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· May 13
Started from the bottom and I'm still there please don't look at me
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As the backlash to generative AI in video games continues to pick up steam heading into 2026, it'll be fascinating to see what is considered "made with generative AI." Can a dev team say they're not using AI if they're writing design docs with Copilot or using chatGPT to make schedules and budgets?
December 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As the backlash to generative AI in video games continues to pick up steam heading into 2026, it'll be fascinating to see what is considered "made with generative AI." Can a dev team say they're not using AI if they're writing design docs with Copilot or using chatGPT to make schedules and budgets?
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Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
AI is not going to go away
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
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De normalisering van radicaal rechts gaat zo snel, dat Amerikaanse studenten het niet eens waarnemen, lees ik hier. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Cas Mudde: ‘Mensen worden opgesloten in detentiekampen. Daar ben ik panisch voor’
Populisme: Zijn hele leven schreef politicoloog Cas Mudde, die al zeventien jaar in de VS woont en werkt, over radicaal-rechts populisme. Maar nu dat om hem heen de realiteit is, is hij stilgevallen. ...
www.nrc.nl
December 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
De normalisering van radicaal rechts gaat zo snel, dat Amerikaanse studenten het niet eens waarnemen, lees ik hier. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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my mom, god rest her soul, was general manager for the jamaican division of a us data entry company in the early 80s. she answered only to a bunch of white guys in america. she ran the whole fucking thing. everyone called her "boss" and she did all this WHILE RAISING ME.
please. stop.
please. stop.
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
my mom, god rest her soul, was general manager for the jamaican division of a us data entry company in the early 80s. she answered only to a bunch of white guys in america. she ran the whole fucking thing. everyone called her "boss" and she did all this WHILE RAISING ME.
please. stop.
please. stop.
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as a man raised by a single mother in the 80s and 90s who showed me via words and actions that women can in fact do it all, im so offended that in 2025-6 we're seriously even discussing "women, are they asking too much by asking for basic equality?"
shut the hell up. go shut up.
shut the hell up. go shut up.
December 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
as a man raised by a single mother in the 80s and 90s who showed me via words and actions that women can in fact do it all, im so offended that in 2025-6 we're seriously even discussing "women, are they asking too much by asking for basic equality?"
shut the hell up. go shut up.
shut the hell up. go shut up.
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Democrats feared that a handful of their members would vote for anti-trans legislation. So Sarah McBride spoke with some of the Republicans who ultimately voted ‘no." via @oriana.bsky.social
www.notus.org/congress/mcb...
www.notus.org/congress/mcb...
Sarah McBride Lobbied Some Republicans to Vote Against an Anti-Trans Bill
When House Democrats suspected a few members in their caucus would support a bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans youth, McBride reached out to some Republicans who went on to oppose the...
www.notus.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Democrats feared that a handful of their members would vote for anti-trans legislation. So Sarah McBride spoke with some of the Republicans who ultimately voted ‘no." via @oriana.bsky.social
www.notus.org/congress/mcb...
www.notus.org/congress/mcb...
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If anything, it’s worse that you’re using it for shit you can easily do yourselves and not seeing any productivity gains for. You’re helping train mass surveillance tools so you can generate a harder to find Lorem Ipsum? For THAT? Fuck you.
December 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If anything, it’s worse that you’re using it for shit you can easily do yourselves and not seeing any productivity gains for. You’re helping train mass surveillance tools so you can generate a harder to find Lorem Ipsum? For THAT? Fuck you.
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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.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
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Tokyo Godfathers is one of the best films of this century. A key reason is that it portrays Tokyo with an almost overwhelming level of care and detail.
Satoshi Kon and his team moved mountains to make this film's world feel real — as we explore today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/satoshi-ko...
Satoshi Kon and his team moved mountains to make this film's world feel real — as we explore today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/satoshi-ko...
Satoshi Kon's Impossibly Real Tokyo
Plus: news and a music video.
animationobsessive.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Tokyo Godfathers is one of the best films of this century. A key reason is that it portrays Tokyo with an almost overwhelming level of care and detail.
Satoshi Kon and his team moved mountains to make this film's world feel real — as we explore today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/satoshi-ko...
Satoshi Kon and his team moved mountains to make this film's world feel real — as we explore today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/satoshi-ko...
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while industry figures, dressed to the nines, filtered into LA's peacock theater last week, protesters chanted "the industry is dead" outside of it. despite how often geoff keighley says the game awards exist to "celebrate" games and the people who make them, many feel ignored
!["We are the ones who poured our blood, sweat, tears, sanity, and health into these games,” shouted one who paid tribute to a friend who’d just passed, who he said loved video games and hated corporate exploitation. “The ones who made the games are outside. [Bosses and executives] are inside patting themselves on the back. ... And what was our reward? Many of us were cast aside as soon as the products were created because we weren't needed anymore. And those who were lucky enough to stay [now] find themselves debugging ChatGPT code."
Some present had direct personal experience with the video game industry’s current layoff-centric strategy. Earlier this year, Timothy Staton-Davis, who attended the protest dressed in a grim reaper cloak and holding a plastic scythe, was part of a small round of layoffs at Brass Lion Entertainment, which is currently working on Wu-Tang: Rise Of The Deceiver.
“There were a few of us they had to let go of because of monetary issues,” Staton-Davis told Aftermath. “It’s their first game. They’re trying to pull through. They’ve been negatively affected by the current industry situation in a lot of ways because of mismanagement of money. It’s not the studio’s fault, but from our partners and all that kind of stuff.”
“My first studio gig was at Monolith,” he continued. “Now they’re gone. Unfairly so. All these studios I’ve been connected to have been negatively affected in some way, shape, or form by people not doing the right things with their money and taking advantage of folks.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreifyv7erpamrntagfmpqwndofhftfpiszgguefbunyy6iyz6dhavxy@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
while industry figures, dressed to the nines, filtered into LA's peacock theater last week, protesters chanted "the industry is dead" outside of it. despite how often geoff keighley says the game awards exist to "celebrate" games and the people who make them, many feel ignored
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Dat is geen bron. Tenzij je een club die in het leven is geroepen om twijfel te zaaien en desinformatie te verspreiden ook een bron vindt.
De bron waar Wiersma op vertrouwt, is Agrifacts. bsky.app/profile/bert...
December 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Dat is geen bron. Tenzij je een club die in het leven is geroepen om twijfel te zaaien en desinformatie te verspreiden ook een bron vindt.
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A trivial social error has been greatly exacerbated by an autistic person’s unnecessary apology for it, sources have claimed.
Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/123134...
Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/123134...
December 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A trivial social error has been greatly exacerbated by an autistic person’s unnecessary apology for it, sources have claimed.
Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/123134...
Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/123134...
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God I love working on this game, and with the best team. A courtroom drama rpg with team management and deck building mechanics? Taking the powerful to trial for wrecking the planet? Vibey and mystical and wild as hell? Speculative world? Yes, yes, yes, and yes. 🔥🔥🔥 #eco #drama #mystical #game
Billionaires at the top, hoarding all the wealth and making the city pay the price. Not anymore. It’s time for us to start fighting back.
In All Will Rise, we’re putting the city of Muziris first. Screw the rich. We’re fighting back.
#IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev
In All Will Rise, we’re putting the city of Muziris first. Screw the rich. We’re fighting back.
#IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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My PR peeps: EA is looking to hire a PR manager to work on our Star Wars and Marvel portfolio as well as Skate. Application here. jobs.ea.com/en_US/career... FYI: I'm not involved with the hiring on this one. Just a PSA.
Global PR Manager - Action/Adventure
jobs.ea.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
My PR peeps: EA is looking to hire a PR manager to work on our Star Wars and Marvel portfolio as well as Skate. Application here. jobs.ea.com/en_US/career... FYI: I'm not involved with the hiring on this one. Just a PSA.
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Ever dreamed of gaslighting billionaires? Good news.
Better Than Us, our next game, lands in 2026.
Better Than Us, our next game, lands in 2026.
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Ever dreamed of gaslighting billionaires? Good news.
Better Than Us, our next game, lands in 2026.
Better Than Us, our next game, lands in 2026.
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MAGA is very upset about some Somalis who did 8 billion of fraud in Minnesota the same week they praise Trump for pardoning a venture capitalist who defrauded thousands of Americans for over 1 billion.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
MAGA is very upset about some Somalis who did 8 billion of fraud in Minnesota the same week they praise Trump for pardoning a venture capitalist who defrauded thousands of Americans for over 1 billion.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
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ICYMI earlier :)
My turn to recommend a TV show for day 3 of the Starship Alexandria advent calendar, one that @aptshadow.bsky.social hasn't seen.
Today's 'window' opens onto Australian suburbia with a figure in the shadows.
starshipalexandria.com/day-3-2025-a...
Today's 'window' opens onto Australian suburbia with a figure in the shadows.
starshipalexandria.com/day-3-2025-a...
Starship Alexandria: Day 3 - 2025 Advent Calendar
For the third day of the 2025 Starship Alexandria advent calendar, Emma recommends an Australian TV show called Mr Inbetween. If you'd like to support the show, you can become a patron at Emma’s late...
starshipalexandria.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
ICYMI earlier :)
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Grunn is de grote winnaar van de Dutch Game Awards 2025
Grunn is de grote winnaar van de Dutch Game Awards 2025
De 2025-editie van de Dutch Game Awards zijn vanavond gehouden, en Grunn is uitgeroepen tot game van het jaar.
pu.nl
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Grunn is de grote winnaar van de Dutch Game Awards 2025
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Romania’s Defense Ministry blew up a Ukrainian Sea Baby naval drone that it said was “threatening navigation in the Black Sea.” Ukraine used it in operations against Russian vessels.
Yet, Romania did not shoot down Russian drones that violated its airspace, but waited for them to return to Ukraine.
Yet, Romania did not shoot down Russian drones that violated its airspace, but waited for them to return to Ukraine.
December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Romania’s Defense Ministry blew up a Ukrainian Sea Baby naval drone that it said was “threatening navigation in the Black Sea.” Ukraine used it in operations against Russian vessels.
Yet, Romania did not shoot down Russian drones that violated its airspace, but waited for them to return to Ukraine.
Yet, Romania did not shoot down Russian drones that violated its airspace, but waited for them to return to Ukraine.
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*wild flailing*
NEW JAGUAR NEW JAGUAR NEW JAGUAR
NEW JAGUAR NEW JAGUAR NEW JAGUAR
Motion-activated trail cameras in southeastern Arizona captured pictures last month of a new, never-before-seen jaguar, according to the University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center.
Remote cameras catch another new jaguar in Arizona
Motion-activated trail cameras in southeastern Arizona captured pictures last month of a new, never-before-seen jaguar, according to the University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center.
tucson.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
*wild flailing*
NEW JAGUAR NEW JAGUAR NEW JAGUAR
NEW JAGUAR NEW JAGUAR NEW JAGUAR
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This declaration has no legal effect.
And if we were to go down this rabbit hole and entertain these false conspiracies, the US Constitution does not specify whether a pardon must be signed by hand.
And if we were to go down this rabbit hole and entertain these false conspiracies, the US Constitution does not specify whether a pardon must be signed by hand.
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This declaration has no legal effect.
And if we were to go down this rabbit hole and entertain these false conspiracies, the US Constitution does not specify whether a pardon must be signed by hand.
And if we were to go down this rabbit hole and entertain these false conspiracies, the US Constitution does not specify whether a pardon must be signed by hand.
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Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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How I learned to stop worrying and love Clair Obscur's story mode: aftermath.site/clair-obscur-e...
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
How I learned to stop worrying and love Clair Obscur's story mode: aftermath.site/clair-obscur-e...
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Chiitan Knight will continue to spread his message until there are no more transgender people who are subjected to unjustified criticism and slander♡
Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Chiitan Knight will continue to spread his message until there are no more transgender people who are subjected to unjustified criticism and slander♡
Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈