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Time Extension @timeextension.com · 22h

Antstream Is Creating An AI-Powered Brain Rot Gaming Platform, And 'Mr Antichrist' Peter Thiel Is A Backer

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Antstream Is Creating An AI-Powered Brain Rot Gaming Platform, And 'Mr Antichrist' Peter Thiel Is A Backer

"Prompt. Play. Proft"

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Then they have the *actual audacity* to send this

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Congratulations to whoever vibe-coded eBay's support system BTW

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

eBay's 'help' system is now 100% AI. Even when it says you're connected with an 'agent', you're talking to a chatbot. This is the future of everything now, and it should come as no great shock to learn that said chatbot has been as useful as a chocolate kettle when it comes to solving my issue

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Really odd not seeing @ianferguson.bsky.social and @contricode.bsky.social together in the latest video. I hope they can arrange some more face-to-face chats in the future, or, as hinted, do regular video-call podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2sV...

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ModRetro M64 Update Upsets Console Owners

YouTube video by Pat the NES Punk

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 06/10/2026

Wow! I see you, solo programmer/translator powerhouse, have suddenly released several fan translations this week for previously untouched niche games after years of... absolutely nothing? Well, there's work I can trust.

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The business and tech world's shift from "we're got these environmental targets and we're gonna hit em" to "fuck everything and everyone" has literally given me whiplash futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is like saying, "well, I'll never have the money to own a Ferrari, so I'll just steal one" - GenAI is theft, pure and simple Using GenAI to avoid paying human creators so you can prevent commercial exposure should tell you that your idea isn't good enough

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Monk Bar, from the Bar Walls, York. A sketch with a fineliner pen in a Moleskine sketchbook. #ArchitecturalIllustration #PenArt #pen #drawing #ArtShare

A drawing of a medieval gateway with the wall walk of the city wall on the left foreground and modern buildings on the right. The gateway is topped by turrets with sculpted figures on the top.

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What I really love about AI users is the fact they have no quality filter for what they publish, and they publish it all on the same day

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 30/09/2026

Given the lack of constraints employed by OpenAI in this instance, the agent was arguably working as intended, using every available tool to generate the answers it was asked to provide: arstechnica.visitlink.me/d2djD-

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Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack

Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code."

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Call me old fashioned, but "my brain is so rotted by AI I can't remember where I live" isn't the greatest sales pitch I've heard

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's awesome to know, honestly! I often worry that I'm writing this stuff for an audience of one (myself) so it's really encouraging to hear that isn't the case 😅

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Absolutely! Of course, there was the fascinating thing about Hasbro licensing certain Bandai robots for the Transformers range in the West, too... so they were certainly pals, despite being 'rivals'

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I love my job. Getting to chat with @playtonicgames.com's Chris Sutherland about his @rare.co.uk debut (and one of the first Game Boy titles I fell in love with) was a real joy. Please give it a read 🙇 ✌️

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Blows my mind that Robo Machines (Go-Bots) and Transformers used the same font very briefly in UK adverts

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hilarious that this GenAI-produced website expects anyone to believe it has *actually tested* anything it writes about Click the link and, sure enough, there's no 'review' - just info that can be gleaned from the product page This is why I utterly loathe GenAI; it's deception, pure and simple

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What's staggering is the number of people who see absolutely no issue with it whatsoever :(

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Time Extension @timeextension.com · 14/09/2026

The Industry Is Crashing, but Video Games Aren't Going Anywhere www.steamhype.com/features/the... (via @steamhype.com)

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The Industry Is Crashing, but Video Games Aren't Going Anywhere

The new world struggles to be born

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Who in their right mind would launch a website NOW? Us, actually! 😀 Welcome to @steamhype.com! We've assembled a compact but talented team in @dominictarason.com & Noah McFerran (very much a relation) to keep you updated on the wild & wacky world of Steam! Visit and be sure to tell your friends!

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Time Extension @timeextension.com · 08/09/2026

Big fan of this snowbound December 1990 image of Hinckley, UK (the hometown of our very own @damienmcferran.bsky.social) Looks like @commodoreofficial.bsky.social (the old version) was preparing the ill-fated C64GS for its one and only shot under your Christmas tree...

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not liking AI is the same as racism, a genius over on FB tells me 🤡

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Jack Yarwood @jackgyarwood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thanks to the help of Gail Tilden & @sjmtaelus.bsky.social, I was recently able to ask the artist/writer Benimaru Itoh some questions about the creation of Nintendo Power’s Star Fox comics

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What is the actual upside to GenAI at this stage? I've said it before and I'll say it again - we are the dumbest fucking species on the face of this planet, honestly

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

11 years ago today I met someone considerably taller than me

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sometimes I forget I live in a heckin' special part of the world

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Scare-o-lyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Respectfully, I find all this hemming and hawing around consensus kind of boring and so thoroughly irrelevant to the work of actual games criticism. I know that Perfect Tides: Station to Station isn’t going to be nominated for GOTY at Keighley’s Game Awards. To me that’s an indication of TGAs’…

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The constant need for the games industry to focus on comparisons and awards and sales and performance is one of the key reasons I tend to stick with older games nowadays. It's tiresome.

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Even as a kid I recall thinking they were lame, but Nugget (the one EVERYONE had) was such an amazing looking figure, and before I knew what was happening I was a Rock Lord fan. I even watched the movie!

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sending you as many positive vibes as humanly possible ❤️

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Same! I was telling Chris, the only person I knew with a Game Boy lived across the street and this was one of the 4 games he had. Played it endlessly when I got the chance to borrow some time on his GB

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Damien McFerran @damienmcferran.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One of the perks of living within a stone's throw of a ridiculously talented industry legend: You can easily convince him to sign copies of his games (this being the first he ever worked on!) Chris Sutherland, you are one of the good ones 🫡

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Damned To Hellgore 🐦‍⬛ (andrew elmore) @elmore.zone · 02/09/2026

One of the greatest of the greatest to ever do it. I always look forward to reading Kimimi's work!!

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Norzola @norzola.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"[this] can’t become the accepted default. AI suffuses these games even if it’s not literally staring you in the face moment to moment. Execs and studio heads will keep trying to talk out of both sides of their mouth here. Don’t let them. Words need to mean something, or else AI will have truly won"

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Kris Moyse @krismoyse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hi, I’m now the News Editor at ⭐️Time Extension!⭐️ Will be delivering daily news & curios plucked from the sphere of classic (and modern/classic) gaming. Finally my sick Road Avenger skills are paying off Thankyou to Hookshot for this opportunity & to *all* my friends for your treasured support 🖤

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