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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 10m

Minecraft made a few bucks at the box office, at the very least.

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 1h

Reference for non-Mtlers, this is what a Bixi rack looks like. (For NYers, yes, it’s the same as citibike)

Photo of a Bixi rack. A series of bikes are parked in a portable rack with a wide metal base.

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 1h

“Parks like Rugby Park, which are […] heavily used for the activities of small children, are rare. It would be a shame if a child, or grownup, **gets injured while chasing a soccer ball into a mangle of metal from the bicycles and the heavy racks that will accompany a Bixi station**” [emphasis mine]

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 1h

now THAT’S what I call extreme NIMBYism www.thesuburban.com/news/city_ne... > Switzer presented a petition calling for the immediate removal of [a new Bixi station in Rugby Park]. > “This *astounds and frightens* us as residents and taxpayers in Montreal West," the petition says.

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MoWest resident calls for removal of BIXI stations in park

Montreal West resident and Concordia University professor Lorne Switzer called on the town to remove a new BIXI bicycle station from Rugby Park, which is located on Radcliffe Avenue just

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 16h

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 16h

I guess this also answers why you’ve been oddly(?) absent from a lot of the other production work lately! Great stuff!

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Digital Foundry @digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 23h

Today on DF, a massive new video on STAR WARS: Galactic Racer as @dark1x.bsky.social talks to Fuse Games on the origins of the studio, the collaboration with Lucasfilm and interviews with all major departments on the making of the game: youtu.be/EIPgivtETng #sponsored

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Inside STAR WARS: Galactic Racer: The Tech Behind The Big Arcade Racing Revival [Sponsored]

YouTube video by Digital Foundry

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 19h

Some of that video sure does look familiar doesn’t it

Shepard’s helmet from the Mass Effect trilogy

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 19h

Atlus has produced and posted 23 separate videos in the last three months about a game that is still five months from release…?

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Any tool that ends up magnify that (eg “greatly magnify code being written for little value” or “make reasoning more difficult”) is almost certainly making the problem space of software development, maintenance, and support, worse not better.

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is already the case, with normal hand-written code, for non-throwaway projects, that the time spent reading and reviewing it is ten to a hundred times more time consuming than writing it in the first place.

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Okay *now* you’ve got me tempted to look it up just for the purposes of hate watching

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I saw a video of someone reacting to that and, yeah, having learned who the writers on the game are, the idea of it being specifically an explicit rejection of the “can you pet the dog checkbox” comes straight to mind — in a very amusing way.

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Has anyone heard anything about this guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Bobby Kotick vs. The Games Media

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Marathon @marathonthegame.bungie.net · 06/10/2026

Marathon's next step begins today, with the Nightfall Refresh. Then in December, we will expand significantly with Symbiosis, so we can later take another large leap forward in March. Head to bung.ie/4y9sf2l for more info!

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

while I’m sore about PQ winning by so much, it is EXTREMELY funny seeing CAQ go from 74/125 seats to FUCKING ZERO

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also I really need to watch Superman 2025. And I guess I’m locked in for Man of Tomorrow? ‘Cause dang do I care about lantern shit now

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Okay sure Surf Dracula is a problem with prestige TV sometimes. But some other times… you can have a real winner 🏆 🟢 💍

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not to mention even NN/ML applications that help with development in concrete ways. Are people really going to act distraught over ML-based techniques used for Kratos’ muscles and equipment with his poses? Or motion matching for better animation?

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Q-Games @q-games.com · 02/10/2026

✈️ Q-Games worked on the R&D of Cloudly, the rendering technology behind the skies and clouds in ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE From a wide variety of cloud formations to sunlight streaming through the clouds and aircraft casting shadows on them, Cloudly brings the skies to life with stunning realism!

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me with zero company, galactic racer, ace combat, marathon s2.5, control resonant, ghost of Yotei complete, auuugh slow down

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Sam Hulick @samhulick.com · 02/10/2026

It's live in the EU and eastward! Going live on the US east coast in 5 minutes... link.samhulick.com/uncharted-wo...

link.samhulick.com

Uncharted Worlds (Extended Version)

Coming October 2nd, 2026!

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hmm. I’m checking things now and this does seem to be the case. I recalled a LOT more official media — all after TFA’s release, even, not just TROS — that had SI has the point that the timeline revolved around.

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just in case you didn't know ModRetro fucking sucks and "Automated War Initiative" is a disgusting title Also, War Crime Enthusiast Palmer Luckey is incredibly thin skinned and will chase you around various social media platforms if you talk sauce about him and his shitty M64. Worth it.

FB comment:

Palmer Luckey: Mike Fink the M64 is $230 not $320 and it is far more powerful than the Mister. We developed our own core and open sourceed all the hardware and software

And Aduril helps kill Russians, not children

Me: Palmer Free Luckey that's without the controller, not included, which is $90

And also fuck you

We still clown on you with memes
Palmer Luckey and is shit handheld emulator, along with other fascists that don't care about human life, like Elon Musk and JD Vance

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/09/2026

Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, people across Canada are gathering in remembrance and renewed determination to ensure ours is a country where every child matters.

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s one reason why sponsored kits are so great is that it’s just “one click, requeue, we go again”.

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Having loadouts to act as a templates that can autobuy/autofill would be fantastic to have. A huge part of the frustration with “sigh I lost my gear now I need to rebuild everything” isn’t so much the resources lost but how deflating it is to have to rebuild it by diving across the armory.

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@marathonteam.bungie.net This is something I’ve been wondering with the reset, are Cradle prestige levels not reset? Or another way, are the “Cradle Prestige 1-7” codex challenges what grant the bonus Cradle points, and so since codex is not reset, the bonus points are not reset as well?

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well it IS a Dota, AFAIU, so that tracks.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 27/09/2026

cackling laughing this rules. fuck yes. this is what we deserve.

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remember when they tried to reset the Star Wars timeline to have dates measured as BSI/ASI instead of BBY/ABY 😅

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ZFG @zfg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I finally finished a full, complete 100% run with the new route and beat my 7 year old be by 2 whole seconds. This run still has a bunch of mistakes but the new route saves so much time. More improvements soon.

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Friday Night @fridayyakuza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday at last…

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Out of curiosity, do you recall why was this not an issue on Control 1? Was it just that the entity counts in each zone/sublevel was so much smaller that you could just take the hit? I mean, that title didn’t have fade-to-blacks and such during traversal, so…

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Marathon @marathonthegame.bungie.net · 24/09/2026

We’ve got a lot to show you about what’s next for Marathon, from Nightfall Refresh in October, to Symbiosis in December, and Marathon’s evolution in March. youtu.be/YaLvrG6-kkM Hear directly from Del Chafe III and Julia Nardin: bung.ie/marathonfuture

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The Future Of Marathon (Part 1) | Bungie Dev Insights

YouTube video by Marathon

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Audio Logs @audiologs.ca · 23/09/2026

//FULL EPISODE: OUT NOW// 021 - Halo: Campaign Evolved with Becky Allen, Sun Kim and Ryan Schaad 🔗: linktr.ee/audiologs.po... #audiologs #gameaudio #podcast #halo #remake

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rewatching Puss in Boots: Last Wish and gosh I forgot how great it looks

photo of an early shot of Puss in Boots 2

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It isn’t more efficient for typical bitrate vs quality metrics like most other video codecs; it’s more about targeting low latency at ‘all’ costs themaister.net/blog/2025/06/

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June 2025 – Maister's Graphics Adventures

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David Crooks @cyphersignal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not enough of the right folks understand what a direct shot Saint’s Row IV’s work on this was.

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