Fraser McCormick
@flimgoblin.bsky.social
Game Dev. Geek. Views are those of the small goblin pulling levers inside my brain. He/him.
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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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Brianna was murdered in a transphobic hate crime, and disabling the replies doesn’t make that untrue!
October 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Brianna was murdered in a transphobic hate crime, and disabling the replies doesn’t make that untrue!
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🚨JOB OPPORTUNITY🚨
We’re hiring a Senior Audio Designer
Deadline: 6th November
- Work independently and take ownership of a project's audio demand
- Take designs for characters, weapons, levels, enemies, produce and implement audio assets
- Work on an awesome Warhammer project
We’re hiring a Senior Audio Designer
Deadline: 6th November
- Work independently and take ownership of a project's audio demand
- Take designs for characters, weapons, levels, enemies, produce and implement audio assets
- Work on an awesome Warhammer project
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🚨JOB OPPORTUNITY🚨
We’re hiring a Senior Audio Designer
Deadline: 6th November
- Work independently and take ownership of a project's audio demand
- Take designs for characters, weapons, levels, enemies, produce and implement audio assets
- Work on an awesome Warhammer project
We’re hiring a Senior Audio Designer
Deadline: 6th November
- Work independently and take ownership of a project's audio demand
- Take designs for characters, weapons, levels, enemies, produce and implement audio assets
- Work on an awesome Warhammer project
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Introducing our upcoming DLC:
FRIGHTS IN TIGHT SPACES 👹
Lurking in a sinister manor house, an ancient evil thirsts for a sacrifice. Horrors and otherworldly threats stand between you and your objective.
🎃👻Coming to Steam next Week 👻🎃
FRIGHTS IN TIGHT SPACES 👹
Lurking in a sinister manor house, an ancient evil thirsts for a sacrifice. Horrors and otherworldly threats stand between you and your objective.
🎃👻Coming to Steam next Week 👻🎃
October 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Introducing our upcoming DLC:
FRIGHTS IN TIGHT SPACES 👹
Lurking in a sinister manor house, an ancient evil thirsts for a sacrifice. Horrors and otherworldly threats stand between you and your objective.
🎃👻Coming to Steam next Week 👻🎃
FRIGHTS IN TIGHT SPACES 👹
Lurking in a sinister manor house, an ancient evil thirsts for a sacrifice. Horrors and otherworldly threats stand between you and your objective.
🎃👻Coming to Steam next Week 👻🎃
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Reminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW!
🚂🧟🧛
Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania.
Steam: s.team/a/3352310
itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
🚂🧟🧛
Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania.
Steam: s.team/a/3352310
itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
October 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW!
🚂🧟🧛
Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania.
Steam: s.team/a/3352310
itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
🚂🧟🧛
Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania.
Steam: s.team/a/3352310
itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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EARTH MUST DIE
Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
September 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
EARTH MUST DIE
Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
September 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
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Fights in Tight Spaces: K9 Division is out now!💥🐶
Equip Agent Eleven with your new K-9 companion, introducing a brand-new set of cards, events, and enemies. Expanding the replayability of the core game.
🎮➡️ s.team/a/3625850
Equip Agent Eleven with your new K-9 companion, introducing a brand-new set of cards, events, and enemies. Expanding the replayability of the core game.
🎮➡️ s.team/a/3625850
September 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Fights in Tight Spaces: K9 Division is out now!💥🐶
Equip Agent Eleven with your new K-9 companion, introducing a brand-new set of cards, events, and enemies. Expanding the replayability of the core game.
🎮➡️ s.team/a/3625850
Equip Agent Eleven with your new K-9 companion, introducing a brand-new set of cards, events, and enemies. Expanding the replayability of the core game.
🎮➡️ s.team/a/3625850
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The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
September 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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Three years ago some people were paying £50,000 for a picture of a cartoon monkey
September 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Three years ago some people were paying £50,000 for a picture of a cartoon monkey
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One of the things that I said about the obsession with pandemic learning loss is that the kids are always learning. Many of us are too afraid to ask what it is they are learning. This is a pretty good summary of some of the lessons.
With alt text:
September 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
One of the things that I said about the obsession with pandemic learning loss is that the kids are always learning. Many of us are too afraid to ask what it is they are learning. This is a pretty good summary of some of the lessons.
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Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000.
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000.
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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That’s me. The inexperienced DJ. You might be wondering how I got here.
*record scratch*
Shit.
*record scratch*
Shit.
August 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
That’s me. The inexperienced DJ. You might be wondering how I got here.
*record scratch*
Shit.
*record scratch*
Shit.
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Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
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If you're in London on Fri Sept 12th join us for Maraoke LIVE! Assuming you like video games and stupid jokes.
💿 Back in the cosy Stoke Newington loading.bar
💿 There is going to be a STAGE
💿 Likely NEW songs??
💿 Singing is optional, fun is inevitable
Grab your tickets now!! 👇
💿 Back in the cosy Stoke Newington loading.bar
💿 There is going to be a STAGE
💿 Likely NEW songs??
💿 Singing is optional, fun is inevitable
Grab your tickets now!! 👇
Get ready friends… Maraoke is back at @loading.bar on Friday 12th September. And it’s the start of a new era… 😱
We’re relaunching as Maraoke Live! And doubling down on making it the best live gaming experience around 🎤🎮
Get your tickets and tell your friends ▶️ lu.ma/dc5a6sp9
We’re relaunching as Maraoke Live! And doubling down on making it the best live gaming experience around 🎤🎮
Get your tickets and tell your friends ▶️ lu.ma/dc5a6sp9
August 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you're in London on Fri Sept 12th join us for Maraoke LIVE! Assuming you like video games and stupid jokes.
💿 Back in the cosy Stoke Newington loading.bar
💿 There is going to be a STAGE
💿 Likely NEW songs??
💿 Singing is optional, fun is inevitable
Grab your tickets now!! 👇
💿 Back in the cosy Stoke Newington loading.bar
💿 There is going to be a STAGE
💿 Likely NEW songs??
💿 Singing is optional, fun is inevitable
Grab your tickets now!! 👇
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A barrister, Sarah Phillimore, led a campaign of harassment of a trans woman so wicked that she sought to take her own life. Jk Rowling saw the threat of regulatory sanction for that misconduct and offered to pay her legal costs.
That's where she now is.
That's where she now is.
August 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A barrister, Sarah Phillimore, led a campaign of harassment of a trans woman so wicked that she sought to take her own life. Jk Rowling saw the threat of regulatory sanction for that misconduct and offered to pay her legal costs.
That's where she now is.
That's where she now is.
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Marketing: "Use this every minute of every day! Put it in your toothbrush! Share all of you deepest, darkest secrets! Let it handle everything! Never stop talking to the robot!"
Legal: "Talking to the robot for more than a few seconds may cause it to try and kill you."
Legal: "Talking to the robot for more than a few seconds may cause it to try and kill you."
OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations
ChatGPT allegedly provided suicide encouragement to teen after moderation safeguards failed.
arstechnica.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Marketing: "Use this every minute of every day! Put it in your toothbrush! Share all of you deepest, darkest secrets! Let it handle everything! Never stop talking to the robot!"
Legal: "Talking to the robot for more than a few seconds may cause it to try and kill you."
Legal: "Talking to the robot for more than a few seconds may cause it to try and kill you."
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The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/
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ideal response to transphobes kicking up about toilet provision, imo: www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ideal response to transphobes kicking up about toilet provision, imo: www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
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Don’t threaten me with a good time
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Don’t threaten me with a good time