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omnibalsamic.bsky.social
Edward
@omnibalsamic.bsky.social
210 followers 530 following 310 posts
candy-ass word-style hero / video game & ttrpg knucklehead since old times / social worker / dad / just doing his best
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renamin.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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chrisgardiner.bsky.social
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.

But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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doriandawes.bsky.social
These people live in a world where people don't have a massive back catalog or there isn't a crowded indie scene of stellar releases.
December 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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queerwizard.co.uk
'you can't just not play any game that uses AI in any way at all'

Fuckin' watch me, bitch
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
omnibalsamic.bsky.social
These movies are garbage, and they always have been. This blistering takedown by @mangiotto.bsky.social is extremely well-deserved.
December 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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plante.bsky.social
HEY!

If you want 2026 to be THE year that labor gets the upperhand on corporations forcing AI culture, then you need to learn from the early wins.

Here's voice actor union rep @selmaleh.bsky.social explaining how gaming voice actors fought (for over a year!!) to guarantee protections from AI.
How to fight brilliant (and stupid) AI
Plus, an interview about gaming voice actors' year-long strike for AI protections
postgame.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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cofactorstrudel.bsky.social
A 4 panel picture of Jake Paul from his boxing match slowly transforming into a terrified hamster
December 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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fiadh.bsky.social
important
badger eating berries
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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boxbrown.bsky.social
heavily redacted peanuts
December 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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skeletired.bsky.social
Bongino's whole thing... his whole reason for getting into the FBI... was to uncover democrats in the Epstein files. The fact that he got in, saw the photos, watched the footage, and read the list of names, then said "oh!" and resigned immediately... is telling.
December 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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danarndtwrites.bsky.social
No more Gen X game devs. Society has moved beyond the need for them
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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alsvid.bsky.social
cis people are NOT FUCKING REAL. they don't exist
I had leg lengthening surgery, and I'll never tell my future wife. Essentially what the title says. A little over 3 years ago, I went through the process of bilateral femur lengthening after a life of height related insecurity. Over the course of a few months, I went from 5'8.5" to a solid round 6'0". It was... a bit gruesome at times, but I've been pretty much fully physically recovered for quite a while now, and ready to put this phase of my life behind me. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I don't think I'll tell a future partner. I look the same as any guy who's naturally taller anyway. One of my most recent ex girlfriends has had a boob job, and I genuinely had no idea until she jokingly told me. Upon VERY close inspection I could see tiny incision marks, but they look and feel the same as any natural tits. That scenario is no different, in my opinion. I've been seeing a girl since pretty recently, and we're really hitting it off. I still have somewhat obvious scarring especially on my right leg, and she asked about this the other day. I told her I had an accident as a child and left it at that and she didn't pry. I absolutely do not want to have biological children for a variety of reasons, so the whole genetics aspect doesn't come into play. I don't feel like either of us would benefit from the full truth. Plastic surgery, especially in men, is frowned down upon enough. So, that's my "off my chest" thing for tonight. I do feel a bit guilty for leaving out this aspect of my past in conversations, but it's probably for the best.
December 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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rj-palmer.com
Sharing some of my thoughts from the other site but man I'm really pissed off about this shit.
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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unburntwitch.com
Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints.

Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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unburntwitch.com
Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does
December 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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thejenna.bsky.social
Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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anoxicart.bsky.social
consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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jtp.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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nightlingbug.bsky.social
the line is actually "no JESUS for us meeses," an oblique reference to the fact that, as muppets are unable to take communion, they are forbidden from entering the kingdom of god
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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kibblesmith.com
You’re a mean one mister grinch
You’re a rancid piece of shit
Your movie’s just unpleasant and I’m fucking over it
Mister Grinch

Why, if I had to rate you on letterboxed I’d probably go with

THIS
SHIT
SUCKS
December 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
omnibalsamic.bsky.social
@ashuttl.bsky.social
A self-published novella entitled Deadly Pizza (Gourmet Pizza): Fatal Delivery, Cosmic Pizza
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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caulimovirus.bsky.social
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?” “As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.” “Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”
May 27, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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thewrongstation.bsky.social
GOD: I have invented the sinus
ME: haha… wait, what the fuck?
GOD: it’s a little space inside your head. Anything could get up there
ME: no…
GOD: a spider could weave its web. An evil little man could build his house
December 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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gwenckatz.bsky.social
Two posts I saw this morning
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM