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Station to Station is a great game!! Amazing writing. Full of surprises. It's funny and touching and sad and it makes you feel complicated feelings. And you should play it!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 6h

extremely worth it

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

thank you to @mgiraldi.bsky.social, who pointed me to the insta acct for the photographer (www.instagram.com/kevinlohmanp...). the story and the other two photos are 24k gold.

kevinlohmanphotography
Santa Cruz, California
Are You Kidding Me?
Can this Great Horned Owl's eyes get any bigger?
I'm excited that my photo "Are You Kidding Me?" was selected as one of just 43 finalists in the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, from more than 10,000 entries representing 112 countries!
The story behind it is just as crazy. I was photographing this seven-week-old owlet when a squirrel suddenly launched from a nearby branch and landed directly on its head, knocking both of them out of the tree.
And believe it or not, a squirrel knocked this same owlet out of the tree THREE TIMES that morning! Fortunately, the owlet was fine and eventually settled down next to its mother.

(photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history)

second photo showing the squirrel in question making contact with the owl like the lil furry-tailed (if short-sighted) badass he is

third photo showing the squirrel in question making contact with the owl like the lil furry-tailed (if short-sighted) badass he is

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chloe @laughingandsmiling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ever notice how we have numbers like 1,000 and 10,000, but no 10,00? Me and Claude have. More soon.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We don't talk enough about the soundtrack of Fuck's Quest II, which was clearly made by someone who understands how to compose music and used that knowledge for evil

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart

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dragonweirdo @dragonweirdo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mina the Hollower doin a lil dance Song: At Last We Rest (Old Graveyard) by Jake Kaufman

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026

Claude making a scientific discovery

Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”

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high king pʰɪɫnɒk @pilnok.dad · 10/12/2025

fat bear week is good, but don't forget about borb season

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 25/09/2026

🧠 this month's patreon rewards 🧠 Time to dive deep into the mind with this month's theme: Psychonauts! 🥛✨ subscribe by sept 29 to receive these goodies! 💌 www.patreon.com/othatsraspbe...

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Xbox reportedly set to announce second round of layoffs this week Report suggests platform holder will "consolidate several of its game studios" amid ongoing restructuring www.gamesindustry.biz/xbox-reporte...

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Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📣 Applications are now OPEN for the 2027 Experimental Games Showcase at GDC! 📣 You have until October 23rd to send us all the weird, innovative and unique things you are working on. More info and apply here: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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Experimental Games Showcase

SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE

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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026

Frog built a wet lab for the AI model. "There," he said. "Now it can do its own experiments." "What the fuck?" said Toad

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Sam 🧊🐐 | Xythas @xythas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At last... Draco and the Seven Scales is now out on Steam and Itch! Sail the seven seas on this pirate adventure!

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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Raise your hand if you saw this header image and thought Jon Hamm was coming to Fortnite.

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Bat-Tali 🦇🎃 (Vancouver era ✨) @talidev3d.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I propose next GDC we all make business cards like this and have a contest for the best one

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TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Keeper is out on PS5, now with Psychedelic AND Noir modes! Have some codes to fight the fog! QR5C-MH6*-4XRD 4*6A-*8ME-X9R6 H8CK-H*BG-DGA4 CGP8-ECCJ-*FRR H674-*XP6-F7E9 * = "You have the insanity of a mana___!"

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MONOMOON | Gentle Giant Games @gentlegiantgames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

MONOMOON, my non-linear game about exploration and discovery launches on Steam November 11th! With no proper instructions, you must deduce and achieve your goals as you solve puzzles, find mysterious items, and uncover secrets hiding right under your nose.

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our game's launched into Early Access! Shroom and Gloom is a first-person fungal punk roguelike double deckbuilder! 🍄 Enter a hand drawn world of mushies & madness! 🐸 Build 2 decks, 1 to explore, 1 for combat! ⚔️ every attack can be infinitely upgraded! 🥘 every enemy is edible! Yay! #indiegames

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" 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?

GDT:

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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Coffee-Walk @cguthrie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Introducing: The Grumpy Old Man! He can be found on city benches, wallowing in his own bitterness. A little lively little jazz tune can snap him out of his funk and he might even throw some bread your way in thanks! The healing power of Jazz! #jazzrpg #pixelart #godot #indiedev #indiegames

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What if we kissed at the Leia strangling Jabba statue

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I very much agree with the premise of this article It’s borderline unfair that there’s still games to come out this year that have to compete with Big Walk.

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

my isometric #pixelart Chibi Metroid for the Game Boy. Explore a bunch of ruins. In 3D. #indiedev

chibi samus celebrating cutscene #pixelart

Samus' ship interior, from Metroid Prime

Samus at a cryo-preservation chamber ruin #pixelart

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Will Koehler @willk3d.com · 04/09/2026

Hey this is different, but DF let me pitch and lead a little game for our new experimental Double Fine Action Labs label! It's a hectic bus-like slap-em-up!

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carl // Isle of Reveries OUT NOW! @desertcucco.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Isle of Reveries is out now on Steam and consoles! Links ⬇️ If you're enjoying the game on Steam, please leave a review! The algorithm heavily favors games with a lot of reviews at this stage. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #zelda

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Zach Northrop | Wishlist Worming from Home🪱 @zachnorthrop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I made a remote job simulator where you’re secretly a worm :) Mash the keyboard, brew coffee, message your coworkers, and wriggle your way to the big promotion. Worming from Home is OUT NOW!

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Cisco @ciscoraglandjr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm live! Playing Isle of Reveries! Come chill! 🔗⬇️

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Combo Devils @combodevils.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

BIG REVEAL TOMORROW - 9.5.26 - 10AM PT | 1PM ET

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 04/09/2026

Announcing: Thank You Bus Driver! Our very first Double Fine Action Labs title, this is a fun-sized, chaotic game where you take on the role of a town’s bus driver trying to get through the day with minimal rule breaking and maximum gratitude.

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Thank You Bus Driver Announcement Trailer

https://www.doublefine.com/games/thank-you-bus-driverKeep 'em in ...

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Aaron Jacobs @aaronmjacobs.com · 04/09/2026

Always make sure to thank your bus driver

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I spoke to Double Fine boss Tim Schafer about getting kicked out of Xbox and rediscovering the thrills of being independent. This week's column is a real good one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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How Double Fine Escaped the Xbox Bloodbath

Facing an existential threat, CEO Tim Schafer took his studio independent again after seven years of Xbox ownership

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carl // Isle of Reveries OUT NOW! @desertcucco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Isle of Reveries is OUT NOW on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Playstation, and Xbox! #zelda #indiegame You can also find the OST for purchase on Bandcamp. All links 🔽

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Lee Petty @leepetty.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am SO EXCITED that Keeper is out on PS5 now! We've also added a new Psychedelic Mode to all platforms. And a permanent price drop! Check out this new trailer we made (some spoilers, but hey, it's been out for almost a year!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzc5...

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Keeper - Now on PlayStation 5

YouTube video by Double Fine

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Elisabeth Beinke @ebeinke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yayyyyyy, the announcement trailer for the project I joined recently just got released at today's #PlayStation #StateOfPlay! It's been a LOT of fun to work on so far 🥰🦈 youtu.be/mg4Phb2Aulg?... #Maneater2

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Maneater 2 - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 01/09/2026

100 million roadies have the opportunity to do something truly hilarious here

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 31/08/2026

We're already over 20% funded and some really amazing tiers are selling out! kck.st/4gu8zAF

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 31/08/2026

🚨AMNESIA FORTNIGHT 2026 KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN IS LIVE 🚨 Help us keep making weird and wondrous games; 26 amazing game pitches await your votes, and in the end, one prototype will emerge victorious! The fate of THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE is in your hands! 🌌 www.dfaf2026.com

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XEECEE @xeecee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I love this picture. I had to paint him

an oil painting of a product shot for a rotta the hutt halloween costume

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