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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 29/09/2026

Stevie Wonder’s ‘Songs In The Key Of Life’ came out 50 years ago today. An anniversary tour celebrating the double album masterpiece begins next month, and today Wonder shared four previously unreleased tracks from the sessions. stereogum.com/2512942/stev...

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Starting my day making some art.

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Lewis | ICO Partners @persistentworld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It would be wonderful if we could stop framing games as studio versus studio. All developers care about all games. I've never once heard a developer talk about another in this way. Most are simply glad to be doing what they love, while watching others do the same.

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

20 years ago I went to school to learn to bake croissants and pâte à choux. Now I'm in school to learn how to bake lights and axis conversions.

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I just sent the first super-early build of the game I've been building over the summer to a couple of friends for a first playtest. There are zero stakes here, why am I nervous! Lol

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm on something like my 8th playthrough of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and I just now noticed that the bartender from the beginning is a Shadow Dragon

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Dali Dimovski, Your Friend! @dalidimovski.com · 19/08/2026

You either teach people skills or you teach people tools.

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Spiderman Brand New Day was SOOO good! After too many years of 'dark, edgy' superhero movies I'm so glad to see so much focus on the hero being a good person.

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I just finished reading 'De Reisgenoten', the Dutch version of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'! It only took me 11 months...

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson's bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game's success across "all milestones" www.eurogamer.net/ea-boss-38-m...

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Above all else, my summer game coding project is teaching me the joy of discovering that you were overcomplicating something.

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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.

Screenshot from the videogame Grey Skies. A female character stands in front of an indoor swimming pool. A sign by the pool says PLEASE DO NOT SWIM, and, in smaller letters, "There isn't an animation for it."

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Finally had scones with clotted cream and jam, and I can't say if I'm Team Jam First or Team Cream First I did try both ways, and there are good arguments for both

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Leading with compassion and honesty is insanely difficult. Taking risk while accepting accountability requires strength that is genuinely soul destroying. But it’s the only way. It is the only way. Find your strength. You will get things wrong and you will pay for it. But you will keep trying. 👊❤️

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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 08/07/2026

"Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump and paid its CEO $96 million," Sanders said. "This year, it's raising the price of an Xbox by $150 and eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don't tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down."

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Bernie Sanders is mad about the Xbox layoffs

The senator from Vermont is pretty chapped about the price hikes, too.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 01/07/2026

They should invent a new games industry with more jobs and no layoffs.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

there's an awkward tension caused by AI coding that a) makes it more important than ever to actually learn to code properly whether you want to do AI coding or now and b) makes students and their parents convinced they don't need to do a)

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Staying up until 1 baking because it was too hot to do during the day then being woken up by the loudest thunderstorm I've ever experienced at 2:30 then waking up at 6:30 because it was too warm and light outside makes you tired

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Started reading an article on using the Line Renderer in Unity. It took so many words to say almost nothing that I had to stop reading it. 90% certain it had gone through an AI rewrite.

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It may be hot, but at least I get to expand my Dutch vocabulary!

Split screenshot. On top is the Belgian weather app expecting 36°C highs with a description reading "Vandaag wordt het broeierig warm met..."
Below, from Wiktionary, is the definition of 'broeierig' as "sultry, muggy, airless, oppressive (hot and humid weather)

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/06/2026

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

hadn't seen the new TMNT short yet, it's absolutely delightful. "AI suuuuuucks.." www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-8X...

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 - Lost in New Jersey | Full Short | HD

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Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone · 15/06/2026

If I were in charge of Xbox, I wouldn't begin my campaign to revitalise the brand's image by closing beloved game studios with an incredibly visible and public-facing reputations. It's impossible to fathom the cost on the balance sheet being worth the hit to reputation, morale and retention.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

As someone going back to school to learn game-making related skills at almost 50, this was the manifesto I needed to read at the beginning of summer break!

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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 18/12/2025

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

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Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.

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Milly (recovering from Full Indie Summit) @foxesforsale.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

They didn't disclose it because they wanted to get away with it. It's the main splash art for your game! The first impression! And this is what you were okay with? Clothing that makes no sense? A backwards hand? Fucked up cart? If you don't care to make it, why should I care to play it?

A man dressed in yellow has a coat that makes no sense. Is it closed? Open? buttoned to the inner shirt?

A woman's hand is visibly backwards. The man next to her also has a case of nonsensical clothing.

Completely nonsensical wheels on a card. A barrel full of... rags? Brown plants? A man's hand with a suggestion of six fingers.

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Last exam of my first year of my bachelor program is done! My brain feels cooked, I was not cooking. Can you tell my younger classmates are rubbing off on me? Now to wait for grades...

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

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Geneviève Routhier @genrouthier.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The fact that people discussing games should/could be catering to older generations only through the lens of accessibility is a big fucking tell that people in the industry generally just don’t think of older generations as players that should be catered to. What about tone, style, type, themes?

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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

if you're feeling down about genAI please remember that it is a) intensely unpopular b) immensely unprofitable c) being propped up by people who NEED it to succeed, will spend any amount to create an illusion of a win but still keep failing and leaving the people they work with caked in shit

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 29/05/2026

How I was told creativity works in 2020: Step 1: draw two circle Step 2: draw the rest of the owl Step 3: profit How tech bros tell me creativity works in 2026: Step 1: prompt AI to concept two circles Step 2: prompt AI to draw the rest of the owl Step 3: pay your AI subscription fee

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

“Please have 2+ years of experience with an engine we announced on Friday” really sums up the state of the games industry.

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The best thing about a new Forza game is racing against all of the people you forgot you were following

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/05/2026

Google is justifying a move to default AI search by saying it "removes friction." The problem is that friction is a necessary part of life and this incessant need to rid ourselves of it is going to lead to so many problems we can't anticipate.

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Erik @erikinthebakery.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My hot take is that we don't need another Bond.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

PS5 & Xbox pals - now you can play the demo of Into the Slimy Mines! Tower defense built from day 1 with good console controls in mind, so give it a go and see what you think!

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