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Eric Deters

@deters.bsky.social
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Erstwhile game developer, occasional writer, perennial lurker, eternal lover of the cinema. Formerly a Technical Designer at Rec Room; a Cinematics Designer at Camouflaj

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol
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Eric Deters @deters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i’ve been so excited for this. i played the first TOËM in a single afternoon and did absolutely everything and it’s one of my favorite recent gaming memories looking to do the same with this one!
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: 5 million years ago - a bunch of bedbugs lounge around in a living room, looking totally bored. Panel 2: another bedbug excitedly bursts through the front door and exclaims, “someone invented beds!” Panel 3: one of the bedbugs looks over their shoulder at the other and says, “you’re joking”
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 24/09/2026
Respect isn't given. It's earned. By accumulating Respect Points. You can earn Respect Points by completing Side Stories or defeating monsters listed on the Job Board. Check the Almanack to see how many Respect Points you need to level up!
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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 21/09/2026
I want little Big Walk figures with interchangeable parts for different poses and colors
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026
eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it
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Mike Display Name @therexwolff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there's going to be another one!"
-Mike Myers
On 9/11
CLICKHOLE
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eevee @eev.ee · 06/09/2026
with the incredible power of AI we have eliminated the tedious bit where you actually make something. now we just need talented creative people to fix bugs and otherwise clean up someone else's mess, which of course is the most rewarding part
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Capcom is on a generational run. But this is no renaissance: the company has never been greater. I reported on the secret of its success, from "Crapcom" in the early 2010s to its one-banger-after-another present, speaking to many of its most illustrious producers. www.theringer.com/2026/09/03/v...
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How Capcom Cracked the Code of Game Development
The video game industry is in turmoil, but 2026 could be Capcom’s career year. How does the company behind ‘Resident Evil Requiem,’ ‘Pragmata,’ and ‘Onimusha: Way of the Sword’ keep pumping out hits?
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026
Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com
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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.
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I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Game publishers want the staffing of film and TV without the unions that make gig-to-gig work a viable living and a sustainable business.
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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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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
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An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism
How an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 07/03/2026
[resident evil voice] resident evil
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8 Matts in a Duffel Bag @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
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ɢʀᴇᴇɴʜᴏʀɴ ꜰᴏᴏᴛᴘᴀᴅ @colourmode.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
let me call you back boss I’m with a custoid right now [hangs up] i’ve been dreaming of ways to serve you.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
it seems like whenever i go on bluesky all i see is a bunch of people talking to each other and posting about stuff
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/07/2026
The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.
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red @rednovember.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
durandal when he's winning: they're gonna measure my dick in lightyears, little man. i'm teleporting you into the ninth circle of hell, there's a button down there i need you to press. ciao durandal when he's losing: listen man. we're gonna be ok. you're important to me
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 09/07/2026
I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.
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🦇 Hallow-Ina! 🎃 @ina-strangeworld.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
obligatory for the 4th
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will end
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Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will end
As mass layoffs continue in the game industry, developers must reckon with how to handle the uncertainty and pain of the moment.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: the mutant bear from Annihilation (2018) is sitting and eating at a restaurant table across from a woman. Another woman wearing glasses is standing a short distance away, and says, “oh my gosh! The mutant bear from annihilation!” Panel 2: she continues, “what was Natalie Portman like?” The bear seems slightly put off, and is in the middle of eating some food. Panel 3: the bear says, “um, I’m kinda with a friend.” The woman sitting across from the bear looks visibly annoyed at the other woman’s rude interjection. The woman is glasses says, “ah! Sorry!”
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Eric Deters @deters.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
you gotta play 868-BACK
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
like apart from being cruel and tragic it's also just stupid. Destiny 2 is a great game and has been for years. why would you just chuck that in the bin like it was nothing.
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
god what an unforced disaster to take the team that built and maintained Destiny 2 and just smash it into the rocks instead of investing in whatever that big pile of talent and skill can build next
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Eric Deters @deters.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
working in the game industry in any capacity since 2020 means that, for the last four years of your life, you have been witness and/or subject to indignity after indignity, knife after knife after knife—in your gut, your heart, your throat
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 25/06/2026
My post from earlier this year that reads,”video games were a short lived
entertainment medium popular from ~1970
- ~2025”
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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online · 26/06/2026
i can’t do five more years of this shit oh my god
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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
i truly cannot tell you how proud and excited i am to say that the marielda soundtrack, in a really extraordinary form, will be coming to vinyl in collaboration with @lostincult.co.uk
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Eric Deters @deters.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
insanity
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This article is SO fucking funny. "The real problem is there aren't enough 50+ game designers!" Yeah, agreed. Any thoughts on why that might be? Like maybe the fact that this industry fires treats anyone over 35 as "not hungry enough", and relies on burning out a steady stream of younger devs? no?
Yet when it comes to accommodating the needs of older players, Emmert thinks the biggest thing that's holding the industry back is that there are so few game designers in the 50-plus age bracket. "There are no elder statesmen. And I think this has hurt the industry tremendously. We lose tons of experience constantly, because gaming is always focused into a younger demographic... And I don't know whether they consciously do it, or it's subconscious, but it's just a fact."
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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Marathon is free to play this week. It is the best video game I have played this decade. I know people who have never seriously played an FPS who have cleared Compiler multiple times; it really is not as intimidating as it maybe sounds, it just helps a lot to have friends. Join us on Tau Ceti IV!
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Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"Marathon looks at the ills of today and instead of providing flaccid critique asks you to indulge in play of it, asks if you feel lucky yet." Our Marathon issue comes to a close with an article by Charlotte Lindsay. Read here: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/27/h...
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Ishtar Collective @ishtar-collective.net · 01/06/2026
I’ve spent 11 years archiving and categorizing Destiny lore. So I wrote a blog post about how I feel, and to say thank you to all the people who’ve helped build a world I love. errata.ishtar-collective.net/irrational-h...
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Irrational Hope
Thirteen years ago, I watched this video and it’s not hyperbole to say that it changed my life forever.
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
if you worked on destiny in any capacity, i just want you to know you've made a meaningful impact on my life. thank you.
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Eric Deters @deters.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
woof
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A thank you note/love letter/commentary on art for anyone interested
A long love letter to you, thank you for following my work!
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Eric Deters @deters.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
banger after banger after banger on Bullet Points lately
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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Have you checked out our utterly stacked month on the computer videogame Marathon yet? Still two more articles to go, but plenty to chew on already. WE EATIN: bulletpointsmonthly.com
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Bullet Points Monthly
Monthly magazine for long-form articles and podcasts on videogames
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Eric Deters @deters.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
it’s time for all you fuckers to start playing Michael Brough’s games!!
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Classic
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a guy is taking a fat rip of his vape while he girlfriend sternly says, “your vape tricks are getting out of hand. We’re done.” Panel 2: the vaping guy begins to slowly exhale a huge cloud of smoke while flicking his hand around in a circle to affect the formation of the cloud. Panel 3: he actually pulls off this sick as hell vape trick and turn the phat cloudz into letters which spell out: I CAN CHANGE
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Tom W @tewhit.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
On this May 4th I am remembering how in the short brilliant life of Cohost @dimosar.bsky.social made not one but two of the best Star Wars posts in history
Post by @Sullivan on Cohost
YODA: Luke, when gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be...except for Ahsoka Tano, Ezra Bridger, Cal Kestis, Quinlan Vos,
LUKE: ...Who?
YODA: ...Gungi- the wookiee jedi kid,
LUKE: a Wookie Jedi?? Master, isn't that a bit tireso-(continued @Sullivan post on Cohost)
YODA: NOT finished I was...Reva, some other Inquisitors I bet, Opo Rancisis- the ugly-looking tree guy from Phantom Menace, he was. And Ka-Moon Kholi, Kelleran Beq, Selrahc Elous, Baylon Skoll, some guy named "Naq Med" if reading this right I am,
#STAR WARS #yoda
(A reply, also from @Sullivan)
LUKE: Cal...Kestis? Mouthfeel on that one is a little off...
YODA: a double jump, he can do.(pasting full text in here, it's gonna get cut off sorry)
Sheev's Plan:
get elected to senate for naboo
start new sith order
work republic and separatists against each other. recruit evil guy to lead separatists.
(this jedi kid is wicked strong!)

get jedi in deep with clone army. (save some clone jars for later? just in case...)
PIVOT: Make the jedi kid evil. dont need separatist guy anymore. got a new evil guy.
make my evil guy kill his jedi pals when they come to arrest me. ill finish em off with my lightning attack
(fucking guy used his sword to bounce my lightning back at me! honestly my fault. takes a minute for the lightning to wind down and he got my ass on the bounce. fair play. now i look like a leather couch but its fine. can blame jedi for THAT too)

Use the clones to kill the jedi, have my evil guy kill the seperatists, keep the army, spin into empire
GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

chill as emperor for a while. humiliate Vader for a laugh. make death star.
Endgame achieved.

(Vader's kid blows up my death star)

PIVOT: get new young apprentice by turning him evil once he kills his dad, or maybe make Vader cooler by making him kill his gay son. either way its a win-win for me.
(thrown down hole and killed.)

PIVOT: good thing i kept those clone jars!! make new clone body to inhabit. takes time to get right. need something to do until then
build enormous fleet of big spaceships, each with their own super death star laser. keep em on the down low... why use em? they lose half the value as soon as you fly them off the lot
(clone son betrays me but its no biggie. its fine. have loads of clones at this point. whats one clone son?)

create a DECOY fascist empire. put one of my weirder clones in charge. Not giving them any of my ships though. can build his own shit. dont look at me. get a bank loan
let failed clone recruit vaders grandson (will explain why later) let those guys take over the galaxy with a different super death star. assume they built this one the…
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