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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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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

yk those designers that can't play anything without coming back with unplanned new 'ideas' for their projects? couldnt be me. btw been splaying some RO lately.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

like, wtf would a 0.00000000021268224907305% chance ever mean to a brain evolved to throw sticks and gossip. it's a f*cking marvel we can even grasp the concept.

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

knowing isn't really understanding. I'm not sure one can ever truly "understand" that with the hardware we got. even with a lifelong expertise in it, everytime you estimate anything off the top of your head you're still filtering the inaccurate monkey-brain intuition through that knowledge.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there is no skill these people don't consider a means to an end they want the experience machine they're begging for their AI models to create it, to hook them up to the machine

excerpt from Wikipedia's "Experience Machine":
The thought experiment: Nozick describes a machine that could provide whatever desirable or pleasurable experiences a subject could want. In this thought experiment, psychologists have figured out a way to stimulate a person's brain to induce pleasurable experiences that the subject could not distinguish from those they would have apart from the machine. He then asks, if given the choice, would the subject prefer the machine to real life?

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't understand where does that specific uninformed confidence comes from with people. ever since this bs started people are always so sure things are genAI because they look genAI even when they clearly don't look anything like genAI.

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 09/09/2026

My assets spotted in Nintendo Direct! 👀

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 08/09/2026

Valve should lower their rev share portion to 15% for the first $1m a game earns. Not because it would would help small teams survive to make more games (it would), but because they would earn more money in the long term.

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

straight up called you a dweeb

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puck_psx @puszke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've released an all-in-one tool that lets you extract textures from any perspective, turn them into seamless textures, and use them on your 3D models. #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevtools #itchio #indiegame

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm sure Bluesky hacked off most of that headline on mobile, so:

PC Gamer headline: "Dwarf Fortress creator says we can learn something from simply walling up dwarf nobles to maintain an equal society—but notes you have to abolish the dwarf cops, too: 'Another lesson to be had there'"

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

but doing it through narrative alone requires that your players read. I really wanted to get the other players too, ik those that just see the whole thing as a sandbox from the get go

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

that feels like the holy grail of empathy in video games to me, in the sense of making a player really really feel for a shallow artificial being just from stimuli alone but I dont want to be exposed to all that shit just to try to make people not murder everything on sight

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

problem is: to do that you need to know these things really really well and be able to reproduce them in animation, 2D/3D art, VFX & SFX to a good enough level of realism and I dont want to research that because I dont like seeing shit like that :P

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

like, you know that horrible moment when you see a living creature really be hurt, all the quick reactions that flash by along with how they act down and afraid right after? that level of realistic shock out of nowhere would surely be enough to bring players back from their dettachment

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

but then you hit a passing fox once and it SCREAMS in that sharp, ear-piercing way dogs do when they get caught by surprise, with a quick but strenuous running animation as they try to move away, body low to the ground, moving as fast as they can but somewhat wrong because there's something broken

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

regular combat can stay arcadey but killing a random animal/person NPC should be a shock, especially in contrast like, dehumanized fully-armored soldiers facetank nukes with minimal barks and reactions then drop to ragdoll instantly as you kill them

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I often think about that, but I have a dilemma. I want to discourage murder hobo behavior precisely by using this natural human reaction & making violence and death 'realistic' in this sense just for the situations where I want it to feel terrible and leave an impression

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.

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leaf corcoran @leafo.itch.io · 26/08/2026

In the next version of the itch app you can... make your itch games show up in Steam 😅. This has been a long outstanding request that should make it easier to play your itch games without having to change apps on Steam Deck or Big Picture mode

Screenshot of the "Steam Shortcuts" dialog in the itch app

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Tiani Pixel @tianipixel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And also to my new followers, this is the kind of stuff I've been working on lately, new NPCs for ABYSS X ZERO! Sadly a lot of it is spoiler sensitive, so there are a lot of characters I still can't show 🥲 but you can enjoy a few like this one:

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

trying to learn about audio equipment and intentionally looking for stores with one star reviews so i know the person at the shop is an enthusiast and not a businessperson

A Google review of an audio store reads: "Worst phone interaction I've ever had in my entire life. I called to ask if they had an electrostatic headphone amp, I was informed that it was a waste of money to own electrostatic headphones. Then I tried to say that I know a lot about headphones and own many and that I am just looking for an amplifier, but then I was interrupted and told that I don't know anything. Wild!"

A Google review of an audio store reads: "I normally have tremendous empathy for the mentally ill but not with this guy. He's abusive, slanderous and bizarrely demanding -- and that's if he likes you. Maybe he can still repair stuff but I wouldn't know; I walked away after the third time he screamed at me for asking a simple question and that's no exaggeration. Actual screaming. Just wild."

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 15/08/2026

Arise now ye tarnished, ye dead who yet live, the call of long-lost grace speaks to us all. Men! The accursed gender!

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Walaber @walaber.com · 15/08/2026

I like streaming because sometimes I get to capture the *precise moment* something I made works for the first time

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I keep harping on this but AI “writers” and “artists“ keep showing what unserious tourists they are. People who actually create agonize over adverbs and color palettes and metaphors and gesture. AI people can’t even be bothered to skim their own book once

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chess!! Hhalloween october @videochess.world · 11/08/2026

hey, here's a fun lil proof of concept i threw together a couple months ago and never posted about. made with godot (.net) and libsm64-godot. #chess_arts

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wonder if he realizes how many of us just immediately lost interest in everything he does knowing that some or all of what we're seeing is AI-generated. It's incredibly damaging to his whole shtick and he'd be dumb as hell to not just renounce it and move on.

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

lmao, the romans brought water from hundreds of kms away and had whole city-wide infrastructure for running water and sewage this is merely a matter of how many work-hours you can throw at it

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 04/08/2026

insane that streaming services want *you* to pay *them* so that you *can't* see shit like this at the start of your movies

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

have you tried Putting in the Time and Effort Needed for Your Own Hobbies®? ik the hobby, the activity no one forced you to do and is done out of the enjoyment it itself brings regardless of the quality of the little make-believe drawings involved?

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

something horrifying has come to me in a vision

a venn diagram where the three circles are "no one can afford graphics cards," "running out of IP to remake over and over," and "ongoing strangling nostalgia effect," and the central overlap is "upcoming AAA "demake" trend."

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the old ebb & flow of being stuck into draining but necessary stuff for weeks but then just stopping to go do something silly & fun because I can't force myself to look at anything boring rn I'm gonna need to get back to those save serialization issues soon, but for now...

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I come back to this tumblr post again and again

Tumblr post by sunderwight: The current AI situation is like if the people who were pushing NFTs had successfully gotten everyone to start referring to any and all digital transactions as an NFT, thus allowing them to pretend that things like online shopping, downloadable video games, bank transfers, etc were closely related to convincing middle-aged would-be techies to invest serious money in ugly digital paintings, and hold the former examples up in defense of the latter any time someone pointed out that the whole NFT thing was a racket. What do you mean NFTs are bad, don't you want disabled people to be able to use their phones to have medication delivered to their doorstep? Wow. Horrible of you, really.

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Gamedev: Finally programmed the character to rotate in run direction. Let's check if it works:

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

over 1 year since release, 817+ hours in & today was the FIRST time I beat ED Libra through skill no Marais, no invader stack, no cheese, no team carrying me, just playing the game well and staying/keeping everyone alive FIRST time ffs whoever designed this boss should be beaten in the kness

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

all tech-touched industries were completely hijacked by fin-tech guys because for the few past decades they managed to convince everyone that finance and code are way more complicated than everything else in life so if they work with that they must be generalist geniuses fit to take over anything

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