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George Orton

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Senior Designer @RareLtd creating pirate adventures for @SeaOfThieves. Ambassador for @SpecialEffect. He/Him.

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Roy Batty giving the "Tears in the Rain" monologue from Blade runner.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chris definitely did it.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hell yeah 👌
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Football is life.
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Ruth Husko @dankackroyd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
‘I asked Grok, I asked Chat GPT’ ok well I asked Michael Owen and he said ‘tremendous by the way’
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is bloody brilliant 🧡
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Lying is bad unless you do it via AI. False advertising is bad unless you do it via AI. Plagiarism is bad unless you do it via AI. Losing billions of dollars for no good reason is bad unless you do it via AI. Robbing cities of water is bad unless you do it via AI. You’re just embracing the future.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Ah shite, I need to subscribe to TNT. HA'WAY THE LADS ♥️⚪♥️⚪
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/05/2026
This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Lovely, fascinating thread — the crucial takeaway is how incredibly chaotic the act of artistic creation is A film requires hundreds of people, each making hundreds of daily choices, and the iconic final product is often born from collaboration/compromise/improvisations AI does none of this
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Imagine a world where people who made money from music and art liked music and art, people who ran government liked government, people who invented machines to help do work liked and understood the work that needed doing, and what didn’t… Just a bit of fucking skin in the game.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Spot on. You can’t respond authentically to art with your arms folded and a sneer on your lips. It’s impossible to be a good audience.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Fall for your friends' jokes, it will make them happy.
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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Once again, it feels very strange to be making videogames with all this insane stuff is going on. Selfishly, I'd like world peace, not just for everyone else, but so that I can just, you know, enjoy my day and make nice things for nice people.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Icon behaviour. Congrats dude, massive respect!
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Big yes. Broken Veil is a phenomenal thing wonderfully crafted and has stuck with me since the first listen. Cannot wait for II.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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a man wearing a yellow shirt and suspenders is standing in front of a rock
Alt: Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey), climbing a rock face, turns to camera a powerfully enunciates the word "loser".
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
[doctor hitting my knee with their little hammer] where are your precious apples now?
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This stinks. Like, it really smells bad. Ew.
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
a resource-intensive feature that nobody asked for which solves no known problem AND is functionally not just useless, but actively makes the product worse? SOLD! 100 BILLION TO OPENAI, NOW!!!
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Just pressed order on this afternoon seeing you post about it a couple of times. Looking forward to it!
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Oh, a Tune & Fairweather post! Guess I'm clicking 'order' again.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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a man with long hair is holding a microphone in his hands and says well ... you can certainly try .
Alt: Matthew Mercer, the dungeon master for Critical Role, says "Well... You can certainly try", with a confident grin on his face.
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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik 

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Hell of a year 🍻
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
iconic.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
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SpecialEffect @specialeffect.org.uk · 19/12/2025
This year has been absolutely astounding for SpecialEffect, and we'd love to take this opportunity to give our most heartfelt thanks to you, our amazing supporters! Our team are taking a well deserved rest over the holiday season, and we'll be back on Jan 5th. Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Great shout tbf.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Legit thought that was a croissant.
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 22/11/2025
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Impossible to listen to Shuhei without falling in love with videogames anew. What a bloke.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The horrific thing about exercise is that it works.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The only safe place to use LLMs is in a field where you are already skilled enough to know you would never trust AI. So you might as well not. We’ve got to start insisting on this Catch 22 being understood in all workplaces: AI only replaces workers too incompetent to notice it doesn’t work.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.
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SpecialEffect @specialeffect.org.uk · 07/10/2025
Wow, what a fantastic #OneSpecialWalk! Thanks so much to everyone for braving the rain and (literally) going the extra mile for us, you're all stars! Keep an eye out for an update on how much you've raised, and the date for next year's event 🧡💙
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
You're going to smash it mate!
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This is important and good. Brilliant work.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Typewriter Monke
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"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 20/09/2025
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"Personality, knowledge, and emotion are the three things that need to exist [in art] — and I'm sorry, they don't come from a fucking app." Del Toro sums it up 🫡
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Football is life and those lasses do it better than anyone. Unreal.
The Lionesses celebrate winning the Women's Euros by covering themselves head to toe in gold and silver strands of foil.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Leamington does have some real thinkers. Here's a fable I spotted a few years back...
A wall inscribed with the story "SJ poo'd in town". White paint on red brick.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Looking forward to seeing you fella!
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I look forward to years of propserity (and never again losing my car keys).
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I have never clicked "purchase" faster in my life.
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This is awesome and important. So proud of our game and our people. ❤️
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Sunderland A.F.C. ♥️🤍♥️🤍
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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Today marks ten years to the day since I bought a PS4 to play Witcher 3 on release. Geralt's stories, through the craft poured into them by CDPR, ignited the spark of realisation that creating games is a worthwhile thing that real people actually do. I will forever owe them a debt of thanks. 🐺
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a man riding a horse in a video game
Alt: A short clip of gameplay from the Witcher 3. Geralt rides his horse across a rugged landscape kissed by light from the setting sun.
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