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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everyone's doing it, might aswell

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Häschen Schwartz🐰👑VILLAINOUS VTUBER @schwartzsama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One funny thing I've realized over time is that taking a break from a game you're trying to learn actually does help. I've found it's the case for fighting games and tonight was the first time I've grinded DoDonPachi in a few days and it's the best I've done. This image is just unironically true.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

this whole xbox thing feels like a true emperors no clothes moment. there is so obviously no plan, anything announced yesterday is overruled tomorrow, that even reporting the facts feels laughably insufficient.

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Man, even if the main 3 wars happening now all end, the state of the world still looks bleak as fuck I thought, even if we'd be ruled by fascists at least we'd get some peace in the world for a short time...

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The spare tire used as a bumper is such a genius design choice

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Roujin Z" is getting a 4K remaster (Hiroyuki Kitakubo x Katsuhiro Otomo, 1991). Coming in Japanese theaters nationwide in the spring of 2027 (+ limited release this december). natalie.mu/comic/news/6...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026

It means there’s potentially over a hundred billion dollars’ worth of GPUs in warehouses bsky.app/profile/drin...

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charlie deeds done kirk cheap @gizmouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this bit from skill up's review of wolverine knocked me on my ass, it feels like something that wouldve come out of one of those focus m parody videos but its in a real triple A game

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh FUCK NO, A REMAKE OF CURIOUS VILLAGE MADE WITH AI AND 3D MODELS? These slimy, nostalgia-baiting MOTHERFUCKERS

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's especially ironic given what the name of the studio was inspired by too

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RCD 🔞 Commissions CLOSED @chamberdream.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Coyote vs. ACME is a fun enough watch, but I'll always be a bit sad at 2d being replaced with 3d rigs. It feels very muted. Felt this way about Ace Attorney, still feel it here 😔

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It'll be fucked when the US finally gets a fully domecratic socialist leadership just as Europe has been completely taken over by the fascists the US republicans (and Russia) have funded for decades (for this exact purpose) And after Trump the US will have no credibility in Europe whatsoever>

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Tower Dungeon tribute by Stepan Nikitin ( instagram.com/stepupah )

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Mocca🔞 @whatsmocca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

People alive before the current internet forget how good they had it being able to learn how to make things before social media became a judgmental pit designed to make people paranoid about every single thing they're doing.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sonic tribute by Etienne Guignard ( instagram.com/cocoshonen )

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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As a games journalist, I try to avoid saying “this game looks like this game plus this game” because it feels dismissive and kind of mean but holy shit I need some studios to start making games that don’t look like “this game plus this game”

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nda🔞 @ndasfw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think terminally online leftists seem to forget the actual minefield it is to be a politician, knowing how to maneuver within it, and how important that skill is. No fuckin way I could hold political office, I get too angry and I’m too mean lol

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🌜🍔•°{Miggs Tonite} @miggsboson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

i get tired of how fandoms interact w narratives. a lot of ppl in them have this urge to put everything into separate little boxes, or to feel like just because theyre a fan of something, it belongs to them. connection isnt ownership, investment and attention arent either. its false entitlement.

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Videogame realism discourse has hit Bluesky and they're already mass-quoting Gabe Newell, so I feel like I need to bust out the Kenshi counter-quote youtube.com/shorts/79JCU...

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Realism and Fun

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

PLEASEEE I NEED IT HERE IN ITALY TOO 😭😭😭

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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think about this at least a dozen times a day.

people end up unable to see depiction as anything other than endorsement when their entire cultural diet is escapist fun and reassurance. they see something make them uncomfortable and can only assume people are watching horrible shit as vicarious pleasure and are horrified.

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Evangeline Sorrel @forestoath.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Hopepunk" "solarpunk" "noblebright" "cozy horror" - you can not make a genre that is a refutation of another genre. Genres live and die by continuing and lovingly changing that which came before it. Nothing can be defined by what it is not except for nothing itself.

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

see also this work, which helps provide some helpful framing of how novel these phages are: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... tl;dr: I believe this work generates only marginally novel phages, which have only a moderate likelihood of working, that decreases the more novel they get.

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Quantifying evolutionary novelty and design efficiency in generative genome design

Generative genome design models can now produce previously unobserved genome-length sequences, but assessing their capabilities is complicated by limitations in functional prediction. The ability to e...

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Jaya rules, and Ravenous rules! This is such a vivid example of how generative AI does not "democratize" art and culture like its boosters claim. It actually increases the need for/impulse towards gatekeeping because in practice, AI just democratizes fraud. Actual work still takes time and skill!

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh no, Hank Green uses AI, who could have seen this coming etc. etc. Like seriously I watched like 2 or 3 videos from him like a year ago and they already felt extremely superficial semi-scientific slop content

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

From the impressive 3-min opening sequence of "The Ghost In The Shell" episode 3. Sequence Director, Storyboard, Animation Director: Bahi JD.

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Soma @somartist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I can't stand it anymore. Don't do this... don't do that... from artists trying to give advice without understanding it, or give proper context. It always depends and isn't always generally true. - Just because an artist doesn't know how or why we do grayscale/value, doesn't mean it's bad or wrong.

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Death & Milk @deathandmilk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Clash on the Vale of Nyar

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/07/2026

The tech industry has nothing but contempt for the user, and until the media recognizes its role in inflating bubbles and siding with the powerful, it can never truly protect the general public from harm. We have to stop repeating these dangerous cycles. www.wheresyoured.at/the-openai-bubble/

All of this could’ve been stopped if those responsible for scrutinizing the powerful actually did their jobs, and spent more time doing that than critiquing the critics and repeating the promises of craven liars and billionaire scumbags. There were signs from the earliest days that this was all unsustainable, and the only reason it got this big was because the media and the markets fell behind a specious AI trade, empowering and enabling venture capitalists and hyperscalers to sink hundreds of billions of dollars into a doomed industry.

Whatever the AI industry achieves by the end of this farce will pale in comparison to the massive harms it has caused and will cause as a result, and for us to avoid this happening again, we need a fundamental reimagining of how the powerful are covered, how much effort is made to pry apart their plans, and accountability for those who either failed to stop them or actively assisted them.

If I sound salty, it’s because I am worried about the regular people caught up in this madness — the tens of thousands of people that have suffered AI-washed layoffs, the hundreds of millions of people that invest in a global stock market dependent on the AI trade (for a taster, see what’s happened in Korea when the KOSPI dropped earlier in the week, forcing hundreds of thousands of retail investors to face margin calls), those whose retirements and pensions and insurance annuities are tied up in private credit funds invested in AI data centers, and anyone of any kind who built their life around any promise made by Sam Altman and those that followed him.

The tech industry as it stands shows nothing but contempt for the user. Every tech product is somewhere between broken and buggy. The people that write about tech write for the companies far more than they write for those that pay them. Venture capitalists fund companies that they think they can sell to other companies or take public, which in turn means they fund things that are only attractive to people on Twitter or other venture capitalists. Big tech is unregulated, unrestrained, and works entirely to either enrich or fuck over shareholders depending on the day, and because the finance media has little interest in pushing back, they’ll continue to do so to the detriment of the markets and the retail investor.

Everything comes back to a distinct selfishness and lack of responsibility across basically every part of the tech industry. The fact that AI has grown this large is a symptom that Silicon Valley needs to be restrained — that it can and will release dangerous, unreliable, unpredictable and unstable products at scale with little regard for the consequences, in part because it knows the media will celebrate it doing so if it can show user or revenue growth.

OpenAI is the company the tech industry deserves — a directionless company of questionable worth that grew in a vacuum of responsibility that exploits greed and ignorance at scale.

And the tech industry will deserve exactly what it gets for coddling Sam Altman, and letting his empire grow this large.

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Pundits really aren't much different either-- can't stand watching streamers or even semi-reliable leftist content creators anymore. Drama-hounding, good for nothing, useful idiots.

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ker (dejected) 🇿🇦🇧🇼🏳️‍🌈 @vamposts.co.za · 13/07/2026

honestly some of the greatest artists in human history are currently posting anime girls with basketball-sized boobs for 20 reposts on the internet®

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The idea that we shouldn’t speak ill of the dead seems ridiculous to me. What more important time is there to set the public memory of the good or bad a person has put into the world than when they die. It’s the gift we give to those we loved, and the bill due for those who made others miserable.

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Choosing Neuromancer as the first book I'm reading in a while has been the most counterproductive decision I took in the last few years, holy hell

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they/she but i'm really him @dagspanky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

-no critical staff ever apologized for their severe journalistic malpractice in doxxing a rape victim -does content mill shit over every latest discourse -has laid off some of the most impactful gameswriters in the business over the years wow. its very hard to remember

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Well, with the Nordstream 2 verdict being official I think any chance to be able to argue in good faith against the anti-ukrainian sentiment here in the EU, but especially here in Italy, is completely and utterly gone...

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Getting OBLITERATED by the Community note lmfao

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We are living in a golden age of ostensible super powers shooting their own dicks off

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Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

An illustration of the Fellowship, reimagined with Chinese-style period outfits.

An illustration of armors of Gondor, Rohan, and Rivendell Elves, reimagined using different periods of Chinese armors as concepts. On the top right are three side profiles of Rohan man, Gondorian, and Elf with different Chinese hairstyles. On the bottom right is Aragorn's banner redrawn with Chinese influence.

A concept art of Bag End reimagined as Chinese court houses, with tall stone gates, round wooden doors, curved roofs, and open courtyard, nestled in a hill.

A concept art of Rivendell in the style of Chinese painting. Next to it are several props drawn in Chinese style such as Fellowship brooch based on gingko leaves, lembas in the shape of mooncake, Elfstone as round jade, Galadriel's phial in a green jade bottle, and shards of Narsil.

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Anton @antonhand.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Something I've been trying to mull over, is why the world in Gothic Remastered feels like a PLACE in a way that almost no place in a game feels like to me anymore. Like.. on nearly every axis, the levels in say... 007 First Light are more 'real', but feel so much more 'gamey'. Whereas the Colony..

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Gian. @gian-imation.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Gotta give it to him, no other president, of any other country, would ever have agreed to such a humiliatingly dogshit deal lmfao

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Xavier @xavierck.com · 10/06/2026

I think Nick's right, and there's value in seeing all these amazing looking games... but! I agree that game art direction has gotten worse. Because all the limits are essentially gone these days, there are very few technical hurdles forcing people to make good art decisions.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The existence of non-subordinated women with college degrees has driven a substantial proportion of men completely fucking insane. It's not great.

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