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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 8h
gave the bartender my name to close my tab the other night and he said "wait, your last name's warhammer?"
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if you have a couple dollars, or even many dollars, to give to an outlet you love, please make it stop caring artemis is one of the best editors i know, an incredible writer and a beautiful, vast soul. stop caring deserves to live on. please, if you can support the site, do 💜
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ever notice how much harder women and non-white people have it when it comes to harassment? And how few editors and colleagues are willing to put their body in front of the blow? Ever notice how women and non-white gamers are treated as a niche and white men as the core audience?
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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com
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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, here's the callout I wrote for Eurogamer about the glaring lack of female voices in the games media. I wrote this in *2018*. Things did seem to get better for a while but now we're backsliding again and the reasons for it haven't changed. www.eurogamer.net/why-the-game...
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Why the games media has a diversity problem - this website especially
Eurogamer has far too low a proportion of articles by female writers. Keza MacDonald, the Guardian's games editor, explains why this happens and what can be don
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...
"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An AI engineer with round glasses says "we figured out that in order to get the A.I. to make more human-like art, it needs to draw from a set of personal emotional experiences..." He holds up a tablet displaying a program entitled "C-PTSD-GPT" and says "so we gave an A.I. the memory of having divorced parents." He gives it to an engineer with square glases who sees that it has generated art of a sitting childlike figure flanked by two arguing, monstrous dinosaur-like skulls. He comments "Wooooah... this is DARK." Round glasses replies "you think that's good? Wait until you see the one we molested!"
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 24/09/2026
recent photos from the outside world
landscape of the hudson river with trees in the background. foliage and railroad tracks are in the foregroundthe manhattan skyline sandwiched between two buildingsthe hudson riverme
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 23/09/2026
very beautiful work by km here!
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 23/09/2026
hello internet
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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wrote about getting older, losing sight of joy the larger your world gets, and Garfield. Here's my review of Garfield: Escape From Monday, and also an interview with my 4th grade self. www.polygon.com/garfield-esc...
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Garfield’s New Video Game Is GOTY…for 4th Graders
Escape From Monday is rougher than an actual Monday
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 22/09/2026
what I've been reading, watching, playing, and writing this summer (moving edition):
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Summer 2026
A collection of seasonal excerpts from the commonplace.
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
oh this is up! I wrote an essay about how video games keep track of the hours you spend playing them, and how I find that vulgar
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 19/09/2026
I hate when I’m hit with a weapon or elemental damage type that corresponds to my weakness
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ZIPIT! Games @zipit-games.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
nothing's free, but it is discounted! go pick up the wide open sky is running out of catfish for less than 10 dollars right now!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/... #indiegames #cozygames #wholesomegames #videogames #catfish
the crab shopkeeper from the game the wide open sky is running out of catfish saying "FREEplay!? nothing's free!"
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
everybody has bad days, don't worry! it's not the end of the world, there's always tomorrow! you can do it! i'm ready to support your next efforts! i'm always here for you!
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underscores 'You don't even know who I am' Lyric Video
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 15/09/2026
the word “gaming” sends a chill down my spine
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 15/09/2026
bro the gentle wind is beckoning through the leaves
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 12/09/2026
my solitaire app keeps adding new bells and whistles like daily streaks and whatnot and it’s pissing me off. you have had the same ui since 2008 stay in your goddamn lane
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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Almost every video I've made in the past year has been demonetised. YouTube is getting much worse, and it has now made it impossible for me (and most video essayists) to earn a living. Please share.
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YouTube just killed my channel.
YouTube video by Jack Saint
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Wallace @exalclaw.com · 11/09/2026
Being a human is deeply embarrassing
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Extremely heartbroken to say that I'm one of the affected members. Working at KO_OP for four and a half years has been one of the best things to ever happen to me and I really hope that my teammates can land a pitch that can bring us all back together again.
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 08/09/2026
I Manufactured 100,000 Rubber Ducks And Tanked My Framerate In A Bid To Destroy Capitalism:
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I Tanked My Framerate By Making 100,000 Rubber Ducks In Project P.I.T.T.
Project P.I.T.T. let me try to feed thousands of rubber ducks to a giant maw at once. The framerate issues are probably my fault.
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 08/09/2026
i'm touching grass. like you said. i'm kneeling in the field, tears running down my face as i scrounge in the soil. i'm tearing up handfuls and then i'm pressing my nose to the dirt, welting my cheeks with the snaking patterns of overlapping blades. it's working, i can tell. just a few more handfuls
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 08/09/2026
they made him linkedin
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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 08/09/2026
This is what real mfs jerk it to. You need a UE5 AI upscale 4K HD texture fairy to get it up, you're weak and your sex game is trash.
The wild ass fairy from Ocarina of Time for the N64
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 08/09/2026
wallace never misses
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 03/09/2026
Letting a machine write your emails or spin up a PowerPoint presentation isn't cutting corners, those tasks are what you're being paid for. 'The work is the work' aftermath.site/ai-work-office...
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 03/09/2026
where i post from
the hudson river, with the jersey skyline in the background
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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 02/09/2026
Made a sketch artist game where you have to draw the character based on witness testimony neal.fun/unusual-susp...
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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
think I’ve about hit my limit on “omg check out what this dumb asshole said”
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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Here's my (and I guess Skybox's?) submission for @critdistance.bsky.social's #BoRT. I got sad last night and wrote about genre, what I think friendslop actually is (and what we're searching for within it), and how playing games with other people has defined a lot of my life.
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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My planned columns about women and the games industry return; this time I’d like to talk to women who review video games about their experiences landing and writing reviews, especially recently. If this is you, reach out via DM or eaprice.work@gmail.com
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
back in the day Applebee's would keep a queen applebee in a big transparent containment unit behind the bar. now they just have that big decal on the wall and the royal jelly comes in bulk that morning, overnighted from a factory farm
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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 01/09/2026
"I mean, everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis, right? They're just like, 'Yeah, but did you use AI on your commits?'"
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Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'
"They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game."
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 31/08/2026
weekend trip :)
beacha bird in the ocean!god rays shining down on the beach
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I've been wanting to write this essay for years. It's about mirrors, modernity, magic, and why seeing so much of ourselves is driving us crazy johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/your-refle...
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
Your Reflection Is Not You
On mirrors, magic, and obsession
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drew shapiro ✦ MUTAGEN Demo out now! @organzola.games · 27/08/2026
organzola.itch.io/planetoids ok i made another #pico8 game can you tell im not very busy this week
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Planetoids by organzola
Slingshot your moon to destroy asteroids!
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 26/08/2026
we need to abolish brand discord servers
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Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Defector gave me the chance to write about something deeply personal and meaningful to me, namely my belief that right on red is destroying our morals: defector.com/every-right-...
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Every Right On Red Frays The Social Contract A Little Further | Defector
A couple of blocks from my office is a steep hill. Sometimes at lunch I go out into the sun and walk up the hill. The hill is very California: asphalt so newly laid that it looks AI generated; a handf...
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 26/08/2026
drew made this in like a day and it’s great! you should play it
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
geoff glances at his phone, sees the news, runs screaming backstage imploring his crew to yank the video game trailer featuring a somber, slowed-down version of "nine to five"
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Kevin Bash (KBash from YouTube) @kbash.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
game review doesn't have to be product review. try figuring the thing out. imagine the game were a person. why is the person doing that. why is that idiot doing that for fuck's sake grow a brai
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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/08/2026
I’ve spent a lot of my life moving between bubbles and each one gave me a different idea of the world and who I am in it. confessions on "friendslop" from inside the bubble, an essay initially prompted by the @critdistance.bsky.social blog jam jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/everyone-i...
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Everyone I Know Agrees With Me
Confessions on friendslop from inside the bubble
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fw @frwthr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
that's the difference between you and i. you want to take players to the 'fun zone'. you want to give them 'player expression'. I WANT PLAYERS TO BURN IN HELL
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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 24/08/2026
a delightful piece that really captures the joy of this very special game!
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 23/08/2026
technologically the main difference between 2010 and now is the phones have better cameras and all the websites are worse
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yeah I'm an ML. Mario-Luigist
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