/p/call-of-du...
www.thegamebusiness.com/p/call-of-du...
Call of Duty under attack
And Helldivers is caught in the cross-fire
www.thegamebusiness.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Nice to hear people talk about the lack of new blood in games media. Definitely feels like wider games coverage is lacking perspective from people who did not grow up playing games in the 90s.
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This is powerfully embarrassing
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This is powerfully embarrassing
This might be one of the dumbest conspiracy theories out there, how would you even hide something that recent. Photography was prominent and even video was becoming widespread.
If you're not familiar, it's the theory that around 1900 (125 years ago) there was a great "mudflood" that buried the old world, and neo-classical buildings are actually just the tops of ancient buildings from this previous civilization buried under all the mud.
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This might be one of the dumbest conspiracy theories out there, how would you even hide something that recent. Photography was prominent and even video was becoming widespread.
Just an incredible quote. The kind of thing a person says who has no ability to actually appreciate art and can only understand the world through the lens of everything being a transaction.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was just on the online tech show TBPN and provided one of the longer answers about his views of the game business that I've seen
- Wants to put their games on everything, a la Office
- Wants to revisit console/PC paradigm
- "best way to innovate is to have good margins"
- Wants to put their games on everything, a la Office
- Wants to revisit console/PC paradigm
- "best way to innovate is to have good margins"
![Satya Nadella (speaking to TBPN, trasnscribed by Game File): Remember, the biggest gaming business is the Windows business. To us, gaming on Windows… and of course Steam has built a massive marketplace on top of it and done a very successful job of it.
So to us the way we are thinking about gaming is let’s… first of all we are now the largest publisher after the Activision [deal] so therefore we want to be a fantastic publisher, similar to the approach of what we did with Office. We’re going to be everywhere, on every platform. We want to make sure, whether it’s consoles, whether it’s the PC, whether it’s mobile, whether it’s cloud gaming, or the TV, so we just want to make sure the games are being enjoyed by gamers everywhere.
Second, we also want to do innovative work in the system side on the console and on the PC.
And it’s kind of funny that people think about the console-PC as two different things. We built the console, because we wanted to build a better PC, which could then perform for gaming.
And so I kind of want to revisit some of that conventional wisdom. But at the end of the day, console has an experience that is unparalleled. It delivers performance that’s unparalleled, that pushes I think, the system forward.
So I’m really looking forward to the next console, the next PC gaming, but most importantly the game business model has to be where we have to invent maybe some new interactive media as well. Because, after all, gaming’s competition is not other gaming. Gaming’s competition is short-form video. And so if we as an industry don’t continue to innovate both how we produce, what we produce, how we think about distribution, the economic model—best way to innovate is to have good margins. Because that’s the way you can fund.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fs2pfwz4ohuc7nhlshklw55d/bafkreihs4stj33sxmj6qm2zeqf6maa6npemlbta2y36arao2uzqz5lqpei@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Just an incredible quote. The kind of thing a person says who has no ability to actually appreciate art and can only understand the world through the lens of everything being a transaction.
The latest chapters of Dandadan sure are an emotional rollercoaster.
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The latest chapters of Dandadan sure are an emotional rollercoaster.
Oh yeah not expecting you to know, more so I think some of the convo on this has to be "It sure does seem like the game did well but in the current climate who knows what ludicrous expectations a publisher has".
October 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oh yeah not expecting you to know, more so I think some of the convo on this has to be "It sure does seem like the game did well but in the current climate who knows what ludicrous expectations a publisher has".
Question is though what do we think Sony wanted? Find it hard to imagine that Sony is as kind at factoring in things like how Covid gave GoT a boost, and will surely have expected measurable growth with GoY.
October 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Question is though what do we think Sony wanted? Find it hard to imagine that Sony is as kind at factoring in things like how Covid gave GoT a boost, and will surely have expected measurable growth with GoY.
This is all without getting into the seemingly inevitable shrinking of global population.
It is not just tech that will have problems but what do companies who manufacture actual physical things we all need like cars and toothpaste do when there is no way see reliable growth anymore.
It is not just tech that will have problems but what do companies who manufacture actual physical things we all need like cars and toothpaste do when there is no way see reliable growth anymore.
October 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is all without getting into the seemingly inevitable shrinking of global population.
It is not just tech that will have problems but what do companies who manufacture actual physical things we all need like cars and toothpaste do when there is no way see reliable growth anymore.
It is not just tech that will have problems but what do companies who manufacture actual physical things we all need like cars and toothpaste do when there is no way see reliable growth anymore.
Globalization has lead to market penetration in pretty much all markets so there are not new untapped companies/people.
Internet/cloud adoption is saturated.
In general for tech there is not really a new thing that everyone will need to pay for anew(Unless you but the AI hype).
Internet/cloud adoption is saturated.
In general for tech there is not really a new thing that everyone will need to pay for anew(Unless you but the AI hype).
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Globalization has lead to market penetration in pretty much all markets so there are not new untapped companies/people.
Internet/cloud adoption is saturated.
In general for tech there is not really a new thing that everyone will need to pay for anew(Unless you but the AI hype).
Internet/cloud adoption is saturated.
In general for tech there is not really a new thing that everyone will need to pay for anew(Unless you but the AI hype).
One thing we are not talking about enough is how many of the reasons that large companies have been able to see the continual growth they have are coming to an end and that none of them seem to have plans for what to do when growth is no longer possible. Talking things like:
Microsoft’s lofty goals for Xbox profit are behind its price hikes and studio shutdowns. A new report reveals Microsoft CFO Amy Hood set across-the-board targets of 30% profit margins, far beyond averages for the video game industry www.theverge.com/news/805280/...
Microsoft’s lofty goals for Xbox profit are behind the price hikes and studio shutdowns
Gotta keep squeezing for cash.
www.theverge.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
One thing we are not talking about enough is how many of the reasons that large companies have been able to see the continual growth they have are coming to an end and that none of them seem to have plans for what to do when growth is no longer possible. Talking things like:
Yeah cleared final act.
The High Halls mob fight suuuuuuucked. While not hard the flower lady you fight after Seth I did not care for the whole wall hanging aspect of the fight.
Karmelita(?) Probably my favourite fight.
The High Halls mob fight suuuuuuucked. While not hard the flower lady you fight after Seth I did not care for the whole wall hanging aspect of the fight.
Karmelita(?) Probably my favourite fight.
October 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Yeah cleared final act.
The High Halls mob fight suuuuuuucked. While not hard the flower lady you fight after Seth I did not care for the whole wall hanging aspect of the fight.
Karmelita(?) Probably my favourite fight.
The High Halls mob fight suuuuuuucked. While not hard the flower lady you fight after Seth I did not care for the whole wall hanging aspect of the fight.
Karmelita(?) Probably my favourite fight.