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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Friendly neighborhood devs Aconite have a Kickstarter launching soon for their next game SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE - can also wishlist on Steam! I'm quoted on here saying the game is 'fearless and untethered stuff' which sounds good, right? www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco...

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Seems like the narrative starter pack is going around again so here's this:

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Write "I waited" without saying it: The ice cubes in his drink melted, turning rich amber to sickly yellow. I drank from my empty glass, again, sucking down a trickle of bitter meltwater.

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

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Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io · 15/04/2026

This year’s Experimental Games Showcase is up on the GDC Vault, and it’s free for anyone to check out! If you wanna see a handful of really interesting projects doing very unique things in the industry, take a look: gdcvault.com/play/1035831...

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Experimental Games Showcase

The Experimental Game Workshop Showcase, which featured games like 'Baba Is You', 'The Longing', 'Braid', 'Untitled Goose Game' and 'Katamari Damacy', is back for its 24th year at GDC! In this fast-pa...

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Joe @joeaquiare.site · 13/04/2026

Dinner looks delicious dear but it seems a little... linear. Where are the rogue-like elements that make every new bite interesting and fresh. The re-eatability value here is not very high if I'm being honest

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Tactical Breach Wizards. If you liked Into The Breach but thought "there aren't enough sassy wizards in this" then boy do I have a game for you

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Scott Jon Siegel @numberless.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

HoloVista. It deserves to be on more platforms than just iOS. Not that I’m biased or anything.

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"All authors are using AI now" Incorrect. Some of us get by just fine on dream journals and self loathing.

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

When well-meaning people say "I'm fine with generative AI handling [task]" What they're generally saying is "[task] is boring and unimportant." But why don't we think these things (eg. tools engineering, taxes, administrative work) are important? Whose jobs aren't important to us?

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Nazih Fares | Wishlist The Arab League of Misfits @nazihfares.com · 29/03/2026

Players frequently blame poor performance and bugs on laziness of game developers, when every shipped video game is a fragile miracle. It's strict corporate deadlines and poor management decisions that causes these broken mechanics.

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Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 29/03/2026

“player agency” is something gamers tend to complain and ask for, but a railroaded experience is often times much more impactful

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Starting in 3 hours. Come get you some sci fi noir

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✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We all seem to have forgotten one of the most truly delightful and surprising indie interactive fiction drops of the last decade. 17776 is ostensibly about football, which is why at first glance I thought I wouldn't like it. But it really makes me smile, and the world could use that right now.

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What football will look like in the future

Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

To the cavalcade of new followers from the ND starter pack, hello. I am Cory. This game tells you basically everything you need to know about me: bettermyths.com/amoraldilemm... I almost never post. You're welcome.

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Eating Glass: Yes or No?

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I'm sorry but if you have 4,000 employees and your revenue is 6 billion, you make 1.5 million per employee and if you can't make a profit margin there, you are simply embezzling it.

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Layoffs are not just “how the industry is going” They happen because pieces of shit who care only about themselves are put in positions of power Pieces of shit who have ruined this industry Never forget what these people have done. This industry is devastated, and their bank accounts are bulging

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This is happening this Friday! Come see me talk about sci-fi noir at C2E2!

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Yo if any of you nerds are going to C2E2 I'm doing a panel, check it out: www.c2e2.com/en-us/things...

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Anna Reser @annareser.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

you can read @kevinbaker.bsky.social’s new piece if you promise to think seriously about this: “You do not have to use a language model to let it organize your attention or distort your thinking.” artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain...

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Kill Chain

On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Yo if any of you nerds are going to C2E2 I'm doing a panel, check it out: www.c2e2.com/en-us/things...

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

From the article:
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 13/03/2026

I can't possibly come up with a representative quote from every cool game in this year's Experimental Gameplay Showcase. But I can report that Tommy Maranges & Cory O'Brien yelled "MAGIC CIRCLE BAYBEEEEE" while showing Inhuman Conditions and Eric "Magic Circle Jerk" Zimmerman couldn't stop laughing

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I went into GDC creatively exhausted and kinda pessimistic about the industry. But spending the week around people who are genuinely passionate about the things they're making has been incredibly healing. I'm inspired to make some small, beautiful things.

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Game Workers Conference @gameworkerscon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers? The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️‍🔥

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Everyone doing youraislopboresme.com is a fucking genius

A prompt window from youraislopboresme.com.
The prompt is "write me a song about tiny hotdogs"
The response is "little dogs
Warm warm hotdogs tasty yes
Very lovely toasty wood yippee
Warm tasty hotdog food yes"

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We used to manufacture consent in this country

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Electrify Chicago @electrifychicago.net · 24/02/2026

Data Centers in Chicago use a LOT of electricity, and we're adding some stats to show you just how much - in this case, 7 data centers use as much energy as 480 median large Chicago buildings! More data coming soon to electrifychicago.net/property-typ...

An Electrify Chicago Data Centers page showing 7 buildings in the data using 1.7 billion kBTU of energy, equivalent to 480 median buildings citywide

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

5 authors I've read at least 5 books by: Ursula K. Le Guin Douglas Adams William Gibson Joe Abercrombie Raymond Chandler

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Microsoft has disabled the delete key in paint 3d and has replaced it with a "Generative Erase" that takes 10 seconds to remove black text from a white background. This feels like a joke but it is real life

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I am done with these fucking captchas. Never have I felt more like I was doing a robot's homework for it. Can't wait for a Waymo to mow down a pedestrian because I didn't answer its pop quiz fast enough.

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

As for me, I'm simply not going to die. Rip to the rest of you but i'm different.

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I know there are a lot of terrible things happening in the world right now but Southwest Airlines now making you pay for specific seats in advance and charging for checked luggage just feels like salt in the wound.

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libby watson @libbycwatson.com · 14/02/2026

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Games industry dot biz is asking how you are using AI, do your thing! survey.alchemer.com/s3/8679343/b...

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GamesIndustry.biz AI Survey

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The workers of Ubisoft care about their team, and they care about what they make, and they want you to have better games made by happier people. Solidarity forever!

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 03/02/2026

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"

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Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

For all my Illinois people, call Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin and demand they hold the line against the DHS funding bill, no compromises. Durbin: (202) 224-2152 Duckworth: (312) 886-3506 If you can't get through, try their websites. They've gotta know we're paying attention.

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